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House Dems Impeach Hegseth, Trump's Iran Strikes Continue

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House Democrats impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over Iran attacks, drug boat strikes; Senate Dems war powers vote fails; Bernie Sanders block on bomb sales to Israel rejected; Hegseth holds presser amid indirect US-Iran talks and Trumps DC plans.

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House Dems Impeach Hegseth, Trump's Iran Strikes Continue

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UK News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!House Dems Impeach Hegseth, Trump's Iran Strikes Continue. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

On April 16th, House Democrats dropped six articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday hitting him with charges of high crimes for launching attacks on Iran without Congress's OK and deadly strikes on boats they say were smuggling drugs. This all ties into the heat on the Trump team's moves in the war with Iran, where a two-week ceasefire is holding for now. The push looks more like a statement than a real shot at booting him, given the Republican House majority, lawmakers like Arizona's Yasemin Ansari and Connecticut's John Larson called out Hegseth for ignoring rules on protecting civilians, including A, school strike that killed over 170 people. Senate Dems tried to war power his vote to reign in the action, but lost 47-52, with Rand Paul crossing lines to say yes, and John. Federman as the lone Dem know, meanwhile, more strikes hit drug boats in the Pacific, filling three more narco terrorists and pushing the total death toll past 100.

77 in five days, Bernie Sanders' bid to block bomb sales to Israel flop two, showing splits in the party. As indirect U.S. Iran talks aim to stretch that ceasefire past April 22nd, Hegseth holding a pressur today with updates while other noise. By Trump's arch plans for DC Simmers on the Backburner

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