you not only to overturn the results of the last election but as i have said toore they are asking you remove president trump from the ballot in an election that is occurring in approximately nine months. >> the senate impeachment trial continues today. watch live coverage starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern starting on online, or listen on the free c-span radio app. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. created by cable in 1979 and brought to you today by your television provider. coming up this morning willshington journal," discuss the impeachment trial of president with rhode island

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sims a text if you would like, please leave us your name and where you are texting from. (202) 748-8003. you could post your comments on our facebook page. over the years on washington journal we have relied on major newspapers. much of the content goes online and many more online news sources come up. it is interesting to see how the major daily papers to start their day. a look at three of them who have similar thoughts on the major stories they are covering. with theington post" coronavirus story on the left and senate impeachment on the right. same for the "new york times." journal" haseet the coronavirus is the main headline. the headline on impeachment, key gop senator enters request. alexander's no vote.

we will start what is ahead in the senate. that news by senator alexander. 1:00 this afternoon is where you can see what plays out in the senate when it comes to the witnesses and documents. lamar alexander tells you what to expect when you tune it out 1:00. that the impeachment managers and the president's lawyers will spend up to four hours just biding -- deciding whether new documents are needed or not. is someone to watch if this ends up being eight tied vote. a senate vote likely in the event of that time if the motion fails, it will fail. unless the chief justice cast a vote to break the deadlock. when it comes to lamar alexander, republican of tennessee, him putting out a statement 11:00 last night with where he was with a decision. here's part of that statement. saying it was inappropriate for

the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political opponent and withhold aid to encourage that investigation when elected officials that appropriately interfered, it undermines the principle of equal justice under the law. the constitution does not give the senate the power to ban him from this year's ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate. question is whether the united states senate or the american people should decide what to do about what he did. i believe the constitution provides that he -- the people make that decision in the election it begins on monday, obviously referring to the caucus. susan collins also one to watch during this process. she's writing that in a statement that i work with colleagues to ensure the schedule included a guarantee up or down vote on whether to call witnesses. i believe hearing from certain witnesses would give each side the opportunity to more fully

and fairly make the case, resolve any ambiguities, and provide additional clarity. i will vote in support of the motion to allow witnesses and documents to be subpoenaed. one other person to watch you've probably seen reported is a lisa murkowski, republican from alaska. senate,esterday on the or question directed to the white house lawyers on why not allow witnesses including john bolton? question.ou for the i think the primary consideration here is to understand that the house could have pursued ambassador bolton. the house considered whether or not they would try to have him come testify. they chose not to subpoena him. it all goes back to the most important consideration that this chamber has before it. the threshold

issue of whether there should be witnesses or not. it has to do with the president -- precedent that is established here for what kind of impeachment proceeding this body will accept from now going forward. whatever is excepted in this case becomes the new normal for every impeachment proceeding in the future. it will do grave damage to this body as an institution to say that the proceedings in the house don't have to really be complete. you don't have to subpoena witnesses you think are necessary to prove your case. you don't really have to put it all together before you bring the package here. when you are impeaching the president of the united states, the gravest impeachment they could possibly consider. you don't have to do all of that work before you get to this institution. instead, you come to this chamber, it could be kind of half-baked, not finished. weneed other witnesses and

want this chamber to do the investigation that wasn't done in the house of representatives. this chamber will have to be issuing the subpoenas and dealing with that. that is not the way that this chamber should allow impeachments to be presented to it. we have heard there was some exchange the other day about there were a lot of witnesses in portiarge -- judge impeachment. it is very different in the impeachment of a judge handled by a committee. under rule 11 of the procedures, there is a committee. it a presidential impeachment it will not just be a committee, it is the entire chamber that will be sitting in the core of impeachment. that will affect the business of the chamber. that somethinga

comes out because someone makes an assertion in a book, allegedly. now that theallege manuscript says that. ambassador bolton has not verified that to my knowledge. have thehould start chamber called new witnesses and establish the new normal for impeachment proceedings as being there doesn't have to be a complete investigation in the house. i think that is very damaging for the future of this institution. host: ambassador bolton was speaking at a private event in austin, texas last night. didn't speak about the book but he did have this to say about diplomatic officials. saying when it comes to yona hill, morrison, and others, saying all of them acted in the best interest in the country consistent to what they thought our policies were. that somehowea testifying that what you think is true is destructive to the

system of government, i think it is nearly the exact reverse. an reporting that. host: back to lamar alexander. the alexander doctrine, a presidents effort to get a foreign government to intervene in american election doesn't rise to a level of impeachable offense. the a mark meadows on president's defense team, saying bravo to the president's legal team. they were tremendous this week. mark meadows one of the seven house defense members on the president's -- defense team. let's get to your calls. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. i have a very strong opinion. i sat through and listen to the testimony of the witnesses.

the 17 witnesses. he did not receive due process as an american citizen. it is protected. this, itm watching seems to be so one-sided. it is so disappointing to see. when pam bondi got up there and laid out the entire ukraine -- trump team didn't bring out. adam schiff and his guy did. if you didn't want that in that you should not have brought it up. when she started talking about the 2015 meeting in the oval office with president obama and biden, and the then secretary and i his name from ukraine. right then and there this should have stopped. the investigation into that should have begun. that was the very beginning.

now they are saying we want to hear from bolton. i would like to hear from obama, biden, hunter, everybody who has dirt on the floor and lied to the american people. adam schiff in four lies yesterday. he would say one thing in the morning and flip it in the afternoon. it is ridiculous. i want to go back not because of the horrible thing that happened. i want to go back to the america when wember 12, 2011 were one. we were not divided. if the democrats would just stop throwing the hate. i'm tweeting during the day and i'm getting private messages calling me all kinds of names. i don't know who i'm going to vote for. i respect my president. he is a people's president.

for donaldou vote trump in 2016? caller: no, i did not. host: thanks for that, let's go to ui in florida -- eli in florida. caller: thank you for taking my call. in 1954iin 1954i studied a memo, my representative is bill posey who is a republican. in, -- hect i live omitted it. the president has done a terrific job. this should not be any witnesses

called from now on. when the house voted it was wrong. it has already been implemented. , they haveok at that no indictment articles. the president is the only one when you look at the papers. there was a foreign grievance when someone rides on the 2, 202 as -- air force --versation relative. when you look at this, i don't chiff, what

all the democrat said. they couldn't begin. iny began without a vote the house. that is absolutely wrong. host: the issue of aid to ukraine has come up as part of the process of setting up the federal spending for the next fiscal year. the white house proposed keeping ukraine intact in the upcoming budget. they write the white house will proposed keeping security systems at ukraine for current levels when it increases its upcoming budget. duane is on our independent line in new york. caller: good morning. i have no idea what that gentleman was talking about. shame.ocrats have no they did what they have to do. let the people decided november.

bad,s done new york very trump, as far as the presidency. the trump supporters are going to do what they have to do in democrats will have to take this man on. that is all have to say. .ur text line is (202) 748-8003 something else to make sure republicans take the house. the only good thing they have done, loan patriot in florida. since the gop refuse the impeachment trial, this whole procedure is a sham. bill in elizabeth new jersey, things do not look good for this trial moving beyond this point. this is a sad day for this country. so much for making america great again. in cape may, it is ed on our

democrats line. caller: am i on? host: you are. if any of your viewers tried to watch on fox news, the impeachment trial, whenever i s there was a posted size picture on the screen of the proceedings at the impe achment. und, just ao so sign that said watch the impeachment on foxnews.com. they must be afraid of showing what is going on at the impeachment. caller: doug on the republican line -- host: doug on the republican line. caller: i have watched 90% of the impeachment, my only question is the president has the power to do what he needs to

do. he didn't do anything wrong. when are the democrats, who have been doing this since day one, the worst conversation in this country that the democrats can't get over losing. are they going to pay the money back they have spent in the time they could have done better things for this country? people that are important areas rather than waste time trying to get over the fact that they lost? that is at this whole thing is about. day one.ted from i'm retired military and i'm embarrassed for this country. this impeachment is showing the world how stupid we are. they think someone from ukraine could send an email and that is going to change my vote? these people need to stop being parents and thinking we are children. we know what to do. , getneed to do their jobs

on with the country and let's vote, youe bill, one will get a lot more done. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. i've a few comments to pass on. i'm going to stick on both sides. , iking at the proceeding think the american people deserve the witness on the other side, the democrats have been one-sided. i don't see why joe biden or hunter biden should be called. transcript,d the

they are credible witnesses. the democrats want to sell this to the american people by saying that the president wants to cheat. cheat -- they came to the podium and said the president wants to cheat. there is no probe -- proof the president wants to cheat. on the others, i think republicans should allow .itnesses [indiscernible] host: thanks for the call. we talked to the senior legal affairs correspondent for "politico," earlier this week. he's writing today about the effect on the impeachment of other cases before courts. how seeks to make trump's lawyers impeachment stand a

liability in court. he writes president donald trump's arguments against his impeachment were thrown back at the administration lawyers in yet another court case on thursday. as the house and justice department battle over records abandoned the now effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 senses. during a three hour plus argument session about trump's claim of executive privilege to block disclosure of the census related files, house lawyers highlighted what they see as an obvious tension created by complaint from trump and his attorneys that the house failed to adequately pursue court action to get testimony and documents. democrats are urging the senate to seek this as part of the impeachment trial. we will hear from danny in atlanta. during the obama administration, not one person went to jail or was indicted in the obama administration.

people have been indicted in the trump administration. just to answer that caller talking about the democrats paying the money back for the impeachment trial, we will do that as soon as the republicans benghazithe money for and the fast and the furious things. like adam schiff said, donald trump is saying just let me cheat one more time. i spent eight years in the marine corps. did not realize after 59 years republicans actually want a dictator. for eighty uniform years to support people who actually want to be ruled by a dictator. they told me if i didn't like trump i should leave the country. , if you want to

live under a dictatorship, you can go to china, you could go to russia, you can go to north korea. everybody is saying just let trump cheat. when folks say this country is l i will tell all republicans, just look in the mirror. you will see why. you actually want to give a man absolute power. atlanta, one of the pieces on the recording today with the headline and photograph, chief justice .oberts intervenes probably more of an unwelcome moment then the chief justice wanted or expected. >> he's the presiding officer. by and large the focus of

everything that is going on that you have seen over the last two days. yesterday, he became the focus several times. you may see that play out today in the debate on witnesses and documents. the new york post highlighting a story from the hill about this democrat from maryland making an effort to expand or push the chief justice into some other roles. saying he plans to make an effort today that would allow john roberts the issues to subpoena documents from either side of he thought they had probative evidence towards the articles of impeachment. it would allow him to override any claims of executive privilege from the president and his legal counsel. "new york post" story adding that under impeachment rule the majority could overrule john roberts decision on either matter. it was elizabeth warren also putting the chief justice on the spot with a question directed to

lawyers about john roberts. you may have sought this play out yesterday. itstion presented highlights was at a time when a large majority of americans -- the wherejustice is presiding they have refused witnesses or subpoenas question the legitimacy. imparthiff responding part according to the hill story that addressing the question i would not say that it contributes to a loss of confidence in the chief justice, i think the chief justice has presided admirably. one more story to which you mentioned. rand paul becoming part of the conversation when it becomes to the chief justice yesterday. your member the question he submitted. it was picked up by roll call. aying the senator submitted question to chief justice john roberts thursday afternoon that included the possible name of

the intelligence community whistleblower. the chief justice passed on the reading of the whistleblower. senator paul read the question in front of the tv camera. you saw all of that play out yesterday. we invite you to do so at c-span.org. some comments on text. lamar alexander has it wrong, very wrong. the founders intended dissented senate to acquit or convict. had they wanted the decision to be determined by popular vote, they would so have specified. alexander is rewriting the constitution. we found out most people feel trump is guilty of these articles of impeachment. the reaction is so what? our democracy is doomed. facts are, we still don't know the facts, another successful gop cover-up. morning.ood

i have been watching the .mpeachment trial every day i don't understand how the democrats are pulling president trump apart. president trump is doing a lot of good things for america. i hope he continues to do it. i have always been a democrat and changed. something has to give. this has dragged on day after day. hopefully it will end today or tomorrow. i am voting for president trump. he is making america great. thank you america for listening. host: susan is next on the democrats line. caller, --e the last she is a republican,

i am a democrat. i have never been so shamed of my own party. i lived for 25 years in the san francisco. city witheautiful good intentions and everything. socialist influence has been there it has just begun -- gone downhill. protesters protest from and beat up people, push , they can't eat in restaurants. that is not the way it is supposed to be. way that we of the

as democrats are acting. there is not a candidate on the ticket that i am confident in voting for. it is a sad situation. host: nancy pelosi was asked about the trial in the possibility of president being acquitted. here is that interaction. do you think president trump will understand that he has a congress watching him or will he be emboldened because the senate will have acquitted him? >> you cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial. you don't have a trial if you don't have witnesses and documentation. would hope the senators if it comes to a tie or if there is a

question of hearing testimony or receiving documents would leave it up to the chief justice of the supreme court. , republicanppointed majority court i would think they would have confidence in the chief justice of the united states. that is interesting to me. they are afraid of breaking the tie with the chief justice of the united states. does the president know right from young -- wrong? i don't think so. host: a tweet this morning saying that alexander's opposition to witnesses means the cause is probably dead. even if romney, collins, and murkowski although yes. it is a 50-50 type. don't expect john roberts to break the tie. caller: good morning, c-span. i'm so glad to get through. i think we have

enough information to go ahead and stop this. for theant to say democrats to take away my chance to vote is very disturbing to me. what't think that is right they're doing to to we the people. think they have done the work. the u.s. senate has its own body . i think they just need to get this done and get it over with. it will be interesting to see when president trump on february 3 address of the nation. to watch these democrats. how they sit with arms folded across their chest.

watch nancy pelosi to see if she stands or claps her hands. that will be interesting to watch. host: it will be a busy couple of days. as our caller mentioned, the state of the union speech is coming up tuesday night. caucusesthat, the iowa monday night. we will have live coverage at 9:30 eastern. shelton in shreveport, louisiana. is anyone in office, holding political office above the law? the answer should be no. elected if heas hemits a crime of any kind

should face the consequences. we don't need any kind of foreign intervention in our elections. we should be trying to seek the truth. settled by this calling bolton and some of the other people to settle this question is ridiculous. the argument that the tried to put forth wherer in the process they were saying they should end this and not call witnesses is ludicrous. as far as the country, there is a lot of things wrong.

up federal opening fracking and oil drilling. trying to deal with the problem of climate change. we have a huge amount of people , stilln't have homes struggling -- women still struggling and fighting for equality. there is a lot of things wrong. what he did was so tremendously bad was the separation of the that were seeking asylum in this country. separating the kids from their parents. host: we will go next to california, linda. caller: hello. i'm too close to the phone.

i just wanted to say a few words. i would like your audience to answer me if you can't. when you remember kavanaugh was elected judge? trump goes upstairs and tells the senators if you don't vote for this guy to be in the supreme court, you are fired. the president would campaign against a senator? caller: right, yes. he said he would. caller: there was something else i was going to say. how about when he made a promise not to have words anymore.

with the bombing in the middle east, the other guy probably put out the bombs to kill those 12 people. why did bush start this war? started,ths after it it was over. comments on text, the republican party simply refuses to believe mounds of evidence on climate change. anti-science and their faith in trump can never be shaken by empirical evidence. applied senator lamar alexander's decision. trump has done nothing impeachable and it is time to end this fiasco. we all know how this spectacle

is going to end. the majority leader us from the beginning, his intent to end this as soon as possible. trump is going to violate the law, again. good morning to james. caller: good morning, folks. thanks for taking my call. i have been watching these impeachment hearings. you could hear you, right? caller: yes, we can. caller: that is great. i have been watching all of them. host: great. caller: i have come to the conclusion a long time ago, long before this. the reason why the socialist democrats are trying to get rid of trump is because he's exposing all of the corruption that has been going on. with the abuse and the forged documents during the mueller investigation.

they done swept hillary's emails under the rug. to the true -- american patriots listening, i would like to pass along some info. listen to the black conservative patriot and 22 report. has uncovered corruption by the stacks. shame that we are in the situation we are in. thank god for president trump. roy: we will hear from next. caller: hello, thanks for taking my call. thise been watching

myself, i am retired. i have seen a lot of hypocrisy. a lot of people have been main subject the , he give evidence. day i have not seen -- i've never seen him show up to testify for any of these. where is the person who will be attending? where is mr. trump?

lie?ey know he is bound to people are defending this man? it is beyond me. questioning by senators wrapped up yesterday. two full days. many more questions asked. pedro with more details on the questioning. >> if you like data you might like some of these points from yesterday. somee quote room providing statistics. they start out yesterday adding 87 questions were asked. were a on to say there total of 180 questions asked. the answer those over two days and 16 hours. if you go to the pbs news hour, they broke down the questions differently. tracking of a question was friendly or challenging when it comes to questions posed by democrats, 4% of those opening,

charting 9% of those being challenging. republicans, 67% of those questions-- 67 friendly, 11 are open and when it comes to challenging, that is at eight. the pbs newshour not only provides that graphic, they provide a spreadsheet. if you like a good spreadsheet of who was that -- who asked that go there for more information. there's a roundup of polling numbers when it comes to people being asked whether they want to see witnesses or not presented during the process. some of the round up saying when it comes to the quinnipiac polls , cnn 69 percent, associated press and the norc at 68%. washington post at 71%. when you average those up, 73% of americans polled say they want to see witnesses. host: washington is the kind of

town where people do love to see a good spreadsheet. thank you, lots of data there. thank for that. we will show you the president's rally last night from des moines. part of this is from the "washington times. give supporters preview. they write president trump and former vice president biden offered voters a potential preview of the general election. trading political jabs while sketching out dramatically different views on the state of the nation. the prospect of a showdown between mr. trump and mr. bryden -- biden has hung over the impeachment trial in capitol hill where white house attorneys and republican lawmakers are trying to focus the hearings on allegations of corruption leveled against mr. biden and his son, hunter. to theaction on twitter

race, this one from gary who says the immigration, border security, usmca, and other issues gets u-boats. your conscience, i believe voters should decide if trump is guilty in november. democrats want him off the ballot. under normal circumstances allowing the voters to decide trump spate might be ok. the problem is trump is already meddling with the 2020 election. steve says the election of 2020 will be the continuation of a pattern of 2018 and 2019. the senate will flip with a higher probability them before. trump will implode and nancy will hand the gavel off to a new democrat in the house. trump: we are having the best years that we have had in the history of our country. and i just got impeached. can you believe these things? they impeached trump.

the best trade deals, strongest military, took care of the vets. we have accountability for the vets. we have all of these things. they impeach the president. that will not work, watch. just watch. to overthrow the entire system of government, that is not happening. i could tell you that. washington democrats have spent the last three years trying to overturn the last election. not worried? i should be worried. nixon was a dark period. if you think about it. with clinton it was not good. they say that with johnson. i was a long time ago. none of us remember. this is a happy period for us. [applause]

it's a happy period. "usa"]chanting it is a happyp: period because we call this impeachment life. chiff. sschif he's a sick puppy. today, you saw it. i hit my highest poll numbers since i got elected. [applause] the american people and frankly people all over the world know it is a hoax. they understand. they know it is a hoax. party, thereat

republican party knows what is going on. they will treat us very fairly. the democrats are trying to overturn the last election. we will make sure they face another crushing defeat. 3, market off. host: back to our calls, democrats line next. hello, i would like to thank you for taking my call. i would like to say i believe the democratic party is going about this all wrong. the foregone conclusion from day going to getasn't impeached. they can even get votes to call witnesses. i got that was a common thing in any trial. they won the last election through the electoral college by 78,000 votes. trump has nothing in common with

the blue-collar worker. the coal miners in pennsylvania losing jobs because coal is going away and not coming back. .he factory workers in michigan the wages have gone up 2% so they are coming back with lower paying jobs. and crop farmers across the midwest are going bankrupt at an extraordinary rate. the gdp was only 2.2% last year. i believe they have to drill down on the facts and realize that donald trump has nothing in common with the blue-collar workers in this country. he has a lot more in common with the mar-a-lago crowd down there. what is your sense of wisconsin? the president won last time but

you now have a democratic governor. will the state go for a democratic president in 2020? caller: i think it is a tossup. wisconsin, i have a lot of republican friends and we debate this. it is 40-40, and the 20% in the middle will decide the election. trump goes to these rallies and lies on a daily basis in my opinion. you will have to put truth in there. instead of going around and ,round on all these falsehoods they should be going into western pennsylvania, michigan, ohio. speak to the people. on fifthshoot somebody avenue and people would still vote for him, unfortunately i believe it is true. host: we will go onto the republican line.

this is dave. caller: thank you for having my call. i think this has been going on for way too long. i have been watching from the start. has said from day one he has overwhelming evidence. i haven't seen one bit of evidence. this is the united states, innocent until proven guilty on a reasonable doubt. i haven't heard nothing. i think it is time to put this to an end. it is time we get on. no one is going to be trump. you look at the rallies and it is going on. reallye news is discriminating. you don't see any of the good things trump has done. it is time to get rid of this. thank you. the president secretary of state, mike pompeo on a major overseas trip. he has been to the u.k. and now

today en route crane -- ukraine. saying perhaps ironic thempeachment trials go on, secretary of state is in a meeting with president zelensky. the secretary himself sending out a tweet about the trip itself. iev today.d to be in kyi we are here to discuss ways we could advance our strategic partnership and reinforce ukraine's position as a free and democratic state. twitter feed to send out another bit of information not about the ukraine trip but about what is going on with the coronavirus. adding the state department increased the china travel advisory to level four, do not

travel. this is due to the spread of coronavirus throughout china. calling this a public emergency of international concern. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. for republicans. iowa,ked a bit about the is an article this morning. more than 17 million people will take off work after super bowl sunday. they write that don't be surprised if you come to work on monday and you do heavier lifting than usual. according to a report by thanorce institute, more 17 million workers may take time off on the day after super bowl.

we will be here at 7:00 a.m. eastern on monday as we are every day. another story about the super bowl and the advertising you are going to see some of the advertising. "new york times this morning with their headline, two billionaires. two very different super bowl ads. two billionaires will pitch their presidential candidacies amidst the beer and car commercials on sunday. michael bloomberg spending a full minute addressing gun violence. president trump using 30 seconds to highlight his first years in office. the bloomberg at which his campaign says hopes. people into their tracks features an emotional story told by a mother still grieving the loss of her son. he was killed by gunfire at the age of 20. she points to mr. bloomberg's record on seeking tougher gun laws as the reason she now has a dog in the fight for the presidency. trump's at, mr.

features general themes and imagery of the presidents rallies with a narrator posting about low unemployment in the military. the ad could be to -- mistaken as a campaign at. it doesn't distinguish expensive super bowl ads. they will air on sunday. in virginia. go ahead. caller: good morning. watching this fiasco since the beginning. we started with the mueller cohen came out, this guy is breaking the law. then to leak information, after

all these years. all of a sudden adam schiff found some whistleblowers somewhere. i don't think the whistle is blowing anymore. out and make this fiasco up. yesterday they were throttle. trial -- the senator from new york, would you please do me --avor and play the segment i think it was a year and a half or two years ago. he was being interviewed and wanted to chat and he gave a warning to donald trump. if i were you, i would not full with the cia or fbi.

if i were asking the question, what did you really mean with that warning? this country that is like attacking somebody. he could say what he wants because he is a congressman. to create this whirlwind of people going crazy that think donald trump is a creek. -- crook. this is business. some commentslay from senator schumer later in the program. we will go next to bonnie in minnesota. caller: good morning, c-span, thanks for taking my call.

that thinkshe 73% there should have been witnesses. impeachment, we know that will not happen. disgusted. i have decided this morning that i'm throwing all my support in for michael bloomberg. what convince you? caller: the same with trump. i can't get past that he wants to take away the lunches the children need from school. pretty soon he will have his fingers in medicare. top.thing from 1% to the middle class, they are not important. host: john is next on the democrats line.

you are on the air. democrat and i'm so disgraced of this democratic party that i don't even see how they could ever come back to having some kind of sensibility. they have gone completely off the wall. the young people have no idea whatsoever of what socialism truly is. china,ppened in ukraine, in the soviet union. they have no understanding whatsoever. whatey could understand half of their party is standing for, they may be able to change their mind. i don't see how they will understand it. all we get is lies. the whole thing is being covered by the fake news. i'm so shamed of my party.

i don't see how i could ever vote for it ever again. my family comes from a line of democrats. my grandmothers both being brought in by the police for union organizing. we were behind the unions. we were behind the democrats. these people have gone over the edge. i can't understand how it is not against the law, what they are doing. , also, another thing have on is these people stilted face what durham is coming up with. the corruption that was occurring, -- host: the justice department investigation you're talking about? caller: correct. matt an opinion here from from townhall. the headline is game over.

key gop senator will vote no on new trump impeachment witnesses. he writes that is the ballgame on new witnesses. lamar alexander said he would announce his decision on whether he would stay in the integrity of the senate by supporting a push for new witnesses in this hyper-partisan impeachment push against president trump that has been executed by congressional democrats. d.c. has been engulfed by the circus. alexander was a key vote on whether this true attempt would continue. he enough late thursday night that he would not entertain keeping the circus going any longer. the is illinois, larry on republican line. go ahead. caller: i would like you to play the tape of joe's opinion on witnesses in the senate in the clinton administration. he had a completely different opinion then these people are calling it now. i wish you would play that. host: thanks, larry.

we are going to go back to pedro next to take a look. >> you mentioned them, you give the gist of what the ads will look at. we will start with one for michael bloomberg. a little bit of audio issue with that. while we go head and address those, why don't i come right back to you? host: the story you touched on earlier about the coronavirus, the world health organization declaring it a public health epidemic now. "he "washington post's editorial cartoonist tying the two together with the character saying what are your preparations for a possible pandemic? the character of president trump saying i have the directed -- i

have directed the senate to give me immunity from everything. next up we go to stephen on the independent line. caller: good morning. americans first, not democrats or republicans. this is terrible. the president is trying to do good for his country. me $50,000 a give month for coming on c-span and i know nothing about it? you don't call it corruption? that is terrible what they are doing. some of these old people have been through world war ii and some of the problems our country has had are falling for this trick. this is awful and turning people against the democrats for good reason. they are wrong. all adam schiff does is live. they have the nerve to call the people lives. they tried to fix the american election and people can't see it. american people should be outraged at the mueller report that they tried to fix the american election. come on, people. wake up, save our country and

stop this baloney. we don't need the democrats try to take our country over with socialism. my father fought for freedom. marianne, lakewood new jersey, republican line. caller: hello, i am a little nervous. please give me the time to say what i have to say. host: absolutely. old, bornam 82 years in brooklyn, new york, and went to school in new york. i was a democrat for years until obama was running for president. i was going to vote for him until i learned about him. i want to the gentleman from georgia, i believe he was a service man who said that trump was a dictator, i want to remind all of the democrats that obama was affiliated with bill aires,

bomber.ground he bombed new york city twice and killed people. they were getting ready to bomb husband wasere my stationed, but the bombs went off while they were making them. he was affiliated and friends with them. i will not even go into his rev wind -- reverend white. what about another white hater, and everything else? atfar as benghazi, look how he lied about benghazi, him and hilary. how he left our americans to die, and that was ok? everything obama did they put under the rug, everything. and he even admitted as far as hillary went about the dossier. she paid a foreign country to get dirt on trump. host: we are under five hours

away from the resumption of the senate impeachment trial. today the arguments for and against allowing witnesses and additional documents. all of that getting underway at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. your calls and comments welcome. 202-748-8000, democrats. 202-748-8001, republicans. independents and all others, 202-748-8002. you can text us at 202-748-8003. let us check in with pedro. guest: one of the questions to consider once this process is resolved is how fast senators head back to iowa to continue campaigning in light of the caucuses that take place is coming monday, even as of the last few minutes there has been a withdraw from the race, john delaney. cnn reporting that he is withdrawing from the 2020 race " informed by internal analysis

indicating that the support is not sufficient to meet the 15% viability, but sufficient enough to hurt other moderate candidates, especially in rural areas." john delaney leaving the race when it comes to iowa. jennifer epstein reporting about joe biden, him talking on "good morning america," saying that the vice president did not lower expectations about how monday night will turn out. orframed iowa as a first "second place showing ", i think it will be close, it is now ken, bernie is up and i am up, it is a statistical tie." this playing out as we are watching what is happening in the senate remembering that the presidential race in iowa continues to go on. host: thoughts from viewers and listeners on twitter. -- untaxed. on democracyday

when a president can continue to corrupt his own party and believe it is ok. i hope they can sleep at night. there would have been no expense for the senate impeachment trial, documents and witnesses has supplied -- had been supplied by the gop. if trump had nothing to hide he would follow the rules." "the founders anticipated that the people would elect a president. that is overturning an election and preventing a reelection. they were foreseen by the founders and no defense has been used so many times by the counsel."s so -- back to our calls. curtis, from maryland. caller: good morning. yes, we keep hearing from the president, perfect phone call. to is he not allowing people

come and testify? does he think he is talking to babies? perfect phone call, then allow people to testify. he is a big liar. he is running around telling people to make america great again. america is great already. he is the first president that the european president ever made fun of. no one respects america anymore. these republicans, most of them are very lawless, they have no regard to the rule of law. let people come and testify. thank you. host: thank you. line, illinois. caller: thank you for taking my call, i do not know where to start. i will say this. i do believe that this -- there should have been witnesses and they should call bolton to testify.

saying that, i know that they probably will not in that andcrats who see the truth watch trump is doing to this country, it is sad. i agree with debbie that it is a sad day, and we need to do more once we figure out who is going to be the representative and run for president for the democrats. we need to get behind them, and we need to vote, and get out. we need to campaign for whoever it is and just vote. this man has to go. we have created a monster. host: yesterday before senator alexander's announcement, chuck schumer was asked about the chances of getting that fourth vote to call witnesses. [video clip] >> we have always said this is an uphill fight. the pressure that trump is a vindictive president, and the pressure mcconnell placed on

them is large. we were -- we are hopeful. our caucus is so united, because we believe we have truth and right on our side. after four weeks of talking about this, the american people are on our side. 75% including a significant majority of republicans are for witnesses and documents. that rare in a public poll you get the republican rank and file disagreeing with president trump. in this case, they do. we are continuing to make the argument, and the fight. and, we think that truth can prevail and we can get the four votes [end video clip] the u.s. senate gaveling back in at 4:00 p.m. eastern. the house was not in session. reporting on the debate and legislation passed. roll call -- rollcall.com, house votes to curb trump's power.

"the house passed on bipartisan votes two related measures designed to present -- prevent donald perez -- president donald trump to launch attacks on iran. it was a sign of growing willingness to exercise their war powers muscles after decades of disuse." here is jerry, on the in milton, line washington? caller: milton, washington. mitch, imed of moscow am ashamed of president bone spurs. i am getting borderline ashamed of the democrats for not standing up. we are not fighting a normal politician, we are fighting a guy that lives on a daily basis that has a bunch of sycophants that follow behind. bloomberg, michael

any left thinking billionaire needs to put $1 billion next week into voter registration in south carolina, michigan, wisconsin, arizona. tunzi graham, moscow mitch, president bone spurs need to go and stop playing nice. donald trump does not respect the office of the presidency. i am not referring to him as the president. he is not my president. i just do not understand why the democrats think they have to play by the same rules. he is not a normal politician. monday morning they should listen, john bolton, to all the guys -- tillison, all the guys who have left, ring choose, and make trump executive privilege. he always threatens it.

he has never used executive privilege. he threatens it. make him use his executive privilege. host: we will go to linda, illinois. the republican line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. an observation yesterday during the impeachment trial, and people are talking about this justice roberts. i noticed adam schiff, every time he would talk about something, he was watering judge roberts -- buttering judge roberts up, if we have to go to a vote we have the finest judge sitting right here to make the decision. how is that going to be fair if they know that the only recourse president trump is going to have on using executive powers is to start the process through the

courts, which may go as high as the supreme court? on which judge roberts is going to be the chief justice. what recourse is president trump going to have? they want to take away his executive powers and take away his constitutional judicial powers to go to the court. the democrats are a vindictive party, they want complete control of everything, and the american people had better wake up and start smelling the roses. they are pushing their socialistic agenda, and if they get in and get what they want, i can guarantee you that the american people are not going to like it. host: let me ask you a question. you talked about adam schiff and suggested that he was trying to butter up the chief justice.

knowing what we know about justice -- chief justice roberts, that he could be bought up by anybody, any senator democratic or republican? caller: the only one i ever heard who kept turning around and saying we had the finest judge. you, iuite honest with do not know if judge roberts can be fair in this or not, because he knows that if president from has to try and you -- trump to use his executive power, this will go to the supreme court. host: chief justice roberts has been working with the court and hearing cases in the morning and coming over for the afternoon sessions. 1:00 eastern today. let us hear from pedro. guest: you can watch a lot of things aside from today's event. on monday, it is the iowa

caucuses. on tuesday, it is the state of the union. the senate last night sending out this tweet, adding that the senate unanimously passed a resolution allowing for the use of the chamber for president trump to deliver his state of the union address. that will be on february 4 at 9:00, saying that before adjourning, the house passed a resolution by voice earlier this week. when it comes to the state of the union itself, if the president is acquitted today and tomorrow, would that come up in the state of the union? , the ideato politico is that it will not. , thean find the story trump team plans a non-impeachment state of the union. "despite facing a captive audience including democrats who have spent the last few months trying to remove the democrats, the president has resolved not to mention impeachment.

i do not see it happening said a senior white house official. there is always an expectation that he will make the -- an off-the-cuff remark that takes away from the moment, but those predictions are wrong and they will be this year too."' you can find more about that story. the promisesok at and claims that the president made in the 2019 state of the union speech and how he has met them. a report card, if you will. some of the categories saying that when it came to last year's speech, part of it included passing the usmca trade agreement, launching a program for women in developing countries, the accomplish list including eliminate hiv within 10 years and to meet with kim jong-un. when it comes to the topics addressed in a state of the union in 20 progress, they include nominees confirmed by the senate, was doing the

funding for a border wall and requiring funding for health care costs. you can compare with the president said last year to what has been accomplished. that is available on npr. host: the state of the union at 8:00 here on c-span and c-span.org. among the many new sources that we try to keep an ion, the political -- an eye on the politico playbook. ran into aed this, " veteran democratic operator who predicted that this will not be the last time democrats impeach this president." lawrence, and washington, d.c. caller: good morning, america. when donaldpan trump first came down that

escalator and said he was ruining the republican party i am right. my next point is that america needs to wake up and to check history. history, andime in history is doomed to repeat itself. ask the germans about hilter and how he can -- hitler and how he came to power. the man's father was a nazi. he does everything -- host: you are saying the president's father was a nazi? there is no evidence of that. we will go to frank, and fort lot -- in fort lauderdale, florida. republican line. caller: i want to say that i used to be a democrat, what i want to say is that in regard to the hearing, which i have been

watching, i have not heard any of the defenders, or the opponents mention about the treaty that the united states has with ukraine to exchange information on corruption. asked thent trump president of the ukraine to get information on that oil company for,hunter biden worked then that would be in line with the treaty, and he would be doing his job. so, that is the main point. i wonder why the death vendors have not mentioned this about the treaty to exchange information. host: john. in california, republican line. caller: can you hear me? host: yes. caller: i guess people do not understand that it is the house's job to call of their

witnesses during the house hearing, and they did not. they did have 17 or eight teen witnesses, they did -- or 18 witnesses, they did not allow the republicans none. now they are crying wolf, wanting bolton, and jim jordan laid the facts out. if they would go on and read those facts and the transcript. i want to address the caller in wyoming that said we only had a 2.1 gdp, the problem is that under obama we had zero rates, the fed never raised the rate. under trump we have had four rate hikes alone in 2018, and trump has been complaining about that. black americais,

votes democrat. obama and 91%, or 92. i feel like it will be 70% now, everyone i talked to that votes democrats -- vote democrat are switching. you: african-americans that know, or democrats in general? caller: african-americans. we are going to see the biggest sincewe have ever seen civil rights in 1968. it is going to be huge. host: do you think it is because they cannot really settle on a candidate on the democratic side, or they support what donald trump has done? caller: they love what he is doing. market one trump was

elected was 17,000, we are going to hit 30,000, i know we are. they have money in the stock market, their 401(k), they love the fact that he passed prison reform, he has all-black ministers on his side, i do not call them african-americans because they are not all from africa, they are black. he has done so many things, jerusalem, bringing the embassy there. everything this guy is doing, he promised it. host: here is one opinion piece and this lead auditory -- editorial in "the wall street -- and rights that "whatever mr. bolton has to say will not change the outcome. report" does times

not include impeachable offenses. his accounts of mr. trump's behavior may be critical but that is something for voters to render a verdict on. the country will be best served if the senate ends the trial promptly and with a vote to acquit. the verdict would repudiate the house impeachment that has violated constitutional norms and distorted the separation of powers. the opinion of the wall street journal." line.a, the independent caller: my name is deborah. first of all, i would like to say that everybody cap wants to talking about hunter biden and this. this is what prompted. they need to invested -- open an investigation on those people and to after them. but it still has nothing to do with watch trump has done, and

it is continuing at this time. as far as the senate not wanting people to hear the evidence, that is a dereliction of their duty. they are supposed to hold a trial when impeachment is brought before them, and see evidence. trump has blocked them from getting evidence and talking people -- talking to people associated with him. he has refused to let them have documents or let congress talk to the people. it is the senate's responsibility to hear this evidence no matter how long it takes. host: i appreciate that. we started talking about the news last night on senator alexander. senatorline with "key commits to sinking witness vote," and a picture of lamar alexander. what else are we learning? guest: there are a lot of things happening at once. here is the language you will hear considered should you watch

starting at 1:00 this afternoon. sending's chat program out a tweet saying here is what the senate will vote on, "shall it be in order to consider and abate under the impeachment rules and emotion to subpoena witnesses or documents." we are watching as we heard the comments from lamar alexander and susan collins. lisa murkowski, we are watching her twitter feed to see if she has updated where she will be with witnesses and documents. we heard a caller talk about her support of michael bloomberg and switching over to electoral politics. this is when it comes to iowa and the caucuses coming up that michael bloomberg is skipped again -- skipping those caucuses eating that is has not -- but that does not mean that he is not hell-bent on winning. one of the reasons is the money

that the former mayors putting in, he is putting in his own money. the reference to that super bowl ad that people will see watching this coming sunday. here it is. [video clip] >> he started playing football when he was four years old. he would wake up every saturday ready for the game. , he hadame our life aspirations about going to the nfl. on a day morning, george was shot. saying, you cannot tell me that the child i gave birth to is no longer here. lost, every day, it is a national crisis. i heard mike bloomberg speak. he has been in this fight so long, he heard mothers crying, and he started flying. when i heard mike was stepping into the ring, i thought now we have a dog in the fight. he is not afraid of the gun

lobby. live, no oneght to has the rights to take your hopes and dreams. >> i am mike bloomberg and i approve that message. [end video clip] guest: you will also see an ad from the reelection efforts of president trump, one that will be presented to folks viewing the game. here's the president's ad. [video clip] >> america demanded change. and change is what we got. trump america is stronger, safer, and more prop -- prosperous. >> unemployment rate sinking to a 49 year low. --african-americans dropping unemployment dropping to a new low. >> the best is yet to come. >> i am donald j. trump and i approve this message. [end video clip] host: one of the things we have

to track down is the congressional bet between the super bowl teams. speaker pelosi may have mentioned something about it. there must be the news about what is at stake for the members in that. we will go back to calls in a moment. first steve, in tennessee who sends us this. "let us make america great again by having a president that is not above the law, a legislative and judicial branch that can have a check on the administration, elections without a president asking for help, and a president who has morals and does -- does not lie every single day." james is in raleigh, north carolina. independent line, go ahead. caller: i am kind of sitting back and observing, and i have kept up on the impeachment trial. the first thing i can say is that these democrats need to turn their attention to mitch mcconnell and put most of their

resources and getting mitch mcconnell defeated. i think once he is defeated, donald trump will be neutralized. they are working in tandem to pass their agenda. donald trump is doing precisely what his constituency put him in there to do. and oldl about race, white men keeping power, this is what this is about. he is putting in a bunch of unqualified federal judge its -- judges and loading up the federal bench so your civil rights and the equal pay act, none of those things make any difference if you do not have judges that will enforce them. they do not want john roberts to make that tie-breaking vote because he is a judge. at the end of the day he knows you cannot have a trial without documents and witnesses. he sits on the supreme court

every day and hears all arguments and all of them are based upon the record of appeal. this contains all of the documents. you cannot have a real trial without them. this has been a sham. as an independent, i think all black folks have to stay home until the democrats can come up people,grams for black not people of color. black people built this country, a jump on everyone else because we had 300 years of free labor. hitler wanted free labor and recognize the importance of having that labor background that you did not have to pay. the only problem was they had the jewish problem just like they have the black problem and they could not figure out what to do with the slaves. host: back to your point you

started talking about defeating mitch mcconnell. there is a story talking about his opponent in the senatorial race in kentucky. mcconnell challenger endorsing biden. said that she is endorsing former vice president joe biden's presidential bid." larry in falls church, virginia. on the republican line. caller: good morning, i just want to compliment you guys. i think you do a better job of presenting the spectrum of opinions and anyone else. i appreciate it. i am a republican, it does not mean that i am happy with everything president trump is doing, but there are three reasons why this country does not support the impeachment. the first is that it has been apparent that before the inaugurations that the democrats wanted to impeach donald trump, first the russia collusion and

if this fails they will look for another way. the second thing is that where was the outrage and coverage during the obama administration for war fast and furious -- for fast and furious, or they get -- benghazi, or the irs targeting conservative groups. warrant to spy on the trump campaign. finally, to the top of the hypocrisy, is that the lead candidate for the democratic presidential nomination, joe biden, is on record doing exactly what trump is being impeached for. he is on videotape saying he will withhold front -- funds from ukraine unless they fire a prosecutor looking into his son's oil company. that makes no sense to me how they can be putting this guy up front when he is on record doing what they are impeaching this president for.

that is all. host: thank you. more of your calls and comments ahead. you are on "washington journal" and we are joined by senator jack reed joining us ahead of what could be the final day of the impeachment trial. what do you think is ahead in the senate? guest: i hope that we could successfully get witnesses. ifs is a very basic issue you are contemplating a serious decision. you have to ask yourself, what is the red -- the readily available information, and it is obvious. if we could listen to ambassador bolton, he has firsthand knowledge of the charges and allegations. we should do that, it does not appear that it will be success -- we will be successful in getting that testimony, but we should do that, and i am holding out amended hope that we would find republican senators that

believe that we should have all of the facts on the table. more importantly, people should hear directly from ambassador bolton. i hope that is the case. upt: if the articles come and the vote fails for witnesses and the senate moves to a final vote, and those fail, what is next for the senate in terms of any of the issues that the house has brought to it, the articles of impeachment. is there any further action? torrent -- in terms of impeachment, not -- there is not. that is the sole prerogative of the house. in terms of the issues that could come up and our responsibilities for oversight of the executive, that is a constitutional authority. we have to do that. one of the fears is that the president will be emboldened and

say that i stonewalled this thing completely, never let a witness go by and never responded, never gave a document. guess what, he could say i did not want to cooperate with the senate, particularly if they are looking at something that might infringe on what i did politically rather than a policy matter. i think there will be thoughts about what our legitimate responsibilities are, and it turns on our -- obligations to the public and the constitution. your conversation with senators on the opposite side. we heard from senator collins who would vote for allowing witnesses and then senator alexander saying that he will not vote for witnesses, where do you think the line is in terms of what republican senators are grappling with over witnesses, those that have been on the fence? guest: those on the fence weognize the suggestion that

have our constitutional obligation to forget parties. i know it is difficult to do that. if the shoe was on the other foot, that is a good rule expounded by the president's counsel. looking at the facts, if this applied to a democrat and the accusation was that a democratic president used u.s. resources to personal, political favor, i think we would want all of the information to confirm or deny that. the second, it raises the issue of an impeachable offense. i think my colleagues have been debating the same issue going back and forth. and, it is a difficult issue. but i think the weights is that -- i think that we should get all of the information on the table. it is for the american people, all of the people that call into

the show. they are not reacting to arguments that are one-sided by sel or houset's coun managers, they are looking at the real information and making a judgment for themselves. host: when it comes to the final vote on the two articles of impeachment, do you anticipate any of your democratic colleagues voting for acquittal? guest: there might be. votes,u consider these partyis a sense of identification, but it diminishes. this is one of those moments where you take an oath to be apartial, it is constitutional issue that we have, not a routine matter of legislative oversight or something else. so, you have to respect the fact

that all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle might make decisions that you would not agree with. what you hope that they do is that they do it carefully, and based on the facts and a reasonable interpretation of the law, and that they are able to explain not just of themselves, but to the american people precisely made -- why they made that decision. some colleagues ask what is the biggest decisive factor at the end of the day, it is being able to thoughtfully and sincerely can -- explain to your constituents what you did. if you can do that, then the people will accept what you do. host: early in the trial the chief justice mentioned the senate being the world's greatest deliberative body. i know it is early and things are wrapping up, but what do you think the first draft of history will say about how the senate reported itself during this impeachment trial? guest: i think the first draft

will make the obvious point that this is not a trial, every impeachment we have had, 15 of them in the history of the united states senate, several involving presidents, all had witnesses and not just house witnesses but many were called for the first time by the senate. that is the essence of the trial. they will say we have rushed and there was not sufficient time to evaluate and talk to all of the witnesses, so the first draft rushede that this was a procedure that did not do what historically the senate had take itsp back and responsibilities seriously and got all of the facts on the table and made a judgment. host: do you think the chief justice could be in a position to break a tie today? 50-50 vote,ere is a there is a trial in the -- there

is a precedent in the trial of or maybe calling a witness will be a procedural vote. i doubt very seriously that the chief justice would do that, but i think he could do -- historically, he could do that. host: thank you for joining us this morning. your calls and comments, act to them. 202-748-8000, democrats. 202-748-8001, republicans. others,ents and 202-748-8002. hamilton, virginia, on the independent line. caller: good morning, yesterday i listened to part of what a professor said, and i was greatly disturbed by it, in that where he pointed out that if the president does in claims he is

doing what is good for the american people, therefore he can do anything he wants. nixon reasoning, richard did not break the law because he was doing what he thought was good for the american people, and that damages our republic. it damages our electoral process, it damages everything. and i am just supremely disappointed that he has that point of view, knowing full well our it will do to governmental system. acquitted,t trump is and i voted for him, i do not know if i will vote for him again. if he is acquitted, he will do whatever he wants and claimant is the public good because i am the better candidate than whoever his opponent turns out to be. he will claim he can do whatever

he wants, and he has already said that. i think this has turned into a disaster. host: it is interesting. you voted for president trump and 2016, what was the turning point that you said you may not vote for him in 2020. is it this whole process with the impeachment and the issues related to that? caller: i think that was the straw that broke the camel's back. his demeanor of calling people names, he acts like an eighth grader, and i hate to use the word, but he is a buffoon when it comes to being an adult. i am not a super highly educated person, but i have read the constitution. i dealt -- doubt president trump has ever held one in his hand, let alone try to understand it. it just amazes me at some of the things he does, and how

unprofessional, like i said, he is an eighth grader, and yet he has his finger on the button, and you know what that button is. thing just scares me. the economy is doing well and unemployment is down. he has done some good things, i will give him that. he has done some bad things. my wife hates his environmental policies, and i am not a tree hugger, what i am not a big fan of him opening up -- opening up the chesapeake bay because it does not touch an ocean, and it is no longer going to be considered a waterway. a lot of things he has done have been good, and a lot have been bad. host: we will go to don, south carolina, democrats line. caller: good morning. i would just like to say that mitch mcconnell and the gop have

, by preventing relevant documents and important witnesses from appearing in this trial, have really made this totally illegitimate. to chuck schumer and by personal hero, nancy pelosi, is that they should request of their members of their caucus to boycott tuesday's state of the union. and i believe that looking at a half empty chamber, let the country see that, and let the world see that. it would really demonstrate the illegitimacy of our current government, and especially the united states' senate. if trump's state of the union is

boycotted, and that is my personal suggestion. i hope nancy pelosi takes it up. host: state of the union is next tuesday night at 9:00 eastern. our coverages is at 8:00 eastern. about thengton post" iowa caucuses happening monday. and game overshadowed with -- ebdga -- endgame overshadowed theh drama with trump, and " presidential candidates found themselves thursday reacting to his massive shadow rather than setting their own course. it reflected a deeper truth four days before the iowa caucuses. after four years of anger, democrats have yet to settle on the best path for defeating the president. most of them consider him the most damaging in memory. to make matters worse, they face the prospect that the senate vote on removing trump could unfold at the same time as the

iowa caucus-goers begin assembling at their local precincts. trumbull takes center stage tuesday as he delivers the state of the union address to a joint session of congress. while democrats absorb the caucus resorts -- results and head to new hampshire." north carolina, earl, democrat'' line. caller: i have been watching the impeachment trial since the beginning, and i am upset that our senators will not have a fair trial. if you look at our president from his campaign, if you would go back and -- remember what he said coming off of that bus, that should have been offensive to everyone. do you recall, i think his name was comey, that said he has a way of telling people to do exactly what he wants to do without saying the exact words that he wants them to do? to me, he has brought into his

office those senators that are up for election and, this is just my belief. he told them something that turned them completely around to go with whatever he said to do. remember, he is a salesman. when a salesman walks into your house to sell you a vacuum cleaner, you may found -- find out it does not pick up the dirt, you cannot give this back. as far as our constitution, the senates knows very well that there should be witnesses on that senate trial, no matter what, there should be witnesses, that is constitutional. what this man has done, imagine obama and everybody wants to say obama.

imagine obama standing up beside ourn and disregarding national intelligence agencies. they would have impeached him in a week, and we know that. host: we will go to michigan with carol, on the republican line. caller: hello, thank goodness for c-span. i do not know what this country would do without you. host: thank you. caller: i have watched 95% of and intire stage play, have a conclusion that the democrats are obsessed and possessed by donald trump. may be rudeident and crude, but he is -- but he loves america, and he loves the american people. he is doing all that he can in theseof 3.5 years of

jackals on his back. i give him such credit. to all of these democrats girly nameslling in, he calls or he said this mean thing. would you grow up? for goodness sake. trueor not being a politician, that is what i love about him. what you see is what you get, and he is excellent. thank you. host: thank you. let us check in with pedro on what else is going on. guest: here's some reaction from today's vote including jeff merkley, and in reaction to the announcement from yesterday, he is sending out a tweet saying " lamar's decision is an offense against the senate, rule of law,

and against the american people." some of the states where the president enjoys support have democratic senators who will have to make a decision. arizona being one of those states. being in theinema focus. it wouldmnist adding " not surprise me if she votes for acquittal, she may be the first democrat arizona has sent to the senate, but she is not exactly a democrat's democrat. she broke with her party to confirm william barr and was one of three to vote against the green new deal. she has voted for the many of the president's judicial nominations and signed on a bill increase immigrations screening. she has little to lose by siding

with republicans." if you go to the alabama news an interview with senator doug jones on the topic of impeachment. here's what he had to say, "as i said, i am waiting until the end of the trial to make up my mind, this is willie what you expect from any other trial. -- this is what you expect from any other trial. i really believe i have a responsibility to the people of alabama in the president to hear all of the evidence before i make a final determination. what we are missing is that people talked readily to the president, people were in the room, and there has been evidence of people who have had conversations with the president." host: more of your calls and comments coming up on washington journal. on capitol hill, zach cohen covers the capital for "national

journal." give us an idea what things will look like when the senate comes in for what could be its final day. 1:00, the trial will reconvene for the day, and it is expected to be busy. there will be four hours of arguments leading up to a pivotal witness vote. thatare telling democrats that -- they are telling people that democrats are pushing for subpoenas -- subpoena documents and witnesses. anything that talks about the --sident holding we expect to see arguments, a witness vote sometime this afternoon or late this afternoon after about four hours of arguments. after that, a number of motions will be made, including a move to final judgment on the final two articles. host: the announcement lace --

late last night by senator alexander that he would not vote for witnesses, how much of a surprise was that? guest: i think the senator had been signaling that he was ready to vote with the rest of the republicans to move the trial onto the next -- next stage, but not the against witnesses, but against articles of impeachment. sohas a moderate republican, senators had been watching him to see if he was going to break with the party on this pivotal question, he had done so in the past on he separation of powers questions. at the end of the day he decided he had heard enough evidence and had been studying up on the history of not this -- not just this trial, but past impeachments and decided he is ready to move on. that surprised them across, although susan collins confirmed that she would vote with my credits for witnesses. my credits need at least four to

move for a vote. theseyou talked about potential motions. ,fter the vote on witnesses potential democratic motions, what would that look like, would that be a member rising to make the motion to the chief justice? guest: after the witness vote fails, we expect senate leader mcconnell would have the right of first refusal to offer a motion and who would be able to rise and say i am ready to move on to the articles and present a motion. however that motion is subject to amendment. viewers might remember that last tuesday democrats forced about a dozen amendments to the organizing resolution. we could see that happen again today, although senators like preneed -- who is a she was a pretty senior appropriate or does not expect that to happen. just a few votes or another session on saturday. host: when they finally get to

that final vote on the two articles of impeachment on approving them or acquitting the president, which democrat should be look forward to that could potentially could vote for acquittal? guest: top of the list is senator joe mansion, he was -- manchin, from west virginia. it is the most pro-trump state. have senator kyrsten sinema, who pedro brought up a few minutes ago. she will be on the ballot in another 2.5 years, a new senator who is trying to cut a moderate cloth. then you have doug jones, who i am watching. he is a democrat for reelection in alabama, and all of them have kept cards close to their vest. we could see a bipartisan acquittal rather than republicans going to the other

side of vote for democrats. the: zach cohen covers senate for "national journal." thank you for the up date. text, to send in your thoughts on this friday morning, 202-748-8003. this one says "trump obviously committed bribery -- bribery so the house should have named it. they should have hired the national constitution center. council toe national should center to counteract what dershowitz had to say." mcconnelland mitch will assure the acquittal of president trump." "any blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the house. if you are going to impeach a president you do it right, you do not corners and bring a weak case and then blame the senate." we will go to new york and hear

from tom -- i'm sorry about that. thomas, from new york. we will try that. caller: i was wondering if joe biden and 2020 became president be impeacheduld he for previous crimes he might have committed by holding the money back until they got rid of the attorney general? i always thought the president of that country had the choice of picking someday. democratsland, on the line. caller: good morning, i am calling for two reasons. democrats for the going through with the impeachment, he is an illegitimate president elected by russia, i think it is dangerous you have a president that allows foreign countries to interfere in politics.

responsely calling in to the gentleman who called stating that he believes that 70% of african-americans will vote for trump. as a black person, i find it funny that he is speaking on behalf of us. all of my family and friends are black, i go to a black church. the trump policies and we understand the bigger picture. we know that he is appointing judges that are conservative and are going to go after voting rights. we understand the racial tone of the country, and that make america great is to go back to a system where there is a monopoly and free labor. we understand that are historically black colleges and universities are in trouble. so, for me as a person who is actually a black person, that

has a community of black people, we do not support trump, and i do not the false rhetoric out there. it is totally false. host: thank you. michelle, georgia, republican line. caller: first, i want to thank you so much for impartial news, just down the middle so we can actually make opinions. i am a black woman and i am now republican. i would never vote democrat again. caller, myat past entire family and church is voting for trump. but, here is the thing, the main thing with this whole impeachment trial is more of a waste of american money. the whole thing is a fiasco. i think of it as how can you expect to give witnesses on one

side and not hear all of the sides. if there are going to be witnesses, i want to know what happened between biden and his son, because he was the vice president. stuff, i of the other wish they had not wasted so much time. boththe republican -- even sides have wasted a lot of time when they could have been dealing with other issues. we have homeless people sleeping on the streets in california. they are people dying in america and we are worried about a little bitty issue. i do not think what he did on that phone call was anything that was so necessary to be impeached. if someone could get them off twitter, but i do not think it is that serious. i think we have other greater issues, and yes the country is becoming divided and it is the saddest thing. host: about an hour left in the

program. your calls and comments, 202-748-8000, democrats. 202-748-8001, republicans. independents and others, 202-748-8002. we welcome your texts as well question --, 202-748-8003. the senate resuming the trial at 1:00 eastern on c-span2. one of the members of the president's defense team is a former attorney general for florida and a special advisor to the president. she addressed the issue of the question regarding hunter biden and the burisma board. [video clip] >> it is very interesting that he said he never spoke to his son about overseas dealings and his son said different things. joe biden was the point man for ukraine investigating. ukrainians where a corrupt company, and the owner wasn't all ofh, from through

media accounts was extremely corrupt. hunter biden was paid $183,000 a month to sit on the board with no ukraine. does not speak a language. we know he had a very skimpy job description. he did not of those things. he said at one or two board meetings, one in monaco. then he went on a fishing trip with joe biden's family in norway. the entire time joe biden knows this oligarch is corrupt. there are news reports everywhere. no one will dispute that. it raised eyebrows worldwide. the vice president by his account never once asked his son to leave the board. we would not be sitting here if he did. he never asked his son to leave the board. instead he started investigating the prosecutor it was going arisma and this

corrupt oligarch, who was corrupt by all the guard standards. who fled the country, living in monaco. he does not ask him to leave the board. he does the opposite. in 2015, what does he do? close contact with president for cinco -- resident porch echo. he links the a to the firing. in 2016 at a white house meeting. times in eight days leading up to the prosecutor. the prosecutor investigating hunter biden, he never says that. all cases closed. days before biden leaves office, he said he may have to call him every couple of weeks to check in. hunter biden stays on that board for three years. are on twitter, we

@c-spanwj. now it is time for the show by the house to close and move on. text from ray. it is sad the democrats did at republicans threat the question of the house, then they want everything they deny the republicans. from ray ono calls the democrats line. caller: i was just listening to bondi presented on the floor of the senate yesterday. it is very disturbing that so many people are buying into this, we need to know what joe biden did. it's a distraction. joe biden and his family are not on trial. trump is on trial.

the question is do we want to keep a president in office who contraryso many things to the constitution? ton inviting a foreign power help them get reelected. is this the kind of person we want to keep in the white house? plus the fact if he is acquitted, basically he's being told, ok, do what you need to do. ask any country. ask turkey to interfere. you and erdogan are good friends. to me, we need to stick to what is the issue at hand. you know? that is pretty much all i have to say. mitch mcconnell definitely is not holding a valid type of trial. he is the person who would not

even interviewed merrick garland. thank you. host: thanks. to sulfur, louisiana. cindy is next. caller: good morning. i would like to tell your viewers that are talking against trump, if they ever thought of anything crazy enough to where they have been lied to but the truth will come out. they will not be able to handle the truth. obama is going down. hillary is going down. they are all a bunch of pedophiles. host: to maryland, charles, independent line. caller: good morning c-span. thank you for all you do. as an independent i was able to look at this trial, the impeachment trial on a balanced scale.

hearing iseing and the president can do anything he wants to do. he is above the law. that is not the law of the land. i don't believe, and i may be wrong, i don't believe the president understands the constitution. because he is trampling all over. this is something we have seen before. when you talk about a president, once he is elected he is supposed to be the leader of the free world. he is also supposed to be the leader of the country for all people. continually divides us talking about the democrats this and the republicans that. he wants them to be loyal to him, the republicans, but if they go against him, he tries to take them out. it is crazy. if people can't see that honestly, i don't know where we are going. maryland,les in

thanks so much. pedro. >> we heard about lamar alexander all day as far as the statement he made when it comes to where he will vote on the witnesses and documents. from earlier we showed you this. in thinking leading up to his decision. he said this. "it was inappropriate for the president to ask you for leader to investigate a political opponent and to encourage the investigation. when elected officials interviewed for such investigations and undermines the principle of equal justice under the law. the constitution does not give the senate the power to remove the president for actions that are inappropriate. the question is now not whether the president did it, or whether the united states senate and the american people should decide what to do about what he did. i believe the constitution provides the people should make that decision in a presidential

election that begins in iowa on monday. susan collins putting out a statement saying, "i work to ensure the schedule for the trial included a guaranteed up or down vote on whether or not to call witnesses. i believe hearing from certain witnesses would give each side the opportunity to more fully and fairly make their case and resolve any ambiguities and provide any additional clarity. i will vote in support of the motion to allow witnesses and documents to be subpoenaed." nothing from lisa murkowski from alaska as of yet. the commune occasions person for mitt romney sent out a tweet reminding people he stands on the whole issue. this is lis johnson writing, "for those asking, senator romney said he wants to hear from invested or bolton -- ambassador bolton. he will vote to consider witnesses." we are seeing house members talking about what they are seeing play out. major garrett has a podcast for

cbs, with jim jordan who you hurt quite a bit during the impeachment process. quoting jim jordan assange, "if john bolton testified, next it will be someone else. we can't stop now. they just were to continue to do this." you can find more when you go to the podcast of major garrett. a reminder as far as procedures, our producer adding this. "day 11 with four hours of debate by house managers and el with otherounsi motions possible. senators could also deliberate and vote on articles. host: appreciate that, pedro. it has been a quite couple of weeks in terms of the u.s. and iran relations. a story in the wall street journal with the headline u.s. allows limited commerce with iran. trump administration announces completion of the first transactions under a new program to allow humanitarian trade

while leaving in place voter sections on the country's economy. the trade involves free shipments of drugs for cancer and transplant treatment set by an unidentified european firm. the wall street journal rates, switzerland in the absence of diplomatic ties helped arrange for the shipment of supplies. came after thes treasury department started a new program official said would address concerns that crippling u.s. sanctions against iran would cut imports of medical supplies and basic necessities. we hear from frank in lexington, north carolina. frank in north carolina, go ahead. caller: good morning, c-span and my fellow americans. i hold you all in the highest regards. of january, day 2020, my thoughts are this.

i have kept my u.s. constitution right beside me through all of this. the leaders of our impeachment, nancy pelosi and representative chiff are from california. leaders would be representative nadler and senator schumer, who are from new york. also a heavily democratic state. what are most populous states. this to me is why we have been electoral college. if we are not careful, the largest states with the heaviest populations and the most representatives in the house, their leadership and the leadership of this impeachment is from california and new york alone. they can dictate who our president is. i have grave concerns and this is why am thankful to be north

carolina. why we still have a voice in four or five big states -- and for a five big states can't overrun it with the population representatives. this is why we have electoral college. leadership from new york and california during this heavily democratic. i heard senator reid talking about the people. the first three words in the people."ion, "we the november 3, election day is only nine months away. i don't want my senators from all over the nation. let we the people, all of us have a voice in this. it is not just about race for a lot of us. it's about keeping jobs for americans. it's also about legal immigration. no one is above the law, including illegal aliens. host: we go to new york for anne on the democrat line from queens.

caller: i have been watching for quite some time and enjoy the show. i am a democrat. what i want to say -- i don't to take up too much time. this has been going on so long with people not seeming to understand what the real problem is here. it is a biblical -- i am 77. i am from the old school. this is something we can't seem to solve ourselves. this is something greater than us. greater than man. we cannot seem to get it straight. what i want to say to you today is just read isaiah, the ninth chapter. it says unto us a child is born. unto us a son is given. the government should be up on

its shoulders. his name shall be called wonderful counselor, the mighty father, andrlasting please listen to this, the prince of peace. host: appreciate you calling in. we played to the comments ondi with assertions about joe biden and hunter biden. a caller criticizing. val demings of florida with this response. [video] >> looking at the bidens, no matter have any ties recall their names, we have no evidence to point to the fact that either anything at all to tell us about the president shaking down a foreign power to help him cheat in the next election.

the precious election. he's trying to steal each individual in this country's vote. i don't believe either biden has information about that, but let me tell you i think does. maybe we should call ambassador bolton. if we are serious about the truth, maybe we should call him because we have a good idea about what he might say. what about mr. mulvaney? he had day-to-day contact with the principal in our investigation, the president of the united states. that is not good enough? what about the questioned about when did we know, or when did the president first with the hold on? we do have reports that say undo 19 of 2019, mr. blair personally instructed the director of omb to hold up security assistance from ukraine over a month before the infamous july 25 call.

host: the text line is (202) 748-8003. democrats are crying again. this was a farce. the democrats took a shot at trump and they city did i get a fair trial. they did not give him a fair trial in the house and wanted to send it to do their job. on a democrats line, elgin, texas. caller: good morning, bill. how are you today? i want to thank you for c-span. i want to thank you for taking my call. my comments speaks to what you were talking about. we have a senator in texas, senator ted cruz who was sitting it on the trial. a few days ago he went on the front page of the austin american statesman, the paper in the capital. wanted the bidens to testify.

there were comments from trump's attorneys about the bidens. ok. today is the day. the republicans clearly have the votes to call the witnesses they want. if the republicans want the bidens to testify, just sit down and have a vote and call them to testify. quit telling we only want to hear about the bidens, we want them to testify. they have the votes. mitch mcconnell and ted cruz and all the other republican senators they have the vote. they can get the bidens to testify. all they have to do is call witnesses i don't really think that is going to happen. i just wanted to point that out. i want to point out one other thing. people talk about how divided we are and things like that. this has been going on for a long time. i think the country will survive. one of the people that is been defending the president was ken

starr. ken starr brendan investigation that investigated the clintons for five years. a zealot republican, going after the clintons for five years. after five years he got 12 indictments. now you have had another republican investigate trump for the mueller report. the only investigated him for about 20 months. 30 indictments. there are people sitting in prison because of what he found. i think people need to hear the truth. openly a president that wanted to see barack obama's birth certificate. he said he was proud he went through that. when obama said ok and showed his birth certificate, they said no. we need the long form.

he showed them the long form and still 30% of her publicans don't believe obama is actually a citizen. recap, thet to senators have the votes, the republicans if they want to hear from the bidens. quick reading around the bush. quit ranting and raving on the air. call them. take the vote and hear what they have to say. if you call them in, you will have to call everybody else. obviouslyt going on in the political world with impeachment. the iowa caucuses are on monday. the state of the union in the capital on tuesday. today, a very big day in britain. the business section of the new york times. it is finally happening and now things are going to get complicated. more details on brexit today,

pedro? pedro: getting a flavor of what is going on in europe. this is the thought when it comes to brexit, after 47 years at 11:00 tonight the u.k. will leave the eu. this is from boris johnson. this is not an end, but a beginning. a moment of national renewal and change. the dawn of a new era. members of parliament, the european parliament giving their thoughts. brexit is not done. we have an opportunity to shape our relationship with the eu. there are many battles ahead for pro europeans to fight. take your pick. mm from the bbc quoting the minister from scotland. "this is a pivotal moment for scotland and the u.k. it's a moment of real and profound sadness. for many in scotland anger. she is offering a message for the future."

this photograph you can find in the scottish sun. they have a statute of the duke of wellington with the latest makeover in the picture. cone with the design of the european union. that is some of the flavor there. the bbc taking a look at what will change after today. one think the highlight was the topic of trade, particularly amongst the countries involved. the u.k. will be able to start talking to countries around the world about setting new rules for buying and selling goods and services. it has not been allowed to hold formal trade negotiations with countries like the u.s. and australia while the remainder eu member. havingsupporters argue to set their own trade policy will boost the u.k. economy. host: in addition to brexit, another item we noticed today from the u.k. the story of the last surviving ace of world war ii's battle of britain.

in england they are known as the few. they defended their country from the nazi aerial assault. among the few whose ranks number to proximally 3000, paul farns was one of the last surviving. he was believed to be the only aviator with the distention of downing five or more enemy aircraft. he was 101 years old when he died january 28 in west sussex. the battle britain trust credited him with a "remarkable tally during the battle." it was the first significant german defeat during world war ii. in total he was said to have destroyed six enemy planes, probably destroyed another and damaged six more. described his exploits as just another day's work. back to your calls on the impeachment trial. mary in missouri, republican line.

welcome. caller: good morning. that theyt to say could have done so much better, the democrats, if they just got rid of schiff. he is the most crooked person out there. if they had taken him off the house's side, we probably would've had an easier time believing anything they have to say. it just seems like every time the president turns around one of the democrats is finding something he has done wrong. i also want to know how career politicians only get paid $300,000 or $400,000 a year have become millionaires off of being federal employees. it is ridiculous. they want to see trump's papers, i want to ceepo losey's, -- i and howsee pelosi's, did she become a millionaire in three years? the president has done nothing wrong.

he was looking into corruption, and the whole democratic side during the obama administration, every one of them needs to be investigated. there was so many times i wanted him to be impeached but nobody ever did anything. obama is the reason we have racial problems in the country. he started it all. the democrats keep building on it. morning., good caller: i would like to say i don't know why everybody is so about -- so upset about bolton not testifying. they had just about every member of the house at one time or another called him a liar. they have adam schiff on tv saying he is a liar. they have bolton recordings phone the president's call was normal. nothing wrong with it.

also, they have a recording saying he would lie about something. they don't have to call the bidens in for testifying. joe, his investigate son and joe's brother. they don't need to call him to testify about anything. thank you. host: we will go to new york. bob is on the independent line. go ahead. caller: thanks for c-span. i watch c-span, fox and the networks. cbs, and every time i do all i get is propaganda. i get sick of it. i watch cnn, fox mostly.

trump, hen't impeach will be the best president we've put out of office by democrats. i don't know what they are thinking. i don't know what these people calling in our thinking. you go to the airports and all you see is cnn or something like that. i wish they would raise up and -- wise up and learn something. it is awful that they are treating trump. host: reporting this morning from the help. from the to vote in favor of impeachment witnesses. jordan cardi with the story. senator mitt romney will vote to allow additional witnesses and documents in the impeachment trial. liz johnson, a spokesman confirms the freshman senator will support an initial vote to pay the way for witnesses and

specifically want to hear from former national security advisor john bolton. they write that senator romney is the second republican senator to senate will vote to allow witnesses. senator collins of maine announced thursday night she will also support the effort. let's hear from justin and goodrich, texas. good morning. caller: thank you for c-span. i have a comment about chief justice roberts. manning locked up in jail, snowden exposing the people for what they are. a whistleblower with policy differences has come out. they will not name him. he is friends with joe biden. chief roberts ought to be ashamed of himself. thank you for c-span. host: steve in mentor, ohio. caller: good morning.

my comment is that when we went to great school and learned ade school-- grea ourwe learned how ar government is supposed to function, i feel we don't have a dictator in this country. -- we now have a dictator in this country. what i think is going to happen here is that the u.s. is going to fall apart like the soviet union did. thank you. today ondline from usa what may be ahead in the state of the union. they are reporting the president touts school choice. he plans to use the state of the union speech to renew a call for tax breaks designed to provide

more scholarships for students to attend private schools. write trump's emphasis on school choice will be part of hi a speech where he is likely o discuss themes central to his reelection. and next tuesday's speech people call for passage of long pending legislation that would offer tax credits to people who donate money to nonprofit groups that provide scholarships to private schools. that address is tuesday night. ive coverage is at 8:00 eastern. gilbert, texas, les on the republican line. caller: good morning, bill. host: hi there. caller: how are you doing today? i try to get away from my tv so i can talk.

host: go ahead. caller: i want to touch on base who the guy they called in referred to our president as president bone spurs. i'm sure the american people remember who the greatest boxer in this nation is. he got drafted. he refused to go. i'm talking about muhammad ali. fact.s one how manyd fact is businesses or people across america would hire somebody who ,as kicked out of the military put in jail on drug charges, and now he makes how much money a year? i think that would be overwhelmingly more than $80,000 a month.

point.d to democratic party wants take the american people's guns away from them. if that is true, why did obama give all the guns to the mexican cartels? they don't want their compensation that they get by being crooked to end. host: are you talking about the guns that wound up in the fast and furious operation? caller: yes, sir. host: glad you called in this morning. greenville, tennessee. lou is next. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have been sitting here listening to all the calls. ask of they would

republican party is, what has happened to them? we have romney that will vote yes, and lamar alexander, who i admire, but i haven't putting up signs on a large tree in front of my yard -- have been putting up signs on a large tree in front of my yard. i am against trump, as you're able to tell. i have some of the people in 2018, 2019 that stopped by and brought me candy. they stopped in the middle-of-the-road. i'm on a busy road. i'm on a corner. they go, thank you for putting your signs up. we cannot wait for the next one. we are too afraid to speak up. i have a state rep that lives right behind me. he has admitted he does not like donald trump.

is to the question republican as a whole, wire they all afraid of donald trump? he is a bully. he lies. i experienced something back in high school. i had a great dad that taught me a lot of things. he was a bit of a bully. i took her on verbally and said you need to stop this. this is wrong. i want the republicans to think for themselves. soseems like we have gotten tribal that we have lost our independence. they work for me. they don't work for donald trump. i think they have all forgotten that. much ifappreciate it so the callers i have been listening to, and they admit they listen to fox, they might want to remember they are not real journalists, half of them on that show. and don't do their research

find the facts and the truth. they report things out before they are even proven. host: let me ask you about your signs in your yard. is it one sign or multiple signs you have? caller: i always put up one sign on this large tree. streets because i'm on the corner. kind behind mehe that is a state rep says he's kind of grouping together with -- and my still online? host: what does your signs say? caller: he's been holding meetings and stuff because he's a republican. oh my gosh, everybody wants to know about you. they are talking about you more than they are listening to me. there are a lot of people in tennessee reconsidering trump. host: unless i missed it, what does your signs say in your yard? caller: today the first one i

put up was donald trump should be in jail. ashamed of i was lamar alexander. you answered my question. caller: it is a topic of what is going on today. i just heard on your program that romney will vote no on the witnesses. host: he will vote yes on witnesses. ann romney. -- mitt romney. caller: i hope more than think about it. r trial. faile host: i will let you go but thank you for telling us about your signs. this is the front page of the new york times. we talked about lamar alexander. the other article, cheryl stolberg, eyes on four democrats that could affect.

nothing would please president trump more than a handful of democrats. as the senate nears a vote on his fate, possibly as early as friday, attention focused on the moderate republicans that might vote to hear from witnesses to convict. democrats have their own list of possible defectors who could vote to acquit. they are focusing on four democrats restates one by mr. trump. joe mansion west virginia, kyrsten sinema of arizona, doug jones of alabama and gary peters of michigan. vote to clear him, it would hand him a coveted talking point and deliver a blow to democrats who lost two votes in the house when mr. trump was impeached in december. we will hear from nebraska and georgia on the democrats line. good morning. caller: hello. thank you.

that ourike to say lawident has broke the because of the constitution. people don't realize what he has one is to bring this on trump went over and met with utin, doesn't anybody wonder why the ball is in your court? he's either being blackmailed or he wants us to do stuff for him. before we have this bombing in ukraine with the terrorists, he had a meeting with putin. wasmeeting with putin nobody could come in. nobody but him with him.

releasead the terrorist because they were bombed in the prison. prison. what you think that meant? they were coinciding with each other. the first thing out of trump's mouth was we got the oil. i have done some research on that. pam brogdon -- host: bondi? caller: yes. she has taken $25,000 worth of money for trump for something she was doing. host: during her campaign of florida perhaps? caller: yes. host: john from mansfield, ohio on the republican line. caller: they already had 17 witnesses. you can't convict some buddy was

17 witnesses, you don't have a case. that is all i have to say. host: recordings of a drug story about campaign spending. bloomberg has dropped more than $100 million on trump attack ads. mike bloomberg has already dropped a fortune in support of his 2020 presidential bid, including $10 billion for including $10 billion for ad time during sunday super bowl. the exact figures are coming to life and they are staggering. the bloomberg campaign on friday over these the numbers in a filing with the fec. it will state that campaign had spending is almost nine figures, and that is just an advertising attacking president trump. drugs reporting through bloomberg campaign source says the campaign has spent in excess of $25 million in additional ads and has topped $85 million in uys. -- e-b dusty in illinois.

caller: thank you for taking my call. first, my wife and i have followed this whole ordeal all the way through. a partisanously been charade from the word go. as far as the three-days of testimony, it could have been presented in about four hours by each party in the whole thing. it was repetition and exchange of accusations. many of them were false. madeistake i think trump office, heial taking staff andeanse his departments of all of the obama conspirators that were held over. he was trying to do the right members neverning

supposedly nonpartisan positions, which turned out to false and erroneous on his false and erroneous on his part. secondly, it is very sad that our democratic party has taken position of pure hatred towards trump. i regret the fact of how much could have been done if they would've corroborated with trump. host: keeping track of stories related to impeachment, social media tracking. pedro joins us. >> also electoral politics. polling when people's impressions about the upcoming election. this was done by the associated

press, asking about their excitement or anxiety. ofyou go to the story, 70% democrats said they were interested in the election. % -- republicans,. 82% were interested 46% were anxious. 42% saying they were frustrated. 42% saying they were excited about it. you can find it from the associated press. pew research has a pole or a questioning -- poll or questioning what democrats about choices and how they feel about them. pew research has ayou can find . at the early stage there are notable demographic differences in the preferences for democratic voters. ten 65 and over named joe biden.

a third of democratic voters ages 50 to 64. biden support is much lower among younger democrats, 30 to 70. bernie sanders draws much more support among democrats under 30. sanders, onlynd modest differences among age groups and support for elizabeth warren, and at the time this was harris.arris -- kamala a new ad for a list with in iowa and after. new hampshire. >> in 2020, the person that can unite the party is elizabeth warren. >> elizabeth warren is building a positive movement. >> i have never been so excited by candidate and the opportunity to caucus. >> if a former trump supporter can be energized by elizabeth

warren, she is doing something great for america. >> i am elizabeth warren i approve this message. host: the iowa caucus live on monday beginning at 9:30 eastern on c-span. pedro touched about this on the secretary of state. zelenskiy in kiev. he stood beside ukraine's president on friday and promised to the data states would not waver in his support of the country as it battles russian-backed separatists. i'm here with a clear message. the united states sees the ukrainian struggle for freedom and democracy and prosperity is a valiant one. our commitment to support it will not favor. that came as the senate continued its impeachment trial of president trump on the basis that the president conditioned u.s. military and double back support for ukraine's investigation of vice president

joe biden. pompeo and his most direct remarks denied the trumpet administration said is a condition for a white house meeting with ukrainian president zelenskiy. he could not offer a date for the two countries arranging an oval office it down between trump and zelenskiy. 15 minutes more of your calls and comments. jim in toms river, new jersey on the democrats line. caller: hello. i'm a democrat. i am watching this. it is like a circus. they want to investigate biden. they should do it in a committee. it does not belong in this environment of impeachment trials. the other thing that annoys me is you have schiff and nadler

saying wrongdoings have been debunked. they never had any hearings on it. that is kind of hypocritical. canneither one of them chair a committee to investigate this. if you look at the freedom of information act, the different stuff that has come out, deftly something bad happened there. this proceeding, what they did in the house was pathetic. that was a clown show. witnesses.ly their for the president to have representation, judicial hearings, he has to waive all his rights, let them do whatever they want and that is not going to happen. he gets no representation. morning -- good doris, good morning. caller: everyone should be

concentrating on this. i can't understand. we give everyone a chance. i can't understand why the republicans are so afraid of trump. from day one when they were first running for election they would try to talk. he would tell them, excuse me and they shut up. he accused their families of killing people and all. that is from day one. he has been so ignorant. how can you like someone like that? i think they should let people call witnesses, called biden and all and give them a choice. but call the president's kids. this is like a two-way thing. if you going to do one with one, i can't understand why they don't do it and let everything get out in the open. then everybody would be satisfied. it is so divided. i never would have believed. you can listen to people.

when someone screams constantly at his rallies and stuff, it gives you a mental breakdown. just talk calmly. people have gotten so outraged. i wish people would take a deep breath. i would like to see if they will call all the witnesses, everyone the debra katz accuser doing something. get it all out in the open. host: kino from lakeland, florida. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: my quick messages this. if they did call witnesses, maybe they can call some witnesses to find out why the whistleblower rules were changed thewhat a complaint to i.g. was backdated. i think the rules were changed

so we can have the circus going on that adam schiff has been portraying. please pray for the virus thing. people do contract it back and forth. what about the birds? animals by contracted and bring it worldwide. we have got to be careful. on the picked up mistake. kino? caller: i thought somebody cutting and was talking for me. and praiseo c-span before god for brian lamb and c-span.rs to give today and maken direct appeals to the senators. i want to make a direct interest in marco rubio. donald trump calls you little marco. it is time to eat beep -- be big

in history and stand up this bully. retire him. we need president pence to take over. i want as many people in the senate today to evoke the name of john mccain. what would john mccain do and say and think and vote on this? the character of donald trump shows what he says about mccain. erder agenda appoints mitt romney to be prime minister of the senate. he will lead a coalition of democrats and republicans. marco rubio, joined with him and let's control this bully. otherwise the cult of trump will prevail. there is just a vote on a dear leader that will be presented by the republicans to donald trump. let us take heart. there is a backup system the 25th of emmett. if the republicans -- 25th amendment.

if some republicans came today and come to their senses later, we can use the 25th amendment. come to your senses today and evoke the name of john mccain and vote to have witnesses. marco rubio, especially you. vote to have witnesses. psychology of a bully. they have to be controlled. senators, vote to control this bully. host: that call from florida. the iowa caucuses are three days away. pedro mentioned the story pedro mentioned the story earlier. a story broke about john delaney dropping out. he has ended his bid for the democratic resident told nomination. more than two and a half years after he became the first to announce his candidacy. the former maryland commerce meant an for newer -- congressman and entrepreneur was

a self-made millionaire. endy on the independent line. caller: i want to thank you for being there. i wish more people would listen to c-span and public broadcasting and not msnbc or fox news to get information. ukraineecutor in the that helped to be removed by joe prosecutingt ukrainian oligarchs. that was the reason why he was removed. the europeans had already pushed for him to be removed. this lying about biden getting rid of this guy to cover up his son's guilt is totally erroneous.

crooks, two of the first elected officials that came out in support of trump are already convicted and going to jail. one.for insider trading people should keep up with the real facts trump has been destroying the line between the truth and fact. that is his goal. it is very disturbing summit of people are not going out there and seeking the truth. and not listening to bias reports. i listen to c-span and public broadcasting and that is where i get my news. and i make up my own mind. where the gop in such a hurry to sweep this under the rug? don't they realize more articles are coming to medially after the cover-up is completed?

trump is a dangerous caricature he will be removed. dems one you to believe they fought for witnesses for you. joke. imagine the whistleblower being cross-examined. everyone should research the origins of the whistleblower. it is very interesting. deerfield beach, florida. michael on the democrats line. caller: you guys are awesome as always. a little bit of humor here. fox news has done to our parents and grandparents what they feared videogames and pot with you to us. the genocide in bosnia only happened after 10 years of all right-wing propaganda when it took over tv and radio. the exact same thing has happened here. it is so difficult to listen to fox news have a wonderful morning.

host: pedro with a story about one of the witnesses who testified before the house committee. aide tofer williams, an vice president pence announcing or has asked to leave her post early. story.l picking up the she plans to leave her position and the vice president's office early to join central command. the chief of staff of the vice president told the hill williams requested an early departure , and the office is evaluating her request. jennifer williams requested in writing early departure. the original scheduled departure date was the end of march. the vice president's office is not a medially respond to questions about the evaluation of her request and where williams planned to go. if you go to fox news, a story

about carter page, any familiar to those who watch this program. the former trump campaign visor filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal court against the dnc about an firm unverified dossier. the suit was filed in u.s. district court in the northern district of illinois's eastern division. ofwas described as the first multiple actions in the wake of historic fisa abuse. this is the first step to ensure the former fisa abuses that occurred in the last two years are exposed in remedied. -- remedied. they will not make america a surveillance state. host: i want to touch on a story you covered earlier. the front page of websites all over the place. virus outbreak is declared a global emergency. the wall street journal here and

reporting online u.k. and russia have reported their first cases of the coronavirus. the world health organization declaring the coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern is the first person-to-person transmission of the virus is reported in the u.s.. designation pointed to an increase in a number of cases indicates the public health authorities now consider the respiratory virus a significant threat beyond china where it originated last month. the move could further heighten the global response to the outbreak. two more minutes left for your calls and comments. robert from pennsylvania, republican line. caller: hello. thank you for taking my call. to start with i would like to say i hope and pray the president does not get impeached. now, with that and

everybody seems to let it go by, joe biden's son was dishonorably discharged from the united states navy. anywherenot get a job in the united states because of this. now, how did he get a job over in ukraine/ -- ukraine? did his father have anything to do with him getting that job? host: the president has been impeached by the house. the articles of impeachment will be decided upon today by the u.s. senate. david in mississippi. go ahead. caller: good morning. i hear everybody calling in from both sides, but i don't hear anybody calling in that it's on their own research. c-span, you have archives.

i went to my computer and i typed in u.s. involvement in 2013, 2014, and whatever popped up. i recommend a lot of people do the same thing. let's settle this argument. you want to worry about why ukraine is so important? do your own archives. that is all i want to do. that would answer a lot of questions. have a good day. host: larry in ohio. line.n the democrats caller: america, if you would like to know where the country is headed, there's an episode on the twilight zone from 1963. lives,"lled "he starring dennis hopper. if you want to see were the country is headed, watch it. host: falls church, virginia.

good morning to john. caller: hello. glad you took my call. i almost never call in. i kind of had to. host: i'm glad you got in. caller: i am an independent. not a republican or democrat and never will be. the reason i'm calling in is to point out i am struck and peopleinted that both who consider themselves even republicans or democrats seem to be ruled by emotion i don't take the time to understand the law or how our government works. how it is meant to work is clear. trump to remind everybody is the first president besides george washington it was that a member of the political class when he was elected. he was not a politician. people complain where the

republicans letting them do this and the democrats letting them do that? his major crime according to the parties is he went off script. rallies, what hiswhen you watcs is good about them, and during the debates, he is always off script. and those thats like trump like that he is off script. we need to have more off script action, because the two parties, really, are the same party. we know this because they switch parties, like that gentleman who switch from democrat to republican. they were founded in an ideology that must part of integrity to their core, switching party should not be possible. host: you are an independent, john. you don't follow republican or democratic ideology. in a nutshell, what is your ideology? my ideology is that,

everybody, when they hear the government is doing something that they agree with, they need to take a step back and say to themselves, are they following the laws, the way our government is supposed to operate while pushing through something they agree with? even if it is something they would agree with, it laws and procedures are not being followed, a good citizen should be against it. you never know the next thing that will be worked into the system by bending of the rules, something you disagree with. host: thank you for all of your calls this morning. at 7:00ack tomorrow eastern. the senate trial resuming at 1:00 on c-span2. have a great week. [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] ♪

president trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to a strategic learner at war with russia to secure foreign help with his reelection. in other words, to cheat. you not onlysking to overturn the results of the last election, but as i've said toore, they are asking you remove president trump from the ballot in an election that is occurring in approximately nine months. >> the senate impeachment trial of president trump continues today. live coverage starting at 1:00 eastern on c-span two, on demand impeachment, or on

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at 7:30 p.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen with the c-span radio app. washington, d.c. mayor murial bowser yesterday endorsed former new york city mayor michael bloomberg for president. after she spoke to mr. bloomberg delivered or marks on affordable housing. >> thank you. good afternoon, everybody. >> good afternoon, everybody. he is super humble. of makinghe forefront sure the transformation of h street northeast includes everybody. everybody. i'm muriel bowser, the mayor of washington, d.c., my hometown. the greatest city in the world.