[indistinct conversations] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] is susan, looking ahead at the week in congress, we had the house considering i partisan legislation, while the senate is blocking. can you tell me about the senate's response to the president's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria? >> at this point the house is

going to take up some legislation that would sanction turkey. also -- it isl possible the senate will also take it up. it is being paused in the senate , because the republicans who run the upper chamber want to .ive the cease-fire a chance they want to give the president a chance to try to see if the deal he has worked out here is going to be successful. sanctions as a plan b. it, and theyl pass are working in conjunction with senate republicans who are not opposed to what the house is doing. they just want to give the president a chance. i think i recall the president saying last week or this week that if the cease-fire is not successful, he can reimpose the sanctions he had in place from the executive branch. congress is going to take it up

and -- up in the house and the senate is in a wait and see mode to see if things stabilize in the region and if the kurds are protected and the isis terrorists who are imprisoned there stay that way. if things start to fall apart, i think you might see the senate pressured to act and more willing to act on the house bill that we are likely to see move next week. >> also in the senate, lawmakers plan to continue work on the 2020 federal spending legislation. this as we close in on the government funding deadline of november 21. we heard from the senate appropriations chair, richard shelby, this past week that another short-term spending bill to give the government running will likely be needed but what are some of the key hurdles that house and senate members have to clear to settle on federal spending levels for the coming year? >> congress has agreed, republicans and democrats, on a topline spending figure that

could lift caps for the next two years. they settled on that. that deal is several weeks old now. they have an agreement. the problem is, how do you divide up that money? federal spending bills that make up all government spending. democrats and republicans at this point do not agree on how that pie is divided up. at this point, the republicans, according to democrats, have allocated too much money towards areas of the government they don't support, including money that would be used on the southern border. they want money for other government services, not for a while. problems. of the there's also disagreement over some language that is not about money, but is more about how the

government addresses abortion funding and taxpayer funding of abortions. there is disagreement but the main problem is how the money is divided up amongst the 12 federal spending bills. democrats want a deal on that before they move forward in the house. at this point, things have pretty much stalled. i think we are getting the picture now that the house democrats are not fully willing to work with senate republicans and those are the majority's there until they get that deal. we are closing in on that november 21 deadline. it is looking more like they will do what is called a stopgap bill which basically funds the government at current levels. the question of how long that will last for -- several months? several weeks? i'm hearing different proposals. some say until spring. others are talking just a few weeks. we will be hearing more about that really soon because we will

be getting into november and they are running out of time. thanksgiving will come and they will call for another break and they will want to have something settled by them. it does look like they will not finish the 2020 spending bills, but will instead do temporary funding at 2019 levels. the question is for how long? >> we still have the house impeachment inquiry. congress is bracing for a protracted impeachment fight with more depositions expected before house committees and congressional republicans continuing to oppose the inquiry process through legislation and interrupting those closed doors interviews as we have seen, briefly, what are the next steps we can expect into the impeachment inquiry? >> i expect more closed-door depositions, and more fighting with the administration. the impeachment process and the

house is being run by democrats. the administration is run by republicans. as would be expected, republicans are not willing to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry and are not -- they are trying to block people from testifying, and they are not supplying the documents democrats are asking for. >> so republicans would be willing tot fully cooperate with the impeachment inquiry and they're not allowing or they're trying to block people from testifying and they're not supplying the documents that the democrats are for.g today, they subpoenaed three more, the house subpoenaed three more trump administration officials and two of them from the office of management, acting director. i do not expect them to show up subpoena, they'll defy that subpoena and not show in early november when they've been called to do so. you'll see more of the fights overth witnesses and documents, and then you'll also see more people coming in