Transcript to fit their political meme. My question is what are we going to hold nancy closely, adam schiff response will for their treasonous actions but that is from michael in florida. We will go to steve next in fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. Steve, go ahead. Caller hello, sir. Good day to you. All right. This is all give intake. This all has been a plot since the day the man was elected. That evening. They came out and said on video we will see the ruination of donald trump. And they have been doing that since day one. If it is not one thing it is Something Else the next day. This wont work, well try Something Else. Host steven New Hampshire we seen video of the chief justice departure and we want to let you know the senate has been in a quorum call and very common in the u. S. Senate if you are a regular watcher. No business conducted they are waiting for senators to come to the floor and speak but as of now, in a quorum call and we will continue to take your comments and calls as they are in this quorum call but they did pass earlier today the usmca and the usmexico trade agreement in december and it passes in the senate by a vote of 89ten and now goes to the president s desk for his signature. Darrell in texas. Caller President TrumpPresident Trump seems like he tries to sway his audience to look at another picture and when they brought hide it hunter biden into the picture he was not the topic of this impeachment. They asked if he had experience and what experience does President Trump have as a political person . Has he ever held a political, elected position . And when convicted he should be removed from this position. Host gerald in texas we saw there at the end a few minutes ago the majority leader making a number of unanimous consent requests as the chief justice was presiding there and there are some procedural moves in terms of whats ahead for the weekend actually and into next week and the Senate Majority leader asking that a summons be issued to the president and this is to inform the president of the trial and for the president to respond and also that the house and be informed and that the house be able to file its brief in the white house be able to file its brief as well and all of that material expected back to the u. S. Senate on certain dates before next tuesdays official start, i guess you could say of the trial as they get underway at 1 00 p. M. Eastern paid live coverage of course youre on cspan2. Franklin furnace this is sally, we lost that. We go to salem, virginia in here from georgia. Go ahead be three im doing good but my question is i have not been able to [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] host a few more minutes of your phone calls and we live from million in tennessee. Caller hello. How are you . Have been wanting the trial in the house all the way through and i had not seen any evidence that trump is guilty of anything or abusing his power. Now we are going into the senate trial and my personal belief that they will go ahead and dismiss it because this is also going to be a joke listening to all of this. I just think that theyre going about the country business and take care of that. Host william in tennessee to let you know where things are the senate is still in session they swore in the chief justice and senator grassley is the president pro tem of the senate did that and then the chief justice swore in all the members and all but one that senator inhofe was not in washington today and we understand he will be sworn in on tuesday and all of those 99 senators signing the oath book pledging their impartiality of the upcoming trial. We will show you all of that start to finish and a bit but we continue with your calls and comments to West New York new jersey. Eleanor, what do you think . Caller i vote guilty for a number of reasons. The republicans have been saying the democrats wanted to impeach the president since day one. The only reason that is the case is because the president has been violating the constitution from day one. He has put us in a very traumatizing situation almost going to war with iran and there have been so many things that even from sexist and also with this decisive rhetoric so we need to get rid of him so we can go on with the peoples business. Thank you. Host to ricky in ohio, thanks the president is not guilty. Hello. Caller i watched this thing from the very beginning every day. You can see the democrats are doing nothing to set this up. Host tell us why you think that. What do you mean by setting this up . Caller if he is guilty wh why if they have all the evidence against him while you sit there and bring other witnesses in . He was not allowed to bring witnesses in at the house inquiry. Host if the president and if the democrats and of house managers want to bring new witnesses, new evidence or new witnesses that the president should be able to, his legal team, should be able to do that as well. Caller yeah, what is good for the goose is good for the gander if you ask me but all we are doing is we are wasting money. Hes not committed no crime whatsoever or even charged with a crime. Host or reminder that you can find those articles of impeachment essential to the child at cspan. Org impeachment in the document sections there but atlanta, georgia, next up. Declan. Caller hello. I believe he is guilty. Like everyone says ive been watching this from the beginning. I believe that the republicans right now are all partisan. They are not listening or if they are listening to what the evidence has shown so far and like they say its hearsay. Not everything is hearsay. They got the president and they knew everything. He was part of it and i think its a disgrace. People have forgotten that hes been persecuted since he started and let me remind you what the republicans did to clinton when he came in office. They handed him the his whole presidency. Let me also remind you of obama. What did Mitch Mcconnell say . We wont make him a onetime president. They stopped everything. He couldnt proceed with his agenda. They disrespected him and then the middle of the address what did the person on the revolving inside call out liar, liar. So, i think they really need to stop listening to fox news. That only gives you halftruths and they need to listen to other news programs. Host President Trump in washington today and he will be holding a Campaign Rally monday night, the nights before the senate trial really gets under way. Monday night in des moines, iowa, two weeks ahead of the Iowa Caucuses in the senate trial getting underway tuesday. Brenda and jackson, missouri is next up. Go ahead. Caller i think the president is not guilty and the reason for that is because they have not proven a crime of high treason or misdemeanors, high crimes, misdemeanors or treason and not only that but they are themselves committing sedition. Host why do you say that . Caller because they are plotting to take this country down. They been doing it for decades. Host brenda in missouri. We go to amy and pennsylvania. Amy, hello. Caller hello. Host you are on the air. Caller if there is any doubt that there was obstruction of justice which is what this trial is about one needs to go back to 2017 went from the president s mouth he said he was told not to fire james comey but in fact, and i quote, when i decided just to do it i said to myself you know, this russia thing with trump is a madeup story. What happened . He was fired for it obstruction of justice. This is not in the article of impeachment but it could be a pattern from a of 2017 where he says in his own words from his own mouth that hes firing people to prevent looking into possible wrongdoing which is obstruction of justice. I would like to say that i really love this segment. It gives a sense of what is happening out there but i really wish that when someone says that the entire half of the country is trying to bring down the country there would be questioning on your part and asking them how, in fact, people who vote democrat are trying to bring down the country but this is Conspiracy Theory talk then needs to be examined and not treated like an equal part of the rhetoric and discussion in our society. Host thank you for that, amy. Sunset, south carolina, marion, good afternoon. Caller this is marion. Our president is not guilty. Hes [inaudible] he stood up for christianity and god. I am a christian and i believe that he was elected to the people of christian values. I do not believe in [inaudible] murder is murder, it doesnt matter [inaudible] host the president participating at an event with an exec at a border on prayer in the schools but we are covering that and we will see that later in a Program Schedule on the cspan networks. Next is martin in grass valley, california. Martin, you are on. Caller yeah, this is martin and who are you . Host tell us about yourself. What he think about the articles of impeachment on President Trump . Is he guilty or not guilty . Caller one thing i can make a question on that because im not an attorney and i dont have the documents but whats your name . Host its not all that important but my name is bill. Why is that important . Caller i just wanted to introduce myself. Host okay, marta, go ahead with your comment. Caller i dont have all i am seeing is life. You see, you hear. But there are those who cant see and only here. Host roy next up in West Virginia. Welcome. Caller hello britt how are you doing today . Host doing fine, thank you. Caller i will say hes not guilty and the reason i say that is because he is the only president in history that has helped poor states like my state and kentucky, maryland, all the other smaller states its a fight to survive right now. Hes the only one thing came out to help us with no questions asked. When we had all the floods, the governor called him and he released money to help us with our flooding. Hes done more for West Virginia and other states than any other president ever did. That is what is making the democrats mad, especially nancy plosive from california and hes helping the big states like california where all the money is. Hes helping the poor states. Host roy in West Virginia, thank you for that comment. Here are where things stand with the senate is in session in a long quorum call and completed work for today, we think, on impeachment. Largely laying out the week ahead and senator Mitch Mcconnell and majority leader doing that at the end of the session but they have sworn into the members, chief justice sworn in and he will be the presiding officers in the senate trial of President Trump which will get underway again on tuesday at 1 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Continuing live coverage of the u. S. Senate and if we are able in the upcoming quorum call here we will bring you News Conference at 3 00 p. M. Eastern and its supposed to be with the democratic leader in the senate, chuck schumer. We will show you all the events from today later on in here on a cspan2 and also this evening on cspan. Joanne is in jamestown, california thank you for waiting, go ahead with your comment. Caller i say guilty. I watched all the trial like many people have ever said and i think his executive privilege is a thing that made us all sit back and think we would have gotten a lot more information for the people that were called if he would have allowed that and he nipped would have dipped it in the butt if he was not guilty of the thing that bothers me the most and Lindsay Graham has stated that they would not that theyve gone to the white house to set up what they were doing which is unfortunate. Host thank you for that jonah. We go to joshua in phoenix, arizona. Hello there. Caller first of all, thank you for getting everyone on both sides of this the opportunity to speak. I guess i think he is guilty because 13000 lives, why should people believe him now . He denies the subpoenas and he uses what he thanks is president ial powers and tell people to testify. Im 52 years old and people who are guilty dont hide evidence. One of the colors that would help the poor states and he must not know much about to state because the states that are doing the worst are states led by people like mcconnell and if you want to talk about helping poor states what has what has he done for frederico because for three days since the earthquake they still dont have [inaudible] not wanting to own up to what he did. Thats the best i can say. Hes a horrible president and has done nothing for this country and we need a democrat back in office. Host the trial will focus on the two articles of impeachment passed by the house. The abuse of power and also obstruction of congress and the child resuming tuesday, 1 00 p. M. Eastern and we will hear next from tracy. Are you on the air . Go ahead. Host tracy in north carolina, nope, gone bird new york and this is jake, you are on the air. Caller how you doing. My name is jake. I just want to say i share a lot of different opinions from both sides of the aisle. I do want to say that there is a Huge Division that started at least probably within the obama era and i think it amounted to something that has evolved into something that we are no longer able to contain. The impeachment process has been a backandforth attack through each party when in reality we should be more united as a country. I think the lack of evidence is huge here and if any witnesses wanted to be present within the senate they should have been acknowledged with the house to begin with. Having witnesses after the fact passing through the house is suspicious. I also want to point out the point that someone else brought up, if anyone wants to go look up 1996 joe bidens response on the embassy attacks, an attack on an embassy is an act of war. Any type of attack like that that another Democratic Party actually stated was an act of war, i just dont understand how it now its a problem for donald trump when joe biden says the same thing. Host there will be seven house impeachment managers named by Speaker Pelosi yesterday. Host judiciary committee, when the thenjudiciary committee made the articles of impeachment against president Richard Nixon at that time. Of course, that never actually went to a vote on the house floor, nor to a senate trial on president nixon, who resigned in august of 1974. Also on that, on the managers, for the managers in the u. S. House, achim jeff race, Sylvia Garcia of texas, val demings of florida and jason crowe of colorado. We hear from kenny in monroe, connecticut, on the not guilty line. Tell us why, or kenny. Caller yes, hi. Kenny from the very i blue state of connecticut. I think President Trump is definitely not guilty. For congress to come in and ask for witnesses now is something that was their responsibility as it is written in the constitution. Theyre posed to bring up all the supposed to bring up all the witnesses, and the senate is supposed to vote on it. Host well, there were witnesses in the present impeachment trial. They were deposed witnesses, they werent witnesses who testified in the clinton trial itself. Caller right. Well, as for the witnesses, i think whats good for the goose is good for the gander in that area. And people making a stink about not calling, you know, hunter biden, i think that has every bit of relevance to it because that is, is the reason why donald trump was, wanted to speak to zelensky about the corruption. Host well, aside from hunter biden, who would be the strongest witness that the president s team could call in . In your opinion . Caller so the whistleblower, if he exists. And also adam schiff. Host all right. Well go to peggy in elk grove village. What state is that in, peggy . Caller hi. Im calling because i think that donald trump is guilty. I feel that when they were working on the articles of impeachment in the house, they were able to bring in witnesses, but donald trump would not allow it. So if there was, you know, if there were these witnesses that were allowed to come in, they would prove the guilt. And if so i think while this is in the senate, then they if theyre able to get witnesses in, they absolutely should because its going to show his guilt. Host well, House Republicans made the point that mare witnesses werent their witnesses werent allowed either, the ones they wanted to bring in. Peggy, you there . Caller yes. Yes, im sorry, i didnt hear what you said. Host House Republicans made the point that they wanted to bring witnesses in as well in the Intelligence Committee phase of this. But they werent, they werent allowed, those efforts were blocked by democrats in those committees. Caller well, i guess i hadnt heard that, but, you know, i guess the witnesses that they did want werent allowed to come in. Donald trump would not allow them to come in and speak, and so that may be, i dont know, but this would be the chance to be able to, you know, get the truth out. Host the senate is in a quorum call. They have completed work on impeachment for now with the senators being sworn in. Theyre back at 1 00 eastern on tuesday. To begin the senate trial, the impeachment trial of President Trump. Of course, our live coverage here on cspan2, and we welcome your cspan radio listeners as well. What were expecting in a couple of minutes, and if were able to bring you the News Conference were going to get from senator chuck schumer, the democratic leader, well have that for you when it starts assuming theres nobody speaking on the floor of the senate, because thats always our priority. Karen is next in hampton, georgia. Karen in georgia, youre on the air. Okay. Well hear from teresa in cannondale, texas. Theresa, youre on the air. Caller yes. Im definitely of the opinion that he is guilty of what he was charged with. The obstruction of justice portion, that goes along with the witnesses that the republicans are saying they werent allowed