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All of these massive, big lies that hes telling dont -- can kind of circulate and dominate without any kind of a criticism of these lies. >> and theres a certain, you know -- robert made this point. heres the statement from the trump folks today, the electoral college. today marks an his store cal landslide victory. exceeded the 270 required to secure the presidency by a far larger margin. every politician hedges the truth. sometimes they tell fibs. theres something about the casualness with the...

>> i hoped today we would get 38 republicans electors who would put country before party and would support -- i really wanted 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 responsibl...

Exceeded the 270 required to secure the presidency by a far larger margin. every politician hedges the truth. sometimes they tell fibs. theres something about the casualness with these lies about something so clearly obviously is untrue, like we can all go look at the record. >> eventually a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind, right? i think anybody who remembers the george w. bush administration, remembers how frustrating it was the way that they very deliberately created an alte...

Could breathe fire, they would have. >> thank you, ben and jonathan. up next, state electors met today across the u.s. to cast 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. because some animals and plants are only found in one place in the world, and thats in some national parks. i find thats a great cause, and i want to support it. (avo) the subaru share the love event has donated o...

Tonight. a truck drove through a crowd in the center of berlin, killing at least nine. theres also news on the russia hacking story. an nbc news exclusive report tonight has new details about how serious the obama administrations response became on october 31st, in a highly unusual move, the administration sent a message to the kremlin, using the so-called red phone, warning it not to interfere with the u.s. election. well have more on those stories coming up, but we begin with a big political n...

Princeton. i believe -- i dont know the exact latest tally but i think it will be the texans in austin who officially -- 241 right now, needs to get to 270 to make it official. jeff zeleny, im expecting no surprises. >> no surprises, brooke. those 38 electors in the state of texas will put donald trump over that threshold of 270 electoral votes likely within the next half hour or so. there are also other red states convening right now, including nebraska and missouri and alaska and others. it is...

Because of how he campaigned and because of his i guess straight talk, question mark, i guess you would call it, until they clarify what this means to them, were going to have these questions. and to jims point, you really cant have that as the president of the united states. >> it is -- it is very interesting to see that the white house of the president condemns it, doesnt go as far. but the president-elect condemns it but does go even farther. i want to talk about politics and certainly, as yo...

Have changed my vote. in the 12th hour, everyone looks good. >> donald trump is elected president, will receive majority of 270-plus electoral votes needed to be president. that is true. number two, tradition has been electors of each state vote for the candidate who wins that state. both of those things are very, very true, but im curious what your opinion is about the constitution of the united states and the 12th amendment. this is where the electoral college system was set up, although it do...

Indicated hes concerned about russias influence on the election or their continued influence, jake. our colleagues at cnn have been reporting that the cyber hacking attacks by russia against russian political institutions are continuing, even with the election over with. there are certainly issues here, concerns here, that are going to be a problem for donald trump when he takes the white house. so far we have not seen him speak skeptically or critically of russia at all. maybe that will change ...

The dump trump crowd time is running out. gathering to cast their ballots. the electoral college has 538 numbers. it takes 270 to win and shin president-elect trump won 306 votes, 37 elengthorred would have to go rogue to deny him the white house, but based on every single survey and history, that wont happen. usually this day is gist a farmallity but this er its getting more attention. protester are turning out across the country, trying to get republican electors to change their vote. they poi...