Rachel Maddow reports on how Kevin McCarthy's withdrawal from the race for House speaker left political observers in a dizzy fit of stunned confusion, and looks back on how McCarthy's path to the speakership, once seen as inevitable, slowly fell apart.Oct. 9, 2015
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