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Few critics of the Electoral College are quite like Polly Baca. Ms Baca believes that the Electoral College, which has chosen US presidents since George Washington, “has absolutely no reason to be.” This year, she brought, and lost, a Supreme Court case challenging her state’s rules over how electors vote. Before electors cast their ballots for president in 2016, she invited several members to her home to plot a way - also unsuccessful - to circumvent the outcome. But unlike Donald Trump,...

Few critics of the Electoral College are quite like Polly Baca. Ms. Baca believes the Electoral College, which has chosen American presidents since George Washington, “has absolutely no reason to be.” This year, she brought, and lost, a Supreme Court case challenging her state’s rules over how electors vote. Before electors cast their ballots for president in 2016, she invited several members to her home to plot a way — also unsuccessful — to circumvent the outcome. But...

Papers because theres a heavy discussion out there has to what happens monday and i want to disabuse cnn viewers of false information. i think i just did that. smerconish, donald trump may be the most unfit president we have ever chosen. i wish the ewelcome tors could save us from ourselves. they wont. those electors are not men most capable as envisioned by hamilton. that was my whole point. one more tweet. quickly, do it if you got it. i could do that a full hour. no? all right. one more. isnt...

But nevertheless empowered with this sacred trust. joining me now a man who feels differently, the lawyer who launched something called the electors trust and has been working with suprun and other electors deciding if they can and should vote against the popular vote. lawrence lessig. professor, tell me how im wrong? why should we be entrusting these 538 who we really know nothing about to change the will of the electorate? >> well, michael, i didnt hear you argue whether we should or shouldnt,...

>> goodern moi morning, chris. its a complex world and you have to look at fighter counterterrorism and recognize its complexity. this was a speech, a wide-ranging speech the president used to tout his administrations accomplishments in the fight against terror groups. the killing of osama bin laden, weakening of al qaeda. and the promise made so far in the war against isis. while he didnt say president-elect trumps name, the president did press his case for closing the prison at guantanamo bay ...

And no relief and no education and opportunity, extremism takes route. we just had an election that wound up being decided on large part on fear and that fear may manifest and staying out of situations like what were seeing with this humanitarian crisis. what is your concern for that type of policy shift, rick francona? >> i think there is going to be a policy shift, chris. and i think mr. trump alluded to that in his talk today when he talked about not going into these areas and not trying to t...

To its people. >> reporter: and what that means is plain for everyone in aleppo to see and hear. cnn, aleppo. >> fred, can you stay with us? are you in a safe enough area to hold up and talk? >> sure. >> were also joined by lieutenant general frank in syria. lets talk about the reality. youre getting propaganda there on the ground, fred, about what they said they found and the rebels taking the city from the people. how did the people you met in aleppo feel about who was on their side? >> well, ...

Conversations we have are not as difficult. now, are we looking at the debt without a doubt and we need to make sure that we have a plan to pay it off. what weve done in the past is we just continue to increase it and increase it. im willing to recognize it may go up in the short term as long as we have a real plan to pay it off in the long term. >> okay, gentlemen. thank you very much for taking time to be on "new day." nice to talk to you. chris? >> same here. >> please take the time. go onlin...

People said most of their belongings have been destroyed. so right now these are people who are caught in between the front lines and feel the international community has abandoned them and also will feel that their government has failed them and the rebels have failed them, as well, chris. >> no question that the rebels want a breather because theyre getting pounded in aleppo. its been tough to get it to break through to the american audience. what are the long-term concerns of what happens to ...

And the lone voice, i mean, youve made your point. but obviously it doesnt change anything. >> they would not. i would be an asterisk in history and have to be okay with that. but i have to be okay with my vote on december 20th. there are people out there, i know, to use the other sides example, hillary clinton -- this gentleman wasnt actually a hillary clinton voter. in california he tweeted out that he wrote in paris hilton for president and the next day said, oh, my god, the world is coming t...