>> tonight on "the communicators." >> host: when it comes to facebook, the ftc recently fined the company. how did you come up with $5 billion and what is that money go? >> guest: so to take a second question first the money goes to the u.s. treasury, and in terms of the monetary fine, remember, the monetary fine is only one aspect of the relief we obtain from facebook. yes, $5 billion penalty but also broad injunctive relief that constrains the way in which facebook can handle consumer data going forward. >> watch our interview with ftc commissioner christine wilson tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. >> host: with me is susan ferrechio, chief congressional correspondent of the "washington examiner" looking at the weekend

in congress. we have a house considering bipartisan legislation that would impose new sanctions on turkey while the senate is blocking this ever. and he tells more about the congressional response to turkeys recent note to action? >> guest: at this point the house is going to take up some legislation that would sanction turkey and their -- it's possible the the senate will tt up. it is being slow down in the senate, paused in the senate because the republicans who run the upper chamber want to give the cease-fire a chance here. i want to give the president a chance to try to see if the deal he worked out here is going to be successful. but there can having sanctions as a plan b. so the house will pass it and there can looking into junctions with senate republicans who are

not opposed with house is doing. they just want to give the president a chance and i think i recall the president saying last week, actually this week if the sanctions cease-fire is a successful he reimpose the sanctions that he had placed from the executive branch. congress is sort of going to take them up announced in the senate is kind of in a wait-and-see mode. to see what happens if things do, in fact, stabilized in the region, that the cards are protected and the isis terrorists who are in prison there stay that way. if things start to fall apart then i think you might see the senate pressure to act and more willing to act on the house bill that were likely to see move next week. >> host: also in the senate where you see lawmakers planning to work on 2020 federal spending legislation as we close in on november 21 government funding deadline, we get it from senate appropriate committee chair

richard shelby that another short-term spending bill to keep the government running will likely be needed, but what are some of the key hurdles house and senate dems have to clear to settle on total spending levels? >> guest: at this point congress has agreed, republicans and democrats, on a top one spending figure that would lift federal spending caps for the next two years. they settle on that. that field for several weeks old now. they have an agreement. the problem is how how to divip that money? that part 12 federal spending bills that make all government spending. democrats and republicans do not agree on how that is divided up. at this point republicans according to democrats have allocated too much money toward areas of the can they don't support, including money that would be used on the southern border for a structure or a

border wall. they want that money changed in a way that is provided for other government services and not for a wall. that's one of the problems. this also disagreement over some language that is not about money but it's more about how the government addresses abortion funding and taxpayer funding of abortion. so there's disagreements there, but the main problem is how the money is a fight amongst the 12 federal spending bills. democrats want a a deal on that before they move forward in the house. things are pretty much stalled. i think we're getting the picture now that the house democrats are not fully willing to work with senate republicans, and those are both majorities there, until they get that deal. we're closing in on that november 21 deadline so was looking more like they will ended in what's called a stopgap

bill, which basically finds the government at current levels. the question is how long does that last for? several months, several weeks? i'm hearing different proposals. some say until spring may be. others are talking just a few weeks. we will be hearing more about that releasing because we are now going to be getting into november and they are really running out of time because thanksgiving will, and they won't call for another break and didn't want to have something settled by then. it does look like they will not finish the 2020 spending bills will instead do this temporary funding at 2019 levels. the question is, for how long? >> host: we still have the house impeachment inquiry. you write that congress is bracing for a protracted impeachment fight with more depositions expected before house committees and congressional republicans

continued to oppose the inquiry process through legislation, as in interrupting those closed doors interviews as we've seen. briefly what are the next steps we can expect in the impeachment inquiry into president trump? >> guest: i expect more closed-door depositions and more fighting with the administration. because the people that process in the house is being run by democrats. the administration is run by republicans some republicans, as would be expected, are not fully willing to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry and they are not allowing or trying to block people from testifying and do not supplying the documents democrats are asking for. today they subpoenaed three more trump administration officials, two from the office of management including the acting director. i do not expect that to show up and so under subpoena they will defy that sabine and not show up to testify in early november, when the been called to dissipate you will see more of the back-and-forth fights over

witnesses and documents and then you will also see more people coming in and testifying who are willing to participate, and eventually i believe the house democrats will schedule public hearings. those have not been scheduled yet or even discussed, but they are expected. i also expect use some of those transcripts from the closed-door depositions released. finally i anticipate at some point this year that the house democrats will race articles of impeachment on the house floor and call for a vote on that, and then if it does pass the house you would see a senate trial happen recent after, the duration of which, it's hard to define retina bidding on how many articles the house passed an sense to the city. that's how things are most likely to proceed. the question remains about when the house will raise those articles of impeachment and when

to hold these public hearings that of an anticipated. we don't have an answer to that yet. we know they expect to do so at some point, and then we know they would help to finish this up pretty quickly but we still don't have any set timeline, and things could drag on into the new year. >> host: susan ferrechio is a chief congressional correspondent of the "washington examiner." you can read her writing at their website and you can tweak her at susan ferrechio. thanks for joining us. >> guest: thank you. >> new america hosted a discussion on ranked-choice voting also called instant runoff voting. it takes voters second of their choices into account if no candidate receives a majority. this is one hour 20 minutes.