And it's all. The House authorizes an impeachment inquiry and will Trump, if elected, be a dictator?

We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the

editors. I'm Rich Lowry and I'm joined as always by the right honorable Charles

C. W. Cook Madeline Maddie Kearns and the notorious M.B. D.

Michael Brendan Doherty, you are, of course, listening to a Nashville podcast,

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MBD, when Republicans first started going down this impeachment route.

They relied on the Nancy Pelosi precedent,

which is having the Speaker of the House

deem an impeachment inquiry open when Pelosi did this in the Trump years.

There was a lot of Republican pushback.

This is not legitimate.

There's no legal standing for this.

The entire House has to vote for an inquiry but that Republicans didn't

have the votes to start an inquiry so McCarthy deemed the inquiry open but

promised there would be a vote. It seemed kind of unlikely maybe. It took a while. There's now a new speaker, Mike Johnson. But lo and behold, he got all the votes including what would seem to be the loan holdout.

Ken Buck was upset, something the White House did and ended up voting to open the inquiry as well.

Yesterday, afternoon or evening, we're recording on Thursday morning here.

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