Good morning. Welcome to Exios today. It's Wednesday, September 13th. I'm Nyla Boudou.

Today, the United Auto Workers Union gears up for a strike, and the pluses and perils

of home ownership in America today. But first, McCarthy goes after Biden. That's today's

one big thing.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opened an impeachment inquiry yesterday into President Biden.

The move could result in months of divisive hearings in Congress as both President

Biden and former President Trump, who of course was impeached twice, campaign for the

presidency. Excuses National political correspondent Alex Thompson is here with the big picture.

Hi, Alex. What's the reason Republicans are giving for impeaching Biden now?

Kevin McCarthy stood at the top of his announcement that President Biden, as he put it, lied

during the 2020 presidential campaign about how much he knew about Hunter's business

dealings. Now, what we have seen from sworn testimony from both Hunter and from his business

associate, Devon Archer, over the last month and a half is we have sworn testimony that

does contradict some things that Joe Biden said on the campaign trail in 2020. Joe Biden

said in the second presidential debate that his son never received money from China. Hunter

confirmed in court that he did receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from associates and

firms in China. Joe Biden's campaign set on the record that he had never met with one

of the business associates of Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma. In fact, Joe Biden

did have dinner with him. It was a group dinner, but these contradictions have not been

fully explained by the White House. And that is what Republicans have really held onto

in order to justify this impeachment push. Now, I think it's important to say that I don't

know if, you know, mistating or fault statements during a presidential campaign is an impeachable

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