Outcome of the election now hinges on 4 states where mainly postal votes are being tallied. In other news the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation intentions ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into the tikrit province following in attack on a military base. Welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 Electoral College votes away from the u. S. Presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump now really won 4 years ago biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes while donald trump has 214 now remember the magic number to become president is 270 here in yellow you can see the state still in play nevada in the western georgia and North Carolina in the south and up there in the northeast as pennsylvania powers lot of legal action in several states over the votes still being counted well lets look at Georgia State stream really close race there doldrums initial lead has been steadily falling most of the remaining votes are from
Heritage foundation Nick Lawrence and friends of the orte discuss the Trump Administrations plan to leave the plan to leave the paris climate agreement. The u. S. T wednesday, house of representatives will do something it has not done in 21 years, hold a public hearing on the impeachment of the president of the United States. Good morning. This is washington journal. We would like to know your expectations for that hearing. What do you hope to learn next week in the two hearing set and what do you hope or anticipate the outcome may be . Democrats call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. And for independents and others, that is 2027488002. You can also text us, 2027488003. Make sure you let us know where you are texting from and your name. cspanwj is how you reach as on twitter and facebook. Com cspan. A headline this morning in roll call, open impeachment hearings to begin next week. Katherine tullymcmanus writing the house will move into the public hearing phase next week. Bill taylo
When you heard the news yesterday that the phase would switch to a public phase, what were your thoughts about your expectations for those hearings . Guest first and foremost i was surprised how quickly they are coming. This timeline is moving so fast and is surprising a lot of us who follow this on a daytoday basis. How fast this is proceeding and how fast emigrants want to make their case publicly. Host people they were interview next week have all testified behind closed doors. What do you suppose the committee hopes to draw out to public that they did not enclosed door hearings . Guest democrats want to hear what they have heard behind closed doors. They are willing to move on this quickly because they are confident in the case they have, the testimony they have received in those depositions. Republicans are hopeful that they can use the public opportunity to show confusion or armor between the corroborating witnesses about what they remember to try and get some confusion and chunk
We will hear testimony from dr. Carla hayden. This is a little more than an hour. [indiscernible] chairs the committee for the library which is particularly helpful that you could be here with us today and also a member of the committee. This is particularly valuable in her role that we will be in the discussions we have been having. These types of oversight hearings. We want to give the agencies that help they need and we are glad to be here with the library and, dr. Carla hayden, with mr. Karyn temple,d the registrar of copyrights. Thank you to all of you for being here. I think that i want to talk primarily about the modernization. We had a chance with dr. Hayden to talk about the Physical Plant to ideas of making the library even more of an experience for people that visit there. I think we want to talk more about how the modernization of at the libraryts are coming together and how all services are being benefited by that. The library performs a lot of functions for us, historical
About suzy welcome to conflict zone thank you very much and welcome to the i. C. C. Thank you the u. S. National security adviser john bolton has said he wants your court to die and he is happy to help bring about that demise do you realize what a serious blow that is to your work it is not a serious blow to court or small because of 123 States Parties to it too strongly supported this is the most powerful country in the world and we want them to be part of the court theyre not and they wont and we hope there will be we will not cooperate with the i. C. C. He said we will provide no assistance to the i. C. C. We will not join the i. C. C. We will let the i. C. C. Die. Only after all to all intents and purposes the i. C. C. Is already dead to us now he said to you you want them to join this is the answer couldnt be clearer couldnt start the that is the answer from the moment we are confident that. There will reconsider we are competent about something thats based on one hand they tell m