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The u.n. monitors will arrive well after the evacuation of aleppo is completed. once they are there, they will have no ability to stop the violence, just to report back to the u.n. about what they see. >> connor powell live in our middle east newsroom. thank you. in an election season unlike any other, its hardly surprising that one of the most routine elements of this process would also be interesting. democrats still stunned over the come from ahead loss by hillary clinton had one last slim ...

45th president of the united states. the electors have voted. texas put him over the top 270 needed there are only a couple incidences where faithless electors voted otherwise. this is a statement from the president-elect today marks historical landslide in our american democracy. i thank the represents a movement that many hard working men and women stood behind and made possible with this historic step we can look forward to the bright future ahead. mercedes, what about all of this? >> all i c...

>> thats a window in the diplomatic world. he spends hours with the russians trying to negotiate as much as he can. he does this to no fault and thats his job. even when they are at odds throughout the cold war. they see the world come to condemn this act of violence even when the governments are nearly at arms over the same issue. >> meanwhile back here at home, breaking news. members of the electoral college in texas is voting in what is expected to put donald trump over the top for 270 electo...

Around the country to try to convince these electors and protests have been happening including from people like martin sheen to convince electors to not cast ballots for the candidate who won their states and who in effect break with their state. thats very rare. only happened nine times since 1948. so if it does happen to work, donald trump to prevent him to get the votes, it would be unprecedented. last ditch effort to make it happen. so lets say on january 6th when votes are counted, vice pr...

Country, 538 of them, meeting in state capitols. texas is the latest state to vote. 38 electoral votes there. we know that once that happens donald trump will be officially, as official as you can get these days, the next president of the united states, the president-elect, those 38 electoral votes, even with one expected to bolt from the group, will put him comfortably over 270. as the states file in. donald trump was at 265 going into that texas count. the only state that might have an ear ran...

Then that magic number of 270. and we saw what difference it made in places like pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin where the polls came back and said there were blue collar workers who just didnt think that hillary clinton identified with them and that maybe she was too concerned with, you know, who was going into a bathroom in north carolina and not enough concerned about the job wheres and the situation that they were facing -- the jobs and the situations they were facing in their particular c...

Through the constitutional process that we have, and the reason im here today is to defend that process. and until we change the constitution, the electoral college has a meaningful role and i intend to uphold my oath to the constitution. >> congressman beyer, here is what i dont understand. if they were successful, perhaps not mr. pell but some of the others who want to see 37 electors defect, faithless electors and either vote for clinton or for somebody else, it would just be -- well not if t...

We continue to monitor breaking news. electors in massachusetts and nebraska and texas, all set to cast their votes at this hour. >> jacob soboroff is at texas where voting is set to begin. >> reporter: excuse me, i had to talk quietly. the second most of any state, donald trump in order to stay president needs the 270 electoral votes that required 37 going the other way will be a bad thing for him and could throw the election into doubt, with all likelihood thats not going to happen. one gentle...

Like 28 other states where electors are bound by a vet of the people, and so our vote as electors reflects the popular vote here in utah. utah. >> all right. richard, you put up with a lot of nonsense here and stayed pretty strong. thank you very much. >> thank you. merry christmas. >> to you as well. again, this would ptrump over t. he is at 267. he needs 270 to win. the scene in austin, which is a big chunk of 38 electors, there was one who was on this show who had vowed not to vote for him, m...

>> well, i dont think the outcomes in jeopardy here. you had the associated press interview 330 plus of the 538 electors. they found one republican elector who said he was going to switch his vote, and thats clearly not 37. which is what they would need to get under the number of 270. and, you know, its just not real. it is something we talk about, and these electors are clearly getting inundate canned we e-mails and called, some said death threats, letters. one guy had a shot of 600 letters he ...