in the senate, 47 democrats and 53 republicans. obviously this means the one chamber, anybody who hasn't been under a rock knows this, but it's important to say it again since we are having this new congress sworn in. the house is now the only show in town for democrats. >> it is and it's the only show in town that is incredibly diverse. you think about all the new members coming in and a record number of african american women will be in this kk. a lot of firsts in terms of native americans and muslims and much more representative of america as a whole and nancy pelosi retaking the gavel. this is the first time in 50 years that has ever happened. she likely has the votes to become the next speaker of the house. we will see how it goes. we will likely see some divisions in terms of who thinks -- there she is there. >> what we are seeing right now is nancy pelosi, it being looks

like that's one of her grandsons. let's listen. that's the will rogers corridor as she walks into the house floor. the clerk is going to gavel in. let's listen in. >> for the meeting of the 116th congress of the united states, the house will come to order. >> and so it begins. we are going to have the prayer and the pledge and several other administrative issues that we're going to see going on before the minority leader and then of course the soon to be speaker who we see there, nancy pelosi will be officially nominated and sworn in and they are going to swear the rest of congress in. as we look at these live images of nancy pelosi with her grandchildren. it's really fascinating to be

reminded that it was nine years ago that she first broke that highest hardest marble ceiling. >> 2007 surrounded by her grandchildren. some of them are older now. it's a long time in the age of a grandchild. a couple of story lines. what is happening on the house floor means an entirely different second half of the first term of the trump administration. at the halftime mark, the rules are totally different for this president. the engagement is totally different. the context and oversight is different. that is what is going to be playing out. for today at least, the diversity of the house chamber which we are seeing, we will get to know and learn so many new faces of the house democratic chamber. the new congress. they don't all share the same views necessarily. that is going to be the speaker's challenger should she become speaker, which we think she will. that was extraordinary in 2007

in the waning years of the bush administration. we were both there and now she is back. it's an extraordinary political feat 12 years ago. >> stand by. i want to get to capitol hill. manu is just outside the house chamber. manu, describe the sights, sounds, and the smells of this first day. >> there is a lot of excitement anticipated among the democrats, particularly the new members for new opportunity here and realizing how ambitious the agenda is and the chairman of the key committees who have been launching investigations and doing oversight. i got a chance to talk to some of them this morning including the chairman, the new one. jerry nadler said he is prepared to call in matt whitaker, the acting attorney general as one of the first witnesses. they have been going back and forth about a date in january. i said will you subpoena matt whit ter and he said we will if we have to.

the house oversight chairman is looking at the laundry list of issues and he said looking at the citizens to question that is on the census for 2020. he wants to bring in the commerce secretary for questions for misleading towards congress. once this happens later this hour, nancy pelosi will get to the speakership and they will start moving forward and expect tonight that vote in the house to reopen the government. some of the senate republicans will not take up, but an kbishs legislative agenda bound to kickoff as well as the oversight agenda at the white house. the trump administration is worried about it and all of these are taking shape behind the scenes. time to put them into action which we will see in a matter of moments. >> thank you so much. we will get back to you as you continue to monitor things up there. maybe you can show us your grand new tracker keeper if you have

that for the first day of school. am i dating myself? you are up on capitol hill every dayworking the hallways. >> this new caucus in the house will be very diverse not only bigraphically as we talk to people, but idea logically as well. you have a progressive wing that believes they have the heart of the party at this moment. many from blue districts are going to want to pursue a far reaching agenda and medicare for all and free college tuition. you have a lot of members, most of the majority makers from purple and red districts and they don't want to pursue a far progressive agenda and they wanted incremental things like inf infrastructure that can be law. this is one of the biggest challenges. uniting the caucus and knowing when to be partisan and give them what it wants and knowing when to be bipartisan. she will have to make sure government functions.

>> we are looking at again some of the perfunctory and important processes that we need to do to get the new congress up and running. they are going to get credentials for some of the delegates there and we are going to see the official nominations for the speaker and for the republican leader. >> one of the interesting things with the lines up on the democratic presidential primary. those divisions will be at play there and how you see the presidential candidates and the democratic-led house working in tandem to offset trump and pass legislation through the house that they can't get through the senate and don't expect the president to sign, but democrats will be trying to take on trump and they have a chamber that they can push their agenda through and as jeff mentioned, they are going to be investigating the president. that is going to be an enormous

change that there is power to be going after trump. i'm not sure trump really has come to grips with what that means and the change it means for his administration. >> i want to show one of the things. the diversity. it's fascinating because you have a lot of the new members, what's called a quorum call, effectively an attendance call to make sure everybody is there. they are trying to figure out how to do it for the first time. this is for the first time. as we talk about that. the diversity. 40 new women, 20 new veterans, 20 new hispanic and latino, nine black and lgbtq. mike pence who is the president of the senate will swear in. >> all in the form suggested by the senate contain all the

especially requirements of the forms suggested by the senate. if there be no objection, the reading will be weighed and they will be printed in full in the record. if the senators to be sworn in will present themselves at the desk in groups of four in alphabet cal order, the chair will more the oaths of office. the clerk will read the names of the first group. >> baldwin, ba raszo, blackburn, braun.

please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic and you bear truth and allegiance to the same and you take this opigation freely without any mental reservation and you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter so help you god? congratulations. >> so what we just saw is the first round. they are going in groups of

four. senators going to be sworn in by the vice president. he is also the president of the senate. marcia black burp is now a member of the u.s. senate, the first woman to represent the state of tennessee. she is taking bob corker's seat. he retired. another new senator who we are seeing is mike braun, who beat the incumbent democrat from indiana, joe donnelly. four senators there being sworn in on the left. two of whom are new senators. others are being sworn in for yet another term. that's on the left of your screen. the right of your screen is house members milling around, getting to know ya. what is known as a quorum call to be finished with so they can start the rest of the proceedings. the action at this moment is as we just saw in the u.s. senate because of the swearing in that has begun. let's listen to more.

>> brown, cant well, carden, carper. >> please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic and bear allegiance to do the same and do you take this obligation for purpose of evasion and you will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon the office of

which you are about to enter, so help you god? congratulations. >> senators are being sworn in for yet another term. no new senators in this group, but notable senators none the less like sherrod brown from ohio. thought he might have a tough race. he was reelected pretty easily and also somebody being talked about or talking about himself potentially for a 2020 presidential race. as we watch what's going on there, let's discuss here and i will say forgive me ahead of time for interrupting as we watch this. i could see your wheels turning

as you were watching. >> no question. we are going to see this split screen applicable to the entire next year for sure. next session of this congress. let's go between what's happening on capitol hill and the presidential campaign. as julie was saying, that's going to show democrats if they come to liberal or divicive, how will that bleed over? similar to what we saw 12 years ago in 2007. i was thinking back watching the old pictures of speaker pelosi then as we see more senators coming to the floor. >> another new senator, also a former house member, kevin kramer, another republican who toppled an incumbent democrat. we are talking about north carolina. another interesting, familiar senator there, ted cruz who won against beto o'rourke.

>> will you bear true fauith an allegiance and take this obligation without mental reservation for purpose of evasion and you will well and faithfully discharge the duties on the office for which you are about to enter, so help you god? congratulations. i believe i said kevin kramer is from north carolina. obviously from north dakota. also interesting in that group, dianne feinstein who ran for reelection and won and ended up because of the primary system in california ran against a fellow democrat. she was the oldest member of the senate going in and that is still the case now. she still wanted to continue on and represent her state of california. >> one of the interesting dynamics is all of these senators considering and will be running for president also in 2007 with hillary clinton and

barack obama and joe biden and chris dodd. the list goes on. how they will use that platform as a democratic minority in the senate to position themselves for their presidential campaign. we will have elizabeth warren and bernie sanders and sherrod brown and amy klobuchar and cory booker. is there a democratic senator not considering running for president right now? >> democrats will have filibuster power in the senate. that's the same set up that republicans used to use against president obama's agenda and to the tune of a trillion dollars of spending cuts. >> let's listen into the next group. you mentioned 2020 candidates. kirstin gillibrand is about to be sworn in. >> do you solemn blee swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united

states against all enemies, foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance and take this obligation freely without any mental reservation and you will well and faith flee discharge the duties without reservation so help you god? congratulations. >> of those four, the second to the right, josh hawley, a new member, a new senator from missouri beat democrat clair mccaskill. he is, i believe, now the youngest member of the senate elected at age 38 years old. i want to go to capitol hill. phil mattingly is keeping an eye while we are watching the senate, over on the house side. >> what's interesting on days like this, you covered them changing hands in the past. that's the color and about the

whole thing. we got a sense of who nancy pelosi will have in the gallery and on the floor. she will have all five of her children and nine of her grandchildren are on the floor or in the gallery. three other individuals are in the gallery are guests of nancy pelosi. tony bennett who we ran into in statuary hall. nicky hart of the grateful dead and friends of the soon to be speaker. tony bennett performed at a ceremony y last night and long time connection from san francisco. we all focus on what's happening policy-wise, but the color is always interesting as well. in terms of who the members bring and underscores from family perspective and friends and ally perspective. the moment is for nancy pelosi as she reascends to the speakership. the first person to do that in more than 60 years. >> let's go to the senate for

the next group of senators being sworn in. >> please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. you will wear true faith and allegiance to the same and take this obligation freely without any mental ezvation without purpose of evasion and you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter, so help you god? congratulations. >> seems like we are seeing the point thaw were making over and over again with every group before. we have a potential candidate for president on the democratic side. that time was amy klobuchar.

you saw tim kaine, the senator from virginia who was the 2016 vice presidential candidate, running mate with hillary clinton who thought he was going to be the guy giving the oath as opposed to the guy taking the oath for another term. >> what is going to be interesting to watch with the congress is the generational shift and the generational divide, particularly you look at in the house one of the youngest house classes to come in. you can also see they understand social media in a way we haven't seen before. alexandria ocasio-cortez inviting her millions of followers in the day to day goings on with congress and learning the ropes and inviting them in to make mac and cheese in an instapot. i don't know if that's a good idea, but that's going to be interesting to watch.

she is coming in as a leader of resistance and this progressive. it will be interesting to see the way she makes in the house more broadly with her profile. >> with the overlap to what the tea party wave came in. the lawmakers were not afraid to buck their party leadership and how they view it. we want our viewers to see this new group includes martha mcsal whoa lost her bid for the senate and yet was appointed to fill mccain's seat. >> do you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. do you bear truth faith and allegiance to the same that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, that you will well and faithfully

discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter, so help you god? congratulations. >> it is going to be an odd situation. you have these two women who ran against one another for what they thought was an open seat. one open seat that was jeff flake's seat in the senate and then the woman who lost, martha mcsally was appointed because john mccain passed away and the governor chose her. it was worth noting arizona never had any female senators and now two at the same time. you were talking about alexandria ocasio-cortez and she is there at the bottom of the screen getting ready to be sworn in. >> wearing white, the color of

suffragettes. you think about what nancy pelosi wore, that bright pink dress that sticks out in a sea of a lot of blue and even the women are wearing darker colors. you see her in white knowing she will stick out on camera in that color. behind her is warren underwood. >> she will be the youngest member. >> 29 years old, the youngest woman ever elected. she made her first move after speaker pelosi will be voting against the package that are centrist democrats making sure they can add to the deficit. she has 1.7 million followers on twitter. while you are playing images of the senate, the most significant thing they will do is become a factory for conservative judges. mcconnell got 85 judges confirmed and will do a lot

more. >> let's watch this. the man who ran twice for president thought he would be president is about to be sworn in to the u.s. senate, mitt romney. two other new senators. >> please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance and take this obligation without mental reservation for purpose of evasion and you will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which you are about to enter, so help you god? congratulations.

>> there you see it. senator mid-rtt romney from the state of utah. there was that other senator, new senator from arizona, democrat kyrsten sinema who beat martha mcsally and they will both represent arizona together. >> this is why this day is one of my favorites in washington to watch. republicans and democrats, old and new standing alongside each other. what a book end that is. mitt romney has been governor of massachusetts and ran for president twice unsuccessfully and the republican party changed tremendously and now he is a republican senator from utah. the junior senator, but on the other side of the screen, the democrat from arizona. this is something they think is -- we again do not know how the numbers will interact. they seldom interact. this day is so interesting and you see the family members on

the house floor as they are enjoying meeting each other. the senate dynamic is important. democrats don't have the majority, but they can block what the president wants and what mitch mcconnell wants to accept judges. they can't do that because of the rule change, but that's something we will see republicans able to do. i lost track of the number of potential presidential candidates. mitt romney. >> if you had a drinking game, you would be under the table. >> in a presidential context, it's interesting in the way he caught him in a way that was critical to the president. one of the things to watch is jeff flake and bob corker were two of the rare republican critics who are gone. is romney going to step into that role and be that voice on the senate floor. john mccain was a critic and passed away last year. is romney going to be the lone

republican voice pushing back on trump? >> look at what we are watching now. the first and second because of congressman delaney. the first to announce she is exploring a run for president is now being sworn in for another term as senator. elizabeth warren. let's listen. >> do you solemnly swear you will support the constitution of the united states foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same and take this obligation freely without any mendal reservation or purpose of evasion and you will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon the office which you are about to enter so help you god? congratulations.upon the office about to enter so help you god? congratulations.the duties uponh you are about to enter so help you god? congratulations. >> elizabeth warren against jon tester who had a hard fought

battle to get his seat back, largely because the president is so popular there and the president fought really hard to defeat him and was not successful as he was in other red states. >> tester was popular despite being a red state. joe manchin same thing. there among the few democrats who survived this very, very difficult map. the president responded to romney and said is he a flake? is he going to be the jeff flake of the first 22 months or the last two months. he had a lot of criticism for the president and mostly voted with him every step of the way. he put down a hard line saying i'm going to vote against every nominee. >> he stopped and talked to reporters on his way to the floor to get sworn in and was obviously asked about the op ed and defended it and said yes, i did it before i was sworn in,

but i wanted to lay down a marker and explain where i would be coming from saying that john mccain is gone with people like jeff flake and bob corker gone and the list i'm giving are people who were openly critical of the president and tried to keep him in check. people with a voice. romney understands he's the guy left. >> he asked for this spotlight. it's not by accident that you have an op et in td in the "wasn post" before you are sworn in. does he fully step into this role? he doesn't fully do anything. even if you look at his relationship with donald trump. in 2016 and 2012, he asked for this endorsement and it's a big deal that trump endorsed him in 2016. very, very critical of the president, obviously. then he almost seemed to

consider going into the administration so it's been kind of back and forth as is the case. >> let's listen to the last two senators. >> please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic and you wear true faith and allegiance to the same and you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter, so help you god? congratulations. >> that was roger wicker from mississippi getting sworn in for another term and also senator sheldon whitehouse from rhode island. we have a lot more to come as we

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>> today marks a new era of divided government as the 116th congress gets sworn in and marks a new chapter ushering in more diversity and women set tow serve on capitol hill. among those making history, a military helicopter pilot and cia officer. also being sworn in to what some are called the bad ass caucus, chrissy houlihan from pennsylvania is a retired air force captain. first, congratulations to you. you are the first woman ever to represent pennsylvania's 6th district. you are the mother of two grown daughters and the most diverse congress in history. what does it mean to you today?

>> it's incredibly important and an honor to be representing the people of the 6th congressional district in this way and i'm very much looking forward to serving with a diverse community of people who are not only women, but as you mentioned are veterans. i'm also an engine and professionals are joining the ranks in larger numbers and i am looking forward to bringing the diversity this on behalf of my district. >> you are a former air force captain. i have to ask about the club you formed. female veterans. you call at this time bad asses. i have an affinity for bad ass women in washington. me about the club. >> a lot of us had been running for office for a long time and had been hearing one another in various times and places and we eventually got to be friends on the campaign trail and realized something important for the

congress of today that we were stronger together than wiper separately and we funified ourselves to be able to talk about the message and what we were trying to accomplish as women and veterans to bring back sanity and civility to washington. >> one of the things you were asked to do as a new member of congress is clean up the mess from the last congress anamely the partial government shut down. you are representing a swing district in pennsylvania, previously held by republicans. you obviously have a fair number of republican constituents. do you think your fellow democrats should compromise with the president on the wall in other words to reopen the government. >> you are right. i represent a very purple place in the country. we are 40% republican, 40% democrat and 20% independent. with that said i was able to prevail with about 60% of the

votes. clearly people like the message we were talking about which was kitchen table issues like making sure we had access to quality and affordable health care and great education and terrific jobs with dignity and equal pay for equal work were the messages i was elected on and bring that sensibility to congress. we care about national security and are concerned about making sure the borders are secure and we were able to be safe in the communities, but don't believe a wall is the solution to that. >> no, don't give an inch on the wall? >> i believe we have already given inches away in the sense that we are funding parts of border security, but it's also important that we are thinking about borders as more than that southern wall. there airways and roadways and waterways as well. it's important that we are a safe and secure nation and

again, i don't believe that a concrete wall is the answer. >> crihrissy houlihan from pennsylvania's 6th district, congratulations. >> thank you. pleasure being with you. >> you see on the bottom right of your screen, nancy pelosi is going to be in a vote very soon on her for the speaker of the house and the nominating speeches for that and also for the top republican. that will happen very shortly. we will sneak in a quick break. don't go away. liberty mutual accident forgiveness means they won't hike your rates over one mistake. see, liberty mutual doesn't hold grudges. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident.

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>> welcome back. we will go straight to the house floor. hakim jeffries is giving the nominating speech for nancy pelosi. >> can will come in the morning. madam clerk, it is with great joy i rise today as directed by the house democratic caucus to place the name of nancy pelosi in nomination to be the next speaker of the united states house of representatives.

without question, nancy pelosi has a track record of legislative success that is unparalleled in modern american history. nancy pelosi, captained the shape that defeated the effort to privatize social security rescued our economy in the midst of the great recession, saved the american automobile industry, provided affordable health care to more than 20 million americans.

created the consumer financial protection bureau and enacted a minimum wage increase for the first time in 10 years. struck a blow against mass incarceration with passage of the fair sentencing act and provided relief to tens of millions of americans who are credit card holders that were being defrauded. naps is just getting started. in the 116th congress, she will continue to fight hard for the people. nancy pelosi will fight to lower health care costs, strengthen the affordable care act, protect people with preexisting conditions, increase pay for everyday americans and enact the real infrastructure plan, clean up corruption, defend the dreamers. fix the secreting rights act, and end voter suppression once and for all.

we will fight for a country that provides for the poor, works for working families, makes sense for the middle class, standing up to senior citizens and the inner city and suburban communities. nancy pelosi is a woman of faith. a loving wife, a mother of five, a grandmother of nine, a sophisticated strategist, a legendary legislator, a voice for the voiceless, a defender of the disenfrance chized rveths a profound prophetic public servant and that's why we stand squarely behind her today. let me be clear, house democrats are down with dnp.

the one and future speaker of the united states house of representatives, i proudly place her name in nomination. may god bless her and god bless the united states of america. that was a member of the house democratic caucus and giving a very important and interesting speech. maybe trying to give her a little rbg treatment. we are waiting for liz cheney. she is speaking right now

democrating kevin mccarthy. >> there is no other like it in the world. the u.s. house of representatives, the people's house. this is the place where the great battles and debates about human liberty and freedom have been waged since the beginning of our republic. it was on these grounds that abraham lincoln sought to heal this nation. it was here we passed the 14th amendment to the constitution to guarantee equal protection. it was here in this chamber 100 years ago this year that we passed the 19th amendment, granding womgrand i granting women the right to vote. >> so as we monitor liz cheney,

giving the nominating speech for the soon to be republican minority leader, kevin mccarthy, let's talk about that nominating speech for nancy pelosi. he's in charge just as liz cheney is for the republicans in the house for messaging of communication. this temperament in the house chamber is having interesting situations there. >> no question that i think what hakim jeffries was doing was trying to put a bow on what it going to be the second try at the speakership for nancy pelosi. he was going across the board with all she accomplished. i'm struck by thinking back to january of 2007 in the throes of the iraq war. now there is a different challenge. that challenge is down the street, donald trump. it's different than working with the bush administration. president bush was unpopular,

but they did work together like on the financial crisis and collapse. this is uncharted waters for really everyone in leadership in this town, but no two people other than nancy pelosi and president trump. how she takes the reigns. i was struck by one thing she said in a profile in the times this morning. asked if she considers herself trump's equal, she said words. the constitution does. that is what she is using to guide her. an exceptional array of her leadership. we don't know how it will end. >> this is nancy pelosi's time as speaker and this time will be about democrats figuring out who comes behind her. that struck me about jeffries's speech. he is one of the people who is looked upon as who would follow her. so much of the conversation among democrats is whether she should be speaker at all and there was no obvious other option. she is not going to be there

forever. they use the space to see the leadership and they need it very well to take up the mantle. >> he is 48 years old and a democratic leadership team with the same team as a decade ago. the party is getting younger and he's an african-american in a party that increasingly made up of nonwhite voters. that is why he is a potential future speaker. >> nancy pelosi's power in a proud and bold way. you talk to her several times and she feels like it is important for women to see her at that table and in that oval office meeting with the president. she talks about the power early in her career. she was not as comfortable with power, but now, i don't know if publicly we have ever seen a woman so powerful and be so proud of that power.

it wrinkles some that she is doing it. >> there are so many differences between the first time she took the gavel and now. that was one of the big ones. she is clearly in store when she broke that marble ceiling. she was not as open and eager to talk about it and to be a role model, she is aggressively trying to be a role model for younger women in politics and around the country. >> as we wait for the vote on the house floor for the house speaker, it is a constitutional position unlike the minority leader in the house. there has to be a majority of members of the house who vote to make somebody a speaker. that's what we are going to see shortly. that majority number is going to be 216, not 217 because when we saw that long quorum call, they figured out only 431 members are there. the majority is 216.

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a brand-new 116th congress. we saw the full senate or at least one third of the senate just elected sworn in. now we are monitoring the house of representatives where we saw nominating speeches in particular for the soon to be, believed, new speaker of the house, nancy pelosi will reclaim

the gavel 12 years after getting it for the first time and making history as the first woman to do that. as we wait for the role call to begin for the vote, we see nancy pelosi in the bottom of our screen there. we want to mention first of all, we are told that chuck schumer, the democratic leader in the senate is now on the house side to be there for the vote and see his friend, nancy pelosi formally officially. >> their partnership that is going to begin is going to be important as democrats deal with the president and the shut down under way right now. the tightness of leader pelosi, soon to be speaker pelosi and senator schumer is important. i'm struck by one thing. nancy pelosi came to the congress 23 years ago. 102 women serving. she has presided over a dramatic change. again, when she was scripting this out after the mid-terms, the shut down was not at the top

of the list. now she is contending with this and we do not know how this is going to end. probably not well for either side. >> as we are talking about that, we should say the roll call vote has just begun for house speaker. we will monitor that and see how it goes. it's a manual vote so it takes a little bit longer than a lot of votes tend to be in modern times on the house floor. you make a really important point. everybody who took over the house, 40 seats in all ran on very specific agenda items and they are going to have to start with a trump agenda item, which is figuring out how to reopen the government or at least part of it when he is demanding money for his border wall. >> this is not the way democrats wanted to start off the new house majority with a government shut down and having to reopen the government, but they want to

convey that they are thinking about the bread and butter issues designed to confront trump and to conduct oversight on him and potentially impeach him. when i asked nancy pelosi a couple of weeks ago if she wants to bring up legislation to protect the special counsel, she dodged the question and said no, we are interested in health care access and they want to talk about policy and convey an agenda. how they do that is going to be a big question. do they do stabilization or medicare for all? do they do modest things like daca and security or go big and do a modest infrastructure package or a green deal? these are questions that pelosi will have to look at. >> what they are voting on in the house, they are voting on it in the house and most of the agenda items have very little chance of getting brought up in the u.s. senate, never mind getting to the president's desk.

we are wrapping up this hour as we do. you see what's happening on the house floor. it is the formal vote for speaker of the house for the 116th congress. you saw and will continue to see the members of in their seats which you almost never see to show you the gravity and importance of this moment. brianna keilar picks up right now. >> thanks, dana. we begin with the political winds of change blowing across washington right now. democrat, nancy pelosi, prepares to take the speaker's gavel as her party retakes control of the house. she will address lawmakers after she is made speaker. along with the pomp comes changes for president trump. democrats promise rigorous oversight of the president and his activities. more hearings and subpoenas and sc