In the coming week, Congress returns to feuds over surveillance law and Ukraine, and Sudan begins a second year of civil war.

It's April 11, 2024 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carly and Robbins.

Carla, we're going to start off on Capitol Hill.

And this is because we've already had a congressional return that has been mired in internal feuding,

grappling over a couple of, in particular, very big agenda items.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is seeking a path for reauthorizing Section 702 of what is known as

FISA or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

But he's running into really some exceptional opposition from his own caucus.

19 Republican lawmakers defied the GOP leadership and voted with

Democrats to defeat a procedural vote that would have advanced reauthorization for the spy

legislation.

So Carla Johnson is trying to bring up FISA to the floor, it seems like, at last report.

But with this kind of pushback, what does this mean for this national security priority?

So, Bob, as you said, Congress is back in town and the dysfunction is back with them in full

force. And right now, some of the biggest issues roiling the Republican ranks, and by the middle

of the month, they're only going to have a majority of one. Some of their biggest problems

are in the national security world. Yesterday after President Trump posted on truth social,

kill FISA, it was illegally used against me, Speaker Johnson's third effort, count them three,

to advance a five-year extension of Section 702, collapsed in an all-out brawl.

And this section of FISA allows the government to collect electronic communications.

We're talking about phone calls, emails, text messages from foreigners abroad without a warrant,

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