Alejandro Mayorkas
A blocker stepped in for the Homeland Security secretary when a reporter for the conservative channel made the query.
The “Late Show” host torches the House speaker over a brutal week in Congress.
House Republicans are cursed with a slim majority that includes a handful of independent thinkers.
The party is showing voters a House leader who can’t count votes and a Senate leader incapable of swaying his conference to compromise.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
In a stunning defeat for GOP leaders, a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in condemning the effort as bad politics, bad policy and unconstitutional.
The impeachment vote was part of a broader attack on President Joe Biden’s immigration policies ahead of the November election.
Two Republicans have already said impeachment is pointless and unconstitutional. Others sound skeptical as GOP leaders scramble for votes.
Not since 1876 has a Cabinet secretary faced impeachment charges and it's the first time a sitting secretary is being impeached.
Mayorkas is the first immigrant and the first Latino person to serve as secretary of homeland security.
The Colorado Republican's position presents a significant obstacle to impeaching the Homeland Security secretary.