The Daily Signal - Mayorkas Impeached, House Intelligence Chair Warns of Mysterious ‘National Security Threat’ | Feb. 14

Starting point is 00:00:00 I'm Brian Gottstein, and this is the Daily Signal top news for Wednesday, February 14th. Here are today's headlines. For the second time in two weeks, the House of Representatives tried to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to secure the border. This time, it worked. The Daily Signals, Virginia Allen reported that the House voted 214 to 2.13 on Tuesday to impeach Majorcas. Representative John Joyce, a Republican from Pennsylvania, told the daily signal that last night's vote was, quote, a vote for law and order in our communities and a vote to restore the rule of law at our southern border. No Democrats voted for the impeachment. Three Republicans, Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, Ken Buck of Colorado, and Tom McClintock of California also voted

Starting point is 00:00:59 for a second time against impeachment. Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana was out for last week's vote. He was receiving cancer treatment, but returned this week and gave Republicans the additional vote needed to impeach. In a statement on Tuesday night, a Homeland Security spokesperson said that House Republicans will be remembered by history for trampling on the Constitution for political gain rather than working to solve the serious challenges at our border. Majorcas becomes the first Cabinet Secretary to be impeached since 1876. Now the two impeachment charges, go to the Senate, which can remove Majorcas from office after a trial. The Senate requires a two-thirds maturity vote to convict him, which is unlikely, given the fact that Democrats

Starting point is 00:01:47 control the upper chamber. Former Representative Tom Swazzy, a Democrat, defeated Republican Maisie Pilip in a special election on Tuesday for New York's third congressional district seat. This means that Democrats will pick up the House seat vacated by Republican George Santos, who had been expelled from Congress recently. Top Republicans reacted to the defeat. According to the Hill newspaper, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the result isn't something Democrats should celebrate. He said that Swazi ran his campaign, quote, like a Republican, and had a lot of name recognition in the district as he had previously served in that seat in Congress.

Starting point is 00:02:28 Johnson said he's absolutely convinced that the outcome was in no way a bellwether of what's going to happen in the November elections. Former President Donald Trump also weighed in on the race, saying that Pillop was a poor candidate and a very foolish woman. Trump blasted her in a post on the social media site Truth Social, where he said that she was foolish for not endorsing him and for straddling the fence. He openly wondered if she was still a Democrat. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Wednesday that Republicans in the House won't be railroaded into passing a large foreign aid bill that doesn't also have funding to better secure America's border. He lambasted a Senate foreign aid bill that has funding for Ukraine for its war against Russia and funding for Israel for its war against Hamas, but has no money to fix America's illegal immigration crisis. According to Newsmax, he said that the Republican-led House will not be

Starting point is 00:03:25 forced into passing a bill that was opposed by most Republican senators. He said that if President Joe Biden actually wants to get a deal done, he'll have to sit down and talk directly with Johnson about it. Johnson said that he has been requesting a meeting with the president for weeks to talk about the border and national security, but that the meeting has not yet been granted. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, an Ohio Republican, warned of a national security threat in a cryptic statement on Wednesday, but didn't name the threat. According to Newsweek, he said that the Intelligence Committee has alerted all members of Congress about the threat, and that he was requesting President Joe Biden declassify all information relating to it

Starting point is 00:04:10 so that Congress, the administration, and America's allies could openly discuss what's needed to respond. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a press briefing that he couldn't comment on the matter. However, according to the Hill newspaper, House Speaker Mike Johnson assured Americans that there was no need for alarm and that they would work to address it. Johnson said that, quote, steady hands are on the wheel. And that'll do it for today's episode. Thanks for listening to the Daily Signal's top news.

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The Daily Signal - Mayorkas Impeached, House Intelligence Chair Warns of Mysterious ‘National Security Threat’ | Feb. 14

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