feyerick outside of trump tower in new york. how is it looking, deb? >> right now it is very, very quiet, alisyn. last night the speed at which these crowds seemed to grow. the word of this protest spreading on social media and taking place all across the country. here in new york started down at union square and protesters blocked traffic up fifth avenue for more than two miles chanting, donald trump is not my president, donald trump has got to go. protesting trump's bigoted and racist agenda but in the crowd there was a deep, deep sense not only of disappointment, but disbelief. >> not my president! not my president! >> reporter: protests breaking out in at least 25 cities. >> donald trump has got to go! >> reporter: hundreds of demonstrators stopping traffic in los angeles on the busy 101 freeway. while thousands more protested on the streets of l.a.

burning in effigy. in chicago, thousands marching down an eight-lane highway to the site of donald trump's hotel. the disappointment of some voters turning to anger. >> hillary had more votes. more human beings voted for hillary. this isn't fair. this country needs you to stand up and walk into the supreme court and say one vote equals one vote. >> reporter: in new york, at least 5,000 people, including pop star lady gaga protesting outside trump tower. >> you saw this incredibly qualified woman to be president being superseded by a man who has no qualifications at all for the office. >> reporter: thousands more targeting trump's newest hotel in washington, d.c. just blocks from the white house. the march turning to peaceful demonstrations and vigils. most of these protests erupting

in major cities where hillary clinton won. like portland, oregon. >> usa! >> reporter: and denver, colorado. and the faces in the crowd were very, very diverse. the words you heard a lot of were bigoted, secixism, racism. all these people protesting because they believe the country is not going to move in the direction that they want. they wanted to make sure their voices were out there and their voices were heard and that's why you saw so many taking to the streets to protest the outcome of the election. chris? >> thank you very much, deb. in just hours president obama meets with donald trump, the man who spent years trying to convince people obama was not born here and attacking him at every turn. well, now, trump is president-elect and goes to washington to begin the transition of power. cnn's athena jones is live at the white house with more. what a photo-op this will be.

awkward. >> absolutely. good morning, chris. to be the proverbial fly on the wall in that room. this is a meeting the president never wanted to have, never thought he would have. he spent months saying donald trump would never be president. now donald trump is going to be president. the focus shifts to the peaceful hand over of power. we hear the staff talking about how they appreciated the smooth transition handled by the george w. bush team back in 2008/2009. the president spoke about that, again, yesterday in the rose garden. >> i have instructed my team to follow the example that president bush's team set eight years ago and work as hard as we can to make sure that this is a successful transition for the president-elect. because we are now all rooting for his success and uniting and leading the country. the peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our

democracy. >> one of the hallmarks of our democracy. now, there is going to be a lot for the two to discuss. we can tell you that the white house press secretary said it's not clear what effect trump's election will have on president obama's top policy priorities, but we know trump ran to undo much of the obama legacy. we can expect him to get to work right away on repealing and replacing obama care, and reversing the president's executive actions on immigration, regulations of power plants. trump has also said he wants to withdrew from iran nuclear deal and the tpp and the paris climate accord. we have to tell you, we already got some indications from congress that tpp is likely dead. a lot to discuss. a lot that could change under trump and after that meeting with the president, trump and vice president elect, pence, ahead over to meet with house speaker paul ryan. >> thanks so much for all of

that. donald trump has to begin filling thousands of jobs before he takes office in 71 days. who will get the top posts in trump's cabinet? give us some names, sunlen. >> president-elect trump and his team have really been hunkered down and going over the list of all the policy names for the top jobs and many of the names won't surprise you because many of them are who we have seen during the campaign and now go on to fill out his cabinet and become his new inner circle in the white house. on day two as president-elect, donald trump now looking to turn his promises into policy. beginning with his call for unity. >> now, it's time for america to bind the wounds of division. >> reporter: words echoed by president obama and hillary

clinton both pledging a peaceful transition of power. >> we are now all rooting for his success and uniting and leading the country. >> we must accept this result and then look to the future. donald trump is going to be our president. we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. >> reporter: trump now in the throw of building his administration. potentially rewarding some of his top supporters. rnc chairman reince priebus. >> i'm chairman of the party. i'm excited about that job. >> reporter: chris christie who has led his transition team being eyed for top posts. former new york see mayor rudy giuliani consideration for attorney general or homeland security while newt gingrich is being floated as the perspective secretary of state. other possible cabinet picks.

alabama senator jeff sessions and billionaire businessman carl icahn for treasury secretary and retired army general michael flin for national security adviser. when trump takes office in january, he will have extraordinary power to push through his agenda with republican majorities in both houses of congress. >> he heard those voices that were out there that other people weren't hearing. he just earned a mandate. >> reporter: and certainly new attention is being paid to all the things that candidate trump has said will make up his first 100 days in office. he's made some broad proposals. some things like cleaning up washington and protecting the american workers and restoring the rule of law, but also as a candidate made some very, very specific promises like repealing obama care, renegotiating many of the trade deal and perhaps personnel and the biggest promise of all. so synonymous with his campaign, to build those wall along the

mexican border. >> we're doing a little bit of work for trump, it's going to be a very different message he can give to the people in power than he gave on the campaign trail. let's discuss the big meeting and the protest with our panel. "daily beast" "washington bureau" chief jackie kucinich professor of political science at morgan state university jason johnson and "washington post" reporter abby fig. this is some test of president obama's ability to swallow the personal in favor of patriotism. he's known for this, but donald trump is the face of the resistance. he wasn't born here, obama is not one of us. the otherism. now, as president-elect, how does he regard him? >> look, i think obama is at his core, a patriot. he loves this country. i think he means it when he says, look, we're all hoping for the best here. we really need this to go well.

i know a lot of my democratic friends are angry and they want to see them fail. no. i think president obama has a vested interest in this country and will want to see trump do well, even despite all the personal, despicable things trump may have said about them. >> jackie, there is so much bad blood. of course president obama hopes for the best for the country, but what are the optics today? do you see at the front door or wherever the equivalent is at the white house, mrs. obama and president obama, you know, extending their arms and welcoming in trump or is it all sort of more shrouded behind the scenes? >> i don't think they're going to hug or anything, but, yeah, i think this is the -- president obama knows that this is the peaceful transfer of power. this is the long tradition, it's the important tradition. i think out in the open, yeah, it's going to look a little weird because they don't really like each other. i think they'll do their best to make a good presentation.

behind the scenes, it will be awkward. but i don't think they're going to start raging and pointing at each other or anything. >> abby, how is washington processing this kind of collective fiction that we're all participating in right now? that donald trump may not be who he told us he was every day of this campaign. you got to give him a shot. he won. that's the mandate. but the man versus the mandate, how is it being processed down there? >> well, i mean, for a lot of people in this town, this is the very first time they are contemplating this scenario. a couple months ago talking to folks about the transition, i talked to some people in d.c. who said, absolutely no one here is planning for a donald trump presidency except for perhaps chris christie. so now we'll see what that looks like and i think for the most part people are not sure what to believe because remember in the primary donald trump would say one thing one day and then another thing the next.

so, there is no sort of statement of record for trump on a lot of things that he has said he's going to do. and the main questions will be when he has an opportunity. what will he say about his real priorities in government and what will those, what will those be that other republicans can also sign up for. because i don't know that many republicans are really that supportive of many of the policy priorities that donald trump has expressed in the campaign. >> jason, one last note about this meeting today because i what you know behind the scenes is different than the facade. do you think president obama will take this moment to express his displeasure and all the birtherism stuff. >> i think president obama is perfectly capable of finger wagging and it's going to be in the context of you can do it to me, but a wide, diverse country

if you take this same attitude, it is not going to work. in addition to the meeting between president obama and president-elect trump, i just wonder what melania and michelle is going to be like. that, too, strikes me as an interesting conversation. melania didn't have an active role in this campaign, but she will have to have an active role. >> we know she a fan of michelle obama. that wasn't about melania, that is about them setting her up to fail. how is he going to populate this government? this is one of our favorite parlor games and a couple interesting things that come up. kellyanne conway speaks as a political operative. you probably don't see her going on the governmental side. haven't heard any women's names and you got a piece of "daily beast" of a layer of immediate resistance to staffing that they

have to deal with. >> national security in the intelligence community. they wrote this piece and they have national security and intelligence officials saying that they're not going to work for donald trump. not only that, during the primary and during the general election, you had a lot of these people the foremost experts in their field signing public letters saying that he's unfit. he shouldn't be president. and i'm not going to work for him. so, and he shouldn't be in office to begin with. they immediately are going to have trouble staffing up some of the most important agencies when it comes is to national security and keeping america safe. right at the get go. and perhaps that means that they're going to have less experienced people that are filling those positions. but it's going to be interesting to see how they square that. and, you know, they are calling people and they're just saying, no, we're not going to work for you. >> abby, one note about the protests. these are not nationwide

protests. >> in clinton territory. >> in clinton territory and in places -- >> also known as big cities. >> where hillary clinton won and, look, everybody wants peace, people to express themselves peacefully. but, clearly, it's going to take people a while to process what happened on tuesday. what do you think of what we're seeing in these pockets? >> i think it's letting some of the steam out of the pressure cooker and i think it's necessary for people to express themselves and express how they feel about the election. that's actually, also, part of the democratic process. in addition to going to the ballot box, the ability to protest peacefully. so, i think all of that is to be expected. i think that the trump campaign is watching it closely. they're aware that this is a dynamic that is going to exist and to some extent if they're smart and i think we actually saw donald trump doing a little bit of this on tuesday. they recognize he cannot continue to antagonize the country as president.

that is not -- that is not his mandate as the leader of the free world. and, so, i wouldn't be surprised to see more steps taken from inside trump world, contrary to the sort of ethos of his entire campaign to really do more to ease people's worries and concerns because those worries are very real in this country. the exit polling shows, you know, over 50% of the country, including a lot of trump supporters are scared or anxious about what his presidency would bring. >> okay, panel, thank you very much. as the sun rises over the capital there and the symbolism of a new day, thank you very much. and also, you know, it's a lesson for the people out on the streets now. that democracy is to guarantee a fair result, not necessarily a favorable one. you may not like it. that's part of the process. >> 50% won't. coming up on "new day." guess who we have. two of the president-elect main advisors michael cohen in the

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so, here's what we know. donald j. trump will be the 45th president of the united states. and in just 71 days, he's going to be inaugurated. so then what? what are going to be the priorities? can he get those done? let's discuss. jackie kucinich, raja,, will it be the harsh things whether it's the wall as a policy or if any of the other manifestations of intolerance or do you think he starts to check the boxes and work on approval rating? >> you know, it's hard -- right now he has the republicans are saying they have a mandate. so, in theory, do you try to start with the tough stuff first and you have that momentum.

that said, the wall is sort of kind of a nonstarter right now in the congress. and some of his more controversial proposals aren't really going to go anywhere. so, it's going to be really interesting to see how he does this. >> so, manu, let's talk about the things that the legislative measures that he says he wants to enact in his first 100 days. delivered the biggest tax cut since ronald reagan. tariffs to keep companies from going overseas, end common core, promote school choice. repeal and replace obama care. child care services. we remember that speech he gave. build the wall. create a task force on violent crime. rebuild the military and eliminate the defense sequester. what can he accomplish, manu? >> that's a very difficult list to accomplish. he will have to settle on one or two things because congress cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. rpealing obama care is certainly doable and this is

why. because congress has proven that the republicans can pass a repeal of obama care through the budget process that avoids a filibuster in the united states senate. that means they can pass it with a simple majority of 51 votes and republicans will have 52 seats in the senate. now, the question is, how do you replace it? that you will actually need 60 votes to replace an obama care if it's repealed. you need a health care law with 60 votes. that means bipartisan support in the senate. that becomes much, much harder. so, it will be politically difficult for some to repeal obama care and not have a plan to replace it. >> what happens if you repeal, manu, and don't you have to replace if you repeal? what happens if you repeal and you don't replace? >> then you go back to the old system and it leads to a lot of other problems. so, that's the one thing the republicans are going to have to weigh exactly how to move forward with the repeal because, yes, they can pass repeal. what do you do if you can't

replace and what happens to all the people who have health care coverage now because of the affordable care act? that is a very tricky thing. one of the many hurdles that the trump administration will have to overcome as it tries to enact its agenda. >> hey, abby, it's very interesting to hear what leading democrats have said since donald trump's surprise to them victory. basically they've said we're all fog to come together and we believe in a strong america. we're going to do whatever we can to help president-elect trump make this a strong america. i mean, it is such a different tone and tenor than what the republicans said, frankly, when barack obama was first elected. are we to take democrats at their word or do we think that revenge will seep in somehow? >> yeah y do think that democrats are approaching this in a very different way because in part they saw what happens when republicans back in early 2009 basically said, we, our top

priority is stopping barack obama's agenda and that led to a sort of, this sort of eight-year arc of rancorous politics in this country. so, they're approaching it a little bit differently. in some cases it's because they have to. they are in the minority in the senate and in the house. they recognize that they are going to have some defections within their ranks. so, they need to come up with ways to work with republicans on the issues in which, maybe in some cases, they both collectively oppose donald trump's agenda. like, for example, on the infamous wall. that both republican leaders and democratic leaders are not going to be eager to work with. for trump, trump wants to work on infrastructure. that's something democrats really want. a pillar of hillary clinton's campaign promises. so, i think we can expect to see some areas where they can find common ground. >> jackie, trump is going to want good approval ratings. that's what he's going to want

and he'll be focused on that in a hyperfashion early on. bernie sanders gave you the way forward. you want to work on the things that help americans, i'll do it. you want me to engage in the hate and bigotry that got you elected, i'm not going to be there. that's that jekyll and hide choice that he has to make. >> initially when president obama came into office there was, at least in front of the cameras, the welcoming. this is the new president. i wanted to correct that a little bit, it was behind closed doors that you saw republicans getting together. but i wonder if that's happening right now with democrats. i want to put that out there. they didn't, you know, run to the microphones and say, ah-ha. >> except for the very first time in january of 2009 when president obama was making his first sort of pilgrimage over to congress and he thought he would be having this conversation about how they could move forward together, they had already decided, no, we're going to block you at every turn. they may have said at the

microphone, actually, none of us will support his jobs' plan. >> at the same time, president obama during a press conference, he had a meeting with house republicans and the first thing he did was call out paul ryan which soured their relationship immediately. i do think there is a little bit of malpractice on both sides at that time. we hope that maybe you won't see that this time. and maybe i'm wishful thinking. >> no, they've learned from that. as abby was saying those eight years of gridlock, that's not what america wants. >> don't be what you reject. >> there you go. thank you very much. meanwhile, donald trump vowed to build the border wall and make mexico pay for it. so, how will leaders work together on that? we have a live report from mexico for you, next. when standard cancer treatment no longer works

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it was a search by the officers and we'll get their condition, as well. as soon as we get it, we'll bring it to you. seattle police are looking for a gunman who opened fire near an anti-trump protest. five people were shot and two are in critical condition. police say an argument broke out outside of a 7-eleven after the gunman walked away and the group then turned around and fire under to the crowd. there is a race against time going on in china. hundreds of rescuers are trying to reach this 5-year-old kid who's trapped in an abandoned well. the kid has been there since sunday. they're digging out the wells. more than 130 feet deep. it's too tricky and narrow for an adult to climb down to. they have been pumping oxygen in, but it is not clear if the boy is alive. the support of white male voters in places like ohio where the key to donald trump's win, so what drew them to trump? we hear from them, next.

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friend? >> well, good morning to you, chris. you know, really, it all boils down when you talk to these voters to one issue. and that one issue is change. they're literally mad as hell and not going to take it any more and their only decision is which of these two candidates would make that change? here's what we found. >> i'm an angry, white old man. i just feel that i've been through. well, i have been alive for 65 years and i've seen a lot go on. i just thought that maybe this is the first time i've seen something that we can actually change. >> we were in anthony's restaurant in ohio that went strong for trump. mike is old enough to remember when good paying factory jobs were plentiful and times have changed and he feels kind of cheated. >> just got a notice the other day that my social security is going up $3.69. i can get a loaf of bread now. but, you know, i've worked all

those years and i see all that money went into social security and i'm not benefiting really from it. >> reporter: that sense that somehow life has been unfair is common in the areas that turned out for trump. hard-working people who got no break and no help from washington. you mention the idea of fairness and fair play and that there is a segment of our population that you believe is not getting their fair share they deserve. >> absolutely not. i don't believe that. >> we're living proof of it. >> lindsay norton exposes a common myth. voters sending trump to the white house aren't all men and they aren't all old. >> i am a working man. i work 50, 60 hours a week. when i leave, typically my neighbors are at home. when i come home, my neighbors are at home. so, i mean, i'm talking from an extreme side and i feel like i look around and not everybody's trying exactly, you know.

a lot of people are taking, but they're not giving. >> reporter: trump voters were long suffering and they say often silent. >> a lot of people kept quiet about a lot of things as to what the government was doing. they wouldn't open their mouth sore do anything about it. they were tired of being pushed too far and they decided to make a change in their lives and to vote for donald. >> this will send a message. >> yes, send a message to congress or whoever, to washington. you know, we're ready for a change. >> and was donald trump the change or did he happen to come along at a time when people were just really -- >> he came along at the time when people were just fed up. >> reporter: the biggest issue for all of them, jobs. the economy. they want jobs to come back and they simply think, trump, the businessman, can make that happen. big factory jobs, i ask. >> i believe that small business make up a majority of jobs in

our country. if we can open up little factories with 200 and 300 employees, that will work. >> it turns out these trump voters don't expect trump to deliver on a lot of what he said. >> as long as he puts forth an effort, i'll be satisfied. to move in the right direction of prosperity instead of just giving it away. >> anthony has it right. you have to find a way to foster small business. let me ask you something, marty. when you were talking to them about the exit polls and how people got it wrong. what was your take on that? >> two things. they talk about the media. was there something we didn't do right? you focused on what the candidates were doing rather than asking what were the voters thinking. then on top of that when it came to the polls, i actually talked to one man who said he had a pollster knock on his door and ask questions and got a phone call from a pollster who asked questions and in both instances, he lied. he simply didn't tell them who

he was really voting for. you know, i asked, was it malicious intent? were you purposely trying to steer the polls. he said, no, he wasn't. part of this goes to the fact that many people didn't want to openly admit they were voting for trump. the atmosphere they thought for them was too toxic and he gave an answer that wasn't the truth. and, apparently, he believes there are many others who might have done that, as well. they were sort of cynical about the whole polling process. they didn't want to give their real answer. >> marty, fascinating. fascinating to hear from those men, as well. thanks so much for that reporting. so, hillary clinton not able to attract the outpouring of female voters that she had hoped for. what went wrong? we dig deeper on that, ahead.

as you might imagine watching what happens after donald trump's unexpected win of the presidency. that country calling president-elect trump and agreeing to meet during the transition to find, "common

ground" but mexico's foreign minister and its former president are slamming trump's plan to build a wall saying they will not pay for it. so, it's complicated. ed lavandera is live with more. what have you learned, ed? >> good morning, alisyn. from a drizzly mexico city this morning where many people still on edge very much trying to figure out what exactly is going to be the future course between the relationship between the united states and mexico. of course, donald trump talking about building the wall, tearing up the nafta trade agreement and those sorts of things which has a lot of people here on edge. in fact, it has been so tumultotumul tumulltuous that banking and finance officials had to come out to reassure citizens that it would not spell a disaster or bring a hurricane, as one official described it, to the mexican economy. just the immediate after hours when donald trump was elected president fluctuated and by late

yesterday it settled down. a great deal concern of what the relationship between the u.s. and mexico will do here. >> appreciate the reporting, as always. so, back up here in the northeast, the cold wind is blowing and december-like temperatures are going to take us into a tumble this weekend. jennifer grey has the forecast. why did you do it at the end of my fishing season? we did kill it last week. >> you finally found a fish this week. yeah, you are going to start to feel a little bit more like the holidays in the northeast. this weather report is brought to you by humana. great things ahead of you and your health is ready for them. let's get to it. chris is right. those temperatures are on the chilly side this morning. but tomorrow morning even colder. new york city, 41 degrees. right now boston at 39. portland at 29 degrees. that cooler air is really going to usher in as we go through the

next 24 hours or so. so, by tomorrow morning, a lot of these cities will be in the 30s. in fact, new york has only had two mornings in the 30s. these temperatures will be even colder. in fact, d.c. could see their first freeze of the season. and, so, temperatures are going to stay in the 30s. new york, boston, as well. and high temperatures are going to be right around where they should be. finally. alisyn? >> that looks horrible. thanks so much, jennifer, i appreciate it. hillary clinton is making a powerful concession speech with a message for women. >> and to all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful. >> what does clinton's loss say about the future of women's leadership? we break that down, next.

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>> i know how disappointed you feel because i feel it, too. and so do tens of millions of americans who invested their hopes and dreams in this effort. this is painful. and it will be for a long time. that was hillary clinton delivering her emotional concession speech after her stunning loss to president-elect donald trump. what does her loss mean for women going forward? joining us now to discuss this cnn political analyst kirsten powers and senior writer for the federal mary katherine ham. good to see you. >> good tasee you. >> first of all, can we all agree that every candidate going forward as we learned from al gore should just give their concession speech at the beginning of their campaign and on the stump every day because that's when people think that they're sort of at their most raw and genuine. but putting that aside, kirsten,

why didn't women voters pull hillary clinton across the finish line? >> they voted for a lot of the same reasons men voted. what we saw was more of a class and education difference between voters and so hillary clinton because she was the first woman and running against somebody who had offended women that that would be the driving force. but in the end, what ended up driving people was more their cultural concerns. so, if you look at white, working class women or white women without a college degree, i think that a lot of their concerns are the same concerns as their male counterparts. they didn't vote in the same numbers as white men without college degrees did for trump. but, nonetheless, i think that they have the same concerns. >> so, mary katherine, why wasn't having the first female president the same motivating factor that having the first african-american president was? >> i think because it was counterbalanced with a bunch of

baggage is one thing. i think the hillary clinton campaign hoped she was a symbol for a powerful womanhood and to many people she was. to the other people, she was a symbol of everything that is wrong with this washington, powerful, super rich structure that they don't feel is benefiting them. you cannot separate her from that part of her career. and she had trouble communicating to people because -- let's be honest. she is very far removed from a normal american life for quite a long time and many candidates are. i think barack obama was closer when he ran. so, he was better able to speak to that. and, so, i think it's just impossible to separate her from that past and her entire career. and become like sort of a clean symbol of just womanhood and people recognized that. >> so, go ahead, kirsten. >> i do think, first of all, it's hard to compare hillary with obama. obama is in a class of his own. whatever color, white, black, it doesn't really matter.

so, as a politician i think he connects with people. i think women are harder on each other, frankly. so, i think that, i think that plays into it that -- the cultural issues earlier is a lot of what we are seeing is you have a lot of people who, i think, rightly feel that there is this sort of elitist class of people who are looking down on them and, you know, as you know, women within sort of womenhood a battle between the professional woman and the college-educated professional woman and the working class stay at home mom or the stay at home mom. we see these fights going on all the time between women. not that surprising that there might be women who look at hillary and say, you know, that's just not what my life is like. i am not like you, i have a different life and different valus aval val val values and donald trump in his own way appeals to those values more. >> when it comes to that

division, in particular, this is a woman who made part of her debut on the national public stage on the line about baking cookies. i could have stayed home and baked cookies, but i got this career. >> that was a long time ago. >> they doubled down on it it in the past week of the campaign. in the online messaging in some of the ads they put out. i think beyonce referenced it in one of their rallies together. it was a misreading of how she should be a symbol for womanhood and that is a divisive thing and something that annoys many women who feel like, hey, i do stay at home and do these things and it doesn't mean i'm less. but that speaks to her skills as a candidate, which i don't think are that good. >> what conclusions can we draw moving forward because of hillary clinton's loss about the future of women in leadership? >> well, i don't think -- you know, hillary clinton is not, like mary katherine was saying, she came with a lot of baggage.

i don't know we can necessarily take away that every woman who ran for office would face what she faced. i have said before, however, that i think we have a double standard where we are willing to accept a male candidate who has no government experience, who isn't interested in policy and ready for debates and i don't think we would do that for a woman. i do think we need to reflect a little bit on that. i don't think we should have a double standard for men and women. but, hillary clinton is a really unique candidate and i think she brought a lot of things with her that very few other candidates would have, male or female. >> do you agree with the double standard theory, mary katherine? >> i think there is some of that at play. when you are talking about barack obama and hillary clinton and america as a whole. you are not going to completely remove issues of race and sexism from these calculations. but i do think, largely, if we read the electorate we were in this strange moment and hillary clinton is a very specific

candidate with a very specific history that people did not love and a lack of skills, frankly. and in the future, i think another woman could have a different kind of run. >> you know, my 11-year-old daughter was rooting against hillary clinton because she, my daughter, wants to be the first female president. so, i mean, there is a message in there not only about her lack of generosity, but also that she thinks it's possible. so, somehow maybe even just trying to become president and launching that campaign has taught little girls that it is possible. >> and another thing, hillary clinton, i don't think, would hate on that at all. she would applaud that ambition. another thing and this speaks to you, alisyn, my daughters, they have someone to look up to. if i can say that. and it doesn't necessarily rise and fall on the victory or defeat of one political candidate. and we shouldn't let it. >> there you go. >> great to talk to you. thanks so much. >> thank you.

we're following a lot of news this morning. let's get right to it. >> i will be president for all america. >> not my president! >> this loss hurts. but we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. >> donald trump heard a voice that no one else heard. >> dau >> donald trump has got to go! >> we are looking for success in uniting and leading the country. >> it is time for us to come together as one united people. this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisy camerato. up next, president-elect donald trump will travel to washington to meet with president obama to begin the transition of power. the oval office meeting at the white house is sure to be awkward, given the bad blood between these two men. both are calling on people to

unite around this pretentious election. we're seeing a very different picture playing out in cities across the country. largely in big cities. clinton turf protests. like what's on your screen right now. this is actually a good example. this is just blocking a highway. we saw worse examples. there were pockets of problems. people chanting, not my president. hopefully temporary blowing off of steam or proof of a larger movement at hand. let's begin our coverage with cnn athena jones live at the white house. athena. >> good morning, chris. these are two men that have said some not so nice things about each other. president obama has spent months saying that he didn't think trump would become president. now, he is set to become president and the focus shifts to this peaceful hand over of power. we know the president has talked abo abo about how much he appreciated the