For his own personal power and benefit. We are continuing to ask for ts. R comments and your tex 202 7488003 if you want to send us a text. 202 7488000 and 202 7488001. Julian hannibal, missouri. Thank you hanging in there. Caller hello. Host good morning. [inaudible] host you are going in and out. Get closer to the phone and go over your comment. Ler President Trump [indiscernible] host im sorry. Technology is failing us this morning. We will go to nancy in crawfordsville, florida. Caller good morning. I am struck as i listen to callers and people in the media framing this as democrats versus republicans. Although it looks like that maybe in the invest and the congress, it is not that way in real life. It is people who value the u. S. Constitution and the facts versus people who live in this false bubble out there. It is very troubling to me. My father fought in world war ii. His parents came from italy but never once was his or our patriotism questioned. I am a retired newspaper reporter. I have always been able to see both sides of a situation. Im also able to see facts. We have media propaganda networks. I dont need to tell you the letters that make of their names. Swaths of thee population who were brainwashed by that. They are out there armed with fermented by this dangerous president. I am glad there are democrats in congress doing the job, but this is not democrats versus republicans. This is loyal americans. Host about 45 minutes more of your phone calls and comments. Nancy pelosi now speaking to members of the press and speaking about the impeachment process, about moving ahead with the impeachment process. We appreciate your phone calls. 202 7488001 for republicans. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents and others, 202 7488002. We will get to your calls and comets momentarily. Back to capitol hill to hear from congressman kevin heard of oklahoma representing the tulsa area. We just heard from Speaker Pelosi. It sounds like things are going to move forward towards a vote on some articles of impeachment. What are your thoughts . Guest this is something the speaker has been talking about for months, she wanted the president impeached by christmas. She has moved the time i up more so after one in the Judiciary Committee. It is almost it is sad for america that we dont listen to the information we have. We have constitutional lawyers coming in from elite law schools. After 12 of the Committee Hearings and the constitutional attorneys, nobody has firsthand knowledge of anything, unlike the other two impeachments we have gone throughout our lifetime. I will go back to the district. Americans in my district want us to move forward and get on with doing americas work of creating jobs and having the opportunity still dont have a funding bill to get the government open through christmas. Host what are the concerns about getting a budget finally passed . There is a deadline coming up in a couple of weeks on december 20. Guest i also serve on the budget committee. We produced the budget earlier in the year and got into the speaker and she did not want to put it on the floor. We kept working. We have not done regular order at all. In july we pushed to get the topline numbers. We still have not got our bill done. We are working on that now. It does not look like we will have it done before christmas. We are coming up close on a Government Shutdown again. You mentionedman, the folks back home momentarily. What is your sense when you are back for the thanksgiving break of where people are on this . Guest if youre against the president before this happened, you are still against him. If you are for him, you are still for him. This is my first year in politics and you work at the middle ground and you continue to see the independents moving away from the impeachment. The understand nobody is above the law they want to get on. They dont see anything there. The president is not a politician. Never said he was going to be a politician. Because he did not use the word corrupter the conversation. But we found out going forward, if youre in the administration and you do some thing bad, all is just rundo against the sitting president. Especially if you are of the party in control of the house and you will not have to worry about ever being held accountable for your bad deeds. Host what kind of guidance the Republican Leaders have given your conference in terms of what may be ahead on articles of impeachment . How the House Republicans will respond specifically on the house floor . Guest we havent. The conversation has been that nancy pelosi was indicating early on monday to her staff this would go beyond christmas. We saw that on the news reports. Today we learned forget that. We will get to it today. It has almost been made a mockery of the whole process, picking an artificial deadline and have everything work for that deadline so people have to go home for christmas and articles of impeachment are done. The speaker is immensely afraid when people go home she saw this over thanksgiving, the people at risk in the 31 districts President Trump won now held by democrats see this as them slipping. She needs her 235 votes. Host the tulsa world. Across the capital impeachment saga shifts. Congressman, how frustrating is it in terms of getting legislative priorities you have . What are some of those in terms of getting debate on that . Guest it should be set for all americans we dont have the government funded and we are running up against artificial deadlines and here we are again not having funding and the threat of a shutdown like last year through the christmas holidays. Unlike last year this will be a full Government Shutdown because the speaker has not done anything to get the 12 appropriation bills of regular order. Drug prices being high. We have not done anything there. The transportation infrastructure bill, we have not done anything there. We have not funded our National Defense authorization act for the first time in 58 years. Men and women are not knowing whats going on there. It has been allconsuming. The hallways are full of impeachment conversation. The press is all about impeachment processes. Can you imagine if we spent this kind of energy actually doing the work for all americans . Republican of oklahoma represent the tolls area, thank you for being with us this morning. Here is the Associated Press reporting politico reporting on the comments we heard from Speaker Pelosi. Nancy pelosi announced the house will draft articles of impeachment against donald trump, a historic step that signals democrats are increasingly likely to vote to impeach trump before the end of the year. Pelosi said impeachment investigators have uncovered more than sufficient evidence to show trump abused his office for political gain, violating the president s oath to the constitution and warranting removal. Up on capitol hill for cspan is our producer craig kaplan who tweets this. Pelosi on moving forward with articles of impeachment. The president has left us no choice but to act. Your comments, calls and questions. 202 7488001 for republicans. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents and others, 202 7488002. To kevin in michigan. Good morning. Listening to just this representative brown talk. He said President Trump dug up dirt. They wanted them to dig up dirt. That was never said. Why do you let people tell lies like this . That is not in the report. That was not even on the transcript but they keep saying they dug up dirt on him, or wanted him to dig up dirt. If he wants dirt to dig up, biden i consider that extortion. When you tell somebody you either fire this guy or you not getting 1 billion. Does that mean we can impeach him if he wins right away because of quid pro quo . This makes no sense. Staff andthe subpoena people not being subpoenaed, i remember when the republicans have the house. Ng and obamabpoeni said were not going to do it. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Host met in new york, independently. Caller thank you for the opportunity. I have been on hold since Speaker Pelosi spoke and i listened to the congressman. They are really pushing impeachment on the American People. The constitutional remedy is election. Two quick points to back this up. Look what happened to kamala harris. I love kamala. As soon as she got on this impeachment rhetoric her campaign dissolved. She is done. Now bloomberg is spending all this money on advertising. It sounds like things are going back to normal. This impeachment, it is not consensus. There is nobody talking about this. Hi told people at work. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about this. The peace and stability of our society because of this resistance. Resistance has been since samual adams, since the boston massacre. I get it. The war is not with trump. They are pushing this war on the American People. All of a sudden civil war. Its into polling and percentages. The federal army will never allow this to happen. Lets get back to normal. Sees been cspan, you let a lot of people get on the phone but lets get back to normal, back to sanity. Let him lose in november. Give us the opportunity. Host we will hear from andrew in california. Caller thank you for the opportunity. I could not disagree more than with the previous caller. Jumping back further about the didleman saying joe biden the same thing that donald trump did. Well, he didnt. It was not even close. Joe biden, according to all testimony at the hearings, according to every u. S. Intelligence community and every leader in the free world, joe biden was carrying out u. S. Policy by firing the corrupt prosecutor. It is a talking point for the republicans that has nothing to do with protecting his son or a quid pro quo. It was under oath. Everybody, interviewed said the same thing. Joe biden was carrying out u. S. Policy as directed by the u. S. Government, designed to benefit the u. S. Government. What donald trump did was open an investigation into the bidens to benefit himself personally. Explained to me how an snvestigation into the bide or a story that has been proven to be a Conspiracy Theory betty server in the ukraine helps us as americans. Joe biden firing the ukrainian prosecutor was what was done. I want to say as far as lets , pelosi has armal very difficult task here. The information is coming in every day. It is fluid. We have devin nunes calls coming in. How are we supposed to determine with the david impeachment trial should be when every single day new evidence is coming to life exposing further corruption from this president . I could go on all day. I appreciate the time. Host a tweet from Bloomberg News covering the capital. Speaker pelosi decided satellite to support drafting articles of impeachment because of his wrongdoing strikes at the heart of our constitution. One member of the Judiciary Committee is hakeem jeffries, the Democratic Caucus chair. He said yesterday about the concerns of overturning the will of the people, the republicans concerned about that and the peach been processed. [video] some said impeachment would overturn the will of the people. The American People expressed their will and 2018. They elected a new majority. The will of the people elected a house that would not function as owned subsidiary of this administration. But people elected a house that understands we are separate and coequal branch of government. The will of the people elected a house that understands we have a constitutional responsibility to serve as a check and balance on an outofcontrol executive branch. The president abused his power and must be held accountable. No one is above the law. America must remain the last best hope on earth. Spoke aboutpelosi 20 minutes ago. This was reporting from th ehill. Com. We go to leesburg, virginia, democrats line. This is karen. Caller good morning. To the judgment from new york, i do care. A lot of americans care. I will say this is a democratic voter. I did not vote democrat to have some wet fish to turn around and do whatever is necessary for the purpose of our politics. I vote because i stand by the integrity of the person im voting for so they will uphold and maintain the constitution of the added states. I will say this. Trump, because he does not listen, this is the reason why he failed. Had he never mentioned biden at all in the conversation, this would not be here. It would all be about corruption in ukraine. But because he did that and he did not allow his administration to come to the floor and tell their story, you allowed the house and the congress to write your own story. You did not allow your people to testify so now you have no choice. People ask, what is going to happen . It is not going to pass in the senate. My victory is it is probably not going to go anywhere. Mcconnell is not going to do anything. My victory is he will lose the election, that works for me. Bigger victory is when we i will be celebrating while the republicans are kicking themselves on the house and the are a full congress and we can get something done. Do you want to go ahead and screw this up now to the Republican Party and remove him from office, or wait until the total congress flips so every bill and everything we ever really wanted is done and not being held up by mcconnell . That is the victory. I will sit back and wait and see how this is done. I see something powerful happening in the next two to four years. Host this is basil on the independent line. Homestead, ohio. Caller yes, thank you. The impeachment has nothing to do with Donald Trumps wrongdoing. It has to do with his good doings. He is prolife. He has hispanics and africanamericans, asians working more than they ever have. The economy is better than it is. That is what they are impeaching. They are impeaching the progress the man has made in office, obstructed cost of the by the socialist democratic party. Everything they are for there is no joy in that party. There is no caring about the american citizen. It is about their ability to get rid of donald trump, who has done more for this country that any president in my life, including ronald reagan. If we dont wake up to the reality that this party will bring america down to its knees if it wins the election next year host loretta, your thoughts on the impeachment process. Caller i think it has carried on too long. Money has been wasted and President Trump, i voted for him and i will vote again for him. I think he is a businessman. He knows how to deal with people. Problem why havent they investigated what they was trying to dig up uninvited and his son . Dig up on biden and his son . Host the washington post. Pelosi today, im asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. Jim acosta from cnn saying an hour after trump says do it now, pelosi, im asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. Those tweets by the president earlier, the donothing democrats had a historically bad yesterday in the house. They are demeaning our country. Nothing matters to them. They have gone crazy. Therefore if you going to impeach me, do it now i do it fast so we can have a fair trial in the senate so our country can get back to business. Savannah, georgia. Tyrone . Caller how are you this morning . I have been listening to what everybody is saying. Im wondering if anybody realizes donald trump gets away with what he has done and what he is doing, what will happen to this country in the future . Whether it is a republican president. What is going to happen when they start doing things like that . Anne from North Carolina on the republican line. Caller i just wanted to say i cant understand why they are not investigating biden. He has done more corruption than trump is ever thought to do. He should be investigated. In my opinion i think he should be ejected from running for president. He did more than trump did. Wille are afraid of what happen if trump stays in office. Republicans are afraid of what happens when democrats take over because they are all becoming socialists. Host if it comes to us in a trial could you see the former Vice President or hunter biden being asked to testify before that trial . Caller i sure would hope so. I would hope schiff would have to testify. Watched the impeachment hearings from day one, every single solitary word. Cspan2, thean, regular networks. I have switched everything. I had him on my computer yesterday. That was a farce. Host we understand the house Judiciary Committee will hear from the House Intelligence Committee officials and a hearing next week. No firm word on that. The wall street journal writing about adam schiff. Schiffs surveillance state is the lead editorial. Is 300page house intelligence impeachment report does not include much new about mr. Trumps ukrainian intervention, but it discloses telephone calls between ranking intelligence republican devin nunes, rudy giuliani, jay solomon, les others lev parnas and others. The press corps might want to notice his targets include mr. Solomon, who was until recently a columnist at the hill and his reporting called attention to the ukraine involvement in the 2016 election. How is mr. Solomons reporting trail relevant to impeachment . The media usually condemns government officials use surveillance to intimidate the media, but here they are cheering mr. Schiff on. On the, new jersey, jim independent line. Caller good morning. I have been following this impeachment for years now. I think it is the most ridiculous thing that congress is doing. They can be doing more important things. Allou want my opinion, independents and democrats should take a look at their 401 k s, their retirements, their pensions. Look at the stock market. Look at the country in general, then look in the mirror and say that this president has not done enough for the people in this country. Texas. Orney, rachel on the independent line. Caller yes, sir. I will talk about the republican that came on and said he wanted to get things done. For eight years we could not get things done because they were worried about the national debt. That is no longer matter. We have a president that said are you still there . Host go ahead. Caller a president that said never trumpers that never voted for him. We have a presi