The Arm-Twisting, Back-Stabbing Battle for House Speaker

Representative Jim Jordan, known for trying to obstruct the government, has emerged as the Republican most likely to win the job.
The House of Representatives still has no speaker, crippling a vital branch of the government. And the Republican who seems to be in the strongest position to take the role, Jim Jordan of Ohio, was once called a “legislative terrorist” by a former speaker of his own party.

Catie Edmondson, who covers Congress for The Times, talks through the latest turns in the saga of the leaderless House.