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House adjourns until 8pm as GOP deadlocked over speaker vote

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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The House of Cards on the Republican Side

The Democrat base would go crazy if the Democrats were suddenly like, oh, we're going to try to vote. I'm not even talking about the give us our own committee so we can subpoena Joe Biden's grandchildren. That's some of the promises that they're asking for. It is in his interest to have Jeffery's be the speaker, because chaos is his friend, and it gets him on TV more. And beyond that, Dana, it's interesting because some of the demands are for promises from Kevin McCarthy that he would commit to chaos,. such as don't allow a vote on raising the debt ceiling.

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