Your unfiltered view of 308 ticks. Of politics. Each week when congress is in session we like to take time to look at the week ahead in washington. Joined by jason dick Deputy Editor at roll call newspaper and alana treene. Last weeks impeachment inquiry involved several current and former members of the Trump Administration testified behind closed doors, is that going to continue again this week and if so who is on the docket for the investigative committees . Alayna it will continue and i imagine it will extend beyond. Right now we are seeing the schedule for this week. The house committees investigating the president and ukraine and annie and propriety potentially and any impropriety, they are ramping this up quickly and moving fast. They scheduled on sundays this week, two people a day to come in and testify behind closed doors. People from the nsc, people from omb, the office of management and budget. Technically acting omb director which is a semicabinet position. We have im looking forward to tomorrows testimony by bill replaced the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine between Text Messages and past testimony weve seen layout over the past few weeks he will definitely be an interesting person to watch. Ick whos going to get the most attention . Jason im curious toward the end of the week, if he does show up at the deposition, the president and the white House Counsel past they sent this broadside a couple weeks ago to congress saying they would not cooperate in any sense whatsoever in the impeachment inquiry. People have been showing up for depositions. Theyve been testifying. It might be related to the fact that congress over the last couple of years has passed a series of laws that go into their Appropriations Bills saying if you try to prevent somebody from testifying to congress you can dock your pay. This may be whats at work for some of these folks showing up. Directorets to the omb , hes close enough to the president being and acting cabinet member that we will see whether that firewall the president and the white house isnsel have tried to erect how porous. Im fascinated by the fact that so many of these folks have been showing up, granted some of them have a little bit of a bone to pick with the president and rudy giuliani, his personal attorney. Its going to be pretty interesting, starting with bill taylor. Host behind closed doors its the House Oversight committee, the House Intelligence Committee the Foreign Affairs committee that will be meeting in these closeddoor testimonies. If likely to go past this week. How long is this aspect of the impeachment process going to last . I spoke alayna with a lot of members on the hill last week Speaker Pelosi has been saying she wants to get this wrapped up as efficiently as possible but no one is putting a distinct timeline on it. Willsay they are they see as many people as they need to to get a good sense of if they move forward with they will write in the articles of impeachment Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has said and he spoke with hes hoping that the house will vote on impeachment by thanksgiving so that they can have a senate trial wrapped up by the end of ae year that is not definitive timeline. I spoke with mcconnells team as well. He has not even spoken with Speaker Pelosi or Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer yet so everyone is putting some sort of timeline on this its not fully baked in just yet. Host connecticut democrat jim himes, member of the House Intelligence Committee am a part of this process, he was on sunday shows yesterday. Talked a little bit about timing. This is what he had to say. [video clip] this is no way for the republicans to defend the actions of the president here. What the chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, said. No way to defend that behavior. As a result, they are attacking the process. Let me spend a second on that process. The previous impeachment inquiries of nixon and clinton a special prosecutor star in the case of nexen by different special prosecutor. We are doing that now and an investigation does not happen in the light of day. There will be open hearings every transcript after classified information will be released publicly. This will ultimately be all out there for the American People to see and with the American People will see as there is not one word of testimony, written or spoken, which contradicts the notion that the president used the assets of the United States military aid, white house meeting, to advance his political interest of getting ukraine to metal in the next the upcoming president ial election. When will those documents be made public. Thehen you are shocked by chief of staff saying there was a quid pro quo, its a little hard to make any predictions whatsoever about what the timing will be. Margaret, my belief is shocking things happen every day. My belief is that the House Speaker would like to get this wrapped up by the end of the year. I think thats probably possible. Host your thoughts on the timing here . Lot alana said some heard same things we have. Mitch mcconnell thinks it would be great to have a vote before thanksgiving that there would be it would be great to wrap up the trial before christmas. Senators are saying it would be awesome. I dont really want to be here around christmas. It seems to be a little bit wishful thinking. I think they caught a little bit of a break when the president backed off hosting the g7 next year. Int was possibly in the mix terms of having to pursue that with impeachment inquiry. Everybody does want to wrap this up because i dont think they wanted to start interfering with the president ial primary and caucusing system which we are looking at january february will be go time. It seems to be beyond their control and the longer they have a 12 hour deposition for one person, a jet sorts of sort of bleeds one week into the other. Mcconnell wasnt soliciting saying when they have to work weekends we are talkings sake or ground. Host the week ahead is our topic. What do you want to talk about this morning in the week ahead in washington . Republicans, 202 7488001, democrats 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 dic come outside of impeachment inquiryk about turkey sanctions on the docket talks about turkey sanctions in the docket. Wasn a lot of the schedule laid out before we realize the speaker of the house would lead a congressional delegation to the middle east and afghanistan. It seems like even as they were putting the schedule together on friday evening, things may have changed a little bit. Before the end of the week, this week will be wednesday because the Funeral Services for the late Elijah Cummings house member from baltimore who died last week, they wanted to vote on a bipartisan series of sanctions on turkey by the end of the week. Sometime before wednesday, more likely it would be on wednesday. This is there fly in day. They are not getting it until this afternoon. They have a series of quick with they can deal with, some noncontroversial things before they get very controversial thing which will be whether to censure adam schiff, the Intelligence Committee chairman that republicans pushed to censorship over how hes handled the impeachment inquiry. The vote was scheduled for thursday. Of day coming the sponsor that resolution andy biggs is the chairman of the Freedom Caucus held off and was able to offer democrats are going to. Able it to turkey sanctions and also election security, there is that issue. Election security measure will likely be voted on tuesday or wednesday. Host on the turkey sanctions what did the white house say about it . Whatever the house comes up with is this something the senate takes up . Alayna this is actually really interesting because weve seen one of the president s fiercest grahamrs senator lindsey definitely coming out with some of the most forceful language m definitely coming out with some of the most forcefulin his cornt watches every day have been sharing some of the fiercest criticism over this. Host you mentioned Lindsey Graham, an interview on ask he is on hbo with Lindsey Graham, he talks about this featured in the ask he is sneak peek that came out late last night. Alayna treene the author of that last night. Taking your calls, your questions about the week ahead in washington. Chuck is up 1st avenue dayton. Good morning out of dayton eerie good morning. Caller good morning thank you for cspan. Im wondering how long the republicans i was a republican for a long time. What . How long republicans caller how long they are going donaldmoscow mitch done trump and the three amigos run this country into the ground. Absurd whats going on with the country right now. The only person ever talked about a revolution is donald trump. Host chuck in ohio asking about perhaps cracks in the Republican Coalition behind the president. The clip on grandma that was on hbo. I see this as a broadside to the president. Somebody like Lindsey Graham who knows his political fortunes are president s if he is willing to go on ask eos and say i would be open to impeachment, thats got to set off a lot of bells in the white house. With mcconnell, Mitch Mcconnell is a very deliberate politician. He does not really do much that he does not feel he has to do in order to move the needle he wants to. And oped rein in the sunday paper about how the syria decision was the wrong way to go. Did not mention the president by name but those are cracks in the armor right there. Host calling it a great mistake on syria there is the oped from yesterdays sunday cost washington post. Alayna treene, talk about Francis Rooney, republican congressman from florida getting a lot of attention about his comments on impeachment. Alayna hes the first to come out and say he would support potential impeachment against the president. He also said hes not running for reelection which i think is a big caveat to all of this. A lot of people on the hill who will privately says or misgivings or criticize him behind closed doors dont do so publicly because they dont want to be seen as tucking their party leader but also politically it can be damaging to some people who are up for reelection and this is something weve seen play out over the past few years. A lot of Republican Leaders not willing to go about publicly and criticize President Trump because of political ramifications. Host do you think their attention a retired member of congress that hes the attention hes going for this is overblown . Jason granted Francis Rooney is not in the Leadership Structure or an influential chairman. At the same time it speaks that people are fed up. Rooney is one of those guys who, if he wanted to stay in congress for the rest of his political career, he could and he seems to be like, ive had enough. By the way, i would be open to impeachment. Another retiring member and their actions speak louder than words, max fortenberry, the from a deep red state deep red district in texas. He accompanied the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi to her congressional delegation to afghanistan. I think the thing the white house must be the most concerned about is not so much that youve got a backbencher who is retiring and he got another guy who goes on a congressional delegation but the fact that they do not need to worry about the consequent as anymore. You start to lose control of the narrative. Host okeechobee, florida, your next good morning. Caller i have two things i want to comment on. It that thehy is news reports and all the paper and even him right now talking about being a bipartisan trip, a side trip pelosi took to afghanistan only one republican there how can they be bipartisan when they were all democrats and only one republican and yet they say its bipartisan. News you had a guest was asked a specific question from one of the commenters about why here in america we are part of nato. We pay money into that. Big money. Why is it where the only country that goes out and has our men all over the world killing with no help from nato. Where is nato . Those are two questions. Thank you. Host jason comedy want to take up the idea of bipartisanship . Jason one thing that it is just a fact that if you have a republican joining democrats it is bipartisan even if the ratio may not be one to one. Host on legislation that comes through if theres one sponsor from the other side is touted as bipartisan. Jason that is not something that people in the media are pushing. Thats not a narrative theyre pushing. That is just a fact. It becomes bipartisan even if it is one person. There is a lot of significance there because of thornberrys position. As the Top Republican on the Armed Services committee. A former deputy secretary of state in the reagan administration. A trueblue republican. This is not somebody nobody has roundof in the defense three people in the pentagon respect what Mac Thornberry says. He might have retired regardless of the situation with the president but this is an influential person and he does add some have to to that. In terms of the concerns about nato, for me i dont have an answer to that. The administration has made this one of its concerns is that they dont feel nato other members of nato are stepping up and a lot of the world conflicts. That is something to other people but it is certainly on the table in terms of issues. To host host jump in with what the white house is saying about natos role in mid whats happening in the region . Alayna alayna they are sticking to what the president has been saying since whos on the campaign trail. That he does not believe other members are paying their dues. We see him criticizing european leaders like angela merkel, Prime Minister of germany, and for their cooperation and participation and this is a big reason why the president felt that we should be pulling some of the u. S. Troops out of syria. He things wise this our fight. This endless war is a gripe of his. Why is it that we are the ones who are responsible for was happening. Isis anding of Counterterrorism Measures are important to the president. We are seeing a bit of a power struggle. We know that people, leaders on the hill are coming to the president including Lindsey Graham. One of his fiercest allies trying to convince him that America Needs to step up and show that leadership roles and have a presence to make sure all the work that has been done over the past several years is not dissolved over this one move. Host over the weekend announced that troops are getting right to be deployed from iraq to syria may be 1000 troops will be in western iraq. Is this undercutting that idea of ending the endless wars . Is the white house saying criticism on that front . I think there will be criticism alayna not pulling troops completely as the president had said i was a campaign promise. I think most people are of the mind we are seeing republicans being some of the most outraged over the issue. They want people there, they isis and thee that other terrorist organizations fill this vacuum with troops in place so we do not fall back into a pattern of what we saw over the past few years. I think theres reports we have seen from the New York Times and wall street journal overnight that some troops may be capped there to help defend the kurds and tried to prevent isis from researching. It will be interesting messaging for the white house. Jason some of the oil wells there are a place the troops would protect. Alayna weve seen the president referred to protecting the oil fields in syria frequently throughout. People have raised eyebrows saying is that what we are protecting . Not the kurds . That is definitely a location that the president has been wanting. Host 8 30 on the east coast. Yna treene, white house taking your comments and questions about another busy week ahead in washington. Charles, st. Petersburg, florida democrat, good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to say im not the most versed person on whats going on in the world today in terms of politics but i would like to say that i implore everyone, particularly any other party, start getting information from other sources other than just fox newss of the world. To educate themselves on whats going on. Common decency and understanding, what weve got going on in our society is horrendous. We cant even agree on truths. We have to find ourselves debating truth and alternative facts. It is a shame and i hope we all can do better. Host host if you want to learn more about the situation in syria at least four congressional committees are Holding Hearings on that topic. Senate Foreign Relations committee has a hearing on tuesday afternoon schedule. Wednesday morning as the house Foreign Affairs committee. Wednesday afternoon its the House Oversight and reform committee. Also wednesday afternoon the Senate Appropriations committee. Ck, which hearing will you be watching . Jason one of the more interesting committees to look at, no offense to the house, with the house leaders we kind of know where they are going in terms of their criticism of the president and where their energy is heading with impeachment inquiry. On the senate side, with formulations