host: mike lillis from the hill joining us. if you want to ask some questions about congress, (202)-748-8000 for democrats, republicans, (202)-748-8001. it is (202)-748-8002 for independents. a lot of activity last week. could you spell out what happens on that front? guest: the big thing that happens is in the judiciary committee that has jurisdiction over impeachment. jerry nadler who has been around forever, a constitutional law expert, seems to be well-positioned to be the presiding guy on this issue. there has been all of this talk, are we doing impeachment, are we not? a lot of outlets out there including our newspaper keeping these lists of democrats who ours -- you are supporting -- who are supporting impeachment. they are playing this game, the semantics game where they are saying we are in an impeachment inquiry, but we are not going to vote on anything to do so and that is a change from the impeachment inquiries of the past, watergate and surrounding bill clinton in the late 90's where they did have a vote to launch

host: mike lillis from the hill joining us.you want to ask some questions about congress, (202)-748-8000 for democrats, republicans, (202)-748-8001. it is (202)-748-8002 for independents. a lot of activity last week. could you spell out what happens on that front? guest: the big thing that happens is in the judiciary committee that has jurisdiction over impeachment. jerry nadler who has been around forever, a constitutional law expert, seems to be well-positioned to be the presiding guy on this issue. there has been all of this talk, are we doing impeachment, are we not? a lot of outlets out there including our newspaper keeping these lists of democrats who ours -- you are supporting -- who are supporting impeachment. they are playing this game, the semantics game where they are saying we are in an impeachment inquiry, but we are not going to vote on anything to do so and that is a change from the impeachment inquiries of the past, watergate and surrounding bill clinton in the late 90's where they did have a vote to launch this

host: this is mike lillis of the hill, senior reporter, here to talk about congress returning from the august break. let's start with the brick itself. any significant changes when legislators were back in their districts and how does that translate to coming back to work today? guest: all of these mass shootings had began just after they had gone home and that drove the debate are a couple weeks and democrats hope that momentum, something that can be done legislatively will be done in september. all of that ball is up in the draftedls are being with some markups, but the wildcard is what is mitch mcconnell going to bring to the floor? he made it clear he is not going to bring anything up to a vote without president trump support. trump has been all over the board. you go back to decades and two weeks, he seems to contradict himself on what he supports. he used to support assault weapons bans and background checks and all of these things, and sometimes he says he does not support those things anymore and seems to be adopting an ra points, claiming mental health and violent video games

host: this is mike lillis of the hill, senior reporter, here to talk about congress returning from the august break. let's start with t

host: this is mike lillis of the hill, senior reporter, here to talk about congress returning from the august break. let's start with the brick itself. any significant changes when legislators were back in their districts and how does that