Forever. Thank you. God bless you, and god bless the United States of america. 8002. Looking ahead to wednesday, Inauguration Day and the resumption of the 117th congress, we have Senior Reporter from the hill, alex bolton. Let me ask you first about the inauguration. We understand rehearsals are taking place today. Can you give us any other information or updated information on the schedule . Guest as you know, joe biden will be taking the oath of office at noon on wednesday at a date and time prescribed by the constitution. After that, 3 00 to 4 00 in the capital, that is when people will be allowed to go back in. The question is whether the articles of impeachment will be sent in this week or later. As far as the inauguration goes. Vice president biden, president elect bidens staff has confirmed that he will be outside during the inauguration, despite security concerns. It will be much different than previous inaugurations. Much more limited access for reporters. Colleagues sent out a memo last week by the Pelosi Office informing folks that it will be, in the past members of congress would go out to the risers through to the west front of the capital. That access is going to be restricted. What the Security Forces are doing is really closing down the flow of people between the west front. Inaugurations, usually they walk out the door to the risers, press included. Its much more restricted this year and i think thats because there is this lingering fear, even though there are 20,000 National Guard troops, there is still a fear that the risers provide a breach point for the capital, so it just kind of shows the state of shock that folks are still in after that january 6 attack. Interesting notes on guests, Vice President mike pence will be there. So will former president s clinton, obama, george w. Bush, but jimmy carter, 96, will not be there. And then business will continue. Another note on the schedule, there are a bunch of confirmation hearings in the schedule in the senate scheduled for tuesday to fill joe bidens cabinet. Janet yellen to be treasury secretary, avril haines director of national intelligence. The head of the Homeland Security department, tony blinken is the head of the state department with lloyd austin, those are all scheduled to happen on tuesday so there really is a busy day on the hill. Host certainly a busy time for the senate, at least. I want to focus a bit on that with the pieces you are publishing this morning. The trump Job Performance rating remains strong among republicans, making the chances of finding 17 republicans who will convict on an article of them pete schmidt. They wrestled with purging trump from the party. How soon do you think the senate might take up the article of impeachment . Guest that really depends on when nancy pelosi sends the article to the senate. Under the Senate Impeachment rules, soon as the Senate Receives the article of impeachment, the indictment has to proceed immediately. So, its really up to pelosi in terms of the timing. She has control over the lever but she will be making that decision in conjunction with joe biden and Chuck Schumer and i think there could be some concern, at least in the biden inner circle, that if you start the impeachment trial, this could last a while and Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, who is giving up power as majority leader, sent out a note recently talking about, or a statement in the last few days talking about there have been three president ial peach meant trials in the president in the senate. The shortest one has gone 21 days. It wont be quite so simple in the senate as in the house. Its a trial. You have to give citizen trump at that point, you have to give the accused a chance to mount a defense and that is going to take some time. It could take two weeks to get the hearing done, so in the meantime biden needs to fill his cabinet and also he just unveiled his 1. 9 trillion dollar covid relief package that democrats said was a high priority. Chris murphy of connecticut wants to do covid19 before moving on to an impeachment trial so theres a real debate as to whether to hold those articles of impeachment to get the Biden Cabinet filled in his key appointees confirmed to get this covid19 package moved, which is the highest priority of anything. Host we appreciate you being u cspans washington journal, every day taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day, and we will discuss policy issues that impact you. Tuesday morning, the former director of white house mastic policy council under President Trump discusses the trump administrations record on domestic issues. Then, we talk about a new film on president elect joe biden. Watch washington journal tuesday morning. Be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. On tuesday, one day before the inauguration, Senate Confirmation hearings for three Incoming Biden Administration nominees. At 10 00 a. M. , janet yellen. At the same time on cspan2, ilhan omar organ. And later in the day, at 3 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, defense secretary. If confirmed, he will be the first africanamerican secretary of defense. Watch live coverage of the confirmation hearings on cspan and cspan2, on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the cspan radio app. There are confirmation hearings a streaming live tuesday on our website starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern Senate Intelligence Committee Considers the nomination for the director of national intelligence. At 2 00 p. M. , the secretary of state nominee test fees testifies before the Senate Foreign relations committee. That is live online at cspan. Org. 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