Breaking news from capitol hill. Any moment now House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy is expected to hold a gaggle with reporters, and we will bring that to you when it begins. This comes as two sources confirm reports the speaker will formerly endorse an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden, and as the House Returns today after a six week recess, lawmakers need to accomplish a lot before the end of the month. What more do we know about speaker mccarthys plans to endorse an Impeachment Inquiry . Well, we are standing out his Office Waiting for him to come and talk to bus this inflexion point, and the house is coming back to town with the Government Funding deadline, and the conversation of if there will be a shutdown is one i have been having with my colleagues, and this is meant to really allow mccarthy to placate some of the further right members of his conference that want to see the House Majority use their gavel to be more aggressive on the impeachment front, and impeachment doesnt play especially in some of those biden one districts from 2020, and i am thinking about the majority makers, for example, in new york. My home district, for example, and people like mike lawler, and all of those folks would struggle if impeachment becomes the centerpiece of the House Republican majority. Nevertheless, thats what our sources are expected to do just shy of going for impeachment in full, and instead going for the Impeachment Inquiry. I think its important to note that this is something where the speaker is boxed in here. Its not even clear that he has the votes to move forward with an Impeachment Inquiry, which is why its possible he could come out and say he endorses this and drag his feet on the vote, and thats why we are playing The Waiting Game, because there are so many different pieces, and mccarthy has been in these tough positions before, and its a reminder what it took for him to get this job in the first place, the lengthy speaker vote. A lot of different dynamics here all coming in the same thread as we play The Waiting Game for the speaker. As we wait and see what the speaker does say, and were waiting for him to come out any minute now. Theres a difference between impeachment and impeachment inquery. What is that . Its important to note, its not clear that he has the votes to do the inquiry, and thats going to be an important thing as we look at it from a vote perspective, but the inquiry allows them to be more aggressive, and the republicans have the power of the gavel and with that comes the power of the subpoenas, and we have seen that exercised continuously as they look into things like the hunter biden probe, and now they will try and access things like bank records and they be able to be more aggressive in the information hunting, and this is something that democrats in our reporting are planning to highlight as well, that this is an inquiry being done into the idea of potential wrong doing. They have not found wrong doing on the part of President Biden in any of the probes they have undertaken so far in the last eight months of having the majority, and people like comer and jordan have been leaders on that front but they have not found anything. In this instance, its an Impeachment Inquiry where the negative is required to be proven. The goal is to muddy the waters go into 2024. We know former President Trump has a ton of his own legal issues to worry about, both in Fulton County and on the federal level with the two probes at the doj, and then the indictment in manhattan. Now, this is republicans going on offense in an attempt to level the Playing Field from the investigations front in 2024. Its important that we look at it through that lens, too. This doesnt seem to be coming directly as a birth from the speakers office. Is it something that he was pressured into doing . Yes, definitely. Its something we have heard from members of the conference for months now, that they want to move on impeachment from members of the cabinet, and mayorkas is somebody we have heard them talk about for the handling of the border. I think its striking to see them, if they are moving forward on an Impeachment Inquiry, its an escalation in the way they are trying to use the majority. For mccarthy, this is pressure hes getting from the farright members of the conference, but also people like Marjorie Taylor greene who has had the interesting evolution of going from a flamethrower against mccarthy, and then also marched in lockstep with him in other various moments where the House Freedom caucus, and this is a concession to people like Marjorie Taylor greene. Yes, there are questions about if he has the votes to do this, but the other thing here is how this plays politically. Impeachment is not something when you look at how republicans keep their majority in 2024, impeachment is not the thing that moderate republicans want to hang their hat on. This requires people in districts that are not overtly red to play defense and explain why instead of doing the things they rano like combating inflation, combating crime, and instead they are focussed on impeaching a president who they have not been able to find did anything wrong, so its a search of a solution for republicans here, and thats something mccarthy will face pressure from the moderate side, and even if he is placating the right, he is still causing problems for himself. Look, in my conversations with sources, this is yet another moment where mccarthy might be boxed in, and its politically tough, and its difficult from a Math Perspective because he has to have the majority, and this is a Balancing Act he has to do here. As we play The Waiting Game, he has been able to pull rabbits out of hats before, and we watched him do the debt ceiling, and then he had to strike a bipartisan deal with the white house, and democrats voting to avert a Debt Ceiling Crisis over the summer, and that was a moment for mccarthy where his conservative flank is remembering they feel he sold them out, and that is at play right now, and all of these different dynamics where mccarthy is trying to find his way through the thorny maze, and now will he be able to do that on impeachment and Government Funding, which are coming to fruition at the same time. Stay with us, if you would. We will bring you his remarks live when they occur, but i want to welcome to the conversation, florida congressman, Debbie Wasserman schultz who sits on the appropriation committee. Always a pleasure to see you. First, your reaction to what seems to be now the speaker taking on this Inquiry Possibility . Well, i think what has become very clear is mccarthy is the ceo of the holy owned subsidiary, and that has become the trump campaign. He finally succumbed to the pressure, not only from trump who desperately wanted an impeachment for President Biden, so he could distract from the four indictments hes facing, and essentially the republicans are holding the speaker house hostage, and all he cares about is staying in power. They are going to hold the Economy Hostage and proceed with a Maga ExtremistImpeachment Inquiry, and it remains to be seen if they will have enough votes, but its outrageous when theres no they have been desperately trying to find some way to peg evidence on joe biden, and theres none, and even the socalled whistleblowers that testified to the committee and judiciary acknowledged joe biden had no involvement in his sons business proceedings at all. How do things get done in washington . Well, this is just so incredibly frustrating and sad. We have 18 days that the house is in session until the fiscal year ends. That means if we dont make sure we pass the continuing resolution to keep the government functioning which is not a guarantee. Which is not a guarantee. And crs are the way to go for members, and is that what we are looking at . I hope its what we are looking at, because if the house doesnt vote for a cr that also includes vital disaster funding, like florida, that just got hit by idalia, and we have critical needs and we have to make sure we are continuing to help ukraine remain a sovereign nation and fight russias onslaught, and continue to weaken the Putin Military regime. Its absolutely the Maga Extremist are going to hold all of this hostage in order to be able to continue to support donald trump and his outrageous extremist conduct that includes opposing Abortion Rights and allowing the state to control womens bodies, and additionally threat ying a Government Shutdown that will potentially have our Military Troops go without pay. This Shutdown Possibility is real. September 30th is when the fiscal year ends. The house has passed one Appropriations Bill. Totally partisan, and only republicans voted for it. Unlike the senate, which is working in a bipartisan way, they have passed multiple Appropriations Bills with overwhelming bipartisan support out of committee, and you will see them send us a bipartisan bill with a huge bipartisan vote. The contrast is stark. The even leader mcconnell made it clear we have to support for ukraine, and Disaster Relief funding, and pass a cr to make sure we keep the government open, and troops will continue to get paid. Meanwhile, democrats under joe biden have been lowering Prescription Drug costs and trying to make sure we continue the huge boost our economy has taken from the job creation that we have been able to produce. Congresswoman, i have been fortunate to speak with ali vitali, and i know you want to ask the congresswoman a question . I wonder as you talk to your colleagues, for example, from florida, matt gaetz, he is somebody we look at that could pull the motion to vacate, and do you think the chaos is the point for him . What is the political end game here to continuously endanger the speaker from his party . Look, matt gaetz and others have clearly wanted to make sure that Kevin Mccarthy is as weak as possible, and thats why it took 15 rounds to make him speaker, and he wants to hold on to that power. When you are willing to put power over the people and politics over people, you get an outrageous Impeachment Inquiry, and you get the threat of a Government Shutdown, and risking our Military Troops, jose, who are quite possibly not going to get paid if the government shuts down, and social services and Child Care Services being cut off. What is the end game for them . Its hard to see how this works out well for Kevin Mccarthy. We will get to the 30th. They have a defense Appropriations Bill they are trying to pass as a standalone bill this week, and they probably wont be able to do that. Its overwhelmingly likely that because of House Republican extremism, starting an Impeachment Inquiry where there is no evidence whatsoever, only to protect donald trump, you know, thats what the Maga Extremist on the house side are all about right now that if the speaker comes out, i will ask for a quick pause from you, but i want to have this conversation because there are so many issues, and they are of vital importance to our country. One of them is the humanitarian crisis. By some estimates up to 5 million migrants may have entered the u. S. Since 2021. And some of your colleagues are asking the Biden Administration to do more to help the newly arrived migrants. My question is why i think i know the answer, but why is it that you and congress, not you specifically, but you as a member of congress, cannot deal with Immigration Reform in a serious bipartisan and productive way . I mean, the last comprehensive Immigration Reform we saw was in 1986, congresswoman. Right. What it is about congress that is not able to deal with something so vitally important . The bottom line is that we walked right up to the precipice of Immigration Reform multiple times in the 18 1 2 years i have been in congress, and republicans always, always cave on whether it is george w. Bush that said he was committed to it, and he abandoned the ship because they care more about holding on to power than doing the right thing. Our Immigration System is broken and there are so many critical things we need to do to make sure people have a legal and regular pathway to citizenship, and make sure we can protect our dreamers and make sure we can have our farm workers come easily back and fort to the country they come from and come in to do the work that is that so necessary to help strengthen the backbone of our economy. Meanwhile, ron desantis passed a law here in florida that is literally going to make it nearly impossible for us to get the vital workers that come in that is already enforced . Yeah, he signed this bill into law that negates drivers license, and violates the full faith and credit that we commit to in our constitution that basically threatens people with arrest if they are driving someone around our state who is an undocumented immigrant. The fear, the Culture Of Fear that Maga Extremist like ron desantis have created have not only made Immigration Reform impossible but made it so they are going to damage our economy and hurt people intentionally. The cruelty is the point, jose. The few sentences you just said, i mean, deal with the agricultural community, and get people to come out from the shadows, register, and be vetted, and be productive members of our economy, and of our Society Without fear, and why is that a partisan statement . Because the Maga Extremist in the Republican Party have fed off of the success that they have had politically by fueling the fire. Trump with his border wall, which the republicans put back in their budget. The razor wire that literally killed people off the coast of texas in the rio grande. These are people who are so embedded in their opposition and treating immigrants like they are americas enemy, instead of the backbone that helped to build the beauty of our country. My question, and i asked many people, and i would like your thoughts on it. 11 Million People have been in this country for decades, and they are lawabiding since they have been here, and that group of people is now maybe looking at the newly arrived and hearing some calls for lets give them work authorization, and i am wondering, how does this crisis how does that how do you solve this when you have 11 Million People who have been here, and they are seeing millions more arriving and the focus is on that . Well, in a way we do it in a way where joe biden has done, where he adopted congresswoman, sorry to interrupt. Here is speaker mccarthy. While we were gone in the last weeks, republicans have uncovered serious allegations into President Bidens conduct. Taken together, these allegations paint a picture of a culture of corruption. Heres what we know so far. Through our investigations we have found that President Biden did lie to the American People about his own knowledge of his familys foreign Business Dealings. Eyewitnesses have testified that the president joined on multiple phone calls and had multiple interactions, dinners, resulting in cars and millions of dollars into his sons Business Partners. We know that Bank Records Show that nearly 20 million in payments were directed to the biden Family Members and associates through various shell companies. The Treasury Department alone has more than 150 transactions involving the biden family and other Business Associates that were flagged as suspicious activity by u. S. Banks. Even a trusted fbi informant has alleged a bribe to the biden family. Biden used his official office to coordin