Live on cspan network. On life at cspan. Org. Order on the free see cspan2 radio app. Seneca oil, back a friend of the cspan2 network. His head another falcon which is what. Which is what we callru the first nonpartisan non profit, new site devoted entirely to covering the issues of the broken democracy and all the different efforts out there to troy and make democracy work better. We look at the impeachment process today, where are we. Pit bulls we look at it today we are the beginning of another week where i guess is the week six as we all know, the house so the ground rules last week on that partyline vote. And so now we have another week of packed with scheduled depositions in several of the witnesses we sayve will not show up and probably the most important thing thats going to happen this week is the house tells the committee is going to release the transcripts of monday of the depositions that have been taken sopt far. Those of the headlines. The tickling of the sunday program, representative jackie spear or adam shaft rather talking about where this process is heading in the allstate who have open hearings but so far, theyre not staying when. Why is that. I guess is the great aestion. Im sure theyre working behind the scenes to troy and get their ducks in a row and decide if y ey are trying to make a case obviously with the public hearings, to the country as well as to the members of the house. That their case is solid for bring articles of impeachment. They want to do that in a strong way they want to have telegenic witnesses first. This have a lot of producing behind the scenes. And were coming up on thanksgiving and thats going to make it difficult. That week is probably can be pretty difficult week to schedule hearings. So they are trying to do two things at once which is make the best case to the country and hurry up and do it and those two things arent always in alignment. Smacks of the house is out this week close door sessions if they have those witnesses testify. Do you say its. Cant happen as early as next week when he say will wait until after thanks giving. About, yes, i say it could happen as early as next week. I have not yet got a sense for who is their idea of opening windows. I dont know weather its colonel of dume in order they want to bring back, people have lives. They have attorneys. There is lots going on so i dont know but yes, i do say that they since they have made clear, that they i guess theyve made it pretty clear that they wanted do or what theyre going to do in the house side by the end of this calendar year which means by the week before christmas. Time is of the essence. We have taken a look from the cspan2 Video Library some of the past moments of the moments of impeachment of bill clinton and from the housework, Representative Nancy Pelosi now course is the speaker of the house is over 19, 1998, his house was about to vote on the impeachment of president clinton before his trial went to the p u. S. Senate, this is what she said. Today the republican majority has brought judging the president with fairness. But impeaching him with a vengeance. In the investigation of the present fundamental principles which americans hold dear, privacy and fairness and checks and balances, have been seriously violated. And why, because we are here today, because the republicans in the house are paralyzed with hatred. I president clinton and until the republicans free themselves of this hatred, our country will suffer. Was 20 years ago. It was like only an estate. It was only i know it going to be playing some clips to dave of people who are still involved in this impeachment. Are also involved in that impeachment. I want to take those moment to make a note because almost every time im onry cspan you might e talk about different things. Tit might look from the video,s though this people, are still around. In fact only missus policy is only one of 56 as members who was it was around. This one out of every eight who was around for the last impeachment and this impeachment. So theres been an enormous turnover so seven out of every eight have never been through this before and it is a new and quite awesome with a lowercase a responsibility for both. In most guys take it very seriously. Obviously what we see here just like what we saw with senator graham then representative graham in the last block, our members who are wearing different house now that they were thin. And i am sure that we could or you could hand missus pelosi script to almost any republican and they would be happy to read it now with the change name change from president clinton to President Trump. Around the present and the member in the house then and now today to republican congressman canton on this what he had to see from december of 1998 on the impeachment of bill clinton. We were a nation consumer scandal, driving good people from government. Were talking about here is the president s conduct was illegal and immoral and was disgracefuln and is indivisible. But the fact is that it dont believe it rises to the loophole of treason of bribery in the principal we are setting that is in the future, all of us anyone who assumes the offices of the present state is subject to the depositions lawsuits and to have a pet deposition a salmon and scrutinized by an independent counsel. How monday former president s will be of loss of this was the case. If this principle prevailed. Also i would ask my fellow republicans, throughout the 1980s, we sold the abuses of special councils by Lawrence Walsh and others as they went the reagan and bush and ministration. Good people like on brought down involving line. All of us knew it was wrong. Here it really hasnt been today somehow we are wheeling to apply a different standard in a different principal. And that is wrong. This is a sad day for our country and it said year for our nation because of the conduct of the present but also because i believe that as republicans, we have failed to i. C. E. Our icobligation as a matter of conscience i must vote against impeachment and i rolled the stay. [applause] so fascinating. Mr. King, as you said he was the president that went to new york to watch wrestling on saturday night and took mr. King with him. Thats an indication that he thinks mr. King is going to stick with him. The way he stuck with clinton 20 years ago. Interestingly mr. King, there were five republicans who voted against the baseman and all forecasts and there were five democrats who voted for impeaching bill clinton. Those ten people, mr. King is the only one lift. So we will be watching him but the indication from this past weekend as hes probably going to stick with President Trump. Listing your phone calls. Due is joining us from cumberland, maryland. The republican line. In washington good morning. Good morning starts. Greatly appreciate you taking my call. I am a trump supporter but all of these types of situation very openminded because number one, im american, and i actually put that above trump. Im trying to figure out why if impeachment is need it, i totally understand that but this man since the day he came down the escalators has been bombarded and i would see viciously attacked ever since the day he took office. But everything we are going through now as a country, is overshadowing the fact that what biden has been accused of was going on while he was our vice gainednt and his family off of foreign countries. Will i say that there is some dispute over weather the bidens, surely Vice President son was paid handsomely. Quite generously to be in the board of this company, so in that sense, on violent biden did benefit. But i say there is and is open oo significant dispute weather the Vice President benefited financially from anything that mightve happened with ukraine. On the question of President Trump and his being subject to significant criticisms as you said since the day he came down the escalator, and that is true for sure. Im not sure that if you go back and watch almost any president , of either party, go back and look at the frontage of their treatment by the press, it is comparable. I would see it is comparable. I have found in my time covering washington which goes back on them incredibly to me, until the bush 41 administration, the reagan administration, presence of both parties get daily excoriated to. And the Mainstream Media as well as by not Mainstream Media and the public. Thats a whos joining us from memphis, tennessee. Democrats line. A. Good morning. My thing is this. As you as an american, can support somebody that supports the child molester and gets on national tv and mimic people with disabilities, if you can support somebody like that, what kind of american are you. If you support somebody like that, not only is he not fit to be president , you are not fit to be an american. Thank you. So what you said betsy, is what you hear from the president s critics all of the time everyday. I say it is safe to predict that every present changes the culture in some way by their not necessarily salad by the policies they pursue brought by the personality they present to the public. And surely mr. Trump his approach to discourse, is going rsto change the culture for some time. Twenty change probably the way our children with twitter children believe believe is appropriate. That having been said, were talking today about the impeachment and there was plenty of evidence mr. Clintons behavior did likewise. And his behavior change what children thought was appropriate in terms of dealing with their sexual things and what could be view as honest. So i would just see that this is the nature of the presidency. The president s of both parties especially with those of forceful personalities and bill clinton had a a forcible personalities artist donald trump. P. In their daily presentation to the country really permeates the cultures in ways that we will so see for some sometime. Of course is the fourth time that the house of representatives have taken on the impeachment process. And her johnson, was not convicted in the senate, it began with Richard Nixon he resigned before there was about the house. In the second time there was with bill clinton and you mentioned, in december 1998, after the house voted on impeachment, thats what he told his supporters from the rose garden. On echo something mr. Gephardt said, it is something i have felt strongly all of my life we must stop the politics of personal destruction. [applause] we must get rid of the poisonous venom of excessive partisanship and obsessive animosity and uncontrolled anger did that is not what america deserves. That is not what america is about. We are doing well now. We are a good and decent country. But we have significant challenges we have to face. In order to do it right we have to have some atmosphere of decency and civility. Some presumption of good faith some sense of proportionality and balance in bringing judgment against those who are in different parties we have important work to do. We need a constructive debate that has all of the different voices in this country heard. In the halls of congress. I want the American People to know today that i am still permitted to working with people of good faith and goodwill of both parties to do what is best for oures country. To bring our nation together to lyft our people up and move us all forward together. It is what ive tried to do for six years and is what i intend to do for tomorrow. Until the last hour of the last day of my term. This from december 19th, 1998 in the rose garden at the white house, David Hawkins, you are smiling. I am hearing a very different tonality than what weve heard from the current president of the last two years. As i said, he had a forceful personality and one of his great political skills was that he, new he recalibrated himself quite dramatically from moment to moment. And he knew in this moment that was in his best political interests to the sound bit, contrite and wounded. And to talk about his aspirations which i say everybody is watching this morning and everybody goes wprobably within shouting distance of where were sitting now, what a great that did not get what he wished for. Weve not had a politics of moderation. But it is the right tone for him to strike at the time. And it served him politically well in the short term. Is seven oh 690 and tweeted this. He said some of in the phone call with the ukrainian president is perfectly stated. There is no reason to call witnesses to analyze my words and meaning this is just another democratic oaks that ive had to with from the Data Collected and before. Calling it disgraceful. Eflets get right joining us frm pennsylvania. Democrat line. Atu are on the air with David Hawkins. Editorinchief. Good morning. I really wanted to question the balance of power that exists and has existed for maybe 50 years. Vesay that the sheer size and the sheer power now, of the executive branch and the weakness of congress in terms of them always troy to be reelected every two years. It is made the true impeachment kind of impossible if the two parties were k together, if the house and the senate were divided i say it would be a little bit more realistic that impeachment could work but now it just seems like an empty gesture. And i would like to hear your comments on that. All right, you make a really important. About the rise of executive authority over the last 50 years, every president wants it to the hammer, the world is the nail right. To every president , the sea claiming as much power for themselves as possible as sort of what they want to do. They are in an imbalance power is the executive and judiciary. Leaks that sensitive president , in modern times as troy to push that what is possible more and more and more. George w. Bush did it barack obama did it and now certainly donald trump has doing it. Your connection if it to impeachment is an important one because what we are seeing even this week, when we talked about as i said, almost offhandedly, right at the start that several the people who have been asked to come testify this week before the Intelligence Community, theyre not going to show up. In recent weeks weve shown several people who have been told to not testify, to the congress anyway. Fy and now this week it seems as though the trend is reversing d itself most of the people who have been summoned to currently work for the administration or who previously worked with administration are going to have a the president s command and dictate that they not show up. Some of this is going to be thought out and saw it on and reports and it is one lawsuit about this that is not actually going to take his next important turn until early december which could mess up the timing of the democrats. In terms of how much more o evidence they want to collect and how much are public they want to go with their cases. Before they learn dependently leap from the course which witnesses will or will be made to testify. The important thing here is that the president s main defense is his principal defense brother than his rhetorical defense on twitter in these rallies, is to, have a tone to it and to troy to slow or stop the investigation at every turn. That is a huge use of muscular executive power. Lots of tweets coming in. This is from patrick staying oh my good news, Sexual Assault is the crime. Its not a cultural issue to compare clintons discretion to President Trump his crime. Hes calling it ludicrous. Student christopher from oleander new york. It. Good morning how are you doing. Ive got a problem with me a lot report. He supposed to be bipartisan but there is nothing in there about the uranium dealpp and we all kw that theres a urinate radium deal going on. As like they got their hand caught in the cookie jar. And theyre trying to blade their brother even though the brother hand in the cookie jar. And everybody is falling the lead on it and see oh yeah, is the brother the brother. Its the same thing with ukraine. With that joe biden hisen son sitting there with his hand in the cookie jar which is directly tied to joe biden. But all in all, as President Trump that is ludicrous what people are believing right now on this whole thing. What is your thoughts. My principal thought is that i dont say we all know about a urinate re uranium deal. What you refer to as the uranium deal, is the relatively, if there was more seriously sourced and more to it more explicit about it, you can be darn sure i would hope that you would be darn sure you might not be, given the distrust of the media but the media be would be on the if there more to it. Reports would be onto it and if there were a crime at work, prosecutors would be onto it especially prosecutors for this Justice Department. Very strange how the senate this Impeachment Committee a few weeks before that whistleblower came forward. To find a little strange hashtag deep state and kirk and guillory. No, the select committee on intelligence was not to set up. Before that whistleblower shut up. It is permanently part of the congressional stacker structure they exist everywhere. So has brought new. And the only thing that is new about it stephanies weve god look at more. Power there supposed to be conducting these depositions behind closed doors and then Holding Public hearings and then releasing a public report which would then go to a owdifferent Committee Judiciary committee which in modern times has been the committee that decides which articles of impeachment to graft and to send on to the full house. The president has been busy tweeting in the New York Times is pointing out that heath has a mart out more than 11000 tweets. New york times. Com. And this from the president about in our ago referring to the economy. Record high, spend your her name well. Lets go to susan in minnesota. Republican line. Thank you very much, i am concerned because we dont necessarily have a fair profit or process. Regarding duere process. They should be open with the attorneys on both sides including the republicans having the right to call witnesses and subpoena and that hasnt happened yet and they see what will but ill believe it when i sssee it. And all transcripts should be given to the American People by both sides together seeing the same thing and also remember the ukrainian president said that he felt no problem with obama talked with the open mic with the