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♪ ♪ >> buckeye broadband supports c-span as a pluck service along with -- public service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> welcome to today's "washington journal." we'll start with the latest on that which is from ax a owes with this headline -- axios, late night if vote sends historic mayorkas impeachment vote to house floor. it says that the house homeland security republicans approved two articles of impeachment against homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas just after midnight wednesday, sending the vote to the house floor. finish if the historic vote succeeds, mayorkas would be the first cabinet member to be impeached sinceca 1876.

for years conservatives have been gunningce to impeach mayors as the border has become the number onech issue for the republican party. democrats stonewalled and insisted that republicans had failed to provide evidence of the constitutional standardin of high crimes and misdemeanors. the articles passed out of committee along party lines. let's take a look at what congressman mark green said, he's the chair of the homeland security committee, and he openedse yesterday's meeting arguing that secretary mayorkas hasn'' lived up to his oath of >> this is not about policy differences at all. we certainly object to success secretary -- secretary mayorkas' policies, but this goes far deeper. according to the committee investigating iran contra, quote, government officials must observe the law even when they disagree with it, end quote. or when they think that, quote, congress is to blame for passing laws that run counter to administration policy, end quote. the case we're dealing with

today is that simple. secretary mayorkas has put his political performances above following the law. honoring our oaths to the constitution, are respecting the frame if ors' intent and following congressional precedent including the precedent set by house democrats, there is -- it is there are our only gable to hold secretary mayorkas accountable. which brings me to today's proceedings. today is a grave day. we have not approached this day or this process lightly. secretary mayorkas' actions have forced our hand. we cannot allow this border crisis to continue. we cannot allow fentanyl to flood across our border or criminals to waltz in undeterred. and we cannot allow a cabinet secretary with no regard for the separation of powers w or the re of law to remain in office. >> host: that was the chairman, mark green, and here are the actual article as of impeachment. you can find these on our web site, but it starts this way, that alejandro nicholas yorkas, secretary of homeland security of the united states of america, is impeached for high

crimes andri misdemeanors and tt the following articles of impoochment be exhibited to the united states senate. we have thatol on our web site t c-span.org if you'd like the read the entire tech -- text. also here is the response made by the secretary addressed to the honorable mark green, chairman. it's a 7-page response. you can also read through that on npr.org. and let's get the response quickly before we start taking your calls, congressman benny if thompson is the hop democrat on the homeland security panel, and he calledel the impeachment a political stunt. >> this is a terrible day for the committee. the united states constitution and our great country. republican memberstt of congress sworn to support and defend the constitution are rejecting the framer s' clear intent and other two centuries of precedent in favor ofen a sham impeachment. republicans have failed to make

a constitutionally-viable case to impeach secretary alejandro mayorkas, a dedicated public servant. the sham impeachment of secretary mayorkas is. a baseles political stunt by extreme maga reflynns -- republicans, chairman green, representative margaret taylor greene and others have pushed for and even fund raised batesed on this preplanned -- based on this preplannedded, predetermined scapegoating of the secretary. in the process of thousanding cans of spa if -- throwing cans of spaghetti at the wall, republicans have cooked up vague, unprecedented grounds to impeach secretary mayorkas, refuse aal to follow the law and a breach of public trust. neither ofol the impeachment charges the committee will consider today are a high crime and misdemeanor under article ii of the constitution. no serious person believes they are. ..

good morning, c-span. secretary mayorkas should've been impeached at least 90 days ago. it's been a total abdication of the border but ultimately this comes from the the presidene serves and that's why believe it is proper to impeach him. quite frankly, attorney general garland should be impeached, secretary granholm should be impeached. there's been questions about sector have learned of interior or energy whatever post she's at. there's multiple members of the biden administration. quite frankly, secretary austin should be considered. his abdication of responsibility not informing the commander of chief in time, all those things. there's multiple people in the biden cabinet that it not been

doing their job. there's no accountability in d.c. anymore. on anything. there isn't any accountability. >> host: do you think impeachment is the best way to do that though? >> caller: i don't think there's any choice anymore. because i don't think the president wants to change anything related to the border. it's clear he has responsibility. it's clear he has a duties. it's clear he has the ability to enforce the border, and, and this has been purposefully done for the last three plus years. so it's not really a question anymore. how the democrats somehow tried to split hairs what is proper impeachment and what isn't proper impeachment just showed you the fallacy thatu we live n in the society. no sane person can say that there is, that there hasn't been an absolute abdication. we've had almost 10 million

illegals into this country. my parents were legally immigrated into the society in the0' '50s, legally, legally. they had to fly here. they didn't walk across a border. what is this in this country? >> host: let's hear from glenn also in florida, this time in lakeland, democrat. good morning. >> caller: how you doing? the first caller just mentioned that he meant all the democrats need to be impeached, which means this is a sham and a first-place prefilled the reason only reason why they'reha doing this is because nancy pelosi and the congress that was led by the democrats impeached him twice. as far as all the things about the people coming over the border and all the stuff come look at what trump did the time he was in office. he was caging kids, separating families over 600 some families separated from their parents and are still haven't found them all yet. this is about what we don't want biden. they can't impeachw my breathig so the go for one of the people

who work for you. as far as the single business they keep talking about as far as the federal coming across the border, has anybody caught anybody here that actually did that? have we caught any cartel members in mexico that brought fentanyl over here? is not just the fact whether they brought it over, who's receiving an the country? do we have americans who are profiting off the shipment coming here to the states? that's which are not paying attention to. if you're going to ship something someone has to receive it. who's getting it? that's what you don't want to be concerned about. it's a joke.do it's about trying to get back hoping that you keep democrats and republicans angry so they'll come out and vote for trump in the next election if he doesn't go to prison first. that's what this is all about. quit fooling your -- yourself republicans. >> host: nick in delray beach, florida. good morning. >> caller: good morning.

it's always great to follow a democrat call because it makes it so easy to set incredibly intelligent. couple things. i support thehe mayorkas impeachment because failure to enforce the law is breaking the law. that's what people don't understand. the legislative branch past immigration laws. when the executive branch fails to enforce those laws and puts the american people in danger, that is an impeachable offense. as far as the border goes now, real quick and no, i were public itck cut off because you are not allowed to tell the truth on c-span, this lie that you just heard for the series of lies that you just heard and you will hear from democratic callers is, number one, the breaking up with families at the border. listen to what the last caller said. they still haven't found the pants for a lot of those children that were taken away from adults at thead border.

that is because those children were kidnapped and are being sex trafficked into the united states. that's why they were taken away from those people, because they aree being sex trafficked into this country. did we not learn anything from jeffrey epstein, from woody allen, from roman polanski? have not learned the sex trafficking is a big business in this country and needs to be stopped? it goes back to what the media did with the so-called pizzagate. >> host: are you saying that all the kids were separated at the border during the last administration were because they are being trafficked, and that was confirmed? >> caller: i don't think i said all. i said the reason they cannot find the parents is because they were not their parents. when they were separated it was because they were not the how many children have you been watching congressional testimony where dhs people have lost

thousands of children on the interior of the country? they don'tor know where they are anymore. >> host: so in the end you do support the impeachment of secretary mayorkas? >> caller: yes, and anderson you need to cut me off because you're not allowed to state -- it's just that we've got to move on because of the people are waiting with their thoughts. lori, modesto, california, independent. think? youei >> caller: i think that this is ridiculous. talking about enforcing the law, okay, well, i have been into that my whole life and i will vote for whoever i feel is best for the people. and there's no way i would ever vote for trump, no way. i mean, we all need to stop fighting, and this whole impeachment thing is ridiculous. and as far as the trafficked kids, that is not true. i mean, it's despicable that

that's happening but the children that are still separated from the parents is because he didn't find out where they were from, and it was their parents. and it was a horrible thing that he did. just horrible. a so facts are facts. this is ridiculous. everybody needs too stop this. this is a united states of america. united. stop it. we need, we need to go together to together and finally become the greatest country in the world. finally become the idea that were based on.n. not when we become great again. that says to me you want to go back to where slavery and everything, and we never have achieved it yet. so let's do it. i mean, there's nothing greater than to love each other and to show an example of what we can do. this fighting makes us look absolutely ridiculous. it makes us look foolish for the rest of the world. we could be stronger than we

ever were if we get along and get things done. trauma got it, lori. this is a commentary on the washington times by representative green, also by representative virginia foxx who says the immigration and nationality act mandates the detention of illegal aliens crossing our borders, whether they have credible fear claim or not and limits the use of parole to a case-by-case basis for quote an urgent humanitarian reason or significant public benefit. by refusing to comply with this law and engaging and mass catch and release, mr. mayorkas has refused to comply with the laws passed by congress. the constitution the stinky gets legislative authority to congress for lawmaking, leaving the executive branch with the sole responsibility of executing those laws. and jim, grand forks north

dakota, republican. do you think the secretary should be impeached? >> caller: i think it's a waste of time. it's biden's responsibility as president who swears an oath to the constitution, and many of them, going back toac bill clinton, did not live up to that le itself. article four section section for mckenzie almost as the individual states shall be protected from invasion, , event has a little semicolon something and says domestic violence. by a republican form of government, this, the federal government is supposed to act. the filter, always acted. i had to go back to history because it's important, we forget i think 19151960 only a little over 100 years ago there were incursions across the border the days of pancho villa and the were about eight mining engineers who were killed on a train. our t people, our great

grandfathers and mothers who had more of a robust pride in themselves and the country and a sense of sovereignty health in the bone bones demanded thw wilson do something. he sent 15,000 troops under "blackjack" pershing, blackjack, before pershing went to france and he goes down there with the young lieutenant named george patton and the chased the mexicans 1000 miles back into the desert and the secure the border with the seventh calvary. that was coasters hold -- >> host: coming to the current situation with the secretary, you originally said you thoughtc it was waste of time. >> caller: yes, a waste of time. 1953, isaiah was told he had about close to 900 million illegal aliens picky acted with a joint military law enforcement operation every move close to 1 million mexicans by force. it had ace bad name to it, it ws called operation wetback but that's what it was.

he did it twice by the way and the american people applauded him because that's what a country does. when you have to make people, to buy to come across a river, it doesn't matter whether they have guns or whether there hello kitty backpacks. it will have the same effect demographically and culturally on the nation. without assimilation we will never hold together as a people. we will know have linguistic and cultural unity and thus we secure the border. we should do it with the military. >> host: all right. let's go to west virginia, democrat. john, good morning. >> caller: how you doing? >> host: good. >> caller: this whole thing here i think it's just getting blown out of proportion. there's never been any really good border legislation. i think right now what they're doing is necessary, and i do believe that republicans need to follow through on this deal and

get this border security. i'm a democrat and i am up for security. >> host: what about the impeachment? >> caller: that's malarkey. they have done nothing. he's trying. they are battlingey at everythi, swamping government, typical move. throwing a bunch of fingers. a waste time, money instead of addressing the situation that needs to be addressed. it's just terrible. and not necessary, it's not what this nation needs. i don't think it's whatb president biden is doing. he's doing a very fine job. he's dealing with the crisis as best he can he is pretty much overwhelmed. he's got a lot on his plate and he deserves, america deserves to support them. they should. he is our president. i i didn't like trump but he was

president. i'm an old marine. i supported him. that's working for me. my loyalty is to the united states, not a party, got it, john. let's take a look at what constitutional lawyer jonathan turley said about this topic. he said this, secretary of homeland security alejandro mayorkas has been denounced as dishonest, felicitous, and derelict by his critics. in my view, all of these things are manifestly true. it is also true in my opinion that none of these things account to high crimes and misdemeanors warranting his impeachment. moreover, being bad at your job is not an impeachable offense. even really bad. even his level of bad. if that were the case he would be only the latest in a long line of cabinet officers from marched into congress for constitutional termination. and that is a conservative

commentator and legal expert jonathan turley, publishing that opinion in the "daily beast." joseph, virginia, democrat. what do you think? [inaudible] treva joseph? >> caller: how are you doing? , you have to turn down the tv. olmec okay, all right. >> host: go ahead. >> caller: i think this impeachment thing is a sad situation, what the republicans are doing going down this road. when they are not in power than a democrat start doing the same the republicans will not like when the democrats do what withe doing now. what we should be talked about is kitchen tableha issues, healh insurance, inflation, gas prices, jobs, something that could help somebody, not just this w going on for folks in step -- >> the senate has been a recess but is now traveli