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baier. breaking tonight we are following two major stories the president's son defy as congressional subpoena to appear privately for a deposition about his business dealings. and leading off, the house has voted to formally initiate an impeachment investigation into president biden. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill with what exactly this means. good evening, chad. >> chad: mike, good evening. first the house wanting information from the son. then the house turning to an investigation of dad. the house just voted to formalize an impeachment inquiry f...

Intentionally raising that threat now. keeping republicans home from the poll. >> carol, good to see you as always. thank you for taking time to join us this morning. carol is the author of multiple books including "a very stable genius" and "i alone can fix it." particularly important books because a lot of it is still happening. joining me now is stace, on the committee for the former president's ex-impeachment trial. thank you for joining us this morning. one thing i didn't get to with carol, the chairman of the january 6th committee, bennie thompson, has suggested that donald trump himse...

They're saying let's go forward and see what else is there. it is significant that voters have moved significantly over a relative handful of weeks. they're paying attention, they're concerned about this. and that's good for the democrats. at least preliminarily. >> let's look at the party break down. republican number almost three and ten. that's a huge jump from the last time they were asked. it's gone up 20 points. >> yeah. that was what interested me the most. because if this is going to have any chance of succeeding, not impeachment but conviction in the senate. you'll have to have republ...

Into criticism, we see this tweet storm on a weekend. when does he spend time with his family, i wonder. he is literally with the remote control and his phone tweeting about mitt romney serving this nation quite admirably over several decades. these are types of things that also upset the president just because he is so, you know, vastly insecure. so i will pause by saying it doesn't matter if we get a few op-eds or tweets. what will matter when nancy pelosi counts these votes and this moves to actual impeachment, will the republicans stand up for the united states. >> the attack isn't about m...

Unconstitutionality because it is constitutional. it is not a matter of precedent. you look at what president obama did with daca and so many other things. this is a vote on border security and drugs on trafficking and all of that. i think most republican senators understand that. >> senator rand paul said there are a number of republican senators who would not vote in favor of this bill. how much effort went into keeping republicans with you? >> i said use your own discretion. i think it's a bad vote if they go against it. anybody going against border security, drug trafficking, human traffic...