mr. mccarthy: the republican party has to continue to grow. the youngest woman elected to congress, currently serving, is a woman. of course she's a woman. she's a republican. we took a beating inside the suburban area. we're going to have to work harder. i think our message is going to have to be. our ideas are going to haver to stronger. we realize that and we'll work >> i watched walters fall behind. millions of dollars spent against us. i think it is wrong. i'm proud of the history -- no, he picked against republicans but spent a great deal of money. the $3 million, the race that became. the race in california. that is a contributing factor. look at mia love. we have the opportunity to rebuild. i'm proud of the history. the very first republican president was abraham. you will see this party continue to grow that represents all of america in gender, faith, reality. and we will be back. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption con

mr. mccarthy: no. he picked against republicans but he spent a great deal of money against republican women. the $3 million he spent on top of karen handle, the money he put into california. no. that's a contributing factor. you look at others. i think we have an opportunity to rebuild. i'm proud of the history of the republican party. proud of the history of the republican party, what it's built on. the very first republican president was abraham lincoln. i think we stick to our principles and goals and you'll see this party continue to grow and be the majority that represents all of america. in gender, faith, reality. we'll be back. thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> the incoming class of freshmen members of congress posed for a group photo in front of the capital. they will not be sworn in until january 3 but they are in washingt

mr. mccarthy. it's important to look at the other leadership team. the team right here, average age of us is 52 years old. the average age of the top three leading candidates on the other side is 78 years old. we are all about new ideas. we are about moving this country forward and new progress. i'm happy to be a part of this team. i'm really appreciate the opportunity to serve the american people in this capacity. is a teamee behind me that will restore hope for americans. i believe that our policies and the ideas that we bring to the table are what's good for the country and the american people. , think it's going to be good not only for our economy but for our future. i'm very excited about the opportunity to be a part of this. we will get the majority back. we understand we have a divided government. we have a divided nation. our goal is to unite us. this is an opportunity to help come -- americans move forward. our unemployment is at one of its lowest point it's ever been. were proud of the changes we made to the v.a.. the largestilitary race th

mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, i send to the desk a resolution and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 1164. resolution providing for the printing of a revised edition of the rules and manual of the house of representatives for the 116th congress. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection to the consideration of the resolution? without objection, the resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid pon the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent the committee on transportation and infrastructure discharge from further consideration s. 2377 and ask for immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of he bill. the clerk: senate 2377. an act to designate the federal building and united states courthouse in dayton, ohio, as the walter h. rice federal

mr. mccarthy of california and mr. elected by 65% of their districts will head off. certainly mccarthy has a personal relationship with the president for jim jordan's politics are closer to the president's politics and that will be the first thing to watch in the slingback session. that will be tomorrow. tom: if republicans are more trumpian because the moderate lost, how will they be a different minority from what kim wallace has witnessed over the decades? mr. wallace: they have to do a deep analysis of that because moderates got hurt but conservatives were hurt also. in response to your question about ohio, the new ohio maybe the old ohio. a congressional delegation did not change. 12 republicans, four democrats. the republican governor. ohio is what you want a bellwether's going to 2020 at the marriott -- very may well be where the president draws a line in the concrete for his reelection. what impact to the midterms have for businesses and foreign policy? is it too soon to tell? it's too soon to know a certainty bu

that is a 12th century mile >> you are talking about the bill that congressman mccarthy. >> mr. valadao: that will not build the wall. politics has become difficult because of the rhetoric. if you look at the $25 billion that president trump is asking for and the bill thanking passed out of 2018 it is $40 billion and $20 billion is too much? we have to kick down the rhetoric and have an actual rhetoric. have someone in the conversation that understands what is going on and what these effects will have on our communities. >> let me ask you about the path to citizenship. should it be afforded all undocumented immigrants. where do you stand on that? mr. cox: we should take a step -by-step approach. dreamers, they have been here and been through 14 different background checks. they are not coluded because they have had checks on their credit and education. we need to take the approaches. people who shouldn't be here should be sent home. but there are people that are working and working hard. and i was talking to a young family, four kids and their mom who had been working here for 2

mr. kane: and you're passing off the conference to mccarthy and it is 201 or 208. mr. ryan: that's right. that's right. mr. kane: how much of that blame falls on you? mr. ryan: i am not -- i thought you were going to ask me a different question. [laughter] mr. kane: you assumed it was going to be trump? ok well then answer both. [speaking simultaneously] mr. ryan: historically it's a 32-seat loss, somewhere around there. i think that was part of the problem. if you look at the crunch of the numbers, it's a few things. first of all, suburban voters, that's the number one liability we experienced. pennsylvania redistricting, and california just defies logic to me. we we had a lot of wins that , night. we were only down 26 seats the night of the election. and three weeks later we lost basically every contested california race. this, this election system they have i can't begin to understand. what ballot harvesting. mr. kane: california voter do you think there's something wrong with it? mr. ryan: no. i think it is weird. in wisconsin we knew the next , day. and scott walk

century solution to a 20 -- 21st century problem. >> you are talking about the bill that congressman mccarthy. mr. cox: correct. $20 billion, $25 billion doesn't make a difference. that will not build the wall. the math doesn't make sense. politics has become difficult because of the rhetoric. part of the issue is if you look at the $25 billion that president trump is asking for and compare that to the gang of eight bill passed out of 2018 it for borderon in that security. and $20 billion is too much? we have to kick down the rhetoric and have an actual fact the facts. what these effects will have on -- have someone in the conversation that understands what is going on and what these effects will have on our communities and border. >> let me ask you a question about amnesty or the path to citizenship. should amnesty be afforded all undocumented immigrants in this country? where do you stand on that? mr. cox: we should take a step-by-step approach. one, we should allow the dreamers a direct path to citizenship. they have been here -- i can tell you what. they have been here and been through 14 dif

that is a 12th century mile >> you are talking about the bill that congressman mccarthy. >> mr. valadao: that will not build the wall. politics has become difficult because of the rhetoric. if you look at the $25 billion that president trump is asking for and the bill thanking passed out of 2018 it is $40 billion and $20 billion is too much? we have to kick down the rhetoric and have an actual rhetoric. have someone in the conversation that understands what is going on and what these effects will have on our communities. >> let me ask you about the path to citizenship. should it be afforded all undocumented immigrants. where do you stand on that? mr. cox: we should take a step-by-step approach. dreamers, they have been here and been through 14 different background checks. they are not coluded because they have had checks on their credit and education. we need to take the approaches. people who shouldn't be here should be sent home. but there are people that are working and working hard. and i was talking to a young family, four kids and their mom who had been working here for 20

has intensified his attacks on robert mueller - gue prosecutor, he says , leading a mccarthy-stylehh wit. one thing mr. trump might ponder on the flight to the g20 summit to argentina, development have made it much more difficult to fire him. heck bryant, bbc news, new york. laura: for more onallout from this story, i spoke a bri time ago with criminal defense attorney caroline polisi in new york. caroline, michael coheyihas admitted to congress about the trump tower in moscow. what is the legal significance of the admission being made public right now? caroline: right, well, it is huly significant, laura, especially when you view it in juxtaposition to yesterday, where webo heard thishell that the special counsel office was tearing up the cooperation agreement with paul manafort. it seemed to like maybe mueller was on the outs, not doing so well. today all of a sudden with this really bombshell news thatl michhen is cooperating with the special counsel'smb office, re that we had not heard a rlly anything from michael cohen since august when he pleaded guilty to crimes unrelated to russia in the south

>> president mccarthy: so that rolls into mr. reardon's presentation and to your point, commissioner warshell said to me, that when we get this report that maybe we can calendar something around that. and it will have to go through a process of land-use planning, so we'll have opportunity, but the big one i guess is to have the joint meeting when everything is finalized on this piece of legislation with planning and we can go forward there. so that hopefully is the way that it will play out. >> vice-president walker: so it wouldn't be at the next meeting but it might be -- >> president mccarthy: yeah, but we definitely could get an update on what was introduced by supervisor -- >> vice-president walker: i think that is a good idea so we're aware of what is coming even if it's not the official review of it. >> president mccarthy: definitely. we could have our own input on that. >> vice-president walker: thank you. >> supervisor yee: future meetings and agendas. at this time the commission may discuss and take action to set the dat

intensified his attacks on robert mueller — "a rogue prosecutor", he says, "leading a mccarthy—style witch—hunt." but one thing mrhe long—haul flight to the g20 summit in argentina is how today's legal developments have made it much more difficult to fire him. nick bryant, bbc news, new york. will get more and the g20 shortly. —— we will get more on. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. ajapanese pilot has been jailed for being around nine times over the legal alcohol limit when about to fly a passenger jet at heathrow. the court heard that katsutoshi jitsukawa was stopped by security staff last month, in the cockpit of the japan airlines flight to tokyo. he was sentenced to ten months in prison. laura westbrook has more from the court in west london. mrjitsukawa appeared via video link in court today and did not speak when a sentence of ten months was read out loud. last month, he had been due to co—pilot flights from heathrow to tokyo, when a security manager thought he smelt alcohol on his breath. mrjitsukawa made it into the cockpit before he was removed, and police said that he appeared nervous

intensified his attacks on robert mueller, ‘a rogue prosecutor,‘ he says, ‘leading a mccarthy—style witchhunt‘. but one thing mrhaul flight to the 620 summit in argentina is how today's legal development have made it much more difficult to fire him. nick bryant, bbc news, new york. president trump is on his way to argentina, for a meeting of the 620, the world's leading economies, where he was due to hold talks with president putin of russia. but mr trump has cancelled that meeting because of the continued tensions between russia and ukraine. over the weekend russia detained a group of ukrainian sailors off the coast of crimea. live to buenos aires and jon sopel. is this cancellation only to do with the ukraine? that is what the whitehouse is saying. when donald trump left the white house at 10:45am he spoke to reporters and said the meeting probably would go ahead and it was an opportune moment for it. he then gets on air force one and 45 minutes later says there will be no meeting. what has changed in the interim in terms of the ukraine situation? nothing. what has changed in terms of the robert mueller inves

and asked you remember mr trump has always stated he thought his attorney general's job was to protect the president you know like roy cohn would would would protect joe mccarthy during his most noxious days and if that's was his conception to get rid of mr sessions you have to ask well is that what mr whitaker told the president he would protect him from the arm of the law and that gets you then into impeachable offenses and obstruction of justice for both mr clinton and mr nixon word concluded by congress to be impeachable now a singer joined in the said the u.s. by all accounts to c.n.n. has had his press credentials of all thought that he was accused by the white house of inappropriate behavior during a press conference with donald trump jim acosta was trying to ask a second question of when and to try to take the microphone off him and he resisted the white house press secretary said to send a shade a video of the incident slow down and zooming in on a costas hand she tweeted that we will not tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do his job as a white house and ten c.n.n. says acosta did nothing wrong and accuse sanders of

intensified his attacks on robert mueller — "a rogue prosecutor", he says, "leading a mccarthy—style witch—hunt." but one thing mrhaul flight to the g20 summit in argentina is how today's legal developments have made it much more difficult to fire him. nick bryant, bbc news, new york. and we will return to all that in just a moment. jjust to update you, nick touched on it there, president trump has now arrived in argentina for a meeting of the world's leading economies, the g20. he was due to have talks in buenos aires with vladimir putin. but in a tweet, mr trump announced he's now cancelled that meeting, along with several others. the reason he's given is that russia has still not returned the ukrainian ships and sailors it seized last sunday near crimea, which russia annexed four years ago from ukraine. let's get more from our north america correspondent, peter bowes. first of all, that we can president trump, that is the official reason he is giving. there is bound to be suspicion that frankly he just has too much else on his mind with the revelations about michael cohen. yeah, a lot of suspicion because of t

intensified his attacks on robert mueller — "a rogue prosecutor", he says, "leading a mccarthy—style witch—hunt." but one thing mrg—haul flight to the g20 summit in argentina is how today's legal developments have made it much more difficult to fire him. nick bryant, bbc news, new york. an update on that. president trump is now in argentina for a meeting of the world's leading economies, the g20. he's cancelled several planned meetings, including one with vladimir putin. the official reason given is that russia has still not released ukrainian ships and sailors it seized last sunday near crimea. i asked our correspondent peter bowes if there was a suspicion that mr trump might also have other things on his mind with the michael cohen revelations. yeah. a lot of suspicion because of the timing of that tweeter. just really a few moments earlier, a few minutes earlier, before, as he was leaving the white house to make that long journey to argentina, he said that the meeting was still on with president putin. something seems to have changed in a short space of time, leading up to that tweeter, saying he wouldn't be m

intensified his attacks on robert mueller — "a rogue prosecutor," he says, "leading a mccarthy—style witch—hunt." but one thing mr the long—haul flight to the 620 summit in argentina is how today's legal development have made it much more difficult to fire him. nick bryant, bbc news, new york. president trump is on his way to argentina for a meeting of the g20, the world's leading economies, where he was due to hold talks with president putin of russia. but mr trump has cancelled that meeting because of the continued tensions between russia and ukraine. over the weekend, russia detained a group of ukrainian sailors off the coast of crimea. chris buckler is in washington so, no meeting with president putin and ostensibly it's about ukraine, but what else could be a factor, chris? yeah, martine. if you look at what donald trump has been saying over the past few days, he'd raised the possibility of not meeting president putin because of russia's aggression, as it was described, in ukraine. today he said in his statement, which was on twitter, that basically he was not going to meet russia because sailors and ships h

raised and asked you remember mr trump is always stated he thought as attorney general's job was to protect the president unlike roy cohn would would would protect joe mccarthy during his most noxious days and if that's was his conception it gets rid of mr sessions you have to ask well is that what mr whitaker told the president he would protect him from the arm of the law and that gets you then into impeachable offenses and obstruction of justice for both mr clinton and mr nixon word concluded by congress to be impeachable and as we've been reporting you know mr bush it has said in the past that this is what's hont echoing what donald trump says he speculated on ways that it could and by you know cutting the budget for us but when you're talking about having the capacity now. i ask the new acting attorney general these questions doesn't the acting attorney general have the power to level of this investigation how's this going to work. well he does have the formal pottery except as pointed out his appointment may well be unconstitutional under the appointments clause any principal officer of the united states ordinarily requires senate confirmation and a sta

probe is an illegal joseph mccarthy-style witch hunt and asking, "did you ever see an investigation more in search of a crime?" still, today's charges putting a new spotlight on mr. trump's business dealings with russia, which he dismissed during the campaign. >> i will tell you right now, zero. i have nothing to do with russia. >> reporter: including to lester last year. >> i have nothing to do with russia. i have no investments in russia, none whatsoever. i don't have property in russia. >> reporter: the president saying today nothing's changed. >> i didn't do the project. i decided not to do the project. there would be nothing wrong if i did do it. i was running my business while i was campaigning. there was a good chance that i wouldn't have won, in which case i would have gone back into the business, and why should i lose lots of opportunities? >> reporter: in yet another shot at mueller, giuliani accused him of playing politics, saying he once again files a charge just as the president is leaving for a meeting with world leaders, saying he did the same thing before the president's summit with putin in helsinki. >> and soon after cohen's guilty plea, the pr

probe is an illegal joseph mccarthy-style witch-hunt, and asking, did y ever see an investigation more in search of a crime? still, the charges putting a new spotlight on mr. trump's business dealings wh russia, which he dismissed during the campaign. >> i will tell you right now, zero, i have nothing to do with russr:. >> reporncluding to lester last year. >> i have nothing to do with russia. i have no investments in russia. none whatsoever.ro i don't haverty in russia. >> reporter: the president saying nothing's changed. >> i didn't do the project. i decided not to do the project. there would be nothing wrong if i did do it. i was running my business while i was campaigning. there was a good chance that i wouldn't have won. in which case i would have gone why into the business a should i lose lots of opportunities? >> reporter: and in yet another shot at mueller, giulii today accused him of playing politics, saying he, quote, once again les a charge just as the president is leaving for a meeting with world saying mueller did the same thing before president apartments summit with putin in helsinki. phillip? >> kristen welker, thank you. >> reporter: pres

mccarthy was with the president and the fema director, brock long. from there, the president toured damaged areas. here is a look at some of the visits. [no audio] mr. carmichael: pres. trump: i want to think the mayor, governor -- pres. trump: i want to think the mayor, governor, and governor-elect. brock, i want to thank you for the job. it has been incredible. law enforcement has been beyond anything anybody could belief. to see what has happened here, nobody would have ever thought this could have happened so the federal government is behind you. we are all behind each other. jerry and i have been speaking, haveavin ni -- gavin and i gotten to know each other and we will do a great job. this is sad to see. as far asws quite yet the lives are concerned. a certain number, but a lot of people are unaccounted for. this is notling me as bad as some areas. some areas are beyond this, just charred. one thing we have, we have the greatest people in the world looking to help the first responders, fema, and you people are incredible. law enforcement, they never let us down. they never let us down. .e are here kevin, thank you very much for the job you ha

mccarthy didn't want it to happen. until recently. so, now, unless congress is willing to hold mr.ith the threat of contempt, he's not going to show up. >> dagen: one reason, let's be clear, he wanted to be out in public it open. because he is norma desmond prayed he's ready for his close that. he's looking for the spotlight, 24/7. [laughter] i'm joking. i'm joking! >> there is some of that. >> dagen: the issues with him, number one -- talking about anything that is classified in a public setting. that would be the argument, for doing it behind closed doors. bob goodlatte of the judiciary committee wrote an editorial in the richmond times dispatch in august of this year, outlining what does it play? he writes the first sentence, "our investigation is about assuring our justice system treats everyone equally under the law. a goal that those on both sides of the political spectrum should support." i think that kind of lays it out. equal application of the law. >> steve: they are trying to figure out what went into the decision making at the department of justice, and the fbi, which m

mccarthy had this to say. >> in this environment, particularly given how big an issue he made of mrs.on's use of private email to conduct official business, you have to wonder why anybody would do that. it's kind of an explosive thing at this point. >> lisa: congressman, should there be an investigation into this? >> sean: i don't know if there should be an investigation. i think it's foolish on behalf 6 ivanka trump to actually have a private email account when the whole race for the last presidential cycle was about hillary clinton's illegal private email server and email accounts and the president laid out well, there is nothing comparable to what ivanka did scheduling issues and forwarded all the emails. it's all public record to what hillary clinton did. not only did she delete the 33,000 emails. we don't have them. but recall when her team took sledge hammers to the cell phone and destroyed the cell phones so there would be no record of these emails and again over 100 of them were classified. there is no indication these emails are classified. so there is no comparison between t

mr. trump rails against the russia investigation accusing the mueller team of quote, viciously telling witnesses to lie in exchange for leniency and comparing the probe to the mccarthy era. i'll talk about the breaking news with senator richard blumenthal. let's go to our senior white house correspondent. just yesterday the white house said there haven't been any conversations about a pardon for paul manafort but that has clearly changed. >> reporter: that's right. despite what the white house said that's been on the president's mind in this new interview. he said that pardon paul manafort is not out of question and he took his criticism of the mueller probe a step further now comparing it to mccarthyism. tonight president trump saying in a stunning new interview his former campaign chairman paul manafort could receive a presidential pardon. the president late today telling the new york post that the pardon is quote not off the table. saying quote, it was never discussed but i wouldn't take it off the table. why would i take it off the table? it's a shift from just 24 hours earlier when his press secretary was asked about a pardon for manafort. >> i'm not aware of a

mr. clyburn would be the majority whip. but, looking at the republican leadership, it's less clear, jim jordan has expressioned he wanted to be the minority leader you have kevin mccarthy and steve southern californiaies who are in leadership positions. >>> what can we expect -- and steve scalise who are in leadership positions. >>> what can we expect two hours from now, a lot, if you can see how much he's been tweeting this morning and last night? if he speaks half as much as he's been tweeting, it will be quite the press conference. claim victory and success and talk about how the republicans gained more seats in the senate. as we stand, it's at least 3, we have a too close to call race in montana and mississippi and they'll go in a run off election where the incumbent cindy hyde-smith could remain there. we'll see what happens, there's still a few more races. >> thank you. >>> turning now to several other state propositions, prop 3 would allow the state to borrow 8.9 billion, that money would go to safe drinking water projects, water shed and fishery improvements, supporters say the measures secure safe and reliable water for drought protection and you can repay bon

mr. mueller makes of those answers and whether they are true or not true. the other thing that kristen said was a reference to this being the mccarthy era again. and it's a pretty ironic thing for the president who was mentored by roy cohen was the loir lawyer in that case to be admired. he's been looking for his own roy cohen, why would he demean the hearings in that way? >> danny, it looks like this may sort of give us some clues into where this goes next, but let's just underscore again, and greg touched on this, but the importance of having michael cohen cooperating specifically with the mueller probe as opposed to we know he was working with the southern district of new york. >> over the last few days we've talked about wikileaks and jerome corsi and roger stone, but all of those crimes require inferences and connecting dots. from the beginning, michael cohen time and time again provided direct links to criminali criminality. in the southern district of new york several months ago he stood newspaper kwo up in court and said i committed a crime in terms of finance law and i did it with the president. moving forward here we are again michae

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mr. president, you denied it time and time again. anyway, trump began his day today tweeting wild accusations against special counsel robert mueller. charging him with leading an illegal joseph mccarthy-style witch hunt. it's a technique he's employed over the last two years waging an aggressive personal campaign against not just robert mueller and michael cohen, but also his own government. lashing out against findings that russia was responsible for hacking our democracy. so what if -- what is he afraid of? why does he keep lying? for measuore i'm joined by two people who know trump well, david k. johnson, founder of d.c.report.org and author of "making of donald trump. and glenda blair, author of trump's "three generations of builders and a president." let me go to glenda on this one. why the cover-up? we love television here. we're on it. and we can use it. and you can show all these tapes again and again and again, trump denying any business dealings during the campaign. why does he do this stuff? why does he keep covering up something that smells bad but wasn't he says, illegal? >> well, there's a couple of possibilities. maybe he's guilty. that's one. another one is, it didnoe

mccarthy in bringing this legislation to the floor. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: i yield three minutes to the the gentlewoman from california, one of the lead sponsors of this bill, ms. lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized. ms. lee: let me thank you, our ranking member, mr. engel, for yielding me time and also for your hard work and being a real champion for our global health programs and thank you for your kind words. let me thank thank mr. royce and the chair of the africa subcommittee. it has been a pleasure working with you from day one. and i cannot forget the late chairman henry hyde and our ranking member, tom lantoost, who worked so hard, because you remember this, worked so hard in making sure that this legislation stayed on track and making sure it was bipartisan. and to our current ranking member of the house africa subcommittee, representative karen bass, i thank her for her leadership as well as the congressional black caucus because it was the congressional black caucus who supported me in my work with pre

mr. speaker. i rise today to urge strong support for h.r. 390, the bipartisan iraq and syria genocide relief and accountability act. i want to begin by offering my special thanks to the majority leader kevin mccarthy for his strong and sustained support for the victims of genocide, for this bill, and for the work of his amazing staff, especially luke murray, who's done yeoman's work by making sure this moves forward. i want to thank senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and his chief of staff for their work as well as our friends on the senate side. especially i want to thank ed royce, our chairman, and ranking member eliot engel, again, for their wonderful support for this bill. and for all the members. i do want to thank anna eshoo, who has been tenacious in her support for genocide-targeted communities in iraq and syria, and matt mcmurray, her chief of staff, who's also been a great friend to work on this legislation. my thanks to mary noonan, my chief of staff, pierre, our staff director for the foreign fairs subcommittee, nate age -- nate hurd. so many others who have been a part of this effort to get this across the finish line. mr. speaker, in september of 2013, i chaired my first of 10 co

mrs. pelosi to be elected speaker. >> you know, there is also going to be a battle for the leadership in the republican minority, and kevin mccarthyaybe he might challenge him, but i would think that with their loss, that is completely up for grabs. one of the names that has been mentioned as a possible house minority leader, you talk about the left-wing of the democratic caucus taking over the democrats in the house, you could have the right wing of the republican caucus taking over the house. so they are going to be battles for power on both sides in the house. >> let's take a look at our race call that we can now make in the iowa governors race. republican governor kim reynolds will win reelection by defeating fred hubbell. reynolds became the governor last year when the post was vacated to become the ambassador to china. very helpful to president trump in the state of iowa. and now she will take that rightful place as governor of iowa. kim reynolds. that is another republican governor in very important race. >> the republicans pick up iowa. what is the common denominator there? all of those states are crucial to 2020. when you

mr. leader, with espect to florida -- >> and just getting word kevin mccarthy has been elected as the house minority leader in the 116th congress. we'll tell you about that in a moment. the house itself back in session this afternoon beginning debate on the removing the gray wolf from the endangered species list. we will have live coverage when they return, we think about 4:00 eastern or so. senator jeff flake has said he wants a vote on legs to protect special -- legislation to protect special counsel mueller. he will be delivering the key note address this evening at -- adio congressional congressional radio and tv correspondents dinner. >> with democrats taking control of the house and republicans holding the majority in the senate, members now prepare for the new congress in january.