1/2: #POTUS; The futile impeachment drama & What is to be done? Andrew McCarthy, NRO. Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness
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🗓️ 15 September 2023
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1/2: #POTUS; The futile impeachment drama & What is to be done? Andrew McCarthy, NRO. Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/speaker-mccarthy-decides-an-impeachment-inquiry-doesnt-require-a-vote-of-the-full-house-after-all/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelor. Impeachment. A word that's been used repeatedly |
| 0:11.5 | these last years, once upon a time in my youth. It was a word that got very little use, |
| 0:17.9 | but when it was, good heavens, Richard Nixon. However, these days, in the 21st century, |
| 0:23.8 | it's become a coin of the realm of Washington, D.C. and I welcome Thaddeus McCartor, who |
| 0:29.2 | covering politician, writing an American greatness by Colley and co-host. And we welcome Andrew |
| 0:34.0 | McCarthy of the National Review Online, writing one more time about impeachment. This time, |
| 0:40.2 | we can pretend the tables are turned. The word is being used by Kevin McCarthy, the speaker |
| 0:45.0 | of the House and the leader of the Republican Party, about Joe Biden. The last time it was |
| 0:50.2 | used, the speaker of the House was Nancy Pelosi, and it was about the Republican President, |
| 0:55.2 | Donald Trump. And a very good evening to you. I go for a spoiler alert to begin with. In |
| 1:01.3 | your discerning column in the National Review Online, you make it very clear that the House |
| 1:06.6 | of Representatives in this fencing match it's entering into. Knows the end of the story |
| 1:12.8 | will be a rejection by the U.S. Senate. Do I say that correctly, Andy? Good evening to you. |
| 1:18.3 | Yes, John. And a good evening to Thaddeus as well. That's the best outcome. The more likely |
| 1:25.5 | outcome I would say is that they never get to a Senate trial. But the ultimate outcome, if |
| 1:32.7 | everything goes swimmingly well for Republicans in the House who want to press the impeachment |
| 1:39.2 | case against Joe Biden, is that to get a president convicted and removed constitutionally, you |
| 1:46.9 | need a two-thirds supermajority of the Senate. You couldn't even get a simple majority of the |
| 1:53.1 | Senate at this point because the Democrats have a 51-49 margin there. And what that means, John, |
| 2:00.8 | is you would have to get every Republican to vote for impeachment and 19 Democrats to desert |
| 2:07.5 | Joe Biden and vote for impeachment. We all know that will never happen. And I think that's part |
| 2:12.8 | of the reason Kevin McCarthy didn't seek a vote in the House. There's not enough Republicans who |
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