that's the vote that matters. we've got to go. >> will there be other open earings? >> the house intelligence committee in three separate hearings this week heard from nine witnesses. today from former national security advisor and russia analyst fiona hill and also david helms holmes. the political counselor at the u.s. embassy in ukraine. video here outside the longworth house office building, across the street from the u.s. capitol, where all the hear this is week have been held. here on c-span we'll take your phone calls and reaction as we stay live outside the hearing room waiting for possible comments from democratic members of the committee and others as iona hill makes her way out. 202-748-8920 is the number to call for democrats. 202-748-8921 for republicans.

and for all others, 202-748-8922. we'll get to your calls momentarily. again, there may be more from members. but this is it for hearings this week. in the house intelligence committee. the house itself and the senate as well both on break now for the thanksgiving recess. the house not become in -- back in session for legislative work, for votes, until december 3. >> you're not americans anymore!

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been held across the street from the u.s. capitol. we'll wait to see if there are comments from other members. we haven't heard from democratic members yet of the committee. in the meantime we'll take your calls. 202-748-89 20. republicans, 202-748-8921. 8922. hers, 202-748- this is berenthea on the democrats line. caller: i've been watching the inquiry, i'm disturbed because we have moved away fre constitution. i don't feel they're thinking about the well being of the people of the united states. we know the president has done some things and it's unlawful so therefore the democrats are trying to get to the end of situation. if they are unable to do this, this is going to cause more division in the united states.

and the president is not above the law. therefore it needs to be addressed now. not later. host: ok. on to dan in new baltimore, michigan, independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i was watching these proceedings and the -- a couple of things. they talk about this ambassador and her being smeared. it seems like since mr. trump, president trump came down that escalator, him and his family has been smeared. they don't say anything about that. the other point is, when they -- when doctor hill said that the russians were the ones that were trying to interfere in the election in the ukraine, but there were ukrainians that were doing it too, it seems like it

goes to show the truth that ukrainians were involved. and the russians were involved. to have hillary elected and go against trump. there's many things said bad about trump. host: to grand junction, colorado, republican line. your thoughts on today's hearing? what we've seen or heard this week. caller: well, i thought it was fairly interesting, both parties were trying to make political points. but there was a few kernels of truth being brought out, i guess. i would really like to see them subpoena and force it to some of the principals. there's references to the chief of staff. pence. several other people. who actually had firsthand knowledge. they could clear up a lot if they would be willing to testify. and giuliani too. maybe he'd take the fifth but at least i think they ought to be put in front of the people and give them a chance to say

because they're the final people that are going to be able to really clear up this thing. that's my comment. host: appreciate that charlotte, north carolina. thomas is next up on the democrats' line. caller: hi. i think chairman schiff, he done a spectacular job. love his end comments to the sessions. i think that president has enough evidence to be impeached. before, put himself we got servicemen all over the world, we're the strongest nation in the world, and for us to remain that way we cannot have a president willing to throw us under the bus for some votes. thank you. host: i want to remind you, today's hearing, five hours or so, will reair tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. nancy in virginia, republican line. o ahead.

host: you're on the air, go ahead. caller: yes. i'm calling with a question. when the procedure going on today, will there be notification of the indictment that was yesterday but was done ver in the ukraine for the company that hunter biden worked for? host: your question is about bursma, what's your question about it caller: will it be brought up in the hearing? in the impeachment hearing? host: i'm not exactly clear what you're asking about that. in particular. caller: will people be questioning about that?

will there be a question that -- knowledge to the fact that there were indictments over there in the country with that company? host: there are further investigations of that company, of bursma yes, there were requests made yesterday by the republicans, by the republican ranking member, devin nunes, ask for documents and testimony from hunter biden and also from the whistleblower and those requests yesterday by republicans were blocked by democrats on the intelligence committee. we'll go next to kurt in chicago calling on the independent line. caller: thanks for taking my call. i guess my question or comment is that when i read definitions of quid pro quo, most of them suggest that there's an equal basis for the offer and the conversation. my question, i guess is why the

republican side hasn't taken advantage of the inequity between the offering or the announcements of an investigation versus the conclusion or the indictment or the convention that's associated with such an investigation. it seems like there's very little value in the announcement and then exchange -- in exchange they're giving $400 million tax $s for that. seems like they haven't gotten a meeting of minds or equal basis for those two considerations. host: i think jim jordan made the point in his comments a few year ago, one of his points was that the aid ultimately was delivered so trying to take some of the air out they have quid pro quo argument. we'll go to missouri and hear from sterling next on the democrats line. lip yes. if we're such a great country,

and we're a country of laws that's supposed to representusity for all, how is it if i was in that office or barack obama was in that office, a person of color, african-american, we would never be allowed the latitude to do the things that donald trump has done, nor would we even be elected in that office with all the sexual assaults he's been accused of and we're going to look -- overlook everything that this man has been accused of and everything that we have seen and actually heard him do or say and want to be represented as such? well, i don't really have a president because there's a word, a word has a definition so we're without a president right now and i just hope that america can kind of get past a lot of the lies and deceit and then

maybe we'll be a great nation. host: we'll hear from derek next in tacoma, washington, republican line. caller: hello, america, thank you for giving me my moment in comments to everybody that's been talking and giving us patience while we get through this i guess my question to us all is, now that we've seen and heard and it seems as though we went in with an idea and now we're coming out with perhaps an unchanged idea, we'll look at our congress and see the same thing, then they'll vote, and it pushes on. my question, i do not know, the next step is it goes into the senate they go partisan again, because it doesn't seem to anybody that there's a clear violation to impeach the president of the united states, like the last caller said trk it's not my president, ok, got it, he's still our president. what's the next step? can it possibly drag out until

the 2020 elections? host: thanks for your call. the next step in the house is a report to come out of the house at some point. chairman schiff has left the building, we don't expect a news briefing with him, he did not indicate at the close of the hearing what the next steps might be. we think -- what we think that could be is a report to come out and the judiciary committee possibly taking this in their public hearings. there's been no announcements about any additional public hearings. as we mentioned earlier, the house and senate now off for their congressional thanksgiving break, with the house returning december 3 for votes. but there was some movement in terms of the senate. a number of republican senators at the white house today. news organizations talking about the meeting with those senators, including mike lee of utah, with white house staff. here's -- i want to show this report from "the washington post" with their headline that says "white house and republicans discuss limiting impeachment trial to two weeks."

they write that a group of republican senators met privately thursday, today, to map out a strategy far potential impeachment trial of president trump, including proceedings in the senate that could be limited to about two week, according to people familiar with the talks, a number of senator, and the people included in that meeting include white house counsel path cippolone, mick mulvaney, and senior advisor to the president, jared kushner. let's go back to calls and hear from craig in portland, oregon. craig is on the line. caller: thank you for taking my call. thanks to congress for recognizing the armenian genocide. it's an actual fact, it happened to my grandparents, they're survivors. for them, i'm hear. two times in my life in america i've watched the popular vote go the way of the person that is supposed to win the election and for some reason, you know, we don't have one man, one vote. instead we have the electoral

college. twice in my life the popular vote was won by the more popular president. the more popular candidate. and twice in my life the election was stolen from the people. stolen from the vox populi. taken away from our choice, our one man, one vote, and given to some tyrannical fool, and both times it's ended horribly. this president, his wild bombastic racist, bigotted, homophobic xenophobic rhetoric is the cause of death for some people in this country. i don't like him, he could get the hell out of the whole country as far as i'm concerned. it's disgusting that we have this president. it's disgusting. it's absolutely not representative of the will of the people. the people voted differently. host: all right, we're going to go to the republican line next and hear from tim in arnold,

maryland. go ahead, tim. caller: hi, there. host: go ahead. caller: i think there's two takeaways from today's hearings. one, that castro fellow is doing us no favors and two, jeffrey epstein clearly killed himself. back to you. host: here's kathleen in guilderland, new york, on the democrats line. aller: yes, sir. it's so disturbing, what's going on right now in this country. trump was actually impeachable efore he became president. russia has been listening, he kept saying and repeating himself, i have so much money. i have so much money. man, do i got a lot of money. i started to think, right, that

these people that defend him so much they're getting paid off. what they talk and defend him, it's as though, you know, a chicken with its head cut off. nub of it is making sense. so i'm wondering did he actually, why would he say that other and over again, i have so much money. you know. did he -- has he been paying people off to back him up, to protect him, no matter what he does, what he says? you know, sir, it's just very sad time right now for our country. very sad time.

clip caller: this is what we needed to hear. he can get away with whatever he wants. he can rig the next election, they'll let him do it. the republicans in the senate and in our congress, they won't stand up to him and they'll let him do it. we won't be a democracy anymore. host: do you think that the -- with what the house intelligence committee has heard and seen publicly over the last week or last two weeks that the house should move forward now to articles of impeachment on the president? caller: i'm torn on that as soon as it goes to the senate, the republicans aren't -- they're sticking their heads in the sand. they're not going to give it a fair trial. they've already said it. they already prejudged it. so how can there be a fair trial in the senate when the jurors, republicans, you know, and some of the democrats too, have already said, you know, we've

already decided. you know. you haven't even had the trial yet. none of them should be saying that. on either side. as soon as they turn it over to them, it's in the republican's court. and we've already seen -- we don't need to see anything else, anything more. to know that the republicans are betraying us right now. you're either in their little conservative right wing media bubble and you're believing all -- it's like a cult. it's like a damn cult, they have these people that have a different reality than what's going on. and -- host: all right. appreciate your opinion. we'll hear from randall next calling from georgia, and on our republican line. caller: yes. thank you for taking my call. i'd like to make a point. every seems to be overlooking the fact that president trump

has done more for this country than any of the presidents in the last 10 lines of presidencies. i would also like to say that i democrats, they can get over it, they're trying to get rid of a president because they're seeing that their ways are not the ways of the american people. donald trump has made this a better place and they can't stand it. people. donald trump has not done anything more than any other president has ever done as far as asking for favors or wanting to get something ash

accomplished. i think they would try to impeach over the color of his limousine. i think the callers calling to bad mouth our president need to find a new way of life or stop and rethink their own. it's just ridiculous to see what we're having to put up with now in the house of representatives if this was a totally due process investigation that allowed everyone to have equal opportunity, then i believe you will see things charpg. and i think you'd see the american people stand up and fight for what's right. i believe what's right is donald trump in 2020. >> thank you. as the house intelligence committee wraps up its work for the week, we wrap up too with your phone calls and comments.

the house and senate finish their business today ahead of the thanks giving break. that included passing a government funding which otherwise would have expired tonight at midnight. another short term continuing resolution passed by the senate today likely signed by president trump, funding the federal government through december 20 nl. so they're not quite done with 2020 spending yet. we'll find out the week of the 20th, december 20th how that goes. let geese to margaret in california on the democrats line. >> hello. thank you for taking my call and thank you for the service that you're doing to the american public. you know, i choose to watch c-span because i don't want the spin of cnn. i don't want the spin of fox and msnbc and all the rest and the talking points. i want to see it with my own eyes and i want to hear it with my own ears. i want to be objective.

i want to, you know, yes, the back and forth gets nauseating. i will say. it looks pretty damning from testimonies, and you know, i'm being as objective as i can listening to the line of question, and i believe when you have an opportunity as an elected official to ask your questions, you don't want to waste it on -- i don't know, sideshows. i hate sideshows. i don't care who's putting it out there. so just liss edtening to their testimonies i have to say i feel very proud of some of the public servants that we have in our country, they go from administration to administration, and i think if they let themselves get caught up in that they'll never be able to do their job. it's the american public that they have to serve, and so right now it looks pretty damning. it seems to me that there's

plenty there to hold the president accountable and i would say that on any president because i believe that what was done with clinton was correct. he should have been impeached for lying. you can't get into, you know -- our government is based on the three branches of government and they all have to balance each other, like it or not. that's what we vote for. >> margaret, you called it pretty damning. the testimony that you saw this week or today, what one single fact stood out that you didn't know before that bolsters your opinion that the evidence is damning? >> that they were all in the know and it was being directed by the president himself. one thing i continually hear -- i continually hear, it's corruption. we have branches of government for that. if somebody is doing something,

and i agree that biden's kid being in that post, that's not a good thing. absolutely not. however, you know, one right to say i am doing this, and i'm using the public's money to do this, this particular act that benefits me. we have to be very careful on how we use the public's funs. they have a fiduciary responsibility to protect our money. so if this was something that they felt was wrong which i understand was investigated, okay? however, you don't put your finger on the scale to do it. that's what got nixon in trouble is when you stick yourself in there and you direct it, then that separates it from the job you're doing as a president to the job you're doing for your

own thing and it's a line that should never be crossed no matter who is sitting in the white house, and to me it's pretty damning and i see many of these appointees and they're done by different presidents and i think they're trying to do their job, and i think sondland listening to him, and then listening to the testimony this afternoon. you have individuals that went directly to the attorney because right away they knew having worked in the state department and having worked in the government for years. so the president and those who support this kind of behavior, i don't support this kind of behavior. i don't care who it is. i don't want care if i voted for them or not. this kind of behavior is wrong, but to use this he didn't know any better and then it's quid pro quo, it's this or that. we need to watch it and then we

need to do ourselves a favor and we need to right this ship because if we don't the next time around it's somebody else who we don't care for and it's just going to keep going and going and going and america has to right this ship. we owe it to ourselves. we owe it to our children. we owe it to the next generation and not do this part of it pulling the party apart. >> we appreciate that. margaret, she's in shanksville, pennsylvania. go ahead. >> hi. thank you for taking my call. i've been recording my testimonies and getting to depositions from the closed-door hearings and my feeling on this is that you asked another caller what was the most damning evidence so far, and for me is

people who could provide exculpatory evidence are being restricted from testifying, and so if there really was no agenda to try to get information on a potential presidential challenger in 2020, if that real really wasn't the case, i think that would be something that they would have evidence of and documentation of and be able to put it in front of the american people and it's not a memo. it's a summary. another thing i wanted to say is for me, personally as an older millennial i'm more concerned about the facts that got us into the position that we're in now with the mueller report and what fraushthed our country has to do with destructive innovations that aren't being met with equal legislation to protect us and

bitcoin and the mueller report it was in the unredacted evidence. that's probably why it can't be proven and we have cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence and the disruptive innovations and we're just not prepared to deal with. so for me, even though i don't like some of the rhetoric and the talk that comes from this administration. >> yeah. >> i'm more concerned about the broader picture. >> appreciate that. we'll get to joseph next from tacoma, washington, on the republican line. joseph -- louis, i'm sorry. you're on the air. >> first of all, i'm from the baby boomer generation so basically i've been a republican most of my life,

host: the whole hearing will reary tonight on c-span beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. and next up, we will show you the entire hearing beginning with the opening statements.