Institute in washington. The to look forward to House Intelligence Committee and impeachment hearings. When you heard the news that the phase would switch to a public face, what were your thoughts about your expectations for those hearings . Guest i was surprised how quickly, the timeline is so compressed. It is going fast. It is surprising a lot of us who follow this on a daily basis, how fast this is proceeding and how quick democrats want to make their case public. Host because of the people i will interview have testified behind closed doors, what do you hope the committee hopes to draw out in public that they didnt in closeddoor hearings . Guest democrats want to hear what they heard behind closed doors. They are so willing to move on this quickly because they are confident in the case they have, confident in the testimony they have received in those depositions behind closed doors. Republicans are hopeful they can to this public opportunity show misrememberings or confusion or chinks in the armor ,etween a corroborating witness what they remember and when to try to get some confusion and jinx in the case that democrats are trying to lay out. Host based on the resolution that passed last week in the house, what is your understanding of the process of how the hearings will take price took place . The Intelligence Committee will take a lead which is different than impeachment inquiries which are typically under the jurisdiction of the house Judiciary Committee. Speaker pelosi cap adam schiff tapped adam schiff to leave this. Two to lead this. Transition into a public setting where there will be more of a back and forth and cameras will be on it. It will look more like a courtroom than the behindthescenes depositions, or a typical Committee Hearing would look like but it will be public and for all eyes to see. Oft there have been reports republicans wanting jim jordan from oversight to sit in temporarily on intelligence, and mark meadows. What is behind their thinking . Guest they want public defenders of the president and meadows and jordan are that, they are forceful and loyal backers and they are smart as a shy to gett combative with witnesses. Republicans may think they may need that when cameras turn on. Host casey burgat is our guest. We welcome our comments your comments. Democrats, use the democrat line. We wanted to show you the opinion piece from betsy, the former u. S. New York State Attorney general. The headline says, pelosis impeachment rules guarantee a partisan circus. I want to point out, she says democrats are boasting about the impeachment inquiry protections offered to trump, claiming they are the same rules devised for president nixon and clinton but that is a lie. Section f, devised by jerrold nadler, stipulates that unless the president surrenders his executive privilege, a power the Supreme Court has ruled michael to his office, he and his lawyers will be denied the ability to call or, question witnesses, i should say. What is section f . I think this was guaranteed to be a partisan circus no matter what happens. When the cameras turn on with something as big as impeachment, you will get a lot of partisan warfare undercutting the process and democrats saying one thing, republicans another. Section f is a provision important to talk about. It wasnt even passed, it was passed by the Judiciary Committee independent of the House Resolution last week that set the procedures of the impeachment inquiry. It gives the power to the Judiciary Committee to basically his the president forfeit impeachment right and if he doesnt comply with the in thegations impeachment resolution, it is basically a sign that the democrats are ready to play hardball and if the democrats dont provide if the president doesnt provide witnesses and documents, they will take away his rights as a way to force compliance. Host this was language that just the judiciary discussed and approved, not voted on by the full house. Here is what the language says. F, should the president unlawfully refused to make witnesses available for testimony or to produce documents requested by the , in furtherance of the investigations described in the first section, the chair shall have the discretion to a impose remedies including denying requests by the president or his counsel under these procedures or to call or question witnesses. It seems like they are setting it up because the president and administration have withheld witnesses and testimony, at least so far. Guest exactly. It is a preemptive measure to warn the administration that as we transition to a more public phase, as we are requesting information and documents, if you continue to stonewall, you are setting yourself up for denial of rights that you are going to want to be in you are going to want. Go to the collars. A republican line is first. Hell is in hazelwood. Bill is in hazelwood. Theer i am calling from democratically gerrymandered first congressional district. Public, imof the wondering, what are the procedures and would access what access what i have to attending the hearing is a member of the public . Guest just like most other Committee Hearings, these will be public hearings in person and on television. Recommend you show up early. These will be well attended by the public and everyone within the bubble. This is not a common thing. If you are flying in, get your ticket now. Host our earlier guest from the hill reported, they will have these in the ways and means, a bigger room to accommodate a larger audience. We hope you get in. Michael in florida, democrat line. Go ahead. Michael, from florida. I am a democrat. Need to American People evaluate the situation of the impeachment proceedings to check the right or left and find medium ground in the middle. My main concern is, why, if on,e proceedings continue will trump have the advantage of refusal or actually obstructing the process and the representatives, congressional representatives, jordan and , andns from georgia several others, i watched very seriously and the various Committee Meetings they had, when representative Elijah Cummings was moderator and head of the meeting. The point i am making, those particular congressman have done nothing but break up the meetings as much as they can in reference to supporting President Trump. I think the democrats were able to, in a lot of these meetings, proceed with the meeting and make a conclusion and a proper evaluation of what we are dealing with. Was in a lot of the closed meetings. He came out and was talking about the particular meeting. Need this trash talking back and forth which is ongoing. The democrats have had the opportunity to do a lot of things. They passed a lot of legislation in the house that has been folded to the senate. Are some 400 pieces of legislation that hasnt been acted upon. , therd these comments from donothing democrats from the republicans, the democrats are doing anything. There is a lot there. I think it is important to recognize as we transition to this public side, we should be conscious of what we are about to see and that will be democrats making their case forcefully. They will say the president did wrong and anyone defending him is breaking their oath to the constitution. On the republican side they will attack, just the opposite. To think we are going to come into a kumbaya moment is naive. We should look to this as a contentious process. This is not supposed to be an easy thing to pass and it wont be, so we should go into that with eyes wide open and try to make the best judgment possible. Host a lot has been said by the president and supporters about the lack of due process so far. Do you think these public hearings will help clarify what is due process in an impeachment he hearing . Guest this is one of the biggest pieces of confusion. That is relating what we know about the courtroom, it is a familiar process. We know a jury and trial and what rights we are supposed to have as a defendant but we havent reached the court stage. The investigation so far is in the fact gathering stage, behind closed doors which is different than the past. Wasrevious proceedings it done by special counsel behind closed doors. The president will begin to receive his rights because we are transitioning into the relative court phase where he will call root call witnesses , crossexamine witnesses once they do take the stage. It is important to know that we havent reached the court stage. At next weeks hearing, it is the start of that where you will to bee defendant be able represented and resent evidence. Present evidence. Host so little is said about impeachment in the constitution. The house of representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers and shall have the sole power of impeachment. We go to punta gorda florida. Joanne on the republican line. Caller hello. This is joanne calling from punta gorda. My feelings are that there isnt any such thing as a whistleblower. I think the whole thing is made up. The first thing that convinced me was when adam schiff was lying about what trump had set him a call. I heard it with my own ears. He talked about the phone call that he had with the ukraine president , prime minister, and it was totally false. Andas totally false different than the actual call. People need to read the transcript of the call. I believe everything has been set up just like the russian collusion and the Mueller Report and i have heard no facts yet. All i keep hearing is interpretation. Everybodys interpretation. I think i believe. I want to welcome President Trump to florida. Have a wonderful morning. Thank you. Us whatsey burgat, tell the democrats are focusing on, what they hope to establish. Sost the constitution says precious little about impeachment and how it is supposed to be carried out. Ofdoes give some threshold what high crimes and misdemeanors, treason and bribery qualified to meet the threshold, but that is broad. There have been 60 impeachments impeachment efforts in the house. 16 have been voted for impeachment and 11 have no criminal acts within the articles of impeachment which means a were they were impeached without creating a criminal act. We think something has to be done the broke a law but it doesnt have to be true. Impeachment is what the house of actors in the limited the house of representatives say is impeachable. Democrats are trying to say it will revolve around abuse of power, 80 commitment of the oath of office by 80 commitment of the oath of office and probably obstruction of congress, obstruction of the proceedings. Im interested to see what the articles say. They are trying to make this case fast and publicly. Host for historical perspective, cspan. Org impeachment has current video from the current impeachment inquiry and we linked to coverage from the bill clinton impeachment inquiry, the impeachment of a number of judges over the course of the 40 years plus of the cspan history. You will find that all on cspan. Org impeachment. Scranton, pennsylvania, rosemary on the independent line. Caller good morning. When adam schiff interviewed the people, i think it was their opinion. They disagree with the president s policy. There are three branches of government and the president is entitled to determine his foreignpolicy. What is happening with the ig report . We havent heard anything about that. That should tell us the beginning of what happened before 2016. Thank you. Host we read a story yesterday that that ig report will likely come out in the next week or so. You can find that. From the hill, the headline, senators push for deal on impeachment trial rules to avoid a political brawl. Mitch mcconnell was asked long a senate trial would take and whether President Trump would be convicted and removed from office. Here is what Mitch Mcconnell had to say. Reppo mcconnell i will say i am pretty sure how it is likely to end if it were today. I dont think there is any question it would not lead to a removal. I dont think the question is, how long does the senate want to take . How long do the president ial candidates want to be on the floor of the senate instead of iowa and New Hampshire . And all these related issues that may be going on at the same time. It is difficult to ascertain how long this takes. I would be surprised if it didnt end the way the two previous ones did with the president not being removed for office from office. , how casey burgat difficult is it for republican leader leadership not to say things that make bread prejudice in a trial of President Trump . Guest Democratic Senators will also be potential jurors. Im sympathetic to the argument that we should all wait for the evidence to become public. Even members of the senate arent privy to the information. Many colors say, using speculation, using leaks and public testimony starting to drip out. We dont have the full picture and i dont think the committees investigating this have the pull the full picture. The consequence of moving so fast. If you look back at nixon, the watergate breakins were done in july of 1972. It wasnt until july of 1974, 2 years later, that the public hearings started to happen. Clinton, it was january of 1994 that the special prosecutor started his operations, and it wasnt until december 1998 when clinton was impeached. These are two years, four years, right now we are three months away so this is a compressed timeline. At cspan. Org, we are making it easier for you to watch our coverage of the impeachment inquiry and the administrations response. If you miss our live coverage, go to our impeachment inquiry page at cspan. Org impeachment. Showingded a tally where each stands on the abridgment of President Trump. That your fast and easy way to watch she spends unfiltered coverage anytime. Congressional investigators believed testimony of another witness as part of their impeachment inquiry against President Trump. You can find george kents testimony at cspan. Org. Hes serving as deputy secretary of state. You can also read the depositions of the top ambassador to ukraine and former ambassador to ukraine. All three are scheduled to testify next week on whether President Trump pressured ukraine to investigate the 2016 election. And former Vice President joe biden and his son, hunter. Well have live coverage of the hearings on the cspan network. Following the impeachment inquiry and the administrations response on cspan. Unfiltered coverage, live as it happens, anytime at cspan. Org. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning, theday toson centers duncan woods battle mexican drug cartels. And working family parlay director talks about his roots and priorities and endorsement of Elizabeth Warren in the primary contest. And David Mcintosh on his organizations strategy for campaign 2020 and his defense of was in and trump in the impeachment inquiry. Watching cspans washington journal live on friday morning. Join the discussion. Next, vicep president mike pence speaking at an event in New Hampshire. Thats followed by no labels, hosting 2020 president ial candidates tulsi gabbard, john delaney, bill weld, and Marianne Williamson in New Hampshire. And later, the Senate Aging Committee looks at ways to prevent veterans from being scammed. On behalf of President Trump, Vice President mike pence traveled to the New Hampshire state house today to file paperwork for the states president ial primary held in february. 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