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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170106:05:55:00

election, look at this, freaking 13 different people got electoral votes. john adams got the most. jefferson came in second. he got to be vice president. but, look, 11 other guys got electoral votes. that election in 1796, kind of the first real presidential election we had as a country, that is the last time so many people got so many electoral votes in a presidential election. nothing like that has ever happened again in our country. until this year. i'm not sure why this isn't getting more attention today given the craziness of this election year. but today is the day that the electoral college results are going to get certified. donald trump won the presidency by winning the most electoral

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170106:09:54:00

he got all the electoral votes. then in 1792 it was time for our second presidential election. again, nobody ran against george washington. would you? there were 132 votes vast in that second election and it all went to washington. at the end of that second term four years later, he bowed out. he started making plans to go home to mt. vernon to start making booze. george washington left office after two elections in which he had run unopposed. that meant that in 1796, 20 years after we first declared independence as a country, it was finally time to have our first real presidential election, with candidates and everything. in the first real contested election, look at this, freaking 13 different people got electoral votes.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170106:05:54:00

wasn't a particularly event full one. there was only one guy running. george washington stood for president in that first presidential election in 1789. nobody ran against him. he got all the electoral votes. then in 1792 it was time for our second presidential election. again, nobody ran against george washington. would you? there were 132 votes vast in that second election and it all went to washington. at the end of that second term four years later, he bowed out. he started making plans to go home to mt. vernon to start making booze. george washington left office after two elections in which he had run unopposed. that meant that in 1796, 20 years after we first declared independence as a country, it was finally time to have our first real presidential election, with candidates and everything. in the first real contested

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170106:09:55:00

john adams got the most. jefferson came in second. he got to be vice president. but, look, 11 other guys got electoral votes. that election in 1796, kind of the first real presidential election we had as a country, that is the last time so many people got so many electoral votes in a presidential election. nothing like that has ever happened again in our country. until this year. i'm not sure why this isn't getting more attention today given the craziness of this election year. but today is the day that the electoral college results are going to get certified. donald trump won the presidency by winning the most electoral college votes. but there are two bizarre things that that happened in the electoral college this year.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170106:02:57:00

1796 while we were still figuring out what a presidential election was. that's not all. in addition to the sheer number of people who got electoral college votes, we also set a record this year for the number of electors thorp bound who wer support a particular countdown, but they bailed on that obligation and decided to vote for somebody else. when that happened, that was the largest number of electors to defect on a presidential ballot since 1872. in 1872, they had great reason to defect and switch their vote to somebody else instead of the presidential candidate they were bound to support, because in 1872 there was this guy horace greely and he up and died between the election and when the electoral college cast their votes. five days before the election his wife died. five days after that he lost the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170103:09:10:00

preparing to make a final pitch of his own. citing the example of george washington in 1796, president obama says he will give a farewell speech from chicago next tuesday evening. >> i hope it's a nice balance of the big achievements he's had and the call to action to keep the progress moving forward. >> in an email announcing the remarks, mr. obama said "i'm thinking about them as a chance to say thank you for this amazing journey, to celebrate the ways you've changed this country for the better and to offer some thoughts on where we go from here." >> chicago is the place where he started his political career. chicago is the place where he based his two national campaigns. chicago is a place where he met his wife, raised his family. chicago is in a part part of obama's story. >> this weekend he began tweeting items of quote remarkable progress, including today nearly every american has

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170103:10:37:00

it is really up to them. >> that january 11th news conference date would have the president-elect speaking to the media just after president obama's january 10th farewell address. and the president will continue a tradition that stretches all the way back to george washington in 1796 when he gives the farewell address. from chicago next week, president obama announced his final speech before he leaves office. it will be on tuesday, january 10th, at the mccormick place, the same venue of the 2012 election night celebration. obama said in an e-mail to supporters he's just starting to write his remarking but quote, i'm thinking about them as a chance to say thank you for this amazing journey to celebrate the ways you have changed this country for the better these past eight years. and offer some thoughts on where we all go from here. now, many speculate the president will use the speech in part to make one last public appeal to preserve the signature achievements of his presidency like the affordable care act. >>and as donald trump prepares to take office, a new gallop poll finds amerins are less

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170103:13:26:00

stretches all the way back to george washington in 1796 when he gives that farewell address from chicago next week. we're looking forward to that. president obama announced his final speech before he leaves office will be tuesday, january 10th, at the mccormack place, the same venue as his 2012 election night celebration. the president said in san e-mail to supporters that he's just starting to writing his remarks, but, quote, i'm thinking about them as a chance to say thank you for this amazing journey, to celebrate the ways that you've changed this country for the better in the past eight years, and to offer some thoughts on where we all go from here. the white house says there's a long list of accomplishments under president obama, but not all democrats have reasons to celebrate after those eight years. in fact, it's been a very bleak eight years for democrats under barack obama steve rattner hasharts to explain why. this is going to be fascinating, steve. let's talk about it. >> so let's look at the facts and see what's actually going on

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170102:14:06:00

things that come forward. part of this is we'll have a rollout where we talk about the agenda and how each of those regulations, both ones we'll repeal and put in place, held grow jobs and economic growth. >> reporter: so a lot of changes coming down the road, but not before the outgoing president gets the opportunity to give his farewell. this is a tradition that dates all the way back to george washington in 1796, carol. >> joe johns reporting live from the white house this morning. let's talk about that and more. joining me, larry sabato director of the center of politics, and lynn sweet, washington bureau chief for the "chicago sun times." welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> larry, can president obama and top democrats save obama care? >> very doubtful. they can certainly save pieces of it because pieces of it are popular, like carrying your kids on your insurance until they're age 26. i don't think that's really in

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170102:15:13:00

lobbying ban that is forward thinking, saying if you want to serve in the trump administration, you need to serve this government, not yourself. and a five-year ban of people who want to serve in this government and potentially lobby for a foreign government, there will be a lifetime ban on that. when we talk about the agenda and how each of those regulations, both ones we'll repeal and put in place, help grow jobs and economic growth. >> reporter: all of that, but not until well after president obama gives his farewell speech next week in chicago. the presidential farewell is a tradition that goes all the way back to george washington, 1796, carol. >> joe johns live at the white house, thank you, joe. coming up, a new year's celebration turns deadly and the gunman is on the loose. we'll have the latest on the manhunt, yes.

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