representative alexandria of cause you cortez. at 2:00e returns today p.m. to work on education, veteran, and suicide prevention bills. they are asking you to tear up all of the ballots across this country. on your own initiative. away from thesion american people. and i don't think they spent one minute of their 24 hours talking to you about the consequences of that for our country. the opening arguments from the president's legal team from the impeachment trial in the senate. watch live coverage today at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two, on demand at c-span.org/impeachment, and listen on the free c-span radio app. this morning, three hours of

your calls on the senate impeachment trial of president trump which resumes this morning. as always, you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal is next. ♪ the senate impeachment trial of president donald trump resumes today at 1:00 p.m. 2.tern live on c-span his defense team has 24 hours remaining to make their case. reports of a book by john bolton over the weekend are likely to increase the calls to allow witnesses in the trial. good morning and welcome to "washington journal" on c-span for this monday morning, january 27th, 20 sony -- 2020. did you get a chance to see the

saturday testimony? >> is the number -- 202-748-8000 is the number for democrats. republicans use 202-748-8001. independents and others, that is 202-748-8002. you can send us a text, 202-748-8003. make sure you include your name, where you are texting from. on twitter we are @cspanwj. we will look for your facebook posts. in that almost 22 hours -- 22 hours -- over 22 hours remaining, alan dershowitz, ken starr, and pam bondi will speak today on specific topics. another story breaking late yesterday, the news of the death of kobe bryant and his daughter, this is the orange county register, kobe bryant and gianna among 9 killed in a hollow -- helicopter crash.

john mcardle will have reactions and details from the president and others coming up in a little bit. of the story about john bolton broke over the weekend in the new york times. the headline trump tied ukraine aid to increase -- inquiries he stopped -- sought. the new yorks times on that story outlining the potential story from the national security advisor. the first-hand account between link betweenn the the aid and the investigations, undercuts a key component of the defense, the decision to free the aide was independent from his request that ukraine announce politically-motivated investigations into vice president biden and his son.

plenty of reaction to that story starting with the calls by house impeachment managers to call john bolton. they continue for his calls, but even more so in light of this news. here is the statement put out by seven house impeachment managers yesterday. the relevant -- revelations president trump told john bolton he would continue to freeze on military aid to ukraine until -- country the statement put out yesterday by house impeachment managers.

this is chuck schumer, the minority leader in the senate. upn bolton has the evidence --4 senate republicans democrats would need to join them in requesting witnesses. that vote coming after the lawyers continue making their case. there is about 22 hours left for them to make their case and 16 hours of question submitted by -- the president late --t night

the a to ukraine was tied to investigations into democrats and the bidens. never complained about this at -- time of his public the transcript with my calls are -- the proof needed democrat said i never met the president tweeted and released military aid to ukraine without any conditions or investigations and far ahead of schedule. . my administration has done far more than the previous administration.

by -- the president's lawyer blaming a problem in the review process for the leak. we will find out more perhaps about how this came out, but a little more from the washington post, their reporting about the story, the title of the book from john bolton, "the room where it happened." the washington post reporting it is scheduled for publication on march 17th. "the we know the title, room where it happened," is the song from the hamilton musical. is that alluding to that song? it is: we don't know if the actual cover of the book, but it has an oval shape, the oval office.

democrats pinst: hopes on bolton bombshell. does this change things? 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. independents and others, 202-748-8002. if the u.s. senate does not allow witnesses and documents. we will go to bob in clover, wisconsin. caller: good morning. i am a veteran and i support president trump about 98%. i believe the democrats have no idea what a fair trial is.

schiff deliberately lied when he .ead the transcript campaignhe hate started against president trump has warped the democratic party. it is not the democrat party my grandparents knew and so on. i am ashamed of the democrats on what they are doing right now and i am ashamed of americans who put political bs instead of patriotism to our country. caller: good morning, america.

all anyone is talking about is the democrats. what about the president and what he did? .e lied to the american people he lies all the time and yet thinkwe are supposed to he is fine? there is nothing about the s that is on trial. it is the president of the united states that has told lies every daynd lies since he started running and who has brought more hate into this country than president trump? he started with black football players, using every aspect of american life and telling american people what they should

do, but he is not a king, thank you very much. caller: bravo to c-span, it is wonderful you bring in this mix of people and get opinions out. i am really happy we are going through this impeachment process . i don't care if it was president obama or president trump who did this act. the american people need to know and they need to know the facts and one thing i would say, trump keeps repeating how it was a perfect call and all you have to do is read the transcript, we don't have the original transcript, we have their output of a summary of the transcript. regardless of that, we need witnesses, we need documents.

if it was a perfect call, there should be all kinds of supporting evidence they should be able to provide it to prove that, not just lawyers getting up and making speeches and everything. host: do you think if there were witnesses -- if allowing witnesses delayed the trial, at some point is that dangerous to that republicans certainly have been critical of? elections.ctions are people think this is a job they need to hang onto for dear life. you are there to represent the people, there to do a job they sickly as a civic duty and jury duty is no different.

fair trials.ects they expect government to function for them. these representatives and these senators, they need to put the country first. i really do mean that. getn't know where people off thinking it should be party line one way or another, it is america first. moines one to des week from the iowa caucuses, pete on the democrats line. caller: hello, thanks for taking my call. c-span -- washington journal is the best show on television. i would like to talk about joe biden. i think most people understand his history. i don't know how many years, i think 20 some years he served in congress. i don't know how many years he served as a senator, 8 years as

vice president of the united suddenand now all of a the notion that he is corrupt is preposterous. the guy took the train to work every day when he was in congress. the notion that president trump is investigating him for corruption is preposterous. it is just like having john gotti investigate organized crime. thanks for taking my call. i appreciate it. in maryland,o rob independent line. what are your thoughts as the trial enters the second week in the senate?

what i do not understand and maybe you can explain it to me, all of the people who are , all of these people are saying -- telling the american people the president is dishonest and i remember when he was running for president, he said he could shoot somebody on fifth avenue and get away with it. when you look at facts as opposed to lies, america was built on honesty, not dishonesty. you have a stubborn headed leader, each of these leaders --e led their countries

hitler, mussolini, stalin, you cannot win lying and intimidating people and mr. bolton is an honest man. i am not some kind of republican, but i trust mr. bolton. i trust all these people. -- keepho dismiss this telling lies and people will believe it. your name, where you are texting from. patricia in indiana. as a liar in chief is covering up lies. we need to hear from bolton.

[video clip] .> we do not we do not need to prolong this matter. >> do you have a sense there is a chance there could be witnesses? >> i don't want to forecast the -- other senators may vote yesterday they used two hours and demolished the case the house democrats presented using selective, misrepresented quotes from tape, transcripts that were out of context or how enraged they are that donald trump is the president. >> you were scribbling notes

during the trial. since you say we should be getting this over with, i wonder if you have questions because senators get to submit them and have them responded to in the next week. do you want anything? >> we will have 16 hours of questions. >> do you have any? >> given the presentation, there are real questions about joe biden and hunter biden's contact -- conduct. they spent hours trying to explain away what hunter biden did and joe biden intervening to get the oligarch fired. host: the senate trial resuming today live on c-span 2. we are talking about the impeachment trial, the pre-release of the leak of the bolton book. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. and all others, 202-748-8002.

all of the news sites, news programs, not only talking about impeachment, but the death of kobe bryant. one-of-a-kind kobe bryant 1978 to 2020 and reaction from across the world about the death of the five-time nba champ. host 2: let me take you to the los angeles times front page story, this is how they begin their story, kobe bryant, 41, the basketball star who spent 20 years with the lakers killed sunday morning when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed amid foggy conditions and burst into flames. his daughter, 13 years old was also on board. here is a little more from the same l.a. times story about the federal involvement in the investigation, the federal aviation administration investigating, the fbi also

assisting, which is standard practice. the database does not show any prior incidents or accidents for the aircraft he was traveling in. the fog was severe enough the los angeles police department support division grounded helicopters and did not fly until later in the afternoon according to one department spokesperson. the from politico about impact it had around the country and even amid a very intense time when it comes to impeachment, politicians hit pause after kobe bryant's death. the news cutoting into a day of impeachment spin an early state campaigning with many offering condolences to the superstar. three united states presidents, including the current president, donald trump tweeting yesterday evening at 6:50, kobe bryant

despite being one of the truly great basketball players was just getting started. he loved his family so much and had a passion for the future. the loss of his beautiful daughter makes this moment more devastating. i send our condolences to vanessa and the wonderful family. a tweet from president barack obama yesterday. courtas a legend on the and just getting started and what would have been a more meaningful second act. michelle and i send love and prayers to vanessa and the entire family. bill clinton saying i am .addened by the tragic loss kobe lived a large live in a short time, my prayers are with vanessa, natalia, bianka, and all of those who lost loved

ones. plenty of members of congress weighing in as well. the california home state senator saying she was saddened to hear about the helicopter crash that killed kobe bryant, his daughter and other victims. my thoughts are with the fans -- friends and families and everyone affected, this from one of the impeachment managers, hakeem jeffries saying may god watch over the bryant family during this time, hug your children and loved ones extra tight, life is fragile and fleeting. this from the iowa campaign trail, this from the former vice president joe biden after getting word of the news of kobe bryant's a death, this was his response when he addressed a group of iowa voters. [video clip] >> as i was getting off the bus, the command, i heard about kobe bryant. i did not know him well, i met

him a couple of times. it makes you realize you have to make every day count. every single solid day count. host 2: that was joe biden in iowa. host: we are seeing this from the president back to our conversation on the impeachment trial resuming at 1:00 eastern on c-span 2. the president tweeting on the john bolton issue, the democrat-controlled house never asked john bolton to testify, it is up to them, not the senate. we go to bill in orange park florida on the republican line. caller: hello? host: you are on the air, go ahead. caller: i kind of wonder about c-span. i love watching c-span in the morning, but after you had that great war hero, blumenthal, on the other night, i could not believe it. he was speaking about truth.

of all people to speak about truth and i cannot understand why all these black people are calling in spitting on martin luther king because his family loves the president. good morning. those that are calling in that believe the witnesses will be called is a pipe dream. the senate, all of the members of the senate, which are the jurors fully know, they are sophisticated enough to know if people like john bolton are called, the president will .ssert executive privilege this will end up in the courts, so we are talking probably weeks and may be months before this is decided and if you think the jurors, who are 100 members of

the senate are going to sit on their fannies for this length of time without telephones, they are bored out of their minds now in my opinion and that is a good reason why the senate majority leader refused to allow c-span cameras into the senate to photograph the senators because they are doing everything up there except listening. itnesses will only prolong and anybody hoping for a witness in my opinion believes in fairytales. those cameras belong to the senate, they are not c-span cameras. we have written to the majority leader addressing cameras in the chamber and have not received a response. snellville, georgia, independent line, this is john.

turn down your volume and go ahead with your comment. caller: okay. everybody is talking about the senate, we know exactly what is .oing to happen in the senate mitch mcconnell is not going to let his people vote to hear the witness testimony because he does not want everybody to know the truth. in the meantime, we are not looking at the big picture. the big picture is with russia, really. our president, even for the first day of inauguration, he invited the russians to the white house and he is trying to break down the democratic -- republicans by dividing them.

what is happening, all the institutions in america are being divided. we should know the truth and we should have witnesses, but we don't. if you look at the record of trump, you have to look at russia. the first day of inauguration, he had russia in the white house. think the majority leader will prevent even a vote on calling witnesses? caller: if he could prevent it, he would prevent it. if you have people breaking away, that will be a good thing and then america will really know the truth. host: we will hear from rebecca in vermont, republican line. caller: hello? am i on the air yet? host: you are. caller: hi. says callseeing on tv

from georgia. host: you are a little delayed, don't worry about that, listen to me and the phone, you are on the air, trust me. really i am saying i am sorry, and i have been. i did vote republican for mr. trump. i am not sorry about that, but i am sorry about this nation i feel has treated him out of the vote -- out of the boat when they realized hillary clinton did not win, they went to work and i feel the protesting was mean and hateful and they claim he has done nothing and how he did hewyer -- liar, but make jerusalem the capital of israel, he did. he defunded planned parenthood, which i was happy to see so at least it would lessen the availability of money for abortions. let's face it, our mantra in the united states is we are one

nation under god, but it is hard to believe our heavenly father nation whodown on a now has, ever since he defunded planned parenthood, we have bumped it up to full term abortions which causes a baby pain and any medical doctor could say their nervous system is developed enough to feel pain am this is barbaric and i sorry these babies are having to pay the price to put mr. trump in his place like how dare he defund planned parenthood. the governor from new york has nine months along abortions, the guy from virginia, their governor thought it would be all right if after the baby is born to swaddle it in a cloth and euthanize it afterwards. euthanize it after swaddling it in a cloth. host: that is rebecca in

vermont. under the trump administration, the u.s. embassy has moved to jerusalem. the president will welcome benjamin and yahoo! and bennett netanyahu andin bennett bands -- bennett ganz. we will go to barbie in nashville on the independent line. caller: good morning. c-span.u for i guess when c-span goes off the air, we can really start worrying. hopefully it never will. the lady that called, typical republican, always goes to roe v. wade, which is what happened to the republican party. when they ratified roe v. wade to make abortion legal in this country, all of a sudden republicans turned into freaks. i am calling about tennessee

specifically. urge even non-tennesseens, please email lamar alexander right now, today, this morning, before he goes into session this afternoon, it is very important that lamar alexander, one of the most fair and decent senators we gettingr had and he is ready to retire, so he needs to go ahead and vote for witnesses at least let us hear the witnesses and see the documents they have been holding away. i believe lamar alexander could be swayed. host: have you emailed senator alexander's office? caller: you better believe it, of course i had. host: did you hear back from the office? caller: no. don't try calling, you will never leave a voicemail, it is a busy signal, but i believe they

are reading those emails. do all the social media, but email i find it must be the most accurate way to get to your official, your elected official and other people in other states where these 4 senators that could be swayed, those people need to pressure. this is our duty. national news sources, what is your sense of where senator lamar alexander is on issues like allowing witnesses? caller: i don't know. i know how marsha is voting. host: marsha blackburn. caller: yeah, forget her, i would not even bother. lamar, i feel like there is a chance and i really feel like this is our last chance as americans to have any kind of say in what is going on today

and this next week. please exercise your right to email your senator. host: darby in tennessee, appreciate that. we hear from paul in port royal, pennsylvania, democrats line. caller: thanks for taking my call. i think this has already gone on too long. my wife and i have been watching and starting out we were for impeachment. when we watched the other day and saw all these videos the democrat managers had not shown the public, they are talking about a free and fair trial and evidence thatve exonerates somebody, i think you should show it to the american public if you want the american public to have all the evidence

and it was obvious after seeing -- excuse me,os the president's lawyers brought up and these are videos the democrats, the managers had, but they would not show the american public and for the last couple years, we have been hearing about deep state, deep state, deep state, neither one of us had any belief in the deep state until we found out thursday or friday last week that they found out two of the fisa warrants to came from dirty business in the fbi, that was already proven by the ig and i turned the tv on this morning is i see bernie sanders outpacing joe biden in iowa and new hampshire and i am thinking

if our party picks bernie sanders, a socialist, he is right on the verge of being a communist as far as i am concerned. i would never vote for that guy. i would vote for trump instead of voting for sanders. we are already $22 trillion in the hole. where do people think this money is coming from? all my kids are paying taxes up the yin-yang. they cannot get a break. they got a break in the last tax cut a little bit. every time it is take from the people who work. i thinkt of hand and this impeachment thing has gone on too long and let's get it over with and let the people in washington get back to some business and i would start with get back on the medical stuff also the aca, affordable care act.

it can be repaired and i think donald trump will repair it. host: bernie sanders is part of our weekend coverage from iowa. you can find our coverage. a couple of comments on twitter at @cspanwj. deflect, name call, do whatever you want, nothing you can do, tweet will negate the fact trump did exactly what the impeachment articles say and john bolton has the receipts to prove it. john from florida texting i am independent who voted for president trump. i believe witnesses should be called. each side should be able to call witnesses and the witnesses should be cross-examined, this is the only way we will find out the truth. we hear from jeff in dayton, ohio. go ahead. caller: hello? host: if you are on the air, go ahead. caller: the democrat -- i used to be a democrat until what they

did to kavanaugh. i thought what they did to him and everything was preposterous. no apology after they found out he was not guilty and they turned around and start an early claim of trump not being honest before he even really took seat in the office and all of a sudden you are finding out all of this information the democrats kept out of all of this stuff and i listened saturday all day and the fact of the matter is it is time to let trump do what he was put in there to do because ohio was terrible before he got in there. we are getting our jobs back, having the good economy now and -- dog him because he is rich is unfair to him and it is time to get back to work. dayton,at is jeff in

ohio. 1:00 p.m. eastern, the trial resumes on the senate floor. tell us about who is watching or not watching. host 2: some interesting data points on interest from the american public to the impeachment trial, this from the associated press noting online ntb interest has waned since the house launched their impeachment hearings, the story noting .ombined viewership plummeted fewer than 9,000,000 people on the second day after drawing 11.8 million people on the trial the first day. 13.8 million people watched the first day of the house impeachment hearings last fall. one more note from that story around the time the house impeachment vote took place, stories about the impeachment averaged 20 million page views online.

as you noted, we will be covering it gavel-to-gavel on c-span 2. one note about who will be on the floor today when the impeachment trial resumes, the story from politico noting jerry nadler, one of the house impeachment managers is going to be missing today due to his wife's cancer treatment. nadler with a statement noting he will be with his wife with doctors to determine a path forward after her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer saying i am sorry to miss some of the senate impeachment trial, i plan to return to washington late monday and appreciate the support of colleagues and staff as i take the time to be -- that statement put out by the yesterday.iary one other note on the president's schedule, you mentioned his meetings at the white house with the leaders of israel's two largest political

parties. a thymic -- a note on the timing, the first one with benjamin netanyahu taking place gantze meeting with benny happening at 12:30 this afternoon. with --srael noting the time difference in the amount of time allotted for each one of those meetings scheduled to be about an hour with netanyahu. the meeting will be unusual for several meet -- several reasons, the first time an israeli politician who holds no official role in the government holds a personal meeting with the american president during an election campaign. it will be held without any involvement from the embassy in washington. they have not met before, but the former military chief of staff has been in the white

house previously. that is what is happening at the other end of pennsylvania avenue today. host: back to your calls and comments on impeachment, the john bolton news and other stories we are following from the guardian, u.s. embassy in iraq hit by rocket attack wounding 1. the cafeteria believed to have been struck in a rare direct hit. we will go to joyce in maryland on our democrats line. caller: hello. i think people need to sit back, take a deep breath and look at the facts. the facts are this man is lying. bolton -- it is coming out. the president planned this, this is the president and giuliani's plan. it is not about the president, either, it is all about the

constitution, whether it survives. is it going to be as strong as it was before he went in office? document itself survive? can it be there for us? my uncle died in world war ii, he did not die for the flag, he does -- did not fly for the star-spangled banner, he died for that document. --t is who we are, stop watching fox news. host: we will go to brian, independent line. good morning. caller: good morning.

you are on the air. caller: washington journal, i have 4 or five items listening to the recent collars. the guy who called about the -- communism is not north or south of socialist in the western dictionary. he can detail that out. it benefits everybody to really figure out what that word means. number 2, the tax break, we just found out gave the 400 richest people in our country the best tax rate breaks on trump's tax breaks, the 400 richest beat out all the other groups in the nation for the benefits of trump's tax breaks. the bolton book has been in the

white house since december 30 for the review of the white house lawyers who just told us saturday there is no evidence whatsoever of a first-hand witness. they have been reading bolton's book, they know exactly the opposite and they had no idea that was going to get leaked this morning. i want to know what the lawyers have to say. number 4, obama's administration impact on our nation's deficit has been one of the biggest impacts of deficit reduction in decades and the guy has a total nightmare handed to him and he got it squared away, got it rolling, handed it off to the arekin patch and they trying to take recognition for it, it is totally a farce. the only person smiling with the shenanigans and the

embarrassment of our country is the guy in moscow grinning ear from ear and who are those congressmen who went to moscow on a fourth of july holiday at the invite of putin? could you report on those congressmen? host: appreciate the call. john mcardle, what do you have? host 2: let me follow up on the points. he was talking about the timing of the submission of this book to the white house for review, ambassador bolton's book. this was the statement from his lawyer about the timing and the process as reported by jonathan swan. this is a statement from chuck cooper. i submitted on behalf of ambassador bolton a book manuscript to the national security council record management division for standard prepublication security review for classified information. as explained in my cover letter to the senior director, we

submitted the manuscript notwithstanding our belief the manuscript contained no information that could be considered classified. restricted to career government officials and employees charged with responsibility for such reviews and that the contents of the manuscript would not be reviewed or disclosed to any person not involved in the process a copy of my letter is clear,d and it is regrettably, that the new york times article published yesterday the review process has been corrupted and the .nformation has been disclosed pinning the leak on that process.

it has been with the white house at least since december 30. it yesterday afternoon. host: that story started to come out sunday, midday. and everybodyt referencing the new york times, maggie have a minute and the findingion date we are ambassador bolton was shooting for, march 17. host: let's get back to calls and we will hear from clay in metairie. caller: good morning. i would like to make two brief points. i think the whole premise of this impeachment on president trump, the democrats concluded they could not beat trump legitimately in the fall

they decided to try and pick off some of the republican senators because in the final analysis, they know if president trump is reelected, which he probably will be and the republicans have a majority in ae senate, they will be position to nominate the third thatme court nominee and is what it is really all about, the supreme court nomination and the final point i would like to pelosi usurped the constitution when she called for impeachment. ascribednt can only be to buy the full vote of the house, which did not take place until much later on. it started off on an illegitimate basis.

host: gregory on the democrats line. caller: good morning. i have a few points i would like to make. as the trial began, every view theook an oath to evidence impartially and truthfully and yet anyone wanting the proceedings can see this is not the case. the republicans are vowing, instead, to side with the president, obeying his orders. the republican senators were told last week not to vote theyst the president or would be handed their heads on a platter. the republican lawyers are constantly saying the democrats are serving up a sham and circus . they should look in the mirror at themselves and know that in history, their names and their families names shall live in infamy.

a lot of talk about bolton, i also have something to say. truthful -- he should, as a private citizen, have it published. i think he could, i am not sure, right now. the publishers could do this overnight and bolton would become a hero and america certainly needs one now, a hero. host: one of the senators we see a lot of in the breaks in the senate, ted cruz from texas. z emerges as a key supporter of trump, no republican has been more active in defense of president trump then senator ted cruz. 4 years ago at this time thought he would be the one sitting in the white house. instead, he is in the senate newly reelected and deploying

his legal mind in defense of his former nemesis. his office has been issuing fact checks to poke at the democrats case while he has been holding press conferences and recording the podcast "the verdict." bill is next in massachusetts. doing? how are you host: fine, thanks. caller: this is for all the demon rats out in america. --y want all the witnesses first they had the house while it was dominated by their side and the president could not speak through and now they want just their witnesses to come out, not the bidens or the whistleblower, that will be a fair trial --

know, $50 million of taxpayer money to do nothing? second, the whistleblower, who could have been and most likely was coached and really doesn't even exist if he does exist, he was coached to spy on the president's phone call and we are not ever going to find out if he exists or not. in the be tilted again democrats favor for witnesses. what is the deal with the bidens? we are not going to hear the story? host: we will hear from james on the republican line. caller: good morning. your caller made 1.i was going to say. the speaker of the house cannot stand up in a press conference and say this is an impeachment inquiry. the whole thing is illegitimate,

invalidtutional, and right from the jump. , the leader you chose to the house, this old woman, she has botched -- all the hysterical haters of the president are going to have to get over it because they are going to have to start all over again as far as i can say. host: you can send us a text at 202-748-8003. here, ient texting suspect john bolton leaked the information not to promote his book, but to follow through on his pledge to testify. he is too hawkish for my taste, but i salute his integrity to call out a president whose policies parallel his own.

thank you kobe bryant for exciting so many of my countrymen. democrats want to do away with the electoral college, infringe on the second amendment, destroy the fourth amendment and plenty others. sean in cape cod. on thein indiana democrats line. are on the air, go ahead. caller: yes, good morning. i only have a few things to say and what i have to say is mostly to the young journalists. i think they should go back and way back documentary to study the documentary and mr. trump knows our first

constitution was written that only white men are supposed to be president. lateeps going back to the 1800 so if he gets in, he will tothe only president ever run the united states of america. columbus, onn independent line -- on the independent line. caller: how are you this morning? host: fine, thank you. caller: when the truth ascends liesociety accepts the because of their political agenda, religious beliefs, or ideology, it creates a debt to the truth. it is our hate so consuming we are able to ignore the laws and sovereignty of our nation? tromso willingof -- trump so willing to pluck the

branch from the gop's eye? shame on all of us. wiling -- willing to sell the lie which will create a dangerous precedent for the future of our politics? no matter how much we may love the ideology of party or person we are backing, we cannot ignore what is over ship -- what is to overshadow us for decades to come. campaignators race to in trial break. john mcardle, tell us about the 36 hours or so less than that the senators had to campaign in iowa. host 2: 4 senators still in the and theythe nomination sprinted out of washington, d.c. as quick list -- as quick as they could on saturday and they will be back in their seats today, but here is where they

were yesterday starting with , onebeth warren, a tweet of the reporters following her around, she was in cedar rapids, getting a little bit of momentum over the weekend after getting the endorsement from the des moines register looking to make a move ahead of the iowa caucuses. here is amy klobuchar, her tweet noting she was in ames, iowa, picking up a local congressman -- state congressman ross wilber and his endorsement at her event , she also earned the endorsement along with elizabeth warren of the new york times late last week, that rare double endorsement from the new york times. bernie sanders was in sioux city with some 1100 people showing up. gary ron bock of nbc news has been following him around on the campaign trail saying he headed back to washington sunday night. ocasio-cortezby

alexandria -- alexandria ocasio-cortez and filmmaker michael moore. tweet from the campaign trail saying yesterday he only entered every last question in the town hall in the state because that is the candid conversation we move -- need to move this country forward. here is the latest on where the polling stands at least from the latest polling in the field looking at democratic caucus-goers. bernie sanders at dirty percent, joe biden at 21%, amy klobuchar er teen percent, elizabeth warren 13% -- 11%. host: back to your calls and comments talking about the impeachment trial which gets underway 1:00 p.m. eastern live on c-span 2 and news over the weekend of a book coming out by john bolton.

let's go to maggie in pittsburgh, go ahead with your comment. caller: good morning. the key point i would like to make is it is important everybody watch today and in the defense andresident the question will be did the house make their case because they are who has the burden. one topics i found interesting, one was burden sharing and the house said that was a late excuse from the president's team. even in the transcript, they referenced it as it relates to germany. there has been a lot said about 80's just a blanket the president team -- the president's team and lawyer said we are not going to help at all but then it turns out there was a letter and a reason for that.

that is the house did not even take the first important step of authorizing the inquiry and off by nancy pelosi's television. it was interesting the republicans quoted dr. fiona hill a couple of times. one time on the u.k. being corrupt. also, they quoted her that it did not just have to be a meeting in the white house, it could have been a meeting anywhere, even poland. you have to be discerning these days. i am not sure what i think about this until i hear it all. really, they just gave them sneakers versus javelin missiles that are going to blow up a russian tanks.

that it iseminder good to see the other side and to be discerning. host: 22 hours of testimony remaining. one of the managers remaining last week gave testimony, val demings, congresswoman from florida. she tweets, "the president went on television, admitted to impeachable offenses, and said he would do it again. the white house team cannot get around these basic facts." she talked on abc this week about the democrats call for witnesses. i think everybody who has been paying attention knows now that the president refused to cooperate in any way with the house's investigation. not only did he prevent current administration officials from testifying, but he presented former administration

officials from testifying and did not give one single document to help. now, for me, i think if you are innocent and you have witnesses that can support your innocence or documentation, you would freely be willing to hand that over. let me say this -- all of the senators have been taken their oath and sworn into office, but then they had to do impartial justice paired one thing i can say, i have been in the room with them all week this week for some pretty long days, and i know they are in their seats or listening. many of them are taking notes. i would expect them to do what they have taken an oath and sworn that they would do, and i am just not going to give up on the senate, and i am not going to draw any conclusions, although i know there is speculation about what they may or may not do. i am not going to draw any conclusions. my job is to present all of the facts and as much information as

we possibly can. and i will finally say this -- if they are interested in understanding the complete truth, they would be willing like others, every other trial in every other courtroom across this country -- because they are judges, by the way -- that they would want to hear from witnesses and see documentation. toif the senator refuses support for witnesses, will the bolton?bpoena john >> there is talk over the last few days about what is reasonable or makes common sense. i would expect that the senators would want to vote in favor of witnesses and supporting documentation. remember, this is about hearing the complete story. while the evidence we have is overwhelming, and the american people clearly know that now, if you want to hear the complete truth, the complete story about

what the president did or did not do, then you certainly want to hear from additional witnesses with direct knowledge, like chief of staff mulvaney, was tied yeah, the aid to the gnc server. you want to hear from john bolton the national security --isor, who at the time is classify this as a drug deal. [end video clip] host: the senate impeachment trial continuing today at 1:00 p.m. eastern. 2.ve coverage is on c-span we will hear about news on john bolton sen. booker:, pieces of which were leaked out to "the new york times," "the washington examiner" reporting democrats argue explosive details from the bolton book demand his impeachment testimony.

what do you think? 202-748-8000 free democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. for independents. good morning. say, i amld like to calling about the impeachment trial. what is interesting is the subpoenas. i have known people who have had subpoenas put on their door. theythe subpoena, if cannot catch you and put it in your hand, they put it on your door. in virginia, if you do not answer a subpoena, they will come and pick you up. night,middle of the confiscate whatever they want to support their case, and you go to jail and you sit in a room

with a picture of the judge and you set a court date. i don't think anybody is supposed to be above the law. even when denied subpoenas, they are flaunting that our laws don't mean nothing, meaning you do not have to go to court if there is a subpoena on your door, and neither do i. that is my comment. have a great day. oregon,om bend, independent line. caller: good morning. host: good morning, bill. go ahead. caller: i'm just appalled at the rhetoric and the things going on right now with the united states of america. internalo much fighting amongst our senators, our representatives, and they are not representing us and they are not taking care of our

democracy. they are going against the constitution. we have certain people that do believe in taking care of the home or taking care of the other assets of america. we have been -- i am appalled. throughbelieve we went the supreme court justice cavanaugh, and then we went through the mueller report. and now we are going through impeachment trials. how much more do these people and to fight and bicker ruining our lives in america, and not taking care of our children, our education, our infrastructure? allthese things in america, these things that they are bringing up and fighting each other for. why? why would these people who are asre to represent us,

senators and representatives, keep going on and on on these waste lists fights? host: michael is next from california, on the republican line. michael, hi there. you are on the air. democrat and i switched over. when i heard nancy pelosi say she is going to block everything that trump tries to put into play, to turn this economy around, that was it for me. i have been watching it from the very beginning. congress housee and pelosi trial, it was a one-sided trial. .e could not defend himself they let the lawyers in, but they could not cross-examine. they were stopped. like maxine waters said, if this does not work, they are

going to impeach again and again and again. this does not stop. that is my peace. get a chance to hear opening statements saturday from the president's attorneys? to watch the congress trial, and that was a farce. so, yeah. now i am a republican. michael from california, a couple different views from a couple of different places here. say they did nothing wrong. all will be happy." faye in alabama says, "as far as bolton, i can put anything on paper, don't put it in the book. it don't make it so. fiction." "the only reason to have witnesses now is that trump is not guilty of what he is charged, claiming the case is not proved is insufficient."

vanessa, next up. you are on the nations -- in the nation's capital on the democrats line. have made a new year's resolution not to argue with republicans, especially when it comes to facts and truth. host: how is that resolution holding up? caller: i'm trying my best. [bill laughs] caller: i really don't believe the republicans are as done as they sound. they know he is lying. they know it is garbage and it is wrong. but they support him and they like him and they are going to support him. they don't care what he does. the sad part is that right now they believe that this man is on their side, and there is going to, day of reckoning when they realize, it is going to come between him and them.

he is going to choose himself. they have to find out for themselves that sometimes you host: host: get what you elect. -- that sometimes you get what you elect. harry, you're up next. caller: first of all, my condolences to the kobe family. trump is the kind of guy who, when he is right, he loves to be right. to deny the witnesses, to deny bolton, newness, and all of ,hem, who can prove -- nunez and all of them, who can prove he is innocent, and he does and let them speak, i have to ask why. the thing that he released the transcripts, it was not a transcript, it was memos. but again, look at president trump. if he has the information that can prove himself innocent, he

will put it forth so he can prove that it is a witchhunt. obviously it is not really a -- my thingcause is, looking at trump again, if he is innocent as he says, he would gladly turn that over so face democrats, no good schumer come all this. but he has not proven that. all of these things, all we hear from him is it is the perfect call, this and that. ok, prove it. let bolton, let them all testify. he was the one that denied the people to testify. for the lame excuse of national security. i am quite sure that those professional people, they are not going to divulge information

that could be detrimental to the country. but pertaining to him, if he is innocent, i know him to be a type of person that, hey, look here, here are the facts. it is a witchhunt. here is all my evidence. he has not done that. as far as these people believing ask formocrats did not it, bolton come all of that. thedemocrats asked for all witnesses, evidence, and trump denied it. host: we will hear from pam next in lawrence, south carolina. caller: how are you doing? host: doing fine, thank you. caller: first off, i just want to go by the democratic playbook read whenever they do not get something they want, it comes out the leaks. exactly what transpired yesterday, a leak from bolton. how convenient.

comey is the same way. he leaked it. and they want to call this fair? i don't think so. and also, when they were trying to call these witnesses that they say can prove trump's innocence and all that, we also got to remember one thing. she had not even called for a vote before the house, that those were illegal. pam, on the leak of john bolton sen. booker:, do you think it is coincidentally echo guest: -- do you think it is, incidentally? -- do you think it is coincidental? caller: absolutely. any time they do not get what they want, they will make sure it is linked. host: so you think it is intentional, then. caller: absolutely. host: wilson, north carolina, democrats line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call.

awanted to speak on behalf of couple of people that have made .tatements hello? host: you are on the air. caller: a couple of people who have made statements about the democrats. now, none of us are perfect. this. thing is you had a gentleman as well as the last person to put the democrats down. trump and when donald his cronies won't let the democrats do what they are supposed to do? now, when barack obama was in office, everything that he tried say,, the people would ain't going to let him do it. mitch mcconnell said, i am going to make him a one term president. but people are

leaking stuff out about this trial. courthouse and being tried, it is no way that a trial would go forth without prove ourr witness to guilt or innocence. i just wish everybody would take a step back, pray on this, and get our country up and running. in got people that need help every way, shape, form, and fashion there is. you have infrastructure, you got education, you got medical benefits. we need to take a look at what we are doing to the united states of america. host: with the trial said to resume, 100 -- set to resume at 1:00 eastern today, other news related to the impeachment including the release over the weekend of the pieces of john bolton sen. booker:, john

mcardle. >> you had a caller just now saying the leak here of the manuscript and the recording on it reminded her of the leak of james comey's notes and what that meant for the president's defense team. the president's indirectly making reference to that through a weed tea -- a retweet yesterday, john davis of the federalist magazine, conservative writer, this was his two tweets that ended up being sent to the president's twitter followers. sean davis saying just like james comey, john bolton is trying to get rich off a lie and leaks to campaign to overturn election returns as well. sean davis with a couple of tweets that were retweeted by the president on that front. he went on to tweet a couple times -- when it comes to that report from the new york times,

a little more from that report, this from noah while in's column today on some of the takeaways of that report, -- noah weiland 's report, his column today on the takeaways of the report. that mike wrote pompeo privately acknowledged to him last week -- last spring that mr. giuliani complained about marie jovanovich that had no basis including allegations that she was badmouthing the president. mr. trump has suggested to mr. --ton and mr. giuliani that that mr. giuliani had wanted marie jovanovich out. yet mr. pompeo went through with mr. trump's orders to recall her last may. mr. bolton also wrote he had concerns about mr. giuliani, saying he warned white house lawyers that mr. giuliani might have been using his work representing the president as leverage to help his private

clients. again, that all apparently in the manuscript that came out over the weekend. it's -- apparently dozens of pages referring to the president and ukraine and foreign policy there. that continues to come out and we will continue to keep you updated. host: john, you mentioned earlier that the process, the book was submitted to the white house for review that began in december? >> that was the original process back on december 30, the attorney for john bolton submitting it to the proper isncies to review classified. it is a process that, according to the lawyers' letters, the lawyer in his letters to the white house encouraging the white house to speed that up if at all possible. but then john bolton's lawyers blaming the white house for the leak of these documents,

pointing the finger squarely at them for a problem in the process for not keeping it confidential, as it is expected to be as they go through the review. host: the president was up late in the night tweeting about john bolton, including one this morning at 7:00 eastern. "trump falsely claims house democrats never asked bolton to testify." the story in the hill saying the president falsely claimed that house democrats never even asked his former security adviser, john bolton, to testify during the impeachment inquiry come as he argued it is not the job of the gop-controlled senate to call bolton as a witness now. we showed you the president's tweet earlier. they write that the investigations at the center of -- house democrats' charge did notl say that the tie a to the investigations and

immediately triggered renewed calls for democrats for the senate to call bolton as a witness during the impeachment trial. it is possible that the revelation will put more pressure on republicans to consider calling witnesses, a handful of witnesses of more --erate gop center to call witnesses. saying house invade -- how's -- how'stors did call investigators did call on bolton to testify. he said he would testify only pursuant to a person -- a subpoena if a court waiting on the issue. missouri, bob come on the independence line. coed ed with your comments. caller: good morning. i am independent. there is a long list of things that the democrats view that i don't like. there is a long list of things that the republicans do that i don't like. but the one thing that i really don't like now is that donald trump lied to us about paying

for coinstar silence. he lied to us about -- for rn star silencedan her then he lied that his father was born in germany. when hope us about thes took dictation of story that happened in the trump tower with the russians. his first lie was when he lied about the size of his inauguration. , a vote for a now republican is a vote for a cover-up. for the people who say the democrats are leaking, with comey and bolton, they are both so this republicans, republican is trying to get the right thing done.

it is not democrats leaking. thanks for listening to me. host: we go to our republican line next. independence, missouri, matthew. for taking my call. i had a couple of things i wanted to say. like that nice lady from the democrat line, i agree that we are not all perfect. it does not matter if you are democrat, republican, or independent. there is good and bad to all three. what i want to know is while speaker pelosi and adam schiff are messing with this the last whye years, in washington, aren't they taking care of their districts in california that are falling apart? news stories are about how bad it is getting, and they are not doing anything about it. they are here in washington going after the president. want all of i just --m to get back to work

republican, democrat, independent, moderate. i want all of them to get back to work and do what they were voted into do. stop the petty infighting. your who is representative, your congressperson in missouri? >> i can't think of his name. host: i guess my question is, in the 435 members of congress, how much time should be spent on their local concerns, local issues. they obviously get breaks to go back to their district court pinto, and how much percentagewise -- should the devote to more national issues like impeachment? caller: i think they should devote enough time to their districts that they can then say that their districts are going correctly or people are getting better. that icity of missouri

live outside of, independence, -- we are a lot smaller out here. i don't feel that we have the crime rate, the homeless problem, the people sleeping in the streets for going to the restroom in grocery stores. all of that is in california right now, and it is getting worse and worse and worse. it seems likely california senators and congressmen are not doing anything out there. try andthey should split their time as best they can between local -- their local districts and their national problems. the national problems that we have. ok, did he lie? may have. that is not for me to decide. i am not going to decide that. that is for them to decide. my decision comes in november when i vote. lied, they spent

three years since he was inaugurated, since his inauguration, they have been trying to find something to get him out of office. they started day one, and it has not stopped. host: ok, matthew. appreciate that. i think you are the fifth congressional district of missouri, and that is democrat emanuel cleaver outside kansas city. thanks for the call. beaumont, texas we hear from kevin next on the democrats line. caller: good morning, how you doing? i just want to comment on the impeachment trial. i heard a gentleman say that he has been trying to find all kind of stuff on this president since he been president. the way i see it, you don't have to find anything. it is all out in the open.

i am listening as people are saying how good at how well things are. to gain a lot but lose his soul? the way i see it, if i done something wrong and i want to ,rove to you that i didn't wouldn't you ask this guy why wouldn't i let these people come convince you that i didn't do anything wrong? it just don't make sense that are punchdrunk from the truth. thoughts. your or tweet at c-span wj. from hawaii --

host: a tweet from roger says -- gordon green, "as a democrat i was willing to give president trump a chance. he did win under current election rules, but three years of him has convinced me he is bad for our country. stop the name-calling. my republican friends, and stand up and remove this man. joe is in eau claire, wisconsin, independent line. caller: yes, good morning. host: good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i wish the republican party would stand up and respect their president. the president said he wanted to clear his good name. he said he wanted witnesses. he even mentioned the witnesses

he wanted. so i want the republican party to respect what he said and give him what he asked for. thank you for taking my call, and you have a great day. host: philadelphia is next. joanne on the republican line. caller: hello? host: you are on the air. go ahead. caller: i'm calling because i don't understand -- i'm a republican, but i am going to vote democrat because i have been watching since this started, and why is all the republicans with the leaks. if he is not wrong. i mean, i don't understand that. i am going to vote democrat because if you pull a republican, why would -- if you are a republican, why would you leak on a republican? all the republicans are leaking. he will have to get rid of so

many republicans, something is not right. our phoneminder, line, for democrats, for those with democratic views, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. .or all others, 202-748-8002 next from north carolina. caller: i would like to mention that for all the callers who say no crime was committed, keep in mind that the ig from the gao has already stated that the delaying of the funds, releasing the funds to ukraine, broke the law. that is number one. so a crime was committed. i would like to see all of the pertinent witnesses, john bolton, -- excuse me -- lev parnas, other witnesses and documents. they have been talking about the transcript of the call.

i want to hear the exact wording of the call between president trump and volodymyr zhukovskyy that has been locked away and dubs top-secret. there is nothing secret about that call. forget about the transcript. also, i want to hear not only from lev parnas and john bolton as witnesses, but if president trump is going to invoke executive privilege, i earnestly hope that chief justice john roberts will recess the theachment hearings and let depositions be taken by all of these pertinent witnesses. and finally, rudy giuliani, with his inflated ego, should also be before thetify impeachment hearings. become theto

secretary of state he lobbied to become the attorney general. and he is running around being the shadow secretary of state in the shadow attorney general. and we need to hear why he --ared maria ivanka of edge maria if ottovich. and all the skulduggery he was doing. behind thels impeachment story, john mcardle in our control room. gil talked about chief justice john roberts. i just want to note that today is his birthday. as senator john cornyn pointed out this morning on twitter. noting that he turns 65 today. saidn's howard workman that this is probably what he will be doing today in that seat where you have seen him through five days of the senate impeachment trial. howard morton, by the way come on twitter, a good follow. is enough to. one more tweet on the chief

justice's birthday from catherine mcmanus of roll call, noting that balloons are not permitted in the senate chain amber, so you will not be seen -- on the -- in the senate chamber. in the op-ed of georgetownrk times" law professors and a former congressman, looking at the powers he had during the impeachment trial, asking whether he can call witnesses. they argue he does have that power, dating back to the senate impeachment rules to the 1800s. if you want to read that, it is in the new york times today. a reminder of john roberts role in the trial, it will pick up quite a bit after president trump's lawyers finish making their case. 22 hours in five minutes left over two days to make their defense of the president, and then remember,

according to the trial rules, there are going to be that 16 hours of senator's questions. senators will not be able to stand up and ask questions, they have to submit them through the chief justice. they will hear a lot more from the chief justice during those six -- though 16 hours. then come the key moments where there will be debate on whether to subpoena additional witnesses and documents, four hours of debate before a vote is taken. if 51 senators agreed to do that, there is another series of debates on which specific witnesses to hear from, which documents to subpoena, and we are expecting that to take place midweek this week, after the president's lawyers finish making their case on the senate floor. the pressid seem like for witnesses was one of the key topics over the weekend. many sunday shows, including senator james ike fern of

oklahoma, on abc's this week was asked about it. here's some of what he said. >> is the same reason they did not want to hear from the witnesses. they made an initial push to say would you come, they said yes, if you will subpoena us and go through the roots like a normal process, and the house that we are not going to do that. the house argument now -- it is an interesting argument. they are saying the president not only can be impeached in 70 days in the house, the fastest in history, but that the president should not have access to the court at any point in the trial, so the closing argan from adam schiff was, do not allow the president to be able to go to the court and argue these things. you were around during the ap -- during the clinton impeachment times per there's a process going back to the courts to be able to make decisions, get that decision made, and then you get it to the house. but the house did not want to do that. they want to move as fast as possible and now they want to slow down the trial as much as possible in the senate. it is an odd political strategy for them, more than a

fact-finding strategy. frankly, it looks like they are asking the senate to go search, seek out. that is not really the task of the senate. the task of the senate is to hear the trial. the house is the one that is gathering the information for impeachment, so we are acting on what they are sending us. >> the big difference in the clinton trial is that the witnesses were heard in the house, and they were called in the senate, and the white house did not completely stonewall the investigation. >> actually, you know the biggest difference with the clinton investigation, it was almost four years of special counsel per they sent over 18 boxes of information from the house over to the senate. it was a far cry from that to do just a few weeks of investigation and at this time, and the house this time, and to be able to send it to the senate. in the clinton trial, the senate was acting on call witnesses that called witnesses that the house had already called. you're right, it is a different process because the house did not do their homework this time and did not seem interested or they just wanted to get it done

by christmas and send it by the senate. then the first thing they said was don't do the trial like we did our hearings. do it totally different than we did because it will be fair if you do it differently than we did it. just an odd statement from them. host: senator langford yesterday. alex bolton covered the senate for many years. this is his piece in "the hill.com." "senate republicans face pivotal moment on impeachment witnesses. read the story on twitter. mark says this, there should be witnesses in the senate. biden sup a whistleblower, the ukraine president. the senate should give the same respect house gave republicans. take a from south carolina says, "let's hear from the whistleblower started the mess to begin, with what is being hidden." from chris in birmingham, alabama, even with the lev parnas and bolton information, senators are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to have their alternative fact from a false narrative.

we go to clarksville georgia next and hear from dominic. good morning. caller: yeah, hi. no matter what you think of president trump, i want to talk about the biden affair this is endemic of low-grade corruption that has existed in the world in past history, and it is going on in the world toay, from china to europe africa to all over the place. these people have been making suckers out of everybody for kind ofnd this privileged corruption, where there are all kinds of dears -- deals made with these people really has to stop. this is what ought to be borne out, whether this is a crime or not -- it stinks. we have got to stop this kind of low-grade corruption. of -- this thing still is bad. thank you. host: next up is tom on our democrats line in maryland.

thank you for taking my call. host: you bet. caller: what i don't understand is that everybody knows that the truth is going to come out, and it will be in books by bolton or books by these people that are trying to keep from testifying. if they don't get the witnesses in there and the truth comes out later after the man has been committed, then we look like fools. and i cannot believe the senators would set themselves up for this, because they have to know the truth will come out. it always does. thank you. host: here is anita coming next up on the independent line in imperial, missouri. hi there. some of today's callers have -- sound like they have degrees in the sham trump university, or donated to the trump charitable foundation where they -- where he used the money for himself.

richard nixon got caught up in the cover-up, and trump has gotten caught up in this cover-up, and also orchestrating the whole thing. nixon had the good sense to resign. trump needs to resign. the claims that he has done beneficial things for this country are outweighed by his harm. itput our government, trillion dollars further in debt with this tax cut to make us go broke and collapse. babyob creation is from boomers retiring, but he takes credit for bogus accompaniments. his pattern of corruption hasn't changed, and i think he should resign immediately. if he does not, we do need witnesses. we need documents. we need everything that we can possibly get to shine as much light on this so that people who are not seeing the truth see the truth. you think he should resign before the defense team has a chance to present his

case? moment again, as has been said many times, and as the tv thing on abc that you just put up showed, the complaint was about process, not about the fact. it was the process of, he was not getting a fair trial or this and that. he is getting it more fair than anything he has given to a lot of others. so, yes, i think he should be, by now, before any more harm comes to our country. host: going to annandale, virginia, next up. matt. caller: looking at the case the democrats sent over, they had plenty of evidence to send to the senate to say to president trump -- to say that president trump was using his office to benefit his campaign. that was not direct evidence

because i want you to think about what would happen if the democrats waited to subpoena, go to the courts to get these guys. it could be three or four months, to go through the whole court process and appeals process. then we are in the middle of may or june as the democratic candidate is selected and we are in the general election campaigns. then we are bringing forward the impeachment process, probably dragging on into the summer, in the middle of a general election campaign. i think that would be chaos, especially with the current persons in office. so i think the democrats were right to push this quickly so that we could do this before the general election, and decide is this evidence good? we should definitely have more witnesses if they have more evidence to green -- to bring, and i think john bolton does that. in terms of joe biden, definitely investigate him. as a democrat, i don't want somebody corrupt in office and they should look into it. it is easy for me to say that

the caller who previously said we have too much corruption in politics is correct. look at the trump family. they are hand-in-hand business and politics together, putting their hands in the till of government. i definitely think we should investigate the bidens, too. no host: host: problem with that. victoria,xt up, texas, on the republican line. hi, bob. caller: good morning, everybody. i am a trump supporter, but trump is going to lose. and i am going to tell all the democrats to calm down and take a deep breath because the illegal aliens in california are voting, and actually they are putting in city councils and everything else out there, illegals. that is the reason they want open borders or they are going to come over here and there will be somebody at each voting station to help them through

motor voter law gives you the right to vote, look at new york now. host: you don't have the law in texas, do you? caller: this is the best blooming governor we have had out here he is closely trying to follow it, but this is a serious problem. all of this impeachment is just a farce. i mean, look at mueller, or mueller, however you want to pronounce it. million, hundreds of subpoenas, thousands of investigations, and they have not found nothing, so this is just a farce. this is to take the eyes off the illegal aliens that are out here in this country and last year in

december, the government, our almost $300nt to billion to support them. and people do not get that. but don't worry about it. they are going to be voting and they are going to be voting hard. bob in texas with more on the reaction to the bolton book. what we know of it, what we have seen so far. haver: i tell you what we been looking for so far is to see how republican senators have thated to the revelations president trump told john bolton that the aid to ukraine specifically tied to investigations into the bidens, that is what we have been scouring as the news reports have come out this morning. it looks like we will find out together at least what a group of republican senators are saying about that and what they feel about it.

there is a news conference coming up at about 11:35 a.m. eastern on capitol hill. it will be a group of republican senators. langford, lindsey graham, all republican senators set to speak at 11:35, the news conference on capitol hill. jamie depree, capitol hill reported with cox media noting that popping up on the schedule this morning. so we will all find out together. the president in a series of tweets last night and this morning as well, reminding that this is the president's tweet just before we went on the air at 7:00 a.m., the democratic house never even asked john bolton to testify. it is up to them, not the senate. rudy giuliani figuring in quite a bit to the revelations in john bolton's upcoming book. rudy giuliani sending out this a tweetnclear if it is of lou dobbs or that he is sending it to lou dobbs. that tweet saying there is no way in the world president trump

would say this to john bolton. it is a same -- a shame a man will sacrifice his integrity to make a few bucks on a book. no wonder he composts so little that chic accomplished so little -- no wonder he accomplished so little as national security advisor. democrats certainly have been reacting since the headline popped up in the new york times yesterday. here's just a sampling of some of it. evening,osi yesterday ambassador bolton reportedly heard directly from trump that aid for ukraine was tied to political investigations. the refusal of the senate to call for other relative witnesses and documents is now even more indefensible. she wrote the choice is clear, our constitutional -- our constitution or a cover-up. using the term cover-up, which we have heard once again. democrats using that term if republicans do not call witnesses this is this murphy, saying, for months there just has not been any question about what happened. but republicans hung onto the

idea that if they kept trump's top people from testifying, that could plausibly deny that he was behind it all. the game is now up. there cover-up fell apart. bolton must testify. this is senator hirono, saying that by blocking bolton and other witnesses, after the new york bombshell, republican senators are complicit in rigging this impeachment trial. one last one, senator tina smith of minnesota saying that now don't we think it would be a good time to have john bolton as a witness. earlier today you mentioned the name of the book from john bolton, i don't know if you show the cover. the drudge report has an image of it. it has an oval shape. the same image that washington post reporters tweeted out as well. that is what we are hearing will be the cover of that book. that is two different news

organizations, tweeting that image out. host: when a publisher typically release what a book cover is going to look like in advance of a book like that? >> unclear. i could certainly find that out for you. we know the manuscript itself was submitted to the white house, and there is some dispute, at least among some on capitol hill about whether it was a rough draft or a final manuscript. so again, it is unclear if it was a rough draft, a cover, or a final cover. all of this sort of coming out yesterday. we are still trying to figure out things. host: you said it was submitted to the white house in december? >> on december 30, yes. ketchum,will go2net in idaho, and hear his thoughts on the independent line. caller: really hoping we see something from chief justice john roberts. you know, i think most people the legislative and

executive branches of the government are kind of broken right now and we could really use the third branch to step up thettle bit and maybe asserting of authority over some things here. i hope the supreme court can kinda help us out a little bit here. along ay can help trump little bit more with this situation. host: how do you think the courts would help him, ned? whenr: well, that is why the founding fathers were -- came up with impeachment, they made sure they had a representative of the third branch because they knew it was going to be a very divisive issue for the country. he is supposed to have powers to be able to get them

to, you know, if they cannot agree on a witness or something -- on that.e can we have barely heard from him. host: we appreciate that. stephanie up, jacksonville, florida, democrats line. caller: yes, good morning. i am very sad right now. i cannot believe what is going on in this country. donald trump is the most dishonest president we have ever had. he doesn't know the truth if it slapped him in the face. and the republicans, they are just going to continue to back in. i don't care what they hear. heneed to have john bolton needs to testify. and we need to have other witnesses. donald trump is going to repeat his lives, and the republicans will believe everything he said. even when they know he is

telling a lie. they will point out everybody else about life, and everybody else's deception, but they never point out that he lies implicitly. i think he should be impeached. republican senate will not do the right thing. these people get out -- please, people, get out and vote, and let's get rid of him. thank you and have a good day. host: next is kim on the republican line. she in pennsylvania. kim my main is point is the country is split. it is just a mess right now, and i don't understand how congress can take our right away. that is basically what they are doing. we have 11 months until we pick a new president, and we should have the vote, not the senate. i think it is kind of discussing that he writes a book and then refuses to go to the house. the other thing is, from what i

understand, the house is supposed to make the case, then it goes to the senate, and the democrats found a loophole that they do not have to go to court because there is a justice sitting in the court and he can rule right away. host: thanks, kim. reaction, susan from upstate new york. first the gop complained about the mueller investigation, taking over two years to come to a conclusion. now the gop is complaining that the impeachment inquiry only took 2.5 months. you cannot have it both ways. a tweet from stephen says, everything discussed so far is opinion. that's have a fully open trial. let's put this behind us with a trial. lynn from massachusetts -- i still say trump needs to come to the senate. he put under oath for 11 hours

just like hillary was. talking about the benghazi hearing. in sugarland, texas, on the impending line -- on the independent line, good morning. caller: friday i believe john said that when we called in if he was asked for some information that he would look it up, and i tried to search on the website, the website on impeachment, and i am looking for the letter that pelosi wrote to her congressional people on the whistleblower, and you don't have to read the whole letter. just read the part where she says it is the law. the law meaning that the whistleblower who is supposed to testify in front of the impeachment hearing by the house in front of shifty shift would him testify even though the republicans asked for him as a witness that is number one. i have three little things.

from zoe play the clip lofgren? she was on jake tapper this weekend, state of the union. if you go to blaze, you will find a clip right there, 37 seconds only, and it says basically this whole thing is about the election. she says that if we waited for two to three years, the issue would have been moot. the issue would not be moot -- whatever that word is -- i'm sorry -- the issue would be you could still impeach him if you got the information from the court three years later. so what they are basically saying, this whole issue is about the election coming up. so please, if you could play those two clips -- the last two things i would like to talk about is, i like to do a lot of research.

in the list of obama scandals, i greatout there is a website, gradien, and they list chronologically, from 2007 all the way up to when he left office, all clips from news articles, mainstream media. you will be amazed at the that was there in the obama administration. host: what is their definition of scandal. caller: i will give you one. obamacare, to me was a scandal, where he is telling the american public we are going to lower prescription drugs, when he was in bed with pharma and there is a big article from the sunlight foundation, nonpartisan organization. host: appreciate you pointing that out with the clips, tony. we try to pull out a range of things from the sunday shows.

we will try to find something for you by the end of the show. from yesterday, fox news sunday. john, do you want to weigh in here? >> i think the dear colleague letter he was referring to was one that nancy pelosi sent out just before the start of the impeachment trial, and january 10 is when it came out. you can find it on nancy pelosi's website. i appreciate the viewer pointing out that c-span.org/impeachment is where viewers can go to find all of these documents related to the impeachment trial, as well as clips and full gavel-to-gavel coverage. and a lot of the discussions we have had on "the washington journal." january 10, that dear colleague letter -- this is what the speaker sent out to all her congressional colleagues when it came to the issue of witnesses in a fair trial. it was the second paragraph saying the american people have clearly expressed their view

that we should have a fair trial with witnesses and documents. more than 70% of the american public stating that the president should allow the top aides to testify. peter mcconnell does not want to present witnesses to the -- leader mcconnell does not want to present witnesses to the american public. well onseen polling as this idea of whether the american public wants to hear additional witnesses, and the majority of those folks who do want to hear additional witnesses. host: thanks for that, john. tony reporting that -- the clips that we can bring into the program. it is an impossible job to get a range because our main job is to hear from you. as i was mentioning before john came in, fox news sunday yesterday featured chris wallace and alan dershowitz, who we will hear from reportedly today on the senate floor. here is part of their discussion yesterday. >> i want to talk about the

framers because you keep bringing them up. federalist 65, alexander hamilton, one of the framers, argues that a criminal offense is not essential to impeachment. that may put up what he says. "subjects of his jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust another founder, george mason, brought up a case of a former british official in india who had been accused of mismanagement. in either of these case -- in neither of these cases is there a specific mention of a criminal action. >> that was one of the elements introduced by the framers, and it was rejected by vote -- >> that was not true. george mason came up with high crimes and misdemeanors. to include things like

misconduct and abuse of power. >> no. >> talking specifically about the conduct. >> i will spend some time on the hamilton matter in my talk. when clinton was being impeached, people who opposed clinton's impeachment cited the same quote, as saying that shows you you have to narrow it, not broaden it. he was saying subject to the jurisdiction, namely high demand ,- high crimes, misdemeanors abuse of power -- hamilton was not trying to expand the criteria from a constitutional criteria. he was actually trying to contract it. arguing that in fact in addition to having crimes like treason and bribery, you have to show that it involves a breach of public trust. host: the senate trial resuming today, 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. we would love to hear from you --

(202) 748-8000 four democrats. , (202) 748-8001. (202) 748-8002 for independents. joining us is niels laszewski. we showed alan dershowitz, one of the three attorneys we have not heard from, we will hear from him today on the senate floor. what is the direction the presidents legal team will take from here on out? what we expect the next set of arguments to be is over -- they will make some kind of substantive defense in terms of saying that the president did nothing wrong in their view on the merits. there is also going to be a constitutional argument made andt separation of powers the idea that the second charge in particular of obstruction of

face, nots, on its value. they will argue that the house managers should have gone to the courts to try and get subpoenas and documents and that the proper venue is somewhere other than in an impeachment trial. defense team on saturday, the legal counsel for the president on saturday has indicated that their team would not take the 24 hours allotted to them under the rules. any indication of how long they will take? have two session days left at their exposer. ist i think we will see maybe two days but they will be shorter days. i do not currently expect them to rest their case this evening. aty seem to be more adept

trying to make their case .hrough shorter soundbites the house managers certainly were. i would expect that they try and get into some prime time tv time tonight and tomorrow. maybe they don't just go on as long. release of excerpts of john bolton's book released by the publication from the new york times has upped the calls for witnesses on the democratic side. how would that come in the process? where would the senate take votes on that? guest: there are two pieces to it. after the president's legal team to 16ted its case of up hours of questions and answers, where senators will be submitting questions by writing, it will probably take two or three days to get to that. we are looking toward the end of this week, when the rules will make in order of motion to

debate whether or not to debate having witnesses, basically. and so, there will be this sort of first test vote on whether or not there need to be any witnesses or subpoenas or documents or anything like that. that is before they get into the specific question of whether or not john bolton or mick mulvaney or whoever would be on the witness list. that would be something to get approved by the senate. it would take 51 votes, correct? guest: that is correct. these are simple majority thresholds, up until the point of the actual potential vote on a conviction. that vote would be a super majority, two thirds. host: any cracks in the republican armor in the senate? guest: there do not seem to be. we have not heard from a lot of

republican senators yet today. a lot of people traveling back to washington after a couple of days. i am sure there will be lots of questions about the new york times report and the perspective content of ambassador bolton. heard from any of the key senators this morning. host: we have shown our audience some of the decorum and some of the restrictions placed on senators and the press. has any of that affected the work you do in covering the trial and comments from senators outside of the chamber? you for asking that. it certainly has. best to trydoing my reportersclear of the on the capital building.

it is difficult for us to do our work. i will throw in one other thing that will be interesting today with the house coming back into session. it is the first time that house members and their guests are going to run into security restrictions on the second floor . on friday, i saw a member of the house who was unable to bring visitors across the rotunda to the old senate chamber. they were stopped by police because they had visitors without special id. reporting is at ro .com oncom -- roll call twitter. we will get back to your calls, texts and tweets. we will hear next from raymond from lafayette, georgia, democrats line. caller: hello? host: you are on the air. caller: thank you, sir. i am not accustomed to this stuff. i have a couple of questions and

some remarks. i feel that if they are going to do an impeachment, the way try people here in the way you would be tried is a 12 min jury. why don't they do that with him? he is breaking a law. it doesn't matter who he is. he should be tried fairly. he is being tried by his peers. he has not been tried by the people. they are doing the job. not the people. they are. it host: you mean the members of congress are doing the job? caller: right. we decide whether or not he is guilty or not guilty. host: we will hear from john on

the republican line. caller: yes. i would like to talk about the truth. the democrats and republicans want the truth. the fact of the matter is, quid .ro quo works in politics like mick mulvaney said, if you don't have it, it will not go away. scratch my back to get something done. that's the way politics works. there would be no politician in office if it was not for this. next up is skip in kansas city, missouri. skip, hi. independent line. you are on the air. go ahead, skip. caller: yes, what i think the senate should do is avoid the personal truth and the political .ruth because those are skewed

concentrate on the objective truth. whether you believe it or not. host: skip, you still there? caller: yes. as far as the other day, when trump was in switzerland and the talk that he gave, he just dissolutions everybody in this country by its having them or wanting them to think that he is the person responsible for the economy and everything that is going on in this country. he is only one person. tell, this can economy is a spider web of wovenlick -- intricate tapestry that no one individual could possibly have any affect on it. host: we had a collar 20 minutes ago talking about one of the house managers. discussionot into a

-- discussion.o a i want to show you that exchange. what do you say to those who say that's what the house democrats did by not trying to go to court to force subpoenas and witnesses. guest: we did go to court. host: but you did not pursue the case. guest: we realized we had the evidence we were going to get and it was a decision to prove our case. >> didn't you surrender to the president? >> in that sense, we did. over.ection would be .he issue would be almost moot if he is committing a high crime and misdemeanor now and continuing to do it, we need to act.

the mcgann subpoena, we subpoenaed him last april and we will not get an answer on that until next year. host: your thoughts on the impeachment process and the trial resumed today at 1:00 p.m. eastern, live on c-span2. for democrats, (202) 748-8000. .epublicans, (202) 748-8001 and for independents, (202) 748-8002. other news, this is from our te survivors, auschwitz have earned 75 years since liberation. over 1.1 million jewish victims will be honored, 75 years after its liberation. number of dwindling holocaust survivors that will gather at the site.

go too calls we go, we peter from valley college, new york. republican line. caller: good morning. i would like to make a few comments on some of the things that were said this morning. of the callers called in and said that the obama administration reduced the debt. that's not true. to thent obama added national debt in his eight year term. trump beingesident this big liar, all politicians live. i will name a couple of the big lies president obama perpetrated. number one, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. the average american will save $2800 on their health insurance. withenant erg doll served honor and distinction. said it was a film

, that it cause the uprising in benghazi. it was not true. certain flexor just -- certain facts are just waiting. i wish that you folks would -- when something is blatantly wrong, i wish he would correct callers when they make the statements. another thing, the lieutenant testified that the transcript was basically accurate. there was one small discrepancy that he cited in his testimony. that was corrected. so, for callers to come in and thethat the transcript that president gave was inaccurate is alive. -- a lie. you should have pierced talk about his new book. he devotes 70 pages to the bidens. host: he has been on the program. no doubt that it's some point --

at some point in the coming weeks, he will be again. jerry from michigan, democrat line. caller: hello? host: go ahead. caller: i would like to bring up a point that president trump aligns himself with dictators. what does that tell you about him? what does that tell you about him? nowhere in the history of the united states have we had a president that aligns himself with dictators. assblicans, get off your and get this guy out of office. goodbye. john.we hear next from >> i want to go over the schedule on a busy monday in washington, d.c. on capitol hill, things get underway for day six of the senate impeachment trial,

president trump at 1:00 p.m. eastern. you can watch gavel-to-gavel coverage on c-span2. the house is back this week as listeners pointed out. they will resume at 2:00 p.m. today. you can watch coverage of the house here on c-span. it is also a busy morning at the white house. here is the headlines from the newspaper, noting dueling meetings at the white house. the leaders of israel's two largest parties at the white house, president trump will host benjamin netanyahu at 11:00 a.m. then it, netanyahu's rival in the upcoming march election in israel. the newspaper noted that the meeting with netanyahu is scheduled to last over an hour. we are expecting benjamin

netanyahu to arrive at the white house at 11:00 a.m. this morning. you can look for coverage of that as well. weant to know on friday that pointed out before the impeachment trial began, there was an all senator briefing on the coronavirus. a senators meeting with health -- senators were meeting with health officials. the latest numbers from the outbreak in china, china's death cases.se to 80 confirmed it ballooned to more than 2700. those of the latest numbers. more than 40 cases have been confirmed in other countries, including five in the united states. u.s. senator's tweeting this morning and over the weekend about their concerns about the coronavirus. this was senator rick scott of florida, the republican saying we have to get serious about the

threat of coronavirus, asking the administration to declare a public health emergency. that echoed this morning by chuck schumer. the democratic minority leader in the senate, saying the threat to the american public remains low. health and human services should follow the cdc's product of lead and declare a public health emergency for the coronavirus. this will unlock millions of dollars to support the ongoing response and protect public health. that is some of what is happening on capitol hill today. host: thanks. the john bolton tidbits, the barely a few excerpts. peter baker with a piece published within the hour. news analysis with the headline, john bolton's account up in strom's denials. -- upends trump's denials. this ends the serious to closure -- disclosure on his political

career. new york, brian on the independent line. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i think this whole thing is a farce. i watched all of the house thing. the first thing they did was change the rules. a lot of hearsay in there. on juries before and they don't allow that. the prosecutor and defense, when they start asking questions, -- host: when the members of this senate ask questions? caller: they start asking questions and it goes to the asks the the judge defense and prosecutors, do they have to be sworn in? host: they were sworn in ahead of time. caller: i am talking the defense

and prosecutor team. they are the ones answering the questions. will they be sworn in? host: to the best of my recollection, they were sworn in at the beginning of the proceedings. thanks for that. to william in louisburg, north carolina, go ahead. caller: good morning. i would like to say on the stuff with trump, it is my understanding and i am sure c-span will sit down and do a power out with your team in the days and weeks to find out what you will put on air and what is right and what is wrong. the team that president puts around him has the same things happening there. you might ask some dumb question about can we do this or do that. it is their job to be able to say no, mr. president, you

cannot do that and this is why. we are having an impeachment for asking a question that people will write in books to make a dollar. i have put much kept up with this stuff since the beginning. we have watched everything that y'all have played in little tidbits on everything but democrats have stood up and said. i have not heard anything from saturday, watching anybody come on with what was said saturday, in regards to the defense side. playld wish that you would a little more evenly. not to mention, i was called in on the republican line. a lot of dies -- a lot of days, the phone will ring and cut off in the phone will stop being picked up. no one ever puts you through the line. host: you got through.

yesterday, it was a short session on saturday. on this program yesterday, we played excerpts from saturday's proceedings. the proceedings get underway at 2:00 eastern with the president's defense team having some 22 hours left to present their case. jack is next. caller: how are you doing? host: fine. thank you. moscow mitch on this trial. out ande already come said he is innocent. what kind of trial are we going to have? are we going to have a monkey ?rial or a regular trial [coughing] excuse me. will people testify, witnesses? or are we going to have a monkey

trial of which is no witnesses. that happened in the south. they had monkey trials. host: jack, you're alive. -- you are live. the objective is to win reelection. the constitution of the united states has become a piece of paper. please america, vote democrat. the country's integrity is in great peril. roger tweets that the process was flawed from the beginning. never a houseboat. partisan was in contact with adam schiff's staff. democrats fluid. democrats would not accept what they had to say. stockton, california is next up. rob on the republican line. caller: good morning.

i have a couple of quick points. i hate to see everybody -- first basic law is everyone is innocent until proven guilty, beyond the shadow of doubt. it seems like all of your callers are calling in and even the house resenting the case is trying to reverse it. they are trying to say you have to prove your innocence. you do not have to prove you are innocent. you are innocent until proven guilty beyond a shadow of it out. i don't know why they think the president is any different than the basic laws of our land. he is innocent until proven -- the burden of proof is on the house to present the evidence of guilt of the president, which they have not done. pull oc and them did not -- nancy pelosi and them did not vote to impeach the president and then send out subpoenas. they sent out subpoenas before that so they broke the law. trump knows i do not have to give it to you because you did not do your procedures right.

that is the pinnacle point of this whole thing. there is no obstruction of have theif he did not proper procedures before they sent the subpoenas out. second thing, a big difference between nixon and trump. obama and his teams spied on the president through the fbi, russell still and all that garbage, gps simpson and them. they spied on the president. the president didn't not spy on anybody. the president did not spy on joe biden. he did not spy on anybody. if anybody should be impeached, the irs to goized down and start investigating and conservative nonprofit organizations several years ago, that never got impeached but it should have.

the result went right back to obama on that. host: all right. arnest in florida. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. secondly, not particularly in the order, i would like to send my condolences to the kobe --ant family and the passing passages in their devastating accident. enforcer and i have been watching the trials and i am baffled from a law enforcement perspective, how a -- a courtake place setting can take place where there is absolutely no witnesses or documents allowed. it brings me to question, how innocentoners, be it

or guilty, will be incarcerated today if fbi documents and witnesses were not allowed in court. it kind of baffles me. en suite mr. giuliani sent saying the president will not say this or that about a particular person. we watched the president on national tv looked directly at the camera and lie to us. and say he does not know this person or that person. we continue to see so many people in this circle being convicted and locked up as we speak. how weevastating to see will have a proper trial without document or witnesses. they do not want things to be done properly. host: i appreciate your perspective. more of your calls coming up. we have gotten some reaction to the john bolton news. john mcardle, you're hearing

some republican reaction. guest: there will be a lot of interest today in how republicans specifically react to the revelations in that manuscript that president trump told john bolton that aid to ukraine was tied to investigations. that is what john bolton had in his manuscript. that is what the new york times reported yesterday. here is jim jordan, one of the house republicans who is speaking on behalf of the president, part of his response team, his defense team. jim jordan was on fox news early this morning. the washington post keeping tabs on his imprints -- appearance. he said the revelations in the new york times does not change anything. here is a quote from his appearance on fox news. you have someone telling what his manuscript is going to say and that changes everything? i don't buy that. it does not change the facts that have been clear from the get-go.

that was jim jordan on fox news from earlier today. and then, as we pointed out earlier, we will hear from at least five senators coming up in about two hours at 11:35 eastern , we are accepting a news conference featuring john barrasso, mike braun, mike lee, james lankford and lindsey graham. jamie diprete tweets about from a point earlier. that press conference, they are certain to get some questions about this new york times story. host: we will go back to calls and hear from alan in little walk -- little rock. caller: good morning. one quick add on for john, if i may. my reason for calling was for him to look up an article that i just noticed over the weekend

from the toronto star. i took a chance to watch the bbc and cbc as often as i can and they have some outstanding journalists compared to american media. believe ito star, i te.pronounced corbet the subject said she is fighting corruption. it is the most incredible article i have read. , have been reading articles professionally, even for 50 years. -- how doesthat that buy into the impeachment? talks about the corruption in ukraine. the woman who was highly

publicized, sadly, was attacked for her reporting on the corruption of ukraine. of this the election media personality that became president, zelinski. with how itdoused is a horrible story to read about. the point she was making in this article that has covered this, it is a lengthy article. downh john would scroll three fourths of the way. it is a 14 minute read. one of the reference to those oligarch characters who is still in the administration. , hisski and his lawyer principal lawyer is zelinski's lawyer.

they go in incredible detail in this work" all of and canadian ministries trouble with all of this. host: we found the article at the star.com. we will let folks look for themselves to find it. fighting when she was attacked with acid. a question for you, you talked about reading reports like this in the star, watching cbc -- watching the bbc and reading their reporting. what do you think the perspective is that you get from foreign sources, english-language sources but foreign nonetheless on impeachment that you are not getting from american media sources? caller: that is a great question. i appreciate it. i want to answer it but i wish she would give me 30 seconds after i do to defend myself from a call two months i had to make

isinst mr. sutter berg, who -- who was on. , andame back to my referenced it as conspiracy reference. it was a slanderous reference to a caller. i was quoting a factual article and she got away with that. i would like to reference that if i can. to answer your question, the bbc typically has a liberal slant, similar to the majority of american media. they seem to have some labour party preferences. though,e brexit recently, they said it is a close election with the labor candidate. he lost miserably. of pulse lengths, such as that. they quote liberals and democrats most often from the

american political scene rather than get a balance. canada, for example, ontario has elected a conservative. british columbia has. alberta has. to the point of secession, that they are talking about it in western canada. there is a real conservative change worldwide. that does not get much coverage. may i defend myself on this reference that she made for 30 seconds. give me a 15 second version. hiser: i made a point about testimony and he has a family buys. his twin brother, i was quoting from an article from npr in an interview. has anther had -- afghanistan connection, where he was targeting -- restricting

targeting for the obama administration. they wanted to go light on some of this work in comparison to what president trump has done. host: i appreciate the perspective and i want to show what the bbc is reporting this morning. if you go to bbc, their website on impeachment, the democrats call for bolton to testify in the impeachment trial. michigan. to delton, jerry is on the publican line. good morning. jerry, i missed you. republican line, delton, michigan. caller: hi. can you hear? host: yes, we can. caller: all of the presidential campaigns that have been taken place, of all of them, president trump has fulfilled all of his campaign promises my first of all. i also would like to say that there is a very skewed the house ishat

presenting or presented over several hours that they had to present their information to the senate. by the 2.5butted hour presentation by the republican lawyers. , althoughieve that president trump is not necessarily one of the brother -- better presidents we have had as far as his behavior in office, overall, he has done a pretty good job with the economy. that the democrats are part of the swamp that he is trying to take care of. and drain. in springfield, massachusetts. sorry about that. en, springfield,

massachusetts. democrat line. you are on the air. caller: hello. this is been. host: you are on the air. caller: thank you for taking my call. the issue around crime related to the president, there are three areas that i see where the law was violated. one, when the white house held --the host: the aid to ukraine? caller: the person that told on him. host: the whistleblower? caller: the whistleblower. had submittedwer his statement to the attorney

general's office. and it was accepted. and it was taken to the white house and it was held up. it was not sent to that congress as it was supposed to be. as the law requires. was involving a fine thernment involved in election of the united states of america, involving the fine government of investigating and american elected official and candidate for office. one was withholding the funds that had been notifying without congress. my plan, my plan did not change under the affordable care

act. whenever anybody criticizes obama -- i'm sorry. criticizes trump. up obama.y brings obama left office three years ago. one of the other things i want to mention is that all of the investigations that have been held by congress in the last , up until the first of this year -- not this year, i'm sorry. 2019, previous to that, all of others were under the -- taken over by was democrats, they started an investigation. that was the first time democrats had anything to do with the investigation.

psalms, when people talk about what the democrats have done, they don't think about the reality of what they are saying. i am a democrat. i have been a democrat for a long time. my two brothers performing served in the korean war. brother to serve in the military, we all volunteer. none of us tried to dodge the draft. thanks for your service as well. on twitter, you can tweet at c-span w j. the bidens need to be investigated for money it turns out they were getting rich from foreign countries. why one should not give their

vote to a party whose ideologies is centered around dollars and cents. mattie in minnesota says if john bolton testifies against the president, how can preston trump or any future president trust their closest advisors? also, why is nobody investigating the dnc and ukraine? ohio.l go to youngstown, rebecca. on the independent line. we lost rebecca. we will go to pontiac, michigan. hi.er: republicanependent, now. vote forever ever another democrat internal -- until they change their ideology.

. they did not have an idea he was --ng to win because they are talking bad about our president, saying how corrupt he is. i just don't understand it. when it comes to the ukraine, -- howgo, i read how corrupt they were and how involved they are. ran up on them years ago. what is the big deal? the big deal is that all of this won,ption had hillary

he never would've been uncovered. host: murphy is on the line. caller: how are you doing? host: doing well. --'s been doing stuff on top of that, he has been doing stuff to be impeached. all, i see what hillary said about him being deplorable. it is just amazing.

i'm sure the president has done a pretty good job but he has been doing get the wrong way. there is a way to do things. but thesed thing people said they would never recover. border, he said mexico was going to pay for it. they might be participating now. i think they came up with a good plan to stop the people from guatemala or whoever they come from. it's just the way he has been doing it. it makes it look like it is illegal. joe biden and his son, ok. they might be investigated but you won't get a foreign government to do it.

input, appreciate your spending the morning talking about the resumption of the impeachment trial. story, yesterday, the death of kobe bryant. sharing the news, front page of the washington post. kobe bryant, 1970 8-2020, a helicopter crash killing him, john mcardleand has reaction to the death of kobe bryant. guest: on a day like today, it good time to take a look at museum.org. you can see how the death of kobe bryant has impacted cities and towns and newspapers across the country. in ais how it played out couple of papers. philadelphia, in kobe bryant's hometown, the headline is the death of a legend. the sacramento bee, loss of a

legend is the headline. one of the spanish papers in california has rossi's, kobe -- gracias, kobe. , politicians hit pause after kobe bryant's death. their condolences for the retired nba superstar. here are a few of them focusing on members from california. this is kevin mccarthy, so very sad. kobe bryant was the greatest. he went out of his way to spend time with my son and me. this is from congresswoman maxine waters, saying i am devastated by the death of kobe bryant and his teenage daughter. difficult to believe. she said my heart goes out to the family. this is from barbara lee, from california, saying i am

heartbroken upon hearing the passing of kobe bryant and seven other passengers. kobe was an inspirational leader, advocat, athlete and fire. , athlete and father. says kobe bryant, despite being a great athlete, was just getting started. the loss of his beautiful daughter makes this even more devastating. days fromhe coming the faa and ntsb, this is the report of the associated press. bryant's helicopter flew in a fog that grounded other choppers . a photo of kobe bryant with his daughter, this goes back 11 years. this is 2009. in colorado, patty is on the independent line. go ahead. caller: good morning.

due to the nature of my job, i think i have a different outlook from most of america about the impeachment. president trump never turned his tax returns over. since nixon, and i am old enough to remember the nixon impeachment, they have turned their tax returns over. america brought this on themselves. they did not demand that. jared kushner got flagged for money laundering. forld trump got flagged possible money laundering. i am not quite clear why the senate is not at least demanding that. i do not need a witness. i need those tax returns and the

adam schiff is doing what he is doing is because he knows what i know. strongly, that, america watch c-span's hearing. she was tracking money laundering. give me the bank records, president trump. thank you, bill. america, pray hard. host: to mississippi, this is david. go ahead. you are on the air. george was saying there is nothing there. that is all there is to it. this impeachment was not the original plan. that is not really what it is all about.

hillary was supposed to win. if she had one, they would've gotten away with it. after the loss, they were going to ruin his business and put them out. hillary lost. now they areost, trying to cover it up and they are getting caught. i can't wait told all of the truth -- until all of the truth comes out. host: president trump tweeting about five minutes ago, adam schiff must release the report without changes or tampering, which is said to be further exoneration of the impeachment hoax. does it link him to the whistleblower? why is he so adamant? he said read the transcripts. in birmingham, alabama, we go to

sandra. good morning. caller: good morning. hello? to give applause to the democrats who did a good job. the republicans have aided and abetted the president, which is a crime. thank you and have a good day. story about, a alabama politics. alabama gop ties jones to party leadership with impeachment votes. wasama senator doug jones beginning the year tied to the hip of his party's liberal leadership. given that he is running for reelection. with the impeachment trial of president trump underway, that is exactly where he found himself last week, voting in lockstep with charles schumer of new york, in partyline votes.

he also found himself under attack in his home state. regarded ass been the most vulnerable senator since he captured the sea in 20. an improbable perfect storm in 2017.lection -- an improbable perfect storm special election, he won by 1.7 percentage points, roy moore. a republican who based allegations that he assaulted girls a decade ago. in the article, they have a photo of the potential republicans he could face, jeff sessions. also, roy moore. and tommy tupper berville. mike is in henderson, nevada. go ahead. caller: good morning.

i have confidence and statements to make about certain things. justf them being that i noticed the puerto rican situation where they spent $91 billion for aid. million dollars made it. -- $16 billion made it. is inme $70 billion neve somebody's pocket in washington. this is the corruption that is now being exposed that the previous caller just stated as far as jared kushner being launderingthe money cases. that peoplells me like the republicans and the gop, which used to be the grand old party, i see now today as the guardians of putin because he is corrupt.

and in oligarch. this money that i was referring to went into somebody's pocket. the oligarchng game, being corrupt. they found all that aid being stashed away. who is going to take that -- who was going to take that later on and make money on it? host: john mcardle has been spending the morning, getting reaction from members of congress and others on the excerpts from john bolton's forthcoming book and what may be ahead regarding the senate trial. john mcardle. guest: with just a few min's left in the program, i want to get you the latest on reaction. we have been interested in how republican senators are reacting today to the report from the new york times, yesterday on john bolton's manuscript. here are two tweets from senators this morning. mike braun said bolton begs the question of what about looking

into the bidens? they will not have witnesses coming in without our choice of witnesses too. president trump is beating every democrat in iowa because they are getting tired of this is what the senator said. this is from lindsey graham. he said if there is a desire and decision to call democratic witnesses, at a minimum, the senate should call president trump to call witnesses as he has requested. we will hear from three republican senators as expected at an 1135 -- 11:30 five news conference on capitol hill. that might be a preview of -- 11:35 news conference on capitol hill. .hat might be a preview john bolton must testify, the people deserve a fair trial. say the white house's

case for not having witnesses gets weaker and weaker every day. chris murphy said it is day six of the trial. bolton is willing to confirm the high crimes, and upcoming vote on witnesses, a lot to unpack. he says i will be live on twitter to answer your questions, asking his twitter followers to drop them below. that is the latest. host: thanks for keeping an eye on that. we appreciate it. honor your oath's on impeachment, the former senator. body, who served on the don't let history's verdict be? ? asterisk.ark or an they put the impeachment trial in the hands of the senate, where they encourage fax and

evidence being weighed. i worry the senate is falling short of its response building. so far, this senate has declined to seek further evidence and papers on a partyline vote. the impeachment trial is gone with a series of partyline votes, as was the case in the house. the senate is not the house. it is supposed to be an institution, particularly on issues of process if not .deology impeachment is about of the rule of law in the political arena. it should be the senators' top concern with partisanship a distant second. in georgia, this is howard, republican line. thanks for waiting. i cannoty comment is understand why people are calling in and saying they watched this case from the beginning. -- of the evidence they had the rest of them, when they find it wast was going on,

all wrong in the first place. there's no way in the road you would take that kind of money and put it in one little country. why shouldn't the president look into it? he is the chief and the commander on top of that. of all oftake care that. the european nation should handle that. the european department should handle that. ambassadors were crying for the money, give us the money, give us the money. elaine inill go to st. louis, democrats line. caller: thank you so much. i was a little mesmerized by the prior speaker.

i think c-span is doing an outstanding job covering the impeachment hearing. i specially think that the democrats did a fantastic job presenting the information. i think that we, as democrats, should call our senators and let them know. i am from missouri. know that we want witnesses and documents supplied. night, they were talking about the tax breaks that were supposedly given. i am in bracket two. the top of my bracket is 89,000. i am a retired teacher. yourself that one

person making 80,000 -- 89,000 is different than one person who dollars.0 the tax brackets need to be addressed. that theuy pointed out taxes for the middle class, they are going to evaporate soon. so we need to look at information and be open. are not doingrats is getting rid of the electoral college. won thelicans had popular vote, they would not have to buy -- this is the second election. host: good to hear from you this morning. we have another call from jennifer in alabama on the independent line. calling. am

trump does not get to determine -- that is supposed to be the senators' job. they need to bring the trump kids there. they are doing worse than what biden and his sun= -- his son did. we need to see his taxes. that would tell everything about trump. the rest of americans are waking up. be -- stupidcannot is, stupid does. we need to get them out of there. one day we are going to wake up to see the russian flag over the white house because that is what a lot of these people, wether they believe it or not, but they are supporting putin. trump is nothing more than a manchurian candidate. if we do not wake up -- host: that will do it for today. thanks for all your calls this

morning. we are back here tomorrow .orning at 7:00 eastern impeachment trial at 1:00 eastern over on c-span2. see you tomorrow. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> they are asking you to tear up all of the ballots across this country on your own initiative. take that decision away from the american people. i do not think they spent one hours talkingr 24 to you about the consequences of that for our country. >>