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Speaker 1: Breaking news. Now here's Sean Hannity.

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Speaker 2: All right, here we go as we start the show today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us. Let me give you

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Speaker 2: eight hundred and ninety four one Seawn. All right. So

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Speaker 2: the battle over the motion to vacate pushed forward by

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Speaker 2: Matt Gates that now has had a number of preliminary

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Speaker 2: votes and the House now debating in the lead up

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Speaker 2: to a vote on whether to alice Speaker McCarthy. My

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Speaker 2: sources are telling me it's just too close to call

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Speaker 2: whether or not that's going to happen or not. What's

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Speaker 2: been interesting to watch in the lead up to this

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Speaker 2: is McCarthy did not have to hold this vote today.

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Speaker 2: He could have talked to Democrats and cut a deal

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Speaker 2: with them. He said that's not an option for me,

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Speaker 2: and he's just letting it go. And right now there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of angst and anger among the majority of

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Speaker 2: Republicans against Matt Gates for doing this. Matt Gates just

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Speaker 2: got up to speak.

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Speaker 3: Let's play this, gentlemen from Oklahoma's time is reserved, gentlemen from.

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Speaker 4: Florida, Mister speaker, my friend from Oklahoma says that my

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Speaker 4: colleagues and I who don't support Kevin McCarthy would plunge

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Speaker 4: the House and the country into chaos. Chaos is Speaker McCarthy.

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Speaker 4: Chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word.

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Speaker 4: The one thing that the White House, House Democrats and

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Speaker 4: many of us on the conservative side of the Republican

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Speaker 4: Caucus would argue is that the thing we have in common,

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Speaker 4: Kevin McCarthy said something to all of us at one

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Speaker 4: point or another that he didn't really mean and never

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Speaker 4: intended to live up to. I don't think voting against

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Speaker 4: Kevin McCarthy is chaos. I think thirty three trillion in

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Speaker 4: debt is chaos. I think that facing a two point

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Speaker 4: two trillion dollar annual deficit is chaos. I think that

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Speaker 4: not passing single subject spending bills is chaos. I think

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Speaker 4: the fact that we have been governed in this country

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Speaker 4: since the mid nineties by continuing Resolution and Omnibus is chaos.

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Speaker 4: And the way to liberate ourselves from that is a

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Speaker 4: series of reforms to this body that I would hope

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Speaker 4: would outlast Speaker McCarthy's time here, would outlast my time here,

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Speaker 4: and would outlast either of our majorities, reforms that I

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Speaker 4: have heard some of the most conservative members of this

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Speaker 4: body fight for, and some of the reforms that we've

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Speaker 4: been battling for that I've even heard those in the

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Speaker 4: Democrat Caucus say would be worthy and helpful to the House,

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Speaker 4: like open amendments, like understanding what the budget is. We

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Speaker 4: have been out of compliance with budget laws for most.

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Speaker 1: Of my life, most of many of your lives.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, if we did those things, if

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Speaker 4: we had single subject bills, if we had an understanding

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Speaker 4: on the top line, if we had open amendments, if

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Speaker 4: we had trust and honesty and understanding, there would be

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Speaker 4: times when my conservative colleagues and I would lose. It

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Speaker 4: might be a few times when we'd win. There'd be

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Speaker 4: times that we would form partnerships that might otherwise not

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Speaker 4: be really predictable in the American body politic, But the

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Speaker 4: American people would see us legislating these last few days.

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Speaker 4: We've suspended the momentum that we had established the week earlier,

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Speaker 4: where we were bringing bills to the floor, voting on them,

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Speaker 4: staying late at night, working hard. That's what the American

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Speaker 4: people expect. It's something Speaker McCarthy hasn't delivered, and that's

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Speaker 4: why I've moved to vacate the chair.

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Speaker 3: I reserve Gentleman Seimer's reserve.

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Speaker 2: Genlefro All right, let me let me know when we

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Speaker 2: have Jim Jordan queued up as a matter right, we

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Speaker 2: have it now. He just spoke a second ago. Let's

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Speaker 2: go right to that.

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Speaker 3: Hio is recognized for three minutes.

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Speaker 1: I thank the gentleman for yielding.

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Speaker 5: On January third, we said the one hundred and eighteenth

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Speaker 5: Congress is about three things. Pass the bills that need pass,

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Speaker 5: do the oversight work that needs to be done, and

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Speaker 5: stop the inevitable omnibus that comes from the United States

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Speaker 5: Senate right before the holidays. Kevin McCarthy has been rock

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Speaker 5: solid on all three. We have passed the bills we

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Speaker 5: told the American people we would pass. Eighty seven thousand

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Speaker 5: iras agents. That bill passed, parents Bill of Rights, that

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Speaker 5: bill passed, Energy legislation, passed, Border security, immigration enforcement legislation,

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Speaker 5: the strongest bill ever to pass the Congress passed earlier

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Speaker 1: We have done what we told them we were going

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Speaker 5: We can't help, but the Senate won't take up those

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Speaker 5: good common sense bills. They'll have to answer to the

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Speaker 5: American people come election day. Oversight. We have done the

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Speaker 5: oversight that we're supposed to do. Because of our oversight,

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Speaker 5: we know that parents were targeted by the Department of Justice.

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Speaker 5: Because of our oversight, we know that fifty one former

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Speaker 5: Intel officials misled the country weeks before the most important

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Speaker 1: And because of our oversight, the.

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Speaker 5: Disinformation Governance Board at the Department of Homeland Security is gone.

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Speaker 5: Because of our oversight, the memo attacking pro life Catholics

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Speaker 5: has been rescinded because.

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Speaker 1: Of our oversight.

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Speaker 5: Unannounced visits to Americans home by the Internal Revenue Service

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Speaker 5: has stopped. That happened under Speaker McCarthy. And on the

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Speaker 5: third one, on this side of that, we know there's

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Speaker 5: a big, old, ugly bill coming at the end of

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Speaker 5: the year, all kinds of spending, all kinds of garbage

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Speaker 5: in it.

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Speaker 1: We're still in that fight.

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Speaker 5: Frankly, to Matt's point, we don't know how that one's

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Speaker 5: going to shake out, but we do know this.

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Speaker 1: We do know this.

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Speaker 5: On Saturday, we didn't take the Senate's bill they tried

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Speaker 5: to send over and shove it down. Our throats on side.

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Speaker 5: We didn't take that bill, and it was a tough

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Speaker 1: There were five options on the table last week.

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Speaker 5: Option one was send a long term cr over there

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Speaker 5: that would have leverage the one percent cut, something a

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Speaker 1: Both parties couldn't get the votes for that.

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Speaker 5: When second option was to focus on d one issue,

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Speaker 5: the country now is completely focused on the border issue.

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Speaker 5: We couldn't get the votes for that one either. But

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Speaker 5: when the Senate tried to send us that bill, he

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Speaker 5: said no to it. I think the Speaker has kept

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Speaker 5: think he has kept his word on those three things

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Speaker 5: that we talked about on January third, Franklin that entire week.

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Speaker 1: He has kept his word. I think we should keep

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of things that are going on here.

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Speaker 2: So I'm literally texting with members right now that are

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Speaker 2: on the House floor as we speak. And Chip Roy

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Speaker 2: of the next hour. He just wrote, I said, how's

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Speaker 2: this end? He writes, it's going to be close. It

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Speaker 2: hard to say. I just don't know. Now that a

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Speaker 2: lot of people say, well, what happens if that happens.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's something we need to look at at

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Speaker 2: this moment. But after these last ditch efforts anyway, Republicans

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Speaker 2: now went forward with the idea. It's probably fifty to

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Speaker 2: fifty maybe more of a likelihood McCarthy will be removed

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Speaker 2: according to some people with the dye ynamics, some people

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Speaker 2: speaking only on the condition of anonymity, So I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure I would vote those people. As in the push

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Speaker 2: until he retakes the speakership, many pointing out that there's

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Speaker 2: a united front within the GOP conference to prevent anyone

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Speaker 2: to have to rely on Democrats to determine the speaker. Democrats.

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Speaker 2: You know what if I was then might sit back

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Speaker 2: and I enjoy the Adam Shift show, and I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: lift a finger to help anybody. And that's what I

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Speaker 2: this is under House rules, was required to turn over

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Speaker 2: to the House Clerk. What is a list of members

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Speaker 2: that could temporarily serve as Speaker of the House if

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Speaker 2: in fact he is ousted from power or if the

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Speaker 2: office becomes vacant. The list is secret. The power would

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Speaker 2: allow a lawmaker of McCarthy's choosing to temporarily exercise the

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Speaker 2: Speaker pro temp must be a current member of the House.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you don't have to even be an

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Speaker 2: elected member of Congress to be speaker. The speaker's ship

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Speaker 2: in Congress. The House Speaker is also the second in

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Speaker 2: expert did point out that this temporary speaker could theoretically

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Speaker 2: remain in power. The Speaker pro tem could stay in

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Speaker 2: the chair. It's just one of the many possibilities that

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Speaker 2: Speaker McCarthy was what's his name, congressman now ms, what's

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Speaker 2: right now this is going to be close according to

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Speaker 2: the people. Here's what the votes that we're looking at,

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Speaker 2: going to be a close vote today. Bad the guests,

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Speaker 2: He actually on Tuesday call for House Republicans to expel

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Speaker 2: Matt Gates. Look, I don't think tip for tat is

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Speaker 2: dead on accurate. There was promised to do a appropriations

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Speaker 2: they shouldn't have taken the August recess as far as

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Speaker 2: I'm concerned. But you know, frankly, the more time these

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Speaker 2: most of us are. But the twelve Appropriations Bill, you know,

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Speaker 2: is they can get all twelve appropriations done and complete

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Speaker 2: and therein satisfy what people that have been anti McCarthy

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Speaker 2: listening to some of these guys and they've been even

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Speaker 2: that's really not warranted considering all that they've been able

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Speaker 2: They don't have the margins to do it. One of

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Speaker 2: So anyway, the what what's what's going to be interesting

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Speaker 2: But what's frustrating to me is there were two opportunities,

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Speaker 2: poll Let me give you a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: timeline of by the way, Chad is looking for the

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Speaker 2: number to call in. By the way, Linda if you can, okay,

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Speaker 2: But anyway, so the timeline is at some point, maybe

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Speaker 2: in the next five or ten minutes, we're told what's

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Speaker 2: scheduled anyway, is they're going to have a vote, but

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Speaker 2: it's not going to be an electronic vote, which means

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Speaker 2: it's going to probably take a little bit of time,

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Speaker 2: maybe as long as thirty thirty five forty five minutes

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Speaker 2: somewhere in that area. Again, I'm guestimating here, so I

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Speaker 2: don't know for sure. Also, throughout the day one available,

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Speaker 2: when this debate adds and the votes start taking place,

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Speaker 2: will get calls, probably just off the House floor from

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Speaker 2: people like Chip Roy and Byron Donalds and others. They're

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Speaker 2: going to check in anyway. One other thing that I

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Speaker 2: want to know now we have yet to discuss that

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Speaker 2: Hunter Biden, by the way, is pleading not guilty today

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Speaker 2: to the gun charge against him. Ironically, we're told that

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Speaker 2: they're going to use the defense of the Second Amendment.

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Speaker 2: Now that's going to get interesting. However, these are the

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Speaker 2: laws that have been supported by you know, his own father.

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Speaker 2: It's it's really interesting. And this is I think, is

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Speaker 2: that I want to play for you. This judge in

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Speaker 2: this case. Remember the judge yesterday notices he's on live TV. Oh,

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Speaker 2: let me smile for the cameras. Let me look really

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Speaker 2: good here and remember that yesterday. Oh okay, Well, that judge,

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Speaker 2: by the way, just slapped a gag order because Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump had said something about the clerk. Let me see

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Speaker 2: what this says. This is just breaking as we speak. Uh,

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Speaker 2: where is that there? It is, No, that's not it.

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 2: It is the judge issues the gag order in this

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Speaker 2: case in New York on Donald Trump after the former

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Speaker 2: president quote disparage the key court stafford during his civil

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Speaker 2: business broad trial. The judge issue the order applies to

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Speaker 2: all parties in the case. Anyway. By the way, chat

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Speaker 2: program is actually right outside the House Chamber. He has

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Speaker 2: been watching this in real time as we have. He

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Speaker 2: knows all things Washington, DC more than anybody. Hitchhiker's Guide

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Speaker 2: to whether or not Speaker McCarthy will be removed in

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Speaker 2: the next hour.

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Speaker 8: How are you, sir, Well, this is quite an unprecedented

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Speaker 8: day here in Congress. At some point in the next

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Speaker 8: couple of hours here we will have an answer to

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Speaker 8: the fate of Kevin McCarthy, the current House speaker. What

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Speaker 8: they're debating right now is whether or not to force

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Speaker 8: a vote to remove Kevin McCarthy. And at the end

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Speaker 8: of this debate, what they will do is they will

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Speaker 8: ask members to vote by their seats. They will call

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Speaker 8: the role orally. Members will vote by name as they're

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Speaker 8: called alphabetically and say yes or no. Do they support

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Speaker 8: this motion to vacate the chair. This has not happened

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Speaker 8: since nineteen ten. And if that motion is adopted, then

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Speaker 8: there is no speaker of the House. Things are absent,

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Speaker 8: and by rule, what they're supposed to do is go

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Speaker 8: in and then start electing a speaker. This is much

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Speaker 8: what happened in January. The House cannot function without a speaker.

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Speaker 8: You can't put other bills on the floor, you can't

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Speaker 8: debate other.

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Speaker 2: But I thought McCarthy also handed over a list.

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Speaker 8: Well, you see, but that's the speaker pro temp. We've

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Speaker 8: never had that before, and that's basically based on a

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Speaker 8: nine to eleven contingency of government, so there will be

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Speaker 8: a speaker ProTem who would oversee that debate of the

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Speaker 8: election of the next speaker, whether it be Kevin McCarthy

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Speaker 8: or somebody else. But that person is not They can't

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Speaker 8: do anything else except just elected speaker. That they can't

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Speaker 8: move other bills and things like that. They had the

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Speaker 8: President of the House is to elect a speaker and

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Speaker 8: we've almost never been to this position in House history before.

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Speaker 2: You know, I look at President Trump's tweet on truth

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Speaker 2: social Why is it Republicans are always fighting among themselves?

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Speaker 2: Why aren't they fighting the radical left Democrats that are

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Speaker 2: destroying the country? And I tend to agree with him,

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Speaker 2: and especially the timing of this, you know, frankly, couldn't

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Speaker 2: be any worse, especially when there were two resolutions put

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Speaker 2: together by some of the most conservative members. I think

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Speaker 2: you'd agree with me, Chip Roy and Byron Donald's and

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Speaker 2: Scott Perry was a part of it. Freedom Caalcus members

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Speaker 2: That one would have allowed an eight percent cut across

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Speaker 2: the board but for Defense, Department of Homeland Security, the

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Speaker 2: borders and veterans programs, while they passed a thirty day

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Speaker 2: cr so they could finish the appropriations process and passing

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Speaker 2: the twelve appropriations bills has been what Matt Gates has

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Speaker 2: been complaining about the most. Isn't it don it?

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Speaker 8: That's right, and that's where you know the alcolytes from

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Speaker 8: the loyalist Kevin McCarthy said, this is going to inhibit

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Speaker 8: any of our progress that we may here. We're not

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Speaker 8: going to be able to fund the government. We're not

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Speaker 8: going to be able to make some of the cuts

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Speaker 8: that conservatives are demanded if we don't have a speaker,

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Speaker 8: because again, you know, the House can't act if there's

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Speaker 8: no speaker. And there's a fear on the Republican side

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Speaker 8: of the aisle that if this was on for a

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Speaker 8: few days or weeks, I mean there's one speaker's election

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Speaker 8: longest in eighteen fifty five, fifty six took two months,

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Speaker 8: that you're going to wind up with some other speaker,

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Speaker 8: a coalition speaker, maybe a Democratic speaker, because again, it's

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Speaker 8: not the most votes that win in the House. You

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Speaker 8: have to have this is the rule to elect speaker

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Speaker 8: sean an outright majority of all members casting ballots for

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Speaker 8: somebody by me. So you always hear me say it's

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Speaker 8: about the math. So if they need four and four

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Speaker 8: and thirty three current members right now, you need at

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Speaker 8: least two hundred and seventeen members to vote for someone

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Speaker 8: by me, and the fact that Kevin McCarthy has eleven

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Speaker 8: on his side, who won't they're able to outpace him

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Speaker 8: on that on that point, but they can't get to

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Speaker 8: two seventeen either, So nobody knows how we get out

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Speaker 8: of this call de sect. I mean, this might go

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Speaker 8: on for a while, frankly, if this next vote goes

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Speaker 8: the direction that is reflected in the vote earlier that

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Speaker 8: got us to this point.

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Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you this, because I've been

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Speaker 2: speak peaking with members. They've been texting me while they're

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Speaker 2: on the floor, even right now. And the last text

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Speaker 2: I got from Congressmanship Roy said, you know that he's

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Speaker 2: looking at He says he thinks it's going to be close.

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Speaker 2: I'm not so sure if it's going to be that close.

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Speaker 2: You tell me if I'm right or wrong in my gut.

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Speaker 2: And he talked about Crane, Rosenberg, Biggs, Gates, Good and

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Speaker 2: Burshett hard No, unclear about Buck Mills and a few others.

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Speaker 2: So what is your count currently because you're right there

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Speaker 2: on the ground, you might have a better feel for it.

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Speaker 8: Possible to know, frankly, because we just we've never been

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Speaker 8: to this area before. And members might vote present, they

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Speaker 8: might not actually vote, and so that changes the vote

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Speaker 8: calculus here. And so even if you get a few

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Speaker 8: of those you know on board there you spill, still

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Speaker 8: might not have the votes necessary to you know, get

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Speaker 8: over this next hurdle here, let alone elect to speak. See,

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Speaker 8: that's why it's so dangerous, and the reason it's so

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Speaker 8: hard to figure out what the magic number is is

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Speaker 8: that you don't know how many people are actually casting

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Speaker 8: ballots until the end of that vote. That requires some

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Speaker 8: very complex parliamentary algebra.

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Speaker 2: All right, so let's walk through possible scenarios. Obviously it's

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Speaker 2: easy if McCarthy is still the speaker, then they move

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Speaker 2: on with regular order and they get back to the

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Speaker 2: business of the people. Correct.

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Speaker 8: Yes, but he is a weekend speaker at that point,

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Speaker 8: because you know this happened to him had a four

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Speaker 8: seat majority. He's considered to be a pretty weak speaker

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Speaker 8: going in because you know it took fifteen rounds back

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Speaker 8: in January, and so, yes, but you know, the first

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Speaker 8: big problem of the where are these votes going to

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Speaker 8: come to fund the government?

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Speaker 2: Well, but the biggest argument that MATC. Gates has been making,

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Speaker 2: and by the way, in my view, it's a legitimate one. However,

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Speaker 2: I thought that the short term proposals, which I didn't

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Speaker 2: understand why conservatives opposed it. There were two of them.

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Speaker 2: The first one was the one that I mentioned, the

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Speaker 2: eight percent cut, and the second one, the late latest one,

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Speaker 2: was even a little more hardcore, and that was that

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Speaker 2: was the thirty percent cut of the federal bureaucracy and

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Speaker 2: increasing funding for defense and veterans benefits and the Department

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Speaker 2: of Homeland Security combined with HR two, and that was

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Speaker 2: rejected as well.

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Speaker 8: Why was that rejected, Well, because some of these members

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Speaker 8: they just don't want to vote for anything. It's not

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Speaker 8: going to be you know, Matt Gates used the term

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Speaker 8: bald rolling earlier, the idea that they put these bills together,

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Speaker 8: that they should be individual bills. There's some members and

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Speaker 8: by the way, I don't know if you you're watching

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Speaker 8: that this is getting really heated on the House floor

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Speaker 8: right now where Matt Gates is really having it out here,

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Speaker 8: and there's a lot of booing from the Republican side

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Speaker 8: of the island and it's watching this in real time here.

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Speaker 2: Sun, hang on, let me put it up right now.

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Speaker 8: And Sewan, I have to interrupt here because the New

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Speaker 8: York Control Room on the television.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you go ahead, you got to get back to TV.

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to the floor of the House. Chad

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Speaker 2: Cuba program, Thank you.

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Speaker 4: I'll be happy to fund my political operation through the

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Speaker 4: work of hardworking Americans and twenty and thirty dollars at

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Speaker 4: a time, and you all keep showing up at the

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Speaker 4: lobbyist fundraisers and see how that goes for you. I reserve.

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Speaker 3: Once again in the chair, would admonish those speaking from

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Speaker 3: the floor to direct their comments to the chair. Gentleman

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Speaker 3: from Oklahoma, Miss Speaker out inquires to how much time

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Speaker 3: remains for each side. From Oklahoma controls three minutes. The

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Speaker 3: gentleman from Florida as three minutes as well.

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Speaker 2: I advise the gentleman from Florida. I'm prepared to close.

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Speaker 2: If he is the speaker.

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Speaker 3: I yield the balance of my time to my great

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Speaker 3: friend from North Dakota, mister Armstrong. Gentleman from North Dakota,

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Speaker 3: Mister Armstrong is recognized with the remaining three minutes.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, mister Speaker.

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Speaker 6: Let's be clear why we're here, because the incentive structure

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Speaker 6: in this town is completely broken. We no longer value loyaltygrity, competence,

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Speaker 6: or collaboration. Instead, we have descended to a place where clicks,

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Speaker 6: TV hits and the never ending quest for the most

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Speaker 6: mediocre taste of celebrity drives decisions and encourages juvenile behavior

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Speaker 6: that is so far beneath this esteemed body. Kevin McCarthy

652
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 6: has done more in nine months to restore the People's

653
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 6: House than any speaker in decades. We have done regular order,

654
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 6: we have out had open amendments, and every single member

655
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 6: of this Chamber has the right, the ability, and the.

656
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: Opportunity to be heard on the floor.

657
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 6: It's been messy, it's been raucous, and at times it's

658
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 6: been chaotic, and God bless every minute of it. Because

659
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 6: democracy is supposed to be hard, and because the alternative

660
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 6: is a closed door process where two thousand page bills

661
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 6: come out of the Speaker's office at midnight and are

662
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 6: forced to the floor of the next morning. Kevin McCarthy

663
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 6: has broken that cycle. That alone is enough for him

664
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 6: to remain our speaker, but that doesn't deliver his opponents

665
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 6: what they crave the most attention. We shouldn't stand for it.

666
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 6: I won't stand for it. I will stand here with

667
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 6: our speaker, with our leader that the overwhelming majority of

668
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 6: our comperence supports. And you need to look no further

669
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 6: than where the opponents are sitting today in this chamber.

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00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: They're not over here, they're over there.

671
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 2: So you have a very small minority of Republicans wanting

672
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 2: to vacate the chair. The vote seems like it's going

673
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 2: to be starting by the time we get back from break.

674
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 2: We'll take a break, we'll come back the latest on

675
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 2: this vote to vacate Speaker McCarthy