Uranium enrichment. What can expect from the administration . We heard from secretary of state. Omp pao pompeo i would expect more tough talk this week but President Trump is disinclined to intervene militarily a broad. There was a lot of talk recently about pompeo beating the war drum. We have heard less about john bolton lately. President trump has been warning iran but at the same time saying it doesnt look good. I imagine we will hear him telling it iran to knock it off. Something to cut this short. In your National Journal piece at the end of last week, lots going on. Foreign policy, defense dominate the senate. On iran you talked about senators rand paul introducing in thee in terms of Iran NationalDefense Authorization act, that the senate will begin to take up this week. It is the defense spending bill that Congress Considers and it is supposed to get a vote, procedural vote this week. On the full house floor, it passed out of committee a month or so ago. What senators including rand paul, tim kaine, tom udall, mostly democrats but including senator paul, they want to make sure any spending happens on or attempt to buffer them against military action has to go through congress, trying to make sure the white house doesnt try to use the 20 the 2001 war powers act to preempt congress and act without Congress Passed say so. Congresss sayso. Host a doozy of a session last week, 20 plus hours in terms of incommittee marking it up. Will we see any significant changes and defense policy now the democrats are in control in the house . Are they are posing significant alterations . Guest defense spending tends to be more partisan than other issues. There are questions about the total numbers and all of these spending bills, house is working on Appropriations Bills as well, that is happening before the topline numbers set. We can talk about that later. Democrats would like to spend a little less on defense or public and republicans want to spend more. Host the president will be launching his campaign tomorrow night in orlando, florida, the 2020 campaign. The news over the weekend was, the president fired a couple of his pollsters. That was announced sunday. Why did this happen . Says President Trump pulls can be fake like the news. He didnt like the results that were leaked out showing him in trouble in certain areas. Tuesday will be different than four years ago. It is a must for years to the day when President Trump announced in 2015 that he was running and people thought it was a joke, some sort of business ploy. He came down the escalator at trump tower to the cheers of. Aid actors who were given 50 in orlando you will be having tens of thousands of people show up. 70,000 people i believe he said will be coming. There will be an arena with 20,000 sikhs. It will be a packed house. It will be a different show than we saw four years ago. Issue leading up to , we saw a headline in the new york times, liberals want trump impeached. What is your gauge on where the issue is, understanding you cover the senate but where is the issue in the house among democrats . Guest i imagine President Trump will bring up impeachment when he has his rally in florida. It is something that gets his supporters fired up. Elections wee 2018 didnt see talk about impeachment from candidates are voters. There was more discussion about health care and Kitchen Table issues. In the house it is split. Nancy pelosi and other moderate democrats on one side argue, lets focus on investigations have properure we oversight of the administration, connect republicans to any sort of allegations of corruption or malfeasance. You have a vocal progressive wing in the house and nationwide house tourging the take up impeachment and potentially send over impeachment charges to the senate, where they would more or more than likely fail. Host the president tweets, big rally tomorrow night in orlando. Florida looks to be setting records. We are building large movie screens outside to take share take care of everyone. Great, far is doing beyond what the haters and losers thought possible. The president is tweeting on the polling issue, only fake polls show was behind the motley crew. It is too early to be focused on that. Make America Great again. We welcome your calls. We are joined by stephen and jack, talking about the week ahead on the hill in in politics. We have our democratic line and are independent line. We will get your calls momentarily. Stephen nelson, there were people talking, the members of the senate talking about ways forward on 2020 sending spending. We know if there will be additional meetings . Of these meetings arent really scheduled and if they are, they dont really have the full list of names in advance. I imagine we will be hearing more about spending. With President Trump, i guess the details work themselves out on capitol hill. President trumps meticulous in every facet of this. It is more outsourced. Republicanhink leaders in the senate are trying to button things up before they go to the president and go things from the white house it has been steven mnuchin, mick whoaney, and others, folks have been meeting with Congressional Republicans who are desperate to avoid another shutdown. That is what happened last year. The talks are ongoing to try to find some sort of Common Ground between the white house, Senate Republicans command house to raise the debt ceiling and this needs to happen before the end of the quarter to avert another shutdown and set up something for the next two years. Host they havent agreed on spending because of the mandated budget caps. They have to break those caps to come up with a budget. Guest the caps were set to try to tackle the deficit and the debt and if a deal is and reached to raise the budget caps, there would be automatic sequestration cuts to the fence nondefensese and programs. That is something we would like to avoid. We will have to see whether these parties can come together on an agreement in the weeks ahead. There are 20 session days left before the recess and that will stop any momentum if they dont come to a deal. Host zach covers the senate, works for the Washington Examiner. Com. We welcome your calls and comments. We will go to our independent line. Michael in imperial beach, california. Good morning. I was wondering if you could update us on the security clearance issues. I called him before about this but after seeing kushners interview, i was wondering if you could explain to us come are we ever going to get to the bottom of who has security clearances, how they got them command if you could update on that. The last time this came up, Sarah Sanders, who no longer does briefings and no longer has a position for very much longer, she told reporters they would not be discussing who has clearances and they wont be participating in inquiries. Her justification was discussing this would jeopardize everyone else who have security clearances. This is security clearances should be secret and handled confidentially. That limits the oversight and potentially creates issues. The white house over time has had many different issues with staffers. Some have credit card bills, some allegedly beat their exwives and that was allegedly problematic. Tensionll be continued over transparency with the white house not wanting to divulge much. Host i want to focus on the issue of iran and comments made over the weekend by the secretary of state mike pompeo. The headline this morning, asitary hit on the table response to attack on the oil tankers. I want to play you the comments of mike pompeo and followup up with a question. Here is mike pompeo. We are seen a number of activities not just, 4 other commercial chips ships challenge to the International Norms of freedom of navigation. The u. S. Has briefed the president and we will keep him updated. We can takedent action to restore deterrence, which is our mission. You say a full range of options. Does that include a military response . X of course. The president will continue everything. Have at want iran to Nuclear Weapon. The Previous Administration put them on a path where they could get there. Towardsoving ourselves a set of policies that will convince iran to behave like a normal nation. Attackingeen them international waterways, trying to drive up the price of crude oil so the world will cry uncle. If they are cashstrapped, why would they attack . Iran cant sell its crude oil. We put sanctions that have taken them from 2. 7 Million Barrels per day. This video was released purporting to show a revolutionary guard patrol boat pulling alongside the vessels and removing a mine from the ship. How certain are you this is the irgc . Will you present this evidence to our allies in the United Nations . X of course we will. We dont just purport. His was the real data we shared it with allies already. You had a chance to see it. Yesterday, icalls made more today. The world needs to unite against the threat against from iran. Host that is mike pompeo on face the nation. Who has the president s year on ons issue and more ear this issue and more broadly Foreign Policy . Guest mike pompeo and john bolton both have a reputation hawks. Theycks want to have regime change their. President trump seems to be pulling in the other direction. He is instinctually against largescale military interventions in the middle east. He talks a lot about iraq and the experience there. The threat of military actions, i expect we asear more but does with venezuela, President Trump said military options are on the table. Last time iran he did up a couple months ago, john bolton d he did up a couple heated up a couple months ago, john bolton put out a statement about a new deal. I would imagine President Trump will be confident. Host does the president pretty much have support of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Relations committee and other senators on iran, realizing it is a new issue in terms of the most recent issue . Do you think they have his back . The senate was briefed on the situation a few weeks ago and that was very important when the tensions ramped up. Senators said we arent sure why these escalations are taking place. Host this was before the mine incident. Guest when tensions first started ramping up. For warsnt been calls or anything along those lines. There are a couple examples, tom cotton on the same program said there should be action against iran following on the evidence of the cia and mike pompeo. I think they will push the administration to talk to them and make sure they are on the same page should any military action take place. Host lets go to our democrats line, from kansas city. Comment and a a couple questions. I joined the military in 1989, when the first bush was in office. Talk about the military. Lots of these guys, i was 19 years old so you join because you have no other option. You are not going to college, cant afford it. That is why i joined the army. You get sent to places to defend basically oil. You dont realize that as a teenager, but that is basically what you are doing, defending oil. As far as the spending and all that stuff, i have seen with my immigration,ar as there are lots of people that are here in this country that are not from mexico, they are from europe, india, everywhere else. We concentrate on the wrong perspectives of immigrants, which built this country. Our debt will never be paid off, ever. It will never be paid off. I dont even know why we are talking about that. , his last as trump two wives werent from here. The first lady now got over here illegally and worked and got paid. Nobody even thinks about all of that. Hour we spent the First Talking about the debt and deficit. On immigration, there is a push for border wall funding from the white house. Is that likely to be a sticky issue as they try to resolve a final budget deal . Is a two track plan. The Senate AppropriationsCommittee Meeting to market legislation that would take up the president s request for four point 5 billion dollars in emergency Supplemental Fund to go to the humanitarian crisis at the southern border, at least 3 billion for humanitarian aid. That a shelter, beds, personnel to take care of the migrants coming over the border in record numbers. Democrats are concerned that republicans will use the opportunity to pay for Law Enforcement and ramp up the physical barriers, personnel, technology that would stem the tide to the point they would prefer to see in a much more comprehensive bill. While that effort is going on, it presages the effort for a longterm spending deal which will include immigration and border spending. Host the white house announced a new legislative liaison last week. Can you tell us anything about that . Guest you are talking about the legislative Affairs Director . Yes, that is someone who has been in the west wing. He will be taking on legislative efforts. That office has a little bit of a diminished profile now the republicans arent in control of both houses. The ability to pass president ial priorities is greatly diminished. It is a different position, and he is supplemented by the former director of legislative affairs who is at the Vice President s office. Host on the tactical, logistics part, the headline we see, we had a guest over the weekend, this says when youre spending gap cap option one Year Spending gap cap option. Are you hearing anything from that . Guest i think there is interesting getting a longterm spending deal because that makes it host instead of the twoyear measure. Guest a oneyear deal would be right until the election. That would make it a more politically combustible situation. Host iris from michigan, go ahead. Caller i missed your old in washington. I see the panel behind one of the speakers that shows different views of the capital and the statue of Martin Luther king. When are you going to get back . There is too much diverge in. Who took theon picture of the boat taking the mine out of the ship . Where were the cameras . Of the see a long shot explosion, you dont see any boats in the vicinity. Where was the picture taken and why isnt it identified . There is so much going on, you cant keep up. Host good question. Do you know that . The secretary said something videothe veracity of the of the iranian mine being picked up. I dont know the source of the video to answer your question. We will hear from ned in alabama next. Lets talk about the iranian situation. Ship was hitat the by an object not from the water. Japan said nobody in their right mind would go into the water right next to the ship to get a mine out. Happensething like this , you want to understand first of all, you want to ask, who benefits from that . Area aregonist in this the following. United states, bolton and pompeo, and second, the arabs, and third, israel. Nobody talks about israel. President trump said we dont want the war. He said he is not going to go to war. Second, the arabs, all their water 100 across the miles from iran. Any missile from iran would devastate their own assets. Although the arabs would like the United States a hit iran to hit iran, they are not going to instigate the war. Host do either of you have comments about his take on iran . , with eventslly that seem to induce the United States military action, there are questions about the veracity. The apparent chemical weapon attack near damascus that seemed to cross obamas redline to intervene, there was a you when investigation that was unable to conclude what happened. There are questions that remain. There is the history of past u. S. Involvement, in a the intelligence was incorrect. The wallorting in street journal this morning, gears and motion for possible new tariffs. The office of Robert Lighthizer this week opening hearings on new tariffs, potential new tariffs on chinese goods. Your reporting, zach, is that lighthizer will testify before a congressional committee. What do they hope to hear . He will talk about usmca, the free trade agreement. In itsll replace nafta current form and lower taxes and have a new free trade deal between the three north american countries. Democrats will want to press the trade representative on issues such as labor, the environment, all things they would like to see added to the deal either in some implementing legislation that needs to work through congress over the next month and a half or so, and lighthizer will make the case likely that some of these changes will be toble to be added implementing legislation and would require reopening the deal and talking to mexico and canada , which is more complicated than most other negotiations. Host how close are they to getting to the floor for a vote . Guest nancy pelosi has sent her members to talk with the administration about changes they would like to see implemented. In the next few weeks, you will see legislation from the white house to congress to consider. But that will be after negotiations. Host here is michael from new york city on our democrats line. Caller good morning. Gentlemen, i want to ask you, how are we to believe this administration that has zero credibility . There is nothing that comes from this president or administration that has credibility. How am i supposed to believe these people . Thank you. Steven nelson, i will askt with you and then about the aftermath of Sarah Sanders departing as press secretary. Are there plans in the works to have somebody step in . Guest host what about Sarah Sanders