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Coming on. thank you. we have news for you just in. mitch mcconnell has been reelected majority leader by his republican colleagues. no surprise there. but now it is confirmed from our hill team which means for at least the next couple year, mitch mcconnell is the one leading the gop. chuck schumer will be leading the democrats in the senate. so status quo there for now. any minute we're expecting a court ruling in georgia that will either give a little bit of resolution to that heated governor's race or keep the count going. we'll give you the latest on that and also what is happening in ...

Calling for the fbi background investigation to be reopened. so far the fbi has declined to do that. so that may be a factor in all of this, but the reality is, senator feinstein told our hill team she doesn't think the hearing will go forward if dr. ford doesn't respond to this. this isn't a question of negotiations or people going back and forth or some sort of unhappiness about what's going on, nothing has been communicate fareed those parties to capitol hill. so right now everyone is waiting a little bit with baited breath to find out what happens next. but, of course, we have been asking ...

Kristen welker saying she's hear f ing from the white house that brett kavanaugh is telling them that he was not at the party in question.that brett kavanaugh i them that he was not at the party in question. his accuser saying he sexually assaulted her. kavanaugh saying he was not at that party. nbc white house correspondent is back in front of the white house. jeff, what more can you tell us here? >> reporter: it appears to be an it ration of th iteration. he says he was not at this party in question some 35 years ago. it also matches what our hill team reports. our hill team spoke with senat...

>> he's investing in this. they get what he's trying to do, but if he doesn't deliver this is going to blow back on him at home. >> what's the chances we'll see any kind of deliver of this? it's coming sort of after their first meeting but there's still much more? >> i'm holding any low expectations for any breakthroughs. there could be some nice words said and we're going to agree to talk about things down the road but i do not expect big breakthroughs here. >> thank you for coming on and giving your perspective. we want to talk much more in the world of politics in just a minute including th...

Victory lap, kasie. hans nichols is over at the white house. bottom line, government stays open, money going to harvey victims. that's what the white house is talking about, right? they're pushing back on this deal with democrats. one adviser saying it's a deal for americans instead, the deal maker president, they say but a deal maker president taking the first offer that the democrats pushed. >> and that's the issue here, why they don't potentially want to call this a deal. they didn't get anything in return. just to return to the reporting from kasie and our hill team, the idea that nancy pe...