It's the Bryan Lair Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Well, Congress is back in session

after some recess. They get another whole week after Labor Day while teachers have to

jump back in the day after, right? But now that Congress is at it again, here come high

stakes battles right out of the gate brought to you by your friends and the Republican party's

right-wing freedom caucus, a possible government shutdown at the end of this month as much

over culture war issues as the deep spending cuts thereafter. And they're now launching

a formal impeachment investigation. You've probably heard this against President Biden because

he did what again? Well, something with his son Hunter 10 years ago, maybe, that they

don't exactly know what it is and don't have evidence of, but hope to find it if they

look hard enough. Let's see what's happening. With Annie Carnick, Congressional correspondent

for the New York Times, who's been watching these kinds of things for a while now, she previously

was a White House correspondent for the Times. She covered the White House and Hillary Clinton's

2016 presidential campaign for Politico and even spent a decade in New York City's tabloid

world covering city hall and local politics for the New York Post and the Daily News. So,

Annie, you know what it's like when the circus comes to town and here it comes. Welcome back

to WNYC. Thank you, Brian. Hi. Let's take these one at a time. Impeachment inquiry, then

possible government shutdown when the fiscal year ends at the end of this month. On the

impeachment investigation, the theory of the case, because I think a lot of our listeners

don't even know that basic, that Joe Biden may have done what that could want removal

from office hypothetically. Well, first of all, it's not clear what. I think they are hunting

for evidence of financial wrong during our corruption that he sort of was entwined with

Hunter Biden's business dealings when he was vice president. And they have been, you know,

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