[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, chaplain criben. chaplain kibben chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me. eternal and loving god, we pray your blessing on us today. inure duties give us to press on with hearts open to emulating the forbearance and sacrifice you have demonstrated in your steadfast love for us and for this world. as brothers and sisters of your creation, we pray the safe to leave behind all that has kept us from living into this your gracious plan. and as we strain toward what is ahead, toward the goal of a higher calling, we pray your favor. may all who trust in you receive this your benediction
It all comes on the heels of tight special house races in conservative districts in kansas and georgia. A lot of, i mean, you know, weve been watching this and i believe there was a election coming up in virginia. Yup. People are just going to have all eyes on this to see how this happens. Whats fascinating too we talk about these special elections. Theres one coming up in montana. Democrats are making serious in roads. They have a democratic governor so there you have it, its one of those strange anomalies of politics. It swings both ways. It really does. Depends on who is in the white house sometimes. No kidding. Some analysts say the president ial election and the historic victory of President Trump sparked this voter interest in politics. Jonathan allen and amy parnes wrote the book shattered inside Hillary Clintons doomed campaign sort of a behind the scenes look at hillarys big loss. Guys thanks for joining us. Thanks for having us. Let me start, ive heard adjectives, juicy gripp
Happened again . Remember, there are only eight justices on the court. And there could be a tie. Well get into that. Let get to it. First from the fox news deck this at last friday afternoon, 101 hours the first polls close on election day, and Hillary Clinton is making a last minute push to reinforce her firewall or support. While donald trump tries to put blue states into his column and pull off a campaign comeback. The billionaire just a short time ago wrapped up an event in New Hampshire, astate his team claim he mist win to win the white house. New hampshire. For weeks clinton had a steady lead there but trump chipped away at it and the polls now show theyre neck and neck. We have a map that shows where the candidates and their surrogaters are campaigning today, and its all busy in yellow, Hillary Clinton with the bug beginnings big guns making stops in michigan and pennsylvania, states have the have gone blue for decades. Clinton is in ohio at the end of the day with jayz. She is
[cheers] we are going to come together and make America Great again. [cheers] thank you very much. Thank you, ohio, thank you. President elect Donald Trumps thank you tour getting off to a raucous start, our future president unifying americans and doubling down on several Campaign Promises in the process. Tonight, we break it down. Welcome to risk reward. Im adam shapiro in for deirdre bolton. After a surprise nomination of retired general mad dog mattis for defense secretary last night, the president elect not letting up on the Transition Team gas pedal meeting with a long list of cabinet contenders including former ambassador john bolton, former defense secretary robert gates, former Florida Attorney general pam bondi and democratic senator heidi heitkamp. President elect trump handing the Government Back into the hands of the American People last night. Im asking to you believe in america once again. We have many challenges, but this is truly an exciting time to be alive. The script
The president elect dropped a bit after bombshell in the speech. He will nominate general james mad dog mattis, in the speech. It came out in a bit of a surprise fashion. More in a moment. Bill more on the victory rally the president elect said thank you to the people of ohio, looking to unite the country with promise he describes as real change. People are constantly telling me, and telling you, to reduce our expectations. Those people are fools. Theyre fools. This campaign proved that the old rules no longer apply. That anything we want for outk . We will finally end illegal immigration. We will construct a great wall the border. You know what i call the American Workers . The forgotten men and women of our nation, and those men and women came out to vote. Martha remarkable in many ways. Peter doocy is live at the trump tower here in new york city this morning once again. Peter, was anybody expecting the secretary of defense nomination would roll out in the middle of that speech last