Ater, Susan Ferrechio takes look at how the next senate is shaping up. We also take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host the shape of president elect Joe Bidens Administration will begin to take shape today as he names a covid advisory panel. While cabinet choices may be a week or more away, he could name his chief of staff this week. Good morning, it is monday, november 9. Welcome to washington journal. Our first hour of questioning asking you what is your top priority for the Biden Administration . Here is how you take part. One line for democrats, one line for republicans, one for independence and others. Independents and others. We welcome your texts. Please include your name and where you are texting from. And on facebook as well. We will also keep you updated on some of the legal challenges that are continuing in several states to the election by the Trump Campaign. We will tell you more about those as we look for
Plus our power house round table takes on the state of the 2020 race. Announcer from abc news its this week. Here now coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning. Welcome to this week. Its been over a week since the block buster impeachment hearings. Tomorrow democrats will take another important step in the highspeed, highstakes impeachment inquiry. The House Intelligence Committee is set to release its report to its members monday ahead of the first public hearings in the Judiciary Committee wednesday. Its the Judiciary Committee which is tasked with drawing up articles of impeachment. Theyll hear witness testimony from legal experts and ultimately deliberate what may or may not constitute high crimes and misdemeanors. Trumps legal team has been invited to participate in those proceedings. As of this morning, theyve yet to issue a response. For more lets bring in abc news chief legal analyst dan abrams. Dan, the Intelligence Committee is producing a report based on their investigation incl
In congress. We have a house considering Bipartisan Legislation that would impose new sanctions on turkey while the senate is blocking this ever. And he tells more about the congressional response to turkeys recent note to action . Guest at this point the house is going to take up some legislation that would sanction turkey and their its possible the the senate will tt up. It is being slow down in the senate, paused in the senate because the republicans who run the Upper Chamber want to give the ceasefire a chance here. I want to give the president a chance to try to see if the deal he worked out here is going to be successful. But there can having sanctions as a plan b. So the house will pass it and there can looking into junctions with Senate Republicans who are not opposed with house is doing. They just want to give the president a chance and i think i recall the president saying last week, actually this week if the sanctions ceasefire is a successful he reimpose the sanctions that
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Susan this week on newsmakers, steven law joins us, the president of the Senate Leadership fund. We also have the chief Congressional Correspondent with the Washington Examiner, and the chief Congressional Correspondent with the Associated Press. Let me begin with explaining to our viewers, what is your group, how much you plan to spend in the 2020 race, and where do you plan to spend that money. Steven i represent a Senate Leadership fund and one nation, two organizations involved in politics and policy, focused on the senate. In 2018, we raised and spent about 190 million. I think we will get somewhere in that range. The focus will be on holding the majority. Our focus is to make sure our senators come back and pick up the one senate seat, especially in alabama, that we lost in 2017. Greta what states are you focusing on . Steven that is yet to be determined. These races are starting to shape up, but we see contests in colorado, North Carolina, arizona and possibly maine, kentucky, i