Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned after the show for a message from the Business Roundtable. And I'm Jake Sherman. Welcome back. The House and Senate come back into session today after six weeks of district work. There are 21 days until the government shuts down. Not much time to get much done. So we spoke to our sources in the congressional leadership to lay out the

dynamics each leader faces this fall and beyond. First up, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the obvious big

question facing Pelosi is simple. How does she handle what's quickly turning into a process that could

lead to impeaching President Donald Trump? More than half of the Democratic caucus wants to begin

proceedings to remove the president, not the least of which than half of the Democratic caucus wants to begin proceedings to remove the

president, not the least of which, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler of New York,

who seems ready to scream from the rooftops that he's ready to dump Trump. Pelosi, generally

speaking, is attuned to her own internal dynamics as anyone in the Capitol. And if she has to move, she will move.

But last we checked, and knowing Pelosi's private remarks, she still does not believe the public

is ready for impeachment. Conventional wisdom would dictate that she couldn't move to impeach the

president during an election year, although these days, conventional wisdom is as useful as it sounds.

Of course, Pelosi has other priorities, a fair shake when it comes to the spending bills that

will come due at the end of September and the tightening of gun laws to name two.

The USMCA, the replacement for NAFTA, will be on everyone's agenda, but Democrats close

to Pelosi believe consideration of the agreement might be delayed until 2020.

The NDAA, which sets military

policy each year, could be in minefield, considering Trump's gutting of military projects to build

the wall that he was never able to get Congress to fund. There's also the reality that come

January, Democrats will be smack dab back in the middle of an election year with the top of the

ticket coming into focus. Then there's Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

This is the figure who has perhaps the most interesting matrix of considerations at play.

McConnell has a Senate map that's tricky, although he'll remind you not to focus on the map

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