against president trump. we will also hear from members of congress who serve on the house judiciary committee. washington journal is next. is next. host: for only the third time in our country s history, the u.s. house of representatives is slated to vote on articles of impeachment. president trump faces abuse of congress. 216 housesi needs members to vote yes to then send the impeachment articles to the senate for a trial. our coverage begins this morning with all of you letting lawmakers know how you think they should vote today and why and the house gavels in at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. we will bring you gavel-to-gavel unfiltered and uninterrupted coverage of the house debate and vote. c-span, onch here on our website, c-span.org, or download the app. republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. ,oin us on twitter at @cspanwj facebook.com/cspan, or text us at 202-748-8003. we will get to your calls in a minute. more on the rules of the
what, what have we got here, $8. revenue up, ad sales up, profits up, and there are now 2.45 billion active monthly users. it was a spectacular report. stock s up. these two stocks are helping the market but a statement from china has put a damper on things. beijing says it s doubtful that a long-term trade deal can be reached. china concerned about the impulsive nature of president trump. where did they get that from? the dow industrials down about 50 at the opening bell. s&p down six, a fractional loss for the nasdaq. then there s politics. namely, the vote in the house this morning, starting the impeachment process. this has consumed the congress. it has not consumed the market. it seems to be ignoring d.c. entirely. we will follow it and pay special attention to votes of moderate democrats from trum trump-leaning districts. will they approve removing the president from office because of a phone call to ukraine? can t wait to see. stay right there. varney & company i
the future, you will not pick out a book about winston churchill. you will talk to winston churchill. sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span s q&a. 441 days to go until election 2020. we are joined by david wasserman. of cook political report. let s start with what the playing field looks like right now. how many seats the republicans need to take back to regain control of the house and how many seats you think are in play this cycle. here s the basic math there s 235 democrats in the house, 197 republicans, one independent who left the republican party and there s two republican vacancies, one in north carolina. we expect one of them will stay in republican hands. the other will be very competitive, the ninth district. depending on the results of that special, republicans could need to pick up 19 or 20 seats to retake the majority in 2020. host: when it comes to the house map, we saw the house flip in 2018. what is the likelihood or how often hasn t happened in history
twitter.com/cspanwj, on c-span, it s facebook.com/cspan. you can start calling in now. the united states is currently the largest foreign aid donor in the world, accounting for some $25% of worldwide assistance spending in 2017, but president trump wants to cut back. here s the president from sunday. president trump: i support many of those that were negotiated out but i ve cut back a lot on countries we give billions of dollars to countries that don t even like us and i ve been cutting back a lot. we get billions and billions of dollars to countries that don t like us, don t like us even a little bit and i ve been cutting that and we ve jut put a package of about $4 billion additional dollars in. and in some case, i could see it both ways. in some case, these are countries that we should not be giving to. reporter: how do you see cutting aids as helping the united states though? does it make it safer? president trump: i don t think so. no, i don t think so. and if i thalled
eastern this morning. join the discussion. washingto continues. host: 441 days to go until election 2020. we are joined now by david wasserman, the house editor of cook political report. let s start with what the playing field looks like right now. how many seats the republicans need to take back to regain control of the house and how many seats you think are in play this cycle. here s the basic math there s 235 democrats in the house, 197 republicans, one independent who left the republican party and there s two republican vacancies, one in north carolina. we expect one of them will stay in republican hands. the other will be very competitive, the ninth district. depending on the results of that special, republicans could need to pick up 19 or 20 seats to retake the majority in 2020. host: when it comes to the house map, we saw the house flip in 2018. what is the likelihood or how often hasn t happened in history that the house has flipped in one election and then flip