Watch live: White House holds daily press briefing

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will hold the daily press briefing Wednesday afternoon.

The White House blasted Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) move Tuesday to direct House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden, calling it “extreme politics” of the worst kind.

McCarthy said that the probe into Biden — based on the House GOP’s investigations of his family’s foreign business dealings and the prosecution of his son Hunter Biden — will be led by House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).

The White House remains adamant that Biden was not in business with his son, and the president has said himself that he never talked with Hunter Biden about his business dealings.

The event is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. EDT.

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