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of today'sa preview first public impeachment inquiry ♪ host: it is the "washington inrnal" for november 13 and three hours, the first public hearing of the impeachment inquiry will be conducted by the house. kentam taylor and george to take questions from members of the committee and their staff. you can watch starting at 10:00 on c-span 3. monitor on c-span.org and follow along on our c-span radio app. for our program this morning, no ests, just your calls about this first day. democrats, 202-748-8000.

republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. if you want to text us, you can do so at 202-748-8003. .ost on twitter at @cspanwj on our facebook page at facebook.com/cspan. the eyes on the world -- the eyes of the world on washington, d.c. on this first day of the impeachment inquiry. here to tell us about the room and what is expected to happen is greta brawner. 2: today, this room will be for the house intelligence committee when they gavel in at 10:00 a.m. eastern time for this first public hearing. it is one of the more ornate, intricate hearing rooms and it is also the largest. at the media has been allowed

into the room at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. all the networks coming up with their correspondents to give their viewers a shot of the room , a feel for what it will be like today. they will need this large room because according to foxnews, they have reserved about 100 seats for the public. they will be rotated in and out. 150 seats for the press and 100 seats for members not on the intelligence committee. if you are not on the intelligence committee -- a member of congress, you cannot sit at the dias. you will have to get one of the seats behind the witness table reserved for you. bill taylor and george kent will be seated at the table behind me. that is where they will take the oath and they will be allowed to deliver an opening statement. they will look out from that and 9to see 13 democrats

republican lawmakers. adam schiff, the chair, will sit in the middle. it to his right will be devin nunes. he will be seated to his right. also on the committee is jim jordan, the top republican on house oversight and government reform committee and last week, he was given a seat on the panel. also, adam schiff and devin nunes according to a memo released by the chair will be delivering open statements today. the other committee members will not get that opportunity. however, they will each get five minutes. afters expected to come the extended questioning period. the chair and the top republican will split the first 90 minutes of questioning. they are expected to give much of that time to committee lawyers. we expect committee lawyers to be asking questions.

for the democrats, their counsel is daniel goldman and the republicans, it is steve castor. there will be more rounds of extended questioning as the hearing is expected to go until around 4:00 p.m. eastern time. c-span has 7 cameras to get all the different angles of today's hearing. we have been designated the pool for the hearings on capitol hill meaning we will be sending from the seven different cameras individual feeds to the networks and they will decide how they show you the room. we will do that as well and you can watch our gavel-to-gavel coverage on interrupted, no commentary, no filters at 10:00 a.m. on c-span 3. host: you can follow along on our radio app. if you are going to be out at about, go to the store that supports your device and download that. we invite you to go to the

impeachment inquiry section of our website. not only will you see proceedings taking place, but everything that has led up to this point. you can find that available at c-span.org. we will re-air this hearing at 8:00 tonight. you can see that on c-span 2. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. independents, 202-748-8002. if you want to text us, it is 202-748-8003. york, starts new us off, line for democrats on this first day of the public hearings in the impeachment inquiry and go ahead. caller: good morning. i really think donald trump should be impeached because who a foreignld asks power to do something what he did? i think it is time for congress

to do their job and do what they have to do. i really hope he is impeached. host: do you expect to watch the hearings today? caller: i certainly do. host: what do you hope to learn? caller: i hope to see for myself the two people who are going to speak today. i hope to see their testimony and that is what i hope to see. i have already made up my mind that he should go, but i want to see what they have to say. from duane and marilyn, you are next up, hello. ander: i am an independent watching these hearings today, every person in america has to realize what it means to be a patriot. , seeingarings today these people who are not partisan. i would even use the term hyper

nonpartisan speak the truth, not ,nly is trump being indicted the republican is being indicted . what people have to realize about this and i will make it very quick, being a patriot has to do with the country and not accepting anything that would taint our republic. if you are a republican, you are pro-american. if you truthfully say you support trump after this, you are undermining our republic. host: what do you expect to hear from today's hearings that you did not hear or was reported on in the closed-door testimony? what do you think will be the difference? caller: other than the words of different -- truth, the words today is seeing people in their --ironment and seeing

just watching things or listening or seeing things on paper is one thing. it is another thing when you see a person express the truth. host: let's go to donald in kansas, republican line. caller: good morning. i am a republican and i want to know how much democrats cost our country in trying to impeach trump for these last three years. i know it has been expensive. host: why is the cost of the most important thing about this day in your mind? caller: it is really not the cost, it is just ever since he has been in office, it is what they have tried to do. it doesn't seem right for us

taxpayers to be paying all this for them to be trying to impeach trump for all these years. host: what do you think about the hearing itself? will you be watching? caller: yes, i will be watching fully innk trump is the right and i think this is a week -- witchhunt. host: we will hear next from nat. go ahead. nat inrry, this is baltimore, maryland, republican line. -- caller: i have been a democrat, i first voted for harry truman. i have never seen a circus like this in my whole life. went through both of the previous indictments for impeachment and there was a

civility and a sense to it and there was a fairness. this is a circus. i am sorry. the so disgusted with entire democratic party moving all the way to the left that i has to tell you -- i have to tell you, i am appalled. host: give me a specific of what you are seeing play out in this process is different from the 1990's when bill clinton was in the impeachment inquiry? hader: when bill clinton the hearings for impeachment and -- i am so upset. had an both of them exact crime they were being .ried for it is beyond me.

so-calledquestion a whistleblower who is the one that initiated this and then he turns out to be --he never saw it or heard it? he heard it from somebody else? it is almost like a marx brothers version of a trial. giving us as nat call and his thoughts on the public hearing. the first step of the public process, many more steps involved. what we could expect in the future is -- here is a john mcardle. stayinghope you are warm today. want to start by showing our viewers two headlines to give a sense of the feeling of capital -- on capitol hill today as impeachment hearings begin.

from the drudge report, curtain up as the headline and from the left side of the aisle from the huffington post, here we go is the headline. it all begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern with william taylor and george kent testifying today. you can watch on c-span 3. murray give on edge -- marie yovanovitch recalled from her post back in may testifies on friday. we will cover that as well and we found out the next week's impeachment increase late. on tuesday morning, it will be jennifer williams, an aide to mike pence and lieutenant inman -- vindman. on the afternoon of next tuesday, november 19, kurt

volker, the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine alongside tim morrison, a national security council aid both having .estified behind closed doors the u.s. ambassador from the european union on the afternoon, willcooper -- moore cooper testify alongside david hale, the undersecretary of state for political affairs and next thursday, fiona hill will be testifying as well. that list that was released yesterday includes three of the witnesses republicans asked to testify. democrats did not accept the other witnesses that republicans had put forward including the whistleblower, the sources the whistleblower used to get his

information, and joe biden's son, hunter, was requested as well. it is the president's schedule, daily guidance coming out noting the president has nothing on his schedule this morning, nothing until noon when the president will meet the president of turkey, president erdogan at the white house. we will be looking throughout the morning for the president's tweets and thoughts as the hearings get underway. mentionede names john have put public statements out or their opening statements. go to our website, go to the impeachment inquiry section. a lot of information about the lead up to the proceedings and everything that led up on this wellam and other things as . if you cannot stay on television or watch online, we invite you to go to the store that supports

your device and download the c-span radio app. more from theut store that supports your device. gale, you are next up, hello. caller: i want to thank you for doing this, for publicizing this . i am 75 years old. i watched the watergate hearings from gavel-to-gavel and also the clinton because -- and i am very glad he is in the process of being impeached because i think he should be impeached. he did not think he did anything wrong with the mueller piece, he keeps doing the wrong thing. can i say one other thing? interrupt the hearings with the news

conference he is going to have. .e is going to try to deflect definitely publicize the news conference, but do it later, don't interrupt this, please. i am hoping you will stick with the hearings until they are done. host: we will stick with the hearings gavel-to-gavel as they start and finish. expected to conclude sometime in the afternoon sometime between 2:30 and 4:30. the president has a scheduled event with the turkish president and we will show that as well and the president very well may say things about the hearing and things he saw. stay close to c-span from all of that. from new york, independent line. caller: hello? host: you are on. caller: this is a dog and pony show. joe biden admitted to doing the same thing they are trying to impeach trump for, but for joe

biden to do it, it is okay. i don't understand. it should be the same in both. host: a lot of people have made that statement. to take aohn mcardle look at the instances in the joe biden event and with the president's conversation with ukraine. let's go to delray beach, florida, republican line caller: . caller: good morning. i have a question for a lot of people. maybe you can answer it. at this point, can the white house, member of congress, or even a citizen say a vote on the rules that adam schiff is doing is unconstitutional, blow the whistle, spiked the ball, stop the game, take it to the supreme court? host: what makes you think that is a possibility? caller: i am asking if it is

possible. can somebody say the vote that was taken on the house, which we now have a house divided, can somebody in the white house for or a citizen say this is an unconstitutional proceeding which has such a dangerous precedent, the same as when the president's attorney, ifn his office is raided, they can happen to the president, it can happen to you. host: the house voted on this process, they started the process expected to go to the senate sometime after it reached a final vote on the house side -- caller: that is the impeachment process. i am saying adam schiff's process of not allowing -- he is the judge, executioner, jury,

and he is holding the keys to who is going to speak, what they are going to say and if they are going to say it at all. host: you will have the inquiry hearings, the public hearings, supposedly it will go to the house judiciary committee. at some point, they may hold hearings in the process. if they choose to do so, they will write articles of impeachment and they will go to the senate. independent line, charlie in georgia, go ahead. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: you are on. caller: i agree with the .entleman before i am wondering are they thinking about next year, do they really

want him not to be elective? -- elected? i find it hard -- realize something is wrong with this. other than that, you all have a good day. host: do you plan to watch the hearings today? caller: absolutely. i am not like a lot of liberals that have called in already and they have already made their mind up. i haven't seen any proof. i have to make my decision when i see something. host: your mind is not totally made up on this issue? caller: it is absolutely ridiculous. the point is when a president is dealing with another foreign leader, they do and it is called cooperation. so far, this president probably

of better cooperation out all world leaders than any in the last 15 years. let's go to atlanta georgia, democrats line. good morning. trump from following day 1 and my thing is it seems like he is more about the border than the american people. everybody wants to say joe biden did the same thing, joe biden is not held to the same standards as the president.

my thing is he should be impeached. host: what do you think you will learn from the hearings today? the young man has -- when he came forth, he was not lying. think he should be impeached. i say give him a fair chance, but the american people have a right to learn what is going on in washington. host: thanks for having -- mike. caller: thanks for having me on. 3.5ve to say, they's last years has been a disappointment for myself. trust inely have no

this president. i think he does need to be impeached and i think we need to get someone new in there. the earlier caller talked about it's all about from, trump, trump. he never takes responsibility. the only thing he does is get .id of cabinet members there is so much chaos in that white house. host: if you think he has to be impeached, what do you base that on? mainly, what i think we are going to hear today and that is that i believe he reached out to the ukrainian leader and going much verbatim was around saying i will hold your money until -- i want you to say

this about joe biden. there are numerous things over the last few years. there is all kinds of stuff that has tainted his presidency. host: that is some of the perspective of folks who will be watching the hearings today starting at 10:00. you can see that on c-span 3, the first public hearings and here to tell us more about what to expect is john mcardle. to take ast want minute to dig into some of the players viewers will be watching, it takes place in the house intelligence committee consisting of 22 members, 13 democrats and 9 republicans. the oldest member, peter welch. note on those theers, when they get to

member questioning, members will get 5 minutes. that comes after that prolonged period of questioning the chairman and the ranking member will have. let's dig into the chairman and ranking member. served from 2015 to 2019, a former federal prosecutor. holds his law degree from harvard, the ranking number sitting next to him is devin nunes. 9 terms in congress, represents california possible 22nd district. has a masters degree in agriculture, former state agriculture.u.s.

what you will be hearing from him is likely some version of yesterday, this memorandum, and 18 page memorandum. here are the four key points morepoint to, look to hear from republican members today. it republican saying the july 25 phone call shows "no evidence orty or covert ukraine was not aware of the assistance. security at the time of the phone call and they say president trump -- both of that occurred without ukraine investigating president trump's political rivals. that is likely the key points

republicans will be hitting, so look for that and that from the memo released yesterday. host: let's go to joshua in ohio, independent line. joshua in dayton, ohio, hello. caller: can you hear me? i think what we are going to hear today is a position of power. first of all, it is already too late. power.s a person of we are going to realize there is nothing you can do about it right now. trump has been getting away with everything -- he is brave enough .o be out in the open with it he already has that power and there is nothing we can do. this process is not going to do anything but point out the truth

and everything else. getp is still going to elected at the end of the day. the world is like a chess game. host: with that in mind, do you think impeachment will happen? caller: no. everybody is going to fall in line. when you realize his power and everybody that is behind him and everything, the unit -- united states is behind him. host: do you think the house side will impeach him? caller: no. host: why is that? why is that specifically? caller: i was once told when you are at the top of the totem pole, there is nothing that can reach you. to everything, there is nothing people can do. you have to fall in line, that is the way life is.

all the stuff we are doing and might be true, nothing is going to happen. host: steve, democrats line. caller: i want to make a quote before i go in. butarc of history is long, it bends towards justice. this is a wonderful day in american history. i am extremely excited to experience this day and i just read about the prosecutor from the democratic side, mr. goldman, an amazing guy. host: what do you expect from mr. goldman today? things.amazing i read about how he made it -- i think it was assistant u.s. attorney and his prosecution -- his portfolio is amazing.

i think we are in a good place. we are going to find out the proof today. i think everybody should sit back and relax. possible if we have callve to debate, people in and say whatever they say -- we don't have the chance of rebuttal like people call and say trump hasn't done anything wrong. what do you mean he hasn't done anything wrong? host: what do you think is going to be different than what we solve reported from the closed-door testimony and what are you looking for when it comes to truth? caller: now we are going to hear actuallyhe people who

were in whatever incidents happen. we are hearing it directly from -- basically before they had the investigation where they had to find out if he was guilty to press charges. now the charges have been pressed. bob mueller never came up and said anything. it is a totally different investigation. host: let's hear from irene, republican line, go ahead. believe it is very serious and this is important, if everyone takes time to do

some serious reach hurts -- serious research because the media is very effectively brainwashing a lot of people to believe a certain way, especially if you lean more toward liberalism, progressivism, basically what you are doing is you are not giving the two sided coin, if you will. there is a framework going on. they are doing this deliberately, the democratic party is doing this deliberately to sabotage and discredit our sitting president. all that heto apply has done, that he would actually petty toething that is say he spoke to another country, ukraine, to tell them you need to do this and do that because he never used those words.

this is what schiff put into the minds of the people and that is what they walked away with. host: what research have you done leading up to this? for two point five years, if not more, all these investigations twisted and perverted his words. comments. able to say he is able to talk squarely into the eye of the public. if he is telling lies, tell us what those lies are. they cannot even state exactly what they are impeaching him on. host: that is irene. plenty of events taking place today. at 10:00 is where you can see that on c-span 3.

the testimony today and we hear another one on friday. if you want to follow, you can watch on television and we will do it uninterrupted when they take breaks. other than that, gavel-to-gavel coverage of what is going on. you can learn more at c-span.org . learn from the opening statements that the witnesses did in closed-door testimony. you can find other information at c-span.org. if you are going to be out, you can listen on the radio app and take advantage of that. no today, just your calls, guests. you can call us on the lines, text us and when you text, all we ask is for you to give your name, city, and state.

bill in north carolina. host: you are on. caller: i just got a comment. american trump supporters allow them to slander lifelong government and military servants when he or any of his people in his family have never served, that is shameful. these are lifelong, devoted government military servants for us. somehow all of them and everyone is wrong and he is right. it is like your 12-year-old from school and the parents believe the child. host: what do you learn from

them specifically? in the testimonies of he reached out to biden is not in america -- i am losing words here because i am watching your tv show now -- they keep comparing what trump did to what .iden did the difference there was he was doing it for the president, doing it for half of the e.u. and many other countries behind him on that prosecutor. trump was doing it because of biden and the server because giuliani and the cronies infected his brain.

his former campaign people have even gone on tv and wish people would stop infecting .his man's brain people, please, do not let any of the trump people ever hold a fseat in america. good morning. theyld like to know how are trying to impeach trump on a bunch of things. host: what do you mean by that? , they dide clintons not impeach them or go through procedures to finish what they had started. it seems like they let everybody go on that one and now they are trying to impeach trump and trump has been an outstanding president for us.

he has done a lot of good for us. the unemployment rate is down lower than basically it has ever been and -- the media still tries to make everybody believe how much of a bad man and a liar he is. host: president clinton -- the articles of impeachment were passed in the house, he was acquitted on the senate side. will you be watching what is going on? caller: yes, i will be. i was talking about hillary clinton, is what i meant, that me rephrase what i said. when they were looking into her emails and everything, they completely stopped doing that. host: when it comes from the ukraine -- when it comes to the ukraine situation, what do you hope to learn? proof that everything trump did was perfectly fine. i don't see how they could even say it was not.

they are just finding little bits and pieces and twisting them to fit their agenda. host: when you say we will see the proof, what do you think that is and what do you think today's testimony will give you as far as proof? caller: i believe they are going to find out what was said is completely twisted around by media, the far-left, everything else. it is all just going to come together and it will be a big joke. his: that is don giving perspective. you can do the same during the course of our time together and give us a call. you can post on social media and text us on this first public hearing. you will hear from the ranking member and the chairman, members of the intelligence committee themselves, you may hear from other people during the process

of the hearing and with more on that, here is john mcardle. mention theller democratic staff lawyer that is going to be taking center stage. his name is daniel goldman. on the housetitle intelligence committee is senior advisor and investigations director, he is a former deputy chief of the organized crime unit for the southern district of new york. he holds his law degree from stanford university law. the washington post today with a profile piece on him. friends and colleagues said goldman has had tremendous training for the bright lights of the national stage. preparing for the trial of billy walter, she knew it would make big headlines.

she requested goldman to be on the trial team because he has a little bit of swagger as a trial lawyer and a confidence that serves him well. he is one of the most successful sports gamblers. he was convicted on all counts and sentenced to five years in prison. daniel goldman is the man adam schiff plans to differ significant amounts of times to during that extended questioning time period on the republican side of the aisle. take also expected to center stage today, chief investigations officer for the minority counsel on the oversight and government reform committee is now part of the intelligence committee as well and practiced commercial litigation in philadelphia and washington, d.c.. withashington post as well a profile piece on him.

a half-dozen former colleagues ad bosses praised him as straight shooter and an attorney who is deliberate and low key and it will make him an asset to republicans amid intense public scrutiny. it is not something he would ask for. it is not in his dna to ask for something like this. he speaks with authority. he will ask a few simple questions and demonstrate there is no there there. host: if you missed the hearing and want to watch it in its entirety, tune in tonight. you can see that on c-span 2. let's go to georgia, bradley is next. caller: i wanted to tell america to keep the eye on the law and everything trump does is to help

vladimir putin as payback for the 2016 election and we all know trump is beholden to , erdogan, putin, all these other people. host: how does that relate to today's hearings? caller: the whole reason he was was -- up the missiles if you look deeper, everything he does is to help vladimir putin. we cannot look at trump as the problem, he is a symptom. the true problem is the republican party, they are the enemy of the united states people. they are the party of tyrants, corporate greed. the republican party is the true problem with this country. host: tony from district heights, maryland, good morning. caller: i concur with the last caller and i want to add one more thing, they are the party of racists.

let me go back to the impeachment hearing, what do you think about today's hearings and what do you hope to learn from it? caller: i already know what i am going to learn from it. host: tell me what you expect to learn from it, then. caller: i already know what is going to be said, the difference between donald trump and biden want -- toen did not be fired because he was not digging don't -- dirt on the political rival. you let these callers call and say biden did the same thing and he did not. i don't know why you do that, you pete -- keep the public confused. host: i would counteract we do more for the public than monette networks withmost coverage and the information we provide. all of that available at our website.

wayne in south carolina, republican line, good morning. caller: good morning, sir and good morning, america. i have a few comments. i 100% disagree with your last two callers. i am a united states air force disabled veteran. time. been to v.a. a long if people look at our economy, everywhere you go in our country , you can hardly get on the road for traffic -- builders on the road. he is protecting our second amendment rights and our religious freedom. host: aside from that, what do you think specifically about the impeachment hearing? caller: can i tell you what i think about it? the democrats are wasting their time and wasting our money. host: why do you think it is a waste of time?

caller: it is all false, it is a big circus show. thistried everything and ukraine and whatever, it is a waste of time and they cannot beat president trump. the only way they can do is to try to impeach him. lindsey graham has already said call call.u for taking my god put president trump in there and democrats, you cannot remove him until god says it is over. host: denise, hello. caller: i am frightened of trump, i did not want him to be elected. i am looking for him to be impeached. i am hoping to see the things i have seen and heard with my own ears out of his mouth to

validated -- to be validated today. host: such as what? helpr: that he did ask for in his reelection campaign, which i find extremely unethical and immoral. he does a lot of that, and maybe in business, that is ok. when you are running a country, it is not. you have to be ethical and aboveboard. hope to learnyou from the hearings in regard to your personal take on the president's phone call with the president of ukraine? caller: i am believing there is a lot of people out there and a lot of the witnesses believe a lot of the things i am seeing and hearing myself, that he did try to bribe ukraine and it his foreign because

policies, he does not understand what he is doing, he may be doing great for this country, but if we lose in our foreign policies, we have lost. host: when it comes to the foreign policy with ukraine, what makes it an issue in your mind? ukraine is our allies -- to hold back money for any reason once it had been appropriated to them is not we arend for him to say getting that for you, i have a favor for you, though. that does not sound right. host: republicans would argue the money came anyway, do you think that would help or hinder the case democrats will make? caller: no because attempted bribery is still bribery. that is my feeling. my daughter is a lawyer.

you attempt to murder somebody, you need to get in trouble anyway whether you kill them or not, if you try. host: independent line, patrick, hello. caller: good morning. donald trump, when he was running for president, he would tell us he wanted to drain the swamp and i really believed we needed to drain the swamp. he has turned the swamp into a cesspool. the difference between what donald trump has done is he was acting for a favor. he would give the money to ukraine if they would do him a personal favor. he was asking him to do a political favor to investigate his political rival, which is .riminal

he has no morals whatsoever. host: will you be watching the hearings today? caller: i will be. on-and-off, so i will listen to the radio. host: what do you think you will learn from them? caller: there is not much i can learn anymore because he has no morals. he is the worst individual i have seen or heard of in my life. you cannot lie as much as he does, you cannot steal as much as he does. host: that is patrick from chicago, illinois. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. and independents, 202-748-8002. if you want to text us, 202-748-8003 is how you do that. here is john mcardle. we promised to keep and

i on the president's twitter handle -- keep an eye on the president's twitter handle. democrats have stacked the deck against president trump and the republicans and leaked out everything. steveesident quoting ducey. speaker pelosi at 7:30, patriotism means putting country ahead of politics and speaking out when you see something wrong. the witnesses coming forward have shown that patriotism again and again. this from congressman mark meadows, c-span viewers will know he played a major role in the investigation so far, has been one of the public faces for republicans. he along with jim jordan and others would often come out before the cameras and talk about that closed-door testimony. mark meadows saying washington democrats begin the public phase

of another unfounded and serious attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and today we stand up to stop it. reactions so far this morning from facebook, twitter, and text messages. this text from michigan, hope republicans don't do their usual grandstanding, get to the facts in a civilized manner. this is carol, today is the day for patriots to put country first over trump who is corrupt, liar. and a pathological trump only ever serves himself. one more, ricardo from richard from facebook saying we want to hear from the whistleblower and hunter biden. the whistleblower and hunter biden on the list submitted by republican members of the intelligence committee of the

witnesses they wanted to come forward. the whistleblower and hunter biden not on that list. this is what adam schiff wrote about republican witness requests in his response over the last couple days. he said the committee will give consideration to innocence within the scope of the .mpeachment inquiry adam schiff saying in that letter to republicans nor will the committee facilitate any efforts by president trump or his allies to threaten, intimidate, or retaliate against the whistleblower who courageously unlawfully raised concerns about the president's conduct. host: john mcardle will give

information about the impeachment inquiry. the first public hearing at 10:00 is how you can do that. tom from new york on the republican line, go ahead. in the united states of america, you have the right to face your accuser. i don't know why these people cannot come forward and accuse him of something. host: you are concerned about the process, is that what you are saying? caller: they only put a certain amount of witnesses on, who they wanted and the democrats, democrats are not allowed to put certain people -- this is america. someone says you did something wrong, you have the right to face the accuser and say i did not do it and they have the right to say you did do it. i don't know why democrats are hiding everything. there will be a lot of

witnesses, who is missing from the list? caller: the whistleblower and hunter biden. host: why do you think they are important to the price s -- process? caller: that is what it is all about. they have the right to face his accuser. host: the house side sets up its own rules when it comes to impeachment, the constitution does layout that congress has the power to impeach. the house basically essentially creates its own rules depending on the situation as we have seen over the last couple impeachment processes. that is the point of today. andcan make those calls text us and tweet us as well, your thoughts about the hearing and what you expect to learn. whether they are appearing or not appearing. linda in florida, hello.

caller: good morning, pedro. thank you for c-span. i wanted to say a couple things and i will be off the line. both democrats and republicans, confirmationr from bias and that is why we want to blame c-span instead of looking for the facts ourselves. that is why you don't get to hear the truth with all of it, your job is to present. in regards to this impeachment, it is like an attempted bank robbery if people can see it that way and those things that john mcardle put up about what republicans are going to say in that attempted bank robbery, which is wrong, there was no pressure on the phone call, that means the bank manager had no pressure because anyone can walk into a bank. he did not have a letter, he did not have a gun.

the other thing about the bank robbery is to be able to say the ukrainians got the money anyways , so it was not held up. that doesn't mean everything. that just means the bank manager says he did not rob the bank, so do we not send him to jail or do we not prosecute him or seek to find truth if you go into the bank with a smoking gun? this for this. transcript?an the caller: they did not even get the right letter put out. he actually paraphrased. when we get the right thing, then we can look at it fully. no means i want this for that. host: braswell, georgia, independent line, hello. caller: hello?

host: you are on, go ahead. caller: i always have been a democrat. i am moving out of the democrat party. i can imagine anyone supporting someone who wants to accuse -- you don't go behind closed doors like everybody else if you have nothing to hide. -- he does not tell the truth. everybody has a right to defend themselves. that is not the way you do it in this country, go and lock the doors and listen to people, it is rigged. i cannot imagine members that claim to be democrat that would

support this particular thing. host: members of the intelligence committee had a chance to question witnesses in the closed-door hearings and they will have the chance to to do the same in the first public hearing. that is what we are talking about and you can talk about what you expect. you can let us know about all those things. we have been at this for about an hour, we will go two more hours without a guest today. a good thing about today is we have the ability to respond to some things viewers bring up during the course of -- host 3: hope you don't mind if i jump in -- linda was talking about the republican key pieces of evidence they put out in a memorandum from their staffigence committee

members and the evidence they say exonerates president trump in the impeachment inquiry. things like the july 25 call summary showing no conditionality or evidence of pressure. we talked about that a little bit earlier. as linda pointed out, democrats responding to that including the chairman of the intelligence committee, adam schiff. this was in an interview yesterday with npr. , this is what adam schiff said in that interview. shooting down several of the republican arguments defending present trumps -- president trump's conduct. it shows president trump directed u.s. security assistance and a white house meeting to be withheld from ukraine to leverage investigations into his political rival. it was eventually

released without an investigation is in relevant -- irrelevant. whether the president committed an impeachable offense, the fact that the scheme was uncovered and unsuccessful doesn't make it any less odious or impeachable. democrats have yet to decide whether to bring the articles impeachment. noting that investigators learn information all the time in the discussion whether to pursue articles will be held when we get to that point. that is from the rollcall wrap up today. listen in on your calls. four (202) 748-8000 democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. .ndependence on (202) 748-8002 just put your name, city, state.

if you want to post on twitter or facebook. earlier today we had a chance to look at the longwood office building. the room that the impeachment hearing will take place. we are inside 1100 longwood office building. this is traditionally the ways and means committee room. today it will be for the house intelligence committee when they gather at 10:00 a.m. eastern time for the first public hearing. it is one of the more intricate hearing rooms here on capitol hill. it is also the largest. the media has been allowed into the room at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. all the networks coming up with to giveespondents their viewers a shot of the room and a feel for what it will be like today. they will need this large room.

according to foxnews they have reserved about 100 seats for the public. they will be physically located in and out throughout the hearing. 150 seats for the press and 100 seats for members not on the intelligence committee. if you're not on the intelligence committee, you cannot be sitting and you will have to trying get a seat behind the witness table. taylor witnesses, bill and george kent will be at the table behind me. that is where they will take the oath and they will deliver an opening statement as well. mr. taylor and mr. kent will look out from that table to see 13 democrats and nine republican lawmakers. sit schiff, the chair, will in the middle. to his right will be devin nunes , the top republican on the panel. on the committee for these hearings is jim jordan, top republican on the house oversight reform committee.

he was given a seat on the panel by republican leadership. willschiff and devin nunes be delivering opening statements as well today. the other committee members will not get that opportunity. they will each get five minutes. their five minutes is expected to come after they listen to what the committee has called extended questioning period. the chair and top republican will split the first 90 minutes of questioning. s arechiff and mr. nune expecting to give much of that time to committee lawyers. we expect them to be asking questions of the witnesses. for the democrats, their counsel is daniel goldman. the republicans have steve castor. there will be more of an extended questioning period as well. the hearing is expected to go until 4:00 p.m. eastern time. c-span has seven cameras

throughout the room to get all of the different angles of today's hearing. poolve been designated the as we often are. meaning that we will be sending out from the seven different cameras individual feeds to all of the networks. they will then decide how they show you the room. we will do that as well. you can watch our gavel-to-gavel coverage on interrupted. no filters at 10:00 a.m. on c-span3. -- host: our social media team will be sending out tweets during key moments of the day. we will have a section with the hearing, key highlights as we call them. after it is all done you could

see some of those key points of the hearing as it plays out today. all of that available to you as information if you go to our website at c-span.org. if you want to make yourself available to the inquiry box with all the information as it has played out as it has played out is put there so you can find it. illinois,o terry in republican line. thanks for waiting. caller: good morning. a coupleike to have things about the impeachment. one thing, why should we believe adam schiff when he says we are still waiting for the overwhelming evidence on the russians? mueller said candidate trump or no american citizen had anything to do with russia.

two, the people adam schiff was hiding in the basement testifying, none of them never talked with the president, never met with the president, their opinion is hts,ly feelings, thoug opinions. none of that is firsthand information. the two that met with the president and talked with the president, why can't one of them today?h the two so they can get the whole truth. they are the majority, which is true. you have to look back in history on the last three impeachments and they are run completely different than this one. this one here is a sham in my opinion.

there are so many lies already. constitution has the power of impeachment but the individual houses decide the process. --ler: it is another thing that is what the house has the power to do. you can see the american people, we agreed to process. the first few weeks the polls were going up in favor of the democrats. last week they dropped some. that is why they brought it out of the basement. host: will you be watching today? watching will be mostly the republicans. how they handle everything. another thing, -- host: why the republicans and how they handle things versus the democrats? have been watching the

democrats and their talking point with the media the last two weeks. right now it is quid pro quo or whatever you want to call it. now it is changing, corruption, extortion. they are saying the public is too stupid to understand. we understand that because we watch the former vice president he won't getself the money. president trump never said that in the transcript. host: let's hear from walter in california, independent line. gentlewoman who just spoke, my biggest point is we should all listen to both sides.

openly and listen to the attorneys. the people who are there to make the case. what they are doing now is completing an investigation. alleged conduct not of mr. biden's son but rather of donald trump. they are checking it out. it has nothing to do with the russians, i read the mueller report. it seems to prove there was begging of the russians by the trump campaign. quite possibly by mr. trump. people who said -- the last

independent line you took said she was a republican and her comments certainly seems to be republican. s arenk the independent owed another shot. -- i'm sorry terry that was walter. in new york.red i believe this in general is very morally dangerous. 44 people have been elected president. trump, when i found out he was elected i was frightened, terrified. host: since we are talking about the impeachment hearing, what do you expect? caller: i think whatever the

outcome could be it could change the united states forever. host: how so? make everybody think. it will help make people do the history and try and make a better future. host: that is some of the collars we have gotten during the course of this morning. if you want to make your voice known you could give us a call. if you want to post on our twitter feed, you could do so. if you want to post on your facebook page, do it on facebook.com/cspan2. a lot of information on c-span.org about today's proceeding. online can monitor it with social media, the rebroadcast, all of that available to you at c-span.org.

let's go to our next caller. i want to say first of all, c-span was causing confusion. the reality is c-span is the only source of what is actually going on. news, turn off cnn, turn off the opinion and entertainment news and start paying attention to c-span. this is the only way you will get all of the information. you have to listen to both sides. host: what are you expecting? caller: we pretty much already know what is going to happen. the democrats will try and convince everybody in america this quid pro quo conversation, the reason they changed it from quid pro quo to

extortion is because quid pro quo is not illegal. it might be unethical but it would not be impeachable for them to say there is a quid pro quo. you can't call that an impeachable offense. especially for when you are talking about world leaders. things that are very important to understand. ,irst of all, the whistleblower his attorney 10 days after the president was inaugurated tweeted that the coup had started. this is a problem. if this lawyer was in conversation with government officials, intelligence officers, anyone in the the time and political officials in a conversation of any kind, we are

talking about violations, potentially subversion of our government. if any of these government officials collaborated to try and look for things to impeach himp on to essentially coup , you have a really big problem. host: let's go to john mcardle. host 3: just wanted to dig in a little bit more on witnesses who will be at that table today who will appear starting at 10:00 a.m. about themt more including william taylor. the ukraine former ambassador to that country during the george w. bush administration. he served as a platoon leader during vietnam. a graduate of harvard's kennedy school of government. released, notably

him saying there was a separate foreign-policy channel read by rudy giuliani when it came to the ukraine. he was the order -- author of those text messages calling for any trade-off of investigations for military aid quote crazy. sitting next to william taylor today will be george kent. the current state department deputy of european and eurasian affairs. masters degree from the national defense university at johns hopkins. kent describes in his testimony that took place behind closed doors that was on october 11. he described it as a campaign of slander against the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. of course she is testifying on friday. those two men on the hot seat

today. one story about the state department officials testifying this week and about what may happen to them in the weeks and months to come, noting democrats on the senate floor sent a letter yesterday to key state department officials urging them to prevent any retaliation against the three state department employees testifying. we call on you to unequivocally support and protect the employees to your fullest ability including by issuing a statement of support and ensuring that they are not subject to any reprisal. that is from a robert menendez, the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee. are inviting you and not secretary pompeo because his silence speaks volumes for him not standing up for his own people. despite their dedication to public service without regard to party, president, or power. here is john from

pennsylvania. no ahead. caller: [inaudible] there has been people indicted, it must be embarrassing. people hear the facts. host: how does that relate to today's impeachment hearing? caller: we will hear the facts, we will hear the truth. republicans need to open their eyes and ears. what you think they will hear differently than what has been reported from close testimony? statingsome of this that the republicans need to open their years. lifelongple are

servers of our country. that is all i have to say. host: give me a fact that republicans should listen to. testimonies, they keep saying they are shams and not truth. host: let's go to cleveland, independent line. talk about theto emphasis on the political divide. i think the emphasis of a political divide ignore something that is common between republican, democrats, and independents. what they have most of all in common is the protection act that is not being addressed. causing them to be dissatisfied with the political and legal systems. right -- ifve the

you have been the victim of a crime, you don't have the right to go to a grand jury to show your evidence. the public officials are not addressing crimes. crimesfferent kinds of have people dissatisfied with the political and legal system. host: let's go to urban in wichita, kansas. i'm dumbfounded as to rightme of us can't see from wrong. , it would makeme me wrong. i don't believe the united states is united. like this isting being run by some other entity. host: how does that relate to the hearing? caller: the fact that the

theident was wrong in all things people had claimed. no one can see that. the republicans don't seem to see that. host: give me an example from what you don't think they are seeing. when theor instance, president goes against the intelligence for a foreign entity, a foreign country. whatever that place is where the president had the private meeting with russians. host: how does that relate to the ukraine call? caller: the president had no business interfering in the country. let's face it, this country is not united.

it is under satan's authority. this is peter from california, democrats line. i would like to get out of the hearing, i would like to see the case for and against impeachment. that is the main thing i want to get. if trumpconcerned that made this quid pro quo, or what is to prevent other administrations from doing this? this is an extremely important issue. host: what will you be paying attention to most? i'm going to try to keep an open mind. listen to the

witnesses and also the questions the attorneys have. for both the republicans and the democrats. i'm a former republican. i changed to democrat. you say you want to keep an open mind you have no judgment on the president's role in this? opinion. have an on the face it looks pretty damaging to president trump. host: what do you think you will hear today that will sway you either way? not sure.m that is why want to listen. maybe there is something that that would to light

help trump. host: let's hear from michigan, republican line. caller: good morning. i find some of the things troubling about the impeachment inquiry. beginning from the lack of due process. this is the president elected by it shows this can be done to normal citizens. i think it is a very slippery slope to go down.

there are several things from the ukraine call -- the united states is not santa claus. we don't give millions and billions of dollars without stipulation. we have a right to inquire what our money will be used for. who are the players who are going to be distributing our funds? these funds are not free. nobody isthings that talking about like the ukraine treaty. the bill clinton treaty allowed -- host: go ahead. caller: it was reasonably allow the sharing of investigative information between countries that are receiving funds from our tax dollars. what are you expecting from republicans today? caller: hopefully defense.

biased.quiries are you have a person running the inquiries that is setting all of the rules. they are allowing people to speak to one person but not another. they are mandating how much time these people can be questioned. as long as adam schiff's liking what he hears, he will question people and a length determined by himself. that length of time will also be to republicans to question the same witness. whatever time he is given or not given his all the time that will be given to republicans to defend. host: lori in michigan talking about today's impeachment inquiry. 1100 longwood building is where you can find that. outside of the building you will

see a lot of activity relating to this phase. is when the hearing will start. it is expecting to last all morning and into the afternoon. between 2:30metime and 4:30 this afternoon. chairmanng member and will get 45 minutes for questioning each. they can ask questions themselves, refer to staffing, embers of the committee will also have a chance for five-minute rounds of questions. if a member chooses, they can defer their round. that will all play out today as far as what to expect. c-span3d see that on live at 10:00. a lot of other platforms you could watch it as well. morning.ood

is adam schiff lied. -- the process is bad. only in communist countries you could have this process where nobody can defend themselves. the democrats are doing something that is illegal. they are lawmakers and they are breaking the law. they are making their own laws to suit themselves. -- they think we are stupid, that we don't know the law. we know the law. we know we have a right to defend ourselves. illegal immigrants have more due process than the president. that is what pisses me off. i don't think it is right.

the democrats did nothing. they started racism, racism failed. they dig and dig. anything this president does to help this country they turned around. last, thisd in the is not who we are. he did not do anything for us. host: that was andrew in west virginia. we have been at this for about an hour and a half, we have an hour and a half to go until we go to the house at 10:00 on the main channel of c-span. if you're interested in watching the hearing go to c-span3. we will be taking your calls during the course of the morning about this public hearing. you could text us, between us, a lot of ways you can give us your thoughts. let's go to john mcardle. host 3: today, here is one from the newest member of the house

intelligence committee, congressman james jordan -- jim jordan. he was appointed late last week, replacing congressman rick crawford on that committee. one of the public faces of republicans who have come out during the impeachment inquiry behind closed doors to talk about how he was able to do that because of his work on the oversight committee. one of those committees that was allowed to join in the closed-door impeachment inquiry. this is his comment today. as he gets ready for his first public comment. the calln saying transcript shows no leakage. the president and zelensky said there was no pressure. ukraine never took any action to get the aid released. if those points on familiar, those of the same key pieces of evidence that were pointed out in the republican memo that we

have already talked about today. that 18 page memo. the pushback was the four key points that are noted at the beginning of that memorandum. those, crawford was replaced on the committee by jim jordan. a story from talk business that rick crawford is well set for election in 2020, the filing period for reelection ended at noon yesterday. crawford was the only candidate that filed for the race. libertarians, or green party candidates ran against him. he is well-positioned. a few other tweets and comments, a few other members of congress, this is senator marsha blackburn. a republican from tennessee saying today marks the official beginning of the mueller report

do over. a democrat from florida saying i did not run for president to them -- run for congress to impeach a president, we will uphold the constitution today. a few more of your comments via text message this morning. this is billy new jersey saying regardless of what these things reveal, it will further divide a divided country. this is shannon out of palm city florida, impeachment is very serious which is why democrats brought a serious case fourth. when i was a kid he was asked to to impeach clinton despite clinton being cleared of any wrongdoing. this impeachment doesn't mean anything to me, president trump has my vote even if the democrats impeach. host: if you want to follow along during the course of the day, we invite you to download

the c-span radio app. ourill show the hearing on website at c-span.org. we will stream that as well as youtube, facebook and also twitter. a full rear of the hearing at 8:00 on c-span two. let's go to indiana. caller: the reason why the president is being investigated is because president trump asked ukraine could they do him a favor? blackmail. host: go ahead, you are still on. i think she dropped off. let's go to covington, georgia. in,er: the reason i called

i heard you say several times that this is the way the rules are set. i watched the hearings on the and not one of the republican rules got past. this is a sham. it has always been a sham since day one. i believe every time they do this it causes more people to want to vote for donald trump. this is a part of the most unfair hearings that have ever been on c-span. office,ack obama was in we should've impeached him when he was tapping donald trump's office. nobody did. there's a lot of things going wrong right now. are wasting more

time with impeachment and not passing any laws. they are not doing any work. that is how i feel about it. most everybody here in georgia -- host: are you going to watch the hearing? caller: you all make it hard. c-span2 and i don't have a computer. i don't understand why you did c-span3. on one orve been two. our mission requires us when the house comes in at 10:00, we cover it on c-span. senate coverage on c-span2. a lot of ways you can do it. well.app is available as

onyou go to c-span.org later , not only can you watch it, you will see highlights of the hearing. if you look at the bottom of the screen it will take you to key portions of it. our social media team will be key moments. a lot of ways you can follow along on the first public inquiry. line from parkersburg, west virginia. good morning. go ahead. caller: the only thing i need to say is everyone in america should watch c-span today during these proceedings. empty their mind of all the news, everything that have heard juror as as a tour --

a hearing. then decide after the testimonies and decide from there on their own. not what they hear on the news, or everybody else, thank you. host: what are you hoping to learn? caller: i'm hoping to hear the truth. you hear all different things from the news, depending on what you listen to. did blackmail ukraine, then he needs to be impeached. crime. a host: that is deborah from west virginia. we will show you from gavel-to-gavel, no interruptions or commentary. you could expect that to start off at 10:00. .even cameras within the room

not only will you see that on c-span but we are known as the wellfor other networks as with our camera setup. a lot of people put time and effort into that. to youg these hearings at 10:00 this morning. i've been hearing people talking about different things both on the republican and democratic side. youreeing that most of calls are missing the point. the point of the matter is most that wehis is america live in. this is not a foreign country ruled by dictators. right now, the constitution of the united states -- whether or not people can vote, will be

interfered -- will it be interfered by other countries? host: how does that relate to the hearing today? caller: what relates to the hearing is the people that have been testifying in speaking up for the democracy of america, these are the same people like me in view, it doesn't matter who you are. who is going to defend us? our votes will be counted by the democracy and whether or not this president is following the rules about democracy, this is what is at stake. we don't need to be divided. who is going to defend us? will that be the democrats or the republicans?

or will we fight as one country, as americans? this is what is at stake in these impeachment hearings. taylor and george kent is who you will hear from today, later this week, marie yovanovitch. that will take place on friday. a lot of the process going on today and here to walk us through the process of what you can expect is john mcardle. host 3: showing viewers those empty seats, they will be filled today by members of the house intelligence committee. there is 22 members on that committee. 13 democrats and nine republicans. roll call in at their wrapup today with the members of that committee. items, watch out for people including eric swalwell, who participated a little bit in

the closed-door testimony of bill taylor. of the crowded presidential field. o, also a notable name to watch for today. roll call noting he serves as chair of the congressional hispanic caucus. his twin brother is running for president and he is the cochair. want to read more on who is holding the impeachment hearing, that is the story from a roll call.com. to remind viewers of how the hearing will work, adam schiff and ranking member devin nunes will make opening statements. then the witnesses will be sworn in. andwitnesses, bill taylor george kent will make their opening statements.

then there is the extended questioning period by the chairman and ranking members. that is 90 minutes split evenly. yielded to thebe committee counsel. he expects to yield extensive time to the majority committee counsel. there could be multiple rounds of that questioning period. rest of theds, the committee members will be recognized for the five minute that c-spanstions viewers are used to. all getting underway at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. let's go to pennsylvania, republican line. is todayy concern shadow falls on the country because there is nothing fair about this.

the democrats have hollered impeachment from day one. they think week, the american people are stupid and we don't see, don't hear. they thinkas dumb as we are. what they have done to this man is a shame. i was a democrat at one time. they are not the old democrats. that is why i changed. i neveruld say is thought this country would be this way. do you expect to watch the hearing? caller: i'm watching everything that is going on. i listen. staye the republicans behind this president. for the first time in a long time, we have a good president. i was a democrat at one time. host: what do you think the

republicans on the committee should do today? adder: things just don't up. you don't holler impeachment from day one and go after this man like they have. now they can't find anything but they keep going from one thing to another. i think that is so sad for this country. our forefathers would be absolutely ashamed for what they have done to this country. i love my country. it hurts me to see that. host: independent line in georgia, terry, good morning. caller: how are you doing today? host: fine, go ahead. believe the inquiry will give a lot of feelings and a lot of emotion. i understand we are all human beings and we do have feelings and emotions concerning different things. independentyself

because i don't think you should have to defend the party. you should be a person who defends truth. inquiry willthis be simply the democrats asking to persuade try people that trump should be impeached. republicans i believe they will be best served if they keep it simple. is this your opinion? say yes, this is my isnion the simple question

as a servant of the people, are you to follow out the president and the people? or are you supposed to follow out certain policies you agree with? if they keep it simple i think this will come to nothing. i believe this is a loser for the democrats. trump has a lot to gain here. host: erica is next in minnesota. caller: i think to me, the biggest thing is in what world is it ok for any president to have a shadow foreign policy in place? several witnesses have already testified that they were surprised that a civilian,

giuliani, in a nongovernment role was conducting a policy outside his normal channels to influence ukraine. in what world is it ok for any president, man or woman to have a shadow foreign policy that clearly is meant to benefit them? i do not understand that. on the republican line in california. disappointed in the democrats. you can tell this is a phony, disgusting deal with adam schiff. go back and do a documentary on him from day one when he took office. it will prove unequivocally that colluded,mp had notice that the ballgame shifted. does not have anything on that. muller's report did not give him

that. all of a sudden, in 60 days we switch over and now we are talking about ukraine and trying to get donald trump on some phony deal. that is the point. where is adam schiff with his collusion deal? he didn't get it. the whole objective, the plan of rice, it was to try to get trump impeached right after the election because they could not believe he won the election. the rush of deal did not work so now they are using this to and get trump. this is like a russian oligarch trying to take down our president. host: will you watch the hearing? caller: i will watch the hearings but in 63 years of my life i have never seen such a sham. richard nixon did something wrong -- wrong.

bill clinton lied to the public. this man has no charges against him. who cares about what these witnesses said. they had nothing to do with it. trump turned in his paperwork of the phone call and they got nothing. they are still trying to impeach him because a couple of democrats have a mental disorder. host: let's go to conway, south carolina on the independent line. thank you for taking my call. aigner underestimate the aunts of the american voters. listening to some of your callers, it is very evident to me that none of them studied civics in high school and don't know very much about the constitution or our political system. they may need a refresher

course. for senatorsage lindsey graham. he who says he will not pay attention to any of these proceedings. jobou don't want to do your , you certainly have done much in the way of legislation. if you do not want to do the job and pay attention as we tell you to do, i suggest you leave your job. there are plenty of other republicans around who would like to have it. the first day of the public impeachment inquiry hearings. several planned for this weekend next week as well. the process expected to go through the remainder of the year with it possibly going to the house judiciary committee if it goes that far. if the house judiciary committee releases the articles of impeachment, they will be asked

to vote on. it will go to the senate. will take, from there it to trial on the articles of impeachment. new york, democrats line. caller: good morning. reiterateg just to what the last caller said. apparently we are not teaching civics the right way. today's hearings are being compared to the 21 years ago of the senate trial of bill clinton. ist people are not realizing this is not a trial. public inquiry by the house to decide whether or not they are going to pass articles of impeachment.

as i readwatching every single transcript. quorum onsee today a both sides of the aisle to act and show that we actually care about this country. meis very disconcerting to that not only is the constitution and civics being child, who is 11 years old, is listening to these things. about what she is learning in school in regards to u.s. history and the constitution versus what is actually transpiring right now. host: let's hear from frank in connecticut. caller: it was the democrats that wanted the investigation

before the next election. he has been in the dirt since day one since he was elected. he was doing his investigation on this. they don't speak to each other. father and son. 2016, see how close they do speak to themselves. i was a democrat. i will never vote democratic again because it is a swamp. bills for be passing the people of our country. infrastructure, usmca. needed forhe things the united states people. speak in theally proper way.

he is a new york city individual. he has done more than any other and the democrats have done nothing but take this country down and not let the men -- men be able to represent himself. i mean that. read that article and you will see how close that family is. frank in connecticut. carolina,go to north on the democrats line. caller: good morning. i wanted to call and tell everyone that you need to put your emotions to the side and -- never in our lives have we had ourselves -- had

someone that carried themselves as a dictator. there is so much trickery, deception, bribery, and even treason going on. we need to look at the truth. do,president is there to mitch mcconnell and the republican party are holding up the legislation that is in place. donald trump is not above the law. the truth needs to come out. host: when it comes to the impeachment inquiry, what do you think as far as the interchange between the president and the president of ukraine? what is wrong? youer: he is wrong because never -- he is acting like a mob boss. he is like i want you to do something, go. camera ande before a investigating joe

biden, his son, hillary clinton. mitch mcconnell wouldn't take a vote. setting up for russia, iran, or china to come still devotes -- steel votes. what do you think today's hearing will accomplish versus what was done in the closed-door hearing? caller: my point is the american up and not to wake follow a man blindly. he is not upholding the rules of law. .e is doing everything opposite donald trump is not worthy of office. he is blackmailing the republican party. said do what i say to do or i will have somebody run against

you in the primary. host: here with more of the proceedings and information is john mcardle. host 3: more from the president this morning from his twitter page. just a couple tweets within the past half hour, both all caps and ending with exclamation points. the first, read the transcript trumper's.ond, never this is brad wenstrup, republican member of the committee. impeachment into a foregone conclusion in search of evidence. politically, they must impeach president trump so they are seeking a rationale to do so. he had the co-byline in the washington examiner with chris stewart. on an op-ed they wrote, what the public needs to know for the public impeachment hearings.

she's viewers will recognize the four points they point to at the end of that op-ed. those have been the four key points republicans laid out in the memorandum that they released yesterday. theident trump released transcript. that quote showed no conditionality of evidence or pressure. trump and zelensky have said there was no pressure on the call. the republican memo pointing to ukraine not aware of the u.s. security assistance at the time. -- fact that the presidents they say both occurred without ukraine investigating president trump's political rival. most key points are what you will be hearing at republicans coming back to repeatedly today. obviously setting it up in the op-ed, tweets, as well. tweet for you from a democratic member of the committee, sean patrick maloney

saying today we are hearing the four corners of what the president did and what his intentions were. we have the facts and they will be presented in a credible fashion to the american public. there is the congressman walking through the halls of the capital ahead of today's impeachment hearings. for the last two hours we have taken your calls on the inquiry taking place today. one more hour to do that before the house of representatives comes in at 10:00. if you want to watch the hearing you will go over to c-span3. in this last hour we will continue on with your calls and comments on today's proceedings. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for if you want to text us, do so at (202) 748-8003, or you can tweet

us at c-span wj or follow us on facebook. we will be live streaming the hearing on facebook, twitter, and youtube. if you want to download our radio app, you can listen along what goes on today, and all of andinformation on the page what goes forward available on our website at c-span.org. if you notice there is an impeachment inquiry box, click that. longworth office building is where the focus will be today for the people in the room and people watching the hearing. earlier today, we had a walk-through of the room, what is expected to take place. we are inside host: longworth house -- host: we are inside long worse how does longworth

house. 10:00 a.m. for 10:00 a.m.el in at for the hearing. it is one of the most intricate and one of the most -- largest hearing rooms. all of the networks are coming towith their correspondents give their viewers a shot of the room, a feel for what it will be like today. they will need this large room because according to foxnews, they have reserved about 100 seats for the public, typically located in and out, 150 seats for the press, and 100 seats for those not on the intelligence committee. if you are not a member of the intelligence committee, you will have to try to get one of these seats reserved for you.

the two witnesses, bill taylor and george can't will be seated at the table behind me to take opening and deliver an statement. they will look out from that table to see 13 democrats and nine republican lawmakers, adam schiff in the middle. to his right, devin nunes, the top republican. also on the committee is jim jordan, the top republican on the house oversight government reform committee and was given a seat on the panel. also, adam schiff and devin nunes, according to a memo, will be delivering opening statements as well. the other committee members will not get that opportunity, however they each get five minutes. there five minutes is expected callme after what they extended questioning.

the first 90it minutes of questioning between republicans and democrats. we expect committee lawyers to be up on the dais as well, asking questions of these witnesses. for the democrats, their counsel is daniel goldman and for the republicans, steve castor. there will be more rounds of extended questioning as the hearing is expected to go until around 4:00 p.m. eastern time. throughout the room, c-span has seven cameras to get all the different angles of the hearing. we have been designated the pool , as we often are, meaning we will be sending out from these seven different cameras individual feeds to all the networks. they will decide how they show you the room. we will do that as well, and you can watch our gavel to gavel coverage uninterrupted, no

commentary and no filters, at 10:00 a.m. on c-span3. host: to start off this third hour of calls, alabama, independent line, marquez. caller: how are you doing, sir? host: fine, go ahead. caller: i was calling into comment in regards to truth. just got a couple of different groups of people pointing fingers back and forth at one another. experience, never anything has been resolved by pointing fingers. i figure if everyone individually would stand up and stand behind what is true, then justice will be served, whether it is an impeachment act or whether he proceeds to be the president. truth will being justice -- bring justice. owings, maryland,

democrats line, william. caller: hello, and thank you for taking my call and thank you for c-span. i want to say i find it very interesting how the whistleblower was able to draw call,e transcript of that entire it initiated the investigation of this particular call. i also wanted to say that i find it curious that all the republicans and conservatives are going out after this after all,on because it is an investigation, it is not a trial yet. if democratsthat hasect that the president

engaged in wrongful activities, it is their duty to investigate. and if grounds are found, to impeach. host: republican line from kansas, maurice, good morning. caller: thanks for my call, first time caller and listener. i will be watching you more often because i like how you challenge the callers and ask why. first comment, the supreme court, the separation of powers has been broken. the executive branch was the state department. the state department doesn't run diddly. they take their orders from the president, period. they did it with everyone else. why is trump any different? most of the time, these people are ignorant and do not care that they are ignorant. they are spoonfed by whatever media, just like the caller

before me said, everyone is pointing fingers at each other. no one is looking at themselves in the mirror. when we look at the justice department, there is no justice. if there was justice, a lot of these people would be charged extortion, for treason, period. host: you have an ambassador testifying today, and a state department official testifying today, and that does not matter as far as what they bring to the table? caller: what these guys are testifying on, from what i am to understand, is the fact, their personal opinions, not any of the fact -- you take a look at our country throughout its history. we have used american dollars to influence other countries. everyone does it. it has been done.

it is part of the process. we want you to act a certain way . for example, terrorists. we want iran to act a certain youro we say, we limit ability to conduct business on the world setting. that is to get them to give up their nuclear weapons or whatever it might be. the question is, who runs the state department? who sets policy? under the constitution, the president of the united states sets policy. you think the president acted accordingly in the exchange with the ukrainian president? within he is completely his constitutional mandate as the president of the united states, under the constitution and powers of the executive branch, to run the country's affairs as he sees fit, not as

unelected government officials that do not have any kind of resource. when that ambassador was recalled from ukraine, it was because she was part of the problem and she was bad mouthing the president of the united states. and you are the representative of the united states, you cannot and should not ever go across the pond or wherever and badmouth the united states. like our president for this one went across the pond and blasted america because america has been so bad. host: only because we have to get to other callers, what are you expecting from republicans? that a lot ofct that are being spouted out by the mainstream becausell be shattered

there is no truth to this except for the fact of personal man who and bias for a has basically -- is basically a new yorker -- and i know a lot of and they are blowhards. they are trying to usurp the president and basically a paper coup. washington,in pennsylvania, independent line. caller: good morning, how are you? host: fine, how are you? caller: good. i called because of how many people are asserting the process is flawed and the president is being denied rights, when the reality is they do not understand the process. it is an investigative process, not a prosecutorial one, to decide whether charges should be filed against him for violating

constitutional responsibilities. if he is impeached, charges go to the senate for them to have a trial, at which time he will have rights of due process and rights to confront the people testifying against him. it concerns me people are making judgments about this process of the impeachment inquiry without completely understanding what it is. in regard to what is going on today and what they get to, i believe a president can ask another country to abide by conditions of an alliance we formed with them, and ukraine is our ally, but trump did not do that. he did not call them and say, here is what our agreement is, we agreed to protect them from russia, they are trying to take over your country, we will not let that happen, we will give you military aid congress designated. instead of that, he talked about his conspiracy theories

regarding the bidens, regarding the ukraine supposedly being involved in his election. i believe he knows russia was involved in a very large disinformation program when he was running, and they put out a lot of false information that people unfortunately believed. host: what are you hoping to get from the hearing? caller: i hope they get to the bottom of that, and people understand it is all of one part. unfortunately, he did get elected, but with russian-made, and the call to ukraine was again to get ukraine to defer to russia and agree that russia was not involved in his election, and agree to investigate the bidens and other people. i don't think he let evanovich go because she was bad mouthing him. i believe she was not corruptible. in milwaukee,

wisconsin, democrats line. caller: i have been looking at this. , like i hiding things said, about the ukraine president. he didn't say, he pressured me. he still needs help for the president of the united states. goes to this impeachment inquiry and goes to the senate, that is when the trial comes. earlier, we showed you the interior of the room where all of this will take place starting at 10:00 today. here is john mcardle. host: that committee room getting crowded with members of the media and members of already, onthe room

their cell phones, perhaps tweeting. we saw louis downward, the republican from texas in the room with members of the media. c-span "washington journal" journals will note -- was on yesterday to talk about the impeachment inquiry, reporter from politico. room,watching the hearing viewers may notice some of the signs on the republican side of the dais. i just want to fill you in on what those are. from left to right, this is quotes from congressman al green saying -- i am concerned if we don't impeach this president he will get reelected. that on the republican side. the second side saying 93 days since adam schiff learned the identity of the whistleblower. the third sign is a tweet from

,he whistleblower's attorney mark zaid, saying that the coup steps.rted, many the impeachment will follow ultimately. mark zaid responding to the news that sally eights, the acting at -- sally yates, the acting attorney general, had been fired from her job. you can see bill taylor coming through the hallways toward the room before the hearing room where they keep the witnesses. there is republicans and democrats. each have those anti-rooms off to the side -- ante rooms off to the side. we will keep you updated. we are just about 45 minutes

away from the gaveling in of this public first day of testimony in the impeachment inquiry. host: that is on c-span3 that you will be able to watch. you can download the radio up and follow there. live coverage on c-span.org. we have a livestream on twitter, and our and facebook, social media team will send out clips and highlights all day. re-air that hearing on c-span3 at 8:00 tonight, so you can watch for it then as well. all of that information available on c-span.org. north carolina, republican line. to say thatnted out whole deal is coming

because they are scared that trump is going to get reelected, which is a valid thing. there is nothing wrong with what he is doing. the economy is in better shape than a long time, and everything trump said he would do, he practically has done. host: what do you think about the hearings today? caller: i think it is bogus and it is time for the whole -- it is not going to yield any results. i am not worried personally. i think the truth will come to light. host: what makes them bogus in your mind? caller: it doesn't have any basis to it. he has released information every time they have asked him to, and they found nothing. this is just a desperate attempt to get him out of office before reelection. host: on the screen right now,

mark meadows, all of that in preparation for today's hearing. jim jordan will be on the committee himself, recently placed by kevin mccarthy on the intelligence committee to be part of the questioning that will take place today starting at 10:00. winter haven, florida, independent line, jerry. caller: thank you for existing at c-span. several of the callers may or , it is absolutely the closest to being in person. host: it is probably considerably warmer where you are. caller:, it it was kind of nices morning. down here and this time of the year we have four seasons each 6:00, and fall in the evening.

i am a seventh generation veteran who served in vietnam. my father served in vietnam and we have served in every war since the revolution, going back to the constitution. i have watched your show several times and have tried calling in, because one thing that saddens onis listening to callers all sides of the aisle, is the lack of education and literacy. i will try to be short. i have been on the other end. today is your opportunity to see and unbiased look into this hearing. this is a hearing, similar to way -- similar to an investigator coming before a grand jury to get an indictment. that is basically what the is,es, impeachment -- house

impeachment, will turn out to. several educated callers pointed out, and the senate it will go to trial. when my father was in vietnam and i was a teenager in the late 1960's, i was confused by different sources of information off the networks. and from my friends and from everybody. my father had given me a shortwave radio. to radio north cubaam via radio havana, and get their english version, how many americans were killed, and then i could watch abs -- abc or cbs and get that end. eventually i listened to bbc and

was as closeought to a neutral report, and that is what i expect today. i use a lot of sources. host: i apologize, only because we have to move on. you will watch the hearings today play out on c-span? caller: yes. taylor, who isr. also a veteran and has been with the administration since 1989. he has decker did -- he is decorated. he is a straight shooter. he has served for both parties. he is not a yes man. he is a key witness. he is not going to be giving his opinion. he is going to answer the questions exactly the way the facts of the truth are. i am happy to see that. host: thank you for calling us.

about his intent to watch the hearings, many have called in and said that you will do, starting at 10:00. you can see that uninterrupted on c-span3. the radio app is available and you can follow along on social media. we will go to john mcardle who has the latest as far as elements of the impeachment inquiry and an op-ed in the newspapers. host: plenty to talk about when it comes to up ed's. meadows, andymark biggs, spotted him in the room, the republican from arizona, head of the freedom caucus. there is expected to be about 100 seats in the room for members of congress who are not members of the house intelligence committee, so we will take a look at the room and note who is in. bill taylor in the building.

we saw him going through security. one person not expected to be in the room today is the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, but will likely be talked about today. thattaylor going -- noting rudy giuliani led a separate back channel foreign channel to noticed and bill kent -- noted that giuliani "let a campaign of slander" against the former ukraine ambassador. --rgia bonaventure entering george evanovich entering the room as well. he has a piece in the wall street journal today, the case for impeachment defense. rudy giuliani writes this in his op-ed -- mr. trump requested that ukraine root out can

rupture -- corruption, did not demand it. his words were free of any threat or coercion. he offered nothing in return to ukraine for cleaning up corruption. if you doubt me, read the transcript. mr. zelinski has made clear he felt the thought was appropriate and normal and which he felt no pressure of any time -- any kind. the truth will prevail. that is rudy giuliani in today's "wall street journal." thege kent walking into hearing room, one of the ante rooms beyond the security checkpoint. today," one of the commentary editors asks the question -- circus or pivotal

moment? she ends her op-ed by saying, will these autumn hearings orolve into a catalyst devolve into a circus? the latter is not out of the question. diplomatic officials appalled and worried by what they have seen. it is the democrats last best chance to get through to busy americans and convince most of them that they are hearing the facts and the truth. host: that is john mcardle. al in indiana, democrats line, good morning. caller: good morning. this hearing and inquiry today is crucial to protect the constitution. presidency is really just a symptom of how sick this country is, and the gangrenous nature of the republican party, mostly all white males. crucialen you say it is

to the constitution, give us a specific why. caller: the emoluments clause, right off the bat. host: how does that apply to today's hearing? quo,r: as far as quid pro which is trying to be changed to extortion, is the terms being used now, the equivalence of this was that for trump to withnicate surreptitiously the ukrainian president, who had already lost -- ukraine had already lost crimea, had already lost control of the sea to their east to the russians, not much needed to be said other than, when he said the magic word nice if" it would be you could do this, "though."

everyone understood that has tvr seen a gangster movie on that that was a threat to the president. it is not just about this trump today. is a necessary step democrats are taking and not just to address this trump, but to prevent the next trump. host: from our republican line, simi valley, california, jimmy is next. caller: i just believe this is absurd. this whole thing stems from the clintons. they are so obsessed. you talk about a relationship between russia and the clintons, my god. it is unbelievable how close they are. bill -- meant toward and put him and pute -- mentored

him in office. much, it isne so not a swamp, it is a sewer. other guyrd and the who did the investigation to expose richard nixon, he was trying to prevent what happened now. the democrats have manipulated and used and abused the privilege of serving this countryand used this and have become multimillionaires. what they are scared of is him exposing them all. they all got girlfriends. they all got boyfriends. they are all in bed together. they are basically so sick that they all need help desperately. host: jennifer in washington on our independent line. caller: good morning.

-- i understand, and you can hear it from a lot of the other callers that they have already made up their mind on whether this is impeachable, not impeachable, when the public hearings are starting today. there has been no senate trial, no articles of impeachment drafted. i am curious how senators like lindsey graham can get away with saying "i will never impeach trump" without seeing the evidence in the impeachment proceedings? any other a juror in case, he would be thrown off the jury in a heart beat, but yet they can still get away with --ing this prying to having prior to having no actual courtdge testified to in or in the impeachment proceedings.

half-hourave about a of this program before the house of representatives comes in on c-span. we will take you to the house proceedings. if you are interested in watching the impeachment inquiry, go to c-span3 at 10:00. we will take your calls, (202) 748-8000, democrats. (202) 748-8001, republicans. (202) 748-8002, independents. you can text your thoughts on on2) 748-8003 or post facebook or twitter. i am calling to tell you, the point is that we are looking at everything the wrong way. first of all, it got to do with what is going on right now. we try to point fingers at one another, saying this one said

this, this one said the other, but we have to get down to what is real, let the person who is going to be up there to say what they have to say, let them say what they have to say, and then we pass judgment on what is being said and told to us as the people of the united states of america. what are you interested in learning from these gentlemen? caller: the truth. the truth will set us all free. when we hear the truth, we can ask the people of this world, of the united states of america to make up our own mind on what is being told of the truth. host: give me a specific on what you are expecting to learn. caller: that this world will be run the way it should be run, in right is being said and decent order for every

american, not just some people. we hear the president, he get up and say one thing. he is cussing on tv. what our children look like in our eyes when we hear the person who is supposed to be leading the united states saying things that are inappropriate to them as a children -- as children. grandson,zed my calling me on the phone, can the president really do that? it is the things we are saying and doing, and the children are growing up and seeing what right looks like to them. host: william in harrisonville, missouri, republican line. caller: hello? host: you are on. old.r: i am 87 years i would like to see everything come out true.

why couldn't they have the same many republicans on? they have 12 and 22 democrats. they should have an equal amount ,f each one, each side republican on the other. usuallye breakdowns stay consistent between democratic and republican rules of the house. i don't know if that answers your question. report --e have the and had the mueller report accused the president of lying and he could say the same thing to them. inn this president first got and having all of them trying to impeach him ever since he got in , because if he lost the

election it would've been better , we wouldn't have had to spend all this money. this world would've been a lot better. wanting to impeach him, to wait until the election comes up, and voting now. host: we will go back to john mcardle talking more about today's schedule. host: it gets underway in about 25 minutes at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. we have been talking all morning, william taylor, george but will testify today, that is only the beginning of the public impeachment and corey hearings. marie yovanovitch -- inquiry hearings. will testify on friday, and next week, jennifer

williams and alexander ven men, haswas on that call that been at the center of the impeachment inquiry. kurt volker, the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine will testify alongside tim morrison from the national security agency. , the u.s.dland ambassador to the european union will testify and laura cooper, a willy assistant director testify to david hale. on thursday, fiona hill, former white house russia as part -- expert is set to testify. theitnesses so far in public impeachment inquiry part of this process. we have shown you a few

headlines but have not shown you this one from the new york post. trial theow for the president treating -- tweeting this out earlier, read the transcript. mike quigley saying -- i don't often agree with the president but he is right about this, you should read the transcript. tweetre treat from's -- -- becausescalise nancy pelosi is obsessed with impeachment, our troops do not have the drugs -- equipment they need, prescription drug prices haven't been lowered, the southern border is not secure. host: we will hear from cheryl in elma, washington state, on the republican line. caller: i would like to urge the

american people to listen carefully to what they hear and try to put aside politics and listen, and they will hear the truth. they need to think about the person who is being accused of this stuff, mr. trump, and what he has done in the past. our constitution is at risk and we need to put a size the politics and think about what has been said and done. this man has told us from the very beginning that he is not for america, he is for himself. he asked the russians before he was elected to interfere and has continued that process all the way down the line to ukraine. host: when it comes to today's hearing, what are you interested in learning? caller: i would like to hear if anybody says anything about rudy giuliani's involvement.

the man is not a government employee and he has been used to be independent for the president's own work. the president knows nothing about law or history or geography and has no respect for anybody. when you here today, listen to what they say. but the politics aside. host: leslie in denver, colorado, democrats line. caller: i am calling regarding the mueller report, and i'm fascinated about all the different information listed specifically in the mueller report. in our judicial system, the warrants that were issued by many different judges over many different districts that obtained evidence that showed what exactly went down, how it went down. i have faith in our judicial system and i like the way it is set up. the information has been investigated, it is played out

there. people need to read the report. host: what about today's hearing on the call between the president and the president of the ukraine? caller: i am interested in finding out what the people who were there heard and saw and what was done. i don't have any preconceived notions of, it is going to go my way or this way or that way. i want to hear how it did go down, what they saw and participated in. host: did you think the president's conversation with the ukrainian president was proper or not? caller: i believe it was not proper. the transcript shows a crime committed against all of us in the united states. host: what part of the transcript shows that? caller: when he is telling ukraine that in order to get the aid that has already been

approved and released by our government to assist ukraine, he is telling them he will not let them have it unless they do what he wants and start the investigation into the bidens, into biden's son. host: betty is next in maryland -- benny is next in maryland, republican line. caller: nowhere and the transcript does the president it, we willon't do not give you the money. listening toare the fake news media. commit crimes and run for office in america, just because they will not believe -- investigate you because you are a public enemy. biden did a crime and needs to be investigated.

when he comes to the hearing today, i will be watching it, because this is part of the swamp. why do we need to hear from them? we have the transcript. every american can make his own mind. his call was proper. there was nothing wrong. host: don't you think a public --ring gives a different from a transcript? caller: no, it does not. i can think for myself. why do we need to hear from the swamp? i don't even want to hear from the whistleblower. the only person i want to hear from is hunter biden. he is the criminal here obviously. jersey,pe may, new republican line. caller: some people are saying there was a quid pro quo and others aren't.

there is no consensus, no fact of a crime, which i think he would need that for impeachment. i think that is necessary and not an inference. the other thing i want to say is should staff contact the ukrainian ambassador prior to prep her for their inquiry, which should be illegal or at least is shady. host: that is carla. ,hat you will see at 10:00 opening statements from the chair adam schiff and the ranking member devin nunes. you will get opening statements from both of the witnesses. the first round of questions, 45 minutes per round, which the chair or ranking member could ask questions or choose a member of staff to ask questions. committee members getting a

chance to question, five minutes apiece. it is supposed to start at 10:00 and end somewhere between 2:30 and 4:00 this afternoon. that will play out starting at 10:00. you can see that on c-span3. we will go to the house of representatives at 10:00. san antonio, texas, democrats line, alfred. caller: i want to know why the ambassador taylor and top ukraine officials believe that trump compromised our security, and i want the american people to feel from their heart and they see high misdemeanors and treason. in my opinion, no current diplomat would put his career on the line, as well as a whistleblower but his career on the line. people need to think about this. whistleblowers are there to

protect us from losing their jobs in trying to let us know what is going on. i also want to point out that two republicans, the bigger thing that was going on, he compromised our national security. i am proud of congress and the democrats and the oversight committee. i am proud of all members of the committee and hope the american people listen. cape springs, arkansas, republican line, robert. call, ii just want to don't understand the double standard going on here. mr. trump is being accused of doing exactly what joe biden did as vice president. he is in front of the council of foreign affairs bragging about how he told the president of the ukraine, you ain't getting the money unless you fire the

prosecutor, i am leaving in six hours. uoi don't know what is. i would hope there are strings attached to every dollar we hand a foreign country. i don't want to hand them money and say, have a good time. there is always strings attached and if there is not, there is a real problem. host: there are members of congress tweeting about today's hearing, as you can imagine, some inside of the room, some outside of the room. here is john mcardle. host: members already taking selfies inside this room with -- longworthse house building being the focus of attention. this is congressman andy biggs in that room. it is usually the ways and means committee room, being used by

the house intelligence committee as part of their proceedings. a few more tweets from members on the intelligence committee. jackie spears saying -- the president betrayed his oath of office. and my democratic colleagues will remember hours. -- ours. -- we willl saying hear from the patriotic public servants who have spoken out to defend our democracy. they have spent their careers putting american priorities first. tune in this morning to hear their testimony. this from the senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham, tweeting out his list of questions today as these public impeachment inquiry hearings get underway. tweets,series of four did the whistleblower help arrange the phone call between

former vice president biden and the president of ukraine complaining about prosecutors behavior toward breeze my ? --burisma? host: moray from florida, independent line. you.r: thank it is really disturbing that most of the people who are calling in, and support of donald trump do not even understand that the house is going through the rules they are supposed to. this is the way it works. nancy pelosi did not want to impeach him. she had to be forced to do it. it is not like the democrats are just going after him. he is forcing them to because he will not stop abusing his power. i understand everyone feels loyal to him like he is some sort of king, but this is a

nation of laws and not of men, and the law will prevail. i have faith in the system. i hope these hearings will bring out the truth and reestablish that rule of law and help everyone understand what is going on, and maybe realign these misaligned republicans who are already speculating turning their back on our nation in support of donald trump. if he breaks the law, they don't care, they will support him anyway. that is insanity. host: fred, auburn, new york, republican line. understand how ,his woman who just spoke even the president going against any law. adam schiff and his crew have been unconstitutional from the beginning.

they can even let the republicans have a witness. they have been enclosed hearings. the man has not even been charged. nixon and bill clinton were guilty before they were impeached and proven guilty. that has not even happened. because of the double standard, like this other fellow called, is exactly what is happening. they are insane with what they are doing. this man has done more to help this country in the past three years then we have seen in the past 30 years. i don't get it. he is a total patriotic man who wants his country to shine. he don't want it to be in a whole. -- hole. the only way for it to shine is to be the moral country it was meant to be. debbie ins hear from edmond, washington, democrats

line. caller: i would like to say that this has nothing to do with didns, and what joe biden was what the european union demanded, what the monetary fund demanded,what obama because the prosecutor they wanted to get rid of was not prosecuting people and was suspected of taking bribes. ok. second, i would like to say that the mueller report, none of you republicans even paid attention full of howt, is many contacts, 140 of them between trump campaign and russian agents. welcomed -- and the report says that -- that trump welcomed this. again withoing it

ukraine. he outright said he wanted china to help, right on tv. george in london, kentucky, republican line. hello? caller: yes, good morning, pedro. thanks for c-span. haveof your viewers, i heard them call in but don't get c-span3. my local station, a cbs affiliate will also be carrying this. host: we are providing full coverage for the networks that are showing it. that aside, go ahead. caller: people that don't get c-span3 may be able to get it on their local affiliate. host: thanks for that. caller: i thought it was curious that joe biden decided to enter the race right after ag barr

said there was spying on the trumps. that is curious to me. my final point and i will get off of here, people talk about all these decorated veterans and my recollection, benedict arnold was a patriot hero before he was found out. host: will you be watching the hearings? caller: i am going to watch part of them. littleump economy has my company busier than it has been in 25 years, so i will watch some of it and have to work some. host: that is george in london, kentucky, reminding that a lot of other networks will show the hearings as well. and it show it at 10:00 will conclude around 4:00. we will not insert any commentary or commercials.

it will be gavel-to-gavel, as we call it. .e will show it again on c-span, we will go to the house of representatives, c-span two focus on the senate, and c-span3 will focus on the impeachment. jack in tucson, and -- arizona. caller: i was calling in. i was listening to some of your viewers, trying to urge the american people whether democrat or republican to pay attention to the information. i can see people coming in with biases. people need to sit back and the power of information is the most crucial thing, just taking key notes of the facts. taylor and how meticulous he was with notes, and getting that information.

this is not necessarily articles of impeachment, but more of an inquiry, finding out information and everyone should have access to that information. host: the information you have referenced, what is the most important bit worth paying attention to? caller: i don't think there needs to be a saying quid pro assistance congress approved withheld for any reasons that were not for national security? having rudy giuliani involved when he does not have clearance or a government official, having power to help ukraine out. jack in tucson, arizona. host: i want to note for our radio listeners that democratic members of the house intelligence committee have entered the room and taken their

seats on the dais. you can see them lined up, andre carson, joaquin castro. you can see eric swalwell, adam schiff sitting at this far end of that shot. you can see the press as well, plenty of press as some 150 seats reserved for the media and 100 seats reserved for members of congress who aren't on the house intelligence committee. as we show you the house of -- , at shot of adam schiff capitol hill reporter with a wrap up of some of the non-intelligence committee members that are in the room right now including congress moment debbie murray castle gohmert, steve phillips, karen bass. we have also seen andy biggs, republican of arizona, and mark

meadows, republican of north carolina. the room filling up and about to get underway. host: take as many calls as we can, charlotte, north carolina, princess, democrat. caller: i actually just again want to encourage people to really listen to the information that is going to be given today. i do believe that this thing has become so political and tainted that people are losing sight of the real issue. the republicans continue to move the line. initially, the whistleblower was not good enough, so intimidating the whistleblower but not being mindful that he is protected by federal law. the whistleblower was not good enough for the republicans, so now you have people that were actually in the room and you have people like lindsey graham that refuse to do their job and

says he is not going to read the transcript or the information, not going to entertain this. that means he is not doing his job and failing to uphold his oath that he has taken to uphold the constitution. i feel that people need to step back from both parties and listen to ethically what is right and what is wrong, and what was released was not the actual transcript. it was a memo. host: ricky in moon park, california. caller: this is a culmination of what started back in the 1950's with khrushchev banging his shoe on the podium, seeing -- saying we will take your country through your children. our colleges have been totally misappropriated to teach our children -- and this was the plan. when obama came in, he followed the book, which when i was in

college, i was a communist. host: can you relate this to the hearings? caller: what we see now is a culmination of all the things that were not taught to our kids , so they have been misled by the media, which is driving this whole thing. they are such masters of adjectives to use the words that make this president look like he is the most evil thing that ever has been put on the earth. , hetruth of the matter is is overturning the tables and it is really upsetting them because everything is coming down to show this man has done more in three years than these people who have been sitting here, these bureaucrats they talk about. bill cosby was considered -- hamilton,n in virginia, independent line. caller: thank you.

representatives today, other than noon as an shift, will not pontificate -- schiffthan nunes and will not pontificate. we need to watch this with an open mind, both democrats and republicans. that is why we have these hearings. for representatives to get up and give a speech, i am not interested. i am interested in what the witness has to say and hope everyone will listen. host: live coverage starting at 10:00 on c-span3. you can see that uninterrupted. you can also download our c-span radio app and also the website. we now take you to the house of representatives.

the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. november 13, 2019. i hereby appoint the honorable henry cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. each member r