Hey there from CNN. I'm Krista Bow with The Five Things You Need to know for Tuesday, November 12th.

A decision on whether Donald Trump's New York hush money conviction should be tossed out has been delayed for a week.

Earlier this year, Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election.

The judge overseeing the case is considering whether it should be dismissed

based on the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling

or whether to go ahead with sentencing the president-elect.

CNN's Paula Reid has more on why that decision has been pushed back.

Sources tell me that prosecutors and defense attorneys have been discussing this over the past few days,

and they mutually agreed to delay this deadline so that Trump's lawyers will have additional time to make new arguments based on the fact that their client is now the president-elect.

Sources tell me that they will argue that as president-elect Trump is entitled to constitutional protection

from state actors. So that would include state judges, a sentencing in this case. They have tried

successfully twice now to get this sentencing delayed, but here they want it completely canceled

based on his status as president-elect. Congress is back on Capitol Hill today for the first time since Donald Trump's victory.

There's a government shutdown looming, but one of the first orders of business for Republicans in the Senate

is choosing via secret ballot, who the next majority leader will be.

Some key conservative lawmakers have made clear who they want to take Mitch McConnell's post.

And that's Florida Senator Rick Scott, partly because of his perceived closeness to the president-elect.

But party leaders, Senator John Thune and John Cornyn, are in the running too.

And all three candidates seem supportive of Trump's request to fast-track his administration appointments.

For the House, CNN hasn't projected which party will officially take control come January. reportive of Trump's request to fast-track his administration appointments.

For the House, CNN hasn't projected which party will officially take control come January

yet.

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