REPUBLICAN POLITICS AND I HAVE
TO TELL YOU, WE ARE STILL
HEARING FROM PEOPLE LIKE
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WHO SAY
SHE DOES NOT LIKE THIS.
THE QUESTION IS DOES SHE NOT
LIKE IT ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY
TRIGGER THAT MOTION TO VACATE?
THAT HANGS OVER ALL OF US, EVEN
AS URGENCY AMOUNTS FOR THIS AID
TO GET OUT THE DOOR.
>> LET’S TALK ABOUT HOMELAND
SECURITY SECRETARY ALEJANDRO
MAYORKAS.
HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON IS
EXPECTED TO SEND THESE ARTICLES
OF IMPEACHMENT LATER TODAY, BUT
IF THIS CAME AFTER SOME
CONSERVATIVES ASKED FOR A DELAY
LAST WEEK.
WALK US THROUGH WHAT WE HAVE
SEEN AND WHY DID THEY DELAY THE PROCESS AND WHAT WILL WE SEE
HAPPEN?
>> IT IS A BIT OF GROUNDHOG DAY
WHEN IT COMES TO TRANSMITTING
THESE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT
AGAINST VISITING A HOMELAND
SECURITY SECRETARY.
INITIALLY, YOU ARE CORRECT.
THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN
LAST WEEK AND AFTER PRESSURE
FROM SOME CONSERVATIVE
HARDLINERS ON THE SENATE SIDE,
THE HOUSE SAID, OKAY, WE WILL
WAIT A FEW DAYS AND DO THIS
NEXT WEEK.
THE KEY FROM THE SENATE
CONSERVATIVES I WAS TALKING TO
WAS TO MAKE SURE THIS WAS NOT A
TRIAL THAT STARTED ON A
THURSDAY, WHICH IT WOULD HAVE
YESTERDAY -- LAST WEEK.
THURSDAY IS DAYS THEY LIKE TO
GO, ALL RIGHT, WE ARE GETTING
OUT OF TOWN AND GOING ON.
INSTEAD, DOING IT ON A TUESDAY,
IT ALLOWS THEM TO PUT PRESSURE
ON SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK
SCHUMER. FRANKLY, THAT IS ONE
OF THE QUESTIONS I ASKED THE
SENATORS.
HEY, HAVE YOU TALKED TO ANYONE
WHO WILL BE VOTING DIFFERENTLY
ON TUESDAY THAN THEY WOULD HAVE ON THE PRIOR THURSDAY?
I GOT A LITTLE BIT -- THE
REALITY IS THEY DO NOT HAVE THE
VOTES FOR AN ACTUAL CONVICTION
IN THIS TRIAL, BUT INSTEAD THEY
ARE JUST PUSHING FOR THE TRIAL
ITSELF.
>> SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK
SCHUMER PLANS TO MOVE TO
DISMISS THE CHARGES.
43 SENATORS WROTE A LETTER TO
HIM, URGING HIM TO HOLD A FULL IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.
WHAT IS SCHUMER REQUIRED TO DO?
>> LOOK, HE WILL DO THIS AS
QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE WITHIN THE
RULES.
THOSE CONSERVATIVE SENATORS SAY
THAT THE RULES ARE YOU NEED TO
HOLD A TRIAL, THAT THE DEFENSE
WITNESSES NEED TO BE IN THERE,
THAT THE PERSON WHO WAS
ACTUALLY BEING IMPEACHED NEEDS
TO BE SUBPOENAED AND THUSLY IN
THE ROOM.
ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE NOT
HAPPENING.
WE DO NOT EXPECT THE DEFENSE
ATTORNEYS FOR SECRETARY OF
HOMELAND SECURITY ALEJANDRO
MAYORKAS TO BE THERE.
I THINK THE REALITY OF THIS IS
IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT.
IN ORDER TO CONVICT SECRETARY
OF HOMELAND SECURITY ALEJANDRO
MAYORKAS AND ACTUALLY IMPEACH
HIM, YOU WOULD NEED TWO THIRDS