Reporter with politico. The weekend largely focused on fiscal year 2020 spending. Lets start with the house and a tweet of yours saying house leaders are readying a continuing resolution through the 21st that would prevent President Trump from holding up aid to ukraine, freeze President Trumps trade relief and flexibility on border fencing. Why do they need a continuing resolution and what is so special about this date other than being the weekend before thanksgiving . If you are from other with at all familiar with congress, youre probably familiar with the fact they like to put spending bill deadlines up against the holidays to force some action and urgency. If we are putting up against thanksgiving, hypothetically, Everyone Wants to go home to and Everyone Wants to get this done. That is the scenario lawmakers are hoping for. You never know what will happen here knock on wood that it does not happen. But like you said, house lawmakers are circulating a draft, a continuing resolution that would extend current funding levels likely through november point first. That is something we could see as early as next week. It is possible the committee could meet tuesday night, and we could see a vote on that measure. Lawmakers are preparing the shortterm spending fix because the appropriations process at the moment is a little stuck. It is being mired in some partisan disagreement. We already have house markup, it doesnt spending bills they have to revisit. They got started on their own process this week. Government funding is set to run out. There is very little time the house and senate has to negotiate a spending bill that will provide updated funding levels, so it is very real that there will be the need to provide time for more negotiations. Let me ask you about the senate process. You reported on it. The Senate Spending bills thrown into chaos over abortion policy, border wall. Tell us about the bills they are trying to markup. We see patty murray on the screen there. How was she involved in some of the issues that came up the past week . Caitlin the senate got started right away. Spending bills for the department of labor, education, state and other foreign operations, the pentagon, epa, and water programs. They had intended on the outset of the week to tackle fiscal spending bills right away, just as things got on the ground, things fell apart. Patty murphy said she would introduce an amendment for the Education Bill that would stop the Trump Administration from implementing this antiabortion title ix rule. Republicans right away were like, we consider that to be a poison pill. The term is key because in the budget agreement, President Trump said there is sort of a handshake agreement between house and Senate Lawmakers to avoid the socalled poison pills we also saw state and foreign operations bills get sidelined. It was also tabled. So right away, things got off to a rough start. The Senate Appropriations committee and that passing a spending bill for the pentagon and energy and water programs just yesterday. The two bills are moving forward and the senate could take them up on the floor. You write about aid to ukraine, your article saying Trump Administration backs off on the Ukraine Military aid. What happened . Caitlin this has been very controversial as an issue in recent weeks. The Trump Administration has looked at foreign aid as a whole with a lot of scripting two. With a lot of scrutiny. If u. S. The administration why, they say we want to ensure that the money is spent wisely overseas and other countries are paying their fair share. We broke the story last month but when we received a tip the Trump Administration have frozen the 250 million pot of funds, these are a bipartisan pot of money. They are considered important to keeping russian aggression at bay. There is a lot of controversy around the Trump Administration the president in roster in russia. It clearly brought up a lot of questions it sparked an intense amount of bipartisan backlash. Even republican senators like senator lindsey graham, one of the president s top allies, warned that you should not be doing this. We found out the office of management and budget has lifted their hold on that fund. The backlash was so intense that senators felt it prudent to improve there was a debate yesterday during the Senate Appropriations committee, senator durbin wanted an amendment to ensure the administration no longer tried to free up eight to ukraine. The house continuing resolution also includes a provision preventing the president from holding up further aid to the ukraine. This has become such a bipartisan swell that lawmakers in both the house and the senate on both sides want to put restrictions gold has been give us one of the key players youre watching as the spending debate continues. Caitlin the focus is on the Senate Appropriations chairman, House Appropriations chairwoman nina. They will be the key. The house and senate has to negotiate on spending bills that will provide updated spending levels for the federal government. There needs to be some kind of compromise there. That being said, they historically have worked well together and are key players to watch. In addition to that, another key player to watch for next week would be Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. How will the senate proceed on the spending bills moving, will they just had into formal conference negotiations with the house, the majority winner will be making decisions on that certainly. Caitlin emma, politico. Com is where you can read her reporting. Follow her on twitter. Thank you so much. House returns tuesday at noon for general speeches. You can watch live on cspan. The senate convenes monday at cspan2. , live on monday night, on the communicators, the cochair of the Artificial Intelligence caucus on the future of Artificial Intelligence, election security, and whether Big Tech Companies need more regulation. At how itant to look is doing its business practices, it is important to do it in a very thoughtful way. I know that the department of justice, the federal trade commission are commission are also talking about doing an investigation on competitive practice with these companies. It is good to look at this and make sure the companies are behaving. Im not sure that breaking companies up is a good idea. These are Big Companies with a lot of tentacles, a lot of employees. If you manage to do that, theres going to be unintended consequences. Cspan2. , on next, Malcolm Gladwell talking about his book, talking to strangers. In the House Judiciary Committee reviews propose legislation related to guns. After that, form examining the challenges facing policymakers who are working to decrease the number of fentanyl and opioidrelated deaths. Host Malcolm Gladwell, book number six out this week talking to strangers, what is the premise of this book, your latest book . Malcolm the premise of this latest book is that were not very good at talking to strangers. I was struck by how many of the kind of contemporary high