We Need to Talk About Kevin

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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As House speaker, Kevin McCarthy worked with Democrats to keep the government open. Then Matt Gaetz worked with Democrats to get McCarthy fired. Semafor’s Jordan Weissmann returns to explain an unprecedented moment in American politics. This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens and Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ahead on today explained, we need to talk about Kevin.
0:04.2	Kevin!
0:07.2	It was just two days ago on the show that Jordan Weissman from Semaphore said, so much of
0:12.1	the infighting in the Republican conference over shutting down the government came down
0:16.0	to how much speaker Kevin McCarthy and representative Matt Gaetz simply loathed each other.
0:23.1	McCarthy has suggested a point that it actually has to do with an ethics investigation into
0:28.4	Gaetz that's going on that McCarthy has refused to try and intervene in.
0:32.7	Gaetz is being investigated in Congress over potential sexual impropriety.
0:38.5	And now, two days later, Kevin McCarthy is speaker no more.
0:44.0	On this vote, the Yees are 216.
0:47.6	The Naes are 210.
0:50.3	The Office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is here
0:56.3	by Declared vacant.
1:00.6	Support for the Saturday comes from UC San Diego.
1:03.1	UC San Diego is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence with the goal of getting us closer
1:07.9	to answering some of the greatest challenges of our time, whether using AI to inform the
1:12.4	development of complex cures or creating AI-powered predictive models that can help us fight wildfires,
1:18.8	researchers at UC San Diego want to help move us forward, improve our communities and
1:23.4	shape our tomorrows.
1:24.7	You can learn more about how UC San Diego is advancing AI at ucsd.edu slash AI.
1:32.8	The House will be in order.
1:41.6	The clerk may call the roll.
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