launched a baseless impeachment inquiry into president biden. his plan has backfired, big-time. with mccarthy s raucous caucus threatening to oust him if he doesn t cave to their demands for steep spending cuts and other concessions. for the past nine months, we have watched this mccarthy mayhem with a mix of pity and alarm. it wasn t always this way. not that long ago, there was the speaker of the house who commanded respects, caught the gun. the speaker was the first and only woman to ever hold the speaker s gavel, who is able to unite her desperate caucus to pass historic legislation, like the affordable care act. she is not in leadership anymore, but she is not stopping the hard work that has come to define her. last week, she announced that she will run for reelection in 2024. if she wins, it would be heard 20th term representing san francisco in the house of representatives. she is speaker maria, nancy pelosi. she joins me live. speaker pelosi, thank you very much for c
republican party that is poised to unleash painful consequences about the whole country. some recess. over the first to back for the house of representatives was in fact chaos. house speaker kevin mccarthy has been unable to move forward with crucial appropriations bills or government spending bills, and it s not because democrats and republicans are fighting with one another. the fighting is happening among republicans. there have been ultimatums,, insults thrown between members, closed-door meetings, and no progress on anything substantive for which the house is actually responsible. and listen to essential the government will shut down, if nobody s past, mccarthy announced that he will open an impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. now that is a gambit that is certain to fail. and i don t mean that mccarthy can t possibly get biden removed from office if not just impeach of the house, but a trial and a vote in the senate. it is unclear if a mccarthy can win impeachm
the government will shut down if no budget is passed, mccarthy has announced he would open an impeachment inquiry into president biden. now that is a gambit that is certain to fail. and i don t just mean that mccarthy can t possibly get by the removed from office, which would involve not just an impeachment in the house, but a trial in the senate, i mean that it is unclear if mccarthy can even win an impeachment vote in the house. it is unpopular gambit with a smaller meeting faction of the republican party that still cares about governing, which is probably why mccarthy opened the impeachment inquiry without holding a vote as customary and as he had earlier indicated that he would do. why would the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives third in line in the presidency, launch a presidency that appears to be both strategically and politically unwise? easy. because he owes that important job to a small band of far-right conspiracy peddling wing nuts who belong to the cul