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This is a global player original podcast. On the Newsagents USA today, why is it taken three weeks

to find the most senior Republican they can to actually run the House of Representatives as their speaker.

The short answer is they all hate each other and none of them will vote for anyone else.

That does seem to be the basic problem.

It would be a joke except for the fact there is a global crisis going on

and you need the speaker to pass legislation to either support

or send funds to another country. And America just seems to be adrift at a critical time

for the world. And we've got to get our heads out of our rear end. We can't sit around and suck

our thumbs and hope the world will wait until the House Republicans get their act together.

Do you guys have any idea how clownish you look?

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