he said he trusts neil kelly. republican, but he says he has some of the highest integrity of any official in the country. and then there is foreign interference. neil kelly told me, not only does he sit on the homeland security's national security task force, he has worked closely over the last two years with the fbi, he told me straight-up, they have been scanned, probed by foreign government, including russia and china. he feels confident that despite the fact that that is happening here, that the election is going to be safe. the votes will be counted. they may not be counted quickly. we may be in for not just a long night, but a long week and maybe even a long month. he thinks all the votes should be count and everybody should feel confident in that fact. >> jacob soboroff reporting live from the very busy office that could decide who controls congress this time tomorrow. really appreciate you being there for news orange county, jacob. much appreciated my friend. >> you've got it, rachel. >>> all right. we've

neil kelly is the registrar. they're coming. neil, we're live on the air. come on over.nsible for not only toss-up congressional districts and how many seats the democrats gain in the house. it's a lot of pressure on you as the registrar. all these chips are coming in. hundreds of thousands of votes. you seem very calm. >> i am calm. thanks for reminding me about the pressure because there is a lot of pressure involved in this. these folks work really hard and we've been preparing for this for a long time. >> reporter: you and i were talking yesterday about the fact that you have been on the homeland security election advisory task force. for two years you've been working with the fbi. you say you have been probed, scanned by foreign actors, foreign governments, including russia and china. what does that mean? should the voters of orange county be worried about the voting integrity tonight? >> the answer is no. we've doen a lot of work over the last two years to make sure we're resilient, prepared for this. i can tell you right now that those efforts are paying off. this

this the neil kelly. he's the registrar of orange county. he will be counting ballots from four gift toss up districts. >> lucky me. >> i feel kind of bad for him. check this out. they are already counting ballots. they have over 400,000 absentee ballots already returned. neil, you've had like a record surge in early voting. something like 130%. >> we have. it's 130% of what it was in the presidential election. >> they are counting all these ballots. what's going on? >> these are incoming in today's mail. we're processing them to capture the signature so they can go to the opening phase. >> when you say 130% over presidential, do we know if they are democrats or republicans? >> it's a mix. the early in person turn out is higher on the democrats. vote by mail is higher by the republicans. >> these are ballots coming through in realtime. have you ever seen a turn out on a midterm level as extreme as this? >> not in 15 years doing this. this is huge. >> are you ready for tomorrow? >> we're ready. >> four different toss up districts. it could be

i talked with neil kelly, who's been the registrar for 15 years here in orange county. he says he's never seen anything like this in terms of the surge of voters in his entire life. when i asked him, you know, what's it going to be like, to be here at a time when the election could be decided in this building that we're standing in right now? he said, it's huge, but we're ready for it. so a lot of pressure on the orange county registrar. an extraordinary day, to be sure, will be going down here tomorrow. the reality is, in california it's been going on for this early voting process, ali, a long process that continues at this minute. although, when they're on lunch break, it kind of slows down. >> yeah, it looks orderly now, but that is going to be interesting if that comes down to tight races in california overnight for those of us on the east coast. that's why tomorrow night could be a very, very late night. jacob, thanks very much for taking us through it. jacob soboroff in santa ana, california. >>> all right. the georgia governor's race is one of the closest and har

when it comes to -- here is neil kelly, the registrar of orange county.job you have tonight. you have got four different tossup congressional districts. you are counting these battle. how many seats the democrats gain in the house will be decided in this room tonight. how does it feel? >> it feels great. think we plan for this for the entire year so we're ready for it. >> reporter: it is unbelievable, lester -- neil, thank you very much. what is happening here is they will come out of the boxes and be put into a tube if i can show you real quick. they go into this pneumatic tube over here, little containers like this. the chips from the voting machines go into this box right here, get shot up into here and all be counted manually. it is an extraordinary process. again, four different toss-up districts will be decided in this facility, and it all will be done by hand over the course of the next couple of hours. as chuck was saying earlier, ultimately it is a 30-day count period here in california, so it may not happen tonight or tomorrow night. it may take

news, president trump's rising frustration with white house chief of staff, john kelly and homeland security secretary neillsen is rising still. in addition top deputy to national security advisor john bolton. mirra is in some jeopardy because of clashes with first lady me melania trump and her staff, i find that latter one amazing, stephanie grisham, saying that mira no longer deserves honor of working in white house. that sounds like a signifconproblem if her understanding of power is limited she would take on president's wife, maybe sh she didn't belong in national security. certainly not trump white house. we'll see what happens, joining to us take up this, and possible high level changes, following midterms, niger and gina louden as well. author of terrific book, mad politics. we recommend to you. great to see you both. gina, how could someone involved in national security, not understand power to the degree they would work hard not to offense the first lady? >> i can't imagine that you would want to ofeng offend the t lady, and the first lady seems someone with a high level of tolerance for people wh

jeff sessions complaining about ahead of the homeland security, neil said may be going as well, who's aligned with john kellyon your priorities with this amount of personnel change in the white house? we will see that it's kind of hard. connell: for our purposes today in just about every day on sbm has something to do with trade. if you're the president seems to me at least one of the ways to set yourself a better for reelection in 2020 is to cut a deal. it would help the financial markets, get uncertainty out of the economy and maybe be able to avoid a recession hit in a just a worse time yourself politically. no wonder he's thinking that way. >> big ticket item particularly changing the way china does business, which has been interestingly kind of a non-denominational both parties kind of agreeing that china cannot continue to operate the way does the global trading system. but this structural change that the white house wants in china. everything from changing the way the state owned enterprises operate and are subsidized to forcing technology to china, is china really going to change knowing that it's a

neil, the potential shakeup in the president's staff and cabinets. there's reports that kirstjen nielsen's job could be on the chopping block as well as that of chief of staff john kellyler, the president said i'm looking at things, i haven't made a decision yet. i'll make a decision on homeland shortly. we'll be making changes on various thing. john kelly has been exiting the white house literally since the moment that he took over as chief of staff from reince priebus. we heard that he agreed to stay on until 2020. he and kirstjen nielsen are quite tight with each other here in the administration. it's widely rumored if she were to go he would be on his way out as well. we'll see. stay tuned. >> neil: we'll be monitoring this as well. we have the formal white house deputy chief of staff karl rove. this is the kind of thing on the crime stuff that he could parlay some democratic support and could be the start of common ground legislation. what do you think? >> it came through the house of representatives with a strong vote. they want to get it done between now and the end of the year. there's a few days of legislative business. leader mitch mcconnell has said he will

of staff, john kelly, secretary of state mike pompeo and national security advisor john bolton aboard air force one. that is what led to his decision. we'll work with the white house, neil, to try to confirm that as well. so, the meeting with vladmir putin is off. that is the who's out. the who's in, a totally separate meeting because we know that president trump and president xi are going to be meeting on saturday night, a dinner meeting to talk about trade and other security issues. now i'm being told from a white house official peter navarro, quite possibly the most hawkish member of the president's administration as relates to trade in china, will join the meeting. that send as very clear signal to china, neil, where the president is thinking about going with all of this. were told about it white house earlier this week not to read into anything that navarro couldn't be going on this foreign trip. white house said, navarro didn't go on any major trips beforehand. don't read at all he won't be going on this one. very clearly that changed. neil: yeah, a lot of things do. thank you, my friend. good luck in buenos aires, blake burman. when we got news peter navarro woul