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Listen to all -- can i take my things with me? take me out. i dont care. >> cnns senior washington corresponde correspondent, jeff zeleny joins us now, and jeff, you know, obviously donald trump won. more than 270 electoral votes. well over that number. but there was a little bit of drama, even a few surprises especially in terms of who was the biggest loser when it comes to so-called faithless electors. >> there were, john. there were seven so-called faithful selectors. people who went to vote ...

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...

Dont mention the fact that hillary clinton actually had five voters flip on her in the state of texas, two republicans, one decided he wanted to vote for john kasich and rand paul and others voted for colin powell and faith spotted eagle. in hawaii, one democrat voted for bernie sanders. hillary actually lost more ground yesterday than donald trump did. >> donald trump has secured the election now. >> he was over 270 early. >> do you think this is the end? >> no. >> do you think the left is goin...

Kasich and with voters saying to vote hillary clinton, kasich or basically anybody, whos not the man who won the presidential election, one of president obamas top advisers suggesting the movement likely does more harm than good no matter what the outcome. fox news politics editor joins us in a moment but first james rosen with more tonight. james? >> martha, greetings from washington with the electoral college voting today to formalize donald trumps victory, officials with the republican nation...

About anything. >> ycan we see this live you can see the barricades. those were not there. there were about half of them earlier when we started the show. they put them all the way across the street. well have to see those at christmas markets all over the world so cars cant get through. >> i dont know if it can slow down a semi trailer. our producers are listening and monitoring the police briefing. if there are further details we will bring them to you. police do not believe they have the ulti...

Fbi investigated this. whether they found any legitimacy to these reports or not. but there have been lots of business links and weve seen a lot of desire on donald trumps part going back to do business and be considered an important person in russia, up to miss universe in 2013. theres a lot more there to learn. >> absolutely, as malcolm nance asks often, when did he adopt the ideology? thats a key question. when did he adopt this pro-russian ideology and hopefully well get more reporting on th...

Their vote for president. and despite some protests, trump haste past the 270 threshold. the roundtable is next. this is "hardball," the police for politics. ♪ ♪ sleep in heavily peace

Them to vote for hillary clinton. but i knew that probably wouldnt happen. so then we encouraged them to vote for, you know, governor kasich or senator mccain or one of the republicans that we know would be a reliable president. anyone other than trump. and we hoped if that happened, we as hillary electors, would then join them to elect a president who would be responsible and not a demagogue or not somebody who was indebted to a foreign power. so that didnt work. then we hoped that maybe we cou...

Pennsylvania were part of her core 270 as we saw. if she would have held them, she would have won the election. more of those diverse white coll collar sunbelt states, colorado, new mexico, nevada. she was able to hold those. i do think there was a misallocation of resources. wisconsin and michigan, they were absent in october when trump was eating away at their advantage. as you point out, that was not the sole answer. we saw a widening of all the geographic and demo graph ek devilds we have. w...

This is my america! this is my america! my america! take me out if you must! this is my america! you sold us out. listen to your heart! listen to the facts. >> the end result was basically a foregone conclusion. at around 5:30 this evening, texas pushed trump over the 270 vote needed for an electoral college win. and casting votes for ron paul and john kasich, perhaps the irony here is that more electors defected from hillary clinton than donald trump. for instance, in washington state, where cl...