Impeachment process. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Next. Host good morning. It is monday, november 18, 2019 week 2 gets underway tomorrow. 8 witnesses are set to testify over three days before adam schiffs house Intelligence Committee. We are spending our first hour today asking if the three open hearings that have taken place so far have changed your mind on any aspect of the impeachment of President Trump. If you find yourself changing your mind, 2027488000 is the number to call. If the open hearings have not changed your mind, 2027488001. Textan also to send us a this morning. That number, 2027488003. On social media, you can catch up with us on cspanwj at twitter and at facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good monday morning. You can start calling now. Some of the latest polling on whether bang mines are changing m reutersif so spoke reutersipsos poll over the weekend. Reuters and if sauce ipsos with their poll on friday. 44 of u. S. Adults said trump should be impeached. A similar poll that ran early in supportedound 45 impeachment, 42 opposed it. The poll found 68 of americans said they were following the hearings, that includes 28 who said they were listening and hearing live on broadcast. 25 said they had not paid any attention to the proceedings in congress and on whether bang people are paying attention, the headline of the front page of the new york times, house hearings rollon, but many tune out, that is the headline in the print edition today. Overwhelmed by fact, fiction, and spin, many people are numb and disoriented, struggling to discern what is really an ac of slant and fake news. Many americans have the opposite experience and turn to sources they trust that tell them exactly what they already believed to be true. We are talking about that topic and asking whether bang whether you have changed your minds. We are conducting a poll online on our Facebook Page to answer the question of whether bang it has changed your mind. 4. 5 thousand voters say they change their mind. 87 said they had not changed their mind. We are getting your reaction whether it is via phone, or twitter or facebook. We want to hear from you. We start with john on the line for those who say they have not changed their mind. John, go ahead. Caller good morning. I am a bit more sophisticated than the average bear. I have had to deal with a lot of whitecollar crime and whitecollar criminals. Host am i on right now . Okay, good. It is very sophisticated criminal behavior by the democrats. They have been accusing President Trump of the very crimes they have been committing. Hillary clinton created the false dossier and went to the wrong people to get it and then they accused trump of russian collusion and he has been racist and the Democratic Party has been exposed of having plenty of racism and this joe biden thing with hunter on the board. And joe biden withholding the billion dollars until the prosecutor who was probing around was thrown off the case. This is what they accuse trump of. Host do you think 8 more witnesses this week will change your mind. Are you open to changing your mind from what you are hearing and watching . Caller this is an inquiry, this is not a court. People get that confused. They can ask all the questions they want, but they have yet to come up with sufficient evidence that would be impeachable. It is a lot of hearsay and nonsense, but the democrats are extremely successful at painting a picture of corruption within the Trump Administration, but they simply cannot put their finger on a really criminal event, which is why yes, i am open to if they could really find something. If it were to go to court, i would have to consider that if it were genuine evidence. So far, it is a lot of hoopla. Half the people in the United States, more than half believe he should be impeached and this is the power of tv. Television is an extraordinary extraordinarily powerful tool. On the line for those who say they have changed their mind after that first week is david. Good morning. Caller good morning. First of all, i love cspan. I am catching little bits watching your show in the morning. I just think the congress, our government is becoming sort of like a circus. I dont know and i am not a fan juste president , but i am being driven crazy by our government, i guess. Forve been watching cspan 30 years. People had intelligent conversations. You guys used to have a democrat, republican sit on either side of brian lam or somebody like christopher stein. S along with ben people were not so angry and they were more nuanced and logical. I am disgusted with our government, thats it. I am not making much sense, i am tired, so i better get off. Host did you watch all three of the witnesses testify last week . Snippets. Just watch because i am so disgusted with everything, even though i am very interested and watch host how much do you think you will watch this week . 2 or threebably hours tops. I am not going to sit by the television or anything. I will fastforward, watch it later or something. Host you called on the line to say you had changed your mind, what aspect have you changed your mind on . It was i just thought going to be clearer against the president. I dont think it is as clear as i thought it was and i cannot describe it right now because i worked all night. I am tired and i am going to bed. Host thank you for calling us before you go to bed. He wasiting in i knew guilty before and the hearings have just fueled his hate, get him out already. Lizzie saying it makes me more determined to do everything i can to possibly reelect trump next year. Thank you, democrats, for keeping me alerted. I have heard no irrefutable facts, only hearsay, speculation and feelings, you cannot impeach a president on anything presented to date. I am disappointed in our congress and they better not shut down the government because they are not doing their job not passing the spending budget in time. Host that effort to move another continuing resolution. Happening this week on capitol hill amid week 2 of the open impeachment inquiry hearings, that resolution moving through the house and senate would have to be signed by the president before thursday when the current continuing resolution runs out. If this one is signed and passed by the house and senate, it would go to december 20. We are watching for that amid everything we will be talking about. Allen in brooklyn, new york, is next on the line for those who say they have not changed their mind. Caller good morning. Thanks very much. I have not changed my mind about the basic conclusion. There was already basis to move toward impeachment based on the mueller come clerk report. Recusedo said have himself for the way he lobbied hiset his job before making summary of the report that distorted the outcome, i dont think most people have would have concluded as the Mueller Court was as weak as they believed if barr had not painted a very inaccurate picture of what the report said. It basically said but for the fact of a memo in the 1970s that said president s could not categorically been indicted, he would have been indicted bakes based on the facts. Host there is a lot of discussion about what happens when this gets into the articles of impeachment phase, what those articles should be. Do you think the articles of impeachment should include aspects of the Mueller Report or should it be more narrow, more focused on ukraine, the phone call and the actions surrounding that phone call . Caller i think it should be both and the fact the Mueller Report included aspects of the misbehavior of so many of the Trump Campaign officials already sent to jail, including roger stone sent to jail during the hearing on friday he was convicted and not yet sentenced, but he will be sentenced in february, it ties together the unity of the wrongdoing by the Trump Administration as it relates to the 2016 and 2020 election cycles and the fact they have been able to obfuscate the merits of the Mueller Report some designed to maintain legitimacy on the actions of the president while he is in office so mcconnell can salvage some of the many traditional nominees he pushed through during this administration, which probably never had legitimacy to appoint anyone and if they perhaps focus or sentthe impeachment to the senate on wrongdoing going into the 2020 election, maybe some republicans afraid of having nominees claude back because of the illegitimacy of the president will be more actively considering impeachment because it is focused more on what may happen in 2020. Host on the line for those who have changed their mind during that first week of impeachment hearings is mary in tennessee. What did you change your mind about, mary . Mary, are you with us . We lost to. Bob in tennessee. Go ahead, bob. Caller thank you for taking my call. I have not changed my mind. Smoke andthis is mirrors by the president by the democrats. If people really want to know what is going on in the ukraine, go to the ukrainian media outlets. There was one thing this week, there were two major arrests in the ukraine that no American Media outlet i have seen has covered it. Supposedly it is connected to the u. S. Consulate in romania and another arrest was a banker for Money Laundering that has connections to highranking democrat politicians in the United States. If you really want to know what is going on in ukraine, go to the ukrainian media outlets. Is the main outlet you trust for overseas information . Give me the name of one . Caller the newspaper in kiev. I cannot pronounce the name of it, i will not try to. Read ukrainian media outlets. The u. S. Media is just malarkey. Host bob referring to the Inspector Generals report, Michael Horowitz the Inspector General for the department of on thatis working report to look into the origins of the russia probe and so we are waiting to see when that report will be released publicly. Ken is next out of washington, d. C. For those who have not changed their mind. Ofler i apologize on behalf of the previous caller from tennessee that insulted you as being part of the media. I dont speak eastern slavic, so i am not going to refer to a ukrainian website or newspaper to get viable information. The truth remains the same, there is a lack thereof. Donald trump has proven over decades he is on trustworthy. There is a process when it comes to impeachment on i certainly do not speak on behalf of americans , but i know the rule of law. He has proven this by being a draft dodger, not showing his taxes. Racism, which the first caller accused democrats of doing, you have to be more specific. I do believe the investigation has to continue. It is in the right direction and if he wants to clear himself, unlike the central park children he accused of a crime they did not commit, tried to prove themselves not guilty and they hee still found guilty has all the tools at his disposal to prove his evidence, but for some reason, he refuses to show them. Host if you have changed your mind when it comes to the impeachment inquiry, 2027488000 is the number. If you have not changed your mind during the first week of open hearings, the number to call, 2027488001. We begin the segment by talking about some of the polling. Here is another from the Washington Times today noting reports, a daily president ial tracking poll finding 50 of likely u. S. Voters approve of President Trumps job performance. Overall approval has been tracking up since the first day of the impeachment hearings. 50 wednesday and 48 on friday. Anna for harper pointing to those numbers. Page. S the opinion Northstar Opinion Research is. He name of his firm while clinton and trump impeachment efforts differ dramatically on the politics and allegations, one similarity offers tantalizing parallels that can predict how the public reacts to the current overwhelmingly theng partisan reaction inquiry was such a partisan affair mr. Clintons impeachment had virtually no effect on his job approval. It began the summer of 1998 with 60 job approval. His approval never dipped below 60 , it bounced to 73 after the houseboat to impede houseboat vote tochment house impeachment. If you want to read the column, todays wall street journal. smes in boston has not had opinion changed. Why is that, james . Jober doing a fantastic and i dont have to worry about i get to to cspan, watch the impeachment. Number 45, they will not change. They are going to do this thing and lose again. If democrats want to do something, let him do his little term and get him when he gets out of office. They are just wasting our time. Thanks to you guys at cspan, we have got everything and i did watch it. I watched cspan and i can catch up with the impeachment without wasting my life sitting in front of the tv, it is simpler and shorter with you guys doing it. Host let me give you uneven , cspan. Orgtcut impeachment for videos of the impeachment hearings, events, documents, briefings, responses from the white house all in one place, cspan. Org impeachment. Rob is next from new york city on the line for those who have seen their opinions change when it comes to impeachment. On what aspect, rob . Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. Originally, i was in the camp of what lets wait for the next election. As i hear more and more about the innerworkings of this fiasco democracy, it seems is at stake. ,t seems we had an ambassador an outstanding ambassador, a diplomat that was fighting against corruption and she was removed from office. Here you have a person who was fighting corruption in the ukraine and she was removed from office. Trump is working against people who are fighting for democracy and against corruption in the ukraine. It was not clear to me that our National Security was at stake, but democracy is on fire around the world and trump is throwing gasoline on the fire. I would like to say one more thing. Honestly. Ple think honest people perceive others as honest and they give you the benefit of the doubt as being honest. An honest persons first thought when others talk is to believe them, figuring the person has no reason to lie. Honest People Project that others are being honest and by and large, that is what we do. What honest people dont know is spendsother person decades and decades and decades, most of their adult lives crafting the ability to lie, honest people dont get it. A and large lies, unimportant and important lies for the sake of the sport, the power of continuing took full someone ise that Something Else that totally untrue, it is for power that people lie, for sport, it is an illness. Host audrey out of georgia is next, has not had her mind changed, go ahead. Caller good morning. I believe the president should be impeached and all the republicans calling around that are so hung up on obama and clinton, neither obama nor clinton is in office. Obama has done his 8 years. , i always as a child heard if everybody all around you is saying the same thing, there has got to be truth in it. People are saying the same thing about trump all over the world, yet republicans refuse to say they are telling the truth. I believe the biggest thing is he has them so brainwashed. If you listen to what republicans are saying, they are repeating things donald trump he has saidsaid and more times than one, if i say it enough, you will believe it anyway. I knew donald trump was no good, but i did not know there was so many other people in the world exactly like him, filled with hate and racism. Host the open impeachment inquiry hearings get underway again tomorrow morning at 9 00. We will go over a busy days schedule at 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow, two individuals that listened in on that july 25 phone call between President Trump and ukrainian president zelinski at the center of the impeachment inquiry, Jennifer Williams and Lieutenant ColonelAlexander Vindman will be together at a panel starting at 9 00 a. M. And we will have coverage on cspan and cspan 3. Listen on the free cspan radio app and sometime around 2 30 tomorrow afternoon, another panel, Ambassador Kurt Volker and timothy morrison, special assistant to the president and senior director for european and Russian Affairs at the National Security council, they will be together in that panel. Jennifer williams on that first panel is somebody who has caught the ire of the president at least in a tweet yesterday afternoon around 3 00. The president telling Jennifer Williams, whoever that is, to read both transcripts of the president ial calls and the just released statement from ukraine and then she and then she should meet with the never trumpers and work out a better president ial attack. For theoad ahead impeachment inquiry and what happens after these open hearings end before the house Intelligence Committee, Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the sunday shows yesterday was asked about the road ahead and here is what she had to say. [video clip] we have another week of hearings and there will be an Intelligence Report and then what . Does the president get, as he said, to confront his accuser . What do you mean confront his accuser . Confront the whistleblower . Presumably. I will make sure he does not whistleblower. He has every opportunity to present his case. It is really a sad thing. What the president did was so much worse than even what Richard Nixon did. Nixone point, richard cared about the country enough to recognize this could not continue. The Intelligence Committee is leading this part of th