9 AM ET: Impeachment vote drama, Israel says 'no way,' CA storm deaths & more
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Slack presents hands-free conversations. |
| 0:03.2 | Hello, car commuter, dog walker, stroller pusher. |
| 0:06.5 | Your hands are busy. |
| 0:07.9 | It's why we created huddles in Slack, because sometimes talking is easier than typing. |
| 0:12.6 | Huddle without the hassle. |
| 0:14.4 | In Slack. |
| 0:15.4 | Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck. |
| 0:19.5 | With the five things you need to know for Wednesday, February 7th. House Republican leaders didn't get enough votes to impeach |
| 0:26.0 | Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Meyorkus. It failed 216 to 214, with three Republicans joining Democrats to vote no. |
| 0:35.2 | Republicans claim that Majorquis is not enforcing U.S. law in his handling of the border, |
| 0:40.0 | but his office has called the impeachment to farce. |
| 0:42.8 | And as CNN's Lauren Fox explains, |
| 0:44.9 | one Democrat congressman made a shock return from surgery |
| 0:48.1 | to vote against the attempt, |
| 0:49.6 | surprising GOP leaders in the 11th hour. |
| 0:52.3 | Al Green comes, he's wheeled into the House. G. how tenuous this majority is right now. You have to know where every single vote is and |
| 1:06.1 | you have to know where the other side stands too. |
| 1:09.1 | It's not over yet though, with Republican leaders saying they'll try again when majority leader Steve Scalise returns |
| 1:14.9 | from getting cancer treatments. So next time round, the vote will likely pass, and Meyorkus could |
| 1:19.9 | still be impeached, but it's expected to fail in the Democrat controlled Senate. |
| 1:24.0 | And speaking of the Senate, an aide says Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is planning to force a vote today |
| 1:29.2 | on an emergency aid package for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, for now dropping the expected border deal |
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