Some House Republicans worry the impeachment road could be politically perilous.

The lead starts right now.

Selling the plans, Speaker Kevin McCarthy gathers Republican party colleagues and defends

his call to order an impeachment inquiry into President Biden without calling for a vote

force and without sufficient evidence to, as yet, convince all of his fellow House Republicans.

Plus, a defiant convicted killer has been captured, sniffed out by a dog and infrared

technology.

A witness will be here, one who saw the arrest go down and the killer up close.

And a political stunner from Republican Senator and former presidential Republican nominee

Mitt Romney, a look at the impact as one of the elder statesmen of the Senate, walks away.

Welcome to the lead.

I'm Jake Tapper.

We're going to start in a politics lead today.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is trying to get House Republicans all on the same page after

he launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden looking into whether Mr. Biden

personally financially benefited from his son Hunter's business dealings and perhaps

even worse.

McCarthy met with the Republican conference behind closed doors earlier today, trying to defend

his decision to launch an inquiry without bringing it first to a full-floor vote as he

had promised he would do, not even two weeks ago.

He said he would do that as evidence of how serious a matter this was.

Here is how he defended his decision to not do so to see an Enzmán Uraju right after

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