Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. Us your firstext name, city, and state at 2027488003 or join the conversation on twitter cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your comments right after we hear a little bit more from Mitch Mcconnell on the floor yesterday outlining what we will see today in the senate. [video clip] a few minutes ago the senate was notified the house of a senates is finally ready to proceed with articles of impeachment. By unanimous consent, we have laid some of the groundwork that will structure the next several days. We have invited the house managers to come to the senate tomorrow at noon to exhibit their articles of impeachment and later tomorrow afternoon at 2 00 p. M. , the chief justice of the United States will arrive in the senate. He will be sworn in by the tem, chiefro grassley. We will pledge to rise above petty factionalism and do justice for our states and the nation and we will formally notify the president and some in the president to answer the articles and sent his counsel. The trial will commence in earnest on tuesday. First, some good news for the country, we anticipate the senate will finish the usmca tomorrow and send this landmark trade deal to President Trump , a majorignature victory for the administration. More importantly, for american families. Let me close with this, this is a difficult time for our country, but this is precisely the kind of time for which the. Ramers created the senate i am confident this body can rise above shorttermism and factional fever and serve the longterm best interest of our nation. We can do this and we must. Host the Senate Leader on the floor yesterday. The hill newspaper says the seven house managers were in the chamber. They stood on the sidelines while the leader established the schedule. Roughly two dozen Senate Democrats were in their seats as they awaited the house manager and as mcconnell set the schedule and they were spotted chatted amongst themselves, something they will not be able to do during the trial because senators have to sit silently. You heard the majority leader say they have they will invite the house managers around 12 p. M. Eastern time. Our coverage gaveltogavel is happening on cspan 2. You can watch throughout the day as well as our website and download the radio app as well. He has invited them to return presented the house impeachment managers on the senate floor. Take a look at what it looked like then. [video clip] mr. President and members of the senate. I announce the presence of the managers on the house of representatives to conduct proceedings on behalf of the house concerning the impeachment of William Jefferson clinton, president of the United States. Managers on the part of the house will be received and escorted to the senate. Make the proclamation. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the president of the United States articles of impeachment against William Jefferson clinton, president of the United States. Host presentation of the house managers in 1999, there are 13 then and there will be seven today. We can expect it looking somewhat similar. 12 00 p. M. Eastern time and our website is where you can watch. In 1999, it was Supreme Court chief Justice William rehnquist who arrived in the senate senatorso swear in the. Chief Justice John Roberts will be doing the same thing today when he leaves the Supreme Court to make his way to the Senate Chamber to be sworn in and swear in the 100 senators. Take a look at that moment from 1999. Journal cspan. Org pleased to welcome you. I assume the senate in conformity with your notice for the purpose of joining with you for the trial of the president of the United States and i am now ready to take the oath. Will you place your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand . Do you solemnly swear that in all things pertaining to the trial of the impeachment of William Jefferson clinton, president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws, so help you god question mark so help you god . I do. Host William Rehnquist being sworn in by the president pro tem, a republican of south carolina. Today, when that happens, it will be chuck grassley, republican of iowa who will be swearing in the chief justice john robert. Your thoughts as the senate. Rial begins, kicks off today matt in new york, we begin with you. Caller good morning. And flabbergasted at the hypocrisy of the democrats. Nancy said this was a somber and prayerful moment, yet she already started auctioning off the pens they used to sign the articles on ebay. Hearingf that, we keep like Chucky Schumer saying we need a fair trial. They keep saying they are defending the constitution. The constitution says the accused has the right to be confronted by his witnesses his accusers. Did we hear anything from the whistleblower . Were republicans able to question the whistleblower in secret chambers in the basement that schiff ran . No. It also says the constitution says the accused has the right to a fair trial. It doesnt say anything about the prosecution. If you dont have a case and you did not pursue your avenues to make that case, which the house did not, that is their problem. Senate pasta job to clean up what the house did and ridiculous. Host ricky is a democrat in maryland. Your thoughts before the senate kicks off these trial proceedings. Caller first of all, the theleman before me that was republican, typical republicans make up excuse after excuse after excuse. Lev parnas has confirmed what we knew, donald trump is a conceited, selfish, arrogant, vain, selfcentered habitual liar. This is further proof there must be witnesses in the Senate Impeachment trial and not only that, what is so funny is impeachment for donald trump is the least of his worries. He better hope he wins in november because he is in so much trouble with his taxes, this guy is the worst president , the biggest liar, how can anybody in your family want to bes want to be around someone like him. Ont your thoughts impeachment this morning as the Senate Begins proceedings around 12 00 p. M. Eastern time . Caller thank you for taking my call. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Caller i am a veteran and when i went in the military, i remember this saying that crude enough the russian leader said, we will bury you. That made me so mad. I said this would never happen, america is great. Through the years, i have seen how they did it because divided, a was so lot of people did not like a black president and the russians seen the chance to come in and through the nra, White Supremacy groups, and the internet, and a lot of people in america, brainwashed a lot of people and when they elected trump, that completed the process. That is why we need to look at this and how it all flows together. If you look at it, the electoral college, all of us have got to concentrate on may be about. Even states the majority are white people and nra people and they target job of it. S and they we are in a bad state. Mentionedfirst caller the speaker of the house and Chuck Schumer demanding what they have said is a fair trial. Here is the speaker yesterday after she announced the house managers and the vote took place on the floor to appoint them. That vote on the house floor to approve the seven house managers, 228193. [video clip] over 70 of the American People want to see a fair trial, whatever the outcome. We have not seen even the rules. We put our rules out in october for the next couple months, the next few months that followed case. King the we havent seen what the rules are in the senate. In the time that has transpired, the American People have come down in favor of a fair trial, which they always wanted, but meaning it would entail having witnesses as well as documents. Host speaker of the house saying she wants witnesses and documents. Take a look at politicos interview with rand paul withtening witnesses explosive interview notes. 4 or more of his democrat colleagues joined to make witness testimony. He will make the vote on preferred witnesses, including hunter biden and the whistleblower. Notrate republicans are eager to call. He has a simple message for his party. End the trial before witnesses are called. If you vote against hunter biden, you are voting to lose your election, seriously, that. S what it is if you dont want to take a vote on whether to consider the goes on to say issue at all if the senate agrees to hear witnesses, every senator will have the chance to force a motion seeking testimony. After they hear opening arguments and senator mcconnell says he has the votes for this format, that after they hear opening market arguments tuesday, they will vote to consider and assist. Rand paul is saying he will put pressure on colleagues not to heak with democrats saying will call and any senator could present a motion to call witnesses. The Washington Post says the president and the white house intend to block efforts to further build their case to witnesses, including john bolton, allowing testimony for a president ial aide about discussions on trump would be extraordinary and they plan to evoke executive privilege. Is also a story that senator collins and senator murkowski, two republican senators who are open to witnesses telling the hill newspaper it is too early to make a decision on hunter biden testifying. Yesterday, lev parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani did andersons with cnns cooper, which will air tonight and he sat down with Rachel Maddow. Here is what he had to tell Rachel Maddow. [video clip] what do you think is the main inaccuracy or live being told you feel like you can correct . That the president did not know what was going on. President trump knew exactly what was going on. He was aware of all of my movements. Reason they have no. Eason to speak to me why would all these people meet with me . Who am i . They were told to meet with me. That is the secret they are ing to keep we did not watch football games. Ogether i had a lot of oneonone conversations with him about at gatherings where they would have these roundtables. E have had several of those i was not in Constant Contact with them. I was with rudy when he would speak to the president , plenty of times. It is ludicrous. You have been with mr. Giuliani when he was on the phone with the president . Absolutely. How would you know he was on the phone with the president . Several times he would start the conversation on speakerphone and then take it off and go somewhere to talk with him and a lot of times it would be on the golf course. I remember during the mueller rudy said something taken out of context. I could understand that you could hear President Trump talking next to him, i heard him several times when he was with rudy. President u say the knew about your movements and what you were doing, are you saying specifically the president was aware you and mr. Giuliani were working on this effort in ukraine to basically try to hurt joe bidens political career . He knew about that . It was all about joe biden, hunter biden, and rudy had a personal thing with the manafort stuff, the black ledger. That was another thing they were looking into. It was never about corruption, never strictly about paris smoke, which included hunter biden and joe biden. We were showing that, cnn was running a dateline, will the Senate Subpoena lev parnas . Craig in west virginia, democratic caller, what do you think about the impeachment proceedings so far . Lie andi think when we dont tell the truth to the , when you weave leads intonceit that a conspiracy, it is time to leave office, there is no need for a trial. He needs to resign and he needs to resign today. Host christian, your turn. Caller thank you so much for taking my call. I am not sure where to begin. Let me say this. Alan dershowitz came on your show and basically said the two charges democrats have filed and signed off on, which was abuse of power and obstruction of congress, those are not valid impeachable offenses, which means they filed false charges against the president of the United States and what i want to say and pardon me, excuse me to all my caucasian brothers and sisters. Pardon me, excuse me to my latin, middle eastern, asian brothers and sisters, but if you are a black man in this country, if you dont start paying attention to what these democrats are doing, the same thing they are doing to President Trump, they are going to do to you. When you cast your vote in 2020, you better think long and hard about voting for a democrat because everything they have created in this system, how they have manufactured evidence in plain sight, how they manufactured what they needed from a whistleblower, all of that they have done in plain sight, what they are doing to trump, they will do exactly to you and dont you ever forget, they created the rules for the criminal justice standards for the prosecution function. The ada created the rules for sentencing and if you ever hear somebody tell you democrats did not create this system, they are lying through their teeth. Host stephen in new york, democratic caller. Caller good morning. I saw lev parnas on Rachel Maddow last night and he laid leadership,blican barr, devin nunes, put the ukrainen on zelensky of. They implement a plan to force him to produce dirt on the bidens. If the republicans do not call lev parnas to testify, they are all, especially Susan Collins, part of the coverup. Republicans have been screaming for witnesses for the president , the Democratic Party is fully on your side now. Donald trump deserves witnesses. Mike pompeo, john bolton, the Vice President , lets hear what they have to say. Everyone have a great day. Host lets talk about the prosecution, the house managers named by Speaker Pelosi. As we were speculating, adam schiff, the chair of the Intelligence Committee who has been the lead on the impeachment proceedings so far is serving as the leader of this Management Team as well. He is serving 10 terms in congress, represents californias 28 districts, a former federal prosecutor and a former state senator. A jerry nadler, who chairs the Judiciary Committee also leading the team, 15 terms in congress, new york costs 10th new 10thent district district. A zoe lofgren, 13 terms in congress, serves on the Judiciary Committee. Hakim jeffries, who is part of the democratic leadership is also serving on this team of. Rosecutors serves 6 years in the new york state assembly. His skills were honed working in a Corporate Law firm in new york where he defended cbs in a lawsuit over Janet Jacksons wardrobe malfunction in the 2004 super bowl. Jason crow, one of two freshman serving on the team represents h district and defeated mike coffman 5443 percent. He was also a former army ranger. Sylvia garcia, the other freshman to represent texas 2 9th district, served 6 years in senate. Demings,e member, val who served two terms, represents floridas district. Former Orlando Police officer and first female chief. Familiar face to our cspan watchers and washington journal watchers as she is a frequent guest. Kevin mccarthy, the leader for the republicans in the house seesrday set said he bias in these picks by the speaker. [video clip] let take a look at the first three names Speaker Pelosi announced in her announcement, hasrman schiff, a man who already taken on the role of judge, jury, and fact witness throughout the entire house impeachment process. Chairman nadler, someone who campaigned for the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee responsible for impeachment beginning as far back as december 2017, before you were even in the majority on the notion that he would be the best person to lead the charge on potential impeachment against the president. He campaigned for it. You put your best ideas out of why you should be the chairman in 20, that was the campaign. Hakeem jeffries, a member who almost two years to this date voted in support of impeachment. I was more than a year before the ukraine call took place. Host your thoughts on the impeachment as the proceedings get underway in the senate at or you. M. Eastern time, can download the radio app. We are getting your thoughts on the impeachment so far and what you want to see in the impeachment trial. We are expecting john roberts to enter the chamber around 2 00 p. M. Eastern, get sworn in, and swear in all 100 senators. Kevin in connecticut, independent. Caller good morning. When you have trump old lawyer doing the interview with Rachel Maddow and he implicates trump, the game is up. He implicates everybody. It is not just trump on trial, Senate Republicans are on trial. It is a shame how separated this country is. A blind man could see what was going on now. Host you are independent. How did you vote in 2016 . Democrat. Voted for a listening to trump through the. Ampaign, the guy is a joke we have World Leaders laughing at our own president. Host have you ever voted republican . Caller i liked president reagan and bush, but i voted democrat. Sident trump they were good president s. Host why do you call yourself an independent . Caller sometimes i vote republican in local politics. When it comes to national politics, eileen democrat most of the time. I lean democrat most of the time. Host caller in florida, you are on the air. Caller good morning. Host what do you think about the impeachment trial . Caller i think it is great. They should have it because mr. Trump is a disgrace to the United States of america. Every country, i have people from abroad saying they did not stupid toca was so vote in a man like this. Obama could not even do an inch of it, they would cast him out and kill him and now this man is the disgrace of america, which america is so good to so many countries. Everybody comes here and feels alive. Get rid of him. Get rid of him in the name of jesus. Thanks for answering my call. Host alabama, republican. Caller yes, good morning. First of all, i want to say i have listened to this over and over. Even as early as yesterday, nancy pelosi misquoted or intentionally said donald trump do me a favor, though. He said do us a favor. If she is going to quote it, she needs to quote it right. It is easy to get on a phone and call our president names. We need i am saying we, we need to rake around our own doorstep before we rake around someone elses. All these people who get on here and call donald trump or anybody names and degrade and mutilate their names, they need to look at themselves first. Host alan in brooklyn, democratic caller. Caller in all the discussion of details and technicalities in involving the impeachment evidence, we could lose sight of one basic fact, we have a statedent who has mis becomeinured have to it. Obscured Everything Else going on. Truth is at the heart of democracy because in the declaration of independence, it said the authority of the government is founded on the informed consent of the governed. If you d cloud the difference lie, you truth and destroy the ability to discuss anything correctly and that includes things like an ordinary criminal trial in a city for stand, an apple, a fruit or whether the president is abusing his powers in office, you rely on the basic fact of the ordinary words we are using have one meaning and that we can talk about the same thing in the same language because we accept that meaning. Once we abandon our need for truth in our leaders, no democracy as possible and i remember as a boy scout and a cub scout 60 years ago, the fundamental difference between ,merica and the soviet union the dictators behind the iron curtain, they relied on their power for propaganda and we believed in truth, justice, and the american way like the opening line for superman. Myself,ack and i say to we have really lost our way if we dont understand the difference between truth and propaganda and we begin to adopt practices of people who used to we cannot be excepting truth for things big and small. Host greg is a republican in ohio, hi, greg. Caller good morning. How are you today . I have a couple things. Realize theelosi whistleblowers name is adam schiff . Host his name is adam schiff . Caller yes, maam. It seems like he is the only one that knows the whistleblower. There are several things i. Anted to ask turner wasr mike talking to ambassador jovanovich at the end of the talk, up. Er says time turner a face because she did not want to answer the question about and the private citizen going to ukraine. Like doesseem she have some thing to hide . Host a little bit more on these freshman serving as house managers, Sylvia Garcia and jason crow, we spoke to them as part of our freshman profile series when they began in 2017 r 2 year term. Garcia talked about how she approaches politics. [video clip] for us, it is about making change, making a difference for working families to make sure people get a fair shot at the american dream, that kids can have a good education to reach their full potential, that we can take care of people when. Hey are sick i still have memories of waiting in line at the welfare clinic to get a shot. We dont want kids to have to do that. For us, it has always been about making sure we take care of others and i think that is something that came from my parents. I was thened last one in the family, you just gave it to someone else. We never threw anything away. Southshe was born in texas and she is one of 8 of 10 children. Talked a little bit about growing up in poverty. You can watch those interviews if you go to our website. Jason crow also serving as a house manager, he is a freshman representing a college that he district and won beating out a republican. He is also former military, served as an army ranger and here is what he had to say about earning the silverstar in iraq in 2003. [video clip] my platoon was one of the s. Ad platoon we had been fighting for several days. He talked to when we talk to him last year. Lets get to back to calls. We will go to lori in georgia, democratic caller. Caller yes, maam, thank you. I have a couple comments, please. I have watched all the coverage of the impeachment. My tv stays all this mess for the last 3. 5 years, just about. What i have got to say is some of these comments people make, they talk about the lady that called a few minutes ago talking about nancy pelosi when she made the comment do me a favor opposed to do us a favor and they emphasize on these little comments here and there where there are words replaced, whatever it might be. All these lies we are focused on and we talk about that come out a lot ofite house and the Republican Party covering up a lot of the things and actions getting done from our administration we have right now and nobody seems to have a problem with that. I dont understand, they have been doing a lot of focus with the impeachment going on right now about the last impeachment, going by them as far as the guideline and they impeached clinton over him lying to the American Public. Yet, we have all these lies coming out of the white house on a daily basis and everybody seems to shrug this off and make excuses, one right after the other trying to cover up and win some evidence starts coming out about shining light on the words they have said to where it shows they were making false statements and we have had witnesses that have come forward with evidence talking about what trump and the administration did as far as with the power and obstruction of congress with nobody following rules and regulations as far as guidelines and subpoenas and these people ought to be thankful for the fact we have people who work up there every day to protect us, our safety and our country and our soldiers and so forth, all of this needs to be taken into consideration before they talk so ugly about these people coming forward and telling the truth about what is really going on just because they dont like the comments being made and the stuff coming out and then they want to degrade and talk so ugly about these people that basically put their life on the line for us. I just think it is awful there is so much ugliness going on today, the way they are treating one another and we really need to sit back and take a deep breath and realize we can Work Together and we will again. All of this will go away, but we should not be letting this administration off the hook, they need to be accountable all the way down to Congress People doing wrong and getting away with some of the things they are getting away with. Thank you very much. Host at 12 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 2 is when you can watch proceedings in the senate begin and it will start with the announcement of the house managers, they will read the articles of impeachment at around 2 00 p. M. Eastern, the chief justice, john roberts will be sworn in and he will swear in all 100 senators. Aswill start in ernest senator mcconnell said with opening comments. The senate plans to follow, and Mitch Mcconnell says he has the votes for a rule package that looks similar to the 1999 clinton impeachment and how that started was with house impeachment managers and clinton defense lawyers presenting their case. Senators were then allowed to question them for 16 hours and then the senate held a vote to dismiss. If they did not dismiss, which they did not, then they voted to subpoena witnesses. Each side presented evidence during the clinton thing and senators then deliberated behind closed doors, which senator roy blunt said they will do again for this impeachment trial and a final vote on each article. The Senate Majority leader has been open to the idea of if democrats insist on witnesses like john bolton and mick mulvaney, that perhaps they would force witnesses like hunter biden. Senator rand paul in an interview with politico hiserday says if 4 more of gop colleagues join with demo democrats, he will make the senate vote on subpoenaing the preferred witnesses, including hunter biden and the , who moderate republicans are not eager to call. He has a simple message for his party, end the trial before witnesses are called. If you vote against hunter biden, you are voting to lose your election. That is what it is. If you dont want to vote and you think you will have to vote against hunter biden, you should vote against witnesses. In the clinton proceedings, there was the vote to dismiss before they voted on witnesses. The threat is backed up by real power. The senate is expected to take a vote on whether to consider the witness issue at all according to senators familiar with the plan. If the senate agrees to hear witnesses, every senator will have the chance to force a motion seeking testimony. Senator collins and senator newspaperin the hill saying still too early to say whether or not hunter biden should be called. Senator Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins are one of the 4 being watched and have said they are open to witnesses and it includes Lamar Alexander of tennessee and mitt romney of utah. Lets go to helen in texas, republican caller. Caller hi. Please turn down the tv. Listen and talk through the phone. Caller okay. Havel soon be 90 and i seen a lot of television and i have gone through a lot of president and reagan was a good president , but this one has done more for our country than any of them that has been in there. I havevoted democrat and voted republican, but i will never vote democrat again the way they are doing right now. I would not be a democrat. They are treating him awful. He is a good man. I heard every bit of that telephone call he made to ukraine and he did nothing wrong. The one that is doing something wrong is that man getting 50,000 to 60,000 a month from ukraine. Thank you. Host from the opinion pages of the Washington Post, dana milbank has a story, the senate ascends into darkness. The senate, led by republicans, are requiring journalists to clear a new installed metal detector before entering media seats. Senator roy blunt suggested to mccain ande post others, journalists might bug the chamber. Allow journalists to bring laptops or silence phones so they could write, the house allows this or to allow cameras to capture the history of the moment, the house allowed this during the impeachment process. Tv cameras arend not allowed, the only footage will be cspan cameras operated by government employees. They will not be able to see which senators are sleeping, talking, or missing entirely. They will have at least 134 such seats. Seats, onlys 107 about 20 of which provide a view of the floor. The media would be penned in and joked the senators could now avoid reporters. From the hill newspaper on this, they are reporting, one gop senator saying it is a huge room huge mistake to restrict access. Senator of louisiana distanced himself saying there is an effort to limit the press, i will vote against that if i am allowed to, u. S. Senators are grown women and grown men, if they dont want to make a comment, they know how to say no comment. The Senate Sergeant arms and the Senate Rules Committee are preparing to force these. Estrictions during the trial Amy Klobuchar of minnesota, top democrat of the rules committee and a 2020 president ial candidate said he she opposes. He restrictions i dont support it and i have been in contact with both sides with this issue. I made it clear. I talked to senator blunt and i think we should have open access for the press. In the senate is not expected to part oformal vote as the process for establishing impeachment rules. Senator kevin cramer did note that republicans discussed it during a closeddoor caucus lunch on tuesday. Cspan sent a letter to mitch the rules cced committee and others and asked that cspan is allowed to cover the Senate Proceedings with their own cameras in the chamber, not using the cameras controlled by the government. We have not gotten a response. We are hoping we are allowed to have our own cameras and act as networks justther as they have allowed press cameras in during historical moments like a joint session or state of the union. In south marie carolina. Democratic caller. Caller good morning. And everybodytors are so close to trump, whenever i,s is over, me, myself, and goingself, and i, he is to kick them all under the bus like he did to all the rest of his puppets. Host rich, your thoughts. Caller thank you for taking my call. I am looking forward to the Senate Impeachment trial to see what is going to happen, if it is going to be an honest hearing. The whole thing about a trial is to see where the truth is and the right and wrong is the whole nature. And Mitch Mcconnell talking about he did not seem like he is interested in finding that out. It is a matter of he is going to try and throw the whole hearing it. R a bus just to dismiss for a mean, the latest thing with ukraine talking about giuliani and the records he has, that stuff is important for the American People to see if they are going to get an honest and fair shake out of this trial and that is what this is, a trial to see if the man has abused his. Rivileges as the president i watched the congress, the impeachment hearing. The indictments from these congressmen and i could tell watching that there was a congressmen that werent really even interested in the truth, they were in their status quo Majority Party was partylineit justate rhetoric and it they are not looking for the truth. If the truth is there, that is why they are supposed to be there. It is a trial based on did the man abused his powers of office . This is the stuff the American People need to watch and make in theudgment and vote elections, their conscience from what they see. Host the criticism from the other side is during the house hearings that democrats did not call witnesses then. Yesterday, chairman adam schiff and jerry nadler were asked about the speed of the impeachment proceedings and why they did not try to pursue more witnesses and evidence then. [video clip] we have saw don mcgahns testimony since april of last year. We still dont have a final court judgment. Yes, we could have waited years to get testimony from all the people the president has been obstructing. That would completely negate the impeachment power that has allowed the president by virtue of obstruction to prevent his own impeachment. That was an unacceptable course, particularly when the object of the scheme was to cheat in the election, which is the neri mechanism for dealing with a corrupt presidency. We could not wait. Some people said take let the election take care of it. He is trying to cheat in that election. It is essential be bring this impeachment to stop the president from trying to rig not from trying, he tried, rigging the next election, conspiring with a Foreign Government as the russian government attempted to rig our last election. The evidence is overwhelming. Arnasatest evidence with p and giuliani makes it more so. Theave to proceed because election, the integrity of the election is at stake. Host jerry nadler and adam schiff, two appointed house managers. The Prosecution Team after they held that News Conference later in the day, there was a signing ceremony with the speaker of the house and they proceeded from the House Chamber over to the senate to officially kick off the proceedings. At 12 00 p. M. Eastern, they will be in the Senate Chamber for an introduction and presentation of the articles of impeachment. At 2 00 p. M. Eastern, the Supreme Court chief justice will be sworn in and he will swear in all 100 senators. The trial of the opening arguments will begin next tuesday, the day after the holiday andr king under rules similar to the 1999 clinton impeachment, they will vote to dismiss after they hear from questioning from the senators, they would vote to dismiss and then they could vote on witnesses. This morning, we are getting your thoughts on the impeachment trial in the senate. Sandra in michigan, democratic caller, good morning to you. Caller good morning. This whole thing has got me so upset because i am donald i remember 20d years ago when he was buying up all the Affordable Housing and evicting people. It was on the news for weeks. In wheelchairs, elderly people, the man has no heart. Host you are breaking up. You have to turn down the television, you were breaking up, it is hard to hear you. Host josh in connecticut, republican. Caller jerry nadler was overheard on the amtrak train yesterday years ago talking about trying to impeach the president , so that man has no credibility. It democrats talk about wanting to find the truth, they are so far from understanding they think men that dress as women are women. You are going to listen to the truth from people who dont know the difference between men and women . Remember washington, d. C. Voted 90 for hillary and all these cspan people live in d. C. And all these other people. Host jacqueline in philadelphia , republican. Caller i am the grandmother that called in before he became president and i told you i voted and you said would you sing it . I froze, but i did sing it. I am disheartened about this. I love the man. I dont know what he did, if he did right or wrong, i just know he speaks for me. I got three tickets to see him in new jersey for a rally. I am excited about that and i hope he doesnt get impeached. I really like the guy. Host paul, chesapeake, virginia, independent. Cspan. Thank you for i have watched all the hearings cspan. With the impeachment, they are wanting to call witnesses in the senate. It goes back to the house, they had the opportunity, you showed mr. Nadler saying the evidence was overwhelming. Mr. Schiff has said the evidence is overwhelming. Why do they need witnesses in the senate . Not was the houses job, the senates job. Now you go to the senate and what makes them think whenever they subpoena these witnesses for the senate, what makes them think they are not going to, once again, apply to the courts . Witnesses,rt calling forever. D get drug out as an independent, i have got to say this is my opinion, that the American Public is getting very tired of this being drug out and with the way the hearings went in the house, they ofually denied a day minority hearings. I remember when it was requested of mr. Nadler and he said we will get to it later. I do not think the house did their job to make their case and they have lowered the standards of impeachment to where if you disagree with anything a president has done, even by executive order, whatever party is in the house will be able to, at that point, begin impeachment proceedings on any president in the future. Host you talk about this getting dragged out. Clintonrison, the bill Senate Impeachment trial lasted over a month. Andrew johnson impeachment trial, 11 weeks. Hi, edward. Orgia, caller i think trump is doing a the people do not want to be brought up in front of all that folks, yes. Edward. Are listening, are you still there . Caller yes. Host finish your thoughts. All right. I guess edward is gone. We will leave it there for we will talk about border funding with Jeff Fortenberry of wisconsin. State intleground 2020, President Trump held a rally there. With democratic congresswoman gwen moore who represents milwaukee. The impeachment of President Trump, watch unfiltered coverage of the senate trial on cspan two live as a coverage happens, and same day coverage. Cspan. Org impeachment and listen on the free cspan radio. On qer the next two weeks on thewe are focusing New Hampshire primary and Iowa Caucuses. Sunday night, Joseph Mcquade talks about his states president ial primary history and the state of politics in New Hampshire. New hampshire is always different. I think it appreciates being first and people turn out. It is one of the highest turnout state in primaries in the country. Too white, not representative of the country, then with the exception of bloomberg, why are these other candidates coming to New Hampshire . Watch sunday night at 8 00 and eastern on cspans q a. Our table, Jeff Fortenberry, republican of nebraska. Lets begin with the story in the Washington Post, the president plans to divert 7. 2 billion in pentagon funds for the border wall. Congress controls the purse brings pursestrings. Are you ok with the president deciding to divert this money . Guest first of all, good morning. This was a topic of discussion as we worked through the appropriation process. There is 12 bills and it takes the bulk of the year. Sometimes it doesnt get done. There is the threat of government shutdown. That did not happen this year. There was the attempt to find common ground. Earlier this year, there would be limitations on how the president could potentially use wall funding from other sources, those were lifted and we moved forward. There is a court case about this. Another court has stop the injunction. Border security is important to americans. There are four components. The first part of that is border security. You cannot have chaos and disorder at your border and allow for a just and compassionate system to develop. Other components involve interior enforcement and reworking our Immigration Laws so they are modernized. When people can come here illegally and we do not have the resources to handle that, it is unfair to people waiting in line. As difficult as the situation is on the border, it has gotten better, and some type of barrier security has to be part of that. Host had the president not promised mexico would pay for it . About i am here to talk immigration policy or anything you want. We have a new agreement with mexico and this is helping reduce the number of border crossings. I was there last summer during the synonymy when Border Patrol tsunami when Border Patrol was overrun by so many people. I went to see what the realities were, and people were treated humanely. Kids beingf aparated from parents, twomonthold baby had to be taken into custody because it may have been smuggled across the border. This is a difficult situation and there are problems that will occur when you have that many people tried to come over the border. Customs officials and Border Patrol are doing the best they can to handle the situation in a humane way and enforce the law. It is illegal to come into the country illegally. Host is the situation so bad that five times what congress authorized for the president to spend is needed in order to do what you are saying on the border . According to the Washington Post, he is prepared to divert 7. 2 pillow 7. 2 billion. Guest and this has happened previously. There was discussion about limitations on appropriations, but democrats and republicans agreed to lift the constraints on the president s ability to move funds because this is about americas security. A border and the protection of the border is an important part of our internal security and a , orne immigration process you will undermine the ability of the country to be charitable in the first place. It is overwrought. Host the president signed phase one of the china trade deal yesterday. How have the farmers done in your state over the last two years and how will they do in phase one and two . Guest farmers in nebraska have been patiently awaiting the reckoning. They understand america needed to rework the trade deals we had because they were unfair to us, particularly with china, but modernized nafta. Newrovided a lot of opportunities and options to be fair to all three countries. These were important movements with our neighbors to the north and south, and now with china because we have a huge trade deficit, hundreds of thousands of dollars. Trade is will reset, an important part of the agricultural economy. Farmers have known this had to be reckoned with so they have been patient. I am pleased with the development that have occurred because it gives us the opportunity to do the right thing for the country. Host what do you want to see in phase two . Guest they will have to continue to deliberate. A trade agreement will not solve everything. Our manufacturing left our shores and multinational organizations have taken advantage of us by leveraging our infrastructure and capital, using our work force to build up their profiteering and shifting their manufacturing overseas. Is that fair to america . They shifted to a country that has lacks labor and environmental laws, subsidized its currency, and we are supposed to celebrate freetrade as an abstract academic principle . That is not right. It has to be balanced and both sides have to benefit we will pursue freetrade what we have the mechanisms to pursue to make sure it is there. Host we were told mexico would make massive ag purchases and the eu would make ag purchases. None of those have happened needless to say, there is a healthy skepticism about whether American Farmers will see these purchase is. Americans were told that trade wars are good and easy to win and they have to accept shortterm pain for longterm gain. The pain has been long term and we have yet to see the gain. Guest we have assisted farmers through this difficult period, publicas been helpful policy by democrats and republicans to provide assistance while we go through a necessary reckoning for the benefit of the country. Farmers benefit from trade but it is not the mere volume, it is the net revenue to the farmer that matters. In the 21st century, we will see Significant Developments in the agricultural economy in terms of diversification and marketing of products directly to the consumer. They will remain the backbone of agriculture in america. If you look at the net revenue to the farmer, there will be opportunities for diversification of the farm and enhanced products offer directly to the consumer. These all sit alongside the opportunities for enhanced trade. Host dave is in cincinnati, ohio, democratic caller. Caller good morning, greta. Thank you for asking the representatives some good questions. I want to go right back to it. Mexico, we were told was supposed to pay for this wall. When President Trump ran for sir,dent, at his rallies, repeatedly he would say, who was going to pay for the wall . Look at me when i talk you, do not look down. Have a little respect. That happened time and time and time again. Are you a fiscal conservative . Can you claim that . Five times the amount, five times the amount. We are supposed to have such a wonderful economy and we are spending our deficits deficits are a trillion dollars a year. Dont look down. Host he is taking notes. Caller he acts like i am not important. I am talking to you. Host finish your thought he is taking notes and listening. Caller i would appreciate it if me. Ould look at it is a trillion dollars a year and it is continuing. Can you call yourself a fiscal conservative . Guest we are meandering all over the place. Yearsd in ohio for two and i lived in a place that was decimated by the loss of manufacturing in the steel mill area, where the population have lost 20,000 people, cut in half over 20 years. Ofs aggressive period expanding trade and globalization, some people were left behind. It was important to renegotiate trade agreement for the benefit of manufacturing and the longterm wellbeing of agriculture in order to make this fair. I am not apologizing for anything like that yes, we have large deficits at the moment due to the baby boom generation retiring. Obligation inant Social Security and medicare. People have put savings aside and we are meeting those obligation. This is a tough issue that will have to be tackled in a bipartisan manner to solve the longterm deficit. We have spending that Congress Works on every year, other than the automatic spending, is that 2010 levels. We have done a good job of holding down spending but we have big obligations for those who deserve and have earned their future support for Social Security and medicare by putting aside savings as we were wired. Beas we required this has to required. Creek, southgoose carolina, independent. Caller good morning. I think if we saw more people prosecuted that are hiring illegal people crossing our border en masse that are such a threat they would take it more seriously. If you focus on desperate, poor people and put them in confined areas because you dont know what else to do, and you cannot arrest the corporate ceos that allow what they allowed to happen, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails. I will listen to your comments. Thank you. Host congressman . Guest i am in complete agreement. This problem of exploitation of person began with big business. If you start putting a few ceos in jail, if the nightly news would show the ceo being handcuffed and taken out on a raid, we might have some change in behavior. Part of Immigration Reform is not just at the border. We have to get this off of the 1 yard line at the border. Border security is an essential component. Thatk on the subcommittee focuses on subsidies for Foreign Affairs and we have given subsidies for the triangle countries to create the conditions in which people have economic opportunity, the rule of law in which criminality and corruption are reduced. We are worried that has not is one ofwell, but it our efforts to recreate the conditions where people can thrive where they are. The second aspect, interior enforcement. It is illegal to enter the United States illegally. It is also illegal to willfully hire someone here illegally, and i agree with that enforcement around that be a disincentive to exploit more vulnerable people. The third aspect has to be a modernization of our Immigration Law so people in temporary work situations can come and go in an orderly fashion. We have programs that do that finally, the Foreign Policy considerations get us off just a border debate and move us back upstream so people are not forced into an economic migration system or fleeing violent. Host derek, new york, independent. Caller thank you for having me. I would like to know your thoughts on where you see you talk about the farmers in nebraska, the recent history whatiffs with china do you forecast on the horizon . Guest the tariff is a Blunt Force Instrument but has been used successfully to leverage a negotiation. It is not perfect but has made process throwing up our hands and believing in freetrade, that is subsidy to multinational corporations who will export exploit labor for the lowest possible price. The tariff is a blunt instrument but a motivating factor if we can absorb the same absorb the temporary pain to make it fair for both people. Host we are learning that the senate could vote next week on a resolution limiting the irandents use of force in , something the house did last week you have a proposal for security in northern iran. Explain that. Guest northern iraq. Thank you for raising that. Created isis arose and genocide against religious minorities. In the aftermath of that, at the be haft of the Vice President behest of the Vice President i traveled to iraq. Communities are trying to trickle back they are part of an ancient tapestry of religious pluralism that once thrived in iraq. As part of moving forward in trying to help them reestablish security and a form of nationalism, it is important that people not remain trapped in refugee camps or be forced to flee, but be allowed to return to their homeland. An International Training mission to integrate religious minorities and a Security Forces partnership to create the conditions in which they can protect themselves. That, there will be a the as edies willfully to europe. The christian will flee to europe. The Christian Community will continue to be under pressure and he will lose that pluralistic character of iraq, which is so essential. This is a fundamental of human justice, human dignity. You have militias who have taken over large swaths of northern iraq. Host who are the militias . Guest it is not isis. These questions involve iran and their subsidization. This would be a multinational Training Mission in concert with the iraqis and kurds. They are Security Forces so there is a chance. Simplembol full mechanism to create the Security Forces necessary. Host how open is iraq to this after they just voted to have u. S. Soldiers leave . Guest we are in a complicated moment. It was a caretaker government and the sunnis and kurds were not there there was a there. There was a mix of opinions. It was the iraqi Security Forces who defeated isis, but we were right behind them with International Providers partners providing advice. It was our effort that consolidated the iraqi ability to secure their country. There is a lot of interdependence that exists after this tall tough and difficult moment. , and theork itself out objective ought to be to leave. Raq and leave it stabilized this is essential. It made it in the appropriations bill. Host it is signed into law . Guest the one year budget agreement. Host is it something that can be done outside the u. S. Congress and laws, something the administration can negotiate with other countries . Guest yes, that would be the intention. Host dj in hampton, virginia, independent. Caller first of all, i would appreciate it if cspan would reprimand or cut them off, people like that guy that called that was so rude. In all the years i have watched cspan since it started, i am 79 years old and i hate the disrespect i hear from callers. Do not vent over national tv. I dont care who the president is. They dont have the right to call in just to trash. To the border wall, i think President Trump should get money wherever he can. We will and are getting it back one way or another through mexico with the deal, and people fail to look at that Congress Look at that. Congress will never give him money because they do not want him to accomplish anything good. T is a fact i am a true fact. I am a true independent. Clinton. Or bill i did not vote for obama. The president is doing an excellent job as far as the American People are concerned. I think he will win in such a landslide that the democrats will be sorry they started anything. Host congressman. Guest let me thank you for your comment. There is a process going on in our country, if you will, in which we are giving ourselves over to the types of deliberation that are not constructive, that are aggressive, mean, and disrespectful. Social media has created a big part of this and the media has divided itself into base constituent these. You can constituencies. In order for us to have a narrative or a nation, we have to have a space for tolerance and respect, or else the system will not work. I am grateful for your comments. I refused to believe we cannot have civil discourse, even when there may be a disagreement. That is the nebraska way and ought to be the american way, so i appreciate your comment. Regarding the border wall, it is about our national security, about trying to protect fromlves from criminality, an incapacity to absorb large numbers of people, and to create a vibrant and just and orderly and passionate immigration system when there is a real need according to the law. Host maryland, gabriel, republican. Caller thanks for having me, and thank you, sir, for being a Public Servant to our country. I just want to say a couple things. The first thing i want to say is about the middle east. Ask why are we over there to begin with . Beginning, our and i wasvaded iraq told it was a false pretense. I think president bush was misled. That is the first thing i want to say, we should not be there to begin with. I have friends who are marine to have served. Marines who have served. You do a good job, but the average american person is exhausted with politicians in general. It is just like, everything is the flip lop. Flipflop it is hard flipflop. What hard to keep up with politicians say we have to figure say. We have to figure out who assassinated kennedy and Martin Luther king. Guest let me say a couple things thank you for thanking me for Public Service. I always believed Public Service was a noble aspiration. I have a family i live in nebraska. I left Business Opportunities to do this. This was my choice because i believe in my country. I was inspired to serve in this way. Ands a tough, difficult job people are exhausted by the meandering and lurching back and forth daily politics. And bern all this off quiet and contemplative and reflective and be in dialogue in your community, where you live, a placebased strategy, working out differences. Politics is downstream from the culture. What you are saying reflected in washington is reflected across the country, this division ii tribal allegiance, and it is exhausting. We are not being paid other than the salary see for doing this work. You would be shocked by the level of personal dialogue and friendship between republicans and democrats which is rarely seen. What you see on tv is somebody calling themselves their dear friend and tearing them to shred. How do you live with that . It is called dualism. If we can reestablish ourselves as a nation and carry ourselves with dignity, the world is yearning for that in the middle east yearning for that. In the middle east, the longterm strategy should be that, to extricate ourselves. There were multiple u. N. Resolution of weapons of mass destruction. If the International Community will be able to enforce against that, Saddam Hussein was a horrific dictator and was threatening the development of weapons of mass destruction, there was questionable intelligence and that later was proved untrue, and it has cost us dearly in lives and your money to be over there. With a healthys nationalism in iraq, stability for our friends and allies including the jordanians, lebanese, israelis, and others, ought to be the goal as soon as possible, but it depends on stabilization. Host white plains, new york, mike, democratic caller. Caller am i on . Host you are . You are. Question or comment. Caller we had no business iraq. G invading britain has learned a valuable lesson. If it is not broke, you dont fix it. Guest when there is close to a 600 billion dollars trade deficit with china, it is not working. It needed to be reckoned with. Chinas system is not our system. They subsidize their industries, pollute their environment, have lax labor standards. We have all that built into our it should beause for the wellbeing of the community and individuals. You have to have Enforcement Mechanisms to catch cheating so i am grateful to President Trump that he took this on when no one else would. This is only a first step and will not solve everything, but at least it is a step that the United States will not be taken advantage of. Host representative Jeff Fortenberry, thank you for being with us. Guest thank you, a pleasure. Host we will speak to representative gwen moore about campaign 2020. We will be right back back. Will be right the impeachment of President Trump, watch unfiltered coverage of the senate trial on cspan two, live as it happens, and same day reairs. Follow the process on demand at cspan. Org impeachment and using the cspan radio app. Campaign 2020, watch our continuing coverage of the president ial candidates on the campaign trail, and make up your own mind. As the voting begins next month, watch our coverage of the Iowa Caucuses on monday, february 3. Politicsltered view of. Order. House will be in for 40 years, cspan has been providing unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, and Public Policy events around the world around the country. In 1970 nine, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Washington journal continues. Host back at the table, congresswoman gwen moore. Your state is a key battleground just like it was in 2016. Remind our viewers how many vote. Illary clinton lost by and why vote, butut 22,200 who is counting . It is heartbreaking when you think that wisconsin used to lead and compete with minnesota for having the greatest turnout in the country. 2016 andseachange in there was a number of factors so it is hard to attribute it to one thing. We are concerned about the voter disenfranchisement that occurred. Legislator, iate fought strenuously with an representative scott walker who was in 2016 the governor, over voter id requirements. Battle andwon that we had this onerous voter id requirement. That was one element we think contributed tremendously. Host in which counties, when you look at the map and see all this red from 2016, in which counties do you believe there would have been higher turnout and the redwood have been blue had it not for read what wiyk would have been blue . Guest my area, the area i represent. Obviater id requirement the ability for people to exercise that right we think that was one element that contributed tremendously. Host when it comes to the other elements, for the democratic nominee, what did they need to do differently than Hillary Clinton . Guest it is important to remember to ask people to vote for you. You cannot take it for granted. In 2008 and 2012 we saw barack within 24isconsin hours from when the polls closed. I think Hillary Clinton, a great candidate, was advised by her team that the metrics demonstrated she did not need to come there. That may have contributed as well. You dont get votes for free. You have to spend money and convince people that your program is going to benefit them. In addition to that, we cant negate the impact of the Russian Influence Campaign that targeted africanamericans in particular. Host in wisconsin . Tost targeted them, suppress the votes i pursed votes. I personally received local calls with a clear russian that if Hillary Clinton were to win, she would start world war iii. I think the influence campaign was a factor as well. Host what are democrats doing in the state to prevent this from happening in 2020, whether it is Voter Suppression, voter turnout . Guest we are fighting again healed operations that involve the judiciary, the Republican Party at large. Right now, wisconsin is under a stay from the Wisconsin Appeals Court where an earlier judge, a republican appointee, determined that over 200,000 voters needed to be purged from the roles because they did not respond to an inquiry about whether or not they still live there in october. 2021was to go to place in after the election, but a county judge decided, i want those records purged immediately. Fined the democrats who refused to purge those roles, on a daily basis. We have a Supreme Court decision that prevents them from purging over 200,000 wisconsinites, a quarter of them coming from milwaukee county, from the roles. Host President Trump winning wisconsin in 2016, back in milwaukee on tuesday. Here is what he had to say. To lift up forgotten communities that need investment the most, we have created opportunity zones. Jobs and investments are pouring into 120 newly designated opportunity zones in wisconsin, and ron johnson and tim scott helped. They are doing great. And for decades, politicians ran for office promising to defend wisconsin workers, but then they went to washington and lined their pockets with special interest cash as they shipped your jobs and dreams to countries thousands of miles away, countries you have never even heard of. Host congresswoman . Guest [laughter] this is really laughable. Host he has a strong economy. But it is now softening i am not softening. I am not going to talk opportunity zones because there are not guard rails to make sure they benefit the people who live there and not just benefit the developers. Smarting from the president coming in and building up foxconn. That will cost a tremendous amount of money in transportation funds, 175 million gone to waste on transportation effort. People in mount pleasant, wisconsin still fighting to prevent the department from using Eminent Domain to take their property for foxconn, for manufacturingwn enterprise that was promised, much fewer jobs. The jobs will be for high skilled workers, perhaps not even from wisconsin. There were not many people who lived in that neighborhood at that particular rally. Trueld love for it to be that wisconsin is enjoying the fruit of his economy, but the reality is that milwaukee is one of the worst places for an africanamerican child to grow up. That university that he was speaking in, the university of wisconsin milwaukee is hemorrhaging from the dearth of funding that has been taken out by republicans, people like scott walker, and he mentioned senator ron johnson than, johnson, people who do not think young people need college education. I would take what he said with a grain of salt. Host we are going to turn to our viewers. We have a fourth line for wisconsin resident, 202 7488003. Caller thank you for a great show this morning, and thank you , representative more bang. Representative moore. Saidsentative fortenberry turn it all off, it is confusing. That reminds me of why trump decided to run as a republican. He clearly stated he could not fool democrats like he could republicans. Fortenberry saying do not listen to all of this stuff, it is so confusing. It is not confusing to us democrat. Donald trump has a little window to resign, otherwise this conspiracy will take down pence, pompeo, kevin mccarthy, devin nunes, they will all go down because trumps ego will not let him go down. Thank you for your vote. We had the same thing in michigan, saying you can text your vote here. We had counties near detroit that only 30 of the people that always vote voted. There are so many questions. I personally think he cheated. When did americans become so enamored with cheaters and liars that they are going to let this guy in . Dont get me wrong, my 401 k is doing tremendous. Does that mean what i think he did in the oval office when he entertained the russians was right . No. What he said in helsinki was right . No. I could triple my 401 k and would still say this person is a crook. Why they dont see it, it is like, he is my guy, he is my republican, but he is not really republican, is he . Guest thank you for making this observation. Ityour 401 k is doing well, is because we are still benefiting from the obama recovery. Obama, as heer, was raising his right hand we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. He brought that recovery to bear, not donald trump. It has been on the same trajectory. I share your view that it is the blind who will not see, and i have admonished some of my republican colleagues to make sure you look out for your legacy, because this presidency will end one way or another, if not through impeachment or removal it may be at the ballot box or if he gets four more years, he will not be able to run again. Where will you be when this president leaves . What will you tell your grandchildren about how you behaved in office . Host macon, georgia, independent. Caller good morning. Im an independent. Isquestion is, if there Voter Suppression or , whatranchising of voters is the Democratic Party doing to educate these individuals concerning things happening like Voter Suppression and disenfranchisement of voters . Comel like they need to out and educate them on how to understand and know what is happening. Also, on the topic of the economy, he said milwaukee is doing so bad you said milwaukee is doing so bad. So goodmy that is doing overall for the country guest thank you for that question. That is exactly the point, there really is a checkered sort of recovery. There are places that are not recovering at all and places that are doing quite well. Been knowns largely as a manufacturing town, and President Trump promised things to wisconsin and michigan, the states, indicated he would help them out, and has not done that. He stands up his rallies and lies about what he has done to help industry. He was in toledo, ohio not long ago bragging about them factory that was shuttered. Athink when you really look the socalled forgotten people, they have been the people that have been hurt the most. The 1. 4look at trillion tax cut to the benefit of largely corporations and shareholders, those people are doing very well and they are making contributions back into the Republican Party because they are doing very well. 80 of the benefit of that tax and int to people dont know who you are, but i bet you are not one of the people who benefited from this tax cut that the president promised that it would milwaukee is a place called a surge city. We are working with what we have. We have a great lake. We are looking at opportunities we can bring forward through the Financial Services industry, but there is very little to nothing that the president in this administration has done to contribute to that. Offave seen People Better when the president talks about wages have increased, it is not because of the money from it isx cut was reinvested primarily because cities and states have taken it upon themselves to raise the minimum wage. We have not had a raise in the minimum wage and that bill is in Mitch Mcconnells graveyard to raise the minimum wage from the paltry 7. 25 an hour. Unemployment about being so great for africanamericans, we have a lower Unemployment Rate in the fact that people are working two and three jobs. 71ave a friend who is working three jobs to make ends meet. In reidsville, wisconsin, democratic caller. Caller thank you. Thank you, representative. How do we get people to the voting places . If transportation is the issue, could you help with that . Thank you. We need to vote to get this evil man out of office. Guest i did forget to respond to that with tonys question. We are on the ground leading into this. We have several nonpartisan towardthat are working making sure that we inform people about election day, how to vote, making sure they have the right done shows an voter id. The league of women voters, a Nonpartisan Group is in fact leading the charge in a legal framework, and a lawsuit to prevent the purging of these roles. It is an all hands on deck kind of initiative. This year, i am planning some great get out the vote efforts to inform people about what is at stake. You are right, we cannot just sit back and use the old models of campaigning where you only campaign to known voters. You have to go into those areas wardsre low turnout or and let people know that you will support them to vote. Host houston, texas, republican, mike. Caller i am going to disagree. Is ai think is evil situation where the conditions in an innercity like milwaukee and youngstown, ohio, innercity kids by virtue of the zip code in which they are born are left to go to the worst schools in the state, while the parents kids and grandkids of members of congress go to the finest schools in the country. Everyone shrugs their shoulders in washington. Public School Systems are monopolies and there is no effort to reform. The university of wisconsin milwaukee, if they are hurting for money, why dont we look at the headcount in 2000 compared to 2020 . I bet there are more people working there now, 10 year i i dont tenure formsnure and my job what in my job. What reforms are you proposing so people can lift themselves up . I want everybody to succeed. Lets help people succeed with their own talents, but they are not realizing them. Lets reform the schools so they can realize their talent. I dont hear any reforms coming from you. Guest thank you for raising back in 1989, i was a state legislator and i voted for school choice. The First School Choice program in the entire United States, and data are conclusive that those children do not do any better than kids in public schools. What it did in wisconsin was formula,the funding hole soly create a big that those kids and zip codes 52306 found themselves much worse off because we had taken the money from the public schools. What happened is the Business Community came over and this program that was supposed to provide school choice, the chamber of commerce basically took it over and private schools and religious schools and other popup schools that came and went got the money. They just simply took it from public schools. They refused to take disabled children or children with special needs. , it islic School System required to take disabled children. I do agree with you that we need to broaden our Educational Opportunity system so that we do have more students going to our community colleges, technical colleges, because community and Technical Education is important. 95 of the population of the world lives somewhere other than the United States of america, and so this notion that we are going to just build up some sort economy andustrial start making widgets again wholesale is not realistic. Have anto continue to educational system that reports. Eveloping the intelligencia the people that invented the internet and the iphone, and if we dont continue to promote to allow thegoing chinese and other folks to be those people who are innovating on how to store energy in batteries. We cant afford to just cannibalize our Higher Education systems, but for the football to maintaind hope some hegemony in the world. And spooner, wisconsin, democratic caller. Caller thank you for serving. Think pelosiay, i theft. She dont seem to want to produce these papers. I think she is a thief. I think we need to get more people in there that are poor us poor listen to what people have to say. Iran, is what he did in agree with him. I come from three generations of and i am proud of every , and everymy family veteran of the United States. Guest julie, thank you for calling. Can identify with you i have been poor. I have been on welfare and had food stamps. , veryed up children decent people i raised, with very few resources. I am totally committed in my service as a representative to lifting up poor people, low income people, people struggling to put food on the table, and i want to thank you for that i am that i am also that. I am also from a military family. I have a nephew now that is deployed. I am passionate about issues related to veterans. I was first elected in 1988 and my very first bill was a veterans bill. History will show whether the assassination of this government later was a good move or not government leader was a good move or not. Sometimes we confuse fight for might and i dont think that fighting is always a sub for diplomacy substitute for diplomacy. I dont agree that the president s threeyear strategy the state gutting department, running out officials of ukraine, and using our military deployment to solve issues that ought to be handled by diplomacy. Host the house will come in earlier than usual. Quickly tell our viewers about the changes to snap benefits proposed by the president. Guest i am so grateful. When i was 18 years old, i had a baby. 50, and im so grateful to taxpayers and the public that we had the ability to get food stamps. The changes being provided now will hurt millions and millions of, especially children. The broadbased eligibility will mean that children will not be automatically enrolled in free lunch programs, for example. It will have a draconian impact. The ablebodied persons rural rule will mean people working will have a harder time finding jobs. Of rules around the severing the ability of state to look at the standard Utility Allowance that allows people states like wisconsin where it is very cold, throwing thousands of people off the roles, and will have to choose between heating their house and eating. Moore ofgressman gwen wisconsin, the house is coming in. Thank you so much. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. January 16, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious and merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house prepares to recess for a week of constituent visitation and in home districts. As the nation anticipates the Martin Luther king long weekend. As we remember the heroic struggle of the