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2/2: #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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2/2: #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

We know the end at best is that the Senate will reject an impeachment inquiry allegations

0:20.2

against the president.

0:21.9

We know that it will be rejected because more than half of the Senate is democratic at

0:27.8

this point.

0:29.2

However, we're still following what we can understand of the reason Mr. McCarthy

0:34.3

is moving forward with this, and it has to do with internal Republican politics in

0:39.3

the House of Representatives.

0:41.2

The president and his counselors have decided to match politics with politics according

0:45.3

to the New York Times, and we have this quote, this is the president speaking at a campaign

0:50.5

event.

0:51.5

I don't know quite why, but they just knew they wanted to impeach me, he said.

0:56.8

And now the best I can tell, they want to impeach me because they want to shut down the

1:01.2

government.

1:02.2

Mr. Biden added, I get up every day, not a joke, not focused on impeachment.

1:07.0

I've got a job to do.

1:08.9

Andy, it strikes me that the president has made a very rational response and is in a very

1:14.1

strong position here.

1:15.9

Is this quote and the indication that shutting down the government will now be linked to

1:20.8

this inquiry?

1:22.3

Is that enough to move the Republicans away from this strategy?

1:26.1

But you're very suspicious of in your article.

1:29.4

I do think it's the right response for Biden.

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