(10 Jan 2024)
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Washington, DC - 10 January 2024
1. Wide of U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security hearing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mark Green, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman:
"Secretary Mayorkas has brazenly refused to enforce the laws passed by Congress and has enacted policies that knowingly make our country less safe. What we're seeing here is a willful violation of his oath of office taken by Secretary Mayorkas. Let me repeat that, a willful violation."
3. Cutaway of hearing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mark Green, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman:
"The constitutional history is overwhelmingly clear on this subject. The founders designed impeachment not just to remove officials engaged in criminal behavior, but those guilty of such gross incompetence that their conduct had endangered their fellow Americans, betrayed the public trust, or represented a neglect of duty."
5. Cutaway of hearing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mark Green, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman:
"Our evidence makes it clear. Secretary Mayorkas is the architect of the devastation that we have witnessed for nearly three years. The findings of our investigation, available to the public at homeland.house.gov, coupled with the Secretary's refusal to change course on the reckless decisions facilitating this crisis, have left us with no reasonable alternative than to pursue the possibility of impeachment. The Secretary's actions have brought us here today, not ours."
7. Cutaway of hearing
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Bennie Thompson, House Committee on Homeland Security Ranking member:
"It is now campaign season, and Republicans recently rolled out their impeachment proceedings against Secretary like a pre-planned, predetermined political stunt. It is. This is not a legitimate impeachment."
9. Cutaway of hearing
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Bennie Thompson, House Committee on Homeland Security Ranking member:
"You cannot impeach a cabinet secretary because you don't like the president's policies. Let me say that again. You cannot impeach a cabinet secretary because you don't like a president's policies. That's not what impeachment is for. That's not what the Constitution says. Republicans are willing to do grave damage to the Constitution they claim to hold dear because they think it will benefit them politically."
11. Cutaway of hearing
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Bennie Thompson, House Committee on Homeland Security Ranking member:
"Democrats are doing everything they can to hold the line against Republican chaos. Democrats want to strengthen border security. We want to keep fentanyl off the streets. We want to keep communities safe. This circus sideshow impeachment does none of that. Mr. Chairman, let's drop this baseless impeachment and start doing the real work of securing the homeland for the American people."
13. Cutaway of witnesses swearing-in
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Austin Knudsen, Attorney General, State of Montana:
"The Trump administration overcame fierce opposition at every turn and was able to gain control of our southern border, as no previous administration could. But all of that progress has been destroyed. Secretary Mayorkas is the architect of that destruction."
15. Cutaway of hearing
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank O. Bowman III, University of Missouri School of Law:
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STORYLINE:


Opening the hearing, Green, R-Tenn, said there is “no reasonable alternative but to pursue the possibility of impeachment."










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