Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. Us your firstext name, city, and state at 2027488003 or join the conversation on twitter cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your comments right after we hear a little bit more from Mitch Mcconnell on the floor yesterday outlining what we will see today in the senate. [video clip] a few minutes ago the senate was notified the house of a senates is finally ready to proceed with articles of impeachment. By unanimous consent, we have laid some of the groundwork that will structure the next several days. We have invited the house managers to come to the senate tomorrow at noon to exhibit their articles of impeachment and later tomorrow afternoon at 2 00 p. M. , the chief justice of the United States will arrive in the senate. He will be sworn in by the tem, chiefro grassley. We will pledge to rise above petty factionalism and do justice for our states and the nation and we will formally notify the president and some in the president to answer the articles and sent his counsel. The trial will commence in earnest on tuesday. First, some good news for the country, we anticipate the senate will finish the usmca tomorrow and send this landmark trade deal to President Trump , a majorignature victory for the administration. More importantly, for american families. Let me close with this, this is a difficult time for our country, but this is precisely the kind of time for which the. Ramers created the senate i am confident this body can rise above shorttermism and factional fever and serve the longterm best interest of our nation. We can do this and we must. Host the Senate Leader on the floor yesterday. The hill newspaper says the seven house managers were in the chamber. They stood on the sidelines while the leader established the schedule. Roughly two dozen Senate Democrats were in their seats as they awaited the house manager and as mcconnell set the schedule and they were spotted chatted amongst themselves, something they will not be able to do during the trial because senators have to sit silently. You heard the majority leader say they have they will invite the house managers around 12 p. M. Eastern time. Our coverage gaveltogavel is happening on cspan 2. You can watch throughout the day as well as our website and download the radio app as well. He has invited them to return presented the house impeachment managers on the senate floor. Take a look at what it looked like then. [video clip] mr. President and members of the senate. I announce the presence of the managers on the house of representatives to conduct proceedings on behalf of the house concerning the impeachment of William Jefferson clinton, president of the United States. Managers on the part of the house will be received and escorted to the senate. Make the proclamation. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the president of the United States articles of impeachment against William Jefferson clinton, president of the United States. Host presentation of the house managers in 1999, there are 13 then and there will be seven today. We can expect it looking somewhat similar. 12 00 p. M. Eastern time and our website is where you can watch. In 1999, it was Supreme Court chief Justice William rehnquist who arrived in the senate senatorso swear in the. Chief Justice John Roberts will be doing the same thing today when he leaves the Supreme Court to make his way to the Senate Chamber to be sworn in and swear in the 100 senators. Take a look at that moment from 1999. Journal cspan. Org pleased to welcome you. I assume the senate in conformity with your notice for the purpose of joining with you for the trial of the president of the United States and i am now ready to take the oath. Will you place your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand . Do you solemnly swear that in all things pertaining to the trial of the impeachment of William Jefferson clinton, president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws, so help you god question mark so help you god . I do. Host William Rehnquist being sworn in by the president pro tem, a republican of south carolina. Today, when that happens, it will be chuck grassley, republican of iowa who will be swearing in the chief justice john robert. Your thoughts as the senate. Rial begins, kicks off today matt in new york, we begin with you. Caller good morning. And flabbergasted at the hypocrisy of the democrats. Nancy said this was a somber and prayerful moment, yet she already started auctioning off the pens they used to sign the articles on ebay. Hearingf that, we keep like Chucky Schumer saying we need a fair trial. They keep saying they are defending the constitution. The constitution says the accused has the right to be confronted by his witnesses his accusers. Did we hear anything from the whistleblower . Were republicans able to question the whistleblower in secret chambers in the basement that schiff ran . No. It also says the constitution says the accused has the right to a fair trial. It doesnt say anything about the prosecution. If you dont have a case and you did not pursue your avenues to make that case, which the house did not, that is their problem. Senate pasta job to clean up what the house did and ridiculous. Host ricky is a democrat in maryland. Your thoughts before the senate kicks off these trial proceedings. Caller first of all, the theleman before me that was republican, typical republicans make up excuse after excuse after excuse. Lev parnas has confirmed what we knew, donald trump is a conceited, selfish, arrogant, vain, selfcentered habitual liar. This is further proof there must be witnesses in the Senate Impeachment trial and not only that, what is so funny is impeachment for donald trump is the least of his worries. He better hope he wins in november because he is in so much trouble with his taxes, this guy is the worst president , the biggest liar, how can anybody in your family want to bes want to be around someone like him. Ont your thoughts impeachment this morning as the Senate Begins proceedings around 12 00 p. M. Eastern time . Caller thank you for taking my call. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Caller i am a veteran and when i went in the military, i remember this saying that crude enough the russian leader said, we will bury you. That made me so mad. I said this would never happen, america is great. Through the years, i have seen how they did it because divided, a was so lot of people did not like a black president and the russians seen the chance to come in and through the nra, White Supremacy groups, and the internet, and a lot of people in america, brainwashed a lot of people and when they elected trump, that completed the process. That is why we need to look at this and how it all flows together. If you look at it, the electoral college, all of us have got to concentrate on may be about. Even states the majority are white people and nra people and they target job of it. S and they we are in a bad state. Mentionedfirst caller the speaker of the house and Chuck Schumer demanding what they have said is a fair trial. Here is the speaker yesterday after she announced the house managers and the vote took place on the floor to appoint them. That vote on the house floor to approve the seven house managers, 228193. [video clip] over 70 of the American People want to see a fair trial, whatever the outcome. We have not seen even the rules. We put our rules out in october for the next couple months, the next few months that followed case. King the we havent seen what the rules are in the senate. In the time that has transpired, the American People have come down in favor of a fair trial, which they always wanted, but meaning it would entail having witnesses as well as documents. Host speaker of the house saying she wants witnesses and documents. Take a look at politicos interview with rand paul withtening witnesses explosive interview notes. 4 or more of his democrat colleagues joined to make witness testimony. He will make the vote on preferred witnesses, including hunter biden and the whistleblower. Notrate republicans are eager to call. He has a simple message for his party. End the trial before witnesses are called. If you vote against hunter biden, you are voting to lose your election, seriously, that. S what it is if you dont want to take a vote on whether to consider the goes on to say issue at all if the senate agrees to hear witnesses, every senator will have the chance to force a motion seeking testimony. After they hear opening arguments and senator mcconnell says he has the votes for this format, that after they hear opening market arguments tuesday, they will vote to consider and assist. Rand paul is saying he will put pressure on colleagues not to heak with democrats saying will call and any senator could present a motion to call witnesses. The Washington Post says the president and the white house intend to block efforts to further build their case to witnesses, including john bolton, allowing testimony for a president ial aide about discussions on trump would be extraordinary and they plan to evoke executive privilege. Is also a story that senator collins and senator murkowski, two republican senators who are open to witnesses telling the hill newspaper it is too early to make a decision on hunter biden testifying. Yesterday, lev parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani did andersons with cnns cooper, which will air tonight and he sat down with Rachel Maddow. Here is what he had to tell Rachel Maddow. [video clip] what do you think is the main inaccuracy or live being told you feel like you can correct . That the president did not know what was going on. President trump knew exactly what was going on. He was aware of all of my movements. Reason they have no. Eason to speak to me why would all these people meet with me . Who am i . They were told to meet with me. That is the secret they are ing to keep we did not watch football games. Ogether i had a lot of oneonone conversations with him about at gatherings where they would have these roundtables. E have had several of those i was not in Constant Contact with them. I was with rudy when he would speak to the president , plenty of times. It is ludicrous. You have been with mr. Giuliani when he was on the phone with the president . Absolutely. How would you know he was on the phone with the president . Several times he would start the conversation on speakerphone and then take it off and go somewhere to talk with him and a lot of times it would be on the golf course. I remember during the mueller rudy said something taken out of context. I could understand that you could hear President Trump talking next to him, i heard him several times when he was with rudy. President u say the knew about your movements and what you were doing, are you saying specifically the president was aware you and mr. Giuliani were working on this effort in ukraine to basically try to hurt joe bidens political career . He knew about that . It was all about joe biden, hunter biden, and rudy had a personal thing with the manafort stuff, the black ledger. That was another thing they were looking into. It was never about corruption, never strictly about paris smoke, which included hunter biden and joe biden. We were showing that, cnn was running a dateline, will the Senate Subpoena lev parnas . Craig in west virginia, democratic caller, what do you think about the impeachment proceedings so far . Lie andi think when we dont tell the truth to the , when you weave leads intonceit that a conspiracy, it is time to leave office, there is no need for a trial. He needs to resign and he needs to resign today. Host christian, your turn. Caller thank you so much for taking my call. I am not sure where to begin. Let me say this. Alan dershowitz came on your show and basically said the two charges democrats have filed and signed off on, which was abuse of power and obstruction of congress, those are not valid impeachable offenses, which means they filed false charges against the president of the United States and what i want to say and pardon me, excuse me to all my caucasian brothers and sisters. Pardon me, excuse me to my latin, middle eastern, asian brothers and sisters, but if you are a black man in this country, if you dont start paying attention to what these democrats are doing, the same thing they are doing to President Trump, they are going to do to you. When you cast your vote in 2020, you better think long and hard about voting for a democrat because everything they have created in this system, how they have manufactured evidence in plain sight, how they manufactured what they needed from a whistleblower, all of that they have done in plain sight, what they are doing to trump, they will do exactly to you and dont you ever forget, they created the rules for the criminal justice standards for the prosecution function. The ada created the rules for sentencing and if you ever hear somebody tell you democrats did not create this system, they are lying through their teeth. Host stephen in new york, democratic caller. Caller good morning. I saw lev parnas on Rachel Maddow last night and he laid leadership,blican barr, devin nunes, put the ukrainen on zelensky of. They implement a plan to force him to produce dirt on the bidens. If the republicans do not call lev parnas to testify, they are all, especially Susan Collins, part of the coverup. Republicans have been screaming for witnesses for the president , the Democratic Party is fully on your side now. Donald trump deserves witnesses. Mike pompeo, john bolton, the Vice President , lets hear what they have to say. Everyone have a great day. Host lets talk about the prosecution, the house managers named by Speaker Pelosi. As we were speculating, adam schiff, the chair of the Intelligence Committee who has been the lead on the impeachment proceedings so far is serving as the leader of this Management Team as well. He is serving 10 terms in congress, represents californias 28 districts, a former federal prosecutor and a former state senator. A jerry nadler, who chairs the Judiciary Committee also leading the team, 15 terms in congress, new york costs 10th new 10thent district district. A zoe lofgren, 13 terms in congress, serves on the Judiciary Committee. Hakim jeffries, who is part of the democratic leadership is also serving on this team of. Rosecutors serves 6 years in the new york state assembly. His skills were honed working in a Corporate Law firm in new york where he defended cbs in a lawsuit over Janet Jacksons wardrobe malfunction in the 2004 super bowl. Jason crow, one of two freshman serving on the team represents h district and defeated mike coffman 5443 percent. He was also a former army ranger. Sylvia garcia, the other freshman to represent texas 2 9th district, served 6 years in senate. Demings,e member, val who served two terms, represents floridas district. Former Orlando Police officer and first female chief. Familiar face to our cspan watchers and washington journal watchers as she is a frequent guest. Kevin mccarthy, the leader for the republicans in the house seesrday set said he bias in these picks by the speaker. [video clip] let take a look at the first three names Speaker Pelosi announced in her announcement, hasrman schiff, a man who already taken on the role of judge, jury, and fact witness throughout the entire house impeachment process. Chairman nadler, someone who campaigned for the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee responsible for impeachment beginning as far back as december 2017, before you were even in the majority on the notion that he would be the best person to lead the charge on potential impeachment against the president. He campaigned for it. You put your best ideas out of why you should be the chairman in 20, that was the campaign. Hakeem jeffries, a member who almost two years to this date voted in support of impeachment. I was more than a year before the ukraine call took place. Host your thoughts on the impeachment as the proceedings get underway in the senate at or you. M. Eastern time, can download the radio app. We are getting your thoughts on the impeachment so far and what you want to see in the impeachment trial. We are expecting john roberts to enter the chamber around 2 00 p. M. Eastern, get sworn in, and swear in all 100 senators. Kevin in connecticut, independent. Caller good morning. When you have trump old lawyer doing the interview with Rachel Maddow and he implicates trump, the game is up. He implicates everybody. It is not just trump on trial, Senate Republicans are on trial. It is a shame how separated this country is. A blind man could see what was going on now. Host you are independent. How