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Echoes of the 1994 Midterms in 2022 with Steve Kornacki

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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Jim Wright's Book Deal Deal - You Don't Shoot the Generals, Right?

Gingrich launched an ethics campaign against Jim Wright and tried to make this, and there is, you don't shoot the generals. This is one of the part of that old house system. Gingrich senses right away, he knows how if the average American hears about this, how they're going to feel about it. And so he waits for a moment when Diggs votes on a bill and says we are letting a man convicted of corruption vote to spend your tax dollars. He ends up getting an expulsion vote reprimanding him but not sending him to jail. That's a key moment. In 2006, that entire playbook gets turned on him because you've got this enormous corruption scandal involving the House

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