the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman have a motion? mr. grothman: i'd like to move adjournment. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands

adjourned until 9:00 a

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good morning and welcome to washington journal. the house will gavel in ad 9:00 a.m. we start with an article from axios that says senate democrats on wednesday squashed impeachment charges against alondra mayorkas, an end to the gop's attempt to oust him. democrats saw the impeachment as political theater but republicans argue it it sets a dangerous precedent. let's take a look at

senator schumer said in 2020, a fair trial has witnesses, a fair trial has documents. a fair trial seeks the truth, nothing more nothing less. i will not assist senator schumer in setting our constitution ablaze and bulldozing 200 years of

precedent. therefore, i object. >> objection is heard. >> i raise a point of order that impeachment article one does not allege conflict but rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor. and therefore unconstitutional. >> under the precedents and practices of the senate the chair has no power or authority to pass on a point of order. the chair submits the question to the senate. is the point of order well taken? the republican leader is recognized.

the irobject any should not be lost on anyone. senator thom till is. democrats don't want to have an impeachment trial for secretary mayorkas after they rushed the impeachment process against president trump. senate democrats refused to do their constitutional duty. they left him off with no trial, rolling out two centuries of

december dent. we will remember this. and senator mark warner, i am glad to see us move on from that totally impeachment hearing. it's time to get back to work creating middle class jobs protecting our election security and keeping our word to our partners abroad. and just a reminder of what those impeachment articles were, this is from the house, the two articles were the first willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and second, breach of the public trust. we'll go to your calls and get your reaction starting with aaron in florida, independents. caller: thank you for picking up my call. i could see why they went down the order of removing certain articles. if we are in court case.

and the thing i just hope this country at least figures out what is going on. the poredder does need to be fixed. thank you for your time. host: diana is next. caller: my father works for the defense industry and worked on the b-2 bomber. our families actually became gnat liesed citizens for fighting in world war ii and my grandmother became a natural citizen in 1943. in california and.

[indiscernible] host: i'm sorry you are struggling with that. that is not our topic this morning. caller: good morning, i would like to say that immigration, senate republicans talking about it is played out. most people don't know this. one is asylum. when you come to the united states by any means necessary you want asylum. you have to be processed. immigrants are not affecting my rights. i welcome immigrants. all those people who died on the bridge in baltimore, i welcome them.

asylum and mayorkas is following the law. host: jim, a republican in florida. caller: democrats going to realize the barter is one of the main topics who is going to be elected in november. they act like citizens out there, if we don't talk about, they won't realize we have a problem at the border. if we don't talk about it, or groceries, it's too high and young people. they talk to us like we don't know. and we know that there's a problem and they need to talk about it. when the democrats -- that's an injustice to the people out

there. the border is secure. all the people we run across. you are an idiot if you don't believe there is a problem. even fast foods, you can't go through fast food anymore, it is so high. host: do you believe holding an impeachment trial for secretary mayorkas -- caller: why do you say the border is secure? how can you say it's secure? how can you say anything is secure, even if you you go somewhere and the people going to a ball game.

caller: and three weeks before the election. i guess they get what they deserve. host: speaking of republican leader mitch mcconnell was on the senate floor voicing his objection to the adjournment vote. >> madam president, we set an unfortunate precedent here, which means that the senate can

ignore, in effect, the house's impeachment. does president make any difference whether our friends on the other side thought he should have been impeached. he was. and doing what we just did, we have in effect ignored the directions of the house which were to have a trial. no evidence, no procedure. this is a day that is not a proud day in the history of the senate. host: we are getting your reaction to the dismissal of secretary mayorkas' impeachment without a trial in the senate. the numbers are on your screen.

caller: good morning. how are you? host: good. caller: i'm amazed what warner said concerning the scenario because i have family in virginia. i also have family in arizona. and my sister in arizona was telling us in 21 about the problems they were having with illegals breaking into out buildings on properties. my nephew was assaulted. it was on camera. so they didn't know where they were. my family wrote a letter to

warner and kaine and their response was almost a form letter saying that they agreed they try to make mayorkas accountable. he is not an elected official. how to fire him? host: i hear what you are saying you want nted to see mayorkas fired, but president biden would appoint somebody else that would also institute president biden's policies. caller: you are correct there. maybe we all should speak in

2024 that we are not happy about this situation. it's up to the american people and hopefully we will look through the garbage and figure out the right thing to do. host: also in north carolina in greensboroo, roy, line for democrats. caller: you all do such a great job with ""washington journal" even people complain that you are not unbiased. this is way of republicans getting out of doing the work that needs doing. they are preaching this chicken little hymnal. but couple of callers, lowest dpas prices. groceries. they are not low.

ok. the border. there is a problem. but it's largely because we don't -- americans don't do manual labor. that's why housing is so high. we can't even find the people who will do that hard work, farming, all the entry level, farming and construction now is done by immigrants. it's a manpower problem which the bill that was trying to solve it. i don't see even chinese are coming here. if it is so good here, that is why they come. we can send little units down where they're needed.

not guns playing but processing. we have all this manpower doing nothing. the military, they don't cook their own food or wash their own clothes and they had to contract that out. we only need a few and they could rotate so they couldn't whine and cry, the civilian authority is making them do this thing they aren't supposed to do. be there for the processing of all these people and it can be done so easily and spending that money wasting it for. host: republican line in easton, pennsylvania. caller: i would like to

comment -- host: mayorkas impeachment. caller: a day which will live in infamy fits the narrative on this case. that's what i have to say. host: why do you feel that way, anthony? caller: if you lie to congress couple of times to congress like mayorkas did, there is no getting back to -- in other words no reason for anything to be impeached. nobody will be impeached. host: independent line. caller: i want to comment on the previous caller from north carolina that the military does not cook their own food.

that is not true. we learned how to wash our own clothes in the marine corps with scrub brushes the social service doesn't count. and mayorkas stood there with a straight face and lied to the american people saying that the border is secure. and he did what his boss told him to do. and impeachment of mayorkas will lead to the impeachment of biden. host: senator schumer's comments after wednesday's vote. >> as suspected the republicans proved this afternoon that the impeachment was nothing more than a political show. problem was, they weren't prepared. we had offered to have an open and public debate and votes on multiple resolutions by republicans. rather than taking that time to

hold the debate that republicans claimed was imperative, they denied our fair and reasonable offer and didn't know what to do. we saw today what we saw today was a microcosm of this impeachment since day one. hallow, frivolous, political. and we felt very strongly that we had to set a precedent at impeachment should never be used to settle policy disagreements. i felt that very strongly. first impeachment i can recall, when you look at history, none were done because there are policy disagreements. if we allow that to happen, it would set a disastrous precedent for congress and throw our system of checks and balances into cycles of chaos. any time the house wants to shut

the senate down, they could send over another impeachment resolution and could create frivolous impeachment trial after impeachment trial. so i felt it really important, the dangerous precedent was not the one the republicans are talking about but the one of letting impeachment take the place of policy disagreements. host: getting your reaction to that. and curt, a republican in new jersey. caller: good morning. did we expect anything other than the democrats who control the senate obvious, dismiss the impeachment trial. you know, i listened to hakeem jeffries this morning preach on supporting ukraine, israel, taiwan, sending hundreds of

billions of dollars to support these people, yet, we can't protect our southern border. all i have to say is, f.b.i. director christopher wray confirmed 357 individuals on the terrorism watch lists from countries all over the world that entered the united states under biden and mayorkas' policies. when the blood flows here in america, let the blood be on their hands and every democrat who supports those policies. and that's all i've got to say. host: here is a text we got from scott, an independent in massachusetts. big surprise, big yawn. get to the real issues. pass a bill on ukraine, israel, taiwan and hopefully the border. clifford in alabama, democrat.

caller: yes, i have had with these republicans calling in and talking about the impeachment. this is a clown show. there is no high crime and misdemeanor. there was a bipartisan border deal that was struck between these people. and what did they do? because donald trump. he said kill it. fentanyl coming in. president obama said don't do it. and republicans stood in line and said we aren't going to do it. this was the strongest deal we could have had. they don't do anything about the border. it's what i can't understand about these people. stop this nonsense about the

border. host: deem republicans say we passed h.r. 2, why won't the senate pass that? caller: that's a problem, too. congress is not working as it should work for the people, but this border deal, there was a bipartisan deal there. there was a bipartisan deal done and do something about the border rather than just talk about. donald trump these people following this cult leader, he said no. mr. former president, we can both take credit. if you want to have credit, help the american people and talk about the border and immigrants, if you wanted something done, you should have passed that bill. the man is for himself, donald trump and he said don't do it and those republicans fell in

line. host: good morning. caller: trump dearrangement syndrome is running wild. trump hasn't been in office for three years and democrats are still managing to blame donald trump. he is the big bad bogey man. it is interesting because up until yesterday, we were told that the situation at the border was simply overwhelming that this was going on all over the world and nothing mayorkas could do about it. chuck schumer said it's a policy difference. i guess it's the democrat policies that we have an open border and said the quiet part out loud because up until now we were told we were getting overwhelmed at the border and this is a worldwide phenomenon.

a lot of these migrants are coming to the darrian gap. there are organizations like the red cross which has been a left-leaning organization has set up stations down there with instructions and maps and instructions in multi languages as to what the right thing to say to the border guards if they are intercepted at the border. this is all being funded by the u.n. and has dpon on worldwide and look like what is going on and it's not even safe to walk the streets in london or paris pause people who have come from the middle east and taken over every city. and chancellor merkel said if she had known it would have been this bad.

host: go to open forum and show you this while you are calling in. the numbers are on your screen.

>> and the prices are unfairly low. don't need to worry about making a profit. because the chinese government subsidizees they are cheating. and we have seen the damage here in america. and began flooding the market and across pennsylvania and ohio who were hit very hard. between those years more than 14,000 workers lost their jobs. i'm not going