house minority leader hakeem jefferys. happy new year to you. happy new year to you, my friend. absolutely. i want to welcome everybody to the beat, and i wish you a happy new year as well on our first show of 2023. so, thank you for starting the new year with us. now, we are already tracking new developments tonight. i have a special report coming up about the pressure on d.o.j. to act on the evidence that is in that lengthy january 6th report which dropped heading into the holiday period. while our stop story is the election eve, of sorts, in washington. democrats expanding their power in the senate and republicans taking over the house where the faces of each caucus leader here actually reveal a lot about the state of these parties. hakeem jeffries replacing nancy pelosi with a show of democratic unity, while republican kevin mccarthy is in the fight of his career as his own close allies now find it hard to see a path for him to win tomorrow. mccarthy facing down r
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part of that. as you see there on the c-span chyron, he was candidate for leader, for her job. she prevailed with two different turns as speaker. beyond mccarthy s current clash, other republican speakers have faced these challenges before becoming speaker, so on that path like mccarthy is facing now for tomorrow, as well as during their terms or even ending their speakerships. gingrich, who we just saw complaining about critics and the kamikaze caucus, he had expanded the role of speaker but ultimately was still ousted by house conservatives. the dynamic was replayed when speaker boehner was forced out in 15, and that s before this current maga era. what i m telling you, as a lens for what we re going to see tomorrow, is that these challenges are the norm, and on the democratic side, pelosi s successor has managed a much smoother path than that norm. while there had been talk of
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