House Republicans' list of potential impeachment targets grows

THEY WERE RESPONSIVE.'S ANSWER IS THEY WERE. >>> TO DISCUSS THE LATEST ON CAPITOL HILL CBS NEWS CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT SCOTT MacFARLANE JOINS US. IT APPEARS THE LIST OF POTENTIAL IMPEACHMENT TARGETS FOR THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY CONTINUES TO GROW. I SUPPOSE IT IS WORTH ASKING WILL MERRICK GARLAND THE SITTING ATTORNEY GENERAL ADDED TO THE LIST? >> Reporter: THE HOUSE SPEAKER INDICATES HOUSE REPUBLICANS LOOK AT THE POSSIBILITY WITH THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND. THE SPEAKER SAYS IS A FORMER IRIS OFFICIAL OR TWO HAVE TOLD THE HOUSE WITH MEANS COMMUNITY THAT MERRICK GARLAND'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SLOW EITHER WANT THE INVESTIGATION OF THE SUM OF THE PRESIDENT, HUNTER BIDEN. úMERRI DENIED THE ALLEGATION. HE SAID THE U.S. ATTORNEY IN THE WAR HAS HAD FULL AUTONOMY TO HANDLE THIS INVESTIGATION WITHOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INTERFERING. THE TRUMP-APPOINTED ATTORNEY GENERAL IN DELAWARE. IT IS AS IF IMPEACHMENT IS ON THE WORD OF THE DAY CALENDAR. IT IS NOT JUST MERRICK GARLAND THERE ARE HOUSE REPUBLICANS TALKING ABOUT IMPEACHMENT AGAINST HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY AND THE U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. MISHANDLING JANUARY 6th CASES. THERE WAS PRIVILEGE RESOLUTION AND EXPEDITED RESOLUTION BY CONGRESSMAN LAUREN BOEBERT TO MOVE ON IMPEACHMENT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. NONE OF THIS IS HEADED ANYWHERE IN THE U.S. SENATE. IT IS ALL POLITICAL MESSAGING. IF YOU ADDED TO THE MIX, THE IMPEACHMENT EXPANSIONS RESOLUTION REPUBLICANS OFFERED TO EXPUNGE THE IMPEACHMENT OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, THERE IS A ZONE TO WATER DOWN THE TWO IMPEACHMENT AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS AND THEIR LIKELY NOMINEE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE NEXT YEAR. >> IT IS ALWAYS TROUBLESOME WHEN REPORTERS TRY TO APPLY CONSISTENCY TO MATTERS OF THIS NATURE. WE REMEMBER HOW MANY REPUBLICANS DENOUNCED THE IMPEACHMENT OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, ONE AND TWO, AS POLITICAL EXERCISES. LACKING DUE PROCESS AND FOUNDATION. THING THEY THREATENED TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE WHICH IMPEACHMENT WOULD BE USED AS POLITICAL MEANS, NOT UNDERLYING CONSTITUTIONAL PURPOSES IT WAS PLACED THERE TO DO. WHAT DO THEY SAY NOW? >> Reporter: REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP HAS EMPHASIZED THERE NEEDS TO BE A PROCESS, AND BACK ORDER TO THIS. THEY CANNOT FAST TRACK IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION AGAINST PRESIDENT RYDEN FOR ALLEGED FAILURE IN ALL OF THIS BECAUSE OF THE SOUTHERN BORDER. THAT IS WHAT THE RESOLUTION FROM CONGRESSMAN ALBERT ATTEMPTED TO DO. KEVIN McCARTHY FOUND A WAY TO PUT IT INTO THE HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE AND TRY TO RESTORE ORDER TO HAVE CONSISTENCY IN THE ARGUMENT'S FROM REPUBLICANS. THESE THINGS ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE MEANINGFUL. IT IS A POLITICAL CULTURAL AND A MESSAGING BILL AT A TIME WHICH REPUBLICANS SEE FIT TO TRY TO HAVE THAT POLITICAL MESSAGE. DONALD TRUMP WAS THE VICTIM OF WEAPONIZE THE APARTMENT OF JUSTICE. DONALD TRUMP WAS THE VICTIM POLITICALLY. DONALD TRUMP HISTORY TO GALVANIZE SUPPORT AND MANY REPUBLICANS HERE ARE TRYING TO KEEP THEMSELVES CLOSELY ADJACENT TO HIS FACE AND SUPPORTERS WHEN THEIR PRIMARY SCUM EARLY NEXT YEAR. >> YOU MENTIONED THIS EARLIER. EFFORT TO EXPUNGE THE TWO PREVIOUS TRUMP IMPEACHMENT DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE NO LONGER PART OF THE HISTORICAL RECORD, IT MEANS THIS PARTICULARLY CONSTITUTED HOUSE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY WOULD NOT FEEL COMPELLED TO RECOGNIZE THEM. DO I HAVE THAT CORRECT >> Reporter: IT WOULD BE SYMBOLIC ONLY. AS WE HAVE IMPEACHMENT TALK OVER THE PAST WEEK THERE HAS BEEN NOTICEABLE COARSENING OF THE DIALOGUE AROUND HERE. A LACK OF CIVILITY. BOTH SAID ACCUSING THE OTHER DIDN'T LET ME PLAY KEVIN McCARTHY. >> Reporter: WHAT DO YOU DO ABOUT THAT? >> I SAT WITH CAME AND PUT TOGETHER A GROUP OF MEMBERS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE WORKING TOWARD ADDRESSING THAT. WE CAN DISAGREE WITH AN ONE ANOTHER, BUT WE SHOULD BE RESPECTFUL. THE ACTIVITY AND HOW THEY CARRIED THEMSELVES GOES AGAINST EVERY STANDARD WE HAVE. THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE. >> BOTH SAID ACCUSING THE OTHER OF BEING LESS THAN CIVIL. THEY WILL NOT FIX THE CIVILITY PROBLEM UNTIL THEY STOP THE

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Keywords: Kevin McCarthy, United States House of Representatives, Politics, Merrick Garland, United States Department of Justice, Hunter Biden, Republican Party

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Length: 4min 39sec (279 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 26 2023