over the next several weeks. senate majority leader chuck schumer telling us he hopes to have this on the floor by christmas. don, that s going to be quite a lift to get that done. remember, they ve got debt limit. they ve got government funding. they ve got other things they ve got to deal with on the senate floor as well. but in the end, they got figure out what joe manchin s willing to accept. and you can expect president biden to be very involved once it goes over to the senate, because these house members, these progressives have trusted that the president is going to be able to bring the democrats home on the senate side. so now we ll see if that happens. quite a list for christmas. for us in the news business, wow, you have that long for a deadline? usually i need that video in 30 seconds. we re on the air. fast. thank you, jessica. we ll check in with you. jessica will be there and we ll be covering it. let s turn to our chief political analyst gloria borger for an analys
going to go home for thanksgiving first. so the house is going to leave after this. the senate is already out. once they come back in the senate, they re going to start working on this diligently. they have been talking about this, of course. now that it is formally going to make its way over there, they re going to really buckle down on this. now, the house i m sorry, the senate majority leader chuck schumer said he hopes to have hopes to have this on the floor by christmas. but jim and erica, that s a very tight timeline in the best of circumstances. just to, like, zoom out and give you the big picture on the senate for a second, remember, they got to deal with the debt limit that is coming up. they got to deal with the government funding. they re doing the defense act. they got a lot going on over there. that takes up floor time. so with the process that they re using, they re going to have to do vote avoramas and th is a lot of procedure that has to take place. in addition to
but they got to get senator joe manchin has to sign on. he just told cnn that he is not on board yet. where does this go, jessica? right. that s such a great question. none of us know the exact answer because we re going to have to see ultimately, don, what senator joe manchin is willing to accept. also, senator kyrsten sinema. but it appears she has kind of come around on a lot of the contours of this bill, of this framework that president biden had laid out. but senator manchin is one that continues to push become on a lot of these issues that remain in here, and certainly on issues that are coming over from the house version of this bill, which included four weeks of paid leave. you remember that got dropped from the framework that was floating around. so that s likely to come out. also, the expansion of medicare. that s something that bernie sanders has said is incredibly important to him, to include vision, dental and hearing. so it s issues like this that s going to be the push
what ve seen laid out from career diplomats, these are not political operatives. these are people who take their loyalty to the united states seriously. they ve laid out a really serious and, frankly, uncontested factual case for impeachment that is very, very difficult if you take it seriously, if you put all the political noise aside, it s hard to see. where my belly is full, my mind is full. thanks to all four of you. have a very good weekend. coming up for you, why the president s involvement in a case centered around a navy seal accused of murder has the secretary of the u.s. navy thinking about resigning. great riches will find you when liberty mutual
the senate yet and that really puts the impeachment inquiry on a crash course with a lot of these senate candidates, with a lot of these senators who are also candidates for president. we have that whole collision course coming potentially early next year. voters are aware of that. but there is a reality that if you re in new hampshire or iowa, the campaigns are going ahead with the normal art of campaigning, getting their ground game out, putting volunteers and organizers on the ground and making sure they can turn out their voters, impeachment inquiry aside. ali vitaly, thank you so much. coming up next hour on politicsnation, former massachusetts governor and 2020 presidential candidate patrick talks about the 2020 race. coming up here, a look at what potential articles of impeachment might look like.