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We had 50 republicans who were national foreign policy experts during the campaign who said mr. trump was unqualified for office and a potential dangerous president. and perhaps thats a subjective issue, but objectively, i can look at the emollients clause and say, mr. trump, youre conducting sales calls when you conduct your foreign policy. that is expressly forbidden in the constitution, a danger to our public, and the electoral college is here to do exactly what i think im doing, which is sta...

Election of the next president is not jet a done deal. electorates of conscience can still do the right thing for the good of the country, presidential electorates have the legal right and a constitutional vote, duty, actually, to vote their conscience. i believe electorates should unify behind a republican alternative. an honorable or qualified man or woman such as governor john kasich of ohio. i pray my fellow electorates will do their job and join with me in discovering who that person should...

But here we are. so, do you really think that at this stage, that theyre going to be that many electorates are going to go to their state capitals or come to washington and go, no. its just not going to happen. >> why did "the new york times" put this guys column at the very top? >> because they like to have fun. >> but also, i think there is an effort to use folks like this and the democratic electorates who were volunteering to vote for someone other than hillary clinton to drive a bigger conv...

Votes. much of that coming from heavily democratic california where they are still counting. remember, trump made it to the white house with the number of popular votes. many were urged to pick clinton. joan, donald trump will be the next president. hillary clinton will win more actually popular votes. that is a symbolic thing when you look for the meaning in it, but from a practical standpoint, next year democrats as the standing party, will that mean anything? >> shes going to get over 2 milli...

All the constitution says about electing a president is that the states will appoint electorates in such manner as the legislature of those states determine. so the states are free, essentially, to govern with any method. it took a long time to come up with the winner-take-all method per state, and that -- what this does is it doesnt run an end run around the constitution. it honors the constitution by using that provision of the constitution, that the state legislatures have this power and then...

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...

Hunters, steel workers, across the country. we need to be united and we need to all feel like we are participating in this system. the electoral college gives us that. >> how far a distance would you take that argument? if it came out, for example, that a candidate loses an election in the electoral college but wins the popular vote by 5 million people, would you still stick with the electoral college principle? >> yeah, you have to. its the rule of law. look, the election, its really a falsehoo...

Being able to lower the corporate tax rate so you get companies coming back in to the united states and we get their tax dollars. that will be one of the biggest and the fastest things he can change. >> susan, here are some of the names i was reading for some of the cabinet positions. rudy giuliani, chris christie, newt gingrich and laura ingram. do those names inspire confidence? >> im not going to speculate on -- those names are out there. what will inspire confidence or not is who he actually...

Commercials and advertisement out there that we know speaks to younger people -- >> thats interesting. >> -- in our community right now. does not look like the electorate that the democratic party needs. in our party, weve got to change that, weve got to shake some things up right now because its stagnant and the less diverse we are at the top in our thinking, the less able we are to compete in a diverse -- >> it also seems now, 2008 was a huge election for democrats on the ticket. but 2010 and ...

>> good. >> it was good. but theres a question about how reproduceable the obama coalition is, the democratic party at the state, local level all the way up now to federal has been hollowed out in the last six years. >> but lets separate the two electorates, its apples to oranges, it looks very different to the on-year electorate. >> but thats a problem for democrats. >> it is a problem for democrats. i do focus groups with younger minorities and they dont know what a midterm is, right? and they...