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College will meet the country today, to validate the results of the presidential election. typically its a ceremonial event. this time around, though, it comes with an unusual amount of attention and even controversy. >> 538 members of the electoral college will vote today in their state capitals. its a formality required by the constitution. but there will be protests this year and some electors are urging others not to vote for donald trump. >> it seems that people are still holding out hope t...

>> 11:30, trump wins wisconsin. then at 2:41, when he won another rust belt state, the biggest, pennsylvania, it put him over the top. >> this means that donald trump will be the 45th president of the united states. winning the most unreal, surreal election we have ever seen. >> election night was absolutely euphoric in this room. it wasnt until he saw the 270 number being surpassed that he knew it was real. but it also was a complete vindication of the way he ran his campaign on his terms with ...

Control turn left of heading of 270. it doesnt make any sense. >> nonstandard protocol for communications and at one point in time, turn southbound, what is southbound, what 190-degrees, 165-degrees, what is it? nonstandard type of turn. atc always defines turn right heading of, but you just dont say turn southbound or westbound . english is not their native language, that translation coming through and you hear it and the pilot says left, right, what? which way is my turn? jon: fortunately ther...

His national security adviser, retired lieutenant general michael flynn but thats essentially secondhand information. we have learned that trump will meet with flynn today for a briefing on events around the world, as well as staffing discussions and the meeting was scheduled before the attacks took place. now cnn has also learned that trump is averaging one presidential briefing per week with some weeks as many as three. they are, of course, available every day. we also know that the presidenti...

From former president bill clinton is striking because in 1992, one of the reasons he won the presidency was what he called the redneck vote. casting about reasons involving donald trump and blaming the electoral college. baby it should be thrown out but everybody campaigned a certain way, getting to 270, won the popular vote, in the system, i think the media needs to do a deep dive examination because this is a seminal election about hillary clintons lack of message, not connecting with working...

Vote, you could be forgiven for imagining the outcome of that vote was somehow in doubt. the recount effort that went nowhere fast, but got a ton of attention. tonight, chief washington correspondent james rosen explores the possible motivations behind the news media treatment of these post-election pseudo-events. >> all of this dampening what was otherwise a very bright day for donald trump as he crossed that 270 electoral vote threshold, the last ceremonial hertl p hurdle from preventing him t...

Rust belt, i live in middle america, and we are having our voices heard, and its about time. >> yeah. hollywood apparently not learning a lesson in terms of what happened during the election and still continuing. what do you think? >> i dont think we should be distracted by the fact that this is a small portion of the democratic party. they just happen to be the ones that have been in control, hollywood, the donors, the consultants. the majority of the democratic party -- including the base that...

Hitting 270, but it fizzled entirely and some other supporters of hillary clinton in some other states wanted to support bernie sanders but they actually were rebuked and replaced today because a lot of state laws do not allow that. the four people in washington state, the secretary of states office says theyll be fined $1,000 each for going against the will of the sate. for all the talks about revolts today, the reality here is this is a pretty -- a system thats hard to disrupt. even if this ha...

As many of the people waiting to be evacuated are dying of exposure and bitter cold weather. also it is official. donald trump has been elected our nations 45th president. he cruised to victory in the electoral college vote yesterday. many were swamped with e-mails and phone calls urging them not to vote for mr. trump. in the end the president-elect picked up more than enough votes. and president-elect donald trump officially wins the electoral college despite the protests across the country. te...

Theyll be scrubbing their phones, their social media, looking who they were in touch with, who they were associating with in germany or any other countries, whether they were among the 800 who traveled from germany to join jihadi groups in syria and iraq. more than 270 have come back to germany. but this comes at a time, john, when the system really is blinking red when it comes to the terrorist threat against germany. officials have described it as an unprecedented terrorist threat. weve seen f...