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We are going to open up regional lines for this conversation this morning. That means if you are in the eastern or central time zones, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. In mind, you can always text us your opinion at 202 always3, and we are reading on social media. You can reach us on twitter at cspanwj and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Again, the idea and concerns about government surveillance has been on peoples minds recently. Infact, there was a story nbc today that i wanted to read to you that talks about some of the concerns about government surveillance. The unsupported claims that President Donald Trump has made for two years about the fbis russia investigation, calling it a witch hunt cooked up by his political opponents, the conclusion by the Justice Department watchdog of the that the probe was justified was big news. But the other major findings of the Inspector Generals rep
Obstruction of congress. The four numbers will be on the screen if you want to dial in. We would love to get your reaction to the last 14 hours of the House Judiciary Committee and we will begin with chris a, democrat in west convene a california. Chris you are on cspan. Go ahead. High, i would just like to make a comment about senator collins. He brings up the point that these impeachment hearings arent here. Let me ask him something he. Took an oath to defend the constitution of the United States. But in doing that, he has not released the mueller report, even redacted, he has not brought the witnesses, mulvaney, he has no brought trump for pompeo to testify. Or actually any of anyone from the white house will not testify if. President trump is innocent which i doubt if, he is minister, while not very well what theyre not sure all the evidence . Why will they continue to hide all the evidence, especially the mueller report, which they like to bring up a lot . Id like to make one more
Announcer 1 president come from earlier this afternoon at the white house discussing judicial nominations. In 10 minutes will be taking you live to louisiana where the president is holding a Campaign Rally in monro. Until it starts we will take a look at our discussion about the influence of President Trump on the federal judiciary from todays washington journal. Abouthor and coeditor Justice Scalia, here to talk about the success the trump has had in nominating and appointing personnel to the federal bench, what is the tally so far . Impressivevery record, folks on both sides could agree on that. Some of us celebrate it, others lament, but you have that addition of Supreme Court justices, 43 appellate judges, the courts of appeals, double the number of president obama in the same stage of his presidency eight years ago. Another judge to be confirmed today, i think, another one tomorrow. And you have 100 or so district judges. Slightly ahead of president obamas pace of eight years ago.