be. i know in the greatest country earth, istory of the your view does matter. >> for more information to help you get started, go to our website, kentucky republican js studentcam.org. he is a member oe oversight committee. after speaker pelosi announced her impeachment inquiry, you called it a political stunt. has anything that has come out over the last 48 hours changed your mind about that assessment? guest: not really. i think speaker pelosi overreacted. and on pete -- impeachment inquiry is unprecedented. to call for one without having a transcript of the call, hearing from the whistleblower, that is a rush to judgment and i think it is a disgrace to the constitution.

host: what was your reading of the conversation? did you think what was said was perfect and appropriate? guest: this is donald trump we are talking about and he is not politically correct and he does things outside the box. i did not see anything wrong. the president asked about a potential act of corruption between the biden family and a -- itially you corrupt think the president had every right to ask that question and democrats say that his collusion with ukraine, we have heard this conversation before with collusion with russia. if the democrats had not already cried wolf so many times with respect to president trump in the past, i think this complaint might have more credibility with

me. until i say something that strikes me as impeachable, i am going to consider this another -- took off her call -- tout -- took call for inquiry without anything pertaining to the campaign and michael cohen, this is a new thing that popped up. host: a question asked by usa they's editorial board, if ukraine was perfect, as the president said, why try to bury it? that is a good question. i think that is something the oversight committee or judiciary committee should ask. i think that is fair game, but does it warrant a full-blown impeachment inquiry? at this point, i don't think so.

let's take the fact she officially called for impeachment inquiry. in my mind, nothing has changed. for the past year and a half, every committee has been trying to investigate president trump for a menu of different crimes.l i don't crimes. i don't think they found anything. host: take us to the house oversight committee. what is on the menu? what are your thoughts on that investigation? guest: the menu changes every day. it is a daily special with democrats and the chairman of the committee. the committee is supposed to look at waste, fraud, and abuse in government. that is something i am passionate about. quote become -- i hate to the president, but it has become a witchhunt. likeyou bring people

michael cohen before the committee right before they go to jail for lying to congress, that hurts your credibility a little bit. theink there are things oversight committee can look into. host: such as what? guest: my question is what role is rudy giuliani playing? i think that is a legitimate question. role was the biden family playing in all of this? why was hunter biden getting plate -- getting paid by ukraine? ethics rules are clear that family members -- or anyone is supposed lobby of foreign agent you have a severe conflict of interest. i know democrats are quick to always point out potential conflict of interest with members of the government staying at the trump hotel. what about the son of the vice

president getting paid by a ukrainian oligarch to do who knows what at a time when relations with the united states and ukraine are somewhat contentious? i think there are a lot of questions that can be asked in oversight. democrats have a right to ask questions about president trump, but i think republicans have a lot of questions. a jim jordan and mark meadows and myself are going to have a lot of questions pertaining to the biden thing. the president has a right to ask about corruption in his own country and i don't see anything wrong with that. host: to circle back on the first question, are you concerned rudy giuliani overstepped his role and -- or should have not had a role at all? guest: i don't know. my question is what role did rudy giuliani have? serious,t be anything but to me, of everything i have read about the transcript, the two things that stand out in my

mind our what was rudy giuliani's role? and why was biden getting paid by ukraine? at the end of the day, the potential for this to backfire on democrats again is pretty high. just like the mueller report, democrats went all in on the mueller report and it was by all accounts, a dud and then they thought we will give mueller an opportunity to come before congress and go into greater detail and it was a dud. the democrats clearly want to impeach president trump. this has been their goal from day 1. in my mind and in the minds of most kentuckians, there have been no impeachable offenses committed. host: congressman james comer with us until 8:00 a.m. the house scheduled to be in at 9:00 a.m. our phone lines are open for you to call in and give us questions

and comments. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. scott, seattle, washington, independent. thanks for hanging around since our last segment. caller: where do i begin now? i have been hanging on here for hours. politics is one thing and life is another, apparently. the only trouble you ever hear about in life comes from politicians. what about this right we have? can't we assemble as a militia, pick up arms and get rid of rogue governments like the entire 116th congress? think about it because we are thinking about it. host: are you saying you are

thinking about taking up arms against the government? caller: no. host: what are you saying? caller: we have the right to abolish any branch of government we feel is being abusive or not operating with our consent. do you understand that? host: i will let you jump in. americans will have a right and have the thisty to judge weather instance or any of the previous instances with respect to the mueller report or the president's personal life, voters will have an opportunity to get rid of donald trump in one year and my mind -- and in my mind, to start and impeachment inquiry when we are clearly in a reelection cycle, becausemewhat confusing if they are confident that donald trump is a terrible president, if they are confident he is a corrupt president, they

have the right to make that case over the next 12 months with who ever their nominee is. i think it is going to be elizabeth warren. most people in washington i talked to think the president will be reelected and last -- unless democrats impeach him. i don't think there is any need to overthrow the government or anything, but i believe the people have the right to overthrow the president in one year. they have a right to overthrow congress and we will see what happens. i think with the president's legislative accomplishments with the strong economy and with the socialist nature the democrat candidates for president have seemed to embrace, i think donald trump will be reelected unless they can find a silver bullet to impeach him and i don't see anything that happened this week that would relate to that silver bullet. host: dallas, texas, hermann, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning.

how are you doing? host: doing well. caller: my comment is whenever inald trump is in trouble and have watched you or a morning show or whatever, his defenders defend him -- they do the same thing, defend and attack. weather it is senators or -- whether it is senators or representatives or callers, defend and attack. -- he feels invincible, so he keeps crossing lines. that is the frustrating thing and then they come back on and when he is in trouble again, they defend and attack. host: what is the line you are most worried about? where has he crossed the line and which one concerns you the most? caller: he crossed the line as a started hisust

campaign with russians and making deals and stuff that he should not have been making and throughout his presidency. host: what deal do you think you think he should not have made? he should not had the people that have had the people russiason's office from talking about making the deal and he should not have had the call that we are talking about now, this recent thing that has caused -- allowed -- guest: i think that is symbolic

of the democrat's mindset. they don't like the president. they don't know that he has done anything criminally wrong. they don't have evidence of impeachable offenses, they want to get rid of him. i go back to when republicans were in control of the house and barack obama was president. disliked obama as much as the democrat base dislikes president trump. never at one time did republicans in congress try to call for an impeachment inquiry. what republicans tried to do was beat obama at the ballot box and obama won reelection. republicans continued in a constitutional way, to challenge obama's policy and initiatives, but never once did they abuse the power of the office by

trying to call for an impeachment inquiry. i think it is unfortunate we are here talking about impeachment officially. we have talked about impeachment for the last two years. now it has been called and i think democrats really don't have anything to impeach him for. host: phone lines split as usual. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. a reminder, the house coming in at 9:00 a.m. today, so we will be ending our show then and take you there for gavel-to-gavel coverage. frank in florida, republican, you are next. caller: good morning. thank you very much. c-span replaythe last night of the hearing and i noticed the chairman of the

keptttee, mr. schiff, he mentioning a manufactured -- manufacture dirt, that was the objective of president trump and i thought that was rather prejudicial. i thought the committee should be finding the truth and justice, not to have already made up their mind that it is a manufactured thing, which is not true. biden did in the ukraine was obstruction of justice. with theonversation president of ukraine is about reopening the case and trying to not the truth and justice, about anything manufactured. this all went back to 2016 and

they charged the mueller investigation, exonerated collusiontrump of any with the russians, but what biden did in 2016 has not been resolved. host: that is frank this morning. guest: he mentioned adam schiff. i think adam schiff is the least credible member of congress. he had a bad run as chairman of the house intelligence committee . if you go back, he had evidence -- 100% proof that donald trump colluded with russia and he never produced it. it was made up. that is a severe loss of leadership.to his i take what adam schiff says with a grain of salt. host: how do you feel about your chairman? elijah cummings?

guest: i think elijah cummings is a good person. i think you wants to do the right thing. i think nancy pelosi deep down wants to do the right thing. the problem is these new progressives are pulling them so far to the left, they can't stop them and the new progressives are getting so much media coverage, they are enjoying so much popularity from the base that they have caused pelosi and cummings to do irrational things. if you look at their career, they never would have done before. i have never agreed with anything policy wise pelosi has done or elijah cummings has done, but at the end of the day, whatare way over bound in they have a right -- a constitutional right as a member of congress to say about president trump and took call for.

we can have hearings, i am all about having hearings. until you get more evidence, until you know who the whistleblower was, what their motives were, is that whistleblower, in fact credible? i cannot imagine calling for an impeachment inquiry. host: brenda in south carolina, democrat, good morning. caller: i have one question i would like to ask the .ongressman i feel like everyone has heard the tape. i saw the hearing yesterday and every time something comes up that donald trump does wrong, it is the democrats, it is the democrats, it is the democrats. biden.obama, biden, the situation with biden and his and was explained over over, but they take soundbites that don't tell the whole story.

asfar as the president, it is not democrats not liking the president, it is the stuff he does. he shoots himself in the foot all the time. one day after the mueller report, he goes and makes a deal to >> thank you. welcome. and i feel like i probably don't fellow introduce my panelists here, because everybody knows who they are. left we have texas land commissioner george p. bush ho is here speaking on behalf of the bush brand. [applause] >> susan page is the washington bureau chief for "usa today" and author of the recent and currently, i guess, still biography of barbara bush called "the matriarch." of itll be signing copies after this." [applause]