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this is it. the final big push to the first name right, because the casting of ballots is almost over. the counting of ballots, that's getting ready to start in most places. in some places, they're doing it, but you've got control of congress, the direction of the country on the line. the five things we have to be watching for over the next hours and days, plural, with our campaign reporters live across the country. we're also live in washington with the mood inside the white house. publicly confident, privately, maybe not so much. also this hour, our team is watching the polls. laws...

Judge the democratic wave, we didn't know they ended up having their 40th house seat they ended up winning until after thanksgiving, so it was weeks. so when we were going to be judging how many seats was it and how big is a wave, we're probably not going to know for a couple of weeks, maybe even a month. >> good to see you. appreciate it. we're tracking the early legal battles emerging. in just a minute, we'll take you live to our vote watch team. but first, a live look at philly's ballot processing site with about four hours until polls close. more live coverage after the break. e. more live...

Pennsylvania. if this becomes the real alarm bell for republicans in the house to say, it's over, we're cooked, run for it, this will be a signal moment. >> dana: let me ask you about syria. we understand that general mattis, secretary mattis is on his way to the white house. there are indications, reports, that there probably will not be any military action today. but i do want to read to you what noah rothman just wrote. i think we have it here. imagine a post world war ii germany but without a conference that established firmly delineated zones and control. instead those zones are fluid and...

Speaker of the house. i think we're going to have a strong record to run on. we'll have the resources to communicate our story. the reason you see retirements among us in the house is because we have term limits. we have term limits on committee chairman. most of the chairmanships are now open. so people naturally retire when their chairmanships end. that's why i think you have a lot of that. plus, we've gotten a lot done. we've done tax reform for the first time in generation. we helped the military. we helped the economy. we're on to work force development and infrastructure. so we ran on an...

Of things. that's the next agenda we will be pursuing. >> dana: i know you will not weigh in on who will succeed you or be the next speaker of the house. i know congressman scalise has his name in the hat. do you think it's possible that the leadership struggle that is going to take place in the next few months will actually take away from the ability of the republicans to hold the house in november? >> no, i really don't. i think that's just internal d.c. gossip. that's pretty much leaves the edge of the beltway. and i know we're all focused on actually getting this agenda, keeping the majori...