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in all bookshops and online right now. Welcome to the Bulwork podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. It is October 4th,

2003 and what a hell of a day. We have Donald Trump slapped with

another gag order in New York. And then of course the news is dominated by the

fall of Kevin McCarthy. For the first time in American

political history a sitting speaker has been ousted by members of his own

party. Actually it was bipartisan. Eight Republicans joined with all Democrats to throw Kevin McCarthy out of

office. This is the way it went down. This is the way it sounded.

The yeas are 216. The nays are 2-10. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider

is laid on the table. The Office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives

is hereby declared vacant. And so with that Kevin McCarthy who was once the future of the Republican Party, by the way Tim

O'Brien joins us from Bloomberg. Tim, do you remember that book, Young Guns?

That it might be the most cursed cover ever Paul Ryan.

Eric Cantor Kevin McCarthy. I mean Kevin McCarthy hung on the longest because he was willing to crawl the furthest but it kind of caught up with him.

It's like that remember that Time magazine cover that had Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers, and Bob Rubin on it,

and they were the committee to save the world, and it came out about seven years

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