The Unprecedented Coup Against Speaker Kevin McCarthy

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Eight GOP rebels join 208 Democrats to oust the Republican leader, sending the House into disarray. Was this motivated by policy as the malcontents claim, or was it personal as Mr. McCarthy says? Plus, can the GOP unite enough to elect a successor and govern? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sam Bingman Freed, the founder of CryptoGiant FTX,
0:03.0	promised to give away his fortune.
0:04.8	But then, everything fell apart.
0:06.6	Sam, are you an ethical person?
0:08.9	I think I've tried as hard as I can to be one.
0:11.9	He's been accused of stealing billions of dollars
0:14.2	from customers and investors.
0:16.1	Is there anything you would want to say to Sam if you could?
0:19.1	Give me my f***ing money back.
0:20.9	Now he faces the jury.
0:23.2	From the journal, this is the trial of crypto's golden boy.
0:26.5	Find it in the journal feed-ons plotify,
0:28.3	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.2	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,
0:35.9	this is Potomac Watch.
0:39.2	House Republicans ousted Kevin McCarthy's speaker
0:43.0	for the first time in US history.
0:45.5	And now a speaker has been deposed.
0:47.8	A band of eight Republicans joined with the 208 Democrats
0:51.7	on the 216 to 210 vote that leaves the House of Representatives
0:57.5	headless, even as it enters a busy period
1:00.2	with questions about funding the government,
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