Soon: House tries to impeach Mayorkas; first try failed

Erin Burnett OutFront

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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House Speaker Mike Johnson is about the hold a second vote to impeach the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after his humiliating failure to do that successfully just a week ago. So, does he have the votes tonight? Also, we are less than two hours from polls closing in the critical special election to replace Congressman George Santos. It's a seat that Democrats are saying they feel confident about flipping. Plus, it could end Trump’s business empire as we know it and enforce the former president to pay a $370 million penalty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Out front next, the breaking news.
0:04.1	House Speaker Mike Johnson about to hold a second vote to impeach the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after his humiliating failure to do that successfully just a week ago.
0:14.3	So does he have the votes tonight?
0:16.3	And we are less than two hours from polls closing in the critical special election to replace Congressman
0:20.8	George Santos and see that Democrats are saying they feel confident about flipping tonight.
0:25.6	We'll see. Plus, it could end Trump's business empire as we know it and forced the former president
0:30.4	to pay a $370 million penalty. New details in that judge's ruling coming in this hour. Let's go out front.
0:40.8	And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. Outfront tonight. We begin with the breaking news. These are
0:44.8	live pictures of the House floor. You can see a vote count coming in. In just a few moments,
0:49.7	the Republican-led House of Representatives is hoping to avoid a second humiliating defeat.
0:58.3	They are once again going ahead with a vote to impeach the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. So what you're seeing now is an earlier vote. We will tell you as these
1:04.5	votes roll over and we begin formally the vote for the impeachment. It takes place exactly
1:08.9	one week after House Speaker Mike Johnson first put the bill on the floor.
1:12.9	He lost by two votes, 214 to 216, and it was an embarrassing defeat. Tonight, Mike Johnson is scrambling to save face,
1:20.6	rushing a second impeachment vote just days after the House Majority Leader Steve Scalise returned to Washington
1:26.1	following his treatment for blood cancer.
1:28.3	But that is not the only reason that Johnson is scrambling to hold this impeachment vote now.
1:32.9	He's frankly racing against the polls closing in tonight's special election here in New York.
1:38.6	If the Democrat wins, Johnson does not have the votes to impeach Majorcas.
1:43.6	And those polls close in just two hours.
1:45.5	So this special election is taking place to replace the expelled Republican Congressman George
1:51.0	Santos. And just to be clear here, this one is a complete toss-up at this time, incredibly
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