McCarthy ousted as US House Speaker

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The vote on Tuesday to remove Representative Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House of Representative has left the chamber mired in chaos.

Luke Broadwater, a congressional correspondent for The Times, describes what happened on an unprecedented day in American politics.< ...

Kevin McCarthy is ousted from his position as Speaker of the House by the Republican circular firing squad; Trump’s civil fraud trial continues; and criminality spreads across America’s major cities.   Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://utm.io/ueS ...  Show more

For the first time in US history, a speaker has been kicked out. A group of Trump-supporting Republicans carried out a coup to remove him from the chair of the House of Representatives.How did it come about? What does it say about the Republican Party? Put simply, what the hell h ...  Show more