Campaign 2020. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Is next. Host as Congress Returns from its thanksgiving break, House Committees get back to work on the impeachment inquiry. House Intelligence Committee releasing its report to members, voting on it on tuesday and the House Judiciary Committee holding its first public hearing on wednesday. Good morning and welcome to washington journal on monday, december 2, 2019. We would like to ask you what is your message to your member of congress on impeachment . Republicans, call 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents and others, 2027488002. You can send us a text. Make sure you include your name and where you are texting from. 2027488003. On twitter, we are at cspanwj on facebook, you can post at facebook. Com cspan. We heard from the administration from the white house in particular. A letter from the president s council and we will show you
The proceedings. We will have live coverage wednesday on cspan3. We have peter ambler, the executive director of giffords to talk about gun violence in america. Leader todd ruger, the and staff writer of cq roll call and kevin johnson, Justice Department reporter with usa today. Guest it was a year after that when the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School happened, 20 dead kids in their classroom, six educators murdered when gabby and her husband mark decided to lots launch what is giffords. It was talked at first. The politics of guns had not shifted in the way that we have now seen them. It seem like it was a step forward and two steps back. We had a lot of proverbial doors slammed in our face but we persevered. Today we are a Large National , organization with dozens of staff, offices across the country footprints in many , states. Host todd, go ahead. The democrats app taking control of the house and cite a very political popular idea behind gun control. Yet the bills hav
Washington post. He is the moderator of pbs weekly Washington Week. Thank you for being here. The impeachment process picks up again today. They will vote on that tomorrow. What are you expecting the House Judiciary Committee to look like . Guest so far, everything is moving on according to plan in the eyes of House Democrats. They feel like Speaker Pelosis timeline was to move this through the committee, have the report this week, and move it to the committee for chairman nadler to come up with the articles of impeachment. What we will see likely as articles on obstruction, abused of power, and youre going to see democrats in the coming days underscore what they believe the House Intelligence Committee has found through these open hearings and depositions. President trump, in their view, abused power, abused the u. S. Government in terms of how he operated. That is the case they are going to make to the American People even as the process plays out on capitol hill. Host not a real sur
Downpour in the desert turns burning man into a mess. This morning tens of thousands of festival attendees are stranded in the desert and more rain is on the way. It is pretty bad. There is little butterflies. A scare late last night at lax. A suspicious package gets a response from the bomb squad. A San Francisco caf÷ reopens for business after the owner says lawlessness in the city forced her to shut down. Good morning is start thank you for starting your day with us we begin in the nevada desert. Tens of thousands of people are stranded at burning man. Heavy rain and flooding has turned the festival into a soggy mess. People are sheltering in place as roads in and out of the area are closed and more rain is expected to fall today. According to the Pershing County Sheriffs Office, a person has died but they have not released any more information about the circumstances. Is annual event attracts people from all over the world including people from right here in the bay area. There is
Sake. Theyre not talking about the budget or the millions of americans who will lose paychecks in a Government Shutdown, including members of the military and air Traffic Controllers and tsa workers. Instead, the house gop is focused on hunter biden, spending this entire thursday morning and afternoon, again, just two days before the government shuts down on saturday to open their Impeachment Inquiry into his dad, the president. Theyre looking into hunter biden as well. We ask, is this time well spent. Joining us now capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and Punch Bowl News cofounder and msnbc political contribute jake sherman. There are 52 hours or so before the government shuts down. Is there anything else happening that were not currently watching on television . No, not really. There are a couple of things worth noting. Number one, the senate is trying its best to cobble together a Border Security package to ride along