Kildee discusses the latest on the impeachment inquiry, and at 8 30 a. M. , ann coulter discusses daca, impeachment, and camping 2020. Campaign 2020. Good morning. The impeachment inquiry public hearings continue with Marie Yovanovitch in the witness chair. The veteran diplomat will testify but for best before the 22 lawmakers about an alleged Smear Campaign against her in the president s decision to recall her from that post. Our coverage begins at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time on cspan2, on the website, cspan. Org, or you can download and listen with the free cspan radio app. We will begin this morning with your reaction to the latest on the impeachment inquiry. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. And text us with your city and state at 202 7488003. Begin with the front page of the New York Times, a story on many of the front pages this morning, about Speaker Pelosi yesterday during her Weekly News Conference using the word bribery. A suggests trump may face bribery charge. From the New York Times, the briberys allegations of and misdeed identified in the constitution as an Impeachable Offense was significant. Even as miss pelosi said no final decisions have been made on whether to impeach mr. Trump, it suggested democrats were moving toward a more specific set of charges. It also indicated democrats are working to put a name to the president s wrongdoing that would resonate with the public. Here is the speaker of the house yesterday. On the investigation front, yesterday was a somber, prayerful day. I thought it was a successful day for truth. Truth coming from the treads it in president and people he appointed. He appointedperson most recently to the state department. None of us have come to congress to impeach a president. We come here to do the work of the American People and make the future better for them to try to do so in the most bipartisan way grounde, find our common where we can, stand our ground where we cannot. Yesterday, you heard the president speaking and very unambiguous terms, a courageous public servant. The devastating testimony corroborated evidence of bribery , uncovered in the inquiry, and the a president and that the president abused power and violated his oath by threatening to withhold military aid in exchange for an investigation into his political rival. A clear attempt of the president to get himself the advantage in the 2020 election. Doing so, as i said to the president , you jeopardize our National Security, undermine our National Security, jeopardize the integrity of our electoral system, violate your oath of office. Host the speaker of the house yesterday alleging bribery. Your reaction to the latest on the impeachment inquiry this morning as we wait for the part two to get underway at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time with the former u. S. Ambassador to to ukraine. Ukraine. Ador to bob, you are up first. Good morning. Caller thanks for taking my call. Mulvaneyt is that mick already admitted publicly on tv that there was a quid pro quo, jordan, when he was at the flat outnt hearings, denied that ever happened at all. What you going to call it . It never happened . There was a rules in place so that the sovereignty of a nation would not mess with for 70 years. Right now, what russia is doing with ukraine is violating that the people that dont think its going to affect them, it is going to affect them, because it is there is going to be wars over this. Startsia can go in and taking over a nation and destroying their sovereignty, and if russia does take it over, that will be the rebirth of the soviet union. Enabling this to happen. That, we will do suffer for it. Thats my comment. Host do you think Mick Mulvaney should be testifying, sitting out that witness table on your screen, facing the lawmakers . Caller yes, i do think you should. Ludicrous that they are trying to get the testify. Ower to trump would do the same thing to a whistleblower that putin would. Moving should be up testifying, and i dont know if people werent talking watching television when mulvaney said get over it. You know what he was talking about. Host let me read for you and others this piece written in the opinion pages of the wall street journal by david risk in and lee lee casey. Sken and they served in the White House Counsels Office and Justice Department under reagan and george h w bush. They write the privilege for communications with the small group of senior white house president she immediate advisors, is well grounded. The office of Legal Counsel fully articulated it in 1971 under future chief future chief justice. Times,ice has, and many lets go to stuart, a republican. What do you think . Caller good morning. Whats going on, i find it to be [indiscernible] if you listen to the first part of the hearing, they talk about bidens son hunter. When they brought that up, what was going on, it was squashed, like it was no big deal, dont talk about it. Yet we have people on both sides of parties that will be firm on what they believe. Affirmed on what they believe. I have never heard something so reprehensible to impeach the president , but we are waiting to find out something. As far as the whistleblower coming into testify, if you want to hide their identity, its easy to do. I think that person should come in and be questioned on how they got this information, where they got it from, who they spoke with , and when they dont answer the questions, then you have to have a problem. Toing a persons identity testify is an easy thing to do. They should have that person come in and to be questioned by both parties. Host what about Gordon Sondlands testimony and what we heard from the diplomats on wednesday, bill taylor, saying in aid of his overheard a phone call between Gordon Sondland and the president of the United States, and when they hung up, the aide asked what is the president s opinion of ukraine respondn refunded sans the lind sondland testified caller i want to find out everything being heard. Every time someone is saying something, it is secondhand information, so we have to hear from these witnesses. Donteve, firmly, if you have the person who sorted all the stuff, going with the whistleblower, if he doesnt or she doesnt testify. Is amiss, now they are coming up with bribery charges. Whats next . Extortion, everything else. Host im going into leave it there stuart. As we continue to watch inside the room, you can see a lot of the court. Networks have their correspondence there to do whats called stand up shot at the beginning of their broadcast the 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Our those correspondents were allowed to be in the room on wednesday, and at they did the security sweep, they did the security sweep first. You can see all of the cameras are in position this morning. Those standup cameras will have to leave, or the committee for the committee seedings. Proceedings. We have cspans cameras in the rooms, seven of them in there. We are feeding out all of the different angles from the hearing to these Different Networks as the pool. We have been designated as the pool for these proceedings. The individual networks decide how you see the hearing. They will be directing its like we will do as well. Willoverage it like we do as well. Our coverage on cspan2, on the website, or download the free cspan radio app. They report reports 13 want 13. 1 Million People watched the impeachment hearing, with fox news most viewed and cnn second on wednesdays hearings. We will give you gaveltogavel, uninterrupted, no commentary coverage of the hearing as we did on wednesday. The hearing today as well. The phone call Gordon Sondland supposedly had with the president in key have that was does kiev that was disclosed on wednesday, david holmes will be appearing behind closed doors. He is the staffer who has said to have overheard the president asked sondland on the phone about the investigation. He will be behind closed doors first this afternoon at 3 00 p. M. Eastern time. It was recorded yesterday the second aid also overheard that conversation. Yesterday on capitol hill, the House Minority leader was asked about this disclosure by bill taylor, and if that would, if when Gordon Sondland testifies, if that would change the republicans calc elation on impeachment. Listen. Next week, you will hear directly from Gordon Sondland who President Trump put in this position, certainly a supporter of the president and contribution he made to the Inauguration Fund. What his testimony change or calc elation on whether or not it was an impeachment offense if he corroborates what these other witnesses said . Yesterday we heard there was a phone call overheard between sondland and the president where the president asked about investigation. You have a phone call where the president asked about an investigation, an investigation thats already Going Forward. Most of america wants to know on. s going an investigation the entirety general is on. The answer is no. Host cnn reported this morning that russian spies likely intercepted the ambassadors cell phone call with the president. Allen in maine independent maine, independent. Your thoughts on the impeachment inquiry . Caller good morning and thanks for cspan. My thoughts are different than a lot of the detail going on. That impeachment is an offense against empire and emperors like emperor trump. Our founders, because of their deep understanding of roman history, new that the disease of republics is empire. What we have now is clearly a person who is proud and brags of islding his business empire, an empire thinker, psychologically, as the psychiatrists have looked at him , and they realize he acts like hespire and emperor, and essentially and emperor. Hes our first one an emperor. Hes our first one that has acted this way, and impeachment is an ideal defense against the country becoming an empire under an Emperor Emperor trump. Its like emperor trump. Host i believe police are gathering inside 1100 longworth this morning, having a meeting about keeping the area secure for todays proceedings, security tight on capitol hill as it always is. Anybody whos trying to enter the building outside of this Committee Room have to go through metal detectors. There are only a limited amount of seats for the public. Fox news reported on wednesday that the seats were about 100 for the public and 100 for lawmakers who dont sit on the intelligence committee, and then 150 seats reserved in the room for reporters and producers. Arlene and new orleans, democratic caller. Caller good morning, cspan. I only have a few comments. One is that we dont have President Trump, we have president putin. Trump is nothing but a putin. If the republicans cant see it, if they cant take the dawn out their eyes and see the bigger picture. How long have they been covering up for trump . Since he been in office. All of the rotten, disgusting things, as he doesnt go by our laws, he doesnt go by laws. He goes by putin laws. If they cant see that, all they are doing is messing with the border. They have to remember who is behind trump. Host arlenes opinion in louisiana. Francis and tennessee, republican. What do you think, francis . Caller good morning. In tennessee, republican. What do you think, francis . Caller good morning. The democrats are pleased with this trial and we should take the root of this trial and apply to every inquiry, every court action, and people say there is no one that the law is equal. It doesnt seem quite like it is equal to me. And one for trump everyone else. We know thats not right. Anyone that listens knows its not right. Have a good day. Thank you very much. Host next, independent color. Hello. Caller good morning, cspan. Can you hear me . Host yes we can. Good morning. Caller the investigation started because of trump. Hes the one who was on the phone with his quid pro quo. Things they say in the. Onstitution [indiscernible] he solicited ukraines president to investigate the bidens. Why would you do that . Finding to fine something on joe biden and his son because he has his political biggest political rival because he is his biggest political rival. We are americans first. Its not about the party. ,hen 9 11 happened [indiscernible]. They didnt care, they were attacking america. I think were losing focus. This is an inquiry. Lets bring out the empathy, not byause trump was elected like tour boat, not people. Make a decision from there. So far, what im seeing is that he should be impeached. Right, she cited article two of the constitution that holds a President Shall shall bed removed for treason, bribery, or other high crimes. Caller i called to say that hearings,in their yesterday, the republicans were calling for the whistleblower to testify. At the same time, the people before them, they were saying it is third thirdhand, secondhand, that sort of thing. What would happen if the whistleblower comes in . They would be saying the same stuff and jeopardizing that persons safety. Think that if they want firsthand information, they should get the president to stop blocking people who have firsthand information from coming in and telling the truth. Ets see what the truth is if the first 10 people would because having a whistleblower there will not satisfy them. It will just put them in danger and i hope anybody out there dont let this discourage you. You are a hero and care about your country. If you see or hear something, go to the proper channels like he did. He went to the ig and the ig has the expertise to know whether it sounds like or could like be something worth investigating and pass along. A cop locked before it got to congress, but please do this. This person is a patriot, and when this is all said and done, i think he should be considered a hero. Host Rudy Giuliani had an interview yesterday with the guardian out of london, and the headline was Rudy Giuliani says trump will stay loyal to him, fromokes he has insurance the article in a telephone interview in response to a question if he was nervous that President Trump might throw him under a bus in the impeachment crisis. Giuliani said im not, but i do have very good insurance, so if he does, all my hospital bills will be paid. Giulianis lawyer, who was also on the call interjected hes joking. Charles in bethlehem charles in bethlehem, pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller this impeachment, i listened to it yesterday and today. So far, that i see, he has not done nothing wrong. This is another thing from the democrats trying to get socialism started. Going by the whistleblower, if somebody blamed me, i want to know who it is. Ii, then, when world war hitlers did the same thing and had people ratted out and they were killed. Ts the same principle if this starts where you Say Something that you dont like, you get in trouble and locked up. I think its all a sham, and i dont think the president did anything wrong. I know hes going to get elected next year. Thank you. Host all right. Pennsylvania. Speaker pelosi was asked yesterday about the legal rights of the whistleblower versus the legal rights of the president. Take a listen. They say impeachment is a political process. [indiscernible] this was made clear yesterday by chair shift. It seems to me that he would do everything necessary to ensure the legal rights of the , to observer anonymity. I wonder if you could explain to the American People by the legal rights of the whistleblower should prevail in this political setting over those of President Trump who should ordinarily enjoy seeing his accuser. I will say to you, mr. Republican talking, what i said to the president of the United States. When you talk about the whistleblower, you are coming into my wheelhouse. I have more experience in intelligence than anybody in congress, 25 years on the committee as top democrat. I was there with the whistleblower. The whistleblower is there to speak truth to power, and have protection for doing that. Any retribution or harm coming to whistleblowers undermines our ability to hear truths about power. I will defend the rights of the whistleblower vehemently. Vehemently. If the president has a case to make, does he want to speak . Does he want to send in writing, or speak to the committee about exculpatory for him, he has that right to do, nobody the president is not above the law. He will be held accountable and nobody should have the right to endanger whistleblowers, and that is a system i will defend. And, the American People understand that. Host that was the speaker of the house yesterday in her Weekly News Conference asking about the whistleblower rights. This morning, on capitol hill, thede 1100 longworth, it is Committee Room, one of the more ornate Committee Rooms on capitol hill, and is also the largest. They chose this hearing room for its size, for todays part two of the impeachment inquiry public hearings, where they will hear from the former ambassador from the United States to ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, and the Washington Post knows that when she sits in the witness was born to canada from parent to flood the soviet union, joined a Foreign Service after graduate school in 1986, and since then, she served in seven countries across the administrat