What to expect from leadership elections for the new Democrat-led Congress
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[0:00] CBS News congressional correspondent
[0:02] Caitlyn Huey Burns joins me now to
[0:03] discuss what is next in line in
[0:06] Congress. And it's not legislation,
[0:07] ladies and gentlemen. No, no, no, no,
[0:08] no. Leadership elections first. Please,
[0:11] CHP, take it away.
[0:12] >> Yeah, Major, if you can believe it,
[0:13] there's going to be another election,
[0:15] but not one that the voters can actually
[0:17] weigh in on. So, just uh relax there.
[0:20] This is all now up to Democrats and
[0:22] Republicans. But there's a big focus on
[0:25] Democrats right now because they are now
[0:27] facing much bigger majorities than they
[0:30] had anticipated. Hakeem Jeff is likely
[0:33] to be the next speaker of the house.
[0:35] He's not facing any intraarty fight over
[0:38] that and he