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Reporter in an Election Year when so many got it so wrong, how are we to read the tea leaves on the trump administration, now just beginning to take shape. For now president obama is reserving judgment. Do i have concerns . Absolutely. Of course ive got concerns. But the federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. Its an ocean liner. Reporter already there are signs of rough seas. One pennsylvania school, chants of white power. White power reporter in a michigan cafeteria, schoolkids taunted latino classmates by chanting trumps slogan. Build the wall reporter skin mys asked trump about it. Theyre harassing latinos, muslims. I am so saddened to hear that, and i say, stop it. Fit helps, i will say this, and ill say it right to the camera. Stop it. Reporter meanwhile the other half of america seems to be working through the five stages of grief. First, denial. Several states are too close to call. So were not going to have anything more to say tonight. Reporter then, anger. No racist usa reporter followed quickly by bargaining. I just had the opportunity to have an excellent conversation with president elect trump reporter and then, inevitably, depression. And even though it all went wrong ill stand before the lord of song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah reporter witness that unusual cold open. Hillary clintons forlorn swan song on snl, a tribute also to the sate linger songwriter leonard cohen. Im not giving up and neither should you. And live from new york, its saturday night reporter but the last step, acceptance thats proving elusive. He successfully mobilized a big chunk of the country to vote for him, and hes going to win. He has won. Hes going to be the next president. Reporter today president obama did his best at a white house news conference. When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And its hard. And its challenging. I think its a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection. Reporter but its a work in progress. So it seems is trumps agenda. In his first big interview since the election on 60 minutes, trump sought to put his detractors at ease. When they demonstrate against you and there are signs out there, dont you say to yourself, do i have to tell them not to be afraid . Theyre afraid. I would tell them, dont be afraid. Absolutely. But thats not what youre saying, i say no, no, im saying it. Ive been saying it. Okay. Dont be afraid. Reporter but at the same time, trump sent conflicting signals with his first two appointments. As chief of staff, trump chose a 44yearold republican insider. Outgoing gop chairman Reince Priebus. A conservative with close ties to speaker paul ryan. But for his chief strategist, trump picked a 62yearold flameflower, Campaign Chair steve bannon, an alt right con often described as a white nationalist. I think Steven Bannons appointment to be a Senior Advisor to donald trump is an absolute unmitigated disaster. Reporter bannon is a former investment banker who made tens of millions of dollars from royalties for seinfeld. No soup for you reporter he went on to direct conservative documentaries like occupy unmasked. In the name of social justice, in the name of economic equality, all the buzz words, these people feel morally justified to commit crimes. Reporter more recently hes been the driving force behind breitbart media. The website infamous for headlines comparing planned parenthoods work to the holocaust. Op eds calling to lock the door to islam. Calling conservative analyst bill kristol a renegade jew. Supporting the use of the confederate flag. The Southern Poverty Law Center sees breitbart as hate speech. A rebranding of the old white supremacist white for the digital age. Reporter with steve bannon as a major instigator for this emboldened new extreme. This man for the last 18 months has been pushing his Breitbart News operation into more and more aggressively racist coverage. Reporter installing bannon and priebus on the same day is a mixed message for trump. His more moderate supporters wont see eye to eye with bannon. His more extreme supporters see priebus as a creature of the swamp trump has promised to drain. This is a clear signal that donald trump has two tracks in mind. Theres an inside track and an outside track. It is going to be a twominded administration for the two sides of donald trump. Reporter some predict there will be firework in the west wing, including former breitbart spokesperson kurt bardella. I think trump has done this deliberately to put them against one another, in the long run somethings going to give and one of thems not going to be there. Reporter Kelley Ann Conway defended bannon. Ive worked with bannon, hes been the general of this campaign. Frankly people should look at the full resume. Hes got a Harvard Business degree, a naval officer reporter today on gma Reince Priebus insisted bannon is no white supremacist. I dont know where theyre coming from. Thats not the steve bannon i know. Reporter what else do we know about trumps agenda . Abcs Rebecca Jarvis has been going over the trump tax plan. The more money you make, the more money you get back out of his tax plan. For example, if you make 25,000 per year, you get about 100 benefit from this plan. 100 in savings. And if you jump up to 143,000 a year, youll see 2,000, approximately, in savings. Reporter the fine print is about as clear as trumps own tax returns. Still under lock and key. Is he proposing to fix the system that obviously helped him . Thats a good question. I dont know the answer to that. Reporter we also dont know quite where he stands on abortion. Though we told leslie stall hed fulfill his vow to appoint Supreme Court justices who oppose roe versus wade. But having to do with abortion, if it ever were overturned, it would go back to the states. So it would go back to the states some women wont be able to get an abortion it will go back to the states. By state. Well, theyll perhaps have to go to another state. And thats okay . Well, well see what happens. Reporter which brings us back to that allimportant fifth stage of grief, acceptance. Some Cultural Icons have been urging it, including David Chappelle on snl. Im wishing donald trump luck. And im going to give him a chance. And we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one too. Thank you very much. Reporter and theres Oprah Winfrey on e. T. To hear president elect trump say that he had respect for president obama, it felt that he had reached a moment where he was actually humbled by that experience, to hear president obama say that he has renewed confidence in the peaceful transition i think everybody can take a deep breath. Reporter but oprah received some serious twitter backlash for her comments. Comedian Patton Oswald tweeting, this is not one of my favorite things. Today, president obama seemed to sense some of his supporters arent buying it. We will try to share the lessons that weve learned over these last eight years with the incoming president. And my hope is he makes things better. And if he does, well all benefit from it. Reporter with that, the now lame duck president left the briefing room. Im david wright for nightline in new york. Next, what the magician david blaine did that totally freaked out John Travolta and David Beckham as he prepares for his latest primetime stunt. Were with him as he warms up with street magic in central park. When it comes to heartburn. Trust the brand doctors trust. Nexium 24hr is the 1 choice of doctors and pharmacists for their own frequent heartburn. For all day and all night protection. Banish the burn. With nexium 24hr. And let roomba from irobot help with your everyday messes. Roomba navigates your entire home. 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If youre a magician whos been buried alive, suspended in air, and encased in ice, how do you top yourself . David blaine is back with a new primetime special tomorrow night right here on abc and he sat down today with my nightline coanchor juju chang. Can i borrow your wedding ring . Of course. Go for it. Its okay. Reporter david blaine is at it again. Heres what i do with the ring. Reporter freaking people out by harnessing his obsessive training and mental toughness to perform stomachchurning, mindblowing magic. Seeming to brush closer and closer to death. Is there any line you wont cross . What wont you do . Sleep deprivation i havent done yet. Ive tried it but its so difficult. Reporter part magician, part endurance artist, david blaine has been testing the limits of mind and boat for years. He was buried alive in a plexi glass coffin under a threeton water tank for seven days. In above the below he suffered minor organ failure after being suspended 30 feet in the air, living off just water for 44 days. He was frozen in time, encased in a block of ice for nearly 64 hours after which he was rushed to the hospital. Which is the toughest one that youve had to recover from . The ice. Well, no. The ice was the toughest one to do. Everybody around me thought i was going into shock, that i was going to die. Reporter in his new special beyond magic zook hes back with a whole new bag of tricks. This one years in the making. Wow. You swallowed it. He did swallow it. You appear to swallow David Beckhams and John Travoltas and everybodys wedding ring. People are screaming and freaking out and running out of the room. The idea for that actually began with a classic magic trick which is called linking rings where you take peoples rings and you link them together. Then i wanted to figure out how to make it something that would actually get the reactions that youre talking about. Freak people out. Reporter once you swallow a ring, how do you get it back . That is complicated. So one of the things that i had to learn was sword swallowing. Theres only a few hundred people in the world that do it. Reporter today we saw it in realtime on ellen. Blaine then transfers his swordswallowing skills, takes a wire hanger, and goes after the ring. Dude, that was amazing. Reporter the last time i interviewed him a decade ago, he was being drowned alive in 2,000 gallons of salt water, submerged for seven long days. David blaine will attempt to hold his breath for a world record nine minutes. I had the honor of interviewing you in the midst of one of your many endurance tests. Water tank. In the water tank. I remember that. I assumed at that moment that you were delirious at that point. I understand your muscles are beginning to atrophy, does that worry you when it comes to the escape tomorrow night . I think it worries me not just for that part, but ive never felt this kind of pain in a stunt before. Where does your mind go . Im assuming you have sort of transcendent moments. People provide a great distraction. Whether theyre shouting crazy things or just coming to give you support. When im just by myself i usually close my eyes then try to imagine that im in some sort of beautiful environment. Reporter back then a heartthumping stunt. Today we met him in the park for more tempered illusions. Were going to come up with a new favorite. See it, dont say it. Well call that your favorite card. Thats my favorite card. Were you looking . You were looking, its permanent, right . Uhhuh, yes. What does it say . Sharpie. Can you hold that . I want you to look through the deck. I want you to remove your favorite card. As i go through, you look. The 5 of hearts. If youre not sure you can change. No, this is it. Yeah . Okay, good. Look at the sharpie again. Rub it. Rub right here. See . It says 5 of hearts. How did you do that . Thats insane. Whichever card you want youll take and hell sign it. You like that card . Let him sign and it show them, let them see it. Good, thats a good signature. Do this for me. Say stop. Stop. Put it back. Good. Heres the idea. When i go through i want you to blow on the card. Like that. Okay. As i start to drop. Ready, go. See how one card just kicks out . Lets see if you got the right one, i dont even know. Is that the right one . You got it. Is that the right one . Thats the right one. Thats the classic reaction to you which is how the bleep did you do that . Minus the bleep. Reporter when hes not making us queasy on the tonight show thats real. Reporter hes working on the new show stopper for his latest special. Pulling the trigger on himself on a rifle aimed at his face. Armchair freudian would say you have a death wish. Its the opposite of a death wish. Theres so many legendary stories of bullet catches. I wanted to do a version of it but i wanted to do a different version. You are very mindful of what kids are thinking when theyre watching you. Youre shooting yourself in the face. Yeah, i do not want kids to do it. Theres a magic history and i hire the best consultants and i study whats been done. Theres a lot of work and research. I would never want anybody to do anything similar, obviously. Reporter blaine says he wants to set good example for his nearly 6yearold daughter dessa. You say you dont want to take undue risks because you were quoted as saying, i would never want my daughter to see my right, exactly, yeah. I have a daughter. The last thing i want to do is not be there for her. Reporter for nightline, im juju chang in new york. Big thank you to juju. You can see the full david blaine primetime special tomorrow night here on abc. 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With simply right checking from santander bank, just make one deposit, payment, withdrawal, or transfer each month to waive the monthly fee. And theres no minimum balance. Youre alright with simply right checking from santander bank. Are you feeling alright, baby . Finally here tonight, remembering a towering figure in american journalism. Good evening. And welcome to elkhart, indiana, as we sit down with president obama. Reporter from Humble Beginnings as a ministers daughter to becoming part of the first allfemale anchor team im judy wood roof. Im gwen ifill. Reporter born in new york city in 1955. While in college she interned at the boston herald, an experience she would later describe on the pbs series makers. I call myself the lonely only. There were no other black women really in that situation at that time. That didnt stop me, i knew there were things to do. Reporter those things would lead her into television. You have 90 seconds to respond reporter in 2004 became the first africanamerican woman to moderate a Vice President ial debate, a role she would fill again in 2008. I start with you, governor palin reporter tonight, after her death from cancer, tributes pouring in on social media. Even president obama offering his condolences during his press conference this afternoon. She was an extraordinary journalist. She always kept faith with the fundamental responsibilities of her profession, asking tough questions, Holding People in power accountable, defending a strong and free press that makes our democracy work. Reporter gwen ifill was 61 years old. Our thoughts are with her family tonight. Thank you for watching abc news. As always, were online 24 7 at abcnews. Com and on our Nightline Facebook page. Thanks again for watching and good night. Today on our show, our contestants will be playing for the kind of money that can change their lives in an instant. And were about to find out if one of them can make it happen. From ballys las vegas, lets play who wants to be a millionaire. [cheers and applause] [dramatic music] hey, everybody, and welcome to the show. You guys ready to play millionaire today . [cheers and applause] come on as a standardized test coach, our first contestant has received a perfect score on the sat more than once. Hes planning on using all of his own testtaking tips to bring him to the 1 million today. From henderson, nevada, please welcome mike obstgarten. [cheers and applause] hey, mike. Hey, chris. Welcome. Thank you. [cheers and applause] so everyone bear with us cause hes a very humble, shy man. [laughter] uh, but welcome to millionaire. Thanks, chris. Great to be here. Very good to have you. You are a testtaker, and this is the ultimate test. Well see how these two pair up today. Youve aced the sat many times. And the act once. And the act. Um, so i would think this, uh, would be a good match today. Uh, hopefully. Um, is there one tip that you could give all of us little commoners . As we ad