Capitol hill. What are expectations in terms of the upcoming leadership battles . Reporter good afternoon. On the republican side, the big question is the race to replace paul ryan. You have Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy facing ohio congressman jim jordan. The winner will be the House Republican leader in the new congress. On the democrat side, nancy pelosi trying to win the support of her members, even though dozens campaigned against her being the next speaker. Some leading republicans are looking ahead to that battle. Theyve been in an internal fight. There were a number of nancy pelosi Democratic Candidates that ran saying they wouldnt vote for her. That will be a test in january. Will their first vote be to break the word they made to their constituents. Thats going to be something they have to deal with. Reporter then theres some must pass items that lawmakers must consider including funding part of the government, what to do about the border wall before lawmakers can head for the exits. What about the start of new faces . Reporter we saw a number of democrats and republicans just elected to congress trying to figure out things here on capitol hill. We saw greg pence representing indiana and a former cabinet secretary said shes looking forward to getting to work in congress. I think its going to be a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun during the campaign. My Campaign Manager told me not to say that, but the truth is, the truth is that i like policy making. I like politics. I love my district. I love miami. Reporter and newly elected senator elect mitt romney told us this is orientation day and hes getting oriented. Julie . Julie feels like freshman year. Is there hazing going on . Well have to wait and see. More on this with chris stirewalt. Were you in a fraternity . Oh, no. Oh, no. Skwrl oh, no. Lets talk about these freshmen heading into washington. Before they get there and actually have control, congress does have two months to get their act together. Theyre in the final stretch in this lame duck session. Do they have any chance of passing legislation on immigration before democrats take control . It depends on what the president defines as his priority on immigration. Probably nothing huge. But certainly there are things they can take up. Remember, for a lot of these members, republicans have 41 open seats. They have 41 people who are not coming back anyway. Theyre gonna end up with another handful that got beat. And so they have a lot of people that arent worried about the verdict from the voters on whats next. So they have some running room here. Same is true when you have senators on the other side who are not returning, that they may feel a little latitude to not do what they might not have done before the election. The realm of whats possible opens up a little bit. Republicans are obviously going to try to deliver on trumps promise to fund the border wall. Doesnt seem 60 days is going to be enough, if it hasnt happened in the next two years. But it could spark a federal Government Shutdown in weeks. Lets talk about the money that it would cost. Republicans have already approved 5 billion for the president s wall in the senate, where republicans need democratic support, a bipartisan bill allocates 1. 6 billion. Thats all said and good, but can democrats have their fingerprints on any deal that would result in a border wall . Look, it just depends on what the president defines is enough money. Its his idea. Hes the one who gets to define whats enough money. He can declare victory whenever he wants. Does he need another 20 billion . How much more does he want before he says that hes won . In this case, saying that hes won isnt necessarily a good thing. Its politically useful to say that you still have the issue. I dont see him declaring victory and bringing this to a conclusion. At the same time, there is a component of his base that, without Additional Border wall funding, without Additional Border security funding, theyre going to complain and say he rolled over. Certainly things arent going to get better in the new year. The chances of doing a deal on immigration arent none in the new congress, simply because trump is in a position to do that. This is the chance we get something, get a good knock on this before they leave town. Another question. The democrats are in the midst of a battle over their house speaker. Im curious if the democratic leadership can cut any deal with the president in the midst of all of this. Well, were gonna find out. Republicans are going to have their leadership election tomorrow. That is bound to be contentious. Nancy pelosi gave herself a little more cushion. She can wait until after thanksgiving before they have their leadership election. So shell have plenty of time to whip votes. Well know very clearly by the time we get to the 28th of november how weak of a position she is in. Right she looks like shell be tough to beat, simply because there isnt a democrat that stepped forward who can unite the dissidents. There are plenty of democrats who would rather vote for somebody else if given the chance, but so far there isnt somebody who can unite the dissidents and beat her. That puts her in a pretty strong position. I want to move on to House Democrats hoping to get something done come january. And the majority of the democrats here oppose the whole beachment idea of our president. Of the 52 freshmen democrats who won election last week, 11 want to immediately want to move to impeach President Trump. 13 oppose. 17 want to see muellers report before deciding on impeachment. With only 21 ready to impeach trump, how big of a fallout would it be for the Democratic Party if they ultimately did decide to move on with impeachment . Who are these 17 people who say they want to read the evidence before making a decision . Dont they know this is 2018. You should just have a hot take. Definitely dont consider the facts at hand. Look, for democrats, it matters enormously what mueller finds. It matters enormously what else is found in their investigation about donald trump, his business practices, ethics. We dont know what else is out there. Of course, big story of the last two years has been the republicans have done a great deal, not only to protect trump, but run interference for him. They have done a great job with the fbi and Justice Department. That wont be there any more. The Justice Department will be able to go on without dealing with whats gonna come out. If they talk about impeachment too early, theyll pay a price for it. I think people in large part were voting for a check on trump, but not necessarily to save us against trump. Democrats need to look at history. Look at how the impeachment proceedings for bill clinton blew up in their faces for the republican. Focus now is the next two or six years. Whats the focus . James holman writes in his daily column titled liberals look for leverage in house leadership electtions. It says the sheer progressive caucus will make it harder for them to stick together, for the freedom caucus. Republicans have also learned its much easier to stay united when there is a president of the opposite party. Just said dislike for trump will be the biggest driving factor behind party unity. Democrats feel like their antitrump campaign, perhaps, won them the house. The question is, could it win them the white house or could it backfire if they continue on this path . It depends on how aggressive the liberal base of the Democratic Party is. One of the things that happened to republicans in 2010 after they routed obama, they did not realize how difficult it would be to defeat an incumbent president. Only three times has a sitting president who has won a term seeking reelection been defeated. It is hard to do. If democrats are realistic about their situation, then they might be able to do some good. If they get too high in the sky and think this will be easy and overinterpreting the results of the election, its going to be very difficult for them to make the gains they need. Chris stirewalt, thank you very much. You bet. Recounts are under way in florida with a thursday deadline with Election Officials furiously counting ballots in the hotly contested senate and governors races as both sides file lawsuits. Griff jenkins is watching it all in florida. Reporter thats right. 65 of floridas 67 counties are well on their way to a recount. Although Palm Beach County and here in broward, its taken a little longer. Let me show you what were looking at. 199,000 of roughly 715,000 ballots have been recounted. They sort of separated them into early voting, day of voting and mailins. Going to continue this afternoon, probably wrap up tonight. Well see where they are when that deadline fast approaches which is 3 00 p. M. Thursday to get a final tally in. What youre seeing on top of the machines, real important, is the undervote and overvote. They either mark too little or too much on the governor, senate or agriculture commissioner ballot and theyre being separated because, after the recount, if that percentage is less than. 2 , quarter of the margin between the two candidates, it goes to a manual hand recount. Were learning they may be preparing in anticipation of that likely to happen. More on that in a moment. But first the aelection commissioner, dr. Brenda snipes coming under fire, accused of failing to comply with election law and former governor jeb bush tweeting today that he thinks she should be removed from office. I asked dr. Snipes about jeb bushs tweets. Heres what she had to say. Yes, i did hear about it. I dont tweet. I did read it. I did receive the information from several people. Many of them were concerned that that statement was made. However, its an opinion. Reporter now, on that hand recount, if after thursday the recount is under that. 25 , it will be back to 2000 because you will have more than 100 tables set up with multiple representatives from democrat, republican and county staff at each table. Julie . Well talk about whether the recounts really change the outcome. History says no. Griff jenkins, thank you very much. Trial of one of the worlds most notorious drug lords happening here in new york city. But theres a delay. Well tell you why. But first, california wild fires claiming more lives and homes. 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Outside los angeles, santa ana winds are making it harder after flames burned down hundreds of homes. Thousands of square miles. Jonathan hunt is live in malibu. The destruction is just hard to believe. Youre there on the ground. Were seeing opl picture of flareups as well there today. Reporter just in the last hour we had a major fire flareup. This was north of us across the Santa Monica Mountains behind me. In this areas called Lake Sherwood. Flames didnt take hold in an area where there were a lot of homes, but it was close enough to them that it triggered a pretty extraordinary response as the flames and smoke rose into the air. We saw a fleet of aircraft battling the flames. First of all helicopters going to be at nearby Lake Sherwood dropping the buckets into the water, bringing it back and dropping that into the flames. Then the fixed aircraft wing coming in with the flame retardant. They appear to have gotten a handle on that. It is a very clear demonstration that we are not out of the woods by any means here yet in Southern California. Those santa ana winds not as strong as they were over the weekend when so much destruction was done. But they are Strong Enough to keep everybody very much on their toes. These firefighters who have been working so hard for so long continue to do everything they can to protect all of us from these continued flareups. Julie . Julie are people being allowed back into their homes yet, jonathan . Reporter in a few areas affected initially by the woolsey fire, yes. But in many other, no. The city of malibu still effectively sealed off to the public. When the hundreds of homeowners whove lost their homes get back, these are the kind of scenes they are going to see, julie. Pretty much nothing left for the owner of this home. Filing cabinets, you can see, just chimney stack. You see that so often in these situations. So often the only thing that remains standing. 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We can expect prosecutors to tell stories about how he amassed 14 billion in personal wealth as the worlds top drug king pin. He was the first to use under ground tunnels to bring drugs into the u. S.