Good morning. It is Sunday, September the 17th. I'm Ali Velshi. We begin this morning

with the crisis of leadership inside the Republican Party that is poised to unleash painful consequences on the entire country.

Summer recess is over. The first week back for the House of Representatives

was chaos. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been unable to move forward with crucial

appropriations bills or government spending bills, and it's not because Democrats and Republicans

are fighting with one another. The fighting is happening among Republicans. There have been

ultimatums, insults thrown between members,

closed-door hearings, and no progress on anything substantive for which the House is responsible.

With less than two weeks until the government will shut down if no budget is passed,

McCarthy announced that he will open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Now, that's a gambit that

is certain to fail. And I don't just mean that McCarthy can't possibly get Biden removed from

office, which would involve not just an impeachment in the House, but a trial in the Senate.

I mean that it's unclear if McCarthy can even win an impeachment vote in the House. It's an

unpopular gambit with the small remaining

faction of the Republican Party that still cares about governing, which is probably why McCarthy

opened the impeachment inquiry without holding a vote as is customary and as he had earlier

indicated that he would do. Why would the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,

a person third in line to the presidency,

launch a project that appears to be both strategically and politically unwise?

Easy, because he owes that important job

to a small band of far-right conspiracy peddling wingnuts who belonged to the cult of Donald Trump.

McCarthy barely got his job as Speaker. It took him 15 ballots. You'll remember to win the election because a handful of members of his own party refused round after round after round to vote for him, preventing him from getting a majority. A group of 20

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