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CSPAN Washington Journal News Headlines And Viewer Calls March 20, 2017

To judge neil patrick harris. What do you expect to learn from todays proceedings about the judge, his judicial philosophy and other legal matters . 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. And 2027488002 for inns. If you want to call us and talk about either the russian hearing or the Supreme Court hearing that takes place today, you can post on twitter at twitter. Com cspanwj and on our facebook as well at facebook. Com cspan. The hills Katie Bo Williams who will be joining us to talk about the russia hearing as a story out on the website about whats expected from todays ferguson featuring the f. B. I. Director. E writes while it is unclear how much they can discussed, they will be pushing the f. B. I. Director to resolve President Trumps claim that he was wiretapped by his predecessor. But the collusion have some predicted that the delegate we nce representatives will talk about it when Katie Bo Williams joins us in about an hour from now to talk about that hearing. Again, also, judge neil gorsuch on the Circuit Court from colorado expected to appear today and make his opening testimony on his confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court. Democrats are approaching the hearing are multiple goals. Host again, that just sets up on the focus on what these hearings takes place today. You can watch both these hearings on cspan. Go to our website on how to view it. All that information is at cspan. Org. We want to hear your thoughts on both of these proceedings that takes place today. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. And f inns, 2027488002. Independence, 2027488002. Judge gorsuch was speaking in that speech and in part, he talks about the Supreme Court and the topic of activism by the court. The cynicism is easy enough to see when justices try to defend laws of discipline, when they explain their jobs of interpreting legal texts, when they evoke and echo the traditional 78 conception of a good judge. Theyre mocked, often viciously and personally. Leading media voices to call the deceiving or behind their benign beige facades lurk crimson partisans. Even law professors hurry to the microphone to accuse him of perjury and actual quote, everyone. If this bleak picture ive sketched were an accurate one, if i believe the judges and lawyers regularly acted as sealeds and hacks, i would hang up the rope. I would turn up my license. But i just dont think thats what a life in the law is about. Host we will show you more from judge gorsuch over our time. Also legislatures talking about that russia hearing that takes place today. Both of those topics of discussion for our first hour. Lets go to ed from georgia, republican line. Go ahead, ed. Caller good morning. I believe that this whole thing about the russian thing, its just the democrats trying to do a bunch of reversed engineering. Theres no way in hell that trump is involved with the russians in any other way except some kal. Ind of buss thats it. Host so do you think the hearing then today clears up any of that . Caller no, of course not. This thing will go on for years. It doesnt matter. And you could see that trumps ratings might be a little low this year but thats ok. By the end of the four years, everybodys going to want trump back in 2020. Host do you think it matters if the f. B. I. Director testifies on these matters . Caller well, he can testify. But theres not going to be anything coming out of it. Host lets go to randy. And randy is in fort wayne, texas. Fort worth, texas. Go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. I believe this trump wiretapping and russian interfering was the election, i think this is going to be huge, man. First of all, theres no truth of the russian interfering with election. I watched all the morning show on sunday and nobody had any proof. And secondly, the f. B. I. Director this mornings going to testify. I think hes behind this. I think with the trump wiretapping. I think after we go to the british media because you know the british didnt like trufment so they believe that trump had something to do with the brexit. So they were really hating trump. So it wouldnt take much for obama to get with the british and say i want you to wiretap the trump tower and it wasnt come back to the f. B. I. Or the c. I. A. So whats going to happen, i believe theyre going to get somebody out of the c. I. A. It is more like the directity. This is going to come back to him. He adds its a feast for cspan about the gorsuch hearing and the comey testifying for the house testifying. He describes this specifically for the gorsuch hearing that starts today. Richard rogers saying there shouldnt be a hearing at all until president obamas nominee to the Supreme Court. He says this is the process due. You can see that first day of the Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Initial comments by the legislatures and other days of cspan planned. Lets go to paul, appleton, wisconsin, democrats line. Hi, paul. Caller hi. Yeah, i dont have a lot of faith in james comey bringing out the truth. I think hes a republican political hack. Trump is so linked up with the russian mob its not even funny. He is the biggest shyster crooked president this country has ever seen. Hes so linked up anybody watch the rachel mad dosho. Hes so linked up with russia its not even funny. Hes way in with the russian mob. Weve got the first mobster president. Host paul from fort lauderdale, florida, republican line. Good morning. Youre next. Caller that was the most di calculousive ever heard. Two things. Number one, why cant we get a straight answer from somebody about where Michael Flynn was when he was wiretapped . We have a transcript of the phone call. Where was he when that phone call was intercepted . Could it have been in the trump tour . Trump tower . And i would like to see the members of the Democratic Committee appear before congress and testify as to whether donald trump warned, warned them, that they might be hacked. And they didnt take his advice. So if its true, then we have donald trump warning them they might be hacked. They get hacked. And did the democrats turn around and accuse him of colluding with the hacking of the russian government . How ridiculous can you get . That is just stupid. Host do you think any of your questions are going to be are you going to get information about anything from that fromed tos hearing . Caller i think those from two critical questions. I mean, its simple. Where was Michael Flynn when he was wiretapped . Host i know you said that but im asking you if youre going to think youre going to learn anything from the questions you posed yourself . Caller i have my doubts. Because why havent we learned it already . Lets go to ann from ventura, california, independent line. Go ahead. Caller thank you. Im an independent and im just im so afraid for our country. You know, this president has done more to disrupt our country than ever in history. Before. Putin is, i believe, taking advantage of all of this. And whether, you know the trens colluded and the trump people olluded with the. Why would the russians stop . Do people actually think they went into the election, they got all of the data. They were release this stuff through wikileaks. He has a lot of people that are principles that go to russia constantly and that are very suspect. Now why would russia stop . And also, i want to say that i am very afraid of gorsuch. Ive read through some of his, know,ow, judiciary you what he has said, his host his rulings . Caller yes, thank you. Host which one did you read and what caused you the most concern . Caller well, the ones where he talks about very lengthy. He talks about the fact that he doesnt believe that there should be class action lawsuits. And i know have many lawyers that represent Small Businesses and people that are handicapped, etc. , and that is one of the only things that they still have left that they can get any kind of justice for their clients. Its extremely difficult to get any kind of a case brought up so use of the cost, because many of these, you know, companies and many of them are not american companies. Thats what people dont really understand. You know weve been kind of inundated with all of these companies coming from other countries and they bring in immigrants that are employees, etc. Heres all kinds of rules. Host i got to leave it there. I want to get a couple more calls and tweets in you heard her call about judge gorsuchs hearings and her reference to the russian hearing that will take place on cspan. Call us about it on the line. One of those two topics. Go to our website at cspan. Org where you can find not obviously how you can watch them either now or maybe you could watch them later if you dont have a chance to watch it this morning as they take place. All that information at cspan. Org. Tweet us at well. It is going to be a bad day on democrats. Neil gorsuch on his way to the Supreme Court. And no rsia ties. Referencing trump those hearings. And another one saying judge gorsuch looks totally justicey. And a line for democrats. Go on. Caller good morning, pedro. Host hi. Caller hey, listen, now you mean to tell me that president , and i do mean president obama, he took land that was bought by russia for their diplomats. He kicked them out of the United States. He closed the embassy. Then the new president come in there and were talking trump now. E says nah, dont do it. All of this right here was done for no reason at all. Is this is what youre telling me . Ill take my answer off line if anybody can answer that. Host ann is up next and shes from east orange, new jersey, democrats line. Caller yes, good morning, pedro. Host hi. Caller this is for the gentleman that had called in, a pan that had called in and said where was flynn . Its all over the news all the time. He was in the Dominican Republic when they wiretapped the russian guy and he got caught up in that. And Everybody Knows donald trump , his own son said that money was pouring in from russia. His daughter, nothing but criminals. Donald trump has been involved. So we all know that hes that type of person. I think these people dont want to see the forest from the trees because they dont want to see it because they voted for him and they know its going to make them look stupid because they were conneded. Host fi things to be looking for in this russian hearinghat takes place today. Question three, she writes is it just about the wiretapping or other surveillance involved . She says what we still dont know is whether there were wiretaps of President Trumps affiliates outside the tower or in the course of other investigations whether the Intelligence Community picked up on communications on the president or his team had with the campaign or the transition period . This quote has already helped take down Michael Flynn was caught on tape speaking with the Russian Ambassador whose communications was being watched host heres devin nunes, republican from california, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee from yesterday. You said earlier this week that you had your words, no evidence of the trump claim that he had been wiretapped in trump tower by president obama during the campaign. On the friday, youve got response to questions from the f. B. I. On this issue of whether they had any evidence of surveillance there. I know you cant say much about it but based on what you received from the f. B. I. On friday, do you want to amend your statement if there is no evidence of wiretapping . No. Ive said this a couple of weeks ago that the president did you want go into and physically wiretap something. We know that general flynns name was unmasked. Was there a physical wiretapping ofrump tower no, there never was. I just want to make that point before you there is no evidence that there was any wiretap im not talking about president obama doing it or his administration. No wiretapping of trump tower . There was no pfizer warrant to tap trump tower. And thats after you received this information . Thats accurate. Host that was the chairman of the House Committee who will be hearing at 10 00 this morning and you can see i on cspan. The president tweeting this morning on issues concerning russia. Several treats this morning. James clapper and others stated there is no president that potus colluded with russia. The story is fake news and everyone knows it. The president tweeting that the democrats made up and pushed the republican story as an excuse for running a terrible campaign. And the president also tweeting about the real story that congress, the f. B. I. And all others should be looking into is the classified information. Whether or not comey will be asked about those questions, you can fine that out for yourself when you see those hearings. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. And for independents, 2027488002. If you want to comment either on todays hearings or judge gorsuchs first day of confirmation hearings as hes being considered for the skort Supreme Court. Jean from california, republican line. Thanks for waiting. Go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. I dont pay that much attention to politics but ive been paying attention recently. And i am astonished. You know, my whole life, republics have been the ones who have been patriots and they and firm against our adversaries. And now we got this putin guy, this k. G. B. Guy who wants to restore the supreme soviet. And the republicans are absolutely weak kneed. I dont get it. And i know that there are people who say we should be friends with putin. Well maybe, but i remember when Ronald Reagan used to say. Trust but verify. I dont see any verifying going on. And it used to be in our country that they used to say about us that partisanship ended at the border. , he it doesnt even end at red square anymore. And i am astonished at the republicans. I have known the republicans my whole life. I dont get it. They were always the patriots. I havent heard one word about patriotism from them and they are amazingly incredibly soft on communism. Host ok. Lets go to santa barbara, california, democrats line. Pauley, good morning. Caller is am i being heard . Host youre on. Go ahead. Caller ok. Im calling about fred gorsuch. He is the son of ann gorsuch who ran the e. P. A. Under reagan. She undermines the e. P. A. And cuts the budget by 20 to 30 , undermine regulations and subsequently was cited in contempt of congress for not producing records that congress requested regarding the sure super garding toxic fund, regarding toxic regulations. Host why do you think the actions of Neil Gorsuchs mothe is important as a consideration as he heads to the Supreme Court . Or if he heads to the Supreme Court, i should say. Caller i think it should be brought up. She sounds like somebody that trump would hire. The fruit falls close to the tree. And im just wondering if hes also one of these people who wants to deconstruct the Administrative State and then will be on the Supreme Court. Thats all. Thank you. Host cynthia, davidson, north carolina, independent line. Caller yes. I was wanting to call in and say that im a registered independent. I voted on both sides. I voted for democrats. And i have voted for republicans. I 100 am behind trump and his Supreme Court pick. I think its a great pick. And support him. And i just sit here and shake my head at some of the accusations of some of your callers that call in. People can i guess say anything. I can sit here and say excuse pedro. People are ok with it. People have no factual basis for all these ridiculous claims i sit here and listen to. But begin, i support trump 100 and his Supreme Court nomination. Host give me a specific of why you support neil gorsuch. Caller for his conservative values. I think that we need to get back. This country needs to get back to common sense and we have lost that common sense factor. Host is there a specific ruling that he made or at least actions he made as a judge that you would consider would reflect the conservative value . Caller yes. And i dont have that in front of me right now. But yes, i have read up on him and there have been absolutely. I wish you had some of it in front of you that you could quote, you know, to give people facts too. But yes. If people will look him up, most definitely. Hes very conservative and thats where we need get back to is common sense legislation. Host the former mayor of new york, Michael Bloomberg had a piece yesterday taking a look at the gorsuch hearing that is to take place today. And as far as warning democrats who are going to be on that committee and democrats who have to decide on whether judge gorsuch goes to the Supreme Court or not, he says dont use the republican playbook on judge gorsuch. Some of the thoughts from the former mayor says this. Republicans were wrong to stonewall. But the fact remains that the country needs a full complement of justices not only to break ties on major issues but also to prevent a breakdown of constitutional order. If Democrats Use the filibuster to block a vote on gorsuch, the look tradition of approving the high Court Nomination now on life support will die. The cowers courts credibility will suffer from it. The thoughts of the former mayor of new york, Michael Bloomberg on todays hearings. Several years ago, cspan put together a special d. M. Ry taking a look at the Supreme Court. You got us looking at the building and interviews with justices themselves. One of those interviews that took place was with Justice Sonia salt mire. Society my year. Talking to cspan about the confirmation process about with a she thought was important about the proce

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