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the newspapers dominated with headlines about the following fromes, u.s. withdraw syria and we are learning from press reports in europe that sporadic clashes are ongoing in a battleground -- despite turkey's announcement. the vice president in turkey yesterday announcing what they called a cease-fire. we are learning it sounds like possibly.as began, acting chief of staff mick mulvaney in a briefing yesterday wasts ukraine aid mishandled -- withheld. gordon sondland was on capitol hill. according to press reports, he

breaks with the president. the white house announced the g7 in florida. we begin with the news briefing yesterday with mick mulvaney. here he -- is what he had to say. [video clip] >> we did an analysis of what other countries were doing in assisting ukraine. othere them tanks and the country gives them pillows. they are really stingy when it comes to aid. the president did not like that. those were the driving factors. he also mentioned to me the corruption related to the d&c

server. that is why we held up the money. >> the demand for investigation into democrats was part of the reason to withhold funding from ukraine? that nation.ack if you read the news reports and believe them -- mckinney said yesterday he was really upset with the political influence in foreign policy. that was one of the reasons he was upset. get over it, there is going to be political influence in foreign policy. going to happen predilections have policies and foreign policy is going to change. what you are seeing now, i believe, is a group of mostly career bureaucrats. i will participate in this

witchhunt they are undertaking .n the hill -- foreign policy is going to change. area did it one way and we doing another way. host: adam schiff to come out .nd talk to reporters today [video clip] >> i want to make a comments in lack -- in light of chief of staff mick mulvaney -- an ally outling russia -- withheld of a desire to have ukraine investigate the dnc server or democrats of 2016. things have gone from very bad the idea vital military assistance would be

withheld for such a patently political reason, serving the president's reelection campaign a phenomenal breach of the ourident's duty to defend national security and i hope every member will speak out and condemn this illicit action by the president and his chief of staff. host: adam schiff yesterday. according to the wall street journal, the president asked to the acting chief of staff to hold that briefing to announce the g7 would be held at a trump property and talk about this impeachment inquiry -- there was a need for mr. mulvaney to walk back his comments and the president personally approved statement.f staff's

once again, the media decided to misconstrue my comments to advance a bias and political witchhunt. there was asked -- there was no quid pro quo. the president never told me to withhold money until the ukrainians did anything related to the server. about lack of support from other nations and concern over corruption. the wall street journal is reporting this morning that the white house's or the president's personal legal team felt the need to distance itself from the briefing held by mick mulvaney. a lawyer for mr. trump said the president's legal counsel was not involved in acting chief of -- the reaction from capitol hill, senator chris murphy tweeting this is an

extraordinary briefing, a dare to congress to stop the integration to trump's political and financial interest into our foreign policy and let's follow up with those republican members who went on the tv and said there was no quid pro quo now that mulvaney has admitted it. what is the new talking point? curtis and marilyn, independent. your stop -- your top story from this week. caller: good morning. i am first time caller and i am so glad to get through with you guys. i have been listening to you guys for forever and this is my first time calling. i am so disappointed in this when we as awhole the corruptionw of this government going on putt now to be point-blank

in our face and no one is doing anything and it seems no one has any authority or power to take any type of action and congress, for lost with them because me, it looks like they have no authority whatsoever to allow this person in this white house with all of these -- i don't know what to call them he has underneath, but it is so disappointing. think democrats in the house are doing an adequate job with this impeachment inquiry? what is your concern there? caller: i don't think they are doing anything, this man has don doing what he wants to since he has been in office. i don't blame the democrats, i blame republicans also because

they are just as guilty for heowing him to do the things has done and they knew what he was when they put him in office. thank you for taking my comment. host: stephanie in arnold, maryland, independent caller. your top story from the week? caller: i have to agree with curtis it is appalling republicans cannot step up to the plate and see what is happening every day. upe and more evidence stacks every day. for curtis, the word you are looking for for those under trump is flunky. it is disgraceful what has been happening. knowall is rolling, i democrats are doing something. i am proud of nancy pelosi as a

baltimore in -- baltimorian. if i may segue into a brief tribute to elijah cummings, a lion of a man, someone who made me proud to be a baltimorian and a maryland or. every time i heard his booming voice, it will boom across the ages. when they look back at this era, they will see cowards and courage and elijah cummings definitely belonged to the latter group. host: let me show you and others from capitol hill yesterday the flags put at half-staff to mark the passing of elijah cummings the oversight reform committee hearing, they allowed press to come in to see his

other flowers and memorabilia left, pictures of the former congressman, late congressman and -- right there with speaker pelosi and they also had yesterday on capitol hill, his office cloaked in black. on capitol hill, they were marking the passing of the chairman of this oversight and reform committee. office astside of his well on capitol hill. elijah cummings passing away at the age of 68 yesterday. let's go to tracy in oregon, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i know you were just speaking and i wanth cummings to say as a republican and a

reformed democrat. i do feel very sad about his passing. . really did like the man democratsomment is sent a letter to ukraine during the mueller investigation and they threatened ukraine about holding up money and other things to them. how come it's ok when democrats do it, but when trump turns around and asks -- he did not demand -- that they please look into what happened in 2016 -- i don't see anything wrong with that. i think all americans want to know what happened. just because democrats don't want to find out what really they convinces

trump, they don't want to look at anything or anybody else. being anow it ended up hoax and it wasn't true about this russia thing and we need to find out what these deep state people were doing. what they did is god awful. host: tracy's thoughts in oregon. up on capitol hill, the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. was hours.closed doors for he told house impeachment investigators on thursday that president trump delegated american foreign policy on ukraine to his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. he told the new york times -- nonetheless, he followed it. trump campaign donor testified

he does not understand mr. giuliani's goals may have been an effort to involve the president directly or indirectly in the campaign. usa today this morning has an op-ed calling on these 27 republican members of congress or they say voted to impeach convict president bill clinton depending on weather or not they were in the senate or the house. you can see the list and usa today says if these republicans want to recover its values, it will be hard to take the party seriously. candidates will struggle to articulate what their party stands for. family values, not when the -- misusesrags of his power for political gain.

limited government, not when the president uses power to go after amazon, the federal reserve, state of california, etc.. group of 7 summit of major industrial nations. these 27 republican members of congress, they were either in the house and senate at the time . they voted to impeach or convict president bill clinton. let's go to joseph. your top story from the week. host: good morning, greta. and kudos to you for maintaining your composure on a day in and day out basis. in any event, the story to me that is the most important, i guess i would call them the m&m twins, mulvey and mitchell, the

waylute audacity and the they are trying to make fact out indescribable. i am at a loss for words. keep up the good work and you do work.ou do great caller: i was curious if they withdraw troops from syria, how is that going to put pressure -- around the gulf of mexico -- not the gulf of mexico but international waters like would they change from not pursuing war because a drone was shot out of international waters? i don't understand that. host: bradley, democratic

caller. we are getting everybody's top story from the week. caller: good morning, c-span. you are doing good this morning. debate, to me, it clowns.a bunch of -- right nowia they have our jobs. a tars.o buy the great rubber city now is china. i went to buy tires and they are made in china. if he used the wrong toilet paper, the democrats would try to impeach him. all this fighting and fussing and all this money being spent and you know what, trump made

his speech last night, if people would listen to his speech and his points they have done so good on, they would vote republican and as quick as i can get to the courthouse, we are changing to independent per sick ofck -- i am democrats. every little thing, they want to impeach him. host: we were showing all of you the president's rally before the washington journal began. before he went to that rally, he talked to reporters and this is what he had to say about the deal brokered between vice president mike pence and mike pompeo and the turkish president. host: on behalf of the united states, i want to thank turkey, i want to thank all the people who have gotten together and made this happen. strip.e a 22 mile

turkey, in all fairness, they have had a problem with it. they had a lot of people they could not have. they suffered the loss of lives and they had to have it cleaned out. when you start that, it gets to be to a point where a tremendous amount of bad things can happen. a process started and we started to negotiate and i think obviously the sanctions and tariffs were going to be biting. finalized --is is this is an incredible outcome. this is something they have been trying to get 10 years and they could not get it, other administrations and they never would have been able to get it unless you went unconventional. i took a lot of heat from a lot of people. even some people in my own party .

in the end, they were there. this is about the nation. this isn't about republicans or democrats, this is about our nation. host: that was president trump announcing a cease-fire in turkey brokered by the vice president. turkish government according to this headline from a turkish pause of says the operations in syria, not a cease-fire. cease-fire --g fighting looks like it has begun again. sporadic clashes is how it is being described. we will continue to monitor it. the reaction from leadership, the speaker of the house and minority leader chuck schumer to the president's announcement of a cease-fire. the president's decision to reverse sanctions against turkey in exchange for a cease-fire

seriously undermines the credibility of america's foreign policy and sends a dangerous message to our allies and it is the adversary's allies we are worried cannot be trusted. on the floor yesterday, the utah senator had this to say. [video clip] >> the decision to abandon the kurds violates one of our most sacred duties. what we have done to the kurds will stand as a bloodstain in the annals of american history. there are broad strategic implications as well. russian interests have been advanced by our decision at a time when we are applying maximum pressure on iran by giving them a stronger hand, we have weakened that pressure. russia has objected -- withurds have now aligned

assad. america is diminished. russia, you monitor, and -- russia, iran, and assad are strengthened. host: that was mitt romney on the floor yesterday about that decision. picture of the vice president shaking hands with the turkish president. the photo provided by the turkish presidency and turkey announcing it would halt military operations for 100 20 hours and inside the new york times, they note this about the kurds and syria. since 2012, kurdish forces harnessed the chaos of the civil war to carve out an autonomous region along the border with turkey. they greatly expanded their territory by partnering with

american troops to force out islamic state militants. there is some background for you in the papers this morning. let's go to mike in ohio. good morning to you. greta. good morning, it amazes me people are blind, stupid, or following their own parties. i have not voted in i could not tell you how long because over the decades, i have read about the corruption in the building behind you. let me remind people about the facts. the russian collusion ,nvestigation was done so well 14, 14 fbi investigators were fired, demoted, or allowed to resign. two of them maybe prosecuted. we had three branches of government and there are two major reports that come out and i wish people would take the time, get online, and read when

these major reports come out. there was and there is still an attempted coup to take this man out. the reason they tried to take him out is he is uncovering this corruption. can anyone say conflict of interest? , and who, pelosi's son knows how many other kids are on boards of companies that got deals with -- host: do you have concerns the president would use his office talking to a foreign leader and yougedly say can investigate this so he can use it to potentially have a political advantage in the campaign? caller: we are dealing with countries that are so corrupt. trump wants to make sure the money we are not giving out is

pissed away like it has always been before. isen is on tape stating he withholding if the prosecutor investigating the company -- that his son was on the board of. come on, people. host: he wanted that company has son was serving on investigated for corruption, that would have hurt the company his son -- would have heard the company. caller: that company was in trouble anyway because it was under investigation by its own country. we cannot even investigate our own country because it is so corrupt as hillary said one time. if i go down, everybody goes down. host: george in -- a republican. caller: this is all political noise and lost in this political noise has been the biggest story

that happened last week. an announcement china was going to buy 40 to $50 billion in foreign products from the united states. we have been blessed in this country. our farmers can produce. if these politicians want to take care of their people -- in their society and the world, they will get with this president on this trade deal, usmca agreement and work with countries like china to build our community to make sure there is more wealth for all people of the world. host: we are talking about your top story from this legislative week and dominating the headlines are stories about the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria, the acting chief of staff briefing yesterday where he talked about withholding aid to ukraine. gordon sondland's testimony on capitol hill as the white house is announcing the g7 will be held at a trump property.

lines on your screen. brenda in indiana, democratic caller. caller: good morning. my top story for this week is syria, but i would like to address the two previous callers . the one guy talked about buying tires from china. does he know president trump and ivanka trump have manufacturing in china? apparently they don't believe american workers know how to sow clothes. . to the second caller about joe biden. if what joe biden and his son was doing was so wrong, why didn't the republican-controlled congress check into this? they should have checked into joe biden themselves. why wait until now? my thing is about syria. i think it is shameful we did

abandon the kurds and this is the second time we did it. what i think is kind of interesting is last week at a campaign rally, donald trump told the lemmings at his rally that all of our troops were out of syria. there were no more american troops in syria and we defeated isis. i am not sure who we are taking out this week, but according to donald trump, all the soldiers were removed last week. that tells me for a commander-in-chief, he doesn't even know where his troops are very,think there is one very important thing that no one is bringing up about syria and that is our troops. our troops have been fighting kurdsurds -- beside the as years and they developed, you would expect, kind of like a band of brothers, a brotherhood

with the kurds and now for them to walk away and possibly have these kurds they worked with for years, have them killed. i am sure that is very sad and some having said they have been ashamed. host: after the news yesterday that the president through the vice president brokered this cease-fire, the president said they would not put economic sanctions on turkey, that was the deal that turkey got that in exchange. however, there is still movement on capitol hill led by senator lindsey graham to put sanctions on turkey and the wall street journal describes the proposed sanctions by senators. they say they would make mr. trump's sanctions look like a love tap. here is lindsey graham. [video clip] >> our envoy regarding syria to

-- sanctions by the administration are just the be a step in what would crippling journey and the way you end this is for turkey to to stop to the areas operations against our kurdish allies and reset the table. what we are doing here is we are sanctioning top turkish officials beyond what the administration did, restricting visa access to the country, asking a deep dive into erdogan's personal finances, issuing sanctions against turkish armed forces and i find it outrageous f-16s are being used to bomb a good ally. -- involved in nefarious

activity trying to get around sanctions, considering the purchase of the russian missile system to be a significant event mandating sanctions to be imposed within 30 days, prohibit u.s. military assistance, prohibit any person from purchasing sovereign debt from turkey. these are wide-ranging and hard-hitting. host: lindsey graham yesterday on capitol hill. the president is in jeopardy of losing control of his mideast policy with congress taking over. kurdishis reporting forces are shelling civilian areas in violation of this cease-fire rokita yesterday. george in michigan, independent. in --: your buddy george

you know what i have to ask you. host: are you waiting every 30 days? caller: yes, ma'am. host: putting the pressure on. march. it started in i think maybe you got an increase in your clothing allowance. i have been watching for 40 years. 40 years ago, you were walking around in diapers on the set. points --e you a few tell your producers not to cut me off if you will. host: okay. go ahead with your top story. caller: ok. this impeachment thing, i don't care anymore. nixon. through

it.er do something or drop what do they want? to impeach him, ok -- if they don't impeach him, okay. it doesn't matter anymore, just do something. all these politicians, this is why we need term limits. it is just grandstanding. we are coming up on another election, probably going to --nd a billion dollars everybody is going to spend a billion dollars on sending money to the campaigns. telling people how great all aese politicians are and -- billion dollars, we can fix a couple of roads in the country if we want to with a billion dollars. programmingf, the

and whens a think tank you had a guy that is a think tank person -- whatever that is, can you tell us what their goal is? host: we often ask that question when we have people who work for so-called think tanks, group in washington, d.c., conservative, progressive, etc. who are pushing for policy changes from .he outside modest changes in views of impeachment proceedings. houseprove of the decision to conduct inquiry. most americans have not changed -- about 1 in 10

house who opposed the opening impeachment last month now approve of the decision to conduct the inquiry based on analysis that tracks change an opinion. most of those that opposed opening proceedings and now approve our democrats and democratic leaning independents. anthony, waldorf, maryland. caller: good morning. .hank you for taking my call my top story of the week are really the stories not being covered. i listen to c-span all the time. whatever the network is. i listen to all of them. continue towhat we here is what the media wants to push. some of the good things -- the

good stories going on in our country. host: what are they, anthony? caller: one was already mentioned, the usmca. how about educating us more on those stories -- how this is going to impact us? enlighten us about what really is the unemployment rate. to me, another good story that we should be learning -- the videos that have come out about project veritas. there is corruption going on in our country and our government. i just believe there is a collusion. a collusion between the media and a party that really wants to dominate. host: if you watched our network, you would have seen the speaker of the house. she held her weekly briefing and talked about usmca. she said negotiations are

ongoing happening behind closed doors. there is not a lot of news reporting about that as the -- so they can vote yes. stills negotiations happening on capitol hill. if you missed it, you can go to our website. you can find her news conference there yesterday. nina in new york, democratic caller. caller: good morning. morning.ing this i am running late, so i will go .hrough this quick

i am looking for someone to inspire me. i probably narrowed it down to two or three people. democrats need to get it down to five or six people at this point. we have someone leading our country who is not capable of doing it. this is not the story for this week, it is the story for the past three years. i am in a very red borough in new york city. .e were inspired by 2016 rose really pushed back on impeachment. people let them know. i am grateful to c-span. i more people listened and more democrats called in because i think they are out there. inse are really trying times our nation. i hope people are listening more. i do find it incredibly

frustrating there is a lack of democratic voices. host: if you are interested in following the campaign 2020 coverage on c-span, tune in today. elizabeth warren will be in virginia and we will have live coverage of that on c-span. you can also watch on our website or you can download the listenspan radio app and to what she has to say. there is also bernie sanders in new york city tomorrow, saturday, 1:00 p.m. eastern and we will feature that on c-span, c-span.org, and the radio app. download it onto your phone. bill in houston texas, independent. good morning. i want to talk about this whole impeachment thing.

president. a new in the news, all over the place, biden bank has teachings in ukraine. trump says, you might want to look into this to read everyone gets up in arms because trump mentioned biden. that doesn't shield him from being investigated, him or his son. just because he is running against trump, everyone is saying trump is focusing on biden, it is in the news, trump did not put it in the news, the media put it in the news. now they are going to try to impeach a guy because he mentioned biden bank and his son. seems kind of an overreaction, freezing frenzy -- feeding frenzy by the democrats. fan.not a big trump

it is a big circus. caller: you disagree with it? host: they could be doing a lot more things for the people of america. caller: brent and west -- host: brent in west virginia, what do you think? top story of the week? caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. i have two stories that are tied for my top story and they are ongoing. the first one is the abject failure of our so-called news media in this country. to properly and accurately .nform the public --can no longer

all the television networks except for c-span -- pretty much except for the straight news shows on fox, if you watch of the three networks, cnn, msnbc, they are serving now as nothing more than propaganda wings for the democrat party. it really is disgraceful because we cannot have honest, legitimate, fair elections if we do not have an informed electorate, a properly informed electorate. it is also the media now that we cannot trust combined this the education system, which is teaching young people to be terrified of the future because man-made climate change and now we have children running around with anxiety disorders because they don't

think they are going to see adulthood. it is insane what is happening in this nation and around the world in terms of education. my second story is the national debt and no one in either party is talking about the national debt. folks, we have 22 trillion dollars and counting of national debt. this government has over 110 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities. sooner or later, all of that money, all of it is going to come due. host: can i ask you, do you think the president has done a good job on addressing the debt? caller: i think he could do a lot better. i plan to vote for him in 2020. i don't agree with him on everything, but i would like to

see a solid program of debt reduction because i think if anyone can get it done, he probably can because the trend has been, historically, over 20 or so years, we have republicans who propose debt reduction plans and they do not even propose spending cuts. they propose reductions in the rate of spending increase and democrats demonize and lie and talk about hate. they hate women, they hate children, blah, blah. i think trump has the ability to push back successfully against democrats. host: jackie in ohio, your top story of the week. caller: good morning. it is the bait and switch by mr. pompeo, mr. pence, and mr. trump on this cease-fire. it is not a cease-fire, they are killing people as we speak.

the genocide is going to begin, ethnic cleansing is going to begin, we will see the men and women that stood with us in iraq and syria, and the kurds stood with our young men and women saving our lives and giving died own, 11,000 of them standing next to our young men and women. the second story is listening to this hate -- the gentleman from west virginia, i don't live in the same country he lives in. i don't live in the same area. i listened to donald trump the other night, this rally he gave -- he was so upset -- obscene. liar.an is an obscene he has taken our country to the depths of despair.

host: your top story of the week and the other story dominating headlines is the announcement yesterday by mick mulvaney that the g7 would be hosted at a trump property. [video clip] criteria a lot of same used by past administrations. there is a long list of accommodations on site, ballrooms, bilateral rooms, photo ops, support hotels. proximity to cities and airports, helicopter landing zones, etc. we use the same set of criteria previous administrations have used. we started with a list of about a dozen just on paper. we sent an advanced team to visit 10 locations in several states, we visited california, colorado, florida, michigan, north carolina, tennessee, and

utah. we got that list to just under 10. from there, we got down to four finalists are senior team went to look at. i think it was one in hawaii, two in utah and mar-a-lago in florida. it became apparent at the end of that process that -- was far and away the best physical facility for this meeting. talking to one of the advanced teams when they came back and he said, it is almost like they built this facility to host this type of event. you know there are separate buildings with their own rooms separate and apart from each building so one country can have a building, another can have another and the common areas are going to be perfect for our needs down there. host: the resort set among office parks near the miami

airport has been in sharp decline in recent years. the net operating income fell 69%. the trump organization representative testified last year the reason was trump's damaged brand. in the new york times, legal experts said hosting the group of 7 summit might violate the constitution in two ways, first, the constitution prohibits the president from accepting a payment from the foreign payment -- the president is prohibited from taking payment from the federal government that is beyond his salary. in connecticut, democratic caller. caller: good morning. how are you? host: doing well. caller: the top story for me no one is talking about, including fox, msnbc, and these corporate networks is bernie sanders.

he is going to be in new york with his, back -- his come back campaign and one of the biggest stories is getting the endorsement of alexandria c ortez and the other progressive democrats and alexandria is a popular democrat in congress. i think elizabeth warren was hoping to get her endorsement and a lot of people thought that for months. deal.k it is a big i think bernie sanders has been by the media and these establishment poles -- he is not in third place. i used to work for the quinnipiac polling institute. a lot of people hang up on you and it all depends on how they question the people they are polling. when people see these polls, a lot of them are garbage.

i know most of my friends have never been cold -- polled. bernie sanders will be the biggest winner after these primaries and the establishment heia plays him down, but really is the top contender in this race for 2020. host: thomas, your turn. caller: hello, ma'am. how are you? host: doing well. caller: good morning. i have a couple questions. the first one is all the stuff going on, the american people are the ones it affects. the second one is trump says he wasn't taking his yearly paycheck. why don't the republicans or democrats turn their paycheck back in?

host: a reminder to you and others, you have to listen and talk through your phone. mr. zuckerberg was in washington yesterday at georgetown university. zuckerberg says facebook won't police political speech. here is what he had to say. [video clip] >> our impulse is to pull back on expression because we want a progress that comes from free expression, but we don't want the tension. we saw this when martin luther king jr. wrote his famous letter from a birmingham jail where he was jailed for protesting peacefully and we saw this in the effort to shut down campus protests. we saw this when america was deeply polarized about its role in world war i and the supreme court ruled at the time a socialist leader could be in present -- in prison for making an antiwar speech. in the end, all these decisions

were wrong. pulling back on free expression wasn't the answer. if -- it often ends up hurting the minority views we seek to protect parade from where we are today, it seems obvious of course protests for civil rights or making a speech should be allowed. this desire to suppress this expression by society at the time and today, we are in another moment of social tension . we face real issues that are going to take a long time to work through, massive economic transitions, fallout that the 2008 financial crisis, polarized reaction to social issues and greater migration not just here, but across the u.n. around the world and many of our issues flow downstream from these changes and in the face of these tensions, a popular impulse is to pull back on free expression.

we are at another crossroads. we can either continue to stand for free expression, understanding its messiness, but believing the long journey requires confronting ideas that challenge us, or we can decide the cost is too great. i am here today because i believe we must continue to stand for free expression. host: mark zuckerberg at georgetown university. the reaction from elizabeth warren on twitter, mark zuckerberg shows how little he learned from 2016 and how unprepared facebook is to handle the 2020 election. bernice king tweets out, i heard mark zuckerberg's speech in which he referenced my father. i would like to help facebook better understand the challenges mlk faced from disinformation

campaigns that created an atmosphere for his assassination. mark zuckerberg will be on capitol hill next week before the house financial services committee testifying wednesday, 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 3. our coverage will be there also on our website or you can download the radio app and listen along. skip in kansas city, independent. caller: how are you doing today? i want to make people aware of what is going on in the kurdish-held province of iraq and syria. it was 1894 the russians wanted access to the oil fields to the persian gulf. access to have control over the 6th largest oil world. in the

the depletion of the caspian sea, a direct pipeline to russia is now available. the united states is america has no credibility at all. -- story isp tory syria. eddie, what is your top story? caller: good morning. how are you doing? host: morning. caller: what bothers me is this whole thing with the way trump is running what i consider an openface con. he is doing everything out in the open and he is allowed to get away with it and it is supposed to be okay. i think what we need in this country is for more of the right people to step up and stand up to trump.

us people of color have accepted trump is a racist, so we are sitting back hoping the white people in high places would stand up to trump. i just wish the white people would stand up to this man because this man is hurting whole countries. host: joe in arizona, republican. what do you think? i am a third time caller, thank you for taking my call. i just want to make a comment, i really don't know anything about elizabeth warren. the only thing good i know she has done for the american people is she was in the secret history .f the credit card documentary

, to get someat opinion irotocol checked out infowars.com. host: kevin, your top story from this week. caller: i think you are finally starting to see the unraveling of the trump presidency. i think you are finally seeing some other folks speak out about this president and some of the stuff he is doing. i think the majority of americans, you have a loud, vocal, bullish minority that have been trump supporters and i think you saw in 2018 the result of that. you are starting to see democrats, independents, people scared for our america because this presidency continues to do things so on presidential.

i hear folks say i want a disruptor, but this guy is reputationamerica's around the world. people don't have faith in our country. he attacks our allies. you are starting to see folks come out. watching mick mulvaney admit it was a quid pro quo and i am listening to callers saying it is not a big deal a sitting president is seeking support from foreign countries to look into potential political rivals, it is against the law, it is completely against the law, you are not allowed to seek support from a foreign country for any type of political office, it is just against the law and i listen to these trump supporters -- i don't want to call them republicans -- they are not

traditional republicans prayed a lot of them are an hour casts -- anarchists. when i hear them call in, i see the faces in the rallies and the information and the facts they .se are so off-base it starts to make sense why he has this small group of folks no matter what he does, they continue to follow him. the g7 of his own resort and nobody thinks that is a conflict of interest? it is amazing to me. you are starting to see the end of this and hopefully democrats find someone that is somewhat moderate that can go up against him because i think it will be anybody but trump. host: independent, dion, go ahead. dion?

one last try. go ahead. caller: sorry about comment on e partisanship in the country. -- fixing oured local areas and local cities. and not worry too much about washington. it is always going to be partisan. i think that is what can heal the country. that is my only comment. host: we are going to take a break. we come back, two members of the house oversight reform committee will be here to talk about the impeachment inquiries. ,alph norman is up first republican from south carolina. then stacey plaskett. history ofthe toledo, ohio on both tv and american history tv. here is the toledo mayor talking about the city's manufacturing

history. >> i think places like toledo are often taken for granted because there is such wonderful history here. ends haveears, toledo built things. we are known as the glass city because the first big break this area got is when the glass pioneers moved from boston to toledo in 1800s, drawn by a reservoir of natural gas and sand. england glass new company to toledo and opened a plant on ash street in north toledo and it is on the exact same site today. the glass industry was important and as the economy changed and things evolved, we started

building other things, too. about 120 years ago, when automobiles started coming to market, toledo residents started doing that. that company was the largest employer in toledo for number of years. toledo residents created the first suv, the first atv. federal941, when the government was looking for the vehicle that general eisenhower felt he needed to traverse the rocky roads to berlin, the overland company in north toledo one that contract and created something we now know as the jeep. it was the first off-road vehicle ever. it is an important part of our history and a primary employer. >> washington journal continues.

host: we want to welcome back to the washington journal ralph norman, republican of south carolina who served as -- on the oversight committee. you served with elijah cummings. things come to mind about chairman cummings. he had a goodness about him. there was a goodness. people will tell you who have known him for longer than i have, you might not vote the way he does or agree with everything , but there was a goodness. secondly, he really tried to be fair. when it got heated, he would say we are better than this. that is a saying i always take with me and that is true. he will be missed. he had a presence about him when he would walk in the room. he will be missed. host: yesterday, the acting

chief of staff mick mulvaney had a news briefing and said there will be politics in foreign policy, get over it. do you agree that politics should be in foreign policy? guest: mick is great about getting into the weeds. explainhe was trying to 400 million dollars is not something we just give away. -- we have given way too much in this country over the years and he was trying to explain aid is going to be contingent on corruption, weeding out corruption at all levels. up in the got tied statement quid pro quo, i don't think that is what he meant. said our aid will be looked at, it will not be a

given and corruption is a part of it. i think that is what he meant by that. host: on capitol hill yesterday, the u.s. ambassador to the e.u., the new york times said he told lawmakers behind closed doors on thursday that president trump delegated foreign policy to ukraine to his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, a directive he said he disagreed with but he followed it, nonetheless. d testified under a subpoena that he did not understand until later that mr. giuliani's goal may have been an effort to involve ukrainians in the president's 2020 reelection campaign. do you have concerns with that? guest: this president, i think he is been wrongly characterized , particularly lately, with this whole trying to influence an

election based on what mr. biden was involved with with corruption. corruption to this president involves a broad spectrum and he is trying to weed it out anyway it can be weeded out. as it turns out, biden was in the middle of that. we want tosaying find out where the corruption is and stop it, not just in ukraine but in other countries. i think he has been mischaracterized by the mainstream media on that. what it shows is with a country like ukraine, when you have what apparently are the facts with $50,000 per month, $600,000 per year -- we have all been on boards. if that is not quid pro quo with the bidens, i don't know what is. when the average voter sees $50,000 every day and the china

connection, i don't think it makes sense. i think it is right to bring it up, i don't care who it is. host: do you think it would have helped him politically if the investigation happened? should he have used it for his political gain? guest: i don't think he is using it for his political gain. is anybody off limits when it comes to corruption? no. just because biden happens to be a candidate, anyone who has profited the way the bidens apparently has, that is not right. is it in the spotlight? yes. i think the american public sees that because it is not normal, particularly with biden saying what he did when we get rid of the investigation of the company that his son was sitting on, in particular when he was getting that money. host: he said he wanted to get rid of the investigation.

prosecutorsuring the , he said at the time, to investigate corruption, including the company his sunset on. it would have further company and his son, potentially. of ukraineprosecutor -- looking into the company he was investigating that. that is the one joe biden said he wanted dismissed. if that is not a direct conflict, i don't know what is. host: where did you read that? the other reports that the vice president said you need to be doing more to stop corruption. you need to be investigating more. it was the e.u. and other countries that wanted the prosecutor dismissed. guest: you remember when he was bragging about it, he was on the air saying we are going to hold $1 billion until this particular investigator is let go.

host: because he was not doing enough on corruption, he said. guest: it happened to be that company who he was investigating , and as it turns out now, that was corrupt. what they did was corrupt, in my opinion. and it is quid pro quo paying his son the dollars they did. it does not matter who it was at the time. corruption is corruption and he is at the center of it. he is having a hard time explaining it, he really is. if you watched the debate the other night, he was not questioned on it. it is a fact that his son was taking that type of money, which is not normal. $50,000ican who thinks every 30 days is normal is wrong. host: the white house announced the g7 would be held at a trump property.

do you believe that violates the emoluments clause? guest: what is strange about that -- and i heard that yesterday, you have far to monuments and domestic. this president has given up its other, he is not taking a dime, it is up to scrutiny. don't think it violates that. they had to go somewhere. the fact it isn't one of its hotels, let's see what it is. i'm sure the president will investigate the details, let's see what it costs and how it stacks up with other places. they are saying it violates the emoluments clause, tell me how. host: according to legal experts, it violates the constitution in two ways. you cannot have a gift or a payment from a foreign source and second, they write in the new york times, the president is

prohibited from taking any kind of payment from the federal government that is beyond his salary. host: i would -- guest: i would argue they had to go somewhere. if you had to do an offset and what it would normally be at some other hotel or area of the country, then let's look at it. let's look at the big picture. the president has given up every bit of a salary, or gifting it. i think he has to get it that he gives it up. let's play everything out and expose what is taking place. that doesn't violate the clause, in my opinion. host: we are talking with ralph norman. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. , (202) 748-8002. you can also text at (202)

748-8003. what would it change if there was an impeachment inquiry? guest: what is happening now is secret testimony. the precedent has been set with nixon and clinton to bring it before the house, set the parameters they are going to have. out and have cross-examination from other witnesses. let's have the president's folks there. let's have a fair and open discussion on this. it is not happening. you know why? the don't want to put some of the democratic congressman on the spot and having them vote. we are paid to come up. vote. constituent, he

said what do you have to show for the time you have been here? great question. we came in january 3, we have been in session 102 days. this is october 18. we have roughly 24 days. what can we show that we have done? impeachment, impeachment. on top of the mueller investigation. working onnot reduction on pharmaceuticals? why are we not looking at getting a health care plan? these are legitimate questions. in my state, joe cunningham, trump is going to carry south carolina by a large amount. cunningham doesn't want to vote on that, a lot of democrats don't. host: john in michigan, democratic color.

democratic caller. caller: it gets under my skin when i listen to this republican senator -- congressman, or whatever he is. to sit here and say he is upset with biden for his actions -- for his son's actions being on a board but you are ok with the things the trump administration has been doing since day one. i see you are smiling like it is a joke. let's take his point. he said you are concerned about the bidens but it appears you are not concerned about what the president is doing. guest: here is what i am excited about that the president is doing. look at the economy. look at the businesses.

look at the pharmaceutical drug evers, as low as they have been because generics are being passed. i don't know what this gentleman is talking about. if you are going to criticize beingresident and are upset about biden, i'm just saying expose biden. biden got caught. the interesting thing about it, his son is getting off the board. why not say there is nothing wrong, i'm going to stay on the board? what this gentleman decided -- failed to realize before he started cursing, the vice president is running for president, got caught. the public gets it, that it is not normal. if you want to go into what the president has done, i will tell you this. i am in the private sector, he has done great for this country. pelosi islan for ms.

to try to keep the narrative going that he is an illegitimate president. the american people, if they don't like president trump, have a chance to put someone else in in 13 months. we are wasting the taxpayers' money -- folks know what we can do. host: independent line. caller: good morning. i am extremely upset with this gentleman speaking right now. all of he is interested in health care, immigration, infrastructure, all of a sudden. thatve an opioid epidemic they have cared less about for three years. -- he isonstitutional breaking the constitution. you so you have 20 days left. you had three years. in two of those years, you had

the senate, the house and the white house and you talk about other issues? we also have this curtis situation -- kurish situation where we walked out on her allies. you could sit there and smile all you want but i am so disappointed. host: let's get a response. gladly point to when the committees were under republican control. it is called tax reform. we went off campus to hammer out the details. you can make the case that you did not like it. one thing you can't deny is the economy. you cannot deny the lowest unemployment. companies are coming back over here.

you can't deny that. ,hat has this administration what has this speaker accomplished in the year she has been control? she controls all of the committees because she has the votes. name me one accomplishment? can you can't do it, other than this dumb idea of impeachment. we have 20 working committees tied up with impeachment. it is crazy. i will gladly point you are record and i will point to the inactivity and the insult to the american people that you and your liberal friends support because it does not make sense. we will be 2020, doing the same thing, which is nothing. host: michigan, republican, your turn. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a question for the congressman. i want to know if anybody were

to go in front of congress and congress asked you to come in and testify and you refused to testify, would you be put in jail? that is what i want to know. if you don't testify -- if congress asks you to testify and you refused to come in, would you be put in jail? myself, but the things the republican party right now are doing are not right. just like he just said -- the congressman just said he doesn't think the president is doing by having the g7 summit on his own piece of property, i think that is wrong. that the taxpayer will have to foot that bill.

for this congressman to say he does not think there is anything wrong with it, you just spelled it out. host: let's get a response. guest: your first question, if a subpoenaed, to get the process is you get subpoenaed, if you do not abide by the subpoena, that is happening now. some are showing up, some are not. , youon't get put in jail are found in contempt. where does it go after you are found in contempt? nothing, really. by law, i guess, in the old days, you would be put in jail, but not now. the g7 summit had to be held somewhere. there is not a nicer resort than donald trump's. let's see what the cost is. is it right for donald trump to give his salary back?

tell me if that is right or wrong. he shows you the great things he is doing and the fact it is not about money with them. if this was about money, he would have never offered for public service because it has been a money loser for donald trump. the easy path would have been to stay out of the public arena. he chose to get involved and look what he has done for the country. message, what representative norman support an investigation into trump's children to see if they are profiting from their last names? trump's guest: children, biden's, children, if you are in the public arena, you get investigated. ivanka hadunior or benefited, it would've been front page news.

open to scrutiny, it does not matter what your last name is. that is where joe biden has gotten in trouble. that is one of the reasons his campaign is sinking. host: brooklyn, democratic caller. caller: i am listening to this representative and he is talking about the president's, salary, what he has given up. has given up $100,000 but has made millions. the taxpayers are spending millions so this man can play golf. he claimed that is all president obama did. guest: this president, thank god , is a businessman. he made his money long before he

got into politics. he has lost money, as far as being in the public arena. profit for donald trump -- look at the people he is employed, the families he has helped. look at the taxes he has paid. look at the jobs he has provided. instead of someone like president obama, who has been in politics his whole life. i want a businessman, who has made a profit and experience losses. someone who has been in the arena of creating jobs. government, in case you didn't know, does not create jobs. obama did not understand business. he has never been in it. he has never been a success in the private sector, in case you did not know, built this country. government did not. host: mike in new york, independent. caller: good morning.

thank you for the call. i would like to say to you, sir, i think you are lying about his salary. i think he collects 100% of his salary. until you show me his taxes, i will not believe otherwise. , thething with joe biden inquiry of impeachment. took a job -- joe forn's son took a job $50,000 per month. kurds out to dry, out to be slaughtered. it is the most ridiculous thing. you are aiding and abetting vladimir putin. that is absurd. host: we will get a response. guest: first of all, if you -- his name anybody

happens to be biden -- can take a board position and get paid $50,000 a month. if his last name was not biden, would he be getting it? no. he had a father in charge of the aid going to ukraine. if any of the listeners think that is normal and thinks he would be getting that -- he had no experience. he had been on amtrak. host: before you go onto the kurds, with the president of the united states -- would mr. trump be getting the g7 held at a trump property if he was not the president of the united states? guest: no. if hillary clinton had been elected, would something have been held at his property? no. that's why he took a tremendous

risk running for office. she would do anything she could to hurt donald trump. ties,f bill clinton's that is what she would look too. trump is one of the most transparent presidents we have had and his record shows that. the question as far as the kurds, he moved 1000 troops back and as he said, let's let them fight it for a while. he can easily move them back in. one thing this president puts a lot of importance on is the military. he takes advice from them and he will continue to do that. saidof these democrats who nothing when obama pulled back troops and now that president trump has done this, all of the sudden they are hawks on the military. they are going to criticize him

either way, he is tough enough to take it, but if it is good enough for military, he will put them back in. he doesn't tell you when he is going to leave or come back, as obama did, because he had no idea to handle it. host: democratic caller. caller: i disagree with the gentleman speaking at this time because president trump is not the only president who did not take a salary. that isnedy did not and why he was assassinated, because he was doing something to move the country for. donald trump has allowed medical to get out of hand so people cannot afford to see a doctor or do what they need to maintain their health. doing,grees with our is he is as crooked as the trump

family, because they are also taking money from china. his daughter has a company, his son, they are all making money from foreign countries. we should not pay for anything to happen at mar-a-lago. to hold ourr places meetings. we should not pick up the bill and trump is making money and running this country into degradation and all kinds of chaos is going on. guest: ma'am, i respect your question, but your facts are wrong. if you say he is hurting poor people, why is unemployment the lowest in 50 years? why have wages gone up across-the-board? why are businesses now thriving that have not thrived in the last eight years? the growth compared to gdp shows the numbers. i would take issue with the fact you said health care, do you

remember, it was under obama who said you can choose your doctor or keep your health care plan? that because of obamacare health care prices are spiraling out of control. that is why we need to be concentrating on the things we can make a difference on, like reducing health care costs or having a plan. what kind of plan has been in place since pelosi took over? nothing. there won't be one because they are intent on getting this president out. i disagree with you on mar-a-lago, having the g7 summit there, they had to go somewhere. let's show it. let's see what the price is and see if he is profiting from it. all of the presidents have to take a salary and then he gives his away. i don't know if john kennedy gifted his salary away. host: have you been behind closed doors for these depositions? guest: yes.

host: can you tell us what it is like? guest: it is a witchhunt. you have been there every day? guest: i went yesterday and they are trying to pull things out of people to try to create something. it was really funny to hear adam schiff parse words. quitifferent ambassadors because of pressure. this president has the right to choose any ambassador he wants. they serve at the pleasure of the sitting president at the time. said this is a joke. this is an insult for all of these congressmen, the one for excluded and would not let in, but we had about 25 in their, to get a paycheck and listen to this kind of parsing of words. we have so much work to do. host: you were there for the entire day?

guest: i stayed for about one hour. host: that was the first day you went and you were there for one hour. why not participate more? republicans have argued that you don't like the procedure, why have you not been there to participate more? guest: we have different committees in place. we have other events that all of us have. it ought to be opened up to everybody. my name was on the list because i was on the oversight committee. let andy diggs in. they stopped. what are the democrats hiding that they don't want to be seen? let's have an open and fair process. let's have cross examination. let's have witnesses on both sides. mckinley, the ambassador i saw yesterday, he got exacerbated with adam schiff trying to

create smoke, or trying to find every little word to indicate donald trump was doing a bad job -- he resigned because he is an older gentleman and did not want to do it anymore. host: yesterday it was gordon sondland, to to go to any of it? guest: no. i had another event. host: thank you for your time. we will speak to a democrat on the oversight committee, virgin islands representative stacey plaskett. we will be right back. ♪ c-span's campaign 2020

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reflections from individuals in the past day and the thing that stands out so much about him is he was a man of god. people talk about the fact that both of his parents for sharecroppers and they came to baltimore, he was born and raised there, but what is more important to know about his parents as they were both preachers. he was raised in that and really demonstrated it. many people talk about it but he walked about it. across the aisle, everyone has to say elijah cummings was a fair person. even if you did not agree with them, he always stood for what is right. i set right below him and this congress and oftentimes felt hee, he is such a gentleman, needs someone who is tough to be there. not that he needed the protection, but i felt like that was my role because he was so kind.

you felt oftentimes the people were taking advantage of that on the others. that he would want to be so fair -- i would say to him, chairman, they are not going to be as fair to you as you are to them. let's use this rule, let me make a motion. he would say no, i don't wanted to degenerate to that. these are tough issues, let's try to do it in a fair manner so at the end of the day, when people look back on this, they can't ever say we did not give the other side a chance. host: do you think that should be prescribed to the impeachment inquiry because republicans are saying without holding a full house vote that the democrats are not being fair to republicans and the president and their ignoring president. guest: i don't think this is the same precedent as was and some of the others. for example, in the clinton impeachment, there was a special

prosecutor who worked on this for quite a while. and then brought the information to the congress, at which point we took a vote. we have not had a special prosecutor working on the issues of the ukraine and some of these others. we have done the investigation ourselves. after that investigation, there might be a point in time where we take a vote where we say, yes, we are going to bring this to the public and let them see what we have. host: why not allow cross examination by white house lawyers in these depositions? it is another issue were republican say democrats are not being fair to the president. guest: this is not a criminal investigation. under criminal law, there are things that individuals would have to have an he would have to have cross examination. under a criminal investigation, we would take away his liberty in terms of being able to put

someone in jail. here, this is not in the same manner. we are having in the patient inquiry, which is something the legislature and the congress is allowed to do and there are no rules in regard to that. the president has his party and everyone of these depositions. i was in one of the depositions and the republicans and their counsel had numerous questions for the witness at that time. host: how many have you attended and for how long? guest: i was at the deposition with the former ambassador to the ukraine and i was in there for several hours. host: did you go yesterday? guest: no, i had a hearing. host: why have you not participated more in these depositions? guest: some of the depositions were going on while we were on recess. i happen to be here during one of the depositions and made it a point to be there.

the last deposition that was happening, i had hearings where i was the chair and we had witnesses, so i was unable to attend. host: who is conducting the interviews during these depositions? guest: individuals are coming with their own counsel and there is counsel on both sides that are doing the primary questioning. host: what was your reaction to the acting chief of staff mick mulvaney's news briefing where he said politics does play a role in foreign policy? guest: i think it is an interesting statement he is making because we know that when an individual comes into office, their policies are the ones that are being acted on and those policies, of course, a republican's policy will be different. manner,that in some people's political leanings do dictate. what i think he is confluent and, again, is the difference

between politics and campaign. the things he was interested in art related to a campaign. i have his statements great fear for mick mulvaney and some of the statements he has made because they do seem to go against campaign finance laws and the emoluments clause. had.ther discussion he those are things we will have to look at. i, as a democrat, may have a different view about how we should act in other countries, but that is not allow me to bring my campaign or political election activities in that foreign policy. host: the chief of staff after that news brief put out a statement to clarify his remarks and he said, let me be clear, there was absolutely no quid pro quo between ukrainian military aid in the 2016 election.

guest: i know that is a phrase they love putting out there -- quid pro quo -- but what we do have is them saying if you do this, the allegation we are looking at in this impeachment inquiry is saying we are holding taxpayer dollars in an amount the congress, bipartisan, both chambers, have agreed are supposed to go to a foreign country that is our ally, that is fighting against a foe of ours, russia. i don't think many people realize russia is our foe, and we will hold that money back from you unless you do something that will benefit me, personally, in a political election. that is wrong. that is in fact what we are hearing the president say, mick mulvaney say, as well as many other individuals that are now coming forward. host: we will go to jack in tennessee, independent, you are

up first. go ahead. caller: they picked the right person to get after trump. he is a very crooked person. base foriling up the trump. as an independent, i am a 79-year-old vietnam veteran. trump is the second best president we had behind reagan. i hope they vote to impeach him to help him. he could not have purchased the advertisement this has been for him. host: i just want to point out two things he said. he is talking about adam schiff. the criticism is he did theparody at the top of the hearing. did you agree with that? second of all, the whistleblower met with committee staff before he officially launched this

complaint. one, -- first, i want to thank you for your service to this country, you said you are a vietnam vet and we appreciate what you did. you thatagree with adam schiff is crooked. there has never been any allegations of misconduct about adam schiff. i think you have to give some kind of evidence for why you feel that way and whether you dislike him or not, or dislike is politics, that is not make an individual crooked. -- het think adam schiff is what hedy, that wanted to say at the hearing and members make a lot of comments. i don't think it was crooked for the whistleblower to talk to members of the committee. that individual is free to speak

to whoever they want to speak with, whether republican or whoever. as for impeachment, this is something that many of us have not wanted to come to. i have not been one who has, elected, president was who wanted to impeach him. that is ridiculous. i don't have to agree with you to respect the office and the fact you were elected. many of us have come to the point where there are allegations that have been made, that have been substantiated by several people, that are credible, that are building on what we already know that leads us to the point where we have a constitutional duty to make an inquiry at investigate those allegations and that is what we are doing. i think it is sad we have come to this point but what is really

sad is the president has taken us to this place. host: the third complaint against adam schiff is part of the censure that republicans want to put on the house floor. it was said that adam schiff lied on multiple occasions when he told reporters that he and his committee staff had no contact with the so-called whistleblower when in fact they had. guest: that is something that procedurally we will have to take up. the democrats are in the majority at this point and the floor is being managed by the speaker, as well as mr. hoyer and mr. clyburn. pennsylvania,n republican. caller: good morning. host: good morning. intor: my daughter swears the united phase -- united states air force today and i'm so proud.

daughter we are proud of her commitment to the country and that is an amazing feeling he must be having. caller: thank you, it truly is. you are so educated and you are so polite and i am a conservative, that means i respect god, the united states and life. ,dam schiff did not do a parody he was lying and he got caught lying so he changed his tactics. my bottom line is, everyone i know, we are no longer falling for the democrat tricks are lies, and whether you think you are doing this honestly out of what is the right thing to do, most people i know see it as the democrats will do nothing -- i mean, will stop at nothing, the ends justify the means. the american people elected donald and they will again in a

landslide because we now see through the democrats' dirty tactics. guest: you are attempting to demonize one person, that being adam schiff, and this was a decision made by multiple individuals and having multiple caucus meetings. many of us came to this conclusion that we needed to go about impeachment very reluctantly because we do not willto do something that seem to be purely political. some of us were very reluctant and sad to have to come to this position. i don't know if you've seen the editorial that was done by moderate democrats on our side of the aisle, who all had military or national intelligence -- having worked through intelligence groups through their careers before coming to congress, who

reluctantly came to the conclusion that what the whistleblower said is something we to look into. it would appear, unfortunately, that each one of the witnesses and other individuals coming ownard, and the president's admission on television, is that, in fact, he used tax bear dollars -- taxpayer dollars to get the president of ukraine to do something that would personally benefit him. that is not something the constitution allows and not something that we as members of congress can allow this president to continue to do. if it were a democrat doing it, i would help congress would also see that person was doing something wrong and potentially having an abuse of their powers. i think that is the concern we have. we need to be fair across-the-board with whether the president is a democrat or

republican. watching the transcripts and seeing what happens in watergate, many republicans came to the conclusion after hearing the evidence that there republican president had committed high crimes and treason -- hi misdemeanors against the united states. along, we might see other republicans coming to that same conclusion. hope we would rise above partisan details. denver, colorado, democratic caller. caller: good morning, representative. guest: good morning, sir. caller: i was thinking about your beautiful home about the virgin islands. guest: thank you for your concern. caller: thoughts and prayers to

everyone there. i got thrown off track by some of these republican calls you are getting about adam schiff line. all, they don't understand the distinction between paraphrasing and a parody. he clearly paraphrased what the president wrote in the memo. it was the exact same context and it sounded like a mafia shakedown. context ofn the mafia members saying the same thing. that is paraphrasing. that out of the way.

you guys are doing a good job. the president is unfit. it became clear in the session perp losey had to walk out. -- it became clear in the session when nancy pelosi had to walk out. thetweets, everything shows signs of a mental decline. we went through this with reagan. havenot a doctor but i studied psychology and have a masters degree. we all know when someone in our family is mentally sick. we can't make a diagnosis. we know when something is wrong with them. and ashamed of his children the base because they know if something is clearly wrong with the leader of the free world. guest: thank you for your comments.

the memberst, what of congress are looking at in this impeachment inquiry is the actions of the president and not his mental state. i would not want to go into that area at all. you spoke about the virgin islands, the virgin islands is still recovering after the hurricanes. we have billions of dollars we are waiting for from the federal government. it is difficult for me to be talking about this, knowing federal agencies are holding the purse strings on hundreds of millions of dollars for people in my territory. should we not even make the inquiry, history will not look kind on us. leadership requires us to sometimes do difficult things. the oversight in reform committee, which was until

yesterday chaired by elijah cummings. we have a duty to do our job. we all swore in oath of office and we are following through. we are having these depositions behind closed doors because we don't want the partisan ranker to be involved in the conversation. we don't want to allow members to grandstand or use talking points in their five minutes to not do the right thing. host: another issue this week has been the supreme court cases . why is this important? guest: thank you for bringing it up. this week, the supreme court heard arguments on the insular cases. they are a set of cases that were decided in the early 1900s at the supreme court.

the decision-maker, the person who wrote the decision was the same person who wrote plessy v ferguson. people who live in the territories are alien races who cannot understand anglo-saxon principles of law so they cannot have the same rights as americans living in the united states. we know that theory not to be true. however, the federal government botheen relying on them, democrat and republican administrations in their treatment of the territories. we are asking the supreme court to overturn these cases. congress had the ability to turn andnd turn off citizenship rights for people living in the territories. the anglo-saxon -- an

individual's citizenship and rights go with the land. it is been important the supreme court was even willing to hear these cases at this time. the members of the territories introduced a resolution, condemning the insular cases and are hoping members on both sides of the aisle -- we have members of the territories. people immediately think we are democrats. that is not the case. both in my own islands of the virgin islands and the other territories. the top two elected officials, the governor of the member of congress usually members of opposite parties, republican and democrat. understandricans to we are very much americans. we fight in numbers greater then the united states per capita in going to war and making that ultimate sacrifice for our country.

we want to have the responsibilities, as well as the benefits of being american. host: have you been assured of a house vote by nancy pelosi? guest: we have not. we introduced it this week and we will bring it to her and we are trying to get the cosponsors to bring into to the floor. host: new york, independent. caller: can you hear me? guest: yes, sir. caller: i don't believe there is enough evidence to impeach the president and get him out of office, that's not going to happen. if he gets reelected, i think he will do a lot for this country. the democrats and the republicans screwed americans when they passed the free-trade agreement. george bush started it, clinton passed into law, made the free-trade agreement. those guys knew -- the rich are

going to move the companies south and get cheap labor. it is ridiculous that nobody sees what happened. thatou have a guy in there wants to do away with the free-trade agreement and get the country great again, and it would make the company great again. it is interesting he brings the trade issue up. with theeen meeting democratic coalition. we have been trying to get concrete principles that are in the new trade agreement and have been unable to get them. we want to make an assessment about what it is and what it does not look like. i have to disagree with the caller because i think the president is in favor -- this is another form of nafta that he has been working on. if you write a contract the same way, it is the same agreement.

mike in texas, republican. caller: how are you all this morning? say i don't know what you democrats are up to but it is not going to work. there is no wait you will ever impeach president trump. he will get reelected at the next election. why waste your time with that? why not do the job you are supposed to be doing? host: i am going to jump in because the house is about to come in. most respectfully, impeachment is what the house does that determines an individual has in fact done things which could be allowed

them to be removed from office. it is a vote that the house takes. it then goes to the senate and the senate holds a trial to determine if in fact the president should be removed from office or someone else should be removed from office and that impeachment. it is a two-part process. the house is doing our part because we believe we have a constitutional duty to ensure the president has not abused his power, and we will see where it goes. we don't know if we will vote to impeach him. we are reviewing the evidence. passed many bills. we have over 100 bills that were passed in the house related to , votingare, education rights, campaign-finance reform and we are waiting for the senate to take that up. you should ask mitch mcconnell. host: the house is about to gavel in