do so. also we met a young patriot that i think our viewers should meet as well. my facebook page, check it out. i think you'll appreciate it. thank you so much for tuning into "happening now." america's election headquarters starts right now. and safe travels, jenna and john. well the dust has finally settled after a contentious presidential election. america has now chosen, it is a brand new day. so now what? this is the question. hi, i'm heather. president obama speaking a short time ago from the rose garden saying that the country must unite and move forward because in the end, we're all on the same team. >> now, it is no secret that the president-elect and i have some pretty significant differences, but remember, eight years ago, president bush and i had some pretty significant differences. but president bush's team could not have been more professional or more gracious in making sure we had a smooth transition.

>> also reacting today, house speaker paul ryan to donald trump's upset victory saying that the president-elect turned politics on it's head and that's actually a good thing. listen. >> when i say seven out of ten americans don't like the direction the country's going, they just vote pinniped i think what donald trump just pulled off is an enormous political feat. he heard the voices that other people weren't hearing. and he just earned a mandate. and we now just have that unified republican government. >> we have live team fox coverage, jennifer griffin is outside the new yorker hotel, that's where hillary clinton was. we begin with carl cameron who is live outside trump tower in new york. so carl, a lot of us are wondering how a businessman's approach and how he will approach congress after running a campaign like he did. >> reporter: well, it was pretty brutal campaign. and there's still a little bit of dust in the air. democrats are desolate. and there's a handful of republicans throughout who are still a little -- they're still wrestling with the idea of the president-elect mr. trump.

but there he is. and he'll do fine with the republics in the house. most of them had come home. most of the republican electorate did come home. his problem is with democrats. as you showed last night that he's prepared now to reach out. part of what he was doing in the closing days of the campaign was making sure he talked a lot of constituencies that he would promise to be a president to and for as well. and that was a big theme and it really sort of spoke to the tone last night with him being gracious in victory and saying he's ready to unify the entire country, watch. >> i pledge to every citizen of our land that i will be president for all americans, and this is sop important to me. [ applause ] for those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, i'm reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that

question work together and unify our great country. >> reporter: and because he's a businessman, hasn't held office, because he knows many politicians as he says because he used to be the insider now he's the ultimate outside per. he'll be able to cut deals. that's at least the hope. and for democrats, there is a lot of soul searching today. when you get defeated like last night, they have to figure out what they missed. how they are out of step with the dominant american political force. and as a consequence of that, some of them may be willing to reach across the aisle and try to do business with the businessman, president-elect donald j. trump. >> people are asking themselves that question today. how did we not anything out? what do we know know about the transition? >> reporter: it's a massive mammoth exercise. thousands of positions will need to be filled. and it's been under way for several months now. headed up by the new jersey governor chris christie, there was a team of 150 people at one

point. mostly situated on pennsylvania avenue. a block and a half from the white house at 1717 pennsylvania avenue. it was a unique sort of a coincidence that both of republican and democratic transition teams were in the same building. they were walking into the doors with coffee together in the morning and going to separate offices. now it's just one and it's going to get beefed up a lot. there's cabinet secretaries to consider. there's supreme court justice nominations that have to be thought about. there's laying out the agenda that he's talked about on the stump in generalities, in real specifics in terms of legislative which allies, which chair people of which committees will they have to work with and work over in order to get the trump agenda on the docket in the house. and working with the senate. they've got both chambers of congress now. and a republican president coming in. so how they design the upcoming first hundred days and the trump administration's agenda is critically important and that's part of what the transition team will be engaged in addition to

filling the posts. >> they have a lot of work ahead of them. carl cameron, live in new york. senator majority leader mitch mcconnell is talking about the balance of power in the u.s. senate right now standing at 4751 republican's in control. some races still not decided yet, let's listen in. >> express themselves or offer their ideas in the case of several of our members, there were important accomplishments for their states that they were able to talk about during the course of the campaign. i want to particularly congratulate president-elect trump. i think we all agree this is a stunning election. and clearly an indication the american people would like to try something new and i know the speaker shares my view that we would like to see the country go in a different direction. and intend to work with him to change courses, to change the course for america. he will have an opportunity to

fill the supreme court vacancy. as you know, i said in february of this year to a controversy that i thought it best that the american people decide who made this appointment. to the supreme court. i thought i was on pretty firm footing and doing that, it had been 80 years since the vacancy was created in the middle of the election year. and you had to go back to 1888 to find the last time a vacancy on the supreme court in the middle of a presidential election year was confirmed by the opposite party of the president. and so the american people have spoken and president trump will send us a nominee soon early next year. so with that, let me just throw it open and see what you'd like to discuss, yeah. >> mr. leader, considering how -- >> all right, that is senator majority leader mitch mcconnell congratulating donald trump on capitol hill today. there is still one undecided seat, and then there's another

election that's going to take place a little bit later, but we will talk about that one that is still open. new hampshire, we're talking about the race with kelly ayotte later in the smoep. hillary clinton addressing her disappointed supporters in new york and across the country earlier today after the stunning upset. con saegd the election to president-elect donald trump. and gracefully bowing out of one of the most bitter and divisive campaigns in modern history. jennifer griffin has been floolg campaign. she is live here in new york city, jennifer, certainly a tough day for hillary clinton and her supporters. >> reporter: absolutely, heather, we were inside the ballroom when she walked out on stage. it was filled with staff members, many of them in tears. she addressed them. she was wearing purple. she and also ann holten, tim kaine's wife were wearing purple. i think it was a combination of red and blue and a nod to the fact that this country is going to need to do a lot of healing. there were gracious words from both the vice president and hillary clinton.

she spoke directly to girls and women about how sorry she was she didn't break through the highest hard glass ceiling. here's what she said. >> donald trump is going to be our president. we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power. and we don't just respect that, we cherish it. >> reporter: what's notable about the exit polls this morning is that some of the conventional wisdom, including the turnout among women voters as well as latino voters didn't hold to be true. 29% of latino voters ended up voting for donald trump. that was not anticipated. in fact, it was more latinas than mitt romney received last time around. and in terms of women voters, trump polled 10% higher than hillary clinton in terms of white women voters who turned out to me. back to you.

>> pollsters asking questions of themselves today. i want to ask you what the white house's reaction has been. >> reporter: well, the president as you know spoke from the rose garden. as you know the night before voting occurred, before november 8th, in philadelphia, he had come out. he felt that hillary clinton's campaign was a really vote for legacy. and he and michelle obama had been out there almost daily throughout the month of october. to see the president in fact rose garden today, it does show that this is what democracy is all about. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. but you always have to concede. here's what he said. >> we are now all rooting for his success. and uniting and leading the country. the peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democra democracy. and over the next few months we are going to show that to the world. >> reporter: it's quite note that believe some of the congratulations from overseas

realready coming in for donald trump. the canadian prime minister was one of the first to send congratulations and then of course, mr. putin, as well as bibi, prime minister benjamin netanyahu from israel say they look forward to working with him. >> great job, you deserve a rest. thank you, talk to you again. well for more, let's bring in chris plant, a syndicated radio talk show host of the chris plant show. and leslie marshall, a fox news contributor. good afternoon both of you. leslie, let's start with you. hillary clinton, boy, she was gracious, she was sincere, she was friendly, seemingly today. had she been more like that throughout the campaign, do you think the result would have been different today? >> i'm not really sure. although it's funny, somebody said that to me before i came on in a with where is that hillary and you have heard me say on this show even that if you met her, she's very different. there's a warmth about her and that i think we saw that warmth

today. what we also saw is somebody who is classy. i am glad that she did what she did and said what she said regarding the concession, a transfer of power, i'm not sure if it had gone the other way it would have been that way. with regard to some people voting for her. maybe more women likable in that column, but there were some people that just didn't come out to vote, whether they didn't like her, didn't like either choice or they just didn't feel their vote mattered. >> yeah, chris, even karl rove was calling her address, pitch perfect, unifying. i wonder how long this unity, we heard it from paul ryan, president obama, how long will the unity last? >> not very long at all. i expect they'll be back to demonizing and vilifying. i've heard call frrs chuck schumer, he'll be the new democrat leader in the senate to immediately again to obstruct the republican agenda and the trump agenda. the news media endorsing this, of course, on at least one other

network. i think that this is going to be short lived in a very big way because there's a seething anger just beneath the surface. right now, far day, there's disbelief, but as soon as we get past the disbelief, the democrats will get back to demonizing, vilifying, calling people the most horrible names in the books, separating the country race, class, gender, warfare, we'll be back on the front runner in no time at all. >> let's look at the popular vote break down. 2002 to 2008. clinton received 6.5 million less votes than president obama did in 2012, and then donald trump received 1.72 million fewer votes than mitt romney did in 2012. and some narn than mccain did in 2008. leslie, let me ask you that. hillary clinton had that great brown game everybody said. she had lots of volunteers, we know that she poured in a ton of money. how did she not manage to pull

through? >> well, i think there are a few things. wuchbs the division in the democratic party and certainly among those bernie die hard supporters who either are going to stay home or vote for stein or johnson. some would say that didn't matter. if you look at the perfect storm in a sense and you have people who stayed home, the millennials especially, the african americans and then some women and others that were not being polled to or not being honest when they were polled, then you look at this perfect storm if you will, and she just, you know, with the combination of the votes for stein and johnson and with those that decided to stay home or vote for trump, that protest vote, if you will, i think that's what they were doing and that's how come she didn't get some of those numbers of people coming out. especially in the african american community. i wasn't surprised about that i must say, i thought she would have made up for it with hispanics because i thought more african americans were going to come out for an african american nominee than for. >> reporter: i was just talking to our correspondent, leah gabriel and she was in philadelphia, she was in a

minority area where they were expecting african american turnout and she said, they barely saw anyone. >> obviously to winning pennsylvania for them. and they didn't win pennsylvania. and it's a calamity. look, of course african american voters are going to show up for barack obama. he's the first black president and makes perfect sense. hill have i not the second black president. hill have i hillary clinton. she's disingenuous and dishonest. she continuously makes false claims and false statements. she lacks political skills. she lacks charm. she came off perfectly well this afternoon when it doesn't matter, but people don't like hillary clinton. look, president obama has charm, he has political skills. he's smooth. people like him.

hillary clinton has none of those qualities, none of those characteristics -- >> some of her own folks said this from some of the wikileaks things. she had essentially terrible political instincts. leslie, i want to ask you about this, rand paul was on the air earlier today, and he talked about how the mainstream media, how pollsters, people on the left and right coast missed everybody in what he called flyover country. let's listen to him and i want to get your reaction. >> the people who live in flyover country, we're kind of tired of people on the left coast and the right coast sort of telling us, you know, what should believe in. and i think really this was a big repudiation of the liberal elite. and actually i'm waiting to see if they're all going to be getting on planes or private jets and moving this morning. i hope that'll be fully reported in the news. >> yeah, talked to a lot of folks in wisconsin about that. about how on earth they were missed. then let's listen to hillary clinton supporters and here's what they said today. >> sad for the country. just sad.

you know, good doesn't prevail all the time and it didn't in this case. >> obviously he's going to be our president and i'll support that. but i think it's a dark day for minorities and for women. >> leslie, so where do the democrat goes from here? >> after i lot to say on this and i'll make it brief. yesterday when i voted, i won't get emotional, for the first woman to possibly be president after 200 years in our nation, i put my eight-year-old daughter's finger on top of my hand and my eyes look puffy today because i cried, i was going to wear white, i'm wearing black. here's the problem, chris, there's terrible things that have been said about me and other liberals and the clintons. i don't know what some people -- what you're going to do chris and not having the clintons to attack the next four years, but that aside, it's hard for me to believe a bhoon says he wants to be the leader of all people and bring us together when i just remember some of those terrible

comments some of that rhetoric, some of those videos, that's something that i have a hard type wrapping my head around. i hope he's genuine. we all want a better country regardless who is leading it. we want a good economy, we want to be safer and we certainly don't want violence and more division. i'm not sure he's cape public. >> will he be able to unite the country? is he capable? >> well yeah, i think so. we're a very polarized country. les si started with was a classic thing we won't have hillary clinton to kick around anymore. it's true, we won't have hillary clinton to kick around. she may stay on the scene though. the name calling of the democrats, honestly, from a videotape with billy bush from 11 years ago on a bus he didn't know he was being recorded as opposed to hillary clinton on the campaign trail talking about a basket of deplorables, describing half of the population of the united states who are ir redeemable, racist, bigted, massage nis, islam phobic, homophobic, awful, terrible people.

honestly, that is where i think she lost most of the america. it's not just flyover country. look at the map. 99% of the map is red. and there's a little sort of smattering of blue that someone scattered across the map. they've been insulting us, demeaning us, degrading us, calling us the most horrible names in the book to divide us, pit us against one another, along m race, class, and gender. and we're sick of it. democrats are sick of it. >> and people certainly turned o tout express that opinion. we're beginning it to have to lee it there. chris plant, leslie marshall, i love the picture of you and your daughter voting. that was fun to see. see you again. >> thank you. after a bruising and divisive election that often saw donald trump butting heads with his own party. how does the president-elect -- we were just talking about this, we'll cover it more. how will he unify the party? we'll talk to former chair of the rnc coming up. >> i think that donald trump

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welcome back. donald trump heading to washington to meet with president obama tomorrow at the white house. the president today vowing a smooth transition. >> i had a chance to talk to president-elect trump last night about 3:30 in the morning i think it was to congratulate him on winning theand i had a chancm to come to the white house tomorrow to talk about making sure that there is a successful transition between our presidencies. >> haley barber, former

mississippi governor and former chairman of the republican national committee. what do you think will take place that the meeting tomorrow? >> well, from the tone of both trump and president obama, very gracious. i thought it was very -- particularly gracious of president obama to praise president bush, who had worked with him during his transition eight years ago, and to say that's going to be the model for the obama team to try to do as good a job helping the trump people get ready as the bush people did helping them get ready. i thought it was very gracious. >> we've seen some congratulations from perhaps some surprising corners today. former president bush congratulated mr. trump. he wished him well as he guides america forward. and saw something from mitt romney who was a major, major critic of donald trump. he said, best wishes for our duly elected president, may his victory speech be his guide and preserving the republic his aim.

and john kasich who did john mccain written-in in the state of ohio. the key state of ohio, instead of voting for donald trump. came forward and said the american people have spoken and it's time to come together. congratulations president-elect. your reaction. >> well, it's certainly should have done that. i wish that they had all supported trump from the beginning. i'm glad to say that if the exit polls are to be believed, about 88% of republicans voted for donald trump yesterday. or in the early voting combined. and 88% is almost the same percentage that mitt romney got, almost the same percentage as john mccain got, both of them in the low 90s. i'm glad we saw those republicans come home. i think a lot of them came home in the last month or few weeks. and i wish all of them had come home. >> whoever came up with the message, come home, really seemed to do a good idea. really seemed to be a smart idea. as i was talking with voters in

wisconsin and elsewhere, they recited that, that message seemed to resinate, despite some voters concerns about donald trump. >> well, i think it resinated far couple of reasons. first of all most americans wanted change. this should have been a change election. almost two-thirds of america think our country's going the wrong direction. over 60% for more than three years. secondly, a lot of people did not want to vote for secretary clinton, but were uncomfortable with donald trump. and they decided that the combination of change which they wanted and a president of their own party overcame their reservations about donald trump and you could see that is the numbers were moving in october. little by little, and then that last week of a little bit more of -- little bit faster. >> "new york times" wrote this, how many times the news media missed the populist movements

that have been rocking national politics since at least 2008 that failed initially to see the rise of the tea party which led to the wave of elections in 2010 and 204. it was supposed to be the year soft-called republican establishment, regaining control over it's interparty insurgency. how did so many people pollsters, media, you name it, fail to see what was bubbling under the surface? >> well, i think they saw the anger and the fear, the dissatisfaction, not only among republicans, but remember, bernie sanders got 43% of the democratic primary votes. so in both parties, there was a lot of dissatisfaction. i think what people just failed to see that it would continue all the way through. i think a lot of people thought here is donald trump, people are mad that they're attracted to him, but sooner or later, they'll start looking for solutions. and they'll maybe go to somebody else. well, that did not happen. and trump, you've got to give

trump credit, he stayed with what he thought would win and his people thought would win. and that was to go into the industrial midwest and win back voters who had voted for ronald reagan, but certainly weren't republicans. many of them. and those people stayed with him. their political bosses in michigan and ohio and pennsylvania, could not dislodge them. >> yeah. certainly. what happens to some of those never trumpers? you know we had some radio talk show hosts that were the never trumpers. we have ben sass, the senator from nebraska as well as lindsey graham who by the way have congratulated donald trump today. what happens to that entire movement? >> well, i think donald trump wants to get things done. i think that's his first priority. he wants to make america great again, which means he wants to get thing doens. he does not want to be like obama who most of what he has done particularly after the first two years was done by

executive order which could be reversed by the new president with literally the stroke of a pen. so that means he wants congress to pass things that will achieve what he wants. a better economy, more better paying jobs, safer streets, you know the message that he has. but he's got to have congress working with him. he's -- >> paul ryan today, the house speaker said that he would be happy to work with him, opened the door and gracious himself despite all the flaps that those two gentlemen have had. we will certainly be watching that. . haley barber, governor of mississippi, thank you. >> thank you, heather. donald trump's victory setting off protests in the state of california. at least 500 people swarmed the streets around ucla early this morning. shouting anti-trump phrases. there were also marches and walkouts at universities and high schools across the state. demonstrators in oakland though actually getting violent. some smashed windows and set

fires. no word yet on any arrests. well it's the election that's defying all the rules of polling. >> the entire pundit ri industry, the entire polling industry, the entire analyst industry, and i want to use this opportunity to take my fair share of the blame, we were wrong. i don't have egg on my face, i have omelette on my face. >> larry sabato from the uva. so what about those exit polls? we'll tell you what they're telling us about what voters want. and the defense secretary issued a memo to the military staff from top to bottom. what ash carter says he will do for the incoming president.

now it's time for america to bind the wounds of division, have to get together. to all republicans and democrats and independents across this nation, i say it is time for us to come together as one united people. [ applause ] it's time. >> well there you have it, there seems to be no doubt that donald

trump's resounding victory is the result of a deeply divided country calling for change. you're asking how the polls could be so wrong, you're not alone in that. >> we, that is the whole industry, we have a lot to learn from this. how is it that you capture people who may be won't talk to pollsters? you know what really got me after hundreds of surveys, we plugged hundreds of surveys in the system and over 90% were wrong. and they managed to miss almost entirely this tremendous turnout in rural america. >> boy, did they ever. trace gallagher is live with what the fox exit polls are now saying. trace, that's a question so many people are asking today. >> and you know heather -- >> why didn't people admit they were going to vote for donald trump? >> same thing last night, going what in the world is going on? i'll tell you one of the more fascinating numbers of the election is that americans say hillary clinton was more qualified by 14 points than donald trump, and yet, anger at the direction of the country

seemed to outweigh qualifications. and for months and months, pollsters and pundits said because of change in demographics, donald trump needed to get significant chunks of the minority vote and yet white voters seem to propel him. let's look at national numbers. donald trump won by more than 20 points among working class whites, he won by nearly 30% and with white men, donald trump well outperformed mitt romney. let's look at two key states. first florida, where trump packed big numbers of college educated white voters and working class whites, but look at his numbers in florida's large cuban american population, trump won by 13 points, that is a huge reversal from four years ago when mitt romney actually lost the cuban vote to president obama by two points. and then there was pennsylvania which has been taunting republicans since 1988, that's last time democrats lost. michael dukkha kus, this was

supposed to be solid for hillary clinton, look at the reversals in major counties. hillary clinton was down from president obama in philadelphia county which encompasses philly. york county in central pennsylvania, and then near scranton, only in bucks county which borders philly was she up. trump was up huge across the board, including 12% in york county, 36% and 9% in philadelphia. really the bottom line on all these numbers is that of the voters who were angry with the federal government, 77% of those voters, heather, went for donald trump.gallagher, fascinating, thank you. well donald trump's victory sent global markets into a panic far while. and here's a look at the dow which is up about 252 points, but the dow futures were down as much as 800 points overnight. liz clayman from the fox business network joins me now. what's happening?

>> i'll tell you what's happening, people who have 4501ks, pensions, stock portfolios should be happy. we're climbing back up to session miep it is a given a 258 points. but across the board, we're seeing real strength across the board. so we're talking about large companies like the big names, coca-cola, the dow 30, those moving higher, and then you've even got the smaller cap names. we have the dow, nasdaq, and s&p very strong at the moment. a lot of things are getting lifted here. let me tell you some of the winners. pharmaceutical names, biotechnology names, the companies that actually develop drugs, aerospace and defense, donald trump said he would spend a lot more on military. regional banks, big financial names, infrastructure stocks, remember he said he would do about $500 million on investment, get ready for big heavy equipment companies to be called upon to help build bridges.

solar stocks, utilities, emerging markets, health care equipment, real estate, but i need to flip it over to auto stocks. remember donald trump has said that he would impose punitive tariffs on ford, general motors, and fiaf if they move overseas. right now those three are seeing losses on some of their stocks, but at the moment, it seems like a very positive feel here. again, i like to remind people in the long run, we have seen 33 recessions since the 1850s, trust us, folks, we'll see another one. right now it's a great day on wall street. >> i'm glad we don't remember those, liz. not old enough, thank you so much. fascinating to see how the industries are responding to donald trump and his priorities. ash carter is determined to have an orderly transition. a sentiment that president obama says that he agrees with. and the president urging donald trump to commit to that one as well. >> a sense of unity.

a sense of inclusion. a respect for our institutions. our way of life. rule of law. and a respect for each other. i hope that he maintains that spirit throughout this transition. >> our fox pentagon producer lucas tomlinson joins us live from the pentagon. he is also working, when was the last time a president-elect had to pick a new defense secretary? >> healther, president obama brought the defense chief robert gates. it's been since president bush was in office that a new defense secretary was named and brought in. bush nominated donald rumsfeld in december of 2000 and so, that is the last time a new defense chief came in with the president-elect. now as you mention today, defense secretary ash carter sent a memo to employees congratulating them on quote

standing apart from politics, and for continuing to carry out their dangerous missions around the world. over the next few days, members of donald trump's transition team are due here at the pentagon to begin meetings and discussing that transition, health per. >> so many are anxious to hear about iraq, isis, syria, and afghanistan, all of those. but i want to ask you today about syria. and there is something that's developing on the russian warships in the mediterranean sea. why is it important? >> well, heather, i'm told to expect a sharp escalation in russia's military campaign inside syria. there are seven russian warships in the eastern mediterranean right now that are centered around the flagship aircraft carrier, pentagon officials here are seeing that mid-29s conduct flights off the carrier. these russian jets are armed. officials have not seen that before since this russian convoy left northern russia at the middle of last month. the convoy came down from

norway, sailed through the english channel and i'm told that these jets have not yet conducted strikes in syria but they are flying these armed nations over syria and u.s. and nato surveillance planes like this, p-8 pictured here have been intercepted, i'm told, multiple times trying to get a peek of this russian armada outside of the aircraft carrier. there's also three russian destroyers which are capable of launching cruise missiles into syria. it's a real steep escalation, heather i'm told. and in if a sign of how strange ties remain between russia and the west, u.s. army's delivering it's largest shipment of ammunition to europe in more than 20 years. >> to europe, okay. lucas, a lot to keep an eye on. thanks for joining us. one of donald trump's first actions could be to nominate a supreme court justice. could change the direction of the court for generations to come. we'll take a look at donald trump's short list when we come back.

shepard smith, we'll talk to strategists about what's next for our nation and the incoming trump administration. the wall street journal associate editor john busy weighs in on what went wrong with so many polls and judge andrew napolitano talks about why weed was a big winner last night. that's top of the hour on shepherd smith reporting. we'll see you then. welcome back. president obama supreme court nominee may be off the table for good now. republican senators reportedly considering movement on judge merck garland, that was before donald trump's surprise victory. now the president-elect is expected to choose his own nominee. chief legal correspondent shannon bream is here now with

more, we're lucky to have you in new york right now. >> it is great to see you. >> what happens now? >> it's interesting because last night after the exit polls were sort of trickling out, before the results were coming in, we spoke with a gop senator who said there was growing support for the possibility of moving forward on judge merck garland if clinton was elected. gar sland president obama's nominee to replace antonin sclooe in a. that is no longer the scenario. appears the supreme court drove many voters yesterday. check out this numbers, exit polls show that seven out of ten rated supreme court appointments as the most important or a major factor in their voting decision. and those who rated the supreme court a priority. 56 for trump and 41% for clinton. trump made two lists. mike lee who once clerked for justice alito. when his name was floated, this name was brushed off saying he was too busy campaigning. well this morning lee

congratulated trump saying he looked forward to helping him repeal obamacare, reduce regulation, and confirm conservative judges. that's not a spot you want to turn down. >> yeah, well another interesting name on the list, texas supreme court don willett who's made clear he's not trump's number one fan. worked in the bush 43 administration. he's prolific including pointed jabs at trump. and we have diane sykes, a conservative favorite. she serves on the seventh circuit right now. she's been in private practice, served both as a county judge and on the wisconsin supreme court for before taking her current post. of course disappointment is going to be one of the trump's first concrete tests, especially for conservatives who said this was one of the only reasons they were comfortable voting for him. >> and talking to voters in wisconsin yet who were voting for donald trump, they said that was one of their top issues as well. >> clearly it was. >> thank you so much. >> great to see you. one battleground state that's played a big role in donald trump's victory, ohio, the same state every republican has needed to reach the white house.

peter doocy is live in cleveland. peter, hello. did trump need a big turnout to win ohio? of course he did. >> reporter: he did not. >> no? >> reporter: in historical content. no, he didn't, last night had the lowest turnout for a presidential election in ohio since the last time a clinton was on the ticket. the unofficial 2016 turnout number from the secretary of state is 69.32% of registered voters, and that is the tiniest amount here since 1996's bill clinton versus bob dole match-up which drew 67 and change. trump was able to win on the same ballot as incumbent republican senator rob partman who didn't want anything to do with trump and without the help of the popular republican governor john kasich who celebrated a few years ago when the rnc convention was awarded, but then didn't show up when trump was accepting the nomination this summer. kasich was among the republicans most resistant to the thought of supporting trump for president. so that called for unity

represents a big call -- rather a big change. clinton just did not perform very well in urban areas like this one. trvrp performed a lot better than expected in traditionally blue areas of the state that a lot of republican candidates don't even go to like the valley and local experts are saying today and party officials that a lot of people in the valley and places like than went red because union members who've been voting democrat forever wanted something different. heather. >> all right, peter doocy, great, thanks, great to see you. looming recount and a senate seat in the balance right now. it is a tight race in new hampshire with a razor thin margin. one side is now claiming victory. we'll tell you all about what one when we come back. [ crowd noise ]

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senate republicans holding

onto their majority. democrats picking up one seat so far in illinois with mark kirk losing to tammy duckworth. house speaker paul ryan talking about republican wins earlier today. >> i want to congratulate ron johnson. ron, scott walker and i just spent four days on a bus in wisconsin crisscrossing this state urging all republicans to come together to unify to win and that's exactly what happened. donald trump provided the kind of coattails that got a lot of people over the finish line to maintain our strong house and senate majorities. >> david, great to see you. so what happened? a lot of folks in the mainstream media and a lot of establishment republicans thought that donald trump would drag down what they call the down ballot candidates. that simply didn't happen. >> no, it didn't. earlier in the campaign it appeared it would happen and at times it appeared it was

happening in many situations. but on election day, where it counted, republicans got turnout thanks to donald trump and democrats did not and that helped republicans win in states like wisconsin and pennsylvania. i think it aided republicans in florida and ohio though i would argue that rubio and portman set themselves apart earlier on. clearly, clearly donald trump was not a drag on republican candidates at the end of the day. in fact, quite the opposite. >> even paul ryan saying that he really helped republicans and helped get them over the finish line. what do you see his role as, the house speaker, going forward? >> his role is carrying out donald trump's agenda in the house of representatives. donald trump is now the leader of the party. he won the election. the party will carry out the agenda he wants. there are times when congressional republicans and donald trump will agree on an

agenda. i think the repeal of obamacare is one of those. building up the military. more ships. more tanks. more troops. they'll agree on that. there are other areas where they don't agree but it doesn't matter because donald trump is going to be running the show. that's always how it is when a party runs the white house. their lieutenants in congress do what they want. we saw that with president obama and the democrats in 2009 and 2010 when they controlled both houses of congress and we'll see it with the republicans. >> kellyanne conway was on "fox & friends" this morning talking about what she called undercover voters. a new term we hadn't heard before. let's get your reaction to that. >> they're not embarrassing but they are tired of arguing with people in their social circle or families because normally these people would vote for a democrat and many did vote for president obama twice but undercov trump

voters want to take the country in a new and different direction. >> people wouldn't admit they wanted to vote for donald trump? >> we'll have to look at more exit polling and more of the voter rolls that come out of yesterday's election to have a definitive answer on that. i think what we do sort of know is there are a lot of working -- there are a lot of voters in some of these rust belt states that supported president obama and democrats previously that voted for donald trump. they have been longtime democratic voters that voted for trump. i don't know if they were undercover per se or just the voter modeling of who they were going to vote for missed the mark. we'll find out. >> thank you so much. great to see you. the election may be settled not just yet. there's a nail biter taking place in new hampshire with a

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a winner declared in the tight race for senate in new hampshire. we've been following this race all morning long. democratic governor maggie hassan declaring victory over kelly ayotte. is this official now? >> reporter: well, the secretary of state's office put out their official numbers in this hotly contested senate race. the democratic governor has claimed victory over the incumbent senator kelly ayotte. it's a fraction of a percent separating them. hassan declaring victory. as senator she'll put the people

of new hampshire first and she will work to heal divisions this election has exposed and fight to build a future where all granite staters are included in our shared economic success. >> what iste's camp saying about a recount? >> reporter: we are waiting to hear back. they have not conceded at this point in time. they did put a statement earlier today that said this has been a closely contested race from the beginning and we look forward to the results being announced by the secretary of state and ensuring that every vote has been counted in this race. party insiders saying it would be possible and likely that ayotte campaign may pursue that recount but we're waiting to hear that officially. >> all right. that just goes to show that every vote certainly does count. 1,023 votes between the two of them at this point. everybody, thanks for joining us. it has been a long campaign season. you all hung in there.

thank you so much. great to see you today. our fox team did a great job. let's hand it off over to shepard smith next door in studio. see you tomorrow. it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 p.m. in new york city where today donald trump woke up as president-elect of the united states of america. one day after the most stunning election upset in american history. for his supporters, it was a day of celebration. of jubilation. of affirmation of all they believed. for his opponents, it is a day marked by devastation, tears, and questions of how this happened. but today americans will do what we do every election, attempt to put aside differences and come together around our new leader because our peaceful transition of democracy is the tradition that has set