Impeachment Process Vote, Biden and Israel, AL Nitrogen Gas Execution

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

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The Republican-controlled House is set to vote on formalizing its impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. Biden makes some of his most critical comments to date about Israel's response to the October 7 Hamas attack. And Alabama plans to execute a prisoner in January using nitrogen hypoxia, a process so novel and untested that state officials required the man's spiritual adviser to sign a waiver that said he could be exposed to the deadly gas.

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0:00.0	Republicans vote today on an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
0:06.0	According to the House Speaker...
0:08.0	We have no choice.
0:09.0	Though some Republicans have said they found no wrongdoing by the president what the lawmakers hope to
0:14.1	accomplish. I'm Michelle Martin that Steve Insky is up first from NPR News.
0:20.6	President Biden has some words of caution for Israel. He says Israel is starting
0:24.6	to lose their ally's support through what he called indiscriminate bombing of
0:28.2	Gaza. What does that assessment mean from Israel's closest ally?
0:31.6	Also Alabama plans to use nitrogen gas to execute a death row inmate.
0:37.1	An NPR investigation finds risks to the other people in the death chamber.
0:41.1	They're not being realistic about what exactly is at stake here.
0:44.7	Stay with us, we've got the news you need to start your day. House Republicans have spent months on a presidential impeachment
0:58.6	investigation. They found no direct evidence of wrongdoing by the president.
1:03.1	But that doesn't match the picture painted in conservative media,
1:06.5	and now the House prepares to move forward
1:08.2	with an impeachment inquiry.
1:09.7	Lawmakers say it's about corruption
1:11.5	and political influence peddling. House Speaker Mike Johnson
1:14.3	told reporters yesterday that this is the only way forward.
1:17.4	We've come to this impasse where following the facts where they lead is hitting a stone wall
1:22.4	because the White House is
1:23.2	impeding that investigation now they're not allowing witnesses to come forward
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