tonight may soon be the top story in the markets or even on main street. the president summoning leaders to the white house scheduled for next week to face what they re now calling a far more urgent threat of default with some republicans threatening to take the economy hostage. the final deadline is earlier in the month, republicans doubling down on threats which you may recall picked up in the obama years that instead of voting against new spending, which is the standard way that a politician or a legislator can curb the size of government, totally fine, you say, hey, let s not spend as much. nowadays you may have heard, republicans try to hijack the process of paying the bill, the debt, and they do that as a sort of a voodoo to scare the market, scare the white house, e tract concessions and keep the government from paying the bills it has, that includes naturally bills run up by both democrats and republicans, including recent spending under former president trump. we
this is it. the final big push to the first name right, because the casting of ballots is almost over. the counting of ballots, that s getting ready to start in most places. in some places, they re doing it, but you ve got control of congress, the direction of the country on the line. the five things we have to be watching for over the next hours and days, plural, with our campaign reporters live across the country. we re also live in washington with the mood inside the white house. publicly confident, privately, maybe not so much. also this hour, our team is watching the polls. lawsuits popping up. some precincts reporting issues counting. we ve got our team standing by with that. i m hallie jackson from election headquarters here in new york with our reporters out covering races including in pennsylvania. a lot of talk about there where dasha burns is. guad is in nevada. jesse in youngstown, ohio. there are some question on everybody s minds, right, as we are getting close
speaking to the un general assembly delivering remarks to the 77th session of the asem blee around 10:35 this morning. the events are close to on time, although it is expected the timing will slide down as the day goes on. the president will take part in bilateral with the un secretary general and shortly after 1:00, give or take, expected to host with the new prime minister of the u.k. beijing considers response to the president s insistence that the u.s. will step in if china invades taiwan. to be clear, sir, u.s. forces, u.s. men and women would defend taiwan in the event of chinese invasion? president biden: yes. that is news to folks on the white house team. he has addressed, he is expected to place china and iran front and center in the comments and despite comments to the contrary, have not shifted vis-a-vis taiwan and china listen to this. when the president of the united states wants to announce policy change, he will do so. believe what we say and not what