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“I hope we'll impeach Secretary Mayorkas tonight, but the buck stops with Joe Biden,” Rep. Jim Banks says. An influential House member and leading candidate for U.S. Senate is urging his Republican colleagues to follow up their vote Tuesday night on impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by expanding the impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden to include the border crisis. “I hope we'll impeach Secretary Mayorkas tonight, but the buck stops with Joe Biden,” Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told Just the News in an exclusive interview Tuesday afternoon with the John Solomon Reports podcast. “All of the reasons that you're...

Republican Indiana congressman Jim Banks could not follow NPR radio host Michel Martin's line of reasoning on Wednesday. By Martin's account, it sounded as if President Trump was guilty of obstruction of justice after his phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky. In their conversation, Trump asked Zelensky about Joe Biden's relationship to Ukraine, in light of his son Hunter's having sat on the board of a corrupt Ukrainian gas company. Some critics interpreted the phone call to suggest Trump was guilty of quid pro quo, because it sounded like he was threatening to withhold military aid from Ukraine if Zelensky...