Educe the national debt. As always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is 7 00 eastern time here in washington. The start of a holiday week. Congress returning in two weeks. President trump spending christmas with his family in florida. It is monday, december 23. We begin our first hour with Foreign Policy. The leaders of china, south korea and japan meeting today in beijing it. Comes as the pentagon and u. S. Officials are on, quote, high alert, after new threats over the weekend by north korea. In the past President Trump has said that he and president kim jong un fell in love. But since that comment back in february, talks have broken down. We want to get your reaction to these developments in north korea, what it means for the u. S. And for the region. 2027488001, thats our line for republicans. 2027488922 for democrats. 2027488002 if oure democrats. Or on twit or facebook. Good m
Live, unfiltered coverage on cspan. Listen on the radio app. We want to welcome back terry jeffrey. Morning thank you for being with us. This from the editorial page this morning. The Bipartisan Spending Party. Congress has left town for the year. Anotherbefore Bipartisan Spending Party that has typified the trump residency. The numbers deserve noticed because they are likely to have long term impact. Exceeding 1ebt trillion. Guest they are exactly right. On theartisan agreement hill is an old one. It has been going on for decades. They are allowing the government to get out of control. You have the baby boom generation continuing to retire. Increasing the amount of money spent on those programs. Social security costs more than a trillion dollars last year. As the wall street journal points out, you have massive Discretionary Spending. Both parties in congress are doing nothing to try to roll that back. This number courtesy of the debt clock. The nations debt is 23 trillion. How much m
Nothing dilatory, nothing prolonged, but what joe friday said on dragnet. Just the facts, maam. President trump said he wants due process. Our proposal gives it to him. The tradition of due process is when you are accused, you get to confront your accuser and make your case. We urge President Trump to do that, through documents and witnesses. We have said from the beginning that there are two components that are necessary for a full and fair trial. First, the senate should hear testimony under oath from four key witnesses, all of whom would have eyewitness direct knowledge of what happened in relation to these charges. They should include michael duffey, associate director of National Security at the office of management and budget and second and just as importantly, the senate should issue subpoenas for a limited set of documents that we believe will shed additional light on the administrations Decision Making regarding the delay in Security Assistance funding to ukraine and its reque