impeachment against president trump. join the conversation all morning with your phone calls, emails, facebook comments, and tweets. washington journal is next. host: this is the washington journal for december 12, the house judiciary committee meets at 9:00 to vote on the two articles of impeachment. if it passes the committee today, it will head to the full house for a vote next week. the house of representatives comes in at 9:00. if you want to see the hearing, these articles of impeachments, which starts at 9:00, you can go to our c-span 3 channel starting at 9:00 and that is where you will see shots of the room you are seeing now. if you want to follow along, you can do so at c-span.org and listen on our radio app. you can comment on the latest phase by calling 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 for democrats. .nd independents, 202-748-8002 you can also text us at 202-748-8003. if you want to post on twitter, you can do so @cspanwj and you can post on our fac
we don t have a gavel. committee on constitution of civil rights and civil liberties are called to order. without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of this subcommittee at any time. welcome everybody to today s hearing, hearing on evidence not a field hearing. on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination. i recognize myself for an opening statement. today s hearing on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of a series of hearings that the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution civil rights and civil liberties will hold over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the preclearance requirement of the section five of the voting rights act 65 to consider other ways to strengthen that landmark civil rights statute. i am not sure why we say wee reinvigoration. that s one of the words we toss arnold. it is not really a reinvigoration. it is more of a degradation that section four would
we don t have a gavel. committee on constitution of civil rights and civil liberties are called to order. without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of this subcommittee at any time. welcome everybody to today s hearing, hearing on evidence not a field hearing. on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination. i recognize myself for an opening statement. today s hearing on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of a series of hearings that the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution civil rights and civil liberties will hold over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the preclearance requirement of the section five of the voting rights act 65 to consider other ways to strengthen that landmark civil rights statute. i am not sure why we say wee reinvigoration. that s one of the words we toss arnold. it is not really a reinvigoration. it is more of a degradation that section four would
good thursday morning. welcome to squawk alley. carl quintanilla with kayla tausche at post 9. our jon fortt live at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. a lot to come from jon later on this hour. joining us at post 9 this morning, elevation partner co-founder roger mcnamee and jonathan, barclays head of u.s. equity strategy research. good morning to you both. big story is the senate hearing under way this hour on capitol hill, top intelligence officials facing questions primarily centered on russia s purported hacking of the u.s. presidential election. senators john mccain, elizabeth warren, tim kaine among the committee members. eamon javers has been watching this all morning long. fascinating headlines. good morning, eamon. reporter: good morning, carl. there is an enormous elephant in the room here, and that is this classified intelligence community report on alleged russian hacking of the u.s. election. we know that that report has been delivered to presid
i thank you for your picture just him and your service to this country. i am tom carper and i agree with this message. this hearing record will remain open for 50 days until october to record at 5:00 p.m. so you have time senator baldwin for submission of statements and questions for the record. thank you all. this hearing is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] just hours before the expected elections for the speaker of house majority leader kevin mccarthy removed himself from consideration. it s been reported that outgoing speaker john boehner only learned about the decision moments before mr. mccarthy spoke to members of the caucus. we spoke to a capitol hill reporter for an update on the situation. prescod joining us on the phone from phone from the washington post newsroom is someone who covers congress. thank you for being with us and what has been a very busy day. guest: it has indeed. we started out today th