ongoing impeachment inquiry. former u.s. ambassador to yovanovitch, slated to testify at 9:00 c-span2, also n online at c-span.org. you can listen in with the free c-span radio app. the new york timesst: from yesterday, the envoys revealed the scope of the trump ukraine push. our calls,ack to from the independent line, tom in south carolina. good morning. caller: good morning. i did watch the latest version, or the latest episode of the scripted reality tv show known as congress yesterday, where both sides played their roles, read their parts, and it looks like congress now has shifted from looking out for the interests of the american people to looking out for their own interests. we go through this impeachment seeing -- ande

nothing else gets done in congress. there is not a budget that has been passed. what used to be the premier infrastructure in the world is deteriorating at a rate that we might not be ever able to return to. nothing is being done. people cannot buy prescription drugs because of the pricing. nothing is happening in immigration. and this is not just happening now. it has gone back decades. so maybe we need to take a look at ourselves, and we are sending people to congress who are more interested in the star chamber of washington than they are of us, and maybe also we don't have to worry about foreign influence to destroy our country. we are doing the best we can to do it ourselves, because we are

focused on this political theater, whether it be trump -- who probably should not be in office -- or it was obama before him and bush before him, and clinton before him. god holy help the next person who is president because the day after the election, the in the -- the investigations will begin. host: to that point, the first impeachment of a president was in the late 1860's, andrew johnson. it was more than 100 years later when it took place against richard nixon. now this is the third impeachment inquiry over the last 45 years, with richard nixon, bill clinton, and now donald trump. host: the political system has weaponized impeachment. impeachment has become a political tool, and that has become a problem, a huge problem. what are we going to do next as a people? are we going to destroy ourselves? because khrushchev once said, we

will bury you. not mean he directly. he meant we would destroy ourselves, and we are destroying ourselves. host: take a look at "the wall street journal" editorial, because they conclude that. telling the caller to get a life. politico.com, the white house trying to protect calm -- trying to project calm even as the gop launches a counteroffensive. that is the headline. within the white house on wednesday, quickly settling on biggest sin of democrats as they -- they were boring. president trump said he was not even watching, too busy with other important work. onice is keeping an eye muted tv's, but they dismissed the landmark events as a tedious affair.

was belied -- the attempt to project calm within the west wing was belied throughout the money by a cascade of combat of email blasts, tweets, and statements that flowed from trump's war room. everett is joining us from fort lauderdale. good morning, everett. caller: is that melvin? host: melvin, i'm sorry you're next. caller: i hope you give me time like you gave these other people. host: certainly. caller: tell mitch mcconnell to do something. also the bills that were just passed by the democratic congress, and mitch mcconnell holds them up. he will not pass any of them. then the lady was talking about her granddaughter and getting up and what did he do?

the problem is not what did he do, it is what he did. told 13,000 lies and everything else. he has sent more people to jail with respect to dealing with him. he even tried to pimp about his dad doing something. that is just a point before i get to the other part. do, they had ao 60 minute interview on sunday with the president of the philippines. i want you to show that and see if there is any difference between what this guy is doing and what donald trump has done. as a matter of fact, this guy talked about killing drug dealers in the street to get rid trump comes donald trump back in, he could walk up fifth avenue and kill a person. it is amazing listening to these people in this country who in law enforcement

everybody comes and tells you, first that everybody is going on. no, you work through other people to get to the individual that actually has the information. that becomes your star witness at the end. host: melvin, thank you for your call from fort lauderdale. inside the washington post, house democrats cannot just get over it. he writes the following. if the house doesn't deed -- does indeed bring impeachment articles to the floor, it will likely pass with little to no republican support. it appears virtually certain to end with trump's acquittal. thes morning from " washington post co. from somerville, pennsylvania. republican line, good morning. caller: good morning, gentlemen, and thank you for taking my call. first to the caller from south carolina, don't give up face. this is the best government we have, so don't give up faith.

i have three quick comments. we watched the hearings yesterday. i was so impressed by mr. kent. i think he was unbiased and everyone would be served well listening to how he answered the questions. this is how we all should approach these hearings. i think he established the efficiently that security and onruption with ukraine is the top of the list in our foreign policy. remember, that is what the president says he was concerned with.

secondcally, the whole idea of the litany, the six people a sentence and the absurdity of it, look at the reaction.'s he was actually laughing about it., at the absurdity of and the most shocking part of was when ng for us oflupa was identified as one the whistleblowers and his direct line to the d.n.c. and digging up and clinton, digging up dirt on reaction of mr. piquish, he s started to sweat. and then later he confirmed the of the whistleblower, and the media hasn't even spoken morning.s this and so i just -- i'm just this, and i ll of

think that the president will be acquitted. also, our last -- my last comment is my husband and i love c-span to invite and ijudy onto your show, would love to hear her comments ridiculous smear campaign is being carried out jokingly laugh, what would judge judy say? hings like, i don't care what your opinion is. it doesn't matter what you think or don't tell me what they said. that's hearsay. mr. mccarthy: close, close? i'd like to start this monday veterans day. i was able to be home. i was able to be grand marshall 100th veterans day parade. i want to thank those veterans for the freedom they provided the service they have given. it would have been nice this week we would pass appropriation our troops, for their pay raise, for the