impeachment: cory of trump president trump. that went out oversight and reform committee members kentucky congressman, and california congressman ted lou. be sure to wipe cspan2 washington general. live at seven eastern on friday morning. join the discussion. here's a look at our live coverage friday. the house returns at 9:00 a.m. eastern on cspan2 to continue to work on and senate passed for boulder ball friending. later at 330, former national security advisor susan rice, will be speaking at the texas tribune festival in austin. on cspan2 two, the president of columbia will discuss his country his future and relations with the u.s. it's at 8:30 a.m. on cspan2 three efforts to protect the 2020 election from interfering. the house judiciary hearing gets underway live and 9:00 a.m. eastern. >> we are in detroit at the

university and we are joined on board by richard burr of the detroit news. in morning to you. first on the impeachment story that has consumed capitol hill thisfi week. one angle of that story has been that the shift to the democrats towards actively supporting impeachment and several of those who have moved in the direction over the course of that past week. they reside in michigan can you talk about that and how that move by those three democratic members of congress is being received in the will ring state. >> prior to the last week, we've had for out of michigan's seven democratic house numbers who had supported impeachment. within a rapid span of a few hours, over monday night and into tuesday morning, the final three democrats who had not supported impeachment, stevens

and fatman, who are freshman and one republican state in 2018, and the debate dangle, who represents a fairly solid democratic district but has a fair and number of trump voters and blue-collar voters, they all swung around and let's be careful here, they don't necessarily support impeachment at this.but what they do support is an inquiry. we've had at least a few republicans say that they support an inquiry but at the same time, at least one republican on the record, the delegation is staying that he thinks this is the witchhunt. democrats won't be satisfied until they try to kick him out of office even though he makes to be elected.

>> is there anyone left in the democratic the delegation from michigan that doesn't actively support and impeachment inquiry? >> right now one of the fuzzy his position as the one running for reelection in 2020. in this senator repeaters. in the first term senator. he is here from the metro detroit. basically he indicated that eddie was supportive of the house and that he would watch what they were doing but he did it outright call for impeachment inquiry ort support. he is kind of keeping his powder dry. he's probably doing that in part because he already has a republican opponent who actually did quite well against an covenant debbie's cabin out in 2018. chile lost by six points.

most polls shared he was going to lose by double digits potentially. because it is as a fairly strong republican challenger, he's probably just a pain the territory. to be fair to senator peters, he's always been a very cautious campaigner. so it's not is it too much of a surprise that he be cautious on something likeuc impeachment. >> a detroit news richard burr cspan2 s. battleground tour. calls on michigan politics and how the story is playing in michigan. we set aside a special line for michigan residents. 202 - 740 - 8000 and three is that number. we invite all of our viewers to call in on that topic.

227,488,002. for independence. folks are calling in. what is your sense and impeachment inquiry story having a big impact outside of the washington bubble. and there on the ground in the battle state. the story like the uaw strike at gm. rimore important story in your state right now. >> i think anytime you have something that involves an impeachment with that word. it grabs people his attention but to be fair, the more than two years now there may be something about an impeachment decay. i would say there may be other things more important at the moment. were approaching the second week of the generating and talks have

picked up. it has emerged in the presidential issue. we've had at least three candidates who come to michigan and visited. the picket lines here in michigan at the detroit assembly plant, we've got overture, elizabeth warren and then yesterday, bernie sanders who flew in for a quick 20 minute visit. are the others who on the picket lines, wisconsin, former vice president joe biden. they all came here staying we want to show ourselves here with the workers, they should be getting more. i'm not sure, impact this really having on this. thus their own continent dynamic. they felt the newly need to come here.

to show some kind of solidarity with the working class. >> remind us what originally prompted that strike and what does the length of the strike and the attention does not say about the strength of the union. heading into the 2020 election and on the ground there in michigan. >> reportedly the issue that set off this crisis was that workers felt like they should be getting more compensation and that they had made great sacrifices ten years ago when gm was going through bankruptcy. i'm notoi sure if that was all f the reason for the strike. there was a lot of permanent on the ground here, a lot of complaining prior to the expiration of the contract. jim actually did make a fairly generous offer. before the uaw decided to go on strike. with the complicating factors here is that there is an ongoing

correction. it's by federal agents that's resulted in at least nine uaw and automaker officials pleading guilty to various corruption charges. meaning to prison sentences. they are still ongoing investigations including fbi and the irs invaded the homes of former president dennis williams and current president gary jones. so one of the complicating factors was the strike is that the rank-and-file may not trust current leadership. in the current leadership has to show that they would stand up for workers. anybody was always dynamic anticipated that there would be a strike because the leadership has to show and some kind of talented bull forum that they are somehow fighting the corporation whereas former

officials, have been taking tictac and had been dipping in certain union funds. to enrich themselves so they have to report. >> little bit of time left and a lot of followers for you. will try to get as many as we can. >> good morning cspan2. i just want mr. burr to really use his words carefully. because he said trump was duly elected. dump was duly elected by the russians. there was a lot of collusion. >> with god that comment there. mr. burr was there any sort of response wanted to give. >> all i can tell you is what was in the' special prosecutor his report which was the russians were tempted to

influence thehe election. everyone has said that they did not change any votes. few actually going in and changing bits, were guests in the system. how much russian and on facebook really influenced people to vote for donald trump over hillary clinton or the sign for delivery. candidates who knows. there's a lot of noise out there. but, since no voting systems were hacked. or actually manipulated, all of the votes were clarified. we just have to get to the fact that president trump was elected president. >> a lot of noise in presidential campaign. a lot of attention is being left based on the role brain state.

sixteen electoral votes that are up in 2027, 24 million registered voters as of last year. in michigan and president trump winning the state with 47 and a off percent of the votes. as back in 2016. as battleground state. this cycle and we are focusing on it as part of our battlegrounds or this morning. richard burr aboard the cspan2 bus is in north carolina. i'm sorry, david is in north carolina. david go ahead. david: a question then a statement. when i was in school, they told me that representative system was set up because not everybody can travel to washington and participate with legislation. okay, we've got unions and my question is now we have media, can't we wire the rest presented the system and do the legislating ourselves with our consensus on social media

platform that the government should provide already? and, have at town hall meetings from each representative for years now. for an hour a month and none of them are obliging. my comment is they are fired. i didn't really have good question so thank you. >> mr. burbage liked pickup on. richard burr: he wants to change the way people are represented in congress. you have to change the constitution. you have to get a consent in their more than the majority of the state to do it. i would just note that a republic has set up as a forum of representativeub government. in which direct representation of the people with representatives hud of a broader forum of representation was set up inf the senate. check and balances.

congress and the judiciary sony forum of direct democracy, actually runs counterintuitive. the founders of the system. they didn't want what they considered potential orth kind f a mob sentiment to rule the country. social media seems that it would eventually be a cracking. left.hout the minutes aboard the cspan2 bus as part of our battleground toward. he is there in michigan at wayne state university in detroit michigan. taking your phone calls. >> mary and report pennsylvania a democrat. goodoc morning.

i really don't have a question, i'd like to speak to the american people both republicans and democrats. i would like to advise them to please listen to trump says. the actual substance of what he says. if it isn't about how criminal or present. it's about how brave he is. no one group is all anything. he never answers the question. he is just no common sense. it's like listening to gobbledygook. he has his children in the white house. full salaries. they really have no purpose. his exaggerated ego and narcissistic personality constantly needs watching. if they don't do this, they are out. you see the turnover in the white house. it is happening. and the president did rake the

boat by intercepting the whistleblower complaint which he it's not supposed to do. that is against the law. supposed to go directly to the senate. and encouraging the department of justice to bury the complaint. >> richard burr focusing on the politics of this in the battleground state, of michigan, what issues does president want to fight the 2020 campaign in michigan and where is that he wants to go geographically despite that statement to keep it in his column in 2020. >> richard: it would probably be running on taxes immigration and also be running on his record arguing that people are doing better today, little bit better today than they were four

years ago we need took office. geographically, where he needs to do well, last time what he did was he basically picked off one of the three major metropolitan detroit. macombun county. it's a swing county intends to swing republican. he did very well in rural and out state counties meaning any area for those not huge concentrations of people. and he needs to do relatively well in west michigan which is traditionally been a republican area but is gaining a little bit more support among democrats. and he has a little bit of a something of an uphill climb.

there is a pullback late may, that shared that voters were asked to vote for one of the other and they went 51 percent 38 percent staying they would vote for somebody else. but as experts like to.out, you don't run against a mythical unknown candidate, you run against actual candidate. and ahead pairing, joe biden has been upon president trump by about 12 points. bernie sanders was up 12 and elizabeth warren was up about four points area i'm sure the spreads have changed. he faces a little bit more of an uphill climb here because democrats are much more energized this time to turn out.

they were not as energized in 2016. because hillaryin clinton was a polarizing figure and she just didn't seem to capture in the imagination of enough democrats and allowed president trump to sweep through. we need by 10704 votes which is actually less than two tenths of a percentage. >> just a few minutes left. >> good morning and thank you cspan2 for taking my call. i want to say that you are doing a great job. these democrats, they ate the truth. >> just talked through phone and finish herou comment. >> i just want to say these

presidential his was selected, they were crazy. they hate this man. look at obama, he's a divider. divided this country. donald trump won the presidency because he loves this country. >> richard burr has president trump been to michiganid recenty and is he planning on going back there anytime soon for one of his rallies that always get so much coverage? >> richard: he was last in michigan at a rally i believe in grand rapids which had a quite a turnout. i think i was back in march. if my memory serves me

correctly. i'm not sure we need is going to come back. we have them in picking up any vibes and there was an article in politico within the last week that says some of his campaign advisers are worried that he will be able s to hold on to michigan this time. it doesn't mean he will fight to try to keep up with that's why you are seeing these moves that they are trying to put other states in the play were they didn't win in 2016 like new mexico and new hampshire. that might be a little more favorable to them. >> richard burris politics and government editor at the detroit news in the detroit news .com we appreciate your time. thank you for joining us on board the cspan2 busg this morning. >> i appreciate you having me. cspan2 washington journal, live every day.

with new and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning will discuss the house democrats impeachment inquiry. with house oversight and reform committee members kentucky congressman james, california democratic congresswoman ted lu. be sure to watch cspan2 his washington journal. live at seven eastern, friday morning. during the discussion. here's a look at our live coverage friday. on cspan2 the house returns at 9:00 a.m. eastern to continue work on the senate passed resolution determinate the president his emergency declaration for portable funding. later at 330, former national security advisor susan rice, will be speaking at the texas festival in austin. on cspan2 the president of columbia will discuss its future. relations with the u.s. that's at 8:30 a.m. cspan2 three, and look at efforts to take the 2020 election from interference. astrid tishri gary gets underway like an 9:00 a.m. eastern.

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