Far-Right Republicans Look to Oust Speaker McCarthy After He Averts Government Shutdown

[Uncle Joe]

Congress passed an 11th-hour short-term funding bill this weekend, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown for the next 45 days, but the House is in a state of turmoil as far-right lawmakers threaten to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for working on the bipartisan bill. "It's a crisis entirely of Kevin McCarthy's own making," says our guest Sasha Abramsky, the West Coast correspondent for The Nation, who also calls McCarthy's impeachment inquiry into President Biden "the most ill-prepared, ill-thought-out, poorly advised Republican inquiry you could possibly imagine," and discusses Republicans' embrace of Vladimir Putin to contrast with establishment Democrats' support of Ukraine in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.