The two big stories and more. With Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Two senators investigating, South Carolina republican Lindsey Graham and angus king will also be here. Budget director mick mulvaney. And handicapped the chances of the government sitting down at the end of the week when it runs out of funding. Plus, new poll numbers on Alabama Senate race. Now is roy moore faring after allegations of Sexual Misconduct with minors. All that plus plenty of political analysis coming up on face the nation. Good morning, welcome to face the nation im john dickerson. We knew it would be busy week when congress returned to washington but we had no idea just how busy. More stories of Sexual Misconduct on the part of the longest serving House Democrat john conyers now others prompted more calls for congress to do better job of policing its own. North korea fired another missile, one that in theory could reach washington. It is a situation that we will handle. Dickerson progress on tax b
We have no agency into conducting our due diligence. Lets bring in manu and kate rin c collins. What are you lawyering about whether or not ford will be willing to testify . Both sides expect that its possible that she could very welcome on monday. Both sides, republicans and democrats will tell you they dont know exactly what will happen before Chuck Grassleys friday deadline for her attorneys to respond to that offer to testify on monday. But one thing is very clear. Republicans are rejecting the demands by democrats and fords attorneys to set some conditions or limits or delay the hearing on monday. One of the things that fords attorneys raise last night was to bring in outside witnesses to testify and corroborate her story and allow the senators to assess what she is saying, but i spoke to senator john cornyn, the majority whip who sits on the Senate Judiciary committee, he said they would not allow ounce witnesses to come in. In his words, he said we already had a hearing and when
open. and then there s europe. markets on the rise despite a bunch of bearish economic indicators. german climate sentiment. but still hope they may piece together some band-aids with regard to the summit last night. guys, just a touch on mark briefly. part wanted to start saying live from the financial capital of the world as he did up until a year ago today. many of us got our start because of mark. i used to be opinionated. and i sent him e-mail after e-mail saying you don t know this, this is wrong. one day he says listen big boy, get your big butt over here. at that point we were at ft. lee. let s see how you do against me. of course once you got there i was trembling scared to death. please don t hurt me. and he was a titan. i want everyone to know the intimidation factor came from the fact we knew who he was working for which was you. we ask the tough questions to anybody who appears on our air. it is in the spirit of mark haines who always challenged the person he