Ambassador hale for being here, for obeying the law, for following the lawful subpoena that we issued. We wish others would show the same courage and dedication to the law that ambassador hale is demonstrating here today. I want to let you know as you may know already that we will begin our open hearings in the impeachment inquiry next week. We will be beginning with the testimony of ambassador taylor and ambassador kent on wednesday. And we will have ambassador yovanovitch testify on friday. These will be the first of the open hearings. And i think youll see throughout the course of the testimony, not only their testimony but many others, the most important facts are largely not contested. We are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year. And the degree to which the president enlisted whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent, as well as further Conspiracy Theory about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his reelection campaign. So those open hearings will be an opportunity for the American People to evaluate the witnesses for themselves, to make their own determinations about the credibility of the witnesses, but also to learn firsthand about the facts of the president s misconduct. Along those lines today we will be releasing the deposition transcript of ambassador taylor, so people will have the opportunity to read about that deposition as well. And what americans will see from that transcript is what they have seen from the others, that the gop claims to be locked out, prohibited from participating unable to ask questions, are , simply false. In ambassador taylors deposition, as indeed every deposition, the republican members have had equal opportunity as the democratic members to ask any questions they would like. You will see in the transcript what a dedicated Public Servant ambassador taylor is, someone who graduated from west point, someone who served in vietnam, someone who is i think performing another Vital Service for the country in relating the facts that came to his attention, the very disturbing facts that came to his attention. So we move forward with the open phase of the impeachment inquiry. Announcer House Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff, who is leading the impeachment inquiry, saying today that the first public impeachment hearing will take place next wednesday, november 13 with state Department OfficialsWilliam Taylor and george kent. We will have live coverage starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 3. And former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch will testify next friday, november 15 and that will be live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 2. , we are making it easier for you to watch coverage of the impeachment inquiry and administrations response. If you miss any of our live coverage, go to the impeachment inquiry page at cspan. Org impeachment for video on demand. We have added a tally showing where each house to mcrib stance on the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Follow this on the webpage at cspan. Org impeachment. A surefire way to watch unfiltered coverage anyway anytime. Heres a look at our primetime schedule on the network. Beginning 8 00 p. M. Eastern, or march from President Trump at a Campaign Rally in louisiana. On cspan 2, a hearing on reauthorizing the 2015 usa freedom act which bans the bulk collection of private records. Cspan3, American History tv with programs on american africanAmerican History. Washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Thursday morning, the impeachment inquiry and the first public hearing. We will discuss it with the senior fellow with the our Street Institute governance project. Heritage foundation to the director Nick Lawrence joined with friends of the earth president kika to talk about the paris climate agreement. Watch washington journal at 7 00 eastern thursday morning. Join the discussion. Tomorrow a hearing examines federal revenues devised derived from oil in the solo they will examine federal offshore areas and programs that share the revenues with state, local and tribal governments grade you can see that thursday starting to neglect eastern. It will be on cspan. And tomorrow the Senate Rules Committee has a hearing on what is being done to modernize the library of congress. We will hear from carla hayden, librarian of congress, at 10 00 eastern on cspan three. And the campaign 2020 coverage continues with remarks from mike pence at a politics and eggs event. He will speak to voters and supporters in manchester live at 1 00 eastern on cspan. Saturday is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, a symbol of the divide between the east and west of the cold war. American history tv is live from the new york the museum beginning with our guests, the head of Georgetown University center for eurasian, east ,uropean studies, hope harrison author of after the berlin wall, steve vogel who covered the fall of the wall for the Washington Post and author of betrayal in berlin, and kerry kristofferson of the museum in berlin talks about their cold war exhibit. Well talk about this take your calls throughout the program. Watch on American History tv on cspan3. Nextncer 2 announcer 2 remarks by President Trump on his administrations record on judicial confirmations. He is joined by Mitch Mcconnell and Chuck Grassley who helped confirm 150 judges to the federal bench including two justices on the supreme court. This is half an hour. [applause] pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you very much. We had another big record stock market day, another record in the stock market and the history of our country, which to me means jobs and a lot of other