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Washington Week

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week tried to appease his far-right members by opening an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, as Hunter Biden was indicted on federal firearms charges. Join guest moderator Laura Barrón-López, Leigh Ann Caldwell of The Washington Post, Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News, Weijia Jiang of CBS News and Heidi Przybyla of POLITICO to discuss these stories and more.

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0:00.0	House Republicans in disarray.
0:04.8	We will go wherever the evidence takes us.
0:08.5	Speaker Kevin McCarthy opens an impeachment inquiry into the president, all to appease
0:13.2	his most extreme members, just weeks before a deadline to fund the government.
0:18.7	Mr. Speaker, you are out of compliance.
0:21.8	The path forward for the House of Representatives is to either bring you into immediate total
0:27.6	compliance or remove you.
0:30.2	I showed frustration in here because I am frustrated.
0:32.9	Facing threats of losing his speakership, McCarthy confronts his detractors in a fiery
0:37.7	meeting.
0:38.7	Plus, with the president pardoning or commuting his son, he's convicted.
0:43.7	So I've answered this question before and I was very clear and I said no.
0:47.3	Hunter Biden is indicted on federal gun charges next.
0:55.0	This is Washington Week with The Atlantic.
0:58.6	Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.
1:00.7	I'm Laura Barone Lopez.
1:02.1	Jeffrey Goldberg is away.
1:03.9	House Republicans are in turmoil again.
1:06.6	Under pressure from the far right,
1:08.3	Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched a formal impeachment inquiry based on no evidence into President
1:13.7	Joe Biden.
1:14.7	The move taken within hours of returning from summer recess didn't work.
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