House Republicans authorize Biden impeachment investigation
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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House Republicans have authorized an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden.
USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent John Fritze breaks down a pair of cases that justices have agreed to take on.
An appeals court denies Donald Trump presidential immunity in the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit.
The Federal Reserve leaves its key short-term interest rate unchanged.
Adrianna Rodriguez looks at how paternity leave can change dads' brains.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday, December 14th, |
| 0:17.7 | 2023. This is the excerpt. Today House Republicans have authorized the |
| 0:23.0 | today House Republicans have authorized an impeachment inquiry into the president. |
| 0:27.6 | Plus we'll look at two cases the Supreme Court will take on and how fathers who |
| 0:32.4 | spend more time with their infants see changes to |
| 0:35.6 | their brain. House Republicans yesterday formally authorized their impeachment |
| 0:41.8 | inquiry into President Joe Biden. |
| 0:44.3 | It's their most significant step yet toward impeaching the President. |
| 0:47.8 | The House voted along party lines 221 to 212 to green light the inquiry. |
| 0:53.6 | Republicans have alleged that the president financially benefited from his family's |
| 0:57.4 | foreign business dealings, though they have not publicly released evidence |
| 1:01.0 | supporting those claims. House Republicans have also accused the White House released evidence investigation and provided plenty of evidence disputing allegations. |
| 1:14.7 | Ian Sam's White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations said that the impeachment |
| 1:19.8 | inquiry quote only proves how divorced from reality this sham investigation is unquote |
| 1:26.0 | Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP investigators leading the |
| 1:30.5 | inquiry say it's simply an investigation and that they have not |
| 1:34.4 | predetermined whether to draft articles of impeachment against Biden. |
| 1:38.3 | Johnson said this week, quote, we're not making a political decision, it's not, it's a legal decision, unquote. |
| 1:46.3 | The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to take on a pair of cases, one dealing with the abortion pill |
| 1:54.2 | Miffy Pristone and another related to January 6th. I caught up with USA |
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