GOP Congresswoman Lisa McClain explains why she supports impeachment inquiry of Biden
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Thanks for having me.
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I do. I do.
From the 1023s, from the SARs reports, from the witness testimony, I think there is enough evidence that would warrant an impeachment inquiry. And I think the other thing that we have to understand about this is, with this, this allows us to work in conjunction, as opposed to silos, with the different committees.
And it will enable us to actually get the evidence that we haven't been able to get from these three-letter agencies. That's been kind of our frustration is, we have gotten stonewalled and delayed, which seems to be a tactic. And this hopefully will enable a quicker process to have some transparency to really show the facts. Is there enough evidence to go forward with an impeachment or is there just not any evidence there?
But we have to be able to get the evidence to see what's out there before we make a determination of actual impeachment or not.
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Well, we might not be there on impeachment, which I would maybe disagree, but I believe in due process, and I believe in following the facts.
That's why we're opening this inquiry, so whatever we ask for, we are able to get, so the FBI, for example, can't just pick and choose when and what they send to us, right?
I believe the American people want transparency, and that's exactly what we're after here. So that's where I'm at personally.
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Well, I think there are two separate issues.
I think, one, we need to pay attention to our fiscal house. That is, in and of itself, extremely important. Listen, the government spends way too much money. We have got to get our spending under control. You have heard me talk about that time and time again.
I don't truly see these going hand in hand. They're two separate issues. We can move forward with one and without the other, but we're back in session. I'm ready to go back to work. I know my colleagues are ready to go back to work. So let's get this done.
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Well, I can share with you this.
I don't want to speak for the Freedom Caucus, but I can tell you this. They're not looking for one or the other. I believe they're looking for an and. I believe the Freedom Caucus, which I agree with, we need to rein in government spending and we need to expose this culture of corruption.
So whether they're integrated or not, I think we need to look at both of them.
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I believe in my colleagues, I believe in myself, that we're pretty good. I think we can handle both.
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Leader McCarthy has done an excellent job, I think, of navigating the waters up until this point. I don't -- I don't have a sense that he is in peril. I don't know. I don't sit in on those Freedom Caucus meetings.
But I do know this. Democracy is messy. And where I think we are stronger together as a conference is, we are very diverse. We come from very diverse districts. And one thing that Leader McCarthy has, I think, done an excellent job of is actually listening to all different factions of our conference.
We have R-33 districts and then we have Biden-14 districts in our caucus. That's a very, very diverse caucus. And my hat off to Speaker McCarthy that has been able to at least listen and get input from all of these different representative governments that we have.
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You too.
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