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Breaking news tonight. president-elect donald trump has filled two key white house positions. hes named national security analyst k.t. mcfarland and appointed don mcgann to be white house counsel. were back with congressman john garamendi back with me. green party candidate jill stein filing for a recount today in wisconsin, and she and people supporting this are also hoping to do the same thing in pennsylvania. this comes just to let our viewers know after some computer scientists came forward ...

Why after the vote? >> well, i was approached by a variety of computer scientists and election integrity experts who said they felt there was a critical mass of evidence we could prove this in court. prove in court, not fraud, prove in court we need reassurance and quality assurance built into the system. >> jill stein speaking to paula here in london. nigel frye says he has no plans to meet with president-elect when he visits the u.s. in the next few days. he does hope to improve relations betw...

Wide open to hacks. which has very primitive security from, in many cases, a decade ago or more and staff that is really not trained in security. so, its extremely vulnerable. americans deserve to have confidence in our vote. >> dr. stein, the computer scientists say they see patterns which may raise some questions but they admit that is not evident. do you have any reason to believe or have you seen any direct evidence that anyone hacked the voting systems in michigan, wisconsin or pennsylvania...

>> he has an economy that is looking good right now and he can make it very good. there is one possible snag. if interest rates rocket higher. you can see heigigher rates. >> you assume he will not have a trade war with china or soften on some immigration. you assume what the markets found scary of the trump campaign wont happen. >> this week was significant. you saw some real signs that trump is flexible. he wont maybe take the most radical position on the federal reserve and on china. >> greg,...

Interests and the national interest and theres no plan that ive seen or anyones seen about how he intends to make sure, reassure us beyond just "take my word for it, that hes not going to use his office for personal profit. >> josh and ryan, thank you both so much, enjoy your turkey dinners. coming up next, after a group of scientists, computer scientists, raises concerns about the election results, a former candidate wants a recount in three states and she just raised millions to do it. youll...

System. >> is this worth your time, do you think? all this money? when theres no evidence and given how difficult it would be to hack into these systems? >> you know, we should not have a voting system in which we have to prove that theres been fraud or tampering in order to have confidence. in my mind, the american people are begging for a system that we can believe in. theres widespread cynicism and disgust with our basic institutions from the supreme court to the presidency to the press, you ...

Biggest cheerleader. i did vote for him. and i was absolutely thrilled to see him win. >> reporter: trump praising haley as a deal maker but critics say she lacks foreign policy experience and his other b pick betsy devos for education secretary. her selection was haled by jeb bush but not by the largest teachers union which called her an anti-public education nominee. and also this morning, theres growing momentum among democrats who are demanding a recount after several computer scientists say...

Thanksgiving. sam, there has been this team of computer scientists, activists as well, asking if the election results, perhaps, were hacked because of some of the disparities and problems with electronic ballots versus paper ballots. why do you think theyre raising this issue at all? >> i think what theyre saying is theres no evidence but theres a statistical anomaly, and its unclear. all theyre saying is in an election where there was so much evidence of hacking, lets be clear, lets just be sur...

Votes cast and the new tallies do not change the fact that trump won the electoral college and election. clintons supporters say it calls into the trump mandate. this comes among calls for a recount. a group of computer scientists are talking about hacks in three states. tom forman has more. >> reporter: trump edged hillary clinton by less than 28,000. in pennsylvania, out of 6 million votes, advantage was 60,000. in the count in michigan still remains too close for cnn to call the race. but now...

Can believe in. theres widespread cynicism and disgust with our basic institutions from the supreme court to the presidency to the press, you name it, we are off the charts right now in lack of trust for our basic institutions. for us to be able to trust our votes and know that our votes count and that they are accurate is just a basic principle of democracy. what we do know is that these machines have been proven in the laboratory of computer scientists and the scientists who look at election s...