[no audio] [no audio] >> we have the house considering bipartisan legislation that would impose sanctions on turkey. can you tell us about turkey's recent lee terry action, the president announced his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria? >> at this point, the house will

pick up legislation that would sanction turkey, and they said they would also take it up in the senate, but it is possible they will. it is being caused in the senate because the republicans who run the upper chamber want to give this cease-fire a chance. they want to give the president a chance to see if the deal he has worked out is going to be successful, but they are having sanctions as plan b, so the house will pass it, and they're kind of looking into junction with senate republicans, who are not opposed to what the house is doing. they just want to give the president a chance, and i think i recall the president saying this week that if the sanctions of cease-fire are not successful, he can reimpose the sanctions he had in place from the executive branch.

congress is going to take it up in the house and the senate is in a wait and see mode to see if things stabilize in the region and that 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? there are 12 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. for a structure or border wall. they want money for other government services, not for a wall. that's one of the problems. 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 fully 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. today they subpoenaed three more , the house subpoenaed three more trump administration officials, including the acting director. i don't expect that to show up. so under subpoena, they'll defy that subpoena and not show up and testify in early november when they've been called to do so. you'll see more of the back-and-forth fights over witnesses and documents, and then you'll also see more people coming in and testifying who are willing to participate and eventually, i believe that the house democrats will schedule public hearings, those have not been scheduled yet or even discussed, but they're expected and i also expect that you'll at

least see some of those transcripts from the closed door depositions released. and then finally, i anticipate at some point this year that the house democrats will raise articles of impeachment on the house floor and call for a vote on that, and then if that does pass the house, you would see a senate trial happen, pretty soon after, the duration of which is hard to define right now, depending on how many articles the house passes and sends to the senate. but that's -- that's how things are mostly likely to proceed. the question remains about when the house will raise those articles of impeachment, and when they'll hold these public hearings that have been anticipated and we don't have an answer to that yet. we know that they expect to do so at some point and we know that they would hope to finish this up pretty quickly, but we still don't really have any set timeline and things could drag on into the new year.

>> susan ferrechio is the chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner, and you can read her writing at their website www.washingtonexamineer.com and you can tweet her @susanferrechio. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> and we returned to the politicon conference in nashville. speaking now, former fbi director james comey and former white house communications director nicole wallace. mr. comey: do it without embarrassing him, and embarrassing me, without creating a war in the fbi was front and center in my mind, so that is why i was a little distracted. the meeting started off the rails very quickly. ms. wallace: like what? mr. comey: i explained to him without using any of the terms you u