Mayorkas Impeachment: Why This Is Congress’s Only Option
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw
4.6 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
As the House of Representatives narrowly loses a vote to impeach Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Rep. Crenshaw lays out the mechanism and constitutional history behind impeachment proceedings. He breaks down the arguments for and against impeaching Sec. Mayorkas, and explores the Founding Fathers' intentions behind the impeachment clause.
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| 0:00.0 | We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created. |
| 0:03.2 | As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office. |
| 0:07.2 | Experts on what they're talking about. |
| 0:08.9 | This is the podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | For insights into the issues. |
| 0:11.5 | China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, |
| 0:14.2 | in-depth discussions, breaking it down into simple terms. |
| 0:18.0 | We hold, we hold these truths. |
| 0:20.1 | We hold these truths. |
| 0:21.3 | With Dan Krenshaw. |
| 0:22.1 | The eagle has landed. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome back everybody. I'm recording this as we are about to walk into votes on yet another historical moment. |
| 0:31.0 | Seems like we have a lot of those ever since I took office. This is the |
| 0:35.0 | impeachment of a cabinet official, Homeland Security, Secretary Alejandro |
| 0:39.1 | my yorkas. If the vote does go through, he'll be the first cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years. |
| 0:47.1 | In fact this would only be the second cabinet official ever impeached. |
| 0:50.5 | The only other one was William Belknaep, President Ulysses S. Grant's, |
| 0:55.3 | a Secretary of War. So I've been in favor of impeaching my Yorkus for a while. I was the original co-sponsor on the original |
| 1:04.9 | impeachment articles for some reason not the ones we're using today but that's not |
| 1:08.7 | really important and to be honest though since we've introduced those quite some time ago I think the case |
| 1:16.1 | has grown stronger and stronger and we'll get into some of those details I think this |
| 1:19.5 | podcast though is more interesting because it's about the debate over what you can |
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