one of them is passing a new spending belt bite september 8th to avoid a shutdown. they also need to iron out different parts of a tax report package, and then there is health care. impress want to restore the cost-sharing reduction payments of that the president eliminated, and there will be a debate on ending the individual health care mandate. makers will have to turn the lens on themselves and the sexual harassment allegations against senator al franken and congressman john conyers. that is not all. let s start with these here to talk about more of this with our own politics editor, chris stirewalt, and the editor and writer of halftime report which everyone should get. even though it does not come in a timely fashion for the show. [laughs] dana: if i want to start with al franken. he said, he is ashamed and embarrassed. he is sorry. will that be enough for his critics? nevertheless, he persisted. poor al franken, my god.