An eight-month-long investigation has so far failed to uncover wrongdoing by the US president.
US House speaker Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters regarding the launch of an impeachment enquiry into President Joe Biden.
House speaker Kevin McCarthy has accused Biden of lying about his knowledge of his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings, which Republicans claim corruptly benefitted the Democratic leader when he was the vice-president. The House Oversight Committee will hold the first hearing today, with Republicans framing the session as a “refresher course” on the panel’s work so far.
“ problem they have is not that they can’t get the evidence. The problem they have is that the evidence does not support their allegations,” Dan Goldman, a Democratic congressman and the lead counsel in Republican former president Donald Trump’s own first impeachment, said recently in Congress. In fact, it was US and European Union policy that Shokin was hampering efforts to combat corruption in the ex-Soviet nation and needed to go.