Three Days. 11 Votes. No speaker.

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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The House adjourned after a third day of voting that included Republican Kevin McCarthy suffering an 11th defeat in the race for speaker. It is now the longest speaker contest in 164 years. Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz backed McCarthy in the first three votes, and switched to “present” in the last 8 rounds. She joins AC360 to discuss how she sees this playing out. Plus, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju talked to McCarthy after the House adjourned for the night. He tells AC360 if the California Republican is still confident in his chances of being elected speaker. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And good evening, along with Jake Tapper in Washington, DC, we are watching the House
0:15.7	of Representatives' longest-running drama since the Civil War era, Republicans failing
0:20.0	time and time again, 11 times so far, to let Kevin McCarthy speak.
0:24.3	11 times, the latest vote, though, not only on that, merely on whether to adjourn and
0:31.1	end Kevin McCarthy's rolling humiliation for the seat.
0:35.2	Dennis Montenegro has new reporting on the state of play tonight.
0:38.5	He joins us now from the Capitol.
0:40.3	So, on a first of all, if they adjourn for the evening, what happens then?
0:43.7	Well, then the GOCHASES will continue.
0:45.7	And actually, the motion to adjourn is a good sign for Kevin McCarthy, who has had one
0:50.6	bad result after another.
0:52.9	11 straight times being rejected, not being able to get a majority of the House to elect
0:58.5	a speaker, paralyzing this institution at the start of the 118th Congress.
1:03.3	That is the first order of business.
1:05.4	If they can't elect a speaker, then they can adjourn.
1:07.9	That's really the only two options.
1:09.6	But they need a majority of the House to adjourn.
1:11.7	They've wanted a adjourn.
1:12.7	Kevin McCarthy all day long has wanted to adjourn this House in order to allow for negotiations
1:18.3	to happen.
1:19.3	But Democrats didn't want to allow him to do that.
1:21.9	They wanted to see him fail time and time again.
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