From New York Times, I'm Michael Obaro, this is The Daily.

The Speaker of the House has ordered an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, putting into

motion the third formal attempt by Congress to remove a president in the past four years.

Today, I spoke with my colleague Luke Broadwater about the unique realities behind this one.

It's Friday, September 15th.

Luke, I want you to walk us through this news conference a few days ago in which Speaker Kevin

McCarthy explains this pretty momentous decision to open an impeachment inquiry.

Right. Well, the House had just come back from a long August recess and was about to

gavill in to start its September session. And Kevin McCarthy calls a SNAP news conference outside

of the Speaker's office, what we call the small rotunda at the Capitol. And he walks out.

Welcome back, everyone. He sets somewhat of a somber tone. You know, the months that we were

gone in the weeks, House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations

into President Biden's conduct. And he begins to lay out why he believes there needs to be

an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Now, here's what we know so far.

Through our investigations, we have found that President Biden did lie to the American people

about his own knowledge of his family's foreign business dealings.

The first thing he says is that President Biden lied about his son Hunter Biden's business

dealings. There is evidence that President Biden made at least one very prominent false statement

and that other times he oversimplified or maybe made misstatements when describing the business

interactions. I witnesses have testified that the President joined on multiple phone calls

and had multiple interactions. But then he makes a series of allegations about conduct that Hunter

Biden engaged in and attempts to link it to President Biden. And he does it in a way that is not

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