House Republicans move closer to impeaching DHS Secretary Mayorkas

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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House Republicans are moving closer to taking the rare step of impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his handling of the southern border. The Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee claim Mayorkas has committed high crimes and misdemeanors when it comes to how he’s dealt with the crisis. House Speaker Mike Johnson has promised to move the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas to the floor quickly. Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman serves on the House Homeland Security Committee. He joins AC360 to discuss why he calls these efforts a "gross abuse" of the impeachment clause. Plus, former President Trump's Super PAC spent approximately $50 million on legal and investigation-related expenses in 2023.Investigative journalist and author of the "Big Cheat," David Cay Johnston tells Anderson Cooper if he thinks Trump would be able to afford these massive legal fees if it weren't for his PAC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight on
0:02.0	360 with a vote expected this evening on impeaching a cabinet secretary over the border crisis
0:06.5	House Republican lawmakers step up their campaign against proposed Senate
0:10.7	legislation said to be the toughest in decades. Also tonight Senate Republicans proposed Senate
0:14.4	legislation said to be the toughest in decades.
0:13.4	Also tonight Senate Republicans we've just learned
0:15.7	are debating whether to shelve it entirely.
0:17.8	We're keeping them honest.
0:19.0	Also there's breaking news, the former president's
0:21.1	50 million dollar legal bill last year, you may be surprised to learn
0:25.1	who's actually picked up that tab.
0:27.6	And later everything we're learning about Israel's daring raid using special forces disguised
0:31.9	as medical staff and other civilians to kill
0:34.3	they say Palestinian militants at a West Bank hospital.
0:38.7	Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin tonight with the breaking news and
0:42.3	the most important issue to
0:43.3	voters right now according to recent polling and even more so tonight the ones with
0:47.6	perhaps the widest gap between what certain elected officials are saying
0:51.7	about it and what they're actually doing. The issue is immigration border
0:55.8	security and we've just learned that Senate Republican leaders are
0:59.2	tonight debating whether to shelve the proposed bipartisan legislation to actually address the problem.
1:05.2	A deal now on the robes which is said to be the most restrictive set of border measures in decades
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