Intelligence committee continues another week of public hearings. Join the conversation by phone or send us a comment on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Is next. Host good morning. It is wednesday, november 20, 2019, day 4 of open impeachment increase hearings. More witnesses are set to. Estify we want to hear your reaction to yesterdays hearings and your expectation for today. 2027488000. You can send us a text. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. On social media on twitter it is . On face on twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. You can start calling now. Online today, you can pick your impeachment inquiry headline depending on your political persuasion. From the universe of conservative news sites, democrats try to alter their trump impeachment playbook and it is blowing up in their faces. Their testimonies were bad for adam schiff and from the left, this from vox. Tuesdays impeachment hearings republicans. Er for pur
Speaker pelosi good morning. Lets begin where our founders began in 1776. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for people to dissolve the political bonds that have connected them with another. With those words, our founders courageously began our declaration of independence from an oppressive monarch for, among other grievances, the kings refusal to follow rightfully passed laws. In the course of todays events, it becomes necessary for us to address, among other grievances, the president s failure to faithfully execute the law. When crafting the constitution, the founders feared the return of a monarchy in america. And having just fought a war of independence, they specifically feared the prospects of a king president , corrupted by foreign influence. During the constitutional convention, james madison, the architect of the constitution, warned that a president might be betray his trust to foreign powers, which might prove fatal to the republic. Another founder fear
Member collins will hear from democrats and Republican Council on the findings of the inquiry. Our coverage starts live at cspan or cspan. Org or you can also find it on the free radio app. The director of the sen for for Tobacco Products testified about eliminating ecigarette use. This Committee Hearing focused on the status of the proposal to ban ecigarette flavors that was suggested by President Trump in september, but it has not yet been implemented. This subcommittee will come to order. Again, the chair is allowed to stop the Hearing Committee at any time, and this hearing is about youth ecigarette use, and fda and food and Drug Administration compliance policy. I now recognize myself for five minutes for a opening statement. The administration released deeply disturbing results from the National Youth poe back coe survey otherwise known as the nyts. And the data confirmed our fears that the youth vaping epidemic continues to grow the alltime highs. 5. 3 Million High School studen
Intelligence Committee Concludes its second week of public hearings. You can join the conversation by phone or send us a comment on facebook and twitter. Is next. Host good morning. Two weeks of hearings in the books. Congress is in recess for the thanksgiving holiday. We heard yesterday from david holmes who is political counsel to the embassy in ukraine and dr. Fiona hill and now the question before washington and the nation, what happens next . It is friday morning. Ahead, highlights from cspans live coverage of the House Intelligence Committee. How the hearings are playing out in the morning papers, social media, political circles and your calls, tweets, and comments. You can begin dialing at 2027488000. That is our phone line if the hearings changed your mind. If they did not, 2027488001. If you remain unsure, 2027488002. Also, you can send us a text message at 2027488003 or tweets at cspanwj. We will read your tweets during the course of the morning and facebook at facebook. Com
Information ok. And and ultimately the Vice President went to canada for a u. S. M. C. I. Event thats right during this. This window of time correct correct so its entirely conceivable that the president decided that he wanted the Vice President to go to canada on behalf of u. S. M. C. A. Instead of doing anything else correct im really not a position to speculate what the motivations were behind the president s decision you know the various president s and quite a bit of us m. C. A. Events correctly yesterday and are you aware of whether the. Any one of the state department inquired with your office about the Vice President s availability for the trip to canada for the trip at what point. Early may may be may 8th. I i was on volved in the trip planning for canada and one of my colleagues who covers western hemisphere was in charge of that song not aware of specific ok requests about the Vice President s bill dudley i was aware from my colleague who is planning the trip that we had com