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Protests were also staged in cities in states carried by trump, including in atlanta, dallas, raleigh, iowa city and kansas city, missouri. In portland, oregon, Police Used Tear Gas to disperse the crowd after police say burning projectiles were thrown at them. The protesters also sprayed graffiti on buildings and blocked traffic. In miami, florida, protesters blocked portions of interstate 395, forcing hundreds of cars to stop. Demonstrations are also occurring overseas. Today in germany, about 300 people protested trumps election outside the u. S. Embassy in berlin. In his first interview since winning the election, trump tells cbs news 60 minutes he no longer intends to fully repeal president obamas signature legislation, the Affordable Care act. Trump says he likes obamacares rules banning Insurance Companies from denying coverage over preexisting conditions and letting parents cover their children until they turn 26. 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 it . Also, with the children living with their parents for an extended period, were going to. Youre going to keep that . Very much try and keep that. It adds cost, but its very much something were going to try and keep. Stewart today, in a Conference Call with campaign contributors, Hillary Clinton said she was heartbroken by the loss and pointed to f. B. I. Director james comey in the campaigns final days, resuming the investigation into her private email server she used while secretary of state. Clinton reportedly said today, there was a reminder that the next administration will be managing the deployment of u. S. Troops in afghanistan, now entering its 16th year. A suicide bombing inside the largest u. S. Base there, the tightlyguarded Bagram Air Base north of kabul, killed four americans, two soldiers and two civilian contractors working for the military. Defense secretary Ash Carter Says he is deeply saddened by the attack that also wounded 16 american soldiers and one polish soldier. An afghan official said the attacker dressed as a laborer e taliban claimede the base. Responsibility for the attack. It is leading an insurgency against the u. S. Backed government. The u. S. Still has more than 8,000 soldiers in afghanistan. Cincinnatis mayor is calling on prosecutors to seek a new trial over a police shooting, captured on videotape, of an unarmed black motorist last year. Today, a judge declared a mistrial in the murder trial of ray tensing, the 26yearold white former university of Cincinnati Police officer who fatally shot 43yearold sam dubose after stopping him for a missing license plate. The incident was documented by tensings body camera. He testified he had feared for his life and thought dubose was going to run him over when his arm became stuck in duboses car door as the officer tried to grab the car keys. Today, the jury deadlocked after 25 hours of deliberations since getting the case wednesday. Prosecutors say the jury was leaning toward an acquittal for murder and a conviction for the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. The judge scheduled a hearing in two weeks to determine if tensing will be retried. Indias prime minister, narendra modi, today defended his surprise announcement this week to replace some currency denominations as a necessary move to fight corruption and tax evasion, but the move has set off pandemonium at banks and a. T. M. Machines across the country. Millions of people have waited in lines to exchange their now worthless 500 and 1,000 rupee bills bills worth around 7. 50 to 15 u. S. For new currency. Some banks ran out of the new 2,000 rupee bills, and half of indias 200,000 a. T. M. Machines have not yet been reconfigured to dispense them. The government said it will take two to three weeks to reconfigure the a. T. M. S. For the third weekend in a row, protesters in south korea have filled the streets of seoul to demand the resignation of President Park geunhye. Tonights candlelight protest was the largest yet with organizers claiming a million people; police estimated the crowd to be a quarter that size. President park has apologized for seeking the advice of a longtime friend who stands accused of fraud and abuse of power for allegedly using her connections with park to pressure corporations to donate money to her foundations. So far, theres been no move in south koreas parliament to impeach park. Stewart donald trump has signaled that high on his domestic agenda is attending to the nations infrastructure, which he addressed in his Election Night victory speech. We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. Were going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it. Stewart two weeks earlier, outlining his contract with the american voter, trump put a price tag on his plan. The american infrastructure act leverages publicprivate partnerships and private investments through tax incentives to spare 1 trillion in Infrastructure Investment over the next ten years. Stewart the American Society of Civil Engineers, in its last report card, graded the countrys infrastructure a d plus and estimated 3. 5 trillion in spending is needed to fix it. When it comes to jobs, trump has promised to create 25 million of them through Infrastructure Spending, tax reduction and simplification, regulatory relief, trade deal reform and lifting the restrictions on American Energy development. Joining me now to discuss trumps infrastructure and jobs plans are laura bliss, a writer for citylab, which is part of Atlantic Media here in new york; and in washington, Binyamin Appelbaum, a correspondent for the New York Times. Laura, the American Society for Civil Engineers gave the u. S. Infrastructure a dplus rating. Why does it deserve a dplus rating . How did we get to a dplus rating . Yeah, its a great question, and i think most americans actually have pretty firsthand experience just driving on highways and losing time and money and productivity, facing roads that have really been not adequately maintained. And what were look at, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers, is actually something to the tune upon a 3 trillion Infrastructure Spending gap. So thats, you know, the difference between what we are spending and what were not to keep our roads, as well as our bridges, our airports, our transit system, our ports, really functioning and serving the american public. Stewart whats an example of recent of recent dplus fail in infrastructure . Yeah, absolutely, not even two months another very close to here in new york, new jersey transit. We saw that fatal train crash, and that was partly driven by a failure to keep that system up to date as far as its safety mechanisms. Of course, very memorably in flint, michigan, earlier this year, we saw the failure of a water system to be really adequately maintained. Stewart binyamin, has trump signaled what this infrastructure plan, what hes talked about, what it might look like . So he has suggested that the portion of the infrastructure plan focused on transportationing would be about 550 billion. And his economic varies, peter navaro, has sketched out a way it might be paid for. He suggested what we would be talking about is a tax credit that would incentivize private developers to put their own money into Public Infrastructure in return they pay not very much at all in taxes on those investments and the government could recoup some of that lost money by imposing a onetime tax on the repatriation of profits that American Companies have been keeping stashed overseas. Stewart trump finds himself in a unique position. The republican spaert not always that excited about spending money on things like infrastructure, whereas the Democratic Party often is. What kind of political mawferg maneuvering is he going to need to do to fet this off the ground . The of . The landscape is interesting. Pretty much everyone agrees the infrastructure is crumbling. Where it breaks down is when it comes to talk about who is going to pay for it. Republicans have been reluctant to invest funds in these types of projects. President obama proposed something similar to what donald trump sproapsing and Congressional Republicans refused to take it up as an idea. The hope for mr. Trump is this alternative financing model will be attractive to republicans. But the Sticking Point for many republicans is that they dont accept his argument that this is good for the economy. Stewart laura, from your rps, what kind of privatefunded infrastructure has worked or hasnt worked . Privatization of frurpt projects is not an inherently bad idea, and it can work, you know, especially on a project like a toll road, for example, where a private company is sort of guaranteed revenues down the line after the project is completed. But as a funding mechanism for the vast majority of Infrastructure Projects that our country could really benefit from, it doesnt really seem to hold up because theyre not going to be particularly lucrative in the long run for those private companies. Theyre really designed supposed to be designed for the public good, and not to not to force the public to pay very, very high usage rates. Stewart binyamin, trump said that hes tied his job creation to this infrastructure idea. Does that work . Does that make sense with what hes proposed . It really depends on the details. So, you know, interestingly enough, from the perspective of many democrats, the extent to which the government provides funding for these projects is an important consideration because in their view, the types of projects that are most likely to be built with government funding are the ones least likely to be built by the private sector and, therefore, the most likely to create new jobs. If youre simply providing a tax subsidy so companies can build things they were already going to build and its just more profitable for them to do so, you dont create a lot of jobs by to go that. You just put money in the pocket of people who own those companies. If, however, what youre doing is providing funding for projects that wouldnt otherwise get off the job, that has the potential to actually create new jobs. The question of the funding model isnt just a question of who pays for it but a question of how much economic boston theres likely to be. Stewart binyamin, will politics play a role here as to which Infrastructure Projects get started first . Yeah, i think its fair to say that politics will play a role here, absolutely. The details, again, matter. If what hes proposing is a tax credit that anyone can take advantage of, the government would have somewhat less of a role in selecting projects. Developers would have to line up and meet the requirements for the tax credit. But, again, to the extent that the government starts allocating the funds, yeah, congress has a long history of picking out pet transportation prohibits for funding. Its a fair bet that that would happen again. Stewart laura, we should point out that voters seem to be hungry for increased fund ago at least increased support of infrastructure. On many local initiative ballots, there was a great show of support for this, correct . Yeah. At least certain types of infrastructure. Sort of i think a story that was definitely overshadowed on tuesday night was a real victory in the Public Transportation sector, Something Like 70 of the ballot measures nationwide that were about funding transit got passed. So, yeah, you did sort of see this story of voters, primarily in dense, urban centers, really, you know, voting for a more urban future and, you know, demonstrating a willingness to pay for it. In terms of investment and transit. Less so, you know, there was there were a number of measures that were also, you know, geared towards highway fund, other kinds of transportation projects, lesso about water infrastructure, energy infrastructure, yo, you know, p, airports. Those were a little bit lesser seen. Stewart binyamin, you wanted to add something . Yeah, you know, the support for the transit measures that laura was just talking about came mostly from parts of the country that also supported Hillary Clinton. One issue donald trump is going to need to dpraem with is House Republicans largely represent parts of the country that have less infrastructure and are perhaps less excited about increased Infrastructure Spending. Its not clear that he can rally a majority of the house right now to back a rebuilding of laguardia airport, for example. They may not care how bad conditions are in new york. Stewart all right, this is to be continued. It sounds like. Laura bliss from citylab, and Binyamin Appelbaum from the New York Times, thanks to both of you. Thanks so much for having us. Stewart iraqs government says its Security Forces, with u. S. Support, reclaimed two more districts in mosul today from isis militants. This footage released today by the Iraqi Defense ministry shows helicopter attacks on isis positions to dislodge militants who have occupied iraqs second largest city for two years. The Defense Ministry says it has destroyed more than 40 isis hideouts and killed about 900 militants in the past month. As thousands of mosul residents try to flee the city, the United Nations reports isis is carrying out mass executions of civilians. Joining me now to talk about this is Alex Milutinovic, who is directing relief efforts in iraq for the International Rescue committee. He is in the iraqi city of erbil, about 50 miles east of mosul. Alex, we understand from the world health organization, people have fled mosul. Where are they going . At the moment they have over 50,000 people that have fled the surrounding mosul sea. Twothirds are leaving towards the camps and the remaining are living with Host Community gllz is the Islamic State allowing people to leave . There have been reports want idea is to use civilians. Their idea is to use civilians as human shields. Unfortunately, the civilians not allowed to leave the mosul city. They are being used as a human shield and our concern goes to the people of mosul city who are now trapped in a very difficult situation. They are basically trapped in the nighting zone and they have a hard time fleeing and finding safety. Stewart and how are the conditions for the people who are still in mosul, the citizens, in terms of food, water, medical care . Basically, mosul city has been under isis control control for the past two years. And during these two years, people have spent all of their savings. So the situation is getting dire. The medicines are almost not available. The food is available, but the cost is rising and we are seeing more and more people that come out that are malnourished. Its a pretty difficult situation and we are hoping very soon we will be able to provide assist attendance everyone who flees the city gllt u. N. Report that came out recently describing the situation in mosul described the possibility of chemical weapons being used . Basically, we have seen reports before of the chemical weapons being used. It is our biggest fear. Civilians basically have to be protected by all party to this conflict and we need to ensure civilian safety is the most important priority. We are concerned. We have seen civilian casualties and we want to make sure this doesnt repeat again. Stewart the fight over mosul is about a month old at this point. The u. N. Report in the New York Times cited reports of people being executed, civilians, and being labeled as traitors and being killed as a betrayal. Yet focus on this betrayal . And yet public execution of citizens in mosul . Isis has a brutal rule. For the past two years they have been ruling with an iron fist in the mosul area, all areas under their control. We have seen a number of cases and heard about a number of cases of civilians being executed for as little as having awe mobile phone. There is a fear, most of the people in the city or some people in the city are ac