host: melanie zanona. melanie: the consensus is that nancy pelosi will get the gavel. it would be very hard to deny the gavel to the top woman in the party right now. she is also a fund-raising juggernaut, battle tested leader, who knows how to deal with the trump. she worked with a republican president before when she was at the top of her party. it is why there -- it is tough making an argument against her. host: your friend in newberry, florida. a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. -- vietnam veteran veteran and a recipient of the bronze star. i spent time in germany, too. the whole time i was there i do not see statues of hitler or his generals. cities, most of them want to say it is part of our history. yeah, hitler is part of but i do history, too, not see statues of his generals and stuff. at the same time, president trump supporting this mess, this confederacy. they were slave owners. that is all i have to say right now. thank you. host: fred in florida. john, do you want to take us to the issue of confederate monuments, something which has not been

host: melanie zanona, what do you expect? pushingelatives were the administration to take a harder line. they requested an investigation on the magnitsky act of is that we should possibly cancel arms they'll saudi arabia, especially if the kingdom was advocated in this journalists death. that caused some tension between republicans and the trump administration they were not having the conversation and will be curious to see if it takes backup is the get back in town for the first time since we learned details about the death of saudi arabia's role. i think the trump administration is in a tough position, the main saudi arabia cornerstone of their policy to counter iran and its would be difficult to push ahead with something strong lexington source canceling arms sales. host: tommy is a democrat. good morning. caller: i like to thank the veterans for their service and all the people of the world, i hope that we can find a peaceable 3-d and the european area. i find it very strange that we have a president that lies consistentl

host: melanie zanona, what do you expect?hingelatives were the administration to take a harder line. they requested an investigation on the magnitsky act of is that we should possibly cancel arms they'll saudi arabia, especially if the kingdom was advocated in this journalists death. that caused some tension between republicans and the trump administration they were not having the conversation and will be curious to see if it takes backup is the get back in town for the first time since we learned details about the death of saudi arabia's role. i think the trump administration is in a tough position, the main saudi arabia cornerstone of their policy to counter iran and its would be difficult to push ahead with something strong lexington source canceling arms sales. host: tommy is a democrat. good morning. caller: i like to thank the veterans for their service and all the people of the world, i hope that we can find a peaceable 3-d and the european area. i find it very strange that we have a president that lies consistently an

plan to talk about and covering both ends of pennsylvania avenue is john bennett and melanie zanona, congressional reporter for "the hill," newspaper and the lame-duck session kicks off this week so take us through what to watch for this week, the highlights as house republicans leadership. guest: they start with leadership elections are sickness wednesday and not whole lot on the schedule but behind the scenes they will be working to try to come t