oversight committee judiciary and the house ways and means committee have already been investigating a potential nexus which hasn't been proven between hunter biden's business dealings and any potential corruption by president joe biden. this impeachment inquiry serves two purposes. one is legal which allows house republicans a little more power to issue a subpoena against the white house or other entities in the courts to make the case that those subpoenas should be answered as they seek more information about hunter biden and his business and any potential relationship with them vice president joe biden or former vice president joe biden. the other issue is its political. members of the house conference like marjorie taylor greene said they would not support a government funding bill absent some movement on impeachment. sure enough, house speaker kevin mccarthy came back from the august recess and he announced the impeachment inquiry. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene came into the speaker's office and said i'm ready to support a funding bill. as the deadline to fu

we've heard in the last few minutes the senior republican kevin mccarthy saying he's ordered house committeesd credible corruption allegations and we've had an instant response from the white house slamming that probe as extreme politics. so instant response soon as we from kevin mccarthy. the white house condemning that decision to open that impeachment investigation. house republicans have been investigating the president for nine months and have turned up no evidence of wrongdoing, that's according to a white house spokesman for oversight and investigations. so instant response from the white house but that was kevin mccarthy detailing and talking about the corruption allegations and he mentioned hunter biden several times and the wider biden several times and the wider biden family. that news just emerging in washington and we will obviously have more on the developments and raw politics going on in washington. you are watching bbc news. hello there. tuesday certainly brought with it a day of contrast. we had heavy rain across northern england, but after a chilly start, some lovely sunshi

the four democrats likely to oppose it but also two members of the a house freedom caucus on the rules committee and so they could vote with democrats to make it a very tight vote in the house rules committee which could glop it and so therere ar3 steps over the next couple of day that is the stop-gap measure would need to clear. first the rules committee and then the rule on the floor and finally final passage for it to be sent over to the senate. >> we read some conservatives, we read about five of them. i want to show a few of them to our viewers who may have missed it and get your reaction to this. here the matt gaetz from florida, interference is a betrayal of republicans, we must do better, referring to just funding the justice department. marjorie taylor greene, there are no policy writers, she notes that. it's all the policies from last year's democratic appropriations with an 8% cut plus the border bill but not e-verify. she says i'm no because there's no money for ukraine. >> time to stay in dc, no breaks until we pass all appropriations bills. i will not be supporting cr and this week

. >>> under threat of being ousted himself, house speaker kevin mccarthy directed gop-led committees to investigate the president and his connections to his son's business dealings. but even some house republicans a they're not convinced evidence exists. >>> plus, the pennsylvania manhunt escalated dramatically. the escaped inmate who has alluded capture for two weeks is now armed as citizens in the area sit on their porches with guns. ready to protect themselves from the convicted killer. >>> and moments ago, the nfl made it official. that achilles injury has put aaron rodgers out for the entire season. just four plays into his career. joe theismann will join us to discuss. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. and we start on our politics lead with his speakership under threat from the maga right, today house speaker kevin mccarthy launched an impeacimpeachment inquiry into president biden that when he was vice president, he personally financially benefited from foreign business dealings involving his son hunter. >> now i would encourage the president and his team to fully coo

greenlight to and impeachment inquiry and to president joe biden. >> today, i am directing our house committeeimpeachment inquiry into president joe biden. >> a dramatic escalation of the house gop investigation into the president. >> house republicans have uncovered serious, credible allegations into president biden's conduct. taken together, these allegations paint a picture of a culture of corruption. >> mccarthy today repeated several allegations made by some of his gop colleagues, including that as vice president, biden joined meetings with hunter biden's business partner, that the treasury department as flag suspicious financial activity by the biden family, and that the president has lied about knowledge of his family's business deals. but asked republicans have so far not provided evidence that biden directly profited off his son's business deals or made any decisions as vice president because of them. >> there is zero evidence of any malfeasance on the part of joe biden. >> the effort as faced resistance from some in the gop over the lack of evidence. >> what i want to do is look at t

joining me the chairman of the select committee on china and a member of the house intelligence committeer. great to see you, thank you for being here this weekend. >> of course, great to be with you. maria: i want to talk about the meeting you had with wall street executives, do you believe that businesses understand the threat that is communist china. >> are job and mission is to make them understand and not only did we conduct a field hearing we conducted a wargame in which we invited a lot of major asset managers and bakers to understand the implications of a scenario that took place in 2028 involving china trying to take taiwan and the other havoc it would wreak on the global financial system. what are the biggest takeaways if we do not make hard choices now we have very few options in 2028. you can see in the room how concerned people were about taking some options, aggressive options that would be necessary against china because of the financial and economic implications. all the more reason why we need to have this discussion, given the increase in risk in investing in china if yo

. >> house weighs and means committee chairman jason smith joins us on this.e'll talk about to congresswoman claudia tenny who supports an impeachment inquiry for president biden. and senator marsha blackburn on the spending bill and biden investigations debates in the united states senate. then millions of americans may be funding china's military without even knowing it. the house select committee on china is investigating financial giants like msci and black rock allegedly investing in companies tied to china. the committee also went to wisconsin last week to discuss unfair trade practices supported by the chinese government against american companies. the chairman of that select committee mike gallagher will join us. it is all right here, right now -- on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ we begin with those congressional biden family business investigations and how speaker kevin mccarthy possibly scheduling a vote soon on an impeachment inquiry. maria asked senator ted cruz if he's spoken with minority leader mitch mcconnell about the lack of interest from sen

this logical next step will give our committee full power to gather all the facts and answers for american public. the three houseentatives committees on oversight of the judiciary and the budget are confident that they have collected a lot of evidence of family corruption of the bidens, who traded in the influence of the us vice president for the. the one who is ready to outshine the american president from pennsylvania fettern on the sidelines has staged a theater at the microphone. i want to ask you what you think about the news that speaker mccarthy has officially announced his impeachment. oh my god, it's true. oh my god you know this is terrible oh don't do this please don't do it oh no. oh no, well, that's biden's entourage. it's not funny at all. dozens of lawyers and their assistants will sit in the white house counsel's office from there and the first official comment is that house republicans investigated the president's actions for 9 months, and they found no evidence of wrongdoing by his own members. the republican party said it vowed to hold a vote on declaring the pinch-off. but now he has changed

green light to an impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. >> today, i am directing our house committeeiry into president joe biden. >> reporter: a dramatic escalation of the house gop's investigations into the president. >> house republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into president biden's conduct. taken together, these allegations paint a picture of a culture of corruption. >> reporter: mccarthy today repeated several allegations made by some of his gop colleagues, including that as vice president, biden joined meetings with hunter biden's business partners. that the treasury department has flagged suspicious financial activity by the biden family. and that the president has lied about his knowledge of his family's business deals. but house republicans have so far not provided evidence that biden directly profited off his son's business deals or made any decisions as vice president because of them. >> there is zero evidence of any malfeasance on the part of president joe biden. >> reporter: the effort has faced resistance from some in the gop over the lack of evi

it is again just about the most serious thing any house committee ever undertakes. one safeguard against a committee acting on the basis of just let's say the party membership, is to insure that the full house is behind the impeachment inquiry. >> a dozen of our colleagues on the republican side have already called for impeachment. i'm struck by the fact that of the four expert witnesses brought together today, not a single one of them argued that a sufficient quantum of evidence exists today to justify the impeachment of president biden. is there any precedent in our country for launching an impeachment inquiry absent evidence of wrongdoing by the president? >> no. in fact i would just point out that richard nixon and bill clinton and president trump in 2019 the full house authorized those impeachment inquiries. >> lev parnas sent a letter that was addressed to chairman comer that said the narrative you are seeking for this investigation has been proven false many times over by a wide array of respected sources. there is simply no merit to investigating this matter

also related to the january 6th and also a civil case where donald trump wanted to block the house committeeuracying the white house records, while he was president of the united states. in that, she president presidents are not king and plaintiff is not president. and she's certainly sharp-tonged in a number of her decisions and number of her rulings, but this is going to be an uphill battle to get her recused from the case. ultimately, it's up to her whether she recuses herself or not. we'll see what prosecutors say later this week and how the judge decides to handle this. >> sara murray, thank you so much for the update on the new legal battles that trump is bringing to the courts. >> with us now is former manhattan prosecutor jeremy sa lan, is this like a kid saying i want a pony or is there legal basis to this? >> no, it's not like a pony nir stomping your feet. the issue is whether or not the judge is impartial or not -- i mean, ultimately it is. but whether there's a reasonable perception that he or she might be impartial. not might be impartial, seem impartial, it seems to be a reaso

house speaker kevin mccarthy ordering house committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into president's accusing the white house of a culture of corruption. even members of his own seem to be divided on this decision. >>> plus, 19 defendants in one courtroom on trial all at once. how can you make that work? fulton county's district attorney facing a deadline of today to explain to a judge how she plans to make it happen. at the same time, lawyers for former president donald trump are fighting the case trying to get most of the charges against him thrown out. >>> and armed and dangerous. in pennsylvania, police hope they're closing in on a missing killer, but after a sighting overnight and a standoff with a homeowner, they now know he has a rifle with a scope. they're warning people to stay inside as they mobilize some 500 officers to hunt him down. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to "cnn news central." >>> another bitter chapter has kicked off in washington. house speaker kevin mccarthy is green lighting an impeachment inquiry into

. >> today, i'm directing our house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. >> a dramatic escalation of the house gop investigation into the president. >> house republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into president biden's conduct. taken together, these allegations paint a picture for the culture of corruption. >> mccarthy today repeated several allegations made by some of his gop colleagues, including that as vice president, biden joined meetings with hunter biden's business partners. the treasury department has suspicious financial activity by the biden family. and the president has lied about his knowledge of his family's business deals. but house republicans have so far not provided evidence that biden directly profited off his son's business deals, or made any decision as a vice president because of them. >> there is zero evidence of any -- from the part of presidential biden. >> the effort has faced resistance from some in the gop over the lack of evidence. >> what i wanted to do was look at the evidence. i said i will go whe

the most senior republican in the us congress has ordered house committees to begin an impeachment inquirythy said his party had uncovered serious and credible corruption allegations. the white house has dismissed the inquiry as "extreme politics." here's what mr mccarthy had to say. that's why today i am directing our house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into presidentjoe biden. this logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the american public. that's exactly what we want to know. the answers. i believe the president would want to answer these questions and allegations as well. now, i would encourage the president and his team to fully cooperate with this investigation in the interests of transparency. we're committed to getting the answers for the american public. nothing more, nothing less. we will go wherever the evidence takes us. 0ur north america correspondent sean dilley says the impeachment process is seen as highly partisan and likely to fail. this is political grandstanding by kevin mccarthy. it's political

. ♪ >> this news coming in, chairman of the powerful house committees accused hunter biden's legal teamf lawfully intimidating threatening whistleblowers, david spunt live with the story. >> house republicans members in action at the capital officially for the first time since late july and attorney general merrick garland will feel that in the days, weeks and months ahead. earlier this morning house republicans sent a letter to the ag asking to investigate what they call intimidation by hunter biden's attorneys. the chairs of house judiciary oversight ways and means say hundreds of attorneys christopher clark are harassing to whistleblowers named gary and joe ziegler who investigated hunter's taxes. the letter reads in part hunter biden's legal team is engaged in a brazen effort to intimidate and harass the turn of revenue service irs whistleblowers who exposed numerous irregularities in the department investigation of hunter biden. abbey level has largely taken over, that's him in the blue tie the quark chris clark may be a witness in a future case involving the plea deal he did take

. >>> i am directing our house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. >>> armed and dangerous. police say an escaped killer has stolen a rifle with a scope as he continues to evade pennsylvania authorities. we'll give the latest on the ongoing manhunt. >>> vma's big night. big surprises at the mtv video music awards. we'll tell you who were big winners and who was honored. >>> good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with the republican-led house opening an impeachment inquiry into president biden. speaker mccarthy said house investigators so far paint a picture of a culture of corruption over the biden family's business dealings. the white house said the move is politically motivated, and republicans have turned up no evidence of wrongdoing. jarred hill is in new york with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. you know, speaker mccarthy called this impeachment inquiry the logical next step in their probe into the bidens, turning up the temperature in washington as congress tries to avoid a govern

i now yield to jason smith, the chairman of the house and ways and means committee for his opening statement. >> thank you, chairman comer. yesterday the house ways and means committee released documents. -- >>> and so now you are hearing from the different chairs about this. when we hear from ranking member james raskin, we will hear from him as we heard from the chair james comer. i want to bring in elie honig, and counselor, i want to establish since it is an impeachment inquiry and not talking about the law. impeachment as we have learned in the last two years, it is what congress decides is a high crime and misdemeanor, and i will ask you a legal question here. what the committee is trying do, and the republicans on the committee is to suggest that as james comer said at the outset, there is a mountain of evidence that joe biden abused the public office for financial gain, and what evidence or they have or would they need to produce to produce a case, and elie they would have than the trump hotel a block down the block when president trump was in the office and travel to the hotel and t

maria: house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan making the case and now house oversight committee james comer has formally issued new subpoenas for the personal and business bank records of both hunter biden and his uncle james biden read he's calling this the next step in the investigation, earlier this week we learned of $260,000 sent from china to hunter biden but sent to joe biden's address during his presidential campaign. joy to me to discuss it in a fox business exclusive is chairman jim jordan. thank you very much for being here this weekend. >> it to be with you. maria: can you walk us through why $260,000 was sent to hunter biden at joe biden's address when in fact at the time in 2019 hunter was living in california. >> who knows one more piece of evidence that raises concerns for any common sense american out there who sees how the whole thing played out. this is why we continue to pursue our investigation and do oversight and as you mentioned it's why chairman comer has subpoenaed the bank records for hunter and jim biden the presidents brother, we will see what furthe

. >> today i am directing our house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. >> reporter: a dramatic escalation of the house gop's investigations into the president. >> house republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into president biden's conduct. taken together, these allegations paint a picture of a culture of corruption. >> reporter: mccarthy today repeated several allegations made by some of his gop colleagues, including that as vice president, biden joined meetings with hunter biden's business partners, that the treasury department has flagged suspicious financial activity by the biden family, and that the president has lied about his knowledge of his family's business deals. but house republicans have so far not provided evidence that biden directly profited off his son's business deals or made any decisions as vice president because of them. >> there is zero evidence of any malfeasance on the part of president joe biden. >> reporter: the effort has faced resistance from some in the gop over the lack of evidence. >> what i wante

from the house and senate floors to congressional hearings, party briefings and committee meetings. c-span gives you a front row seat to how issues are debated and decided with no commentary, no interruptions and completely unfiltered. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> today, policy advocates testifying on ways to protect children from online sexual abuse and sex trafficking. you can watch the house judiciary subcommittee hearing live at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3, c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. facebook and follow on instagram. washington journal makes the comment that the white house was a party to his son's affairs. they said that the investigation has turned up no facts so far and that labeling a probe as an impeachment inquiry or is seen as given the house more power and a 2019 report says that an investigation could help congress by including the likelihood that the congress would offer material. you can see on the website, here is kevin mccarthy. [video clip] >> these accusations warrant further investigation by the house. that

the three house committees on oversight of the judiciary and the budget are confident that they havef family corruption of the bidens, who traded the influence of the us vice president around the world to biden's reaction. not yet, he is coming to his senses after a tiring foray at the g20; however, among the democrats, someone has been found who is ready to outshine the american president . pennsylvania senator fetherman staged a theater at the microphone on the sidelines. i want to ask you what you think about the news that the speaker mccarthy officially announced his impeachment. oh my god it's true. oh my god you know this is terrible oh don't do this please don't do this oh no. oh no, well, that’s biden’s entourage. not funny at all, dozens of lawyers and their assistants will sit in the white house counsel's office from there and the first official comment house republicans have been investigating the president for 9 months and they found no evidence of wrongdoing his own members of the republican party said so he vowed to hold a vote on declaring the pinch-off. but now he has

here's mr mccarthy speaking in the last couple of hours, that's why today i am directing our house committeey into presidentjoe biden. this logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the american public. that's exactly what we want to know. the answers. i believe the president would want to answer these questions and allegations as well. now, i would encourage the president and his team to fully cooperate with this investigation in the interests of transparency. we're committed to getting the answers for the american public. nothing more, nothing less. we will go wherever the evidence takes us. earlier i spoke to our correspondent sean dilley in washington. this is political grandstanding by kevin mccarthy is political grandstanding because he knows that no president has ever been successfully removed from office by way of impeachment. but what he's doing is he's pointing to three republican led subcommittee inquiries by the oversight, the judiciary and also the ways and means committees within the house. within the house, within congres

that's why today i am directing our house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into presidentiden. this logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all of the facts and answers for the american public. that's exactly what we want to know, the answers. i believe the president would want to answer these questions and allegations as well. this effort will be led by chairman james comer at the committee on oversight and in coordination with chairman jim jordan and jason smith. i do not make this decision lightly. regardless of your party or who you voted for, these facts should concern all americans. the american people deserve to know that the public offices are not for sale. and the federal government is not being used to cover up the actions of a politically associated family. i would encourage the president and his team to fully cooperate with this investigation in the interest of transparency. we are committed to getting the answers for the american public. nothing more, nothing less. we will go wherever the evidence takes us. thank you. >> so the spea

the transcript by the way was published by the house republican committee. question, are you aware of any wrongdoing by vice president biden? answer, no, i'm not aware of any. question, so based on anything you saw, heard, or observed did you have any knowledge of joe biden having any involvement in burisma. answer, no, not wreck direct, no. question, no involvement with joe biden and burisma. answer, no. it also supplied no evidence whatsoever his father did anything wrong, which takes us back to speaker mccarthy and his 2019 tweet, quoting this from point three. for dems this is all about politics, not about facts. keeping them honest the central scandal had been known for weeks, namely the former president had issued a veiled threat unless president zelenskyy issued an investigation to smear joe biden. this time they found no evidence tying president biden to wrongdoing, so why is speaker mccarthy doing what he's doing? well, one answer, in fact the answer might be found in a video back in january. on the right congressman mccarthy during his arm twisting

house judiciary committee plan to investigate whether the justice department has become politicized and weaponized under his leadership. garland defended the department and touting protecting democracy and crack down on crime. he does not make mention of the hunter biden investigation and potential biden family corruption in the document, something house republicans have been following closely. listen. >> we followed the money and found wires from china to romania to ukraine to russia, to uzbekistan to the shell companies that were then disbursed to nine different biden family members. we found over $20 million the bidens have received from foreign nationals and the biden family cannot say one thing they did to account for what they received that money for. >> brooke: house republicans launched impeachment inquiry against biden last week and will hold a hearing next thursday, something the white house described as baseless impeachment stunt to divert attention from the extreme agend. republicans say they will layout evidence they have found in their investigation. guys. >> carley: thank

she was a member of the january 6 select house committee. thank you for joining us.y subpoenaed five republican members of congress, kevin mccarthy and month brooks and jim jordan and scott perry, not one of them testified. did did the committee try to get testimony from the senators, graham, purdue and loeffler. >> we had discussed but based on the reaction of our colleagues in the house, we had an expectation they might not comply. but also the division between the house and senate was an impediment to some extent on subpoenaing senators. >> what do you make of the district attorney in fulton county, her ultimate decision to not bring charges against michael flynn or cleta mitchell or senator graham, or senators perdue and loeffler. do you think they got a pass because they were elected officials? >> well, it is hard to know. but for one thing, this shows that the district attorney down there in fulton county is not just willy-nilly indicting people as some of the trump supporters have suggested. she took some of the suggestions, she discarded others, a assume beca

here with reaction, house oversight committee chair james comer and chairman of the house ways and meansommittee jason smith. congressman comer, let's talk about the war room that they set up, i think against you especially, but also against jason, i'm sure jim jordan and probably anybody in the media that dares to tell this story. your reaction? >> well, they wouldn't have to set up a war room, sean, if they would just provide the information that we've requested. i don't think we've requested anything out of the ordinary. we want to know the correspondence that joe biden used with the pseudonyms between the government and himself pertaining to the ukrainian policy. we want to know any e-mails that had hunter biden copied on them from the government. this is stuff that should be public record. and with respect to their bank records joe biden had no problem releasing donald trump's tax returns. joe biden said he would be the most transparent president in the history. we've already proven his family got $20 million from foreign nationals, they can't say a single thing they did to earn the

house committee kevin mccarthy and chairman james komar said it would stall probes into hunter biden and impeachment into president biden. >> investigation and everything else. interfering with our investigation, any excuse the biden administration can give not to be transparent with the house oversight committee they will take that. cheryl: joining me now is congressman russell fry. before we get to that, congressman, you represent part of the south carolina coast. how are recovery efforts going after hurricane idalia and are you satisfied with the federal response you have seen so far? >> so far. we were largely spared. the timing hit at a low tide. we saw some flooding. there is some damage. it is not as bad as it could have been. efforts of recovery is ongoing. i have not heard any challenges yet. we will be aware of those as they come up. >> are there any key things you want to see happen throughout the next several weeks as far as infrastructure or anything else that has to do with construction western mark what do the people of your district need right now? >> i think we have

. >> i am correcting our house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. >> this is exactly what many conservatives clamored for since summer. >> the entire biden family has been enriched by tens of millions of dollars. they sold out joe biden's power. >> republicans say the allegations warrant investigation because of the so-called sweetheart deal hunter biden was initially offered in the presbyterian into his business dealings. >> it appears that the president's family hab offered special treatment by biden's own administration. treatment that not otherwise would have received if they were not related to the president. >> mccarthy's impeachment gambit isn't enough to satisfy conservatives who are opposed to his plan to fund the government. >> mr. speaker, you are out of compliance with the agreement that allowed you to assume this role. >> gaetz is threatening a new speaker election if mccarthy doesn't insist on deep spending cuts and a bill to avert a government shutdown. mccarthy lacks the votes to approve a formal impeachment inquiry and democrats be

committee, james comer, the chairman of the house ways and means committee, jason smith is with us. [applause] thank you all. all right, jim jordan. let me start with you. i keep hearing from the media mob and democrats in the white house. but there's no evidence. none at all. you have a list of evidence. i think you could probably go on for the next 10 minutes giving us evidence. >> yeah, i'm going to try to go to the central evidence, the transcript that we just had of the deposition of hunter biden's business partner, devon archer. we asked him this question. i've got it here. the request was from the united states government to deal with the pressure they were under from the prosecutor. devon archer's response to that question was correct. next question. what did hunter biden do after he got that request? devon archer's answer, he called his dad. which begs the real question, what did joe biden do? joe biden, five days later after this happened on december 4, 2015, joe biden gets on a plane, place ukraine, and starts the process to fire the prosecutor, the very guy they asked him

. >> today i am directing our house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. i would encourage the president and his team to fully cooperate. we will go wherever the evidence takes us. >> john: house speaker kevin mccarthy making it official that he has green-lit an impeachment inquiry into president biden. historic announcement could see the president's finances put front and center during the 2024 campaign. hello, i'm john roberts in washington. welcome to tuesday. >> sandra: here we go, john. sandra smith in new york. this is "america reports." earliered to, mccarthy said republicans have exposed a culture of corruption in the biden family and impeachment inquiry will allow the investigators to uncover bank records and potentially charge the president with wrongdoing. >> john: the white house maintains the probe is political and that republicans have failed to show the president personally benefitted from his son hunter's foreign business deals or abused his power to influence them. >> sandra: complete coverage begins now. former secretary of state m

this is -- this committee is all about. the house oversight committee is to identify mismanagement in the government. to do, that we depend on whistleblowers. whistleblowers coming forward and telling their story, that's what you all have done. to think that there are people on the committee who have tried to question your credibility it is pretty low mark for the history of the house oversight committee. again, thank you, what we've learned today, just to go back six months, when this investigation started, week became the majority, they laptop, according to many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, many of our friends in the media, was russian disinformation. what we now know, the laptop contains many of the financial records, the financial documents, the communication between both the president as well as other members of this family, with many of these associates, with many of these foreign nationals. so there's a clear path of evidence, i'll say that investigating the biden family influence is like investigating a wa

house republican congress. again, to my so-called conservative colleagues, go explain that. go explain how you oppose border security, hr two, strongly vetted, passed by the share committee, passed by house republicans, that is a dream bill for dealing with the crisis at the border where i've got in texas, 2000 people at eagle pass yesterday. water i spent august sitting on panels with moms and dads who have lost their children to fentanyl pozen thanks. i met with countless law enforcement overrun. communities overrun, now our colleagues in new york are seeing without looks like. if i have to watch another migrant getting sold into the sex trafficking trade or another federal opinion about a stash house in fort worth, texas with a little girl in it, that the father is being ransomed for money so that his little girl does not get abused because of what this country is doing with an open border, no. i did not come here for second place. i didn't come here to posture on twitter. i came to figure out how to save this country for my kids and grandkids. i did not survive cancer at i don't skip out of town away from my family to be here for posturing and for rhetoric. and i'm proud of

he is also under investigation by the house ethics committee.g and he is running for re-election next year. and he is throwing some of his republican colleagues and calling for biden's impeachment. calls that house speaker kevin mccarthy finally caved to today, announcing an impeachment inquiry. congressman george santos joins me now. and, congressman, i appreciate your time tonight. i want to start with the news from speaker mccarthy. you put out a statement today about it, and you said, quote, in part, i have yet to receive any reports of sufficient evidence worthy of impeachment coming from the three house committees investigating president biden. yet, i know that you support mccarthy in his call to begin the impeachment inquiry. how come? >> well, it's very simple. the process can't be cheapened. we can't allow us to do the same mistakes that former speaker pelosi did and just bulldoze through an insurrection without any credible evidence. the american public is already fractured and sick and tired of that. so that's why i've been no impeach

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ten minutes or so, the most senior republican a us congress kevin mccarthy says he's ordered house committees to begin a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden. mr mccarthy said his party uncovered what he called "serious and credible corruption allegations". republicans who narrowly control the house accused mr biden of profiting while he served as vice president from 2009 to 2017 from his son hunter bidens foreign business ventures. they've not presented evidence here is mr mccarthy speaking just in the last half hour. mccarthy speaking “ust in the last half hour. ., ., half hour. through our investigations - half hour. through our investigations we - half hour. through ourj investigations we have half hour. through our- investigations we have found half hour. through our— investigations we have found that president biden did live. to the american people about his own knowledge of his families foreign business deals. eyewitnesses have testified that the presidentjoined on multiple phone calls and had multiple interactions, dinners resulting in cars and millions of dollars into his

also a former spokesperson for republicans on the house oversight committee. in studio, i have danny cevallos, my friend, criminal defense attorney, and msnbc legal analyst and paola ramos, a journalist and msnbc contributor joins us as well. to begin, kurt, let's talk. mccarthy can't even get his own caucus together to pass a procedural vote. we saw that this week. now since 1995, the house has only failed to pass a rules resolution a total of eight times. all of those times or under republican control. now three of those times have come just within the last eight months under mccarthy's leadership. why does he keep embarrassing himself publicly like this? >> yeah, charles, this is republicans in disarray all over again. and it's a script we're becoming all too familiar with. and i think if anything, i hope this makes everybody appreciate the leadership that nancy pelosi demonstrates when she was facing a very similar narrow margins in her majority, was able to ship right through monumental election time and time again. she was able to keep her caucus and won

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