host: lisa mascaro? are these stories from the other side of the aisle, we certainly saw what happened to another prominent , ascrat, senator al franken soon as the stories and photos of his behavior began circulating, he was essentially forced to resign from the senate . democrats said they would not tolerate that. those are the questions about mr. ellison, mr. brooker, i'm not working on that story, i know others are looking into whatever those allegations are. but at this point, the focus in front of us is the situation with whether or not judge kavanaugh will be confirmed in a matter of days or weeks, to the supreme court. host: stewart is in mechanicsville, virginia. on the line for those that support the nomination. caller: i think i am leaning toward having a smart idea to have secured lawyers doing the questioning, rather than listening to all the speeches and grandstanding, like spartacus, like a spartacus moment. that was a joke. here is the point. a good, skilled lawyer should ask on the democ

host: lisa mascaro?re these stories from the other side of the aisle, we certainly saw what happened to another prominent , ascrat, senator al franken soon as the stories and photos of his behavior began circulating, he was essentially forced to resign from the senate . democrats said they would not tolerate that. those are the questions about mr. ellison, mr. brooker, i'm not working on that story, i know others are looking into whatever those allegations are. but at this point, the focus in front of us is the situation with whether or not judge kavanaugh will be confirmed in a matter of days or weeks, to the supreme court. host: stewart is in mechanicsville, virginia. on the line for those that support the nomination. caller: i think i am leaning toward having a smart idea to have secured lawyers doing the questioning, rather than listening to all the speeches and grandstanding, like spartacus, like a spartacus moment. that was a joke. here is the point. a good, skilled lawyer should ask on the democra

lisa mascaro. chrisick santorum and dodd join us. be sure to watch on monday morning. >> this week on "the ynnmunicators," barry l discusses his concern over companies like google, amazon, facebook, and uber possibly becoming monopolies and threatening a free democracy. google, we might have to actually think about separating mapping also search. separating off of youtube. this sounds radical, but this is something we have gone in the past. we did it with a teeny -- at&t in 1902, with at&t in 1913. we have done it with dozens of large corporations over the years. as the people of the united states to structure the political accounting. >> watch "the communicators" monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. we look aton c-span, the upcoming midterm elections with charlie kelly, the executive director of the house majority pac. he is our guest this week on "newsmakers." we will show you the debate between candidates running in virginia's 10th congressional district, followed by house freedom caucus chair mark meadows. at 8:00 on "q&a,

. >> lisa mascaro joins us for a look at her work on spending bills in the deadline to fund the government by the end of the month. she's the chief congressional correspondent for "the associated press." where do things stand at this point with the spending package is making their way through congress? >> yeah, hi, stephanie. we are in really familiar terrain here. congress is staring down a september 30th deadline to fund the government in the current spending bills ran out at the end of the fiscal year. and so they've got to get their spending plan passed it over to the president's desk by the end of the month to get it signed into law so that there is no government shut down onob

. >> lisa mascaro joins us for a look on spending bills. she is a congressional correspondent for the associated press. lisa, where do things stand at this point with the spending packages through congress? lisa: we are in really familiar terrain. congress is staring down at a september 30 deadline to fund the government. that is when the current bill runs out.

lisa mascaro is back at our desk, chief congressional

lisa, we appreciate it. he will follow you storms and all on twitter at esa mascaro and we are reporting at [inaudible] news .com. thank you so much. >> thank you, stephanie. >> of neck, ongoing trade negotiations between the us, canada and mexico. analysts looks at the economic and political effects of the nafta negotiation and what potential trade agreements might look like for the three countries. >> welcome everyone to our nafte that, [inaudible]. [laughter] looking at the latest of elements under nafta we have, i hope, and it interesting or distinguished set of panelists and hopefully an extremely interesting discussion, as well. given that these issues are playing out as we go along. let me give a brief anecdote of how this event came about. a couple of weeks ago i was walking out going across the street to actually nearby but nearby to brookings for lunch and i ran into mary. another colleague of ours from the peterson institute where i'm also affiliated and chris walked by. the four of us got into a conversation about nafta evidently because the announcement adjustment made that the us and mexico ha

. >> lisa mascaro joins us for a look at her work on spending bills in the deadline to fund the government by the end of the month. she's the chief congressional correspondent for "the associated press." where do things stand at this point with the spending package is making their way through congress? >> yeah, hi, stephanie. we are in really familiar terrain here. congress is staring down a september 30th deadline to fund the government in the current spending bills ran out at the end of the fiscal year. and so they've got to get their spending plan passed it over to the president's desk by the end of the month to get it signed into law so that there is no government shut down on october october 1st at the start of the new fiscal year. there is a strategy put in place this year that was really unlike any we've seen in a long time and it was to try to avoid this crisis of shutdown politics that we often see. but this interesting strategy in place is still kind of headed towards this potential problem. the core issue as it has been for a lot of is this debate over the border wall. president

. >> lisa mascaro joins us for a look on spending bills. she is a congressional correspondent for the associated press. lisa, where do things stand at this point with the spending packages through congress? lisa: we are in really familiar terrain. congress is staring down at a september 30 deadline to fund the government. that is when the current bill runs out. they have to get their spending bill passed by the end of the month to prevent a government shutdown by october 1. there was a strategy put in place that was unlike anything that seen in a long time and we tried to avoid this crisis of shutdown politics that we often see, but despite this strategy, they are still headed toward this potential problem. the core issue as it has in for a lot of years is this debate over the border wall. president trump ran on putting up a border wall between the southern u.s. and mexico. congress has been unwilling to fund the wall at the level he once and that is the crops of the issue right now of whether or not congress can get to an agreement on the r

. >> lisa mascaro joins us for a liquor work on spending bills in the deadline to fund the government by the end of the month. she's the chief congressional correspondent for "the associated press" prettily set, where do things stand at this point with a spending package is their way through congress to get it signed into law so there is no government shutdown on a trooper first at the start of the new fiscal year. there is a strategy put in place this year though is really unlike any we've seen in a long time and he was to try to avoid this crisis so shut down politics that we often see. the interesting strategy in place, they still are headed towards this potential problem. the core issue as it has been for a lot of the year is this debate over the border wall. president trump ran on putting up a border wall on the southern border between the u.s. and mexico when he wants a lot of money from congress to do that in congress has been unwilling to fund the law at the levels he wants. that is the crux of the issue right now of whether or not congress can get to an agreement on the rest

lisa, we appreciate it. he will follow you storms and all on twitter at esa mascaro and we are reporting at [inaudible] news .com. thank you so much. >> thank you, stephanie