host: leah askarinam here with us, the editor-in-chief of the national journal, hotline, to talk about the core implications of impeachment. let's talk about the tone, and did it change the tone of campaign 2020, the impeachment vote in the house? guest: i don't think it changed the tone, but it added a new vessel for the tone that has already been established. we heard throughout the entire campaign, especially from the republicans, that this is a -- that 2020 is going to be a referendum on health care, and we heard from democrats that this is going to be a referendum on donald trump. that has not changed. what has changed is now in addition to the republicans using socialism as an attack, they can also now use impeachment. we have seen republicans spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in congressional districts, targeting vulnerable democrats hoping that because these voters , supported donald trump in 2016, that they will oust -- anyone voting to impeach him. host: so they are truly vulnerable? guest: they were vulnerable before impeachment, they will be vulnerable after impeachmen

hotline editor-in-chief with the national journal leah askarinam we appreciate the conversation. thank you very much. >> "washington journal" mugs are available on the new online store. go to c-spanstore.org. check out the "washington journal" mugs and see all the c-span products. >> ladies and gentlemen start your engines. [shouting] the speedway was the big event that started this place and worldwide fame and people know indianapolis because of racing. with a healthy sport and a healthy track i don't think that whatever change. >> he was one of the most famous authors to come out of indiana until kurt, i always described him as healthy to divine to the rest of the country what a hoosier was. he helped introduce indiana to the rest of the country and indiana loved him for that. >> c-span speedy tour is on the road exploring the american story, this week. reporter: take you to indianapolis with the help of the spectrum cable partners. this saturday at noon eastern on cspan2 book tv local authors of the city's history including the speech robert kennedy made to an indianapolis cro

.: leah askarinam with what do you make of that kind of add? guest: that is a great question. democrats and republicans like the answer to. that is similar to the 2018 effort. republicans are concerned about this effort in trying to connect people like anthony brindisi and other vulnerable democrats to nancy pelosi, to the idea of socialism. elected, voters don't see them that way. there is a question of whether oris an authentic ad whether it is a political game. either way, connecting him to democrats should help republicans in that district and the fact that he ended up voting for impeachment might be more important. michael inll go to illinois. caller: i voted for trump. i was in service at the end of the vietnam war. i am a senior and disabled. i voted for trump because i wanted to drain the swamp, which was the old popular comment about this nonsense that goes on in washington. i want your guest to comment -- and it has been touched on , ifady -- more specifically any thinking person, how they cannot see that these people in there to fillnly their own pockets. i don't kn

leah askarinam will join us, from national journal hotline. and we will talk about what it means for the future of the law with kaiser health news' julie rovner. announcer: this sunday, book tv through features three new nonfiction books. at 2:00 p.m. eastern, alan dershowitz offers his thoughts about how sexual misconduct allegations should be handled, in his book "guilt by accusation." >> i don't want it to go away. i want to disprove it categorically. so i wrote the book. i have fbi interviews, the narrative she wrote. i have the females she tried to suppress peer it i have tape recordings of her lawyers. nobody reading this book could come away with any doubt whatsoever that this woman made up this story completely ou and i never met her. out of her own mouth, i never met her. book,cer: in her latest "the truth will set you free, off."rst it will piss you gloria steinem. >> i think it is helpful to see what came before because now the me too movement, thanks to all of this and thanks to technology and the web, is now all over the world. no