House Formalizes Impeachment Inquiry Into President Biden
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political correspondent Susan Davis, and congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Jessica from Tacoma, Washington. I'm just an hour or so away from defending my |
| 0:07.0 | dissertation after five long years. This podcast was recorded at 6.17 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, December 13th. |
| 0:18.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully I will now be called Dr. Jessica. Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:26.4 | Let's assume... |
| 0:30.4 | Well now I'm curious what that dissertation was about. I need to know the top and let's assume congratulations |
| 0:36.7 | Dr. Jessica. |
| 0:38.7 | Nice work. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamar Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm Susan Davis I cover politics and I'm Deirdre Walsh I cover Congress. |
| 0:47.3 | The House has passed a resolution to formalize an impeachment investigation into President |
| 0:52.0 | Biden. The House voted 221 to 212, |
| 0:55.6 | with all Republicans supporting the measure. Not all Democrats were present to vote. |
| 1:00.4 | This caps a year-long effort to investigate the president for wrongdoing in theory, but in practice it's still unclear exactly what this impeachment inquiry is for. |
| 1:12.0 | Deirdre, did they provide any more clarity today |
| 1:15.0 | during the speeches on what they are looking for or trying to prove? |
| 1:18.0 | Not really. |
| 1:20.0 | I mean, it was a lot of the same allegations |
| 1:22.0 | about sort of Biden family corruption charges that the |
| 1:27.4 | three House Republican chairman investigating the president and his family have been making |
| 1:31.8 | for months without really presenting any clear evidence to back it up. |
| 1:37.2 | Some of the speeches were arguing that they were recently sent a letter |
| 1:42.8 | because the White House wasn't providing documents |
| 1:46.2 | and testimony and that they had recently sent a letter |
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