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But nothing probably to get to the 37 number and then, what ends up happening if somehow donald trump is below 270 electoral votes, it goes to the u.s. house of representatives where republicans have the advantage and so somehow if donald trump is at 268 or 269, youre going to have republicans who end up deciding which is going to be very good news for donald trump, so you boil it all down and i do think this is a fascinating story. its great to learn about whats going on, what our constitution ...

Hopefully, that will change soon. >> nbcs steve patterson is in honolulu where president obama is spending his family vacation. any reaction? >> reporter: in the days following this as this becomes more and more of a distant memory, a lot of people might see this as a footnote in the waning days of a lame duck administration, a parting shot from china towards president obama as he prepares to leave office. what is probably the most important bilateral relationship in the world, there are hugh ra...

Along the exact same timeline, it was released in september. they just happened to do it at a top secret level. what did donald trump know about russian intelligence and when did he know it? thats what we need to find out now, does he have dirty strings, through paul manafort or anybody on his staff. >> almost a footnote to a washington post story. that paul manafort has been back in the trump fold since before the election. you have carter page, who is still to our knowledge with the trump camp...

Trumps campaign manager in august. manafort has lived in trump tower since 2006, transferring the apartment from an llc to his own name back in 2015. and eric, you have paul manafort, speaking of media, getting back on board with the trump campaign after he quit amid controversy. and the story about him slipping back into the campaign, was kind of a footnote in the story after the election, how did paul manafort manage to slip back into the campaign and no one notice. >> if this would have been ...

The night, according to prosecutors. some of these photos, stephanie, were so graphic that some people had to step out of the court during the presentation. >> my gosh. now, i know the judge also denied a motion for a mistrial. walk me through this. it was the defense trying to use the mothers heart attack in the motion? >> it was surprising to me that the mothers medical condition, according to the lawyers, the fact that she suffered a heart attack because of the emotional nature of these proce...

Evil and saying he belongs, and im quoting her, in the pit of hell, was language that wasnt appropriate for the court, that it was really up to the jurors to determine the kind of punishment that dylann roof deserves. that motion for a mistrial was denied by the judge, but the judge did tell the jurors to dismiss this part of ms. sanders testimony. something else that jumped out at me, thomas, and maybe eric can collaborate on that, is the fact that in the mistrial motion, and im holding the doc...

Do this naively, and just sort of blundered into this massive diplomatic faux pas with china and did he do it intentionally. he made anti-china policy a center piece of his election. this would be in line with a lot of what hes said throughout the election. his reaction to it on tweets was wait, they called me, its no big deal. i didnt -- im not changing policy here at all. thats been the wafted back since then. so you dont know for sure whether this was premeditated and was a message, a slap at...

Hell be holding a major news conference december 15th in new york with his children. hasnt had a news conference in months and months. in order, he tweeted, to fully focus on running the country, in order to make america great again, while i am not mandated to do this under the law, i feel it is visually important as president to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses. so hes tweeting hell be separating himself and leaving my great business totally in order to fully foc...

With both the comments of donald trump about women or the whole birther situation on melania trump. i believe she, like the president, is sxhited to a smooth transition here. >> chris, a footnote here. barron trump is the first young boy to be in the white house for quite some time, since the kennedy era. we had amy carter, of course, the bush girls and the obama girls. but this is a young boy coming to the white house. its always a challenge. and i recall in the past talking to hillary clinton ...

Name, waving signs with your name. the centrality of yourself. if youre narcissistic as him it has to be a drug. i dont know what happens wednesday morning when theyre cleaning up the hilton hotel that he isnt going to be president and he is a joke again. >> quickly, before we go here, one of the elements of this story talks about trump musing about revenge. after election day all he will care about is revenge. he is talking about creating a super pac to take revenge against republicans who were...