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you are in the cnn newsroom in new york. we have breaking news with a cnn projection. gabe evans has flipped a seat in colorado's denver suburbs. evans is a u.s. army veteran and police officer in days after the election we are waiting on results for 16 house races, but this was one that both parties were watching. republicans have effectively been able to flip that seat. let's get to our senior data

reporter . what is it mean for the house? >> reporter: it means that republicans are right at the doorstep of maintaining control of the house of representatives and look where we are right now and 244 and democrats all the way down it 205 and if you look at the seats where the parties are ahead, at this point republicans are ahead into hundred 22 seats with democrats in 213. let's go into this colorado district that you are talking about and point out the problem as you mentioned gabe evans flipped it and 97% of the vote is in and one of the real issues that democrats had is if you go back a little bit in time or look when 71% of the precincts were in, evans was trailing and in the later vote count was able to take the lead in this is one of the big problems that democrats have had in this entire trying to find the seats to get to 218 and another example of that is

a district where, right now, they are behind in arizona with six -- the sixth congressional district. if you go back in time when it was 59% of the vote in the democrat was ahead there. so basically what you see in these types of situations is democrats keep trying to say okay is the mass of their? each time you think the math is there, what you find out is the mass goes away for them. where could democrats potentially pick up seats? let's go to california. there are a few districts i am keeping my eye on out there. we will go here, a district where they have do -- do have a shot in. 57% of the vote is in with the democrat 2 1/2 points behind and another district i'm looking at is the 22nd district which is one that takes forever to counted the

votes in the longtime republican there is ahead by seven points but 71% of the vote is in. let's say we would go to southern california and i like going there. let's see if i could click this district. there we go. sometimes it does get interesting. the 45th district in orange county and a big chunk of that the incumbent republican up by 6900 votes but 79% in and up about 2 1/2 points. there are opportunities for democrats but the bottom line is this math is thin and the hour is late for democrats with republicans looking like they are on their way to maintaining house control. >> the senate is cut and dry and there will clearly be a republican majority. >> we do know that for the senate. in fact we have that uncalled on the senate side which there is one see the democrats have in one

republicans have and we have a little bit of doubt but ruben gallego against kari lake in a state that donald trump easily carried but he is ahead by a little bit less than two percentage points and went closer as we went down the stretch and more votes came in but ruben gallego has stretched his league -- lead out but look how far donald trump is ahead in arizona up by six points but ruben gallego is running way way ahead of kamala harris. at this point it looks like this but the democrat incumbent turned independent. kari lake is behind but at this point ruben gallego is looking good. >> all right. thank you so much, harry enten. as the mitch mcconnell era winds down on the race for the next senate majority leader, it is heating up. we are in palm

beach, florida near mar-a-lago. a little bit earlier today, elon musk and marco rubio throwing their weight around or behind rick scott considered to be the dark course of the three candidates in this secret ballot race that will happen this week and what can you tell us? >> reporter: that is right. i would add that it isn't just elon musk and marco rubio. we have seen another -- a number of people , people close to donald trump and have his ear and i will read some of those who have already endorsed rick scott for senate majority leader and also includes tucker carlson, glenn deck, rfk junior, ron johnson, david sachs who was very close to jd vance and has become a major donor over this last campaign. again, many of these people on this list are either people who have helped donald trump get elected and remained close to him and has his ear particularly as he is on this island behind me locked down

going through who he wants to fill his cabinet and other key roles with but other people like haggerty and rubio home donald trump is considering putting in top positions in a second term. but what he posted today was that he wanted to change a very traditional norm that we have seen in congress for several years which is he wants to use recess appointments or make recess appointments which i should say is essentially something that would help him bypass getting confirmation for his key nominees and as of now and i don't want to get to in the weeds. but when the senate takes a break or when they go on recess, they go into a pro forma session and if they actually voted on a resource or recess resolution which is what donald trump is calling for, you have to see the house and senate vote on it which could create problems. but it does enable the senate to do that and pass his or confirm his nominees in the process and donald trump would be bypassing

needing specific senate confirmation for some of the key people that he wants to put in his cabinet and other roles in his administration and i do remind you a lot of times president-elect want to nominate somebody that perhaps is very controversial or may not receive the necessary votes from the senate chamber they need to get confirmed and this would be a way of donald trump trying to circumvent that and i do note wasn't only rick scott who went out on social media and he was the first to said he supports the decision 100% and dedicated to making sure the nominees get through and we also saw the other two candidates and also they show support for it and it's another sign of how much control and power trump has right now over all of congress but specifically this leadership site. >> so much of this is taking

shape in real time and will have a big impact on how trump and his team will be as far as their effect on their agenda. >> thank you. for more on what the administration will look like how we are joined by a journalist and author who wrote the gatekeepers how the chiefs of staff and the white house define every partisan see -- presidency and argue how they can change the course of our country. thank you for being with us. it is good to see you. >> sure. it is good to be with you. i want to talk about susie wiles's chief of staff but i want to get your take on what elaina was reporting on. we have seen this developing in the last few hours which is this battle for senate majority leader as this era ends for senate republicans. it is interesting to see the people around him who are weighing in on this like elon musk who aren't elected and are not formally working for him but clearly have a lot of power. >> it is clearly really unusual

and we have seen this movie before during the first trump white house when all kinds of people came and went into the oval office but by far the most critical appointment will be the white house chief of staff. obviously he has made a choice there. the white house chief of staff is the person that the president counts on not only to execute his agenda but to tell him what he doesn't want to hear. that has been problematic for trump as we do know. one of the reasons that the first trump white house was so chaotic and dysfunctional is because there really was no meaningful chief of staff in any sense of the word during his first term and he went through four of them and none of them was empowered to tell him what he didn't want to

hear and that is a huge problem. >> how do you think this will shape up? susie wiles, who did help run his successful 2024 campaign home he really trusts, and named her's chief of staff, she said very explicitly that he had to agree not to let the clown car into the oval office and those were her words according to our reporting. how much power, do you think knowing what you laid out, sometimes he doesn't always listen to those around him. do you think she will be able to have, and how might their particular relationship impact the relationship within the white house? >> well, look, to begin with, i think it is great news that it is long past time we had a woman as the chief of staff so that is a great thing. on her side, i think susie wiles has demonstrated that she can work closely with trump without getting fired and she has been

able to, apparently been able to tell him hard truths from hard time -- time to time. but there is a difference between running a campaign and running a white house. on a campaign, when he president goes rogue, he may offend some people and lose some votes. when a president goes rogue in the white house, you lose lives. we saw this happened during the pandemic when trump tried to pretend there was no pandemic as bob woodward has documented extensively. he didn't have a white house chief of staff who could tell him otherwise. he had a sycophant in the form of mark meadows. the stakes are really high. and color me skeptical that she can really tell the president what he doesn't want to hear. >> when we have been speaking with trump allies on this show, a lot of them keep saying, they

are in a better place than they were in 2016 and they know how to do this better and he is more prepared to get to work to do this immediately and essentially the system has been streamlined. do you think that is true? >> i don't. wrinkly, i don't see any evidence that trump learned anything about governing during his first term. i think that, again, this is one of the problems i think in one of the weaknesses for susie wiles. the great white house chief of staff scott james a baker the third for ronald reagan, leon panetta for bill clinton, were chiefs who had white house experience and also knowledge of capitol hill. susie wiles was in the white house 40 years ago as a very young person which is a long long time ago. and the problem here is that trump has never learned the difference between campaigning and governing. he

really has no idea that they are very different skill sets entirely and when you campaign, you try to destroy your opponent. when you're governing, you're trying to make deals with him or her. trump has never understood that. you really need a white house chief of staff who knows capitol hill to help him figure that out. >> thank you so much and we do appreciate that. >> sure. my pleasure. >> still to come, we're talking with the mayor of a texas border city about trumps big gains in largely hispanic texas, which is long been a democratic stronghold plus president biden wants to use his last months in office as a push forward for support for ukraine as president trump threatens to cut off the aid as soon as he is in office. you are in the cnn newsroom.

one of the keys to donald trump's victory was securing a laundry share of votes from latino voters with exit polls showing him up 46% of that vote, 46% more than in 2020 and in south texas that shift with significant with trump making a huge impact in reaching a democratic stronghold in the next guest is the mayor of laredo, texas, a border town, a few hours south of san antonio and he is joining us now.

mayor, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> i want you if you can to first sum up for us as the mayor of a border town in a time when immigration is ranked very high on americans most pressing issues list, what is it like in your community, and how much is that impacting your community? >> number one i am a mayor of a 95% latino community in the largest port of entry to the united states and commerce and trade with mexico. we do have challenges that we deal with at a local level and we deal with federal issues. every day we do have contact with migrants coming and those across the river in mexico and shelters here so we deal with those situations and this is a processing center that migrants

are sent from other border cities to process them here and it's one of the largest processing centers on the border. >> so in terms of what you are all hoping and wanting from this next administration, what do you think of trumps proposed policies on immigration? what might help your community? what might hurt your community? is >> we have heard all of his promises. i think that people just wanted a change and wanted to focus on getting some common sense immigration reform being done and the other thing is that people are not too happy with the economy. the immigration status at the same time so this is what latinos wanted to hear. remember, latinos vote their mind and don't necessarily vote one party or the other. you have to understand that you can't count on it being one party. they have a mind of their own

as was portrayed in this election. >> it is certainly not monolithic. i am curious what you think or what your constituents say to you especially for those who did support the now president elect trump and in terms of his rhetoric on immigration and his rhetoric on immigrants and sometimes i think people question why would a latino voter vote for somebody who speaks of immigrants this way. it sounds like what you and others have said is it comes down to issues about the economy and promises they feel like are not being carried through and talk through that with us. >> sure. here, locally, we do see immigrants coming in, but we don't want people coming in illegally and taking jobs that they should not take. we do need to understand that we need to have an orderly immigration process which has to be done

and there are no two ways about it. that is one of the things that impacts the whole country and impacts us as well. we have to look at that is one of the things that has to be done and him saying he will deport all of these people, one of those things is i promise to say it any other thing is to actually do it and we have to understand a lot of immigrants take jobs and they are jobs that nobody wants. so we do have to understand that the majority of latinos voting for trump in light of the rhetoric and the mass deportation, we have to look at the possibility of the good that he says versus the bad that he says. >> i do want to ask you lastly about those promised mass deportations and what kind of impact that could have on the people who live in your community and also i know you do stay in close contact with officials in mexico and what

you hear from them about this incoming trump administration and those promised mass deportations? >> we have constant conversations with our mexican counterparts and both of these have coincided with laredo, texas and we talk about it. we have to understand that it can't be done in that fashion, mass deportations that would devastate our economy and it wouldn't be a functional way to do things but i think the reform is something that has to come about. >> so it does sound like you are not in support of mass deportations all at the same time because of the impact it could have on the economy? >> that is correct. it doesn't stand to reason that you can get rid of all these people who are filling jobs or functional for the country and they have to understand that this doesn't work that way. you can talk about stringent reform and

better reform, but to deport massive amounts of people, that doesn't seem to be functional and i don't think it will work for our country and the economy would be greatly impacted. >> thank you for your time. we do appreciate it. >> when we do come back, the fighting between russia and the ukraine intensifies overnight after hundreds of drone attacks as thousands of troops from north korea prepared to fight for russia. we are here in the cnn newsroom.

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thousands of north korean soldiers as it prepares for a massive attack in the kursk region and ukraine estimating 10,000 of those forces are currently deployed in russia coming as he tries to convince president-elect trump to not draw down support for ukraine as it enters the key stage of the fight against russia and we are joined now from the white house and what more can you tell us about how the administration is preparing for trump to take over on key foreign policy like this? >> the two men couldn't have more divergent views on the aid to ukraine so it will certainly be a big point that he will hit in this oval office meeting that he will have with president trump's or incoming president trump on wednesday. trump in the past has been very critical of usaid to ukraine promising and flirted with it the potential for aid but not

specifying how it would happen or specifying the specifics so this is an important attempt that the white house is signaling that biden will attempt to do in the oval office meeting and essentially trying to lobby the incoming president to change a path going forward. biden will argue that this meeting, the united states can't walk away from ukraine in terms of monetary resources and the flow of aid should be maintained coming as the united states is revealing they plan to spend the additional resources and money are reallocated from congress by the time biden leaves office and say he will call on congress to invest more. here is jake sullivan. president biden made clear when president zelenskyy was here a few months ago that we would spend all of the resources that were provided to us by the congress on time and president biden will have the opportunity to make the case to

the congress and the incoming administration that the united states shouldn't walk away from ukraine and walking away means more instability in europe. >> that critical messages when he will deliver in that meeting with incoming president elect trump and certainly a big moment in addition calling for a preschool -- peaceful transfer of power but also unifying the country going forward. >> thank you. >> the uncertainty over what policy will look like over a new presidency comes at a critical time in the army chief in ukraine warning his forces are facing one of the most powerful russian offenses since the start of the war and we are joined by a retired air force colonel and thank you for being here. >> it is good to be with you. >> let's start first here at helping people understand how

much impact the president and the white house can have on the war in ukraine right now? >> the united states is really the preeminent key in terms of military aid and the union has provided a lot of economic aid and the other half of the equation is the united states has provided a lot of the military aid but they do take their cue from the united states is doing and if the aid in the united states were to dry up for the ukraine, there is no way that europe could get to the same level that the united states had in terms of a donations to the weapons and munitions and all of those things. that becomes a critical element because of it dries up, then it becomes hard for the ukrainians to maintain a fight with the russians. >> we mentioned this is coming

at a critical time and we know overnight ukrainian and russian forces exchanged heavy drone fire, the highest level since this war began a few years ago in moscow had to temporarily stop operations at several airports in the city. what does this tell you about this moment in this war? >> basically what we see is what amounts to a type of stalemate on the front lines and what we find is very little is moving with some movement in the east were they have gained certain territories and towns but these are incremental but in the north you do have the kursk area where the ukrainians did move in in august and they have kept about half of the territory they originally took. the ukrainians are basically trying to move things in an asymmetric fashion by using drone where for court -- warfare against the russians

and another part of it is russians or respond to that and in some cases initiating drone warfare going into key areas like the capital. so there are many elements here but the basic premise is the war is in essence in a holding pattern with neither side prevailing over the other. >> we do know that the ukrainian president has been pushing western allies to allow him to fire deeper into russian territory but so far he hasn't gotten the support on that and do you think that they may get there? >> i think it is possible and may be something that the biden ministration does and from a military standpoint it is necessary for the ukrainians to be able to target certain things in russia especially

bases and installations being used by the russians to attack ukrainian basis and civilian infrastructure and all of those areas making it hard for them to hold on at this point and i did mention earlier it's a bit of a stalemate with the problem being the resource advantages on the russian side which is something that we want to counter if we want ukraine to prevail. >> we do know they have these north korean troops that are fighting along the russian forces as they prepare this assault and it is truly remarkable although probably not surprising considering the relationship between russia and north korea. >> this is one of the most interesting aspects of the new alliance that north korea has forged with them in china and iran are also part of the pro-russian element but you have these 10,000 troops in

russia and may very well end up in the fight in the next few days in this region which could spell trouble for the ukrainians because these are fresh troops and think back to our history when the american forces joined the western front in world war i and we made a big difference and it wouldn't be the same magnitude for the north koreans but that's the kind of danger when you put fresh troops in like this they could prevail locally which could have a cascading effect on morale and their ability to hold the line. >> more to come on that. think you and we appreciate it. >> you bet. >> nice watches in the $6 million apartment, and old-school convertible, what happens to the one time trump lawyer if he misses the deadline to hand over assets that he has been ordered to give a pair of women he defamed? you are in the cnn

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a multimillion dollar apartment and old-school mercedes convertible, dozens of watches in a few items the former trump attorney rudy giuliani has been ordered to turn over and he has until the end of the week to do it and if not he will face contempt charges. he owes a pair of georgia election workers close to $150 million for defaming them for doing their jobs during the election. since he says he doesn't have that type of cash, the courts have ordered him to hand over possessions instead and rudy giuliani claims he doesn't even have money to buy food and asking for help and with us now

is someone who has worked closely with americans mayor ken friedman, the press secretary for one of his campaigns and a consulting producer for giuliani what happened to that good to see you. >> good to see you too. >> i am struck by the line i can't afford food and he is asking for help and what does this signal to you where he is right now? >> i don't think he is down to his last meal, but he has raised $150,000 since yesterday, since he posted on twitter on his a gofundme page to help him eat. i suppose that is some tailwind from trump's winning , that $150,000. and rudy giuliani probably feels emboldened that trump was reelected but he can't help him in georgia or in arizona

because those are state charges. so he is on his own, both in the civil actions and in those criminal cases that i mentioned that he has been indicted for. this is the tip of the iceberg. he owes the creditors committee, which includes smart medic and noel dunphy and several other creditors untold millions and they made untold claims as well. if he gets sanctioned next week, will he pay it? i doubt it. will he be sentenced to prison? i doubt it. that i suspect the judge isn't playing games anymore and he gave him another week extension and he won't let him make him

look like a fool much longer. >> i don't know if you know the answer but for the gofundme page, if you are told to give almost everything you have because you claim you don't have any money to pay these fines for these damages, does he get to keep that $150,000? how does that work? >> i don't know. i don't know the legal rules on that. but i bet they will attach that as well. they are attaching the $2 million and they are attaching that money that he owes rudy for legal work. and i think he will run out of fingers, this little dutch boy. >> it is remarkable, always, when we covered this story to think about and i think you had a front row seat, the incredible downfall of a man who was once heralded as america's mayor is now in this position that we are outlining right now. >> i talk to people all the time who thinks he hit work --

rock-bottom but then he digs himself a deeper hole and if you are shameless or shameful i guess there is no bottom. >> in terms of and you just laid it out perfectly, which there really is no trump lifeline which is where these cases are care --, but do you think he still really connects himself with the former president now termed -- turned president-elect? >> he does. remember, the rally at madison square garden, that was only a few weeks ago. so he is still on the friends of trump list but it remains to be seen what kind of favors he will be granted. >> yes. we also know and i went through it at the beginning with what they are trying to get him to turn over the apartment, the cars, the watches but there are also four

yankees world series rings, which you have to think of that sort of stuff, that hurts. >> yes. it is valuable. and certainly it hurts personally and very much like being disbarred in new york and washington dc. i am pretty sure that the roos to convince the court that he gifted those rings to his sons will be exposed soon enough. it is kicking the can down the road and he is playing keep away from the court and he will run out of rope as soon. >> eventually you wind up in a dead-end. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up donald trump may have lost new york to vice president harris but what voters say they like about the president-elect and blue states and why the president said it is just beginning. if you are

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the democrats grip on new york city appears to be loosening after president-elect trump outperformed with vice president harris easily when he new york city but trump made key gains among minority groups across the city with the highest vote share for a republican in nearly 30 years. we have been talking to new yorkers about why trump's message of border security and economic change resonated with them. >> reporter: new york city just got a little bit more republican. >> from the corner to corner of new york city we saw the republicans gain traction. >> reporter: here in brooklyn republican defeated the state senator, the democratic

incumbent and erased a fine for public safety and opposed to public shelter in the district and concerned about newly arrived migrants. >> people are not happy with the way things are going and want change. >> reporter: while harris easily carried the city with 68% of the vote compared to trump's 30%, trump made significant gains this election cycle with roughly 94,000 more people voting for trump than in 2020. >> if you look at a map that southern brooklyn after this election it will be almost actually already. >> reporter: trump made gains across new york city with shifts significantly in neighborhoods with large asian and latino communities and narrowed the gap in the bronx, parts of queens and here in the bensonhurst section of brooklyn where generations of italians and latinos live and work side-by-side. >> we came kennedy supported us or gave us a handout. >> within 200,000 migrants have

arrived in new york city since the spring of 2022 and the crisis has manifested across the twin cities but has been hard here. >> they are poisoning the blood of our country and that is what they have done. >> why are so many immigrants willing to support that kind of language? >> they understand what president trump is talking about and understands that president trump is in talking about them. >> reporter: this family from ecuador agrees. >> we need to change in the economy is really a mess and affecting all families. >> reporter: she and her husband say they have spent years to work to open a barbershop and put their kids through schools. >> he has to work 14 hours a day to keep the business open and he is not there and another business opened at the corner with no permit or insurance and it's not fair. >> reporter: republican operatives see trump's inroads in new york as the beginning of what is to come, a chance to grow the party and elect more

republicans here in blue new york. >> we will come after her and she will be in trouble and i believe that we can get that race in a few years. >> the governor got her reelection campaign by just six percentage points and up for reelection in less than two years and we did ask her about these results a few days ago. she told us that she is well aware of the changes and that democrats across the entire state shouldn't be taking their voters for granted. >> thank you, gloria. still to come in the newsroom, what we know about donald trump's new administration is the incoming white house takes shape plus how the president elect is throwing his weight around in congress a senate republicans prepared to elect a new leader.