erik wasson: there is a lot of wrangling about this. the war powers resolution, only 51 votes to get on the bill and it is likely it will get on the bill in the coming week. there is a lot of concern about what is being called a vote-a -rama. and senator corker was think that the house is not going to pass this and the president will not sign this. let us come up with something that everyone can agree to that will have some teeth to it. there is a debate about some -- about an amendment. limiting future arms sales. re trying to find something that can make it into law. there is also a senate resolution. a statement that the homage been that the prince is responsible for jamal khashoggi's murder. host: on the farm bill, the house and senate conferees reported that there was agreement on that. tell me where things stand on that and is it likely to be passed? erik wasson: i think it is likely and more likely it will be put on the spending bill if they run out of time. republicans caved in on their demands. to expand work requirements. back

host: read more about the issues we talked about, erik wasson at bloomberg.com, that's where you can find his articles. twitter,@elwatson. -- at elwasson. >> coming up, the surgeon general talks about the opioid epidemic and ways those affected can seek treatment. >> today we are honored to have the surgeon general with us. we're going to talk about the opioid crisis, what the federal government is doing to help with the opioid crisis. before we begin i want to remind you that if you want to ask a question of dr. adams, you can tweet it to us. ease use the hash tag, #postlive, i'll get it on this ipad, if i can figure out how to work it, and i'll ask dr. adams. the numbers we got last week, we can't ignore them. life expectancy down again. 70,000 deaths from drug overdoses in 2017. for people's context, that's about 200 a day or if twice the number of people in this room were to die every day of a drug verdose. mr. adams: like a 747 dropping ut of the sky every day. mr. bernstein: do you ever think, how do we get this out of control? mr. adams: you wrote a great article about this, a

host: erik wasson is with us, he's a congressional reporter. now that the president signed a continuing resolution to continue funding, now there's two weeks for

host: erik wasson is with us,

host: erik wasson is with us, he's a congressional reporter. now that the president signed a here is the congressional reporter with bloomberg news. the president has signed a

host: read more of erik wasson's work on bloomberg.com or find twitter,@elwasson. >> f.b.i. director james comey testified bhoined closed door, as federal prosecutors this afternoon recommend a, quote, substantial prison term for donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen. lawmakers spoke to reporters about mr. comey's testimony. >> my first impression is this is a complete waste of time. it's occurring right after the mid-term elections where it's a number of days until they no longer have the gavel. i think this is a last-ditch attempt to try to frame the investigations that are going on and

host: erik wasson is with us, he's a congressional reporter. now that the president signed a continuing resolution to continue funding, now there's two weeks for congress to figure out how to avoid a shut dunn what are the key issues remaining? guest: the biggest one is funding for the wall. congressional republicans have tried to talk him down to $2.5 billion this year and $2.5 billion next year. chuck schumer has rejected that. all eyes are on tuesday when schumer and nancy pelosi, the house democratic leader, will sit down with president trump around 11:30 a.m. to try to come up with a deal. congressional lawmakers are hoping to have a deal hammered out and pass it in the house and senate to meet the christmas deadline. host: how much room does each side have to give? nancy pelosi is sayings that line in the sand, where do the democrats stand in terms of flexibility on border wall funding? host: the key comment from nancy pelosi, she talked about the need to not have a tradeoff for daca and the wall, the idea of protecting undocumented immig

host: read more of erik wasson's work on bloomberg.com or find twitter,@elwasson. >> f.b.i. director james comey testified bhoined closed door, as federal prosecutors this afternoon recommend a, quote, substantial prison term for donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen. lawmakers spoke to reporters about mr. comey's testimony. >> my first impression is this is a complete waste of time. it's occurring right after the mid-term elections where it's a number of days until they no longer have the gavel. i think this is a last-ditch attempt to try to frame the investigations that are going on and to undermine the investigations. a lot of their questions are trying to lead him down a path to answer specific questions about the investigations of the three or four people that were first targeted under conspiracy to collude with russia regarding trump's election. so some of their questions are concerning to me because i feel like they're going down a path that they shouldn't be going down. that oversteps the bounds of oversight. i personally believe that we need to ask these questi

. >> erik wasson joins us. he's a congressional reporter bloomberg news. and he has some details on the federalof the government. erik, what happened in this senate earlier? it would seemnow, to be a total impasse. senator purduea phoneddner of colorado president trump and determined that there was some room to negotiate. would beicated that he somewhat flexible on perhaps the amount of the funding on, you know, whether there could be a continuing resolution to the end of the year or perhaps the full appropriations bill. and that sort of jump-started the process again. senate to hone that road to get on to -- to provide a vehicle for a compromise and caused the vice president, the acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, jared kushner, the president's the legislative affairs director, all to come up negotiatel and try to with chuck schumer, the democratic leader. a government shutdown is because the house and senate will not be voting again this evening. however, there is some glimmer of hope that with the next few the shutdown can be brought to an end. >> wha

host: erik wasson is with us, he's a congressional reporter. now that the president signed a here is the congressional reporter with bloomberg news. the president has signed a two week extension of government funding. there's just two weeks, before the house and senate has to figure out how to resolve their differences and avoid a shutdown. what are the key issues remaining that have to be worked out? >> by far the biggest one is president donald trump's demand for border funding. it is sitting at $5 million for the current fiscal year and the republicans have tried to talk him down to 2.5 billion. chuck schumer, the democratic leader has regret -- rejected that. they will sit down with president donald trump and tried to come up with a deal. congressional lawmakers are hoping to have a deal this week , hammered out in principle and use the following week to pass it to the house and senate. >>, and rooms of each side have to give the democratic leader saying that this is a line in the sand, where do the democrats stand in terms of flexibility o