20. Why are americans Young Diane Young at alarming rates . We will open up our phone lines for you this morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zones, we want to 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or central time zones, call 202 7488001. Text us at 202 7488003 and we are always reading on social media, http twitter. Com cspanwj social media. Lets set the groundwork, first. Im going to read a little bit from report here so that you can see what we are going to talk about. Heres the article. Now i want to read from you a little bit from the actual report itself. Here is what it says. Hear from thes director of the cdc, dr. Robert redfield, discussing why the opioid outbreak is a crisis here in washington, d. C. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] the outbreak of our time is the opioid outbreak. Im going to stress that i think there are a lot of lessons for us from what we learned in the Ebola Outbreak. We dont need to wait for the perfect solution to the challenges
Heritage foundation Nick Lawrence and friends of the orte discuss the Trump Administrations plan to leave the plan to leave the paris climate agreement. The u. S. T wednesday, house of representatives will do something it has not done in 21 years, hold a public hearing on the impeachment of the president of the United States. Good morning. This is washington journal. We would like to know your expectations for that hearing. What do you hope to learn next week in the two hearing set and what do you hope or anticipate the outcome may be . Democrats call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. And for independents and others, that is 2027488002. You can also text us, 2027488003. Make sure you let us know where you are texting from and your name. cspanwj is how you reach as on twitter and facebook. Com cspan. A headline this morning in roll call, open impeachment hearings to begin next week. Katherine tullymcmanus writing the house will move into the public hearing phase next week. Bill taylo
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When you heard the news yesterday that the phase would switch to a public phase, what were your thoughts about your expectations for those hearings . Guest first and foremost i was surprised how quickly they are coming. This timeline is moving so fast and is surprising a lot of us who follow this on a daytoday basis. How fast this is proceeding and how fast emigrants want to make their case publicly. Host people they were interview next week have all testified behind closed doors. What do you suppose the committee hopes to draw out to public that they did not enclosed door hearings . Guest democrats want to hear what they have heard behind closed doors. They are willing to move on this quickly because they are confident in the case they have, the testimony they have received in those depositions. Republicans are hopeful that they can use the public opportunity to show confusion or armor between the corroborating witnesses about what they remember to try and get some confusion and chunk
We will hear testimony from dr. Carla hayden. This is a little more than an hour. [indiscernible] chairs the committee for the library which is particularly helpful that you could be here with us today and also a member of the committee. This is particularly valuable in her role that we will be in the discussions we have been having. These types of oversight hearings. We want to give the agencies that help they need and we are glad to be here with the library and, dr. Carla hayden, with mr. Karyn temple,d the registrar of copyrights. Thank you to all of you for being here. I think that i want to talk primarily about the modernization. We had a chance with dr. Hayden to talk about the Physical Plant to ideas of making the library even more of an experience for people that visit there. I think we want to talk more about how the modernization of at the libraryts are coming together and how all services are being benefited by that. The library performs a lot of functions for us, historical