a second. you can keep calling it. another place you can go to read a lot of news is the rollcall newspaper, rollcall.com. kathleen is a staff writer there and joins us on the phone to cover a couple aspects of the story. first, on the legislation that got teed up last night that will be voted on the floor today to condemn the president's tweets and statements, can you talk us through what that legislation

would actually do and the process and the timing as well? guest: absolutely. the resolution condemns the president's tweets as racist but it does not condemn the president himself as racist. that is because of house rules int bar engaging personalities against the president. you cannot malign the president himself on the house for -- on the house floor. they have to walk that fine line today as they take up that legislation. the resolution itself will condemn the president's tweets and it expresses the rights of immigrants and defendants of immigrants in the united states and expresses value for those people in the united states. it also points out that unless you are descended from native americans or enslaved african-americans, everyone in this country is descended from

immigrants. that is a specific point the resolution mix. it also quotes historical figures, presidents, john f. kennedy and ronald reagan, and their speeches and comments, including kennedy's book on immigration and the value immigration brings to the united states economy and culture. it is very pointed. expressing value for immigrants in this country. denouncing trumps comments against immigrants. host: we are expecting a heated debate on the floor of the house. you mentioned the house rule preventing members from engaging in personality with members of congress, senators, the president. do we know who be in the speaker's's chair to try to navigate this on the house floor? guest: i do not know who will be in the speaker's chair today. i know that one of the first

people to speak on the resolution will be lead sponsor tom malinowski, who himself was not born in the united states, he was born in poland. he has led the charge on this and he has said, along with other members who are born abroad but are not people of color, have said why are these women, most of whom were born in the u.s. drawing this iron from the president when i was not born here and i am a white man in the united states congress. why am i not drawing the same reaction from the president, drawing this racist comparison. host: this is house resolution 489. we are expecting the house to gavel in at 10:00 and then recess until noon, when legislative business will be brought up. this debate happening sometime afternoon. you can watch it live in its

entirety here on c-span. the other story we mentioned today is congressman al green looking to force another vote on impeachment of the president. he announced that yesterday. how would he go about doing that and when might we see that? guest: that is expected this week. he has done this for four. he forced procedural votes in 2017 and january 2018 on impeaching trump when -- whenans can hold republicans controlled congress and both were easily defeated. the timing could get complicated. he is aiming to do this before the recess this week, but he does have the procedural ability to force a vote on this and that will put everyone on the record for or against impeachment, which has been much more in the conversation and has been divisive for the democratic , when, where a previously

republicans were controlling the house, they could speak more plainly -- now they are in control of the house chamber, they are navigating this line, trying to show their unity against the president's actions and tweets, especially, but also they are not in unity about whether or not to take up impeachment. host: you mentioned complicated timing. here is timing that is not complicated. al green will be on this program tomorrow morning at 8:30 eastern answering calls from viewers. finally, catherine told the mcmanus, what we thought -- finally, what we thought we were going to be talking to you about, the contempt resolutions against william barr and wilbur ross expected to be voted on today. and you explain what that is and what happened with the timing of the vote? guest: that is now expected for tomorrow. it got bumped by this trumped

week resolution on the house trump tweakby this resolution on the house schedule. the resolution website william barr and wilbur ross for contempt of congress for refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas related to documents regarding the administration's effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. while we know that last week president trump backed off his effort to get that question on the senses, met -- on the census, members of congress say they still want the documentation, why did these executive agencies push so hard for this? was it really about voting rights? was it about rooting out illegal getgrants in an effort to information on them? this it is of note that would be a criminal contempt

resolution. they already taken votes on civil contempt. they are not backing down, even though this question will not be on the 2020 census. congressional democrats are moving forward with these contempt resolutions. host: more on that contempt resolution tomorrow on the house floor and likely in roll call newspaper. >> and traking to you live to the capitol, remarks by democratic leaders. we have been able to hear lawmakers. the questions being asked are a little difficult. >> they're tactics. our focus as house democrats is on the division that this president continues to sew. this is his plan, to take's peoples fears and tries to divide us as a country.