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president biden signalled he might be open to them, democrats in congress revolted. they aren't fair, and they don't work, dems argued. republicans say they are fair and that it is only responsible to have a baseline standard for who can receive government benefits like medicaid, that a requirement to work would motivate people to work. a hand up, not a hand out, says speaker kevin mccarthy. so how does a work requirement function in actuality? we've got one of my favorite policy wonks with us to explain because it is a tricky issue. one that could sink a deal, and in light of that, ...

this rain in eastern areas will slowly tend to peter out and we will get some sunshine coming through and we could generate some showers all the way through yorkshire to the west midlands and into the west country. there will be some warm sunshine for many parts of the country and temperatures on the whole very similar to what we had today, but it may well be a bit warmer in scotland particularly in the east because we will see more sunshine. this area of low pressure is storm nino and it could bring more rain into italy and perhaps more rain into italy and perhaps more flooding, dom...

of this vote. and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of the history lesson here? compare this to any other time in modern history? >> any other time in modern history there is none, because the last time the speaker's vote went past one ballots was 1823. but, we will come back to this board. but to put you in some's perspective what the history of this is. you're looking at here, this is every speakers race in history gone past one ballot. we'll put this past today when there were only 11 ballo...

and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of a history lesson here. compare this to any other time in modern history. >> any other time in modern history there is none because,, the last time the speaker's vote went past one ballot was 1823, but, we will come right back to this, but just to put in some perspective, what the history of this is, you are looking at here, this is every speakers race in history, that's gone past one ballot. we put this together earlier, only 11 ballots, this is the 15t...

are they going to roll over or say republicans are cheating white wing extremists literal i have a plan to steal the next presidential election they are not making a secret of it. the right wing control supreme court may be poised to rule on giving state legislatures, yes, you heard me that correctly. state legislatures the power to overturn presidential elections. just think, if that happens, the 2024 presidential election could be decided not by the popular vote, or even by the ache critical condition chauvinistic electoral college but by state legislatures. many of them republican...