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Not yelling, and he shook everybodys hand and introduced them and talked to them calmly, and then he said all of these really harsh things, and he said you guys lied about me and none of you got it right and did not give me a path to 270, and after it was over, he got up and shook hands, and he said something about zac subger, and it showed they had a friendship in the past and he was still talking to his old friend. >> what i read gave me a yucky feeling and i am not going to say this is the be...

Partys politics back home. >> im not worried about being the last democratic president. i think -- not even for awhile. i -- i -- and i say that not being cute, the democratic nominee won the popular vote. >> not only did hillary clinton win the popular vote her lead has been growing and now stands at about 1.3 million votes. in fact, nearly two weeks after election day, michigan is still too close to call. but of course that will not change trumps victory in the all-important electoral college....

And this is the administration that were going to be confronted by and i think these are the hints that the policies hes going to pursue. now, hes responsive. so if he takes a beating in any of these confrontations with congress or with the public, you know, he is aware that people are in the streets. >> so, careen, votes from the election still being counted, but hillary clintons lead over trump is in the popular rote is growing. hillary at this point is 62.1 million votes to donald trumps 61 m...

Wins. its really common sense. and this approach is thoroughly bipartisan. i mean, theres no secret what my political views are. but one to have the great pleasures ive had working on this project is working with republicans, getting to know them as human beings, because this is something thats good for the entire country. >> well, john, youre a republican, i understand. but let me ask you, what is the hard part about getting the rest of the 270 total electoral votes you need among the states yo...

Welcome back to "hardball." for years, the electoral college has been a curiosity of our electoral system, but theres growing concern that it may not be the most democratic of systems. in the year 2000, the electoral college bake an issue. still, most thought winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote was a fluke. but as hillary clintons popular vote lead over donald trump now continues to expand, it is clear that there is no longer a fluke. millions of progressive voters on both ...

Votes sign in and join the compact. it was passed, so far, in ten states and the district of columbia. that totals 165 electoral votesvotes of the 270 needed to win. states with a total of 205 electoral votes are still needed before it could go into effect. advocates are trying to use it to train it to target a majority popular vote in this country. john coza is president of the popular national vote. all i want to do is have people understand that there is a route to correcting this failure of ...

Their electoral votes using a state winner-take-all law, which allows all of the electoral votes to the candidate who wins the state. thus, if you carry michigan by 12,000 votes and wisconsin by 22,000 and pennsylvania by 67,000, you get all of the electoral votes of those states, and thereby, in the cases of last weeks election, have enough electoral votes to become president. despite the fact that another candidate is leading by 1.4 million votes nationwide. >> so thats the case for whats wron...

Look, heres what happens, right? during the general election. you have candidates that focus on 10, 15 states to try to get to that number, 270. theyre not focusing on all the 50 states, because one vote under the electoral college, one vote does not equal -- one person does not equal one vote. >> we also know theres only about ten states in play anymore. the rest are either red or blue, permanently. although that seems to be changing. former new york mayor rudy giuliani defended trump over the ...

270 electoral votes which in practice would be a majority of the states. >> yeah. lets listen to what elizabeth warren said today about this. >> i want to be clear. i think hillary clinton ran on very much the same argument i just think donald trump made it aggressively. and do remember at the end of the day hillary clinton actually got more americans to vote for her than donald trump did. >> that is what needs to be remembered. hillary clinton got more votes. john, the world looks at us and can...

Means. youll have to get three quarters of the state. of course, ive accepted the needo get things done if you can find a statutory way to do it. the civil rights bill of 64 could have been argued against a stretching of interstate commerce clause, but it was the only way to get some rights in this country. they were never going to get three quarters of the states, including the south to go along with the civil rights laws. >> thats right. its going to be very difficult -- >> but theres no statu...