Guest: There Is Factual and Legal Basis to Remove Secretary Mayorkas

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HEINRICH: “For more on this and the impeachment proceeding against homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, we are joined by house homeland security vice chair and impeachment manager, Republican from Mississippi if Michael Guest. Congressman, thanks so much for being here.”

GUEST: “Thanks for having me back on.”

HEINRICH: “Thank you, especially on a Saturday. Obviously, big news that the house followed through with its promise to impeach DHS secretary mayorkas, but what we’re hearing in the Senate is that this is going nowhere. And I want to read to you what Senator Manchin said. He said, we would dismiss it, yes. I think there’s the votes for that. I just want to get rid of it as quick as possible. You go down that path, that’s a slippery slope. You would never stop. So because you’re leading this effort, when it heads over to the Senate, what do you do when they’ve already decided this is not going to be a trial that the hours sees as warned?”

GUEST: “Well, it’s discouraging to hear those words and to hear that it seems like many of our senators have already predetermined this case without hearing any evidence. You know, the Senate is a body of tradition. Traditionally, once articles of impeachment has gone over to the Senate, the Senate has allowed house impeachment matters to conduct a trial in the matter before they formulate an opinion and actually make a ruling as to whether or not officer as or elected officials should be impeached. So to hear that is very discouraging because I think, clearly, there is a factual and and a legal basis to remove secretary mayorkas.”