US Republican Thomas Massie launches bid to impeach Pete Hegseth

Well, Thomas Massey has been trying to bring these articles of impeachment for quite some time. It was floated originally back in September. And it's kind of thought that the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, put the House into recess so that they wouldn't have to vote on this before the midterm election, which, of course, ended up being the balloon army that we saw. And now the first day back in back in session, Thomas Massey, who is there's no love lost there between him and the president. He reintroduced these articles. of impeachment, which means that they now have to be brought to a vote within two days, so effectively by the end of play on Wednesday. Now, there are a couple of different routes forwards. Effectively, the House could vote to vote on them as they are. They could vote to send them to committee. But even if they do pass the House and he is impeached, Hegseth, in the House, that doesn't mean he's going to be removed. Remember, the same thing happened to Donald Trump. Trump, he was impeached by the House, but not impeached Thank you very much. Mike Johnson could also kick this can down the road, and even if the articles do indeed pass the House, he could effectively decide not to send them to the Senate until the next session, which would mean it would then fall to Hakeem Jeffries or whoever, you know, ends up being Speaker of the House. Uh, could, uh, then be the person to have to put those to the senators as well in the Senate. So there's many different paths forward here, but this is, this is a headache for the, uh, for the, uh, for the white house and also for Pete Hegseth, who we're going to hear from, uh, on Tuesday, he's holding his own press conference for the first time in six months. We've already heard from Donald Trump. He says he's standing by Pete Hegseth and even just a few hours ago, uh, tweeted that he wants Congress to stand up for Pete. Should be praised, not impeached, because recruitment levels of the army are at an all-time high, according to the president. Fraser Jackson, our correspondent, talking to us a little bit earlier on from Washington.