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
Yes, senator, thank you. Guy cottrell. We are going to leave this briefing to go to the White House Press house briefing. This is a company that stopped manufacturing and than fthank s to the trump tax breaks, they have been able to keep their employees and give bonuses. Some are heroic, and some are tragic, but all of them represent the american spirit, and allow our businesses to grow prouder and more prosperous. John . The news came down that the Deputy Director mccabe is st stepping down, and the reaction of the president in december was tweeting about Andrew Mccabe in less than a effusive praise ha m praise manner and what are you seeing . We have been seeing the numerous reports as you have, and any specifics that i can tell you that none of the decision was made by the white house, and any specifics i refer you to the fbi who is going to be making a statement later today. You say that the white house is not involved in the decision, but clearly the president was involved in a Pu
Amateur athletic governing bodies to report sexual abuse allegations to law enforcement. Another bill dealing with Small Business access to capital after natural disasters. Of course tomorrow, state of the Union Address with live coverage here on cspan. The house live at 5 00. Here on cspan when they gavel back in until then, the News Conference today, the briefing from the white house, including a number of questions about the state of the union. Ms. Sanders good afternoon. Over the weekend, the white house released a framework for responsible Immigration Reform that will protect our people, put the interests of American Workers first, and provide a permanent solution to daca. Our framework includes four pillars, border security, daca legalization, ending chain migration and eliminating the visa lottery moving us toward a meritbased system of immigration. We look forward to working with congress to pass and sign legislation that addresses each of these four pillars. Looking ahead to t
Will confirm the economy is growing up at a nice clip. When interest race back up it is reflection underlying economy. Well look at the pros and cons in the next couple hours. Well take a look at some data that supports stocks continuing to run up. As i just said, investors seeking out safe alternative like bonds. Whether this is the day to do that, hard to say. This much is not. Enough to weigh on stocks. A backup in rates enough to say for a lot of folks to say, maybe, maybe, we should step back a little bit from this party. But every time they have done that, they have regretted doing so, because people pounce right back in. Record number of individuals pouring money into this market. Better than 32 billion solely into equity fund. If you want to include etfs and the like, that much is north of 60 billion. Obviously individuals are coming in. There is contrarian argument, when individual come into the market they miss the party. That is not always true by the way. A lot of individua