Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Wednesday, January 10th, and here's what's driving the day.

The Homeland Security Committee will kick off its first hearing for the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. But already Republicans have a problem.

Jonathan Turley, the GOP's preferred impeachment scholar, is saying there's no basis for

Mayorkas' impeachment.

Turley is up with an op-ed in The Daily Beast, correctly noting that the founders considered

and largely rejected the idea of impeaching someone based on policy differences alone.

Doing so, he says, will be a slippery slope. Also in the House this

morning, Speaker Mike Johnson is in for an uncomfortable GOP conference meeting. Conservatives are still

seething over his appropriations deal that he struck with Chuck Schumer over in the Senate,

and we can't believe we're saying this, but yes, the motion to vacate is already being whispered about amongst GOP lawmakers.

Though, I'm willing to bet a lot of that is just conservatives blowing off steam.

Protest culture is shattering the latest remaining barriers in official Washington,

exposing a generational gap between how young staffers and their older bosses view the responsibilities of a Washington operative.

And joining me now to discuss his story is the one and only Eugene Daniels, aka Beyonce.

Good morning, Eugene.

Hello. If you call me that every day, you will continue to be my favorite co-author of Playbook.

So what's going on at the White House, Eugene?

Nothing at all. Very quiet, quiet time.

You know, there's tons going on, but one thing that continues to pop up is these letters from either people that work in the administration, people that work on the Biden campaign,

or even protests in front of the White House of people who say that they're administration officials.

They are criticizing how the Biden administration has chosen to kind of engage in the Israel-Palestine

conflict overall and more specifically since October 7th.

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