Independents and others, that is 2027488003. If you send us a text would like. That is 2027488003. On twitter, we are cspanwj. And on facebook, post your thoughts, facebook. Com cspan. We will get to some of the comments of Speaker Pelosi, use cnnannouncement on a townhall. And also hear from the response from President Trump. Ll. Com. Rollca members prepare to work over the weekend. Judiciary democrats have been stay in washington over the weekend for impeachment strategy sessions. As well as a presentation for its own counsel, members were not clear what the judiciary counsel would be presenting. We will have that hearing for you live on cspan monday morning at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Live coverage on cspan and. Span radio we will hear from Speaker Pelosi on cnns townhall last night asked by jake tapper a number of questions about impeachment and her decision to move forward with articles of impeachment. Here is one of them. [video clip] you wake up and exit polls show impeaching President Trump helped him get reelected, would you have any regrets . No. This is an about politics at all. It is not about patriotism or partisanship it is about honoring our oath of office. Has committed this president has committed all of these things as the constitutional experts said no president has come first has come close. Politics is not even a consideration in this. This is about protect and defend constitution what do we have, mr. Franklin a monarchy or a republic . He said a republic if you can keep it. Thisis a challenge to republic because left to his own devices, this president is taking us away from a system of checks and balances. Article 2, he said, can i kens i can do whatever i want. That is not what the constitution said. For him to ignore the oversight take moneystions appropriated by the house and forte in a bipartisan way military assistance to ukraine, a country under assault from russia, then it was 11,000 probably 13,000 People Killed by russian aggression and he is withholding the funds that could help them defend themselves. It is a wrong thing to do. In the course of doing it, the president has violated his oath. NightSpeaker Pelosi last on cnn. The reporting of politicos Congressional Team with the headline pelosi goes it alone on impeachment. Are saying on facebook, sylvia says the house is doing the right thing even when the senate will probably not. Dave says democrats, be careful what you wish for. Republicans can call fact witnesses. Laughable, house will impeach, senate will acquit, it will be over in a few months and trump will be president. Pelosi has committed the biggest political blunder in history. If they move forward and it is stopped in the senate, will they ever stop . What if your loved one was put up in court on charges of hearsay, how would you fight back on the trial . Republican1 the line. Democrats, it is 2027488000. For all others, 2027488002. Scottsdale,to arizona. Hello to alan. Republican line. Caller good morning, everybody, and thank you to cspan. When i hear nancy pelosi talk and say the words she just said, i always go back on how many times can she contradict herself in everything they say . Gavebama administration blankets to croatia. They did not give military assistance, they held everything back. The thing that really is so striking is this newest revelation with schiff and the phone numbers with devin nunes andsullivan as a reporter giuliani of getting at t to give them the phone numbers as far as i am concerned, that is a threat to the country. The thing i get i keep getting back to you get to a point that you just want to say everything that had gone on in the Obama Administration where was nancy pelosi . When you look at everything she is saying about from is everything obama did. The thing that always the visual i always get is nancy coming outside the house of representatives with the biggest gavel in the world saying to everybody you need to vote for obama care before you read it. The amount of lies coming out of the Democratic Party is endless. Here is no facts there has never been any facts. It has always been a propaganda game on Democratic Party, nonstop propaganda. Host we will go to our democrat line, florida. Betty, hello. Caller hello, cspan. I am so happy you are taking my call. I am an 87yearold woman. I cannot believe this impeachment about how to yale andall went hey are good schools i cannot believe president anybodyident bush could kill all those people at 911 all of them from those foreign countries. The saudis are the one that did it. They are all going on about impeachment when she is trying let us know cut youry something, tongue out. Am 87 when the constitution was passed, what i dont understand about the United States host betty in florida talked about the attorneys testifying. One of those was Jonathan Turley and he is an opinion contributor in addition to a law professor. His piece in the hill yesterday talks about the blowback after that. The headline, democrats offer passion over proof. The most dangerous place for an academic is often between the house and impeachment of the american president. I knew that going into the first hearing on the impeachment of donald trump. Alexander hamilton after all, Alexander Hamilton that impeachment would occur in an environment of aggravated passions, yet i remained naive hoping an academic discussion on the history and standards of it might offer a brief hiatus from hateful rhetoric. In my testimony wednesday, i lamented as in the impeachment of president clinton, there is an intense rancor and rage and intolerance that blinds people to opposing views. My call for civility may have been the least successful argument. Before i finish my testimony, my home and office were inundated with threatening messages and demands i be fired from George Washington university for arguing that while case for impeachment has been made, it has not been made on this record. In michigan, we hear from sue on the independent line. Good morning. Surer mike, is i am not impeaching him is the right thing to do. I am wondering about censoring him would probably be the best thing. My other comment is republicans are ignoring all of the facts. You love President Trump, i understand that, but look at the facts. The facts are there, he did something wrong and further, he is obstructing, refusing to let witnesses testify, bolton and mulvaney. They can tell you right to the fact exactly what happens, but he refuses to let them testify. If we let him get away with this, what is not to say the next president will not do the same thing or he will do it again . Impeaching him, i am not sure it is the right thing. Maybe censoring him. Host elaine in new hampshire. Caller good morning. My tv and why are the people calling in way ahead of what is on tv . Host dont worry about that, listen to your phone and go ahead with the comment. Caller okay. Host that is just the way it works out, it is technology. It hasnt been said on tv that i heard, but what the big picture need toat the democrats get President Trump out of office because of the investigations attorney general barr is doing and durham is doing. Democrats are going to file like dominoes because of the wrongdoings they did leading up to his running for president and spying on his campaign and the dossier made up by the russians that we paid for that was paid for by the clintons. President trump did nothing wrong with that phone call because the quid pro quo is biden and his son. He threatened to hold back the billion dollars in aid. This is the truth of what is going on. Host that is a lane in new hampshire. Front page from the New York Times, the headline pelosi declares house will begin to draw up impeachment charges, vote on front could come by christmas. The announcement came as the laid Judiciary Committee out next steps for formal impeachment proceedings. The Committee Said it would convene on monday to allow lawyers and those in the Intelligence Committee to formerly present. It may touch on one of the few remaining internal disputes in an impeachment inquiry that has largely united them. Democrats must decide whether to limit their case to dealings with ukraine or include earlier allegations he obstructed justice trying to thwart the russia investigation. After the announcement yesterday, we heard from republican leader Kevin Mccarthy. [video clip] 7 i listened to i listen to Speaker Pelosi give us historical references. The one she skipped was Alexander Hamilton when he wrote there will always be the greatest danger that the decision to use the impeachment power would be driven by partisan animosity instead of real demonstrations of innocence or guilt. Today is the day hamilton warned us. Today, with with the speaker announcement, she has weakened this nation. It was not new news, they always had this prewritten timeline from the day they got sworn in. Lets go through their timeline. After winning the majority, they had to decide who would become the chairs of their committees. Impeachment committee who does year he had a campaign for it. Nadler campaigned that he would be the best for impeachment and he won the position. On the first day of swearing in by their new freshmen, they got the majority after holding their hand and swearing to the constitution. Congresswoman tlaib said we are going to impeach the mother. That was their goal from the beginning. Host Kevin Mccarthy headlined in the hill. Democrats could introduce articles of impeachment next week. A trio of sources signal the accelerated timeline is part of an effort to wrap up the historic inquiry into trump dealings with ukraine before christmas. In doing so, democrats do not want impeachment to be the last vote before the religious holidays, preferring to end on a bipartisan note like funding the government. On twitter, we are cspanwj. When the speaker of the house incorrectly spews the date of ratification of the constitution, you have got to wonder. Lizzie says what you saw is a woman losing touch with reality, she is doing something she does not believe in, she is under pressure and she is going to break. Janice in new york, thanks for waiting. Good morning. Caller good morning. I think he should be impeached. I would like to refer to the last caller talking about the lies democrats are making and this president has lied over 17,000 times. The last caller referred to the investigation barr is making and they already said there was no one interfered in his election and i believe he should be impeached because even though he has given up his salary, the millions paid over 400 staying at maralago. He is saying maralago will be his official residence since he could not make it the place where he can hold the summit, so if he isleaders come, reelected, we will probably be paying him over a billion dollars to stay there. He is using taxpayer money to fund personal businesses and when they always refer to this thescript, that is not official transcript of his calls, he provided a summary and you had republicans on the call on your show the other day and they kept saying they wanted to get back to the business of funding the wall and the military. What happened to infrastructure . What happened to health care . Wet happened to making sure have jobs . Making sure there is no more children dying that are being held in tent city coming over from immigration . They are not doing the bidding of the government. When you have someone calm on whether it is republican or democrat, ask them what happened to infrastructure . What happened to this country and why are they letting this president why are we paying him millions and millions of dollars . To go to florida. Caller on the independent line host on the independent line. Caller thanks for taking my phone call. Its hard to believe when i watch these impeachment hearings because both democrats and republicans are good salesman. What to believe. I think our Public Servants are poor examples to the American People as a whole in many different ways. The way they speak to each other, the way they carry themselves before the public. I really think they are very poor examples. In americas finances and the i dontfinances know what is going to happen. That is my viewpoint. Thanks for taking my call. Host vincent next up in oklahoma on the republican line. Caller this is vincent and i i was going toay vote for him this time around and if he doesnt win, i will have to switch over to biden. Host we lost vincent. We will hear from timothy in illinois, democrats line. Caller hi. I just had a couple comments about the biden story. He called a constituent in iowa a liar because of the story about burisma and his son. I find it concerning republicans issuecapegoating this when it is the issue of the president we are talking about and joe biden no office at this time. I wonder if the Trump Administration finds joe biden such a big threat they think this investigation giuliani still continues he has actually gone back to ukraine and everything, if they feel this is something they are doing because they are try to stop corruption or because they got caught for what the democrats are trying to say that he had abused the powers of his office. Host we will give you a chance to see that video in a minute, joe biden in iowa, campaigning with what he calls his know malarkey for no malarkey otur. A check back to capitol hill, gop senators seek information on burisma. Iceman senators are probing a Consulting Firm over name dropping of hunter biden while working for the Ukrainian Energy mentionedurisma, and in connection to the impeachment inquiry. Ron johnson of wisconsin, Chuck Grassley have asked the chief executive and officer at Bluestone Strategies for information after a report suggests the Consulting Firm used his position on the board to obtain meetings with Obama Administration officials. Our caller referring to that back and forth between the former Vice President and now president ial candidate and member of the audience. We thought we would give you perspective on how that looks like. Old retired an farmer and i am kind of unique because i am not a republican. Okay. I have two problems with you. Near as oldre damn as i am. You are too old for the job. I am 83 and i know i do not have the mental faculties i had 30 years ago. Forget that stuff. You toa question i want answer. While trump has been messing around in ukraine over there withholding foreign aid for him to come up and say they will investigate you, we know all of that. He has no backbone, we know that. You come on the other hand, sent your son over there to get a job and work for a gas company that he had no experience with gas or in order to get access for the president. You are selling access to the president. You are a liar, man. That is not true. No one has ever said that. See it on the tv peoplemore than those now. You want to check my shape, lets do pushups together. Whatever you want to do. Said my son has done anything wrong and i did not come on any occasion i did not say you were doing anything wrong. You said i set up my son to work in another company. Isnt that what you said . Msnbc. Is what i hear on you did not hear that on msnbc. You did not hear that at all. I am not going to get into an argument with you. I dont want to, either. Yeah, you do. Here is the deal it looks like you dont have any more backbone then trump does. Any other questions . I am not voting for you. I know that, man. Iowa coverage on the cspan networks this weekend. One take on that, howard kurtz, pelosi, biden lose their cool as impeachment battle intensifies. Steve is next in missouri, independent line. Caller good morning, bill. Thanks for taking my call. What i see is history repeating itself. Lets go back to the first impeachment. Abraham lincoln got him in there to bring the country together and he was a confederate. He ended up siding with the confederates and that is why he was impeached back then. If it wasnt for lincoln being a president , the whole bunch would have been hung. That is what we have going on right now, it is pretty well known in the Intelligence Community trump is working for putin. They say he owes him a poppel hundred a couple thousand dollars and that is why they will not he will not release his taxes. The whole Republican Party, they have been falling this since bushss and reagan and junior and the real witchhunt is what they did to reagan junior. They started they were hounding him so much, he lied under oath. Host political reporting on the president s attorneys move. Trump asks them to block the subpoena. Congress cane exercise dominion and control over the office of the president. Politico. Comyou to if you want to read that article. Kentucky, jd on the republican line. Caller can you hear me . Host we can. Nancy pelosi,eve she is a hypocritical person. How can she stand in front of the United States citizens and say and the accusations she is saying toward President Trump when she is guilty of the same stuff she is charging him with . Withnly thing different this president than all the other president s we had different before President Trump is President Trump has brought out the truth about what the politicians have been doing for the last 50 years in washington, d. C. They have been going to work to get a paycheck and not doing their job. When that happens over a period of time, it doesnt matter what business you have got, what office you hold, and who you are apartg for, it gets tore from side to side, up and down. If we cannot live togethe