Campaign 2020. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Is next. Host as Congress Returns from its thanksgiving break, House Committees get back to work on the impeachment inquiry. House Intelligence Committee releasing its report to members, voting on it on tuesday and the House Judiciary Committee holding its first public hearing on wednesday. Good morning and welcome to washington journal on monday, december 2, 2019. We would like to ask you what is your message to your member of congress on impeachment . Republicans, call 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents and others, 2027488002. You can send us a text. Make sure you include your name and where you are texting from. 2027488003. On twitter, we are at cspanwj on facebook, you can post at facebook. Com cspan. We heard from the administration from the white house in particular. A letter from the president s council and we will show you
Washington post. He is the moderator of pbs weekly Washington Week. Thank you for being here. The impeachment process picks up again today. They will vote on that tomorrow. What are you expecting the House Judiciary Committee to look like . Guest so far, everything is moving on according to plan in the eyes of House Democrats. They feel like Speaker Pelosis timeline was to move this through the committee, have the report this week, and move it to the committee for chairman nadler to come up with the articles of impeachment. What we will see likely as articles on obstruction, abused of power, and youre going to see democrats in the coming days underscore what they believe the House Intelligence Committee has found through these open hearings and depositions. President trump, in their view, abused power, abused the u. S. Government in terms of how he operated. That is the case they are going to make to the American People even as the process plays out on capitol hill. Host not a real sur
California. With the food being available, it is a distribution problem. Judy all that and more on pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by b nsrailway. Consumer cellular. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems. Skoll foundation. Org. Lsthe le foundation. Omittedro to ing lives through invention in the u. S. And developing countries. Hepported by the john deke the john d and cne t macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. And with the ongoing support of theses. Institution ethis program was m possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station from viewers you. Thank you. Judy stephanie good evening. We will return to the rest of the showat after thet headlines. Late this evening, President Trump signed into law two bills in hong kong. Emocracy ptesters the move puts hong kongs special trading status with the u. S. On the line,
Rules for the house as we move forward, granting the same or greater Due Process Rights to the president and the minority as they themselves drafted when they were in the majority. We will have open hearings. They can question witnesses. They can propose subpoenas. They can present evidence. I am proud to sponsor this resolution. Our constitution requires it and our democracy depends on it. With that, i yield back. Gentleman from oklahoma. Thank you very much, madam speaker. I yield two minutes to my good friend distinguished republican Ranking Member the House Judiciary Committee from the state of georgia mr. Collins. Gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Thank you, madam speaker. No matter what is said by the other side today this is a dark day and a cloud has fallen on this house. It has been falling for ten months and it is showing itself today. What we are seeing is this. If the gentleman who the friend of mine from the rules committee would actually want to talk about where th
The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition . Mr. Mcgovern by direction of the committee on rules i call up House Resolution 660 and ask for its immediate considering. The speaker the clerk will report the resolution. The clerk House Resolution 66, 0 resolved that the Permanent Select Committee on intelligence, the committees on Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, the judiciary, oversight and reform, and ways and means are directed to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing house of representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the house of representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach donald john trump, president of the United States of america. Section 2. Open and transparent investigative proceedings by the Permanent Select Committee on intelligence for the purpose of continuing the investigation described in the first section of this resolution, the Permanent Select Comm