Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ, the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bulwark, and I'm joined by our regulars

Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal.

Damon Linker, who writes the Substack newsletter,

Notes from the Middle Ground, and Linda Chavez

of the Niskanin Center.

Our special guest this week is The Atlantic's David From.

David is the author of many books most recently Trump apocalypse.

Welcome one and all David I would like to start with you.

We have recently heard that Hunter Biden has been indicted for his gun crime of not acknowledging

that he was a drug user when he applied for a license. So he's now been formally indicted and the Speaker of the House

Kevin McCarthy has announced that this is also related to Hunter Biden that they are initiating an impeachment investigation,

not that they haven't been doing investigations mind you, but this is a formal impeachment

investigation of Biden for well that's a really good question what are they

saying that he's going to be impeached for right well on the hunter-b news, it always comes as something of a relief to me when it turns out there

is something you can do in the United States that will cost you your gun rights.

So I don't know that this will stand up in appeal because I think the view of many courts is no actually

there's nothing you can do with the Wacostia gun rights.

The impeachment show I think reflects a maneuver, a gamble by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that if he can throw more impeachment

news, another impeachment log on to the fire, that he can somehow mobilize the votes

to keep the government open when the funding expires at the end of September.

Otherwise, we're heading to a government shutdown very probably about October 1st, and that has

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