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Good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Wednesday, September 13th.

We all knew that September was going to be totally insane on Capitol Hill, but after yesterday,

we are seeing how much of a shit show we are all actually in for. In a span of just a few

days, Washington is going to be totally reeling from impeachment proceedings ramping up against

Joe Biden, a government shutdown for using benefits for millions of Americans, and more likely

than not a historic effort to try to remove Kevin McCarthy from the speakership. Unless you're living

under Iraq, you probably know that yesterday the speaker announced that he was formerly beginning

an impeachment inquiry. And this announcement came unsurprisingly, just a few hours after Matt Gates,

one of his biggest critics from Florida, announced that he was

going to go to the floor and make a case for removing McCarthy from the speakership. Gates was

criticizing McCarthy for not moving forward on impeachment, amongst other things. But McCarthy's

announcement yesterday didn't seem to move him or a lot of conservatives. A lot of folks from the Freedom Caucus continue to say that they could force a motion to vacate to oust McCarthy if he doesn't do what they want on spending and a host of other issues this month.

But this morning, we're going to focus on this impeachment inquiry because the announcement has raised a million questions about what this

looks like. I'm going to go through a few of them with you this morning and what we know so far.

So what are Republicans trying to prove here? As you know, Republicans have accused Biden of

basically being on the take as vice president. There's been a lot of stories written about

Hunter Biden and how he was paid millions of dollars by foreign companies when his dad was Barack Obama's number two.

But so far, Republicans haven't turned up evidence that President Biden himself has personally profited from Hunter's endeavors or that he dictated policy decisions based on who was paying his son. We are told from people close to

the investigation that this probe is going to try to make those links. And it's still unclear

how broad or narrow the scope of impeachment is going to be. Will it just be focused on

allegations of bribery? Or will it also include GOP suggestions that Biden has, quote, weaponized

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