McCarthy’s impeachment inquiry against Biden
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has directed House committees to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden – a move that appears to appease hard-right lawmakers. The investigations center on whether Biden benefited from his son’s business dealings.
Claiming there are “allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption,” McCarthy has directed House committees to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Yet House Republicans have not put forth evidence directly showing that Biden benefited from his son’s business deals in Ukraine and elsewhere.
Congressional reporter Marianna Sotomayor puts this inquiry into perspective, explains where the GOP stands on investigating Biden, and what this could mean for the president as he heads into an election year.
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| 0:00.0 | That's why today I am directing our House Committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry |
| 0:09.5 | into President Joe Biden. |
| 0:12.2 | This logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all the facts and |
| 0:19.0 | answers for the American public. |
| 0:21.3 | Yesterday, Speaker of the House, Republican Kevin McCarthy, announced an impeachment inquiry |
| 0:27.0 | into President Biden. |
| 0:29.3 | McCarthy said he was ordering three committees in the House of Representatives to investigate |
| 0:34.3 | the business dealings of the President's son Hunter Biden and other family members. |
| 0:41.3 | This comes after months where Republican-led House committees have tried to find evidence |
| 0:45.7 | to impeach Biden by trying to tie him to Hunter's business dealings abroad. |
| 0:51.1 | We've heard privately that many conservatives, this is not even the moderates who really |
| 0:55.9 | question whether their own Republican colleagues can make enough of a connection to eventually |
| 1:01.9 | impeach Biden. |
| 1:03.7 | That's Mariana Soda-Myor, who covers Congress for the post. |
| 1:07.3 | And she says McCarthy ordering this impeachment inquiry may be less about the President |
| 1:12.8 | and more about McCarthy trying to maintain support among his Republican colleagues. |
| 1:19.5 | And McCarthy, as we have seen throughout the year, is pegged between a lot of his moderate |
| 1:25.2 | and some principled conservatives who follow the Constitution and a lot of the far right |
| 1:31.1 | who many have been calling for Biden's impeachment since literally the first day after Biden |
| 1:36.7 | was sworn in. |
| 1:40.7 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:44.3 | I'm Ella Hay-Ezadi, it's Wednesday, September 13th. |
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