xenophobic appeal. we always thought that he would get the college educated voters. it didn't happen in 16 it did happen in 20. >> and it looks like, tara and stuart stevens thank you all. not that's all in for tonight. >> and it looks like, tara and stuart stevens thank you all. not that's all in for tonight. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening alex. i would love a it is down with herschel walker.

depending on how this goes. i'm fascinated by the map. >> a real sit down with herschel walker would be an interesting thing. thank you as always, my friend. thanks to all of you at home for joining thus hour. it was 20 years ago now. maybe you forgot. this she made history in 2002. >> good morning. my colleagues just bestowed upon me the great honor to be the leader of the democrats in the house of representatives. they did so in an across the board, overwhelming vote of support and i'm very, very honored. >> that was nancy pelosi after being chosen to be the first woman to lead one of america's major political parties in congress. four years later democrats won control of the house of representatives and nancy pelosi again made history as the first woman ever to be speaker of the house. second in line to the presidency. but it's not just the first ever designation and not just the trail blazing that sets this speaker apart from all the other

ones. it is the record. nancy pelosi has been one of the most effective speakers in american history. and her cumulative eight years as speaker of the house, she was instrumental in the passage of obama care, landmark legislation that brought health care to millions of americans. she navigated the passage of joe biden's agendaa and the biggest investment in combatting climate change in u.s. history. when we think of political leaders, we think of presidents. but pelosi's career shows us as speaker of the house she has been as consequential as the president himself. all of the landmark legislation from democratic presidents in 21st century is in large part a result of the work of nancy pelosi. her ability to keep the caucus together and get things done. my ability to finish this script. turning her two four year stints

as speaker, pelosi only saw one bill defeated on the floor. and that would not have happened if not for republican infighting n 2008 republicans failed to deliver their share of the necessary votes to save the american financial system from collapse, even as pelosi delivered her share. after some scrambling on the republican side, congress did eventually pass that bill and that is the only l on nancy pelosi's scoreboard. the only one. today pelosi announced she is stepping aside as leader of the democratic party in congress. she is likely to be succeeded by another historic first. democrats have begun to coalesce around new york congressman hakeem jeffries to be their next leader in the house. should congressman jeffries succeed, he'll be the first ever african american to lead a major party in congress. he will have big shoes to fill. not only are there pelosi's legislative accomplishmentes as speaker, for the past four years, nancy pelosi is at the

helm of the movement to counter donald trump, to act as a check on the influence and the party and the authoritarianism he injected into american politics. this is not a congress person who took on this mantle reluctantly. she was all in. remember, this photo between the white house and congressional leaders during trump's first impeachment or the golf clap during the state of the union or when she upped the amped the ante by ripping up the speech. but these moments were just photo ops and click basement yes, they were those things too. they represented something deeper. they were symbols of a powerful rejection of donald trump and everything he stood for. and pelosi made them a considerable risk to herself and her family. >> where's nancy? where you are, nancy?

we're looking for you. nancy? oh, nancy? nancy? where you are, nancy? >> because of her public and unyielding opposition to president trump, pelosi is one of the chief targets of the violent force that's were stirred up by trump's election lies. last night we got this new footage of capitol rioters ran tacking her office. the footage is against riley williams who led a gang of insurrectionists to pelosi's office and aided in the theft of the speaker's laptop. the president was watching events on tv, speaker pelosi was on the phone from a secure location working on the federal government's response to the violence while she herself was a target of that violence. last month violent extremest broke into pelosi's home

attacking paul pelosi with a hammer. it's an attack they dismissed around which they could promote baseless conspiracy theories to diminish and forget about it. but the reality is that the violence directed against nancy pelosi and her family will forever be part of how we remember the pelosi era which is why it's all the more shocking that "new york times" reported last night that first thing that republicans want to do is to investigate nancy pelosi for her treatment of the january 6 insurrectionists. i'm not kidding. they're not kidding. quote, the closed door meetings of republicans wednesday including marjorie taylor green extracted a promise they would investigate nancy pelosi for the treatment of the defendants in the jail for the january 6 attack. republicans think that nance i can pelosi mistreated the violent mob that stormed her

office. that is the goal on day one of their new house majority. so these are the records right here today. an outgoing leader carrying a resume with major structural change to benefit millions of americans. incoming leader of a party for whom extremism and conspiracies and grievance, these are the only things on his agenda. so what happens now? joining us now is someone who has been nancy pelosi's leadership firsthand who has seen it and been there. california congressman adam shift chair of the house intelligence committee. good to you have. thank you for being here tonight. please do most of the talking. i am really having a hard time. let me first start, you had a front row seat to the pelosi era. i wonder from someone high up in leadership, what did it look like from the front row?

>> we're working with the greatest speaker that country ever h someone of immense talent, someone of historic proportion. she was able to do with the slimmest of margins is only possible because she combined so many different skills. she knows the members supremely well. she knows what they want. she knows what they actually need. she knows their districts. she understands the legislative issues. she's a brilliant tack tigs. she knows how to work the members on both side of the capitol. she knows how to leverage even being in the minority and she did so much in the minority often to the anxiety of the republican majority that they were outplayed.

all of us around her recognize that we were in the presence of greatness. >> you know, i'll say someone that had the privilege of interviewing her before, you always knew she had limited time. she had an extraordinary calendar. it wasn't just legislative meetings. these were constituent funerals or baby showers. this is someone who really understood the poli part of politics, the humanity. she was there at critical moments in her constituents' lives. that is part of the speakership that hasn't been reported on, the degree to which she was really on the road doing the damn thing all the time. but she also had the ability to be firm, that is the other part. she was instintinging when she didn't like something that her own congress member reported. this was a mom that wasn't

afraid -- she didn't spare the rod. i don't want to bring corporal punishment. but she was tough. were you ever a victim of that toughness? >> i saw her toughness all the time. and funny story. when my daughter was 3 or 4, i took her to the capitol. i introduce thoerd nancy pelosi. i said to my daughter, alexa, that is nancy pelosi. she is our whip. if you don't do what she wants, she has a whip. and nancy got down on her knees at the level of my daughter and said, don't tell her. that don't tell her that. and she took my daughter's hand and said it's a candy whip. i thought to myself, it is not a gift. she could be really tough as donald trump found out, as anyone who ever tried to cross her found out. and most importantly, she is and

has been utterly tenacious in defending our democracy at its most vulnerable hour. and tenacious in defending her constituents in california, people around the country and particularly children who are her real love and passion. >> as republicans are going to be in control of congress and laid out the priorities, it is the fabrication of conspiracy theories, what do you -- how you are thinking about next two years ahead? what can democrats do? how should house democrats be thinking of their power at this moment? >> you know, one reason i was really hoping that speaker pelosi would stay on is the

greatest mismatch in talents. it's important for the country that work, the business of the country get done in next two years. president biden made a gracious statement to kevin mccarthy urge we work productively. mccarthy promised the marjorie taylor greens of the world, no, he's going to pursue the conspiracy theories investigating nancy pelosi for what? for having an insurrectionist crowd trying to kill her? sadly, it will be for kevin mccarthy the lowest common denominator of the caucus. he is a very weak leader in every sense of that meeting e doesn't have a strong hold in the caucus. he doesn't have an ideology except his own advancement. and that's not much of a kind of cohesion to hold together thinks caucus. you know, sadly, i think it's

going to be chaos on their side of the aisle. and it's a tragedy for the country because, you know, we need to deal with inflation and with changing climate and health care. and we need a functional government. >> congressman adam schiff of congress. thank you for the favorite line about canedy whip. congressman, thank you for your time. thank you for joining us tonight. i'm now joined by jake sherman, co-founder of punch bowl news and political contributor. it is great to see you. you've been busy reporting out. what is monumental decision by the almost can i say former speaker of the house nancy pelosi? to step down. talk to me about how this is all going to work. how do democrats, are they seeing any power in these

committees committee assignments. will they be a check on the republican investigations that the kevin mccarthy is intent on launching? >> very limited. if you have 218 votes, if you have a majority, can you do anything you want essentially. if you have 218 votes. now that means that democrats on committees are limited. they can't stop subpoenas. they can't stop investigations. they can't do much besides be a forceful voice against what they think is unjust and what they think is unfair and what they think is overreach. and you should have no doubt, alex, they're going to overreach every majority i've ever covered and that's too many of them, i guess at this point, have overreached in some way, shape, or form. that doesn't mean their investigations are going to all overreach. but when you get into the

majority you have this kind of burning desire to investigate. and there is always missteps. so democrats can't do much. that doesn't mean they won't dry tri. that doesn't mean they won't try to slow things down and fight back. there is not a ton they can do. >> i do wonder whether messaging and communication is important on the committees. there was a question of seniority. recommends that democrats elevate their best communicators on the committees. the elevation of elijah cummings was very important. do you think they may take the microphone beyond the leadership position that's we know now you? >> jamie raskin is someone that will be incredibly useful in the majority. now, you know, when kirk bardel was a republican and you dealt with him when working with darrell isa during its obama administration, that was a perfect example of how

republicans used the committee process to just pump the brakes and really yank the emergency brake on a lot of things going on in the administration. caused a huge distraction for barack obama. obama was re-elected. it deposit hurt him that much. but at that time, yeah, they elevated elijah cummings. they saw him as the best person to take on darrell isa. there is a very vibrant race to be head of the oversight committee on the democratic side of the aisle. you look around the democratic caucus, one of the democrats' biggest strengths and weakness is they don't have term limits on the committee chairs. it's very difficult to inject new blood when you need new blood. some people have suggested that should change. mr. schiff when he was considering a race for leader for leadership suggested that should change. that is one thing he had been telling members of congress. but when you look at the judiciary committee, you have

jerry nadler. so that is something the democrats have to figure out. but you're absolutely right. communications and messaging and just how to get on tv and say these people are not telling the truth when they're not telling the truth is incredibly important. >> what about the progressives? when we talk about the names that have been floating for leadership, there are no house progressives in the mix. congresswoman has been vocal and engaged in house negotiations over the build back better act and the other key pieces of the biden agenda. do you see space for them? is it too late? why do you think the wing of the caucus has been, i don't know if i can say left out at this junkture but is not on main stage. >> you have to run for a

leadership position if you want it. and if you're slow to it, i said this today on twitter, if that still exists or maybe in our news letters. but if you don't run and you don't get out of the gate, you're going to lose. and hakeem jeffries and katherine clark and pete aguilar really got out of the gate quickly and solidified their position. and that's why they're going to be the next leadership slate. she has not done that. now this is a similar dynamic. i'm not comparing the freedom caucus and progressives. the it need to be able to build coalitions that can win you positions and leadership. you can't hope that someone is going to put you there. you need to put together a race and run and convince people why you're the best for the job. it's not as much as well they're being left out and should have place at the table f they should have place at the table, then they should be able to find a majority of house democrats who

agree with that proposition they should be at the table f not, then they should not be at the table. that's what you see in republican leadership. they complain they're left out. they don't have the numbers. this is something for hakeem jeffries to manage. it will be a difficult task. he has frequently spoken out about the more progressive lawmakers. he's a progressive lawmaker himself. he's not all the way on the left. he also spoke out against what he calls the performtive nature of some segments of progressive politics these days. >> i don't know. as complicated as that choreography, is i think most people watching these deliberations unfold rather be in a democratic caucus than the republican caucus. it just looks like an absolutely brutal path for anybody who is

willing to be speaker. >> there is no doubt about that. if you look at what happened today, they swapped out three for nancy pelosi. republicans can't -- i mean kevin mccarthy has a treacherous, treacherous path to the speakership that nancy pelosi had similar treacherous paths but able to overcome them with a bunch of ease. >> there are some that would say that is a treacherous path of his very own making. jake sherman, great to see you. great reporting. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> we have much more ahead this hour. now that republicans won a narrow majority in the house, what influence will be more partisan members of the caucus have and will they actually pursue bogus investigations into president biden and his family and allies? i'll speak with ben rhodes who once upon a time ago was a

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insurrectionists are wrongly imprisoned? >> we're going to look at the politics of the justice department based on the fact we had 14 different -- actually 14 now, whistle blowers come talk to us. >> the last question is what are the grounds to do the investigation? >> this say big deal, we think. >> 24 hours after control of the house was called for republicans. gop leaders decided to hold this press conference to preview alleged evidence against hunter biden and the president. the two men poised to take over the house oversight and judiciary committees in january telegraphed exactly where their attention is laser focused. they really do need focus. if we can keep it about hunter biden, that will be great.

would it? this is the direction of the republican party. it should come as no surprise when speaker pelosi reflected on her decades long tenure on the house floor today, the man expecting to be the next speaker is absent. told reporters he couldn't make it because he was taking meetings. as it turns out, mccarthy was meeting with trump child separation czar stephen miller. "washington post" reporter jackie alamany spotted him walking into the office this morning before speaker pelosi took the floor. stephen miller flooded the airwaves days ago with some of the most breath takingly racist political ads of any election cycle ever. adds that cost republicans some very important seats. but that reality that, racist dog whistles and cultural wars didn't win them elections. that didn't settle in for the

go the right-wing is not giving up by any shot. he is going to speak to the speaker giving him advice. we have no idea. the hunter biden is the focus two of key committees. that's where the gop is at which is to say a long way from a normal governing coalition. but the biden white house is ready for this. at least that is the reporting. cnn reports today that biden administration has been conducting mock trials for the past few months in anticipation of an onslaught of meeting. they highlight how far reaching and aggressive republican investigations are expected to be. joining me now is ben rhodes, former deputy national security adviser for barack obama. great to see new person. what it is like to know that republicans have your number and

they're going to pull the full force the committees and direct it against you? >> it's a little disturbing and a little demoralizing. i think the thing that our connector is benghazi. i have tire marks in my back from that. what happens is when the republicans had control of the house is they did seven investigations in 2012, 2013 and you thought when those investigations didn't find anything, the truth and the facts were out and now we can move on. no. then they started a select committee. and that continued. i frankly didn't end up appearing in front of the benghazi committees until i hit the last year of the obama administration four years after the benghazi attacks. the point being they never stopped. it doesn't matter what the facts are. what the truth is. they just want to continue to show. the show is the only thing they care about. >> i mean, it bears mentioning that you had a job, an important job as a national security advisors as this is all

unfolding, right? and you're tasked with dealing with high level negotiations as defending your career in congress. what is that balance like? >> it's hard. the one biggest challenges for the white house is to limit the amount of bandwidth and stress and fatigue that has put on people who are subjects of oversight. you have to do multiple things at once. figure out how to do your job and taking this seriously. you have to figure out how to message, yes, you're answering questions and appearing if need to before a committee. but you're calling it out. you're describing for people this is what they are doing. they are trying to distract you from issues that matter in your life to put on a show for whatever audience they're appealing. to they don't care about the people who are watching this show. they don't care about the people in the middle who voted against republicans. they care about who is watching fox news. they care about who is getting clicks. that's their audience. they're living in a different universe.

>> what does the white house do? you briefly mentioned some of the things the white house aimed to do when dealing with benghazi. we have this reporting that the white house, the biden white house well ahead of november 8 was preparing, lining up whatever resources they have. what does that -- do you have a sense of what that might be and what resources were allocated towards that you could have been increased as a kind of reality preparation for what's happening come next year? >> in terms of preparations, you know, the universe of document that's people are looking for? how can we anticipate that? who are they going to call as witnesses and how do we begin to prepare them? how do we begin to prepare for requests for everything or subpoenas for everything? frankly, when i look back on it, the normal push and pull of the oversight things is white houses are usually reluctant to share information. the problem with that is that drags it out. it's a drip, drip, drip. let's just give it all to the people up front and say here are

the facts. we didn't do anything wrong. wear trying to govern the american he people and do the businessst american people. you are the ones trying to put on the show. and not give them the kind of drama that washington loves. are they going to squeeze this information out of these people or, you want to drain the drama out of it. there is no drama. >> it is complicated for biden. we're talking about his son. >> that's a little different. but they've been dealing with hunter biden issues on the campaign like this has been out in the public domain and the right-wing domain for years now. they should use that to their advantage. you have to say, we know this, this is all been in public. we heard about the laptop and we've seen the pictures. and they're doing this because they don't have an agenda. they don't have answers to the questions that you care about in your lives. and i think that's the key message you have to keep coming back to. this say distraction. describe for people what they're doing and why they're doing it. they're doing it because they don't have an answer as to how they got there. >> that something worth talking

about. this is not just politics as usual. this is, you know, you written about this in your best-selling books. and the abrasive anti-democratic principles. when you look at what the gop is quite clearly telling the american public it's going to do when they have power in the lower chamber, its not the job of governing. it's not even the sort of normal behaviors of a political party. it's something else. based fundamentally in highs. i wonder what that tells but state of affairs in american politics as it concerns a broader slide towards the darkness. >> i actually think about something that the russian opposition figures are in prison because of his opposition to putin. he described putin in a way that does apply to the republican party. putin doesn't have to prove he's corrupt. everybody knows it. his message is everybody is corrupt. you don't have to convince

people of your virtue. the republican party today, it's a strategy of cynicism. everybody is corrupt. donald trump and his kids may be corrupt and making deals with the saudis. behinder hunter biden is corrupt too. that is the cynicism. no, this does matter. what these people are doing has real consequences for your lives. it's obstructing government from doing what they need to do, keep you safe, address innation, all -- inflation, all of these issues. it's a strategy of cynicism. >> ben rhodes, former deputy national security adviser for obama oesh.

thank you for being here, my friend. >> thank you. >> still ahead tonight, senate democrats will hold on to the majority in congress but when it comes to next month's senate runoff in georgia, democrats are not taking chances. and the january 6 committee might be wrapping things up. but just early today investigators spoke to someone who may know what was going through donald trump's head as his supporters broke into the u.s. capitol. more on that coming up next. stay with us. itol more on that coming up next. stay with us ♪ ♪ ♪♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪♪ need a backup plan? get plan b one-step. plan b helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by temporarily delaying ovulation—and you can resume your regular birth control right away. i've got this. ♪♪

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in just under seven weeks, a new congress a slim republican majority will be sworn in. between now and then, we're expecting the highly anticipated final report of the january 6 select committee. now the committee has yet to interview donald trump or mike pence because the former president blew off a committee subpoena and the former vice president said won't talk to the committee. even in the final days the committee is still getting a chance to interview relevant key witnesses in and around january 6. one of those people is the lead secret service act for former president trump, a man named bobby engel. that name may ring a bell.

. >> the president said i'm the f'ing president, take me to the capitol now. bobby said, sir, we have to go to the west wing. reached up to grab the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm and said, sir, you have to take your arm off the steering wheel. we're going to the west wing. we're not going to the capital. mr. trump used his free hand to lunge to him and he recounted the story to me, emotioned towards his clavicles. >> the former white house aide testified in june she was told that trump lunged at the steering wheel. cnn was the first to report this and we confirmed it. he sat with an interview today. he spoke to the committee previously. that is before cassidy hutchison's testimony. today is the first time agent engel has spoken to the committee since her bombshell

testimony. cassidy testified that former trump white house official tony told her what the scene looked like. this means the january 6 panel today presumably got one step closer to nailing down what exactly happened that day. and that matters because it speaks to president trump's state of mind on january 6, what his intentions were and what he was doing as the attack was underway. we'll be right back. attack was underway we'll be right back.

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a lot of people were shaking heads when donald trump announced his running for 2024. some said it would complicate things. the senate runoff in georgia. and it seems they were right. today we have confirmation that trump is not only viewed as a loser in his own party but he is also turning out to be an albatross around the neck of the republican nominee herschel walker. this is a new ad from the warnock campaign. >> we must all work very hard for a gentleman and a great person named herschel walker, a fabulous human being who loves our country and will be a great united states senator. herschel walker, get out and vote for herschel. he deserves it. he was an incredible athlete,

he'll be an even better senator. get out and vote for herschel walker. >> i'm rafael warnock and i support this ad. >> that's how bad things have gotten. the mere suggestion of his touch can turn a candidate into kryptonite. democrats are looking at this race with big hopes and they are investing $7 million to get out the vote. mobilization is crucial here because, for one, turnout has historically been lower for democrats and runoff races. and secondly, voters are facing an early voting restriction that happens to be the subject of a new lawsuit from senator warnock and the georgia democratic party. that suit asks a judge to reverse the state's law banning saturday voting after thanksgiving and state holiday. in this case, the holiday is a day formerly observed as robert e. lee's birthday. the lawsuit argue that the law

doesn't apply to runoffs that have a shorter voting period. influx of millions of dollars benefiting his opponent with all of this in front of them. what is herschel walker thinking? well, here he is on the campaign trail yesterday explaining his candidacy and his reason for running for office. >> i'm going to tell you something that i found out. a werewolf killed a vampire. i don't want to be a vampire anymore, i want to be a werewolf. he is looking real good in this black suit. whoa that, sounds like senator warnock. they put the cross on the vampire's forehead. he said it doesn't work. it doesn't work unless you have faith. we have to have faith in our fellow brother and this country. we have to have faith in elected officials. >> joining us now is kender

cotton. miss cotton. thank you for being here. i saw you smiling listening to that extraordinary stump speech for herschel walker. let's start with the former president. we are now the stage of the game where georgia, formerly a republican state, someone running a very close race in that state, the democrat can literally just run an ad of trump's endorsement of his opponent and that's enough to swing voters. is that how bad it got for trump in the state of georgia? >> yes. i think that's how bad it got for trump. i think it's also a testament to how awful a candidate herschel walker actually is. he was refute yated at the ballot box. we fully intend to leave it all on the field in advance of december 6. and, yes, i think you racketly describe it with trump being an albatross around his neck. we'll continue to remind voters

that's who he is aligned with. >> what of the -- i mean the warnock campaign is a very -- i don't want to say trepadatious, a very careful campaign. it feels like they're much more on offense in these, you know this final stretch of the campaign that will never end. do you think that is evidence of confidence? >> i think it's evidence of confidence. i also think that, you know, we expected this to happen. we expected this to be a tight race. i'm sure the campaign expected that too. but i think they also know they can't just leave it up to grassroots groups like ours. i think we're going to see them trying, as you described, to be on the offense, not the defense. the grassroots ecosystem in

georgia is ridiculously robust. to talk about the turnout game and what we're going to be doing, i mean, we have plans. to knock on one million doors in the 22 days before december 6. and that is ridiculously large amount of number because would only knocked 2.1 million doors between the primary and the general all of this year. so we're bullish out here. what we know is that if we can reach these voters, if we can have conversations at the doors, they're three times more likely to show up and vote. it is critically important for us to get out. i think the campaign understand that's too. energize and motivate the -- what we describe as high opportunity voters. a lot of people call them low pro tense ti voters. we know the power they bring. this is a game of margins. people are firmly in their camps. and so what we do in the new georgia project action fund is try to connect folks to the

policies. yes, it's about warnock. we're not here as democrats. we're nonpartisan. this is about heart issues. this is about what is impacting voters. it's about reproductive justice. it's about, you know, access to affordable health care. it's about judicial appointments. and our voters understand that. regardless who have is on the ballot. we're voting for greater progress in this state. >> it is exhilarating to hear your enthusiasm. talk about how democrats behave. it sounds like the enthusiasm is through the roof. kendra cotton, thank you for the work that you're doing on behalf of democracy. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you very much. >> we have one more story to get to tonight. every vote matters. in some cases the difference of just one vote could make all the difference. that is next. all the difference that is next if you have diabetes, then getting on the dexcom g6 is the single most important thing you can do. it eliminates painful fingersticks, helps lower a1c, and it's covered by medicare.

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tonight, democrats won control of the house for the first time in 12 years. the 102 seats, republicans won 101 seats. and if you ever felt like your vote didn't really count in the grand scheme of things, take a

look at the two race that's decide this thing n the bucks county race that won republicans the 101st seat to it, into the republican is ahead by a whopping 53 vote lead. and the montgomery county race that secured democrats their 102nd seat tonight and it with control of the pennsylvania state house for the first time in 12 years, that race was won by just 58 votes. but even if that hasn't sold you on the idea that every vote matters if, 50 votes still too big a margin for you, let me direct you to new hampshire's state house. last week the election results looked like republicans could take it 203 seats and democrats won 107. 28 of the state house races were close enough that they requested recounts. on monday the democrat running to represent manchester new hampshire's ward six, she won the recount by one single vote. that brought the partisan split

state house to 202 republicans and 201 democrats. he won i had recount by two votes. that brought the partisan split in the state house to 201 republicans and 199 democrats. yesterday the recount in new hampshire's rochester ward four that ended in a hit ral tie. 970 to 970. that means that seat shifts to being undecided. it will be litigated, ballots questioned, et cetera, et cetera. that brings the partisan split of the new hampshire state house to 200 republicans and 199 democrats. and there are still 11 recounts left to go. every vote matters. that does it for me and my broken voice box tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. "way too early" is coming up next. >> when i first came to the floor at 6 years old, never would i have thought that some day would go from homemaker to