Hearings, Democratic Leaders are poised to draft articles of impeachment, but their rankandfile members were stumped about what they should do next. Lawmakers heading home for thanksgiving break unsure as to whether there would be more cast as or they would vote with just eight days or meaning. Congressman will hurt, and outspoken antitrump republican on the Intelligence Committee said he was not convinced, and impeachable conventions be compelling, its not something to be rushed or taken lightly. Thate not seen evidence bribery or extortion was committed. Heard was one concerning possible crossover vote. Congress members in the dark about what would happen next. The full story at washington times. Com. We will get to your calls. John mcardle also looking at the impeachment story and what is next. According if you watched it if you watched it all you minutes andours 43 43 seconds of testimony. Speaker pelosi was asked what she needed to know or moving to the next stage of the impeachment process. Youhe days not over and never know what testimony they need. Tayloraw with ambassador at the beginning of last week. Of bringing forth mr. Holmes today. So that will be a judgment made ofthe committees jurisdiction, particularly under the jurisdiction of the Intelligence Committee. We had not made any decisions. And as i said to the president if you have any exculpatory information, please bring it forward. Host Speaker Nancy Pelosi on capitol hill, whenever the house Intelligence Committee has decided that it has completed his process it will submit its report to the house judiciary committee. A congressional reporter with bloomberg is looking at the road democrats andthat those familiar with the Intelligence Committees activity say the drafting of the report will begin in earnest next week with the aim of getting into the panel. Ry Jerrold Nadler will then have the option of holding his own hearings were representatives would have the ability to participate under the impeachment inquiry rules approved by the house. The story goes on to note that nadler will have to decide what to do with potential impeachment recommendations transferred from other committees conducting investigations on other topics other than ukraine. His story notes pelosi has said she wants any impeachment effort to be tightly focused, but she noted the rules approved do not set limits on the potential articles of impeachment. On the timing of a floor vote, this is what billy house rights. The democrats goal of any house yearend isvote by coming challenging, the house scheduled to be in session until late december after passing a stopgap spending bill to fund the government through december 20, but they may not allow enough time for the house to debate and vote on impeachment articles. If it flips until next year, it would delay the senate trial, which could take several weeks and push the process into the democratic president ial primary season, a complication for the candidates. Several of whom are u. S. Senators. That is a look at what could be the road ahead when it comes to impeachment. Host the senate trial will be live on cspan 2. A few tweets, this from the libertarian saying republicans will not accept any level of evidence, they will degrade every witness. Our democracy is dead. Another viewer saying they proved Rudy Giuliani went to ukraine on russiafunded cash to get fake trash on biden to win 2020. From this viewer, they have to keep the fire smoldering until october 2020 and after that, democrats will find something else. Send us a tweet, we will read it, the front page of the New York Times has dr. Fiona hill with this quote, in the course of this investigation, i would ask you that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance russian interests. And there was this exchange with dan goldman representing democrats and dr. Fiona hill. [video clip] you also testified ambassador bolton had expressed some views to you about mr. Giulianis interests in ukraine. Do you recall what he said to you . It was part of a conversation about the things mr. Giuliani was saying frequently in public. We saw him often on television making these statements and i had brought to ambassador boltons attention the attacks, the Smear Campaign against ambassador yovanovitch and expressed regrets about how this was unfolding and the shameful way in which ambassador yovanovitch was being smeared and attacked then i asked if there was anything we could do about it and ambassador bolton looked pained, indicated with body language there was nothing he could do about it and in the course of that discussion said Rudy Giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up. Did you understand what he meant by that . I did. What did he mean . He meant what mr. Giuliani was saying was explosive, he was on television making incendiary remarks about everyone involved and he was clearly pushing forward issues and ideas that would probably come back to haunt us and i think that is where we are today. Host the testimony of dr. Fiona hill. A live look at the u. S. Capitol and this headline from usa today as ukraine saw the meeting with President Trump as critical. More of your tweets, democrats have three things necessary to impeach, stop trying to justify your actions with additional stuff. Unless you come up with a big smoking gun, glowed quietly for gloatat bloat quietly for the next week and then it is our turn. Another tweet, republicans are convinced this is a witch hunt and they all used to be democrats until democrats started treating donald so poorly. Got it. You are fired, donald. After two weeks of hearings and about a dozen witnesses, what is your take away . Steve, good morning. Caller good morning. Am i on . Host you sure are, go ahead, please. Caller my take away is nothing has really changed my mind. I did not vote for donald trump in 2016, but what the democrats did during the whole russia collusion investigation, when that first started, i thought this could be really bad and the longer it went on, it was a nothing burger. When the Mueller Report came out, i said we need to get to the bottom of who started that mess, that is a national imperative because if what i think is true is highranking people in the Obama Administration and cia and other places conspired to overturn the democracy of this country, that is huge and if i am wrong, prove it to me because where we stand right now, that is the only russian collusion we know of, the dossier. I thought this was an attempt to hide that and every witness i have asked about watched about 5 or 6 hours it comes down to the same thing, trump was obsessed with 2016 and corruption in ukraine and if i were donald trump, i would be obsessed, too, because a huge segment of this country spent three years calling you a traitor for no reason. Anyone in this country not concerned of getting to the bottom of what happened in 2016 says it is okay if the intelligence agencies act the way they did under hoover. I thought we were out of that. I thought we wanted to be better. If the election for 2020 were held today, i would vote for donald trump. As loose cannon donald trump is, the overturning of democracy and the constitution that the Democratic Party represents is an existential threat. Thank you. Host thanks for the call and this is alfred on our twitter page saying Congress Needs to hear from pompeo, barr, minutia mnuchen before moving the matter to the senate. Craig and washington, d. C. , calling on the phone line the hearing changed your mind. How so . Caller i wanted to look at the overall situation and i am appalled at some of these callers that call in and say they would vote for trump. Trump is the biggest liar ever, i think, of any president we ever had. What i am trying to say is all those dignified people that came on this show, they are not partisan. These people are just American People and they did their duty to come out and take chances to tell the truth and the overall picture, what i am trying to say is even the Mueller Report, look at all the people that he locked up and the people indicted. Everything is a lie around trump, even his special lawyer, he is in jail. Host this tweet at the end of the day, these impeachment inquiries are nothing more than a sham campaign to publicly humiliate agent orange, referring to President Trump, before the election. It will not be enough to swing pennsylvania and wisconsin. Sylvia next from virginia and you remain unsure, why . Caller i am a little confused. I liked fiona hill and i liked ambassador yovanovitch. For what they say is i did vote for President Trump, but i dont like the way he treats women at all. I am confused about burisma and it sounds like to me sondler is trying to say something, but feels he cant. I think there needs to be more investigation, but i think he dances around the subject because he doesnt want to hurt President Trump. I believe we need more information to bring the truth out. Host the Senate Passing a bill to avoid a Government Shutdown and john mcardle is looking into that story. Host 2 with all the focus yesterday on the impeachment inquiry, cspan viewers might be forgiven to not realize a Government Shutdown was averted with about 6 hours to share. To spare. This was scott wong with his tweet, shutdown averted, thanksgiving is saved. President trump signed a continuing resolution funding the government through december 20. He signed that after it passed the senate on a vote from 7320. That continuing resolution passed the house earlier this week. As the hill newspaper notes, congressional negotiators have four weeks to hammer out how to spend the agreedupon 1. 37 trillion for the 2020 fiscal year. We are in continuing resolutions until december 20. Roll call reporting on the cr and how this negotiation will take place. They quoted Chuck Schumer during his floor remarks saying the year end negotiations could go down one of two paths. The first does not include trumps involvement in the second where trump would stomp and the second where trump would stomp his feet and make impossible demands would likely end in another Government Shutdown. Chuck schumer on the floor of the senate yesterday. The Vice President tweeting yesterday about the government funding measure. President trump will be forced to sign a continuing resolution because congress failed to do its job once again. They are spending more time trying to impeach the president then working for the American People. Not only have they failed to pass a budget that includes critical funding for National Defense and a pay raise for men and women in uniform, the usmca has been sitting on speaker pelosis desk for over a year. The American People deserve better. Host this tweet from steve saying career bipartisan officials lawfully and morally testified that trump abused the office of the u. S. President. Anyone refusing to come forward under lawful subpoenas is obstructing justice for a reason. Trump is guilty as hell. Impeach. In the front page of usa today has dr. Fiona hill and david holmes testified yesterday and they testified yesterday and there was this exchange between jim jordan and david holmes on the phone call that david holmes overheard with Ambassador Gordon Sondland in kiev, ukraine. Lets watch. [video clip] why didnt your boss talk about it . Why didnt your boss bring up the call you overheard . The reason you are here today . You are the closing witness and yet their first witness, ambassador taylor, did not even bring it up. When we deposed you, you said this was one of the most remarkable events of my life. You said after the call happened, i immediately told deputy chief of mission and others about the call and you said you went on vacation and told several friends and family and you come back on august 6th and tell ambassador taylor about the call and in your deposition you said i repeatedly referred to the call in meetings and conversations where the issue of the president s interest in ukraine was relevant. That sounds like government speak for you told everybody and yet their star witness, their first witness, ambassador taylor related 13 different conversations he had between july 18 and september 11, 13 different conversations, never once mentioning this call. 19, they talked about the upcoming hall. Tell taylor what zelensky told. July 20, morrison told taylor what happened on the trumpzelinski call. August 21, they talked to Taylor Morrison talks to taylor, morrison tells taylor what s ondland morrison tells taylor what sondland told trump and nowhere is there a homes tells taylor what the president of the United States told sondland. A homes tellsre taylor what the president of the United States told sondland. May i answer the question . I will let you in a second. 13 conversations from their star witness and he cant remember a call from a guy he works with every single day . Why . Immediately when i went back to the embassy after this lunch on the 26th, i told the deputy chief of mission. I would have told ambassador taylor immediately except he was on the front lines that afternoon. As i testified, i went on my vacation on saturday and came back the following monday and tuesday, i was in the ambassadors office where i referred to the call. In that week plus i was away, it was my assumption the deputy chief of mission would have informed other people about the call as well. My recollection is when i referred to the call, ambassador taylor nodded knowingly as though he had been briefed. I referred to the call and mentioned some of my takeaways from the call. At the time, the main take away was the president does not care about ukraine, so we will have a tough road to convince him it is important enough for him to schedule an Oval Office Meeting and release this hold on security assistance, that was the take away and what i referred to repeatedly in the coming weeks when it became relevant and one more important point, throughout this time, we were trying to find a formula, things we could do that would convince the president they were worth talking to. May be the take away was he thought it was no big deal because he already knew. He did not remember because we already had the transcript. Host that was congressman jim jordan and david holmes. The hearings available on our website. You can listen to them on the free cspan radio app. Back to the phone calls, floyd in jonesville, virginia, did the hearings in any way change your mind . Caller not at all. Thank you for taking my call. That first steve took what i had to say, but i want to thank President Donald Trump for being a truthful man, being the truth in helping this country. I am 66 years old and he has been the best president since i have been living. He has done more for this country, got us jobs and stuff to work at paris to the hospital was closed during Obama Administration. He has done a whole lot, but all of this is lies. They said this good man said this and this woman said this and they did not have evidence on him. I kind of doubt there is even a whistleblower. Democrats the only reason they started this investigation is because on december 9 and 11th it is coming out where the investigation was done on them where they tried to lie on trump. I hope democrats turned the tv on and watch that on the 11th and ninth when this is coming out because there is a lot more going to come out and that is the only reason they started this other thing and the candidates running for president on the democrat side are trying to force churches to believe in homosexuality and believe it is all right to kill babies because they are going to take their tax exempt away from churches. Host thanks for the call and when our best president ever wins again, this embarrassment of liberals will begin for a different reason. Inside the Washington Post, here is the headline, senators and the white house mapping the trial plans. A group of republican senators and senior white house officials met privately to map out a strategy for a potential impeachment trial of President Trump including rapid proceedings in the senate that could be limited to two weeks according to multiple officials familiar with the talks. The prospects of an abbreviated trial viewed by Senate Republicans as a favorable middle, substantial enough to give the proceeding screens without risking damage to trump dragging on too long. Even a two week trial could run counter to what the president expressed. Spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the president possible use. The president use. Sidentts views. Administration officials are readying all options to present them to trump. Republicans remain overwhelmingly aligned behind the president , insisting he has done nothing worthy of impeachment or removal from office. Some have acknowledged the potential toll a continuing inquiry and trial could take earring an election year, particularly when a republican is aiming to protect its senate majority. That story from Washington Post. Com, the impeachment trial of president bill clinton lasting 36 days in the u. S. Senate. Kathleen joining us next from massachusetts. You are still unsure after two weeks of hearings, is that correct . Caller i would not say unsure, i would say it reaffirmed what i was thinking. I try to keep an open mind. What was alarming to me was dr. Hills warning of these conspiracy theories and talking points from putin, what that meant to our