Election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair. And then just a couple of hours ago, this morning, mr. Trump tweeting this, quote, love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud. Now most of last nights rallies were angry. But peaceful. But in portland, oregon, tensions exploded. Police saying the protests had escalated into a riot. They deployed flash bag grenades to break up the crowds. Across the country more than 200 people were placed under arrest, and more antitrump demonstrations are planned for tonight. Stephanie elam is following the protests for us this morning. Jason carroll is covering the transition to the trump white house. Bt lets begin with you, stephanie, in los angeles. Good morning. Good morning, carol. In portland it started off peacefully. But then it escalated throughout the night. Some 4,000 protesters that were there in portland and eventually police saying it went from being peaceful to what they call, quote, a riot. They said 26 people were arrested in portland. They said to disperse the crowds they went to less lethal ways of breaking up the crowd like the flash bang grenades and tear gas and what they call rubber baton rounds. Theyre saying that they started calling them anarchists. One Police Member referring to the people out there among the crowd who were vandalizing property, breaking windows, they were throwing objects, as well, all of that just playing out on the streets as you can see here in this video. So, once it became a riot they called exextensive criminal and dangerous behavior and unlawful protest. Portland was not alone in the protests. Also in denver, philadelphia, also in baltimore, dallas, and here in los angeles, we know about some 128 people were arrested. There are people who are gathering in front of Los Angeles City hall chanting not my president. There were also arrested for blocking roads and some minors were arrested for breaking the curfew. In oakland we know that there are 11 people arrested there. They say there are about some 1,000 protesters that turned out on the street last night in the third night of protesting after the president ial election. They said they were arrested for graffiti, also having molotov cocktails and m80 firecrackers being thrown and threatening police officers. Across the country for a third night we have seen this disruption. But really turning way more aggressive and violent in portland, of all the cities that weve seen. Oakland also seeing some violence there, as well, carol. All right. Skefny elam reporting live for us from los angeles. Thanks so much. There are now just 70 days until donald trump takes the oath of office. Hes meeting today to start assembling his white house staff. Jason carroll is outside the trump tower. Good morning. Good morning, carol. And in true trump fashion donald trump already tweeting about the transition. Just about 30 minutes ago, saying, busy day planned in new york. Well soon be making some very important decisions. On the people who will be running our government. The Trump Transition Team hard at work, trying to come up with the names of the people who will fill his administration. You know, carol, hes been criticized for having too many insiders involved in this whole process. You know he was the one who said he was going to drain the swamp. Get rid of the washington insiders. Get rid of the corruption. A number of insiders involved in this, people like the former attorney general edwin meese or former adviser kick cheney, former administrator from the Bush Administration also involved in all this but theres an argument you need some inidentifiers to help out with this. One of the positions being talked about, being talked about a lot in the media is white house chief of staff. Its typically one of the first announcements thats made. I say typical but this has not been a typical election. As you know, one of the names being thrown out there is steve bannon. The campaign ceo, controversial figure in his own right, head of breitbart, former investment banker, also a staunch critic of speaker paul ryan. Which would make for an interesting dynamic. Another name being thrown out there for a suggestion, perhaps trumps soninlaw. Steve bannon has pretty much, you know, decades of experience with mr. Trump. Mr. Trump has to have someone in that position that he trusts implicitly. Certainly a longer tenure relationship, i think the trust factor would certainly be higher. You know, i think the third person to throw in there is his soninlaw jared kushner. I mean, he has all the traits. Well you heardrom trump tweeting again, carol, an announcement should be coming soon, with some of these key appointments. Trump will be meeting with his transition people over the weekend, specifically about some of the 800 or so positions that need to be filled that involve security clearances. Carol . All right Jason Carroll reporting live from new york city this morning. Thank you. So lets talk about all this. Im joined by cnn politics executive editor mark preston. Lynn sweet is the Washington Bureau chief of the chicago suntimes and susan paige is the Washington Bureau chief of usa today. Welcome to all of you. Reince priebus was on Good Morning America this morning and asked about these protests going on across the country. He intimated that some of it could be orchestrated. Lets listen. What i do know, though, and i think what president elect trump knows, is that its very clear that at least in the emails that were released, that we had the dnc, the Hillary Clinton campaign, or someone in between, going to donald trump rallies and inciting violence. And so, that happened. And so there are such things as professional protesters. But im sure that the vast majority of people are just very disappointed with the outcome of the election. So ill give them ill give them that. And ill also say i understand the First Amendment of the bill of rights. But, this election is over now, and we have a president elect who has done everything he can do over the last 48 hours to say lets bring people together. So, so, lynn what, what exactly did he say . Did he say he does believe professional protests are at work here . Or is it just, you know, people unhappy with the elections outcome and protesting . He, first of all, he said he will probably be out of the names that you put out there just now, hes the most likely chief of staff candidate from those. He was saying that there were, without any facts, without understanding the nature, each protest in each city, where there might be different stories as to how they originated or who organized them. One thing we learned in this election is that there are a lot of ways of communicating with people and a group in chicago might be different than the group in another state thats protesting. So i would just say, respect the people are upset about the election. And they want to vent. To make an allegation when you dont know if its true or not, and im not denying the stuff that they found out about in the wikileaks. So having said that, this is what leadership is now. And i would think that sending out a treat that was inflammatory as president elect trump did, i dont see how that helps. One other quick point when kushners soninlaws name was mentioned, there is a law that came into play after jfk appo t appointed Bobby Kennedy that you cant hire your relatives for federal government spots. So i dont know if a soninlaw would qualify as a relative. Uhhuh. In this case no, no, i hear you. Were going to talk much more about that in the next block. Right now i want to concentrate on whats going on across the country. Right. Because you know in looking at some of these protests and how violent they got especially in portland its disturbing, right . So as police in oregon were trying to stop a riot, mr. Trump, who is the president elect, tweeted this, just had a very open and successful president ial election. Now professional protesters incited by the media are protesting very unfair and then again just to review again this morning, mr. Trump changed his tune. Tweeting love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud. But they werent small protests. No, they werent there were 4,000 people protesting in portland. 5,000 in new york city. Thousands of people in denver. In omaha police had to use pepper balls to break up the protests. Right, so a couple things just follow on lynn a little bit. Look the dnc, i would bet my Bottom Dollar the dnc or the Hillary Clinton campaign had nothing to do with the organizing of these protests. But let us understand how politics work here in the u. S. There are outside groups that do organize and now we have the twitter and facebook that is able to mobilize people very quickly and people are angry. And this is our democracy. So they can go out there and they can shut down the streets and that is fine. I mean that is democracy at work. What is not fine, though, is the destruction of private property, destruction of public profit, and what is not fine is attacking police officers. Right . Theres peaceful protesting and then theres violence as well. I will say this about the donald trump tweets. Not ray good tweet in the middle of the night when he sent that out. But at least the second tweet he did send out was to say, listen, were all going to come together. So clearly somebody got to him and said you need to help quell this down a little. Okay so clearly someone got to him. Who, who was that person . You know we dont know. We know that this follows a pattern in the campaign. Whats different now is that the megaphone that donald trump has has gotten much, much bigger. And has much more power to reverberate than it did even when he became the republican nominee for president. And i think this is something that president elects learn, the kind of consequences that their words can have, including unintended consequences. Were at a point where everybody in america, and around the world are looking for signals about what kind of President Donald Trump will be. And we have less information about that than we do about most people who get elected president , because this campaign has been so extraordinary and because he has sent mixed snals about various things. Everything he says. Every appointment he makes his first appointment we expect at chief of staff will send enormous signals about what kind of president i can understand why he might be a little irritated because there are other examples in our culture right now that you raise your eyebrows. People magazine put mr. Trump on the cover. Pretty normal. New president , put him on the cover. And the cover of People Magazine simply size President Trump. But now many hollywood stars say theyll boycott the magazine, right, because remember People Magazine reporter claimed trump sexually assaulted her. The ceo of grubhub, right, he sent out a warning to all of his employees, im going to read the warning. Quote as we all try to understand what this vote means to us i want to affirm to anyone on our team that is scared or feels personally exposed that i and everyone else here at grubhub will fight for your dignity and your right to make a better life for yourself and your family here in the United States. If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because you have no place here. This is extraordinary. Well were no extraordinary times. I dont know what the reaction would be if i were a grubhub employee who was approached who was excited about trump remember this is a divided country. Hillary clinton won the popular vote. Not the electoral college. But, it is highly likely that there are people with even mixed feelings that and this is this is such New Territory for us to be in politically. Emotionally. Culturally. We dont know where the next few days will bring us with this unexpected win, unexpected by the media polling class. So, that is an extraordinary statement by the grubhub guy. I i actually kind of think, you people process things in different ways and i know that andrew cuomo talked about an earlier segment with the psychotherapist. He kind of need a National Moment of lets deal with this. In a productive way. And were not dealing with it in a productive way. California, for instance theres a movement to secede from the union. Remember texas wanted to secede from the union because of president obama. Its like stop it. I mean its ridiculous, right . Its absolutely ridiculous. Look tensions are high. But, if you remember when texas was talking about seceding it was because of barack obama and the policies he was going to push upon us, right . You know. And now california says oh, were going to cut off. Its impossible. Its ridiculous. That theyre even going to say that. I do think people need to grow up a little bit here, okay . There are going to be differences. There are going to be some really big policy differences come january 21st when barack obama leaves office, and donald trump comes in, and health care is changed, and tax cuts are put through. Argue on those issues. Lets argue on the issues and not on the state of play that we all feel but theres emotion going here that you cant deny. I dont know about all of you but sometimes i just need to vent if im upset about something. And you can protest and they are protesting. That is absolutely fine. What is not fine is to have violence and destruction. I agree. But, but, but, the thats where i think these inflammatory tweets arent productive because you got to well clearly hes trying to back off, lynn. He did try to back off. But hes getting conflicting messaging though. Well campaign. I know. But, thats exactly the thing and he still won. Sure. One of the big concerns i think some have is not that trump is president elect trump is intentionally trying to incite division, but there are divisive elements in our society that are going to take advantage of this, that are going to feel empowered by this election to to be aggressive toward muslims. To be aggressive toward mexicans. Or other immigrants. To take to tap rhetoric or take steps that offend kind of the sense of america that wants to be welcoming and united. I think there are legitimate concerns by some americans that this is going to be a consequence of the election and thats something that i think president elect trump might well want to address himself. Were going to talk more about this in the next block because i have good examples exactly of what you were talking about. So still to come in the newsroom, the protests erupting on the streets. Thats not the only place. Whats going on in some classrooms might shock you. 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Listen i know my super power is to not ever sleep. Thats it, thats the only superpower i have. All right. Weve seen passionate responses to Donald Trumps win on both sides. But what youre about to see is disturbing. Because it shows racist and intimidating behavior from children. This is royal oak, michigan, a middle school. All right, so you can see those kids were chanting build the wall in front of their hispanic classmates, and then theres this from a high school in york, pennsylvania. White power. White power white power. All right. So these kids are walking down a hallway holding a trump banner and chanting white power. So lets talk about this and more im joined again by mark preston, lynn sweet and susan paige. So, i mean, they could be they i hope they are isolated incidents. But its still disturbing to see. Right . Its distressing to see. And think how distressing it is to the hispanic kids. Right. In royal oak, michigan. Now i understand that the school suspended the kids who were chanting that, and i think that educators like all of us have a responsibility to use this as what you call a teaching moment about the american tradition. And american constitutional rights. And our obligation to fellow citizens, and people who live here. But, but i think it does demonstrate why some Minority Groups are so frightened at the moment. And why there are such protests breaking out across the country. Because, there are people who are very afraid. Right. And they have every right to be given the riot that we saw over the campaign. And some of the things they said about banning muslims and all. But i think we all agree at the table that this is a moment now to talk about leadership. It is a moment for donald trump to step up, and and and put his foot down and say that this is not appropriate. You know, quite frankly, it goes beyond him. It goes to parents, quite frankly, that got to sit their kids down and say thats not appropriate. Youre not supposed to do that. I mean i have two children if my kids did that, i mean i couldnt even tell you i would get arrested if i told you what i would do to them for doing that. So does donald trump, i know hes, you know, i know its not traditional, but does he need to come out and and address the country and say you know what . I want us to be united. Were not a racist country. My my my most positionate supporters are not racist. Like and those who are i dont want them to be supporters. Message to make, i think that he could use the example of this peaceful transition of power. His most bitter critics, carol, conceded, they were gracious. President obama and First