House Republicans and the Biden Impeachment Inquiry

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Speaker Mike Johnson suggests he might soon hold a vote on the House's impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden’s business dealings. What is that latest evidence from Rep. James Comer's Oversight Committee? Plus, the fourth GOP presidential debate draws Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and Vivek Ramaswamy, but Donald Trump is again a no show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.3	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:38.0	The House ramps up its impeachment
0:43.7	's business dealings as Republican presidential candidates
0:47.7	gets set for the fourth GOP primary debate.
0:51.6	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues,
0:57.5	columnist Bill McGurn and editorial board member Manay Uquay Berua. Speaker Mike Johnson has made some news in recent days
1:05.6	suggesting that he has the votes in the House to formally approve an impeachment
1:11.2	inquiry into President Biden. Here he is explaining why he
1:15.4	intends to do that on Fox News Saturday. It's become a necessary step.
1:19.8	A Lisa and I both served on the impeachment defense team of Donald Trump twice when the
1:24.7	Democrats used it for brazen partisan political purposes. We decried that use of
1:29.7	it. This is very different. Remember we are the rule of law team.
1:32.9	We have to do it very methodically.
1:34.3	Our three committees of jurisdiction, judiciary oversight, ways and means have been doing an extraordinary
1:39.0	job following the evidence where it leads, but now we're being stonewalled by the White House because they're preventing at least two to three DOJ witnesses from coming forward a former White House Council.
1:48.0	The National Archives, the White House has withheld thousands of pages of evidence.
1:52.0	So a formal impeachment inquiry
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