you can't keep it, and american should just get over it. decidens do not get to american elections anymore, not by themselves, not without foreign help. for the members of congress, this is not a question of fact because the facts are not seriously contested. it is a matter of duty. the articles put forward today will give a chance to show that we will defend the constitution and that our oath mean something to us. thank you, mr. chairman. >> president trump tweeted that the chair of the judiciary said tee, jerrold nadler, the president pressured ukraine

2020 erfere in our election is ridiculous. both is not true. oth the foreign minister of ukraine said many times there was no pressure. chairman nadler and the but refuse to acknowledge. shifty schiff, totally corrupt horrible , made up a and fraudulent statement. read it to congress and said those words came from me. caught with very embarrassed -- was veryappened r committing this fraud. he'll eventually have to answer for this. some of the president's reaction speaker pelosi announcing the house will be considering two articles of impeachment against him. >> as the impeachment process watch c-span's live coverage as house democrats move head with drafting articles of impeachment and the administration's response. follow the impeachment process unfiltered coverage live as it happens. anytime on airs and

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our c-span radio app. this, hearts us off on is in oklahoma on the democrat line. caller: hi, and thank you for having me on. i have been paying very close , not only to the hearings but the actual -- president trump. you really almost have to take it all together. i am talking about someone who has a charity closed by the courts, someone who did not serve his country when the time came. now you have these impeachment charges, and this is what they have come up with considering that trump has blocked witnesses will notng to testify, release very critical documents that basically proves he is guilty.

if you have the power to hide the evidence that would prove your guilt, that is obstruction. it is very clear. history of had a this kind of behavior, and it is just continuing. host: that is joseph in oklahoma. let's hear from maryland, republican line. dave. caller: hi, thank you for taking my call. little amissed at some of the rationale at the citizens of the united states who are saying when they look at this. the domino call before me is saying that because he refused to allow witnesses to go into testify, that he is obstructing. that is not really what actually happened. he went to the courts to prevent his personnel from testifying because of the way in which those witnesses were being called, and the fact that he

could not call his own witnesses. host: are you there? caller: yes, can you hear me. with the presentation that schiff just gave, i wish the press would call him out on just --. misrepresenting things. he says that none of the evidence was contested -- that is what has been happening for the last several days and weeks, the evidence is contacted. -- contested. there are witnesses that contradict one another. if that is not contested evidence, i don't know what is. the: if you go back to hearing yesterday come republicans presented their own counsel to rebuke the evidence brought forth by the democratic counsel. you can see all of that and here all the back-and-forth at the hearing yesterday when you go to c-span.org. jason in texas, independent line. caller: let me start off by

saying thank you for what you are doing. it is very important and i appreciate it. it has been fun seeing the democrats putting out factual information with credible witness statements, timelines, and then we hear jim jordan talk about how he did not protect those beliefs. it is a fun situation. host: let's go to john mcardle. power andse of obstruction of congress. here is how it is playing out on members' twitter pages over the past five or 10 minutes since the announcement. judiciaryf the committee and the intelligence committee saying the impeachment evidence is in and the president is abusing his office of personal gain and obstructing congress. in doing so, he jeopardizes our national security and integrity of our democracy.

this is eve at clark, democrat from new york -- in -- yvette clark, nobody is above the law. this is from congressman rick larsen, democratic leaders unveiled two articles of impeachment. no reason to celebrate here, he says. and then from the republican side of the aisle, this is disgusting -- with this disgusting impeachment charade, house democrats have proved themselves guilty of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. and from another republican, the only abuse of power is the democrats and what they have done in this sham-peachment. the hiding of a whistleblower. a complete hoax, that is what congressman rick crawford said, and this from senator marsha blackburn.

impeachments' obsession is about one thing -- ensuring that president trump is not reelected. one last note -- the house members of the various committees making this announcement on capitol hill today on a day where the president's daughter, ivanka trump, is on the hell talking to house republicans. talking to house republicans. speaking, saying hearing from and by we i mean, is republicans, are united like never before. thank you president trump. saying to the president, you can send us ivanka anytime. host: off of twitter, you saw the chair or heading out not taking questions from reporters. they reported, that the chair went to nancy pelosi's office and continued to decline to answer questions. dan in alex

if anybody has a problem with the process, it's the republican followed.at they and additionally, i just want to say, the other item that came up is whether or not the facts have contested. the thing is, from my not ective, the facts have been contested by the republicans. perhaps.facts mean, it is true that trump has been witnesses from testifying. that's objectively true.

it is objectively true that's obstruction of congress. what's up for debate here anymore. host: silver spring, maryland, line.ican paul is next. aller: somebody said republicans united like never before. think they need to look at themselves. the republican party has been here for a long time. things.ot of great going to be hereafter trump. -- here after trump. just move on past trump, man. i don't understand it. i'm sorry. guys.ed move past trump. please, people. come on. it's a joke. i have been around the world. indonesia, africa, europe, scandinavia. move on past trump, man. there are so many greater things. e got a good thing going on in this country. i am so happy to be here. do not need st donald trump. ost: independent line from

david, clearwater, florida. caller: yes, good morning. this impeachment inquiry and it nearly surrounded as been so filled of emotions nd opinion rather than direct corroborating fact that anything that the ional and resident's job itself internationally has somehow country.d our that, you know, for me, i have anything or read anything that would say that was so. democratsin mind, the are tearing our country apart or trying to, and it's one-sided.

protection or protectionism by own emocrats for their party and their own political for the 2020 election is not an impeachable offense trump.sident there is nothing there, and the narrative has gotten to a point where the virtually been lost. host: ok. leean is in oregon. line.ats' hi. morning.i, good west coast. democrats, we're going to take down, and that's what he needs to be done with, period. to john 's go back ccardle. john: just quick reaction from the trump team. this a statement from the trump

campaign, brad, with this statement on the announcement on impeachment.of for months, he said, nancy move said she wouldn't forward on impeachment because it was too divisive and it needed bipartisan support. divisive and only the democrats are pushing it, but she's doing it anyway. this ans don't agree with ranked partisanship but democrats are putting on this political theater because they candidate a viable for 2020, and they know it. of bloomberg noting that campaign statement, that quick release. news, noting that the white house will soon be releasing a statement. blasting kely be democrats' announcement of their articles of impeachment, she said. aide already started by telling me that democrats took this action from coastal ective of elites. yamiche alcindor. the president has yet to tweet about this.

to you if and t when he does. host: from new jersey, we'll hear next from sarah. line. republican hello. caller: hello. good morning. how are you? am just upset. i can't believe this is happening. up anything opened with biden, anything with hillary. hillary is now, from what i morning, on the top topic. our country. we're destroying the people, the nation. other countries, i have lived in other countries. am a thirld -- third world -- i know what it's like to be under a ruler and socialism. this is not fair. for our ot fair president. this is not fair for our country. time they do see some kind of light. they wouldn't answer questions today. -- democracy host: that's sarah in new jersey. back to john. come pedro, promised to back with you when the president tweeted.

he tweeted about 40 seconds ago. president focusing on usmca his first de deal in tweet since the announcement of the two articles of impeachment. at 9:32 he president a.m. america's great usmca trade bill good.king it will be the best and most important trade deal ever made by the u.s.a. everybody -- farmers, manufacturers, energy, ubons -- tremendous support. finally end we will our country's worst trade deal, nafta. sending his mp son-in-law down to mexico amid he last stages of these negotiations along with his trade representative robert lighthizer. we're expecting more news on the finalization of that deal perhaps as soon as within the couple hours. host: mick mulvaney is at a wall event.journal one tweeting about that in which mr. mulvaney was quoted of saying, i am not going to i will remind everybody what ambassador sou

-- sondlad -- sondland rarelyhich is he is very talked to me and had trouble getting me on the phone. to comment.nt this person calls himself a president needs to be out of office. man can see this stuff is just wrong. we don't need this. host: ok. is next. he's inst can. overland park, kansas, republican line. caller: yes. thank you for taking my call. i'm a former law professor and i this on c-span because i am retired and i have turley you, professor made a lot of sense to me. even though he's a democrat and president, ior the think his point was there is an it's congress and setting a cause it's

precedent if you don't like the resident and he is of the opposing party, just bring a of lous charge like abuse power under which you can throw anything you want, the kitchen for and bring him up charges of impeachment to smear chances for n his re-election. and the second thing i wanted to think that it's just kind of unfair all the way around. is facing the democrats, a hostile media nothing more than a propaganda organ for the emocratic party and the deep state. and then everything he tries to do. partisan judges appointed because ent obama undo they rule these orders with to overturnlication any of his executive actions.

host: ok. that's patrick in kansas. he mentioned jonathan turley who on the issuet week of impeachment. he was on our program on ovember 18 as well talking about the same topic. if you are interested in seeing the views he held when he he ared on the show before testified, you can watch either of those events when you go to c-span.org. at delaware is next, republican line. we will hear from mara. good morning. good morning. discouraged about the about ment being brought by the democrats over the past 2 i years, consistently, and realize today listening to adam there is such an appearance of desperation on the and of the democrats desperation can be a dangerous thing. democrats, including al green, have suggested this will continue for

months and months, if necessary, upsetting to is me. it should be to everyone in the all citizens, one se this is a process, of the most important in our overnment that should be more organized, more respectful and take on the years. discouraging. i just want to say that's how i moment.this host: that's mara from delaware. schiff, the adam house intelligence chairman, who spoke at the event. also speaking at the event was of the house judiciary committee -- was the judiciary e house committee committee chair, jerry nadler. mr. nadler: in service to our constitution and to our country, the ouse committee on judiciary committee's introducing two articles of impeachment charging the

the united states, donald j. trump, with committing misdemeanors.d the first article is for abuse power. it's an impeachable offense for the president to exercise the of his public office to obtain an improper personal while ignoring or injuring the national interest. that is exactly -- > and we're about to hear live from republicans on capitol hill after the articles of impeachment announced against president trump. ms. cheney: to help commemorate what i know you are all here to 150th orate, the anniversary of women having the right to vote in the state of wyoming. 9 -- december 10, 1869. he first place anywhere in the united states that women had the right to vote and run for office. territorial legislature passed the act on this day