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--:-- Host John Bickley: Just days after his election as House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy is making good on Republican promises, moving to rescind funding for the IRS and considering impeachment of a Biden cabinet member. He showed nothing but a gross dereliction of duty. I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Wednesday, January 11th, and this is Morning Wire.
--:-- Host John Bickley: More details have emerged about the classified documents found at president biden's private office at the penn biden center. If you're dealing with somebody who has privileged access to classified information, they have a higher responsibility to treat it carefully. We speak to former chief assistant U.S. attorney andrew mccarthy about the case and its comparisons to those involving Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
--:-- Host John Bickley: And Prince Harry's bombshell memoir hit bookstores yesterday. We break down the most shocking revelations and why Harry says it was necessary to go scorched earth on the British royal family. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- Host John Bickley: The newly Republican-controlled House was busy this week, passing a series of rules that will reform the chamber, voting on legislation to defund the IRS, and launching an impeachment inquiry into a Biden cabinet member. Two of the details on what we're seeing out of Washington and how Republicans are handling their newly won majority in the House chamber is Daily Wire's senior editor, Cabot Phillips.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So, for example, up until recently, any House member could initiate a recall vote on the speaker, which obviously played a significant role in holding the speaker accountable to the rank-and-file members. But in 2019, Democrats passed a measure amending that rule so that only members of party leadership could initiate a recall vote. But this Congress will abolish that rule and allow any member to call for a vote on the speaker.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: There's also a new rule that will require a 72-hour window for all legislation before it's voted on. Members say that they have to have time to read bills before they're decided on.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: One of the first things we've seen this new House focus on is the IRS. Tell us about that bill.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, House Republicans kicked off their official tenure by passing a bill that would rescind billion in new IRS funding that Democrats had voted for last year. Remember as part of that Democrat plan the federal government would hire tens of thousands of new IRS agents. This bill which passed on a party vote would revoke that new funding.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Now, during the midterms, we heard GOP candidates promise to impeach members of the Biden administration, and it looks like that could actually happen now.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: It could. Texas Rep. Pat Fallon introduced articles of impeachment this week against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, claiming that, quote, Mayorkas policies have undermined law enforcement activities at our southern border and eroded our immigration system, undermined Border Patrol morale and jeopardized American national security.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: More specifically, the articles accused Mayorkas of failing to faithfully execute the Secure Defense Act of 2006, which requires the DHS secretary to, quote, maintain operation control over the border. They also accused him of perjuring himself before Congress when he testified that the border was secure.
--:-- Host John Bickley: So, what happens now?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Well, the impeachment files have been delivered to the House Judiciary Committee. Members there look into the matter themselves, then hold a vote on whether they want to proceed or not. If the vote passes, the impeachment proceedings will move to the House floor for another vote before heading on to the Senate.
--:-- Host John Bickley: That's Daily Wire's senior editor, Cabot Phillips. On Monday night, we learned that President Biden had 10 classified documents from his time as vice president stored at his private office in the Washington-based think tank, the Penn Biden Center.
--:-- Host John Bickley: The discovery came back in November before the midterm elections, but the news is just being reported now. We've since learned that the classified documents may contain intelligence materials on Ukraine, Iran, and the U.K. President Biden addressed the issue for the first time on Tuesday, saying he was, quote, surprised by the development.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Joining us to discuss is Andy McCarthy, a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a former chief assistant U.S. attorney.
--:-- Andy McCarthy: Well, it's early days, so we don't really know as much as we'd like to know, especially since this all happened November 2nd. So you would think we'd have more details by now. But the reporting suggests that we're dealing with 10 documents, some of which are very highly classified.
--:-- Andy McCarthy: They were recovered when the lawyers for Biden were packing up the office. They located them. The reporting indicates that they immediately let the National Archives know. So they were retained in a place that they shouldn't have been.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Now, there been a lot of comparisons between this case and the potential case against President Trump over the classified documents and also Hillary Clinton private server. Are those comparisons fair?
--:-- Andy McCarthy: Yeah, they're fair, but, you know, we have to be objective about them. I've always thought that the big problem that the Justice Department has in trying to make a classified information case against Trump in connection with the Mar-a-Lago documents is that Hillary Clinton got a pass for really egregious behavior in terms of not only mishandling but destroying classified information and government records.
--:-- Host John Bickley: That was National Review's Andy McCarthy. Prince Harry's new memoir titled Spare hit bookstores yesterday, but he's already made some headlines with his shocking claims about the royal family and some high-profile interviews.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham joins us now to detail some of the most explosive revelations and how the British public is reacting.
--:-- Megan Basham: You know, publishers sometimes have a problem selling these celebrity tell-alls when they don't necessarily serve up all of those dishy details that are promised. Well, I don't think that's going to be a problem this time.
--:-- Megan Basham: A huge focus of the book is Harry's resentment and anger toward his family for wrongs that he believes they've committed against him and his wife, Meghan Markle. So he paints an especially unflattering picture of his stepmother, Camilla, and he calls the queen consort dangerous due to her relationships with the British press.
--:-- Megan Basham: He says that Camilla trades information with the media in an attempt to boost her popularity. And then on another front, he claims Prince William called Meghan difficult, rude and abrasive and that this led to a physical fight between the brothers where William actually knocked him to the floor.
--:-- Host John Bickley: Well, that's all the time we've got this morning. Thanks for waking up with us. We'll be back this afternoon with more of the news you need to know.
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