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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s impeachment announcement isn’t swaying far-right Republicans leaving a government shutdown still on the table. NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby discusses North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting in Russia and the U.S.-Iran prisoner swap. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) discusses Wednesday’s closed-door Senate forum with tech giants including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman on artificial intelligence. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

If it's Wednesday, Republican rifts and partisan political warfare on full display today,

0:08.0

after House Speaker McCarthy announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden,

0:12.4

and as the White House steps up its response.

0:15.2

Plus, Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with North Korea's Kim Jong-un amid concerns

0:20.4

they'll make a weapons deal to fuel the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, the latest reaction from

0:25.2

the White House's national security team ahead.

0:28.6

And tech titans on the hill, I'll interview a senator who was in the room for today's

0:32.8

closed-door meeting with the power players at the forefront of the AI revolution, as Washington

0:38.4

tries to grapple with the potent and perilous new technology.

0:45.2

Well, I'm going to meet the press now, I'm Garrett Hake.

0:56.4

We begin today with what happens now on Capitol Hill.

0:59.5

One day after, Speaker McCarthy announced an impeachment inquiry against President Biden,

1:04.0

and 17 days before the government runs out of money.

1:07.8

If McCarthy thought that the impeachment announcement would somehow strengthen his hand

1:11.3

inside his unruly conference, well, that hasn't happened yet.

1:15.3

So far, things appear just as unruly around McCarthy as ever.

1:19.1

As far as impeachment inquiries go, the evidence of presidential wrongdoing here is pretty

1:23.4

thin at the moment.

1:25.0

And some Republicans agree.

1:26.7

Today, the White House also wasted no time in pushing back on some of the GOP's claims

1:31.3

that Biden was improperly involved with his son's business ventures, with a memo to

1:36.1

reporters that included excerpts of witness testimony and plenty of public reporting, raising

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