Is joining me is calen, appropriations and budget reporter for political. Politico. Housesenate appropriators are on the calendar to meet on capitol hill. Who will be in that meeting and what will be the key issues that need to be resolved . The top appropriators in the house and senate will be meeting we areday evening talking about Senate Appropriations chair richard shelley, his democratic counterpart patrick lahey, as well as House Appropriations chairwoman. They have an a normas list ahead of them. Agreement on the 2020 funding levels. To fund these bills. All of those issues are impeding progress on spending bills. You can have congressional leaders weighing another resolution keeping the government open to get these negotiations continuing. The house does plan to take up shortterm spending bills the week of november 18. How long is this continuing resolution expected to be. Collect sandy hoyer did outline your colleagues letter today that they picked up a continuing resolution the week of november 18. It will soon extent levels to buy time for negotiations over the annual appropriations bills. We arent sure that date would extend funding to. Again they are setting up this government funding deadline around christmas much to everybodys chagrin. President trump sounded alarms kind of left the door open to possibly shutting down the government over impeachment. Earlier this week, we had his top liaison to Congress Meeting with lawmakers, giving out some reassurance. As long as the democrats dont try to tie his hands on border wall funding. Through mid december seems to be the current thinking when it comes to a cr at the moment. Eric was recently on capitol hill. What are you hearing about the level of funding for the border that the white house and Congress Might except . Caitlin this is sort of the linchpin as senator shelby told us. This is the Biggest Issue really as they try to fund the government. The white house is seeking billions and billions of dollars for a border wall. Senate republicans have proposed providing him with 5 billion in their department of Homeland Security spending bill. House democrats are pretty insistent on the fact that he is not going to get another dime for that wall. They are upset about the fact that Senate Republicans have proposed taking billions away from the mastic programs to fund that wall. There exists an enormous impasse over funding and they have been waiting for some kind of signal from the white house if trump has kind of come down off that number and will accept something less. Senate democratic leader Chuck Schumer has said that he is increasingly worried that the president will want to shut the government down because of impeachment. What are other lawmakers talking about this as a possibility . Caitlin there is concern because we saw, just about a year ago, the president urging Mick Mulvaney and the president did shut down the government over him not getting the amount of funding he wanted for the wall. We saw that did not play out very well for republicans. I think the blame sort of fell squarely on the president for shutting down the government over this issue. That incident, about what could happen. The president is a little bit of a wildcard in that respect. His top liaison to congress was here this week, mainly offering reassurance that the president does not want to shut the government down. But that democrats should not try to shut down his ability to fund the wall if he is going to back a shortterm fix. Caitlin emma, you can read her work at politico. Com. For 40 years cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress. House, the supreme court. Mind,n make up your own created in 1979. Cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Your unfiltered view of government. Next, iraq, afghanistan and Vietnam Veterans who have written books about their experiences