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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

McCarthy backs bad-faith Biden impeachment boondoggle; GOP revisits 'Benghazi' playbook

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

MS NOW, Alex Wagner

News, Society & Culture

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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...Plus, How to salvage American democracy from the 'tyranny of the minority'

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0:00.0

Thanks to you at home for joining me this hour.

0:02.1

So today, Speaker of the House,

0:04.6

Kevin McCarthy announced that despite having no real evidence,

0:08.4

he is opening an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Lucky for us, we don't have to wonder whether or not this is a bad faith effort by Speaker McCarthy.

0:17.6

And that is because back in 2015, when he was pitching himself for house leadership Mr McCarthy said the quiet part

0:26.2

out loud.

0:29.2

The question I think you really want to ask me is how am I going to be different? What are you going to

0:33.4

ask my questions but go ahead that was one of my questions go right ahead. I knew you'd

0:37.2

want to ask it. What you're going to see is a conservative speaker that takes a

0:41.4

conservative Congress that puts a strategy to fight and

0:45.5

win and let me give you one example. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was

0:49.8

unbeatable right but we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are

0:57.1

her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she's untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened had we

1:05.2

I agree.

1:06.2

That's something good.

1:07.2

I give you credit for that.

1:08.2

I give you credit for sequestration.

1:09.6

I give you credit what creditors do.

1:14.0

I'll give you credit what credit is do. I'll give you credit where credit is do.

1:16.0

You got her, Kev. You got her.

1:18.0

Now if you don't remember the Benghazi hearings, then I am very jealous. The Republican-led in Beth- the

1:25.0

Republican-led investigation lasted more than two years.

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