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
judge the democratic wave, we didn t know they ended up having their 40th house seat they ended up winning until after thanksgiving, so it was weeks. so when we were going to be judging how many seats was it and how big is a wave, we re probably not going to know for a couple of weeks, maybe even a month. good to see you. appreciate it. we re tracking the early legal battles emerging. in just a minute, we ll take you live to our vote watch team. but first, a live look at philly s ballot processing site with about four hours until polls close. more live coverage after the break. e. more live covera agefter the break. to try any subway footlong for free. like the subway series menu. just buy any footlong in the app, and get one free. free monsters, free bosses, any footlong for free! this guy loves a great offer. so let s see some hustle! if you re going big this holiday season free monsters, free bosses, any footlong for free! wayfair has just what you need. with holiday decor from ju
pennsylvania. if this becomes the real alarm bell for republicans in the house to say, it s over, we re cooked, run for it, this will be a signal moment. dana: let me ask you about syria. we understand that general mattis, secretary mattis is on his way to the white house. there are indications, reports, that there probably will not be any military action today. but i do want to read to you what noah rothman just wrote. i think we have it here. imagine a post world war ii germany but without a conference that established firmly delineated zones and control. instead those zones are fluid and each power is testing the other to see where its freedom of action ends and another s begins. this is an unthinkably dangerous condition. the risk of an accident or miscalculation triggering a broader great power conflict is extraordinarily high. pretending we can avoid engagement in that project is a
speaker of the house. i think we re going to have a strong record to run on. we ll have the resources to communicate our story. the reason you see retirements among us in the house is because we have term limits. we have term limits on committee chairman. most of the chairmanships are now open. so people naturally retire when their chairmanships end. that s why i think you have a lot of that. plus, we ve gotten a lot done. we ve done tax reform for the first time in generation. we helped the military. we helped the economy. we re on to work force development and infrastructure. so we ran on an agenda in 2016 and we ve been executing that agenda. we re two-thirds of getting it done into law. eve within the senate as slow as they are. we ll be repealing and replace dodd frank. we re getting a great deal done for the country. because of that and all these term limits that people are running into is why you see some extra retirements. we really feel like we re leaving the majority in good
of things. that s the next agenda we will be pursuing. dana: i know you will not weigh in on who will succeed you or be the next speaker of the house. i know congressman scalise has his name in the hat. do you think it s possible that the leadership struggle that is going to take place in the next few months will actually take away from the ability of the republicans to hold the house in november? no, i really don t. i think that s just internal d.c. gossip. that s pretty much leaves the edge of the beltway. and i know we re all focused on actually getting this agenda, keeping the majority. we have a very strong leadership team. that s one of the reasons i took comfort in making this decision. i know there s capability leadership team i can hand the gavel on to. dana: not an easy decision to make, but congratulations. thank you for all you ve done. thank you, dana. take care. dana: speaker of the house,