Protest and then fled the scene. It is part of a wave of antitrump protests sweeping the nation. Most of them peaceful. Protesters marching through the streets of major cities blocking traffic, chanting slogans like, not my president. This as president elect trump signals that he may be open to compromising on some of the Campaign Promises that propelled him to victory. Most notably, his pledge to gut the Affordable Care act. In fact, repeal it. What you say youre going to repeal and replace. When you replace it, are you going to make sure that people with preconditions are still covered . Yes, because it happens to be one of the strongest assets. Youre going to keep that . Also with the children living with their parents for an extended period. Youre going to keep that . Very much try to keep that. It adds cost, but were very much going to try to keep. And theres going to be a period when you repeal it before you replace it where millions of people will lose no, were going to do it simultaneously. It will be just fine. Thats what i do, i do a good job. I know how to do this stuff. Were going to repeal and it replace it. And were not going to have like a twoday period and were not going to have a twoyear period where theres nothing. It will be repealed and replaced and well know and it will be Great Health Care for much less money. So the change in tone comes as president elect trump shakes up his Transition Team. Vice president elect mike pence now leading the operation, flanked by a team of vice chairs, that include everyone from congressman to trumps own children. Chris frates is following that story for us. Joining us live from outside trump tower, in the big apple, which has become somewhat of a fortress, as trump and his team continue to work there, chris. Hey, fred, thats exactly right. Mike pence taking over the transition, becoming the chairman of this government in waiting. Chris christie had chaired this since may. He gets bumped back to vice chairman. Hes joined by a lot of other campaign confidants. Guys like steve bannon, who was the campaign chairman, also reince priebus, the Republican National committee chairman. Both of those guys in the running to be the white house chief of staff. Now, the christie camp saying, look, this isnt a demotion, that oftentimes the Vice President elect will take over that transition effort. But, you know, they point to dick cheney as an example of that. But dick cheney didnt have a big cloud hanging over his head like Chris Christie does with his bridgegate scandal. If you remember, a couple of his top allies were found guilty in closing lanes on the George Washington bridge, which caused huge back ups in a new jersey town, whose democratic mayor didnt endorse Chris Christie for governor. That was some political payback by some of his top allies. Christie, of course, says he didnt know anything about it, wasnt involved in it. But when Republican National committee spokesman, sean spicer, was asked what happened to christie, heres what he told our own michael sper ck smercon earlier this morning. Lets talk transition. What happened to governor christie . Uh, i dont know. I know that, obviously, you know, mr. Trump has a ton of faith in governor pence and his connections and his stature in washington. Hes been a very successful governor and hes been a very successful member of the house of representatives. And i think, now that were in that phase, he obviously wanted to look at some of the people that would lead that transition more carefully and more thoroughly, and he made a decision. Reporter donald trump also tweeting this morning about uniting all america, all americans in this time of transition, and also, talking about winning. So hes trying to put a good face on this, as he tries to continue to unite the country after what was a very divisive election. But lots of shake up inside the trump world, and all of washington, fred, watching this parlor game, to try to see whos making these decisions and whos going to eventually be in this Trump Administration, fred . All right, chris frates, thank you so much, from new york. Well check back with you. All right, so, is president elect trump backing away now from the signature issues that carried him to victory, since his win, we have heard very little about several cornerstones of his campaign, including repealing obamacare, building a wall, a ban on muslims and prosecuting hillary clinton. Things that you heard him promise on the campaign trail. And now, of course, you heard in that 60 minutes interview, he did talk about repealing obamacare, although, we also heard language that really emphasized a change, modifications of the affordable existing health care plan. Lets talk more about all of this with cnn political commentator, ryan lizza, here with me in washington, and director for the university of center for politics, larry sabato. Good to see both of you gentleman. Ryan, you first, because this has been a cornerstone. Repealing and replacing. That has been the mantra. And now he is talking about making modifications. So does this exemplify that its one thing to make Campaign Promises, its another once youre an elect to see whether you can execute these things . Well, i think he was vague enough, frankly, about how he defined obamacare and what parts of it he was going to repeal and what he was going to replace it with. Frankly, he never specified. So on that, and that is an area where hes right in line with republicans in congress. Theres not a lot of daylight. And there are a lot of competing versions among republicans, at least on the repeal side. Its going to be a pretty big challenge for them to come up with the replace. Frankly, since obamacare started, the republicans have been able to take advantage of the fact that its never been wildly popular and use it as an issue, but they havent been able to spell out specifically what the replace mechanism would be. And so, in the 60 minutes interview and in the wall street journal hes saying, well, i want to keep the popular things, which is the Insurance Company regulations, that you can stay on your parents plan until youre 26 years old. Everyone wants that. That you can the the preexisting conditions. Excuse me, preexisting conditions, right . The stuff that nobody that was always popular and the republicans signed on to. There are other parts of obamacare that sort of thats one leg of a threeleg stool. So it will be interesting to see how they take care of the other two legs in obamacare. So, larry, the Obama Administration had always said that this Affordable Health care plan could be modified. That it would be made better over time. Is this now president elect trumps attempt at rebranding what weve known to be obamacare . Well, fred, lets hope so. At least the early indications are that president elect trump is trying to find at least a bit of middle ground. Because i think he recognizes, first of all, he had a very narrow victory and he lost the popular vote, and by the way, that gap is growing daily. Hillary clinton is very likely to finish with a popular vote plurality, much greater than that enjoyed by al gore in 2000, when he lost the race to george w. Bush. That has consequences. And second, i think its pretty obvious from all the demonstrations and riots or whatever you want to call them around the country, that the nation is on a hair trigger. And i dont think thats how president elect trump wants to enter office. So, this this is a good sign. You know, deep down, its hard to say exactly where he is, but ive always had a hard time believing that he was as far to the right as some of his Campaign Rhetoric and positions led us to believe. So, this ought to be encouraged, because weve got to hold together as a nation. Okay. And then you know, on the walsh, could trump use an executive order . And were talking about, as a candidate, he had great criticism for president obama for the use of that tool, but now there are discussions, potentially, that in order to make the wall, to help finance it, donald trump might use executive order . Yes, once a president expands the use of his powers, the next president usually doesnt give them up, right . The nature of the executive is you push it, and the next president gets to take vaadvante of the same ways you pushed it. On the wall, if hes really going to build a 3,000mile on the border the way he described during the campaign, hes going to need funding from congress to do that. Now, there are other aspects of immigration even though the promise was, mexicos going to pay for it . Right. If that is really going to happen, he could in a oneonone negotiation, i suppose, with mexico, get them to pay for it, hes also talked about using remittances, cracking down on remittances from mexicans to americans and change smoggiing the visa structure, so using money from visas from mexicans visiting the United States to pay for the wall. So he does have some wiggle room. But its a really expensive wall, the one that she describes. If hes going to build it as described and mexicos going to say, sorry, were not actually going to pay for it, hes going to need congress to help him. This could be like the obamacare example, where he starts to define the wall differently. When he says, i didnt mean a physical wall everywhere, were going to beef up the wall here and there and use aerial drones to provide security and all the other if he redefines it as Border Security and not a 3,000mile wall, that would be a lot less expensive. So, larry, really quick, hypocritical . Well, you can define it that way. I like to think of it as practical and probably in the countrys interests. And ryan is absolutely right. Look, theres never been a president who kept all of his Campaign Promises and fulfilled them in precisely the way he described them on the campaign trail. Because the purpose of the campaign is to get votes and the purpose in office is to govern. And there are two very different things, frequently. All right. Ryan, larry, thank you so much. Well have you back. Stick around. A reminder, dont miss House Speaker paul ryan tomorrow morning on state of the union. Jake tappers exclusive interview is at 9 00 a. M. Eastern right here on cnn. Hillary clinton acknowledged the tough days that she has been having, while trying to bestow a sense of calm to campaign volunteers. Take a listen to a Conference Call that they all had last night. Look, aisim not going to su coat it. These have been very, very tough days, for all of us. I hope that you will all take some time to regroup. Its important that you understand that, you know, theres still a lot to be done in our country, by people like you, who are so, so important to us. And i hope that, you know, youll take some time with friends and family, or do what ive been doing, take your dogs for a walk, if you have dogs, or, you know, whatever else gives you some real pleasure. That is a tough time for our country. I think weve seen how people have been reacting to the events of this election and i know that weve got to be reaching out to each other, to keep it clear in our own minds that what we did was so important. All right, Hillary Clintons thoughts there, three days after a big loss for her. She says that the thoughts of her aides is actually what has been keeping her lifted. She made her first public appearance since conceding last night, in brooklyn, at that Staff Campaign party. And then, of course, you saw the pictures of her on a walk where she just happened to run into somebody who was walking on the same trail and they snapped that photograph and you saw that, that was the day after the election. All right, up next, antitrump protesters take to the streets for a third night since the election. And more are planning to gather today. Well have a live report, right after the break. As a Marriott Rewards member, i can embrace a world full of surprising moments. The new marriott portfolio of hotels is. Welcome back. Im Fredricka Whitfield in the nations capital. Police in large cities are on high alert today after a third night of antitrump protests broke out across the u. S. This is video in los angeles. Most of the marches and rallies were peaceful, but in portland, oregon, tensions exploded. One person was shot and police are still looking for the gunman. A protest in miami, florida, demonstrators held signs that said, build bridges, not walls. And in atlanta, protesters burned an American Flag outside of the state capitol. And thats where we find cnns paolo sandoval, who has been tracking these protests all night in atlanta. So paolo, what more do we know about, lets go, you know, across the condition over to portland, oregon. What more do we know about that shooting . Right. We do understand that things went down early this morning, fred. That there was several demonstrators that had gathered on a bridge there in portland, at one point, an individual pulls out a gun, shots are fired, and were told that one man was actually hit and treated for nonlifethreatening injuries. But of course, the key there is that a search for a suspect here, police are still trying to track down that individual that pulled that gun. But again, that person that was hit is expected to be okay. And this followed what was a very violent night, though, there, in portland, as police clashing with some demonstrators, the mayor of the city, just a couple of days ago, after seeing a similar situation like this play out on the streets of the city, said that a majority of those demonstrators have remained relatively peaceful. It is those individuals that the mayor, charlie hails, has called anarchists and are really disrupting what should be Peaceful Demonstrations there. Hes the one who said that they are the ones who are drowning out the voices of those individuals who say that theres not necessarily anything that can change about the outcome of the election, its what they are protesting, though, are some of the policy suggestions that have been proposed by now president elect trump on the campaign trail. So, again, people are getting ready for what could be another night of demonstrations, not just in portland, but also in other cities across the country. Fred . All right. Paolo sandoval, well check back with you as things unravel today or unwind today. Thank you so much. All right, up next, it was the cornerstone of his campaign, but since election day, weve heard very little about it. Will president elect trump deliver on his pledge to build a wall . A live report from mexico city, next. Now that karens taking osteo biflex, shes noticing a real difference in her joint comfort. Shes single. And high levels of humiliation in her daughter. 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This morning, the taliban is claiming responsibility for a suicide blast that killed four people at the largest u. S. Military base in afghanistan. The attack happened in the Early Morning hours at bagram airfield. A Coalition Official says the bomber detonated a suicide vest near where people were gathering for a run. Defense secretary Ash Carter Says two u. S. Service members and two u. S. Contractors were killed and 17 other u. S. Service members were wounded in the attack. All right, now back to politics here. President elect donald trump says Border Security will be a top priority in the first weeks of his administration. That includes getting to work on the promise that helped propel Trumps Campaign to victory. Building a wall on the southern border. Number one, im building a wall, theyre not coming in anymore. Number two, immediately were building a wall. In our case, look, that walls going to start very quickly. So whats the feeling in mexico on whether trump can make good on his promise . Lets go to cnns ed lavendera. Hes live for us right now in mexico city. Whats being said there, ed . Well, fredricka, as you might imagine, speak to many people here on the streets of mexico city, they find the whole notion that mexico will pay for this wall as rather ridiculous. And government officials, even though the top government officials have struck a very even tone, conciliatory tone with donald trump, there is really no illusion or no ones under the illusion here that mexico will ever pay for this wall. Were going to build a great wall. The wall just got 10 feet higher. Maybe some day their going to call it the trump wall. Reporter the border between the United States and mexico stretches the nearly 2,000 miles, nearly 700 miles of it is already covered with some form of border wall, or steel fencing. But donald trump wants more. On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall. Well, of course, it can be done. Reporter professor michael deer is an expert in city and Regional Planning and the author of the book why walls dont work. A large concrete structure, which should be very intensive in terms of resources and money. In fact, cnn has surveyed a number of civil en