the democratic side whose votes remain critical in the evenly split senate. meanwhile, the debt ceiling fight will be reviewed again. if you feel like it's deja vu, it's because we just went through this in october. democrats opted for a short-term extension which would avoid a shutdown of the government. a short-term extension that was passed by democrats expires on december 3rd. that's friday. joining me now is betsy woodruff swann, a national correspondent for politico. let's start with where i started. donald trump's appeals to the court to prevent the january 6th panel from obtaining certain documents. where does that stand? >> we're expecting developments on this at some point this week. the judge who is supervisoring the case, judge carl nichols, has opted not to expedite that process or not to slow down that process. he could have taken some procedural stems that would have made that case move more slowly, but it's actually not happening.