Pete Hegseth impeachment effort fails in House. What's next?

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We'll talk politics now because the effort
to impeach Pete Hegseth has failed.
But critics of the defense secretary are likely to regroup next year
as a new Congress takes shape.
Robert Moses, what's happening with this?
Rosanna and Dan, when asked about
the failed bid to impeach Pete Hegseth,
Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, who's in line to become speaker,
promised this is not the end of it, it's just the beginning.
Jeffries spoke after Republicans voted to block the impeachment effort
led by one of their own.
The yeas are 211, the nays are 204.
Joining GOP Congressman Thomas Massie
was the only Republican to vote with Democrats to
advance the eight articles of impeachment he drafted,
11 Democrats missed the vote,
including Long Island Congresswoman Laura Gillen,
who posted on X that she got stuck
behind a police escort.
She says she still believes strongly Hegseth should be impeached.
Last night, President Donald Trump posted
on Truth Social that the vote amounted to
an exoneration of a great American patriot.
The president went on to say the Democrats continue
to weaponize and abuse the United
States of America. They must be stopped.
What they tried to do to him was unfair
and it was not right, but it got deferred. It's dead now.
Yes, I think that's it.
Dead now, but not forever, Jeffries promises.
Democrats will have a sizable House majority in January,
and at that point, they could revive
the effort to remove Hegseth from office.
A reporter asked Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
if Democrats should impeach Hegseth in the new Congress.
There are so many criminals in this administration, it's hard
to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations.
There are going to be many, many,
many investigations, I imagine many subpoenas,
and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.
In other news from Washington House,
Republicans elected Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan as their
leader in the new Congress in a closed-door vote,
and Senate Republicans re-elected John Thune as
their leader in the new Congress.
As for who will lead the Democrats, well, as I mentioned,
Jeffries is in line for speaker.
Senator Chuck Schumer could become majority leader, but not
if Senator Bernie Sanders has anything to say about it.
I like Chuck. Nobody who works harder
Then Chuck Schumer.
But in my view, the time is now for change,
and I will not be supporting Chuck
to be reelected as the Democratic leader.
Even with Sanders' opposition,
Schumer is still considered to be the frontrunner.
Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen is seen
as the progressives' preferred majority leader candidate,
but he has not said yet if he plans to seek the job.
Rosanna, Dan.
All right, Robert, thank you very much.
