attorney general will not allowt mueller to be appointed now. he has a republican senate and a republican house and supreme cof conserveives.. we will have to rely on the nond the good faith picks on his admn right, which is crucial. and i know, allie, you believe special counsel jackson, even though trump has medically, he will fire him, could come out with a full report, even though that case could go away. we will see if that will happen just for the historical record. so much as always to all of you for being with us on this historic day. our special election coverage continues now with anderson.

a live view of our nations capital, washington, d.c. as donald trump is preparing to return to the white house. the greatest hope of many republicans, and the worst fears of any democrats becoming a reality. this is the in and peschel coverage of election not in america continues, i am anderson cooper. >> tonight, we are all breaking down the implications of mr. trump's historic and sweeping presidential victory, a monumental shift in presidential politics and what it might mean for this country in four years. the former and future president getting a call today from vice president kamala harris officially conceding the election, setting the stage for a peaceful transition of power . mr. trump will assume the presidency for a second time with republicans in control of the u.s. senate, aiding his agenda . still undecided whether the gop will keep control in the majority of

the house of representatives, or whether democrats will win it back and get a check on the trump's administration power. we could get an update on that this evening. caleb collins and abby kennedy are covering every step of the defeat and what might happen next. first to kayla in west palm beach, florida near mar-a-lago . what is happening inside trump world nearly 24 hours after his historic victory? >> reporter: jake , things have been moving quick and moving very fast behind the scenes as donald trump himself has basically been on the phone all day long . i talked to people who have been around him who say, essentially his phone has been glued to his ear as he is having conversations, not just with tech leaders, republican allies, also world leaders have been making their phone calls, bracing for a trump return to the oval office and what that will look like. while he is on the phone, his aides have been working on the transition process and what a return to the white house will look like. i am told that what trump is

seeking to do in part of this is reward those who have been loyal to him over the last two years. his access to influence has changed greatly since he last left washington . he is going to be seeking to reward those people. people like elon musk, robert f. kennedy junior, how it let nick , and others. kristen holmes, we have been talking to sources all day about this at really what this process has light behind the scenes. it has almost been frantic to a degree as people are either talking for positions, or seeking to be an influence, also still processing that this race was decided as soon as it was. >> when it comes to people jockeying for positions, a lot of people i have talked to, people who have made pitches, even for themselves or themselves, have really been careful. they want to tiptoe around donald trump in ways that they are trying to say they want to serve him without looking like they want something. donald trump does not react well when people come to him saying, they want something. as you noted, there

are a lot of people in line to be rewarded by the former president because of their loyalty when others were not there, and because of on the campaign trail, elon musk, rfk junior. there was a lot of negotiating behind the scenes before he endorsed donald trump android dropped out of the race. what exactly he was promising to varied, depending on who you talk to. he obviously has said, he has been promised a cabinet vision or overseeing all of these health organizations. we have heard from your interview with howard, that is likely not possible. there are a lot of people seeking rewards and pitching themselves right now to donald trump, the wild, and those trying to get traction on a potential administration post. >> with the senate make of how it is, maybe it is possible now. obviously, these are a lot of outstanding questions they are trying to answer here in

palm beach, florida. >> let's go to abby phillip bakery here in washington, d.c. you covered vice president harris's concession speech today. she urged her supporters to accept the results and commit to a peaceful transfer of power. let's run a little bit of that. >> a fundamental principle of american democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results. that principle, as much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy, or tyranny. and anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it . at the same time, in our nation , we owe loyalty , not to a president , or a party , but to the constitution of the united states. and loyalty to our conscious , and to are about. >> abby tell us more about the vice president's message and what comes next. >> reporter: yeah, jake. this was a year of incredible consequential speeches for vice president harris . his speech that she delivered today is certainly one of them. this was

her moment to speak to thousands at howard university, her alma mater , where they gathered last night hoping for the best and that night ended not the way she wanted, or any of them wanted . and she was speaking to millions of americans who now, frankly, feel lost . this was a speech that was about fundamentally the path forward . the key part, jacob, what she said was that, she conceived the race, but she does not concede the ideas of her campaign effectively. now, the question becomes , what does the democratic party do? what role does kamala harris have in it? and you are here with me here in washington, as we have been covering the last 24 , 36 hours for harris and her aides. it has been incredible whiplash . she had a really tough job tonight, which was to capture the anger , the fear, the

confusion , and move people into a forward-looking posture , as they face what she has been telling them is going to be an existential threat to the country. >> abby it was so extraordinary. this is a speech obviously she did not want to give. concession speeches are not ones candidates like to give. they do not always come. she did appear at howard university to her supporters. the motion there, we could see tears in the eyes of the porters. neglect that was so extraordinary to see. so many of these people, young women , for whom this is probably their first election. it was a woman, a black woman . there was deep heartbreak there she was speaking to. >> it absolutely was. talking to people in the crowd, there was a difference of reaction between the young people and people who had seen this before in 2016. there were so many memories of the that. this was a very different race, such an accelerated race . i was struck

by she said, i know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, i hope that is not the case. she was as optimistic as possible, also pretty real. the reality is, she has 75 more days to be serving in the white house behind us. she is the vice president, i am told, she will go about her day job, but also she will be focusing on her future. we do not know what that is. as of now, she is as much the leader of this credit party, as is anyone. i think she exit this race with her head held fairly high as we begin sort of deciphering what happened. it is not all on her. it is on the party. it is on president biden to me without question. >> picking up president biden, he will be entering the conversation tomorrow as he speaks in the rose garden and addresses the american people tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m., jake. that will also be for president biden, one of his final moments to really speak to what the country is about to face in the next four years as a change of administration

happens here in washington, once again. >> indeed . abby and jeff, thanks so much. cnn cannot project that the vice president kamala harris will win the state of maine, and three of the state's four electoral votes. a lot like nebraska, it rewards according to the congressional district, that is why donald trump is picking up the one boat , by winning maine's second congressional district, that brings mr. trump's electoral votes as of this hour 292, vice president harris's total as of now 226. there are a number of states that remain uncalled as of now. let's talk about the vice president's concession speech. i want to play a little more and get your reaction. >> to the young people who are watching, it is okay to feel sad and disappointed, but please know that it is going to be okay. on the campaign, i would often say, when we fight, we win. but here's the thing here's the thing , sometimes, the fight takes a while. that

does not mean we won't win. >> that is a nice concept , what she is saying, in comforting words. they are not the same words that we heard from her and her allies as we lead into election night , in which she was called a fascist, this will be the end of democracy. i think oprah said something along the lines of, this might be the last vote we cast, et cetera. >> this is somebody who is trying to obviously hold up the people who voted for her, perhaps hold out the possibility that she could try to get on the ballot again. she just turned 60 years old. but also, i think that you sort of mentioned this at the top of the show, and i believe it bears repeating, that broadly, the fact that she even gave this speech shouldn't be noteworthy , but it is. it is noteworthy , because we haven't heard a concession speech , we did not hear it four years ago, when donald

trump lost the election. i remember being with john mccain when he gave his concession speech back in 2008. it was one of those genuinely , sort of heartfelt speeches , and it did help , at least we thought, try to heal the country me as things change to different reasons . but i think what you are getting at here, jake, is that, she is saying the right things , but it is also very clear that the democratic party she is talking about is it really clear what it is after last night's election. >> i just want to push back on this idea. i know it has been said a few times, what is our future, and that she is the leader of the democratic party. she is not the leader of the democratic party. my experience, and in doing this for a long time is, parties don't like looters losers. they particularly don't like a loser that is letting donald trump back into the white

house. there have been many more, beloved losers in either party, i think of someone like walter mondale, who had a lot more credibility in the democratic party then kenneth harris ever had. kamala harris, she has said a lot during the campaign is, we need to turn the page. i don't think that democrats-- they can't wait to turn the page on joe biden and kamala harris , because frankly, this is going to be seen now as a failed presidency . and with the boat, the only rate wait to read the boat for the majority of americans did not like the way the biden/harris administration ran this country and they want to see something different for democrats. >> the 2024 republican party did embrace a loser just for the note, and he became a winner again. you are talking about turning the page . on monday night, david, senior advisor to the harris campaign

said, he thought harris could win all seven states. earlier today, he wrote, quote, it was a privilege to spend the last couple of days with kamala harris, and campaign staff led by general major dylan, who left it all . we dug out of the deep hole, but not enough . a devastating loss. thanks for being in the arena, all of you. dug out of a deep hole is implicitly a slam on joe biden. >> yeah. i think it is even more than implicitly. explicitly. they are very clear about that. and we don't know . it is an unknown whether or not joe biden would have done much worse . maybe new jersey, which was a lot closer than democrats expected, even though the democrats won, maybe that for example would have gone for donald trump and not joe biden. but despite what david fluff is saying today, it is understandable that he is trying to maybe clean things up a little bit , we heard yesterday from the democrats ,

the harris campaign, and the republicans in the trump campaign, the same thing. our data shows that we are doing well, we are closing will , we will be good, and only one of the campaigns was right with their data but that was the trump campaign. >> there is no question that there was a deep hole, and it was the whole that joe biden, with his policies on inflation, the economy, foreign policy, and immigration dug for the party. this idea that joe biden would have won closer to donald trump than kamala harris. >> made the joe biden of 2020. >> not the joe biden of june 28th, after the debate. the question i think people will ask is, if he had stepped out after the midterm, a very successful midterm , and throw the party open to a full nomination process , first of

all, i don't think it would have been kamala harris, it would have been somebody else, and could they have beaten donald trump, we will never know. i think that is the only sensible question you can ask your treatment if it had been, carrots, it would've been a much more strong in battle tested kamala harris who had won the primary. i understand your skeptic skepticism. what are those campaign promises, we will take a deep dive into what a second campaign will look like, that is next.

you are watching cnn's special live coverage of donald trump's historic victory. tonight, the former president vowing to keep his promises from the campaign trail. his criminal conviction, paul reed is here with the details. what are you learning, pollock? >> speaking with sources, i am told that trump's legal team will try and get his upcoming sentencing in new york following his conviction on 34 counts of fraud, they are going to get that canceled. historically, they have tried to get things delayed or pushed back . here, i am told, they are going to argue with the court. as president-elect, trump is entitled to the same sections as a sitting resident and should be protected from state actors, including prosecutors. the judge here, judge juan mershon , has given

himself a november 12 deadline to decide if this conviction should be tossed because of the supreme court's community ruling this past summer. there will not be a sentencing, but i am told the trump team will continue to fight to make sure this is not just delayed, but that this never happens. >> paula reid, thank you very much. kristen holmes has a report from west palm beach. what are you hearing about the second term and the transition that is already underway? >> donald trump has made a series of promises for the last two years. some of them, people are wondering, how exactly he is going to get done. >> reporter: president-elect donald trump already has a lengthy to do list. >> promises made, promises kept, we are going to keep our promises. >> reporter: thomas is made during his campaign, starting with immigration . >> we have got to have the largest mass deportation efforts in history . >> going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will

not receive automatic u.s. citizenship. >> reporter: vowing to immediately go after millions of undocumented immigrants, calling for a ban on sanctuary city's, a death penalty for human traffickers, and to reinstate his travel ban on people entering the u.s. for predominantly muslim countries. >> i will send congress a bill to ban sanctuary cities in the first day that i become president. i will immediately restore and expand the trump travel ban on entry from terrorist led countries. >> reporter: on the economy-- trump has promised a massive tariffs on foreign goods, despite economy saying, american consumers are likely to pay the price, as well as ending and cutting specific taxes. >> my plan will massively cut taxes for workers, and small businesses, and we will have no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social

security benefits for our seniors. >> reporter: trump has claimed he can end the conflict in the middle east and the russian, ukraine war immediately. >> we will take care of israel they know that. i will stop the chaos in the middle east, and prevent world war iii from happening. before i even arrive at the oval office, shortly after i went win the presidency, we, we win the presidency, i will have the horrible war between russia and ukraine totally settled. >> reporter: while not offering any explanation of how. he has made commitments on changing the education system. >> on day one, i will sign an executive order, banning schools from promoting critical race theory, or transgender. i will close the department of education and move education back to the states. >> reporter: trump has also promised to go after his perceived political enemies. >> to those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the

united states of america, joe biden. and the entire biden crime family. >> reporter: including firing special counsel jack smith . >> i will fire him within two seconds. >> reporter: trump has also made promises to those prosecuted for their actions on january 6th . >> will you pardon the january 6th rioters who were convicted of federal offenses? >> i am inclined to pardon many of them. i can't say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control. >> reporter: i like some of the republicans, trump has stated, he does not want a national abortion ban. >> no, i am not in favor of an abortion ban . it does not matter because this issue has been taken over by the state. >> reporter: this could implement new restrictions without passing a federal law. right now, anderson, what is going on is that the transition, the wheels are already in motion. the people

who would put these laws or these kind of policies into place, they are currently meeting with transition officials, likely going to meet with former president donald trump, or president-elect donald trump, and will be put into positions of power to actually implement the things that donald trump has promised. >> kristin, thanks very much. here with the team in new york, david let me start with you. how do you think this transition, and what do you think they learned in the first transition they will implement in this transition? >> they have already signed the lease for gsa. that is a start. that is all mechanical part of this that takes place in terms of getting people into place, getting fbi files, people starting to get vetted. if you look, there's a book called the plum book, 4000 scheduled c jobs that need to be filled from lower-level policies, and cabinet secretaries. it is a daunting task. what howard lutnick has been doing is trying to assemble an a list of

people to be submitted to the president and his team, this close advisor , group of advisors, kind of go through that and it is like collecting baseball cards when you are a kid, got it, need it, got it, need it. and they will figure out who they want to interview, interview, and that those folks and the president will finally pick. >> someone done for the project 2025 thing, do you think-- democrats made a lot out of it. >> i am not disagreeing. american first policy, if you are going to look at an organization that has as much credibility within, and standing within this group, the american first policy institute-- >> that was a group i think it started just a couple of years ago. >> trump administration exiled. a lot of people and their critical folks have been working on things, critical things. if you want to look and go to a website and see what might look like a trump administration, brooke rollins ran it with them with mcmahon, credible folks there working. that is probably as much of a

blueprint i have got. >> now cochair. >> yes, hope cochair with howard lutnick. they will be crowding these positions and the notion it will be filled with crazy people i think exhale, van , it is going to be okay. the big issues, who will be the chief of staff, the president, the white house counsel, attorney general? those are probably the most significant jobs. >> are you confident that they can find responsible people who want to work with him? >> a couple of things , i think they will be able to move much quicker. they know how to staff these roles. they have this administration, waiting with these various outside groups. i was a little heartened by some of the folks involved in the transition. robert light housing, worked in the previous trump administration, john ratcliffe. these are serious people, they start in positions of government. they are policy minded . i think the senior tier will be people at least could credibly get through senate confirmation . i think it is the next tier of people

who don't have to go through the same level of vetting, that he will see folks go in that will make people uncomfortable and west wings, in cabinets, people who in these second-tier roles have a lot of power. i am curious about this, though, the schedule f executive order . i saw it when i was there. they were ready to do it at the end of the last trump administration. that would have basically made all civil servants fire at will me so trump would have way more firepower to put his loyalists into those roles here that is where it becomes incredibly complicated and i think risky when you're talking about pandemic preparedness and disaster management, all of these things that require decades of expertise. >> this is nothing, steve bannon has been talking about this for a long time, basically politicizing what our civil service positions, bringing them under tote. they call it the assault and the deep state, it is an assault on people who are confident and have expertise in different areas. one thing that was mentioned in kristin's peace, was ending

the war in ukraine in 24 hours. i woke up this morning to the washington post. it said, the u.s. adversaries rejoice, russian officials appeared giddy at the news of trump's victory. kamala is finished, former russian president dmitry medvedev wrote on x, q cackling infectiously . that did not make me feel good. >> when we say adversaries, you mean our enemies, the enemies of america. >> just reading from "the post." >> you are saying the enemies of america are happy. basically, when you start an administration, it is like a startup. got to hire a bunch of people. there is a process for doing that. the people have to go before the senate. even just public embarrassment, those people are usually halfway decent. as you start drilling down, the people, i called them the b team, the people that will be there every single day, 6:00 in the morning, midnight, their judgment matters. their

judgment and discretion matters. with a call on matters. there are a layer of people that are frightened that are lining up to come into the government. the difference now, when trump went in the first time, it felt like a fluke, and some people were afraid to go. this historic level of victory for trump , when he gets the white house, the senate, possibly the house, the electoral college, the popular vote, everybody will be willing to go and serve . he could pick from the best of the best, but the worst of the worst are lining up. that is what is concerning. >> let's go back to jake. >> we have more unfinished business cnn can project that donald trump will be the winner of the state of alaska with its three electoral votes. donald trump went alaska , as you can see on the board there, that only leaves nevada and arizona not called, as of now. donald trump's big win last night of

course smashed the democratic coalition. we will dig into our exit poll data to clues on where some people are shifting with trump . plus, we will track outstanding contest in the fight for the control of the house of representatives. stay with us.

welcome back. election night in america continues. right now, we continue to track all of the reaction of donald trump's stunning victory over vice president kamala harris. let's get deeper into some of the exit poll data. if you're looking at how some of the traditionally democratic voting groups shifted toward donald trump, tell us about that. >> key demographics where we see a shift toward donald trump, latino voters, the one that jumped up off the page of the exit polls. harris won latino votes 42% to 46%, a six percentage point advantage. they make up about 12% of the electorate. joe biden years ago had a 33% point advantage over latino voters. trump increase the support by 14 points. take a look among young voters. here is with them 52% to 43%. she is an 11 point advantage there.

this was a much bigger advantage than joe biden four years ago. looking at those who earn less than $100,000 a year, trump wins these voters 50% to 46% . they are 60% of the electorate. 6 out of 10 voters earned less than $100,000 a year. biden won these by 13 points four years ago. trump flipped it, he went by four. independent voters, 34% of the electorate . that is a big increase in the share of the electorate that says they are independent. it was only a quarter four years ago. there is wins them for the nine to 46, a three-point margin. biden won them by 13 points. trump narrows the margin with independence by 10 points from four years ago from last night, jake. john king at the magic wall. >> david lays out all the progress trumpeted with demographic groups, this is how

it is on the map. his presidential race by county. 4100 something counties and townships across the united states of america . you can look at statewide, red states and blue states, if you look at it, one of the conversations democrats will have after the election, maybe we should stop calling this flyover country. hard-working americans, david just noted, people that make less than $100,000 to you. they have had a lot of time to understand and communicate with these people. i want to follow-up with points david just made and ask a question, he was talking about trump's growth among latino voters. these are counties across the country with a hispanic relation of 30% or more. that is what you are seeing on the map now. you see some in florida , but mostly as you come into the southwest. if they are blue, harris won them, if they are red, trump won them. democrats have been saying for years, we are going to make texas competitive, make texas blue . look at all of

these counties where the hispanic population is 30% or more, carried by donald trump in the state of texas people at home are saying, texas is republican. don't make a big deal about that. let's move on to mexico. still a blue state. not narrow margin than in the past. look at trump when he counties where the population is 30% or more. i want to bring david in on this point, coming over here, this is arizona, a battleground state, we haven't called it yet, but he is leading. pima county, a bee county, tucson, second largest in the state below maricopa county. here is wins with 31%. look at the difference. trump gets a little points. and you come to the border, santa cruz county at the border. trump against biden, 32% if you round up there, and bam, up to 40% . it is the growth among these latino voters in arizona, in nevada that are making those battleground states trending his way, at least in this cycle. you see it in other

places as well, it makes the republican coalition or, stronger, whiter wider . >> a part of what is delivering this popular vote, this big electoral majority, is that he is losing places by less. even though he is losing there, he is losing by less than he is doing that all over the country. in arizona specifically, where you are, he increased his share of the latino boat, he increased by five percentage both four years ago. segment that is enormous. before i come back, the flipside, i come back to the national map and let's bring in these counties . you are looking here at hispanic populations of 30% or more. now, i will bring in the other big thing we know trumpeted yesterday, cutting into what is traditionally democratic base. this is the african american population. this will slide out of the way in just a second. you can see in these counties, this is where the african american population is 30% or more. you can see a lot of red on the map. let's go into georgia and bring it out. donald trump when he counties

where the african american population is 30% or more. it used to being the math worked this way, 30% or more of the black population is a foundation for the democrats, and you've got to get to 50. donald trump is proving again, at least in this election, his coalition is expanding and the democrats need to go to school and figure out what happened here. >> in addition to the white house, the republican party also picked up the u.s. senate. joining us next, the republican senator vying for majority leader. florida's rick scott is standing by. election night in america continues, and the magic wall is brought to you by aura . it may be a big day, but your health matters every day. track your sleep, activity, stress, and heart health with aura.

welcome back to election night in america continue tonight. former president donald trump is preparing for his return to washington after nearly 4 years in political exile . the white house is set. let's dive into the balance of power on capitol hill. republicans we know will take control of the u.s. senate. the outcome of the u.s. house of representatives remains

uncertain at this hour. boris sanchez is looking at where we stand. >> reporter: the house is still up for grabs, but things are trending in a specific direction . i will explain in a moment. let's look at the state of play, the balance of power in the u.s. house. democrats hold with pickups. 36 seats remain yet to be determined. you need 218 for control of the chambers. you can see republicans only about 10 feet away. when it comes to democrats trying to take control of the chamber, let's talk the magic number that they need. right now, democrats need eight republican seats . they need to flip eight republican seats to take control of the chamber and are currently leading in four republican districts. that is not really an indicator of a full picture, because republicans are currently leading in two seats where democrats hold that district . really, it is a net gain of two seats for democrats far below the eight they would need. let's look at key race alerts to show you where things stand in two very important

races. first, new york's fourth district in long island, a district won by double digits in 2020. the supervisor has a lead of about 6000 votes against incumbent republican congressman anthony d esposito. he's a former nypd detective. 92% of the vote in that district in new york. the democrat in the lead, poised to potentially flip it. the opposite is true in alaska's at-large district. here, yep republican nick daggett, currently leading against democratic congresswoman, a freshman, the first native alaskan to ever serve in the u.s. congress . she actually won two years ago in large part because alaska has ranked choice voting . she went up against two republicans who have effectively canceled each other out . now, only going against one republican. 11,000 votes 71% of the vote in alaska. >> with republicans taking the u.s. senate and mitch mcconnell, current republican leader stepping down as the

senate republican leader there is not a major job opening . we are diving into who is hoping to succeed the kentucky senator and carry out trump's agenda on capitol hill. >> that is right. the majority at least will be 52-48 , it could be up to 54-46, depending on how the nevada and pennsylvania races shakeup. let's look at the three candidates who are fighting for one of the most powerful jobs in washington to be the senate majority leader. one of them is senator john, the current number two of the republican and he has been in the senate since 2005. he did back tim scott, republican senator for president. a bit of a fraud relationship with trump for some time. he is also facing against senator john cornyn a two time chair of the seat senate gop campaign himself. it used to be number two in that position . he spent years trying to build a fund-raising apparatus , pouring millions of

dollars into his potential votes, his colleague's campaign accounts over the many years. the question is, will that ultimately helped him get the votes at the end of the day. there is a third candidate in this race, senator rick scott. he just won reelection last night to a second term in florida. former senate gop campaign chairman himself, trying to align himself with being the trump candidate in this race. he did back trump before the iowa caucuses. he has seen a bit of more of a longshot in this race, jake. this race, typically you win by relationship building within the united states senate . he's one of the favorites, a secret ballot race that takes place a week for from today. joining us now is that longshot, republican senator rick scott of florida . congratulations on your reelection, senator. have you talked with president-elect trump, a constituent of yours about wanting to be the leader of the senate? >> absolutely. first off, jake, when you did my debate back in the 2014 race , we have doubled

our votes . we got 6 million votes this time, we had about 3.1 last time, nearly 6 million this time. we won over 1 million votes. this state is clear the red. the hispanic vote, in which you have just been talking about, rarely was the game changer. i've been working to make sure we win the hispanic vote. we won miami by 10 points. we won primarily puerto rican, which we won that. all the major cities, except for one. i put a lot of effort into making sure we get the hispanic vote. i think we did it because they know that republicans are going to help them . in my case, i always talk about living the dream of this country. we all need to do it, no matter the color of your skin. i think lord has become the center of the republican party in the country. i think the rest of the country can learn a lot about what we've done in florida. with regard to

the senate majority leader race, i think i will win, because i am talking to my colleagues about what they want . here's what they want, they want change. they want to be a part of the process. they want to be treated as equals. they want somebody who has a relationship with trump. they want somebody that has a plan . i want somebody that has a relationship with the house. i've got a great working relationship with donald trump. he supported me when i ran back against mcconnell two years ago. and i think that they want somebody who is going to get things done. business guys, i'm a business guy . we get stuff done. >> is donald trump supporting you in your race for majority leader? >> we will see what he does . he has been very supportive of me when i ran before. i've been talking to him, we will see. he has to get through his race first. we will see if he engages. my colleagues want change. they want to be a part of the process. they know that donald trump has got a great mandate . they want that to happen .

>> let me ask you, donald trump, as you know, and i don't mean this in a pejorative sense, is not the most patient individual in the world. i think he is going to be frustrated if republicans continue to allow the filibuster , because as of right now , there are not 60 republican votes , which means that if the filibuster exists, i know you know this, but for the folks at home, a minority, the senate minority of democrats will be able to block legislation , including the massive deportation process that donald trump wants to happen, and on and on. are you committed to keeping the filibuster? mitch mcconnell said earlier today that the filibuster should stay . >> i believe in the filibuster . the way you get things done in the senate, you talk to people here and i've been up there six years. the republicans and democrats

don't talk to each other. we've got to say, what is our agenda? we have to be clear with our agenda. i have done deals all my life. the way i got deals done is i said, what would you like to have happen? let's see if we can find common ground . that is what we have to start doing. we have to have somebody that will run the senate, that will work with republicans, democrats and find common ground to get things done. >> senator thank you so much and congratulations on your reelection. president donald trump says, he was rfk junior to go wild on healthcare. is it a good idea to give some of you know so little about vaccines, science, and healthcare a key role in vaccines and science , and health policy? the ending's own health expert dr. sanjay gupta will weigh in next.

back with cnn's coverage of election night in america continues. one president trump's most vocal allies, robert f. kennedy junior, who he says, he will quote, let go wild on the medicines. kennedy was pushing vaccine signs, has a lot of

influence and exactly what his role will be is unclear. today said, he will immediately, those were his words, begin studying vaccine safety. i want to bring in dr. sanjay gupta . what are you hearing from experts in the health and medical community about the idea of rfk junior having a role in all of this? >> it is a diverse community. they don't usually speak with one monolithic voice . i think with regard to vaccines, people are in pretty much universal agreement here that some of his comments really stand the possibility of rewinding lots of decades , generations really, of public health advances . that is a real concern . the challenge is, at the same time, he says things that there is a lot of agreement on, the make america healthy again movement , he's not the first person to talk about this, anderson . the idea that in the united states, we spent 4 1/2 trillion dollars on healthcare and have some of the worse health outcomes in the developed world is true .

again, he is not the first person to bring this up. those are true statements. a lot of those negative impacts can be attributed to food. 70% of chronic disease in this country probably related to how we nourish ourselves. we are spending all of this money, creating this disease and trying to fix it. he makes a lot of good points . might he be able to get something done in that area, we are not sure. with the vaccines, i think there's the universal agreement among medical professionals, he has said some really dangerous things in the past. >> rfk junior's office says, he is not anti-backs. i want to play something he said today. >> i have never been anti-vaccine. i will make sure the scientific safety studies and advocacy are out there and people can make their individual assessments about whether that product is going to be good for them. >> do you buy that? >> look, i have covered him for

a long time. frankly, it is difficult to sort of pin him down for me because he says two things that are almost the exact opposite. he did this interview with kasie hunt a few months ago. listen to this and i will explain at the end. >> can you name any vaccines that you think are good? >> i think some of the live virus vaccines are probably solving many more problems than they are causing. there is no vaccine that is safe and effective . >> so you did say it, do you still believe it? >> here is what i would say. first of all, i am not anti-vaccine . >> how is that statement not anti-vaccine? >> i can say now, there is no medicine for cancer that has taken effect, that does not mean i am no medicine, what i want is vaccines that are proven safe. >> i mean, you heard that .

i'm not exactly sure what that means. i am not anti-vaccine, but i don't think there are any vaccines that are safe and effective. i don't know what to make of it and i think it is hard to pin him down. we have been reporting on him a long time. first of all, vaccines are tested for safety and efficacy before they are licensed and approved ultimately by the fda. there is a whole process that is very similar to any other drug. they go through these trials . with vaccines in particular, like with covid vaccines in particular, you billions of people that have taken them around the world. you have a lot of post-market data, meaning, you follow people over time. he continues to talk about the link between vaccines and autism. he just did an interview in june, where he says again, he believes vaccines cause autism. it is confusing . to be clear, there have been these youth huge studies, when i say huge, hundreds of thousands of kids around the world who have followed for more than a

decade, kids vaccinated, kids who have not been vaccinated, followed along and said, are there increased levels of autism in those that have been vaccinated, the answer is, no. this has been a widely studied thing. people were concerned, so they studied it for 15, 20 years worth of data . one study came out in 2018 that said, kids that were not vaccinated may have actually been more likely to be on the autism spectrum. that has been studied, it was raised . you and i talked many years ago, the first person to really raise that. it has been debunked to me but he continues to bring this up. we don't know what causes autism, but we know that vaccines don't, anderson. >> dr. sanjay gupta we appreciate it. our coverage continues just ahead. a new presidency and a new

era of uncertainty. dramatically changing priorities at the highest level of power. election it in america continued. i am anderson cooper. tonight donald trump's transition team is beginning to set up shop for the president - elect 's return for years after he left in defeat and in view of his opponents in disgrace. the political landscape changed overnight by the overwhelming victory that-- by the victory that expanded the number of red states and broke through the blue wall. after a deeply divisive and unpredictable campaign. caitlin collins is anchored in west palm beach tonight. let's talk about the transition process. >> something that happened in 2016 is that the trump team did not quite feel ready to go on day one. some of the earliest

executive orders including the travel ban faced big legal challenges in courts and often sloppy rollout processes. i'm told they are going to try to change that this time around right now they have already in drafted policies they want to implement on day one as well as reversals on regulations that have been put in place by the biden administration. we saw that happening to a degree when biden first took office. he was reversing a lot of the work that donald trump did by executive order. expect to see that on day one of the second term and the question is who is doing that for him? when it comes to staffing as he referenced there are already thousands of people lined up for potential jobs in the question is who picks for those positions. palm beach is teeming with staffers who are here and a lot of them were here last night at his election night party at mar-a-lago and changed or delayed travel plans for last night's victory and decided to stick around because

that's how quickly they believe he can make these decisions. christian holmes is with me and i am hearing he could be making some of these decision within days. obviously these high-level positions will have a big influence on what his terms look like and the process and the way they are approaching this. >> some of these people sat down to have conversations about what they would be interested in, the cochairs of the transition team and what position they may be interested in. trump did not really want to be taking seriously any kind of transition because of the fact that he is so superstitious but we want to talk about one position that will likely be one of the most important positions in the administration which is the attorney general. executive orders and what donald trump wants to do on day one, the other thing he wanted to do for quite some time is yield an enormous amount of executive power and in doing that that would be taking the justice department under the executive branch but technically has operated historically, as an independent entity and moved it

underneath the executive so he would have so much more power. that means that one of the more critical jobs in this administration will be attorney general because that person will work hand-in-hand with donald trump and some of the names we are hearing floated is texas attorney general ken paxton. senator mike lee. mark paulette up. matt whitaker a former trump attorney. these are people whose names are being floated right now at another part of why this is critical, will likely be responsible for getting rid of or releasing those cases against him particularly january 6, they want to get rid of. >> we were at the mar-a-lago watch party last night and saw him there . j.d. vance said something that struck me about six weeks ago and said it may be a more important position than the vice president which is a heart away from the presidency. he says that's how they are viewing that role in terms of the importance they are talking about. he viewed it

as more important in his first attorney general, he was so angered by him in his decisions and it is something trump will give a lot of thought to. >> and bill bar. one of his biggest regrets obviously turned on him after he was denying the election. bill bar said it was because he was lying but this is something he was putting a lot of consideration into. to give you a preview into what is ahead for this transition. >> thank you very much. back with the team in new york. it is interested when people cycle out of donald trump's orbit and sort of come back into it. something happens or-- >> you are never dead in trump world. >> steve bannon has come and

gone, bill bar, and these others. >> good thing as a president he doesn't hold a grudge, i guess. >> how different do you think the set up of the administration will be this time compared to last time? >> i think it will start out much stronger this time. last time as alyssa was talking about earlier there's a lot of chaos at the beginning and a lot of sniping and backbiting. you remember a lot of leaking in the beginning and this campaign as others have noted, was run completely professionally. no leaking, very tight, and i would suspect that that kind of operational move into the white house as some of the campaign team moves into the white house. susie is the chief of staff and i would not suspect any leaks or they will be exiled. she is a no-nonsense person . and this team is a cohesive team. you have to not like each other to start leaking and that's what

causes it. competing camps and factions and trying to gain an advantage over others. the campaign team got along very well, they knew the order, no one was trying to kill each other and get ahead. no one's fighting for headlines. nobody is getting more twitter followers or social media so they are behind-the-scenes, low-profile the very effective. >> let's be clear, the biggest leaker is donald trump himself. so there's a limit to what you can control . the conversation we just heard on the attorney general's office, our government functions because of norms and the integrity of the positions not to abuse the use positions and one of trump's frustrations as has been reported is that the attorney general acted as sort of guard rails and told him what he couldn't do. we keep hearing

will he didn't go after his political enemies. not for lack of trying. there are people who said no, you can't do that. so the people on the regulatory agencies and so on, this could really change how the government works and putting in the leverage to not only punish the enemies but to pressure people and bring them to heal and it really bears watching. >> and investigations, it's unlikely. >> it would be more likely you would have republican members of the house investigating adversaries but other people that were floated were people i worked with in the first term. mark pena letter , clarence thomas worked for him. he was council to mike hence but also stayed close to donald trump.

there are people who may be highly partisan but worked in white house is before agencies and may have the ability to start on day one. i don't think people appreciate how much the six months of the administration was, where's the bathroom? where do you sick? that is not there. there are plans ready to go, people ready to staff it. i'm surprised there is not more sitting elected officials. >> there are a lot of house members and high-level positions. if you are a un ambassador, a nato ambassador -- these are good jobs. many would say out like to be secretary of the navy or the army. there are great jobs with people who are incredibly capable and trump loyalists. >> ken paxton the attorney general of texas is a guy who

has had a series of legal problems. he put the attorney general's together to try to overturn the election in pennsylvania in 2020 . >> for what it's worth i'm not sure that he is on the short list. >> i think you have to keep your eyes on the national security space. who will actually be running the national security apparatus of the american government in the second term? it has almost always been nonpartisan. career people. that's not what we saw listed and they have to get through some confirmations. >> the people doing the -- when you have toasty gabbard -- tulsi gabbard who is a friend of mine but her view on ukraine is not the same as i have. it will shock a lot of americans in the national security context, abandoning democracy against russia is on the table. but i don't think we should whistle past the graveyard.

what david axelrod is saying should be taken seriously by everybody listening. a lot of people don't understand there is a reason why we do things a certain way. there's a reason you do not have the department of justice, the top in the country sitting directly under the president doing whatever he says. there's a reason you want the top cops to be separate so they can enforce the law and can prosecute fairly. the very thing that donald trump was accusing biden of, that he weaponize the department of justice and was seeking federal cops on to people. it's what donald trump actually wants to do. i'm sure his own son would have been prosecuted by the doj. so biden for whatever you think about what happened with the prosecution of donald trump was a firewall there between biden and those cops. that may go away. we have never lived in that country. the reason that we have these norms is because richard nixon actually abused those things . america learned

a tough lesson so i think it's important. it's good for us to understand the balls and strikes but the game is changing. >> let's just wait and see. >> i've seen a few attorney general's come and go. >> and the fbi director pick these are big jobs and big positions unless it points to that tomorrow , these are serious adults taking over for the constitution of the united states . >> you've got good folks mentioned. >> honestly as an american , given what donald trump has said and given what we know he has said privately, this bears watching. >> i don't disagree with you. from your perspective, and this

is what oversight is about generally in the house in congress . >> but this is my point. here's the scary part. you are doing a good job of making sure people stay calm the people are not calm. if people are not calm they are not calm because donald trump was not calm for a long time on the campaign trail saying something scary and now you are looking at a possible one-party rule with no checks and balances and it sounds like he wants to use the doj in a bad way. >> to get plenty of bad guys, we've got so many things we can accomplish to make it better. we are talking about deporting illegal immigrants across the border. we talked about this before, the administration did a great job on it. i'd like to see the trump administration deport the 350,000-- >> but viewers in the last couple of weeks like rfk junior, he's not going to be secretary of hhs because he never passed confirmation and

he can pass confirmation now. >> he could but i don't think he's going to be passing now. i don't think that rfk junior wants to be the secretary. it is an incredibly nuts and bolts kind of job. a health care czar gets to sit over lots of things and talk about vaccines and childhood diabetes and healthcare spending. we spend the most healthcare of any country in the world and have the most results of any country. >> for what it's worth, west wing advisors in many ways are as powerful as cabinet secretaries. it's the last person in the air who can get things in front of him so having this floating, undefined role in the ear of the president without the oversight and confirmation-- >> it's harder to move the leverage . >> you are the cabinet secretary. >> still ahead much more of special coverage. we will get

the shot thoughts of congresswoman nancy mays of what is ahead.

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coverage election night in america continued. tonight donald trump's once unthinkable come back is shaking up the entire political landscape. we are joined again with more on exit polling. david, so interesting what happened this election and you have more information about male voters and how they really were key to propelling the victory. tell us more. >> no doubt about it. you heard about the manosphere and the way he was messaging and it paid off. trunk it's 55% to harris's 42%. the gender gap the 13 - point advantage swamped the 8 - point advantage that harris had with women. look among young voters. 18 young male voters, 18 - 29-year-old men, trump wins them by two points in the selection. 49% - 47%. biden won by double digits just four years ago. trump flipped it around now winning young male voters. take a look at the

latino vote among men. mail latino voters. trump get 55% of that vote. harris 43%. that 12 - point advantage for years ago jake, this category was a 23 point advantage for biden. it's a 35 point swing with latino men for trump over biden four years ago and black men performed roughly where they were four years ago. harris wins 77% of black men and trump 21%, a slightly more narrow margin than existed between trump and biden four years ago. >> thank you so much david. joining us now nancy mays of south carolina . first of all congresswoman, congratulations on your reelection. i want to ask you about the numbers you just saw, trump winning men under 30 years old. based on your time campaigning in south carolina and your district, what do you think is the reason behind that flip for men under 30?

>> well i think attacking male voters, we saw that by some on the far left and i think he gave them a voice but the other thing about the gender gap, i read cnn before i came on your show tonight jake, while kamala won women she won by a smaller and tighter margin so there's a different gender gap so to speak, but we need to work as republican -- as republicans to win women over next time as well. >> one of his top priorities he says is importing all undocumented immigrants, not just those who have committed violent crimes but everyone here illegally. it may be 20 million, 25 million. should the trump administration deport every undocumented immigrant in the country? >> in fact i have a bill that we passed in support with over 50 democrats, the violence

against women by illegal aliens act and i do support deportation of those are here illegally and more importantly, we need to have some way to incentivize legal immigration. my district and my state, we need workers here on visas but we want them to come here legally so how do we move forward and do that and incentivize legal immigration? that's going to be the big question but i would like to start with deporting those who are the most violent. those who are pedophiles or murderers, those should be the first ones to go so let's figure out a way to incentivize people to come here legally. >> i'm not going to beat you on the issue of the violent people obviously, but what about the people who are here illegally and they are the ones working in kitchens and restaurants and , they are housekeepers, doing landscaping. they are otherwise peaceful contributors to society. they pay their taxes even , et cetera et cetera. do

they get rounded up and deported ? you talk about legal immigration for individuals. do they have to go back to their home country and come back in? how is it going to work? because obviously 25 million people, that's a lot of people and it will have an impact on the economy . just explained to me how you envision it working and whether congress , assuming the republicans keep control, will support a move to deport all of them. >> right. will i'm not going to speak for president trump and how he wants to do it but i will say this, yes we need workers in this country that our visa program is broken. we have these arbitrary caps on visas. my district relies on seasonal workers from other countries but we have these

arbitrary caps that limit the number of workers we can bring in. and they are seasonal. they come here for three, six, nine months, go home and reapply again. that system is broken and we need to fix that system and allow more workers to get on the worker visa program and come here legally, work, reapply as needed however the program works. with deportation i'm going to tell you, i mean trump not only won the electoral college but won the popular vote so far as we can see and it looks like most americans are okay with the policy of deporting those who are here illegally. get in line like everyone else who came here legally, do it the right way and let's get it done. that's what most people in this country want . immigration was on the ballot, women's issues are on the ballot and they overwhelmingly chose trump. >> we did see abortion -related referenda pass in multiple states including red states like missouri and montana and arizona supporting abortion rights and access to abortion . where do you see that issue going? there are obviously republicans in the house and the senate that are going to continue to push for a national ban of some sort even if it is

at 15 or 16 weeks. do you think that that should go forward? >> i don't see that on the media agenda and these are states rights issues. those putting it on the agenda, that's the right move and i've supported it. there's a lot of common ground on issues related to women. he wants to protect women's access to ivf. everyone in this country supports ivf so let's start there. let's also find a way to protect girls who are victims of rape or incest. protect access to contraception or birth control, stuff that the vast majority of americans agree on. that's where we need to start and that's what i believe the mandate is. we've seen it in red states were people support abortion, who are pro-choice. we have to read the room as republicans and find a way to balance our

beliefs in believing in life but also women's rights because women care about it and it's an issue that i've campaigned on and i've worked really hard on this. numerous bills protect women's rights at the state and federal lever and that is a body of work that we as republicans should encourage and work on and i will be standing in the brink trying to make sure that we do right by women. that's what voters elected me to do and i will be right there with them. >> what will you do if there's a move when it comes to the mailing or shipment of abortion medication for per stone? there are those who want to invoke the comstock act to make it illegal to mail it . will congress support that? >> i spoke out about the texas cases , i believe those rulings are unconstitutional. it is the law of the land and approved with the fda. you don't have to prove them but that's what

they decided and approved like the alabama ruling. i was one of the first republicans to speak out about that and rulings from 1860 something. there are laws that are archaic and running down the rabbit hole i'm going to support women through and through as i always had in my time in congress. >> nancy mace , good to see you and congratulations again. thank you for being with us. >> donald trump is the first convicted felon ever elected president of the united states. does his return to the white house mean all of his legal troubles will disappear and should people get rid of the check this box if you are convicted felons from job applications from now on? stay with us.

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civil cases? let's bring in chief correspondent paula reid. in 20 days the president-elect is due to be sentenced for the felonies he was convicted of in the hush money cover case. you have new reporting on that? >> i'm told his legal team to try to make sure that sentencing never happens. their usual strategy was to get things delayed . but here they are going to argue to the judge that sentencing should never happen because now that he is president elected they will say he's entitled to the same constitutional protections as a sitting president and should be protected from state actors. in this case, state prosecutors. the judge overseeing that case has given himself a deadline of november 12 to decide of the conviction should be tossed based on the recent ruling on immunity . if he tosses the conviction there will be no sentencing but if sentencing continues to go forward this is the argument that the trump team is going to make. >> let's turn to the federal cases against trump in washington dc and in florida.

what do you know about the next steps about special counsel jack smith and what he intends to take? >> today jack smith was actually talking to top leaders at the justice department about how to wind down both of these cases. i'm told they will continue for a few days. they are looking at justice department memos of how you can indict or prosecute a sitting president and tried to figure out how that applies to a president-elect but i am told there's a lot to work through. trump was charged along with codefendants and there's also questions about the future of the special counsel's office. based on my reporting we should expect in the coming weeks that the office will try to wind down these cases so trump will not have to have his justice department fire jack smith as he has threatened to do, but i also want to remind people jack smith has an obligation to submit a report detailing all

of his findings to the attorney general and we expect the attorney general will make that public as he has done with other special counsel reports during his term. >> thank you so much. let's go back to the panel here. is there any world in which any of these cases against donald trump can be picked up again in four years? or the two smith cases? >> i don't see that unless the world is somewhere other than earth. but we are in a different reality these days and i think if we are asking the question, technically you could try to say look. if you are the president of the united states you cannot be encumbered by different litigation although paula from back in the clinton days did tell us-- paula jones , told us that you actually can in fact be able to have a case about a president that cannot comment during office. an instance where these will be told for a period of

four years. the question is about the sentencing date of this new york case , a convicted felon. the voters did not think that was sufficient in many ways to say it was disqualifying for him. but now the judge has a choice. can you actually sentence him for all practical reasons? can you give him a prison sentence? i doubt it. you can have a state court interest the ability to take office but you have other options available to you. a non-prison sentence but you also have the supreme court case that says how about immunity? the judge has already said he has an internal deadline of the 12th to say tell me if i should be even able to go forward with a. there's a lot of different moving parts that suggest he will be teflon don in the in. >> donald trump talked about the two tiers of justice in this country. if there is any indication of the two tiers of justice it's what we have seen here , and the ability of any

rich person with good lawyers but especially donald trump , to delay these cases. three of four probably will never be heard and part of that is because of the way that trumps lawyers were able to work the system. the other point i would make is the attorney general merrick garland. he did not bring the case on election interference, or his special counsel until 2 1/2 years after it happened. it was not until august 2023 and i think a lot of people are going to say why did it take so long? why did it take 2 1/2 years for him to bring the case about what happened on january 6? >> going back to the first, it's not that it's two tiers of justice. it's let's take a step back to the whole goal of the presidential run initially was not just that he wanted to prove he wasn't a loser and

maybe be president again, it was to get to this point where we are right now , to totally avoid all these prosecutions, all of the questions and federal charges having to do with january 6. classified documents. that was part of the run. >> a classic get out of jail free card. >> and here we are. it's happening and it might be the gamble that some who have been charged with january 6 related crimes are convict did. those who thought maybe if i can hold my ground long enough that donald trump would ultimately pardon me. >> he said he will. he said if you're innocent, he might. people in the court who want to delay the sentencing a little bit more-- >> just to be clear you are talking about the january 6 writers and hundreds of them have been convicted? do we really think that he's going to blanket pardon all of them? i can certainly understand some

of the more celebrated cases , the grandma who was in the wrong place at the wrong time et cetera but some of those people violently assaulted police officers. some of them caused grievous long-term injury if not worse , two police officers. we really think-- >> wait, wait. he said if you are innocent i will pardon you. he may have his own decision about what in fact innocence looks like, but he has his own definition for a lot of things and frankly part of the campaign promise he has made, 22 years. henrique terrio , he very well could make a statement about it but one case that he cannot get out from under is the exonerated 5 defamation lawsuit filed against it for his statement that the recent debate against kamala harris. they made a statement that they had in fact killed someone and they did not. >> the central park five. >> yes, not exonerated five. a defamation case outside of

office is not one in which he could escape having to deal with. it's ironic that the very case that many people pointed to donald trump about as an illustration of his views on black men, on young boys in particular, could be the one that has the longest staying power in the in. >> one last quick question. yes or no, joe biden is going to pardon hunter? >> i don't know. it's a good question. i'm out of the prediction business.'s dmacc my son, i would pardon him. >> what he and should he are different. >> donald trump said last week in an interview that he would contemplate pardoning hunter biden. can you imagine being beholden to him if you are joe biden? i think not. >> very interesting. you think he will, though? i know you are saying if it's your son you

would. he said he wouldn't but that was before he dropped out of the race. >> i was going to say, what's he got to lose? >> coming up bob woodward and carl burns weighing in on the come back and what the future of democracy means in america.

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election night in america continue. the first trump term was rife with scandals and controversies and second administration staff have similar levels of chaos which remains to be seen. here are two legendary journalists best known for breaking the watergate scandal and then to the resignation of nixon . and bob ward, author of cheesing history. you've interviewed trump at least 20 times and recently the former president is far worse than richard nixon. honestly a majority of voters were not concern. i'm wondering what you thought as he watched results come in. where do you think about where we are at right now. >> it's the functioning of democracy so he's president elect. there are lots of things to watch in what will be the

new trump administration. i just want to cite one of them and that is the relationship that trump has with vladimir putin, the russian leader. i talked a couple of months ago to the former director of national intelligence under trump and i said what's going on in this relationship between trump and vladimir putin? and dan said, it is so close it seems like it might be blackmail. cia director bill burns said putin manipulates. he's professionally trained to do that. putin has a plan just to do this exactly when trump-- that's what he did when trump

was in office previously and is planning again at playing trump. there is much to watch particularly in that relationship. >> obviously whatever problems the transition had the first time around in the new administration, it seems like they fought those out and learn from mistakes and this will be far more-- perhaps at least, it seems like it will be more efficient in the transition. of you see the supreme court , what do you make of what this administration might be like? >> trump now has institutional memory and knows how to use the leverage of the presidency fairly effectively. but the real question is philosophical,

moral, constitutional and legal one and that is how is he going to use the immense powers of the president of the united states. he is someone whose life has been spent in retribution, seeking grievances to get attention to himself and get his position favored through these instances. going after his enemies. this was a campaign for president that was about enemies he has threatened and into the courtrooms , what he calls the enemies from within including the press including members of the military who were his chiefs of staff. the question is he has this tremendous mandate to do good. he has been elected by this incredible margin and let's hope that there are two donald trump's and that he

will use these enormous powers in a constitutional way. what he seeks to do in terms of his policies there are ways to do it legally and in his first term he went the other way so i think the whole pass to be that somehow, maybe in his early days here he will read the constitution of the united states and use it to help attain his goals. >> and all of your time in washington has there been any situation similar to where we are now? >> the concentration of the power and the presidency is absolutely astonishing. we have never had a president in the modern era that has come back. carl is right. he has said and promised that he's going to

settle scores. he has alienated lots of people in the national security establishment. you could name the generals and the defense secretaries and the secretaries of state who worked under him who actually didn't even want trump on the ballot . so there's lots of suspicion in our business and the media . there's going to be lots of watching . there is incredible constitutional authority that the president has and every step is going to be observed and monitors -- monitors as they should. is there a trump who will look at this as an opportunity to do good when he was president the first time,

he did and he absolutely flubbed the coronavirus. he had the information, he could've saved all kinds of lives and could have been the leader in 2020 that was reelected. saying it's going to go away and it's not a problem. the last conversation i had with him on july 20, 2000 -- 2020, i asked him what are you going to do? incredibly he said don't worry, i will have a plan in 106 days. >> 106 days was the election. he was worried about the election, not saving the lives of people in his country. >> bob woodward, carl

bernstein. i appreciate you being with us. >> coming up the education divide that helped decide the presidential election. exit polls and the keys to donald trump's victory.

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welcome back . we are following historic developments unfolding here in the united states of america. this is election night in america. right now donald trump is preparing for his return to the white house after beating vice president kamala harris in a race unlike any in previous us history. david, you have been combing through the exit poll battle. what can you tell us about the education divide in this election and how it shaped the race? >> you and i have talked about this at length. this is the dividing line of american politics, the education divide and how we sort ourselves politically. look here among white voters with a college degree. white college graduates make up about one third of the electorate. kamala harris wins the 52%, to trump's 45%. biden won these voters by three points years ago and she

expands that. this was her one area of growth to a seven point advantage. this is the trump base. this is about the same , 66% for trump, 32% for harris but he grew the share. the trump turnout was on the rise and so they make of 39% of the electorate this time. now i want to take a look at voters of color who have a college degree. 65% go for harris, 32% go for trump. that is a 33 - point advantage. four years ago biden won by 43 points so this is part of the diminishment with some voters of color and if you look at voters of color without a college degree we see a similar trend. harris wins by 30 points. 64% - 34% and they make up 19% of the electorate. that 30 point gap , that was 46 points advantage for biden four years ago. so john, you see that the big advantages with some of these categories, harris still wins them but won

them by less. >> and trump expanded some of his opportunities with different groups. let's show how this plays out. looking at the state of the race where it is right now from a red and blue state perspective, let's bring into the conversation, we're going to touch it again and come back out. you are looking at the deeper the purple, the more people without a college education live in that part of the country. you see the deep shades of purple if it's white, higher rate of education and if it's purple it slower so let's use battleground pennsylvania as an example. you see this deep purple right across there so let's draw it out. let me just go around here and come down to the southern border of the state. it's a little rough but tracing a deeper sort of purple. why am i doing that? there's your highest percentage of noncollege educated voters right there. turn this off. look at it. that's the trump base as they have laid out . it's like clockwork. if you find those voters on the map

demographically it's going to be trump read. that's a huge source of turnout for him and the like. let me turn this off , this is noncollege educated. we will come back out and you talk about with david talked about, the inroads. you get into some of the cities and it's not as pronounced. in michigan you bring this up, come on up for me. detroit not quite as purple as what you saw in those rural areas of pennsylvania but again you do have a higher population, a significant population. noncollege educated, why am i showing you this? let's take a look. donald trump gets 33% of the vote in wayne county. that's wayne, the suburbs around, he gets up to 34% but if you come back it's a little bit higher . that makes the difference. one other key point that david noted, this is where you see it. this is showing in

pennsylvania the idea of noncollege educated voters but let's look at pennsylvania. if you look at it as a state, one of the reasons of the battleground status because they tend to hug the national average, 43% of americans have a college degree and 57% have no college degree. they hug the national average but now you see diversity within the state. just down here in those counties, trump is winning. you see what happens? the percentage goes way down in the area of the trump base. that is statewide again. watch the number. no college degree, that is college degree and then the more affluent suburbs. let's pick montgomery county. noncollege degrees goes back , biden won big and harris won big. you can look at the demographics and what the census bureau tells you who lives there and it will be red or blue and it's almost automatic.

there urgent questions about what lies ahead and this is election coverage continue in less than 24 hours after the paradigm shattering victory both parties are assessing the historic consequences for the american people and american democracy and we are getting more insight on how mr. trump so soundly defeated vice president harris and the handwringing and second guessing within the democratic party and we are tracking outstanding races that determine the cliff finger of the 2024 election or whether they will maintain control of the house of representatives or whether democrats will manage to take it back claiming a

consolation prize in with republicans getting back the senate the gop could potentially hold the levers of power in both chambers giving president elect trump more leeway to advance his agenda unencumbered. and let's bring back in abby phillip who was there when vice president harris gave her concession speech in washington. you have new reporting on the democrats thinking. tell us more. >> in a close election like this pretty much every decision comes me when the candidate loses and this is no different. the number of things that i think democrats are talking about publicly and privately that went wrong are pretty much everything and the one thing a source close to the campaign talked to me about is the idea the ground game could make up for the difference between harris and trump in a very tight race in a few weeks ago the campaign had gathered some of the closest supporters and donors and allies and a

convincing presentation so how they could compete in all seven of those battleground states. part of that was the impact of the ground game which this source may have said could have been exponentially overstated in terms of how they could overcome fundamentals of the environment that wasn't favorable to vice president harris. on that environment, my colleague is here with me now and one of the things that both of us are hearing is of course at the core of this. you could talk about tactics but a lot of people are centering on a fundamental issue, on the message in the harris campaign makes a decision to talk about abortion and democracy hoping that would change the electorate but many people privately and publicly are saying there was a real problem to address a whole area of voters. >> one of the things i have

picked up and talk to a variety of strategists and battleground states as well as the harris campaign headquarters you say the ground game for sure but also something people do is fight the last war and abortion rights was at the center of the midterms in 2022 and there are questions and was this the idea that abortion rights could carry this for vice president harris of the finish line and one of the biggest changes overall would be who would be the change candidate and when vice president harris became the nominee, so quickly, she was unable to separate herself and she use the fight for abortion rights as an anthem for her candidacy before she was at the top of the ticket. but was that enough? we spent the day talking to people and there is no doubt soul-searching has given way to finger-pointing which is always the case in a defeat like this but i feel a calling need for an autopsy deep inside these democratic results much like we recall the republicans did after barack obama won

reelection. that is a standard but one thing that has unified the democratic party for years is the disdain for donald trump. was that enough? we remember from the convention in chicago how vice president harris was joyfully diminishing him but that gave way to elevating him and not the right choice. >> you know, i think there is a sense that harris was so comfortable in that terrain but not as comfortable with the other stuff, immigration and the economy which we look at the exit polls was at the top of the list so i think everybody in the democratic party right now agrees that there needs to be some soul-searching about what happens in the problem though is that everybody has a different idea of what that is and that is what i think will continue to be a tug-of-war within the democratic party. >> all right. thank you. let's go to the white house with all

of this happening and president biden is a due to address the nation tomorrow. >> he is. he spent his own day behind closed doors allowing harris to be in the spotlight conceding her race, but he will address the public from the rose garden here at the white house in the morning and we now know in what is expected to be a high level overarching speech re-talks about the need for the country to come together and he ran four years ago as restoring the soul of our nation but these deep divisions remain and some soul-searching going on among the biden camp. they are vehement and i think it's safe to say angry about how their candidate was treated back in the summer when he was edged out of the race by the parties power that be and i talked to several long time biden aids and their finger-pointing is going directly at president obama as well as the house speaker nancy pelosi and they say twice party leaders in 2016

and 2024 pushed aside biden for somebody would generate more enthusiasm and twice we lost, referring to hillary clinton of course in 2016 and then kamala harris in 2024 and they say biden remains the only candidate who beat trump and tossed over once again. and that is a school of thought and there are others as well and there aids that acknowledge perhaps they didn't grasp the deep unpopularity within the electorate and they didn't believe some of the polls and data but this will cast a big paul over what biden does in his final months especially if there is any semblance of a farewell tour he would embark on. >> eight days ago president biden called trump supporters garbage. and are they not watching the same screen that the rest of the world's? >> reporter: there was some incisive rhetoric on behalf of the president maligning his predecessor both in public and behind closed doors and that is

different language on the campaign trail then when he gives these lofty speeches in the role of commander-in-chief and that is the role we expect him to step into tomorrow but there is quite a bit of anger and quite a bit of frustration still simmering within the biden camp. >> thank you so much. joining me now is debbie dingell from the great state of michigan. so, congresswoman, your fears were, as always, well-founded. kamala harris lost michigan. we should note though that your colleague elissa slotkin won her senate race so what was she able to do that kamala harris was not? >> so, jake, unfortunately, i wasn't surprised. i don't think i am as depressed as others because i thought what we were watching today could likely happen. i don't think

people ever got to know kamala harris during the time she was in this campaign. elissa slotkin is well known and worked hard. she got around the state and she is known as being a tough woman. she went by i think 18,000 or 19,000 votes and she worked it and people knew who she was and this was an event driven campaign and quite frankly i don't think we talked about some of the issues we needed to talk about and elissa slotkin did. >> can i ask you about what bernie sanders said today. he said "it should come as no great surprise that a democratic party, which has abandoned working-class people, would find that the working class has abandoned them while the democratic leadership defense the status quo. the american people are angry and want to change and they are right." what do you think about

that? >> you know i talked to all of you during the last month and said we had a number of problems. we had the same problem in 2016 and we saw that again, unionalls. it is not just that but working men and women. i think there were four key issues. two of them ended up i think being more critical, but number one was the economy. working men and women are struggling and the cost of a gallon of milk or dozen eggs for the price of gasoline, it is what i was about to say trumps all others but that is what we saw too. that is what they were worried about. i think we didn't talk enough about that. i did see movement in the last week as donald trump's rhetoric got more vitriolic and more whatever we want to call it and some people would say they were voting for trump and they were worried

about a democracy and the other two issues i saw a lot of by the way were women's issues, but it played a lesser role and you felt it out there than immigration. quite frankly i think the economy and immigration where the two issues that people got emotional on. >> congresswoman, it is chris wallace. it is good to see you again. i do want to ask you about the city of dearborn just outside of detroit. it is a city that is a majority arab-american population and donald trump actually won a plurality of the vote there as a lot of arab americans refuse to vote for kamala harris and the green party nominee jill stein got 18% of the vote there. how much do you think the policy of joe biden towards gaza and the fact that vice

president harris was tied to that policy and how much did that hurt harrison michigan? >> look, michigan was complicated, but the mideast is one of the issues. by the way, it is all sides. people in the jewish and arab community have been hurting. she lost some jewish voters as well too. but in dearborn and dearborn heights, people made it clear that even when you reminded them and reminding them about some of those issues, they wanted to send a message. they are angry. they wanted people to hear it. those were numbers that contributed and now to trump's victory they weren't the only factor if you really start digging into the numbers. >> we did spend some time

together on the ground in the final weeks in your warnings turned out to be correct and you mentioned labor halls and other issues and let's use the map. i am tell you what i am looking at. we see donald trump getting 33.7 here so 34% of the vote with detroit and here around here but donald trump gets 34% after getting only 30% in detroit and against joe biden four years ago and a double whammy as i talk about as you move to the north of macomb county and the vice president gets 42% and donald trump is at 56. four years ago joe biden was at 45% so you look at the 45 for biden losing and down to 42 so the margin went down there and trump's margin went up and waiting -- wayne county but how do democrats fix their mass or their turnout problem and also what is the message that caused you to go the wrong way and those two key counties?

>> look. i think i am one of those people who has been saying all day democrats have to do some serious soul-searching and there is some really complicated problems here. i told you all that there is a gender issue but african american males were part of that. and that certainly contributed to some of the reduction i told you about when jim clyburn came in and i was there meeting with some of the black ministers and clergy and they were open about being taken for granted. i think we do have to be very careful here to not just blame. everybody wants to point fingers. democrats have to do some real soul-searching. we can't just go in and talk to people a month before the election and take them for granted. a lot of people are tired of being taken for granted. the african american community has members of it and they are one of those groups

that are concerned about issues and they want to cs talking about it all the time addressing that and helping them on it. >> you mentioned these issues and you know this as well that donald trump has twice flipped the blue wall with pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin direct and that is why he is president of the united states. so what is it in this sense when i talked to two -- voters, a lot thought that the transgender ads were too liberal with them and not with us was a factor and you believe that was a factor in that race and do democrats need a better way to talk about that? >> those ads were powerful and we know it and people may not want to publicly admit it. it did. by the way, when you talk about many faiths, it's not just one but many of the baptist ministers and moms in dearborn, et cetera have been

lgbtq+ problem and there are issues for them and it is difficult for them. i do think that everybody has a right to love who they want to love, but we got to find a way to not lose some of the people we lost. and as you say, it is only 3% but when you add up 3% here in 3% in this county, it adds up to a lot of numbers and this was a bigger victory for donald trump than it was for him and 2016 which is one that i just knew for a month before the election, i knew that he was winning. >> you can see it right there. >> thank you, congressman. coming up more than 72 million americans and counting chose donald trump and we will hear some of their reasons, next.

welcome back. tonight former president trump preparing for his historic return to the white house and only the second person to win it back after losing a reelection bid and we are with caitlin collins and florida and you are learning about how he

prepares to the world stage? >> reporter: yes. a lot of phone calls happening today and not with potential people but the world leaders and i am here with christian homes talking to sources and trump has spoken to 10 world leaders today so far ranging from the british prime minister, the ukrainian president zelenskyy, the chinese president and all of these world leaders either trump is calling them or they are trying to get in touch with the president-elect. that is an unusual -- not unusual. some of them know that flattery and a personal relationship can go a long way with donald trump. >> we do know these world leaders have leased part of donald trump pegged and we his of -- know he is a little bit

of a loose cannon but they do know that if they call them -- him and flatter him and tell him how grady is doing it bodes well for them in the future and we have been told that they have been keeping track of who is reaching out and when including not just since he won but before he was elected when it looked like he could be elected and we started here about foreign leaders reaching out and donald trump often talks about victor or von of hungary and he spent a lot of time calling him coming to visit his home and that is something that stuck out and donald trump views himself still as the principal even when he wasn't president. >> he was rooting for him to win and it is interesting that he spoke to president zelenskyy because trump has promised he will end the war between russia and ukraine within 24 hours but still to this day he has not

answered whether or not he wants ukraine to win this war. >> remember, he was pretty adamant against president zelenskyy until they had this meeting and part of that is because he was so flattering and he came out of it and said i had a good relationship with him and putin but before we heard about putin. >> obviously a notable change is these world leaders are still processing and navigating the results of the u.s. election. >> we will check in with you shortly and we want to hear about voters about the choices they made in the election and we have been talking to people in pennsylvania. >> i still have goosebumps. >> reporter: it is like christmas came early for bernie in pennsylvania. the republican small business owner sporting trump shoes and a custom trump ring he made himself said he feels like finally the country is back on the right track. >> reporter: what did it mean to you to vote for him a third time? >> it was just great. i

thought, he did so well in 2016 and i just wanted to see him do this again. >> reporter: in a small red borough in the larger red lancaster county, formers of trump echo what is fans elsewhere felt around the country. >> reporter: how do you feel this morning? >> i feel relieved that america came together and saved our democracy. >> she said she is a republican and is pro-choice. >> the main concern is women's rights but strong women will rally together and fight for our rights and we need to come together to make the right decision in the states and unfortunately it came to that but that wasn't my deciding factor for voting for donald trump. >> reporter: are you concerned he will be hostile to women's rights? >> no. i think as a nation women will come together and prove ourselves. >> reporter: in nearby lancaster, a blue city and a

red county sarah thomas a democrat said she couldn't believe in the end it really wasn't close. >> reporter: how do you feel this morning? >> i am pretty disappointed. i am just sad. i am worried. i just woke up feeling kind of disgusted and ashamed honestly. >> reporter: she works with children and she said it was about reproductive rights and about rhetoric. >> i want to raise my son to be somebody who believes that men and women have equal dignity and autonomy over their bodies. i don't believe in, frankly, xena phobic and racist hate spewed. >> reporter: this democrat was still at a loss for words. >> i had really hoped that we would have something other than a character -- caricature the president the next four years. took some are worried that the discourse would only get worse. >> i wanted to put somebody in the office that embodies the

ideals and integrity of the american people. i don't think we have that now. >> reporter: with the voting public delivering the judgment, the focus turns on what happens next under a new president. >> and hoping for secure borders and economic change in enough women come out and demonstrate the need for women's rights and i hope for a better place that we have been in it for the last four years. >> reporter: anderson, here in lancaster county, democrats said they were hoping to close the margins in this traditionally red county and that is what we were looking at yesterday as the polls were closing and governor schapiro got about 48% of the vote in 2022, but in the end vice president harris paste with president biden back in 2020 only getting about 41% of the vote but trump improved his margins here and of course that was the story of many many places across the commonwealth. >> thank you. appreciate it.

back to the team here in new york and let's start with the democratic party. what needs to happen? what needs to be looked at and analyzed? >> a lot of important discussions were going on earlier tonight and i guess i call myself a democrat for her this moment and i think this wasn't just a problem in this election. this is been a growing problem overtime, this disaffection among working-class voters with the democratic party and this the growth of the democratic party is a college-educated metropolitan party that approaches working-class voters in a kind of missionary way so we will help you become more like us and not intentionally but it sends these signals that really we speak a lack of respect. i think the party in some ways has lost its ability to talk to working-class

voters. you can see it. it's not just white working-class voters but black working-class voters, hispanic working-class voters in the party paid a price. kamala harris articulated it and spoke to some of the concerns of those folks but you can't develop those relationships in 90 days in the second conversation that happened had to do with biden and i want to point out -- >> there was a quote earlier from an unnamed person saying twice party leaders in 2016 and 2024 pushed aside biden for somebody who generated more enthusiasm and he was the only candidate who beat trump and he was tossed over once again. >> find joe biden. >> in the exit polls joe biden had a 40% favorable approval

rating and nobody would get reelected with that number. more importantly, kamala harris among the 59 who disapproved of them, she lost 82-16 in the whole campaign that was run against her linked her to joe biden. the reason that people had concerns about biden weren't so much of this but i do raise concerns a year and a half ago that had nothing to do with barack obama but everything to do with age. i said that my concern wasn't political but actuarial and how do you tell people that you should elect somebody -- >> at some point i don't know if there will be a reckoning -- >> i have a lot to say and i wasn't trying to cut you off. >> go ahead. >> the big picture in 2016 is these two parties had flaws and they were about hypocrisy and you had the republican party,

the party of lincoln, the party of radical individual liberty that somehow had smuggled in a bunch of white nationalists and you are like hold on a second, that doesn't make sense and will that blow up the republican party and at the same time you had the democratic party the party of fdr and working-class people that smuggled in all of this elitism that if you weren't eating kale you weren't allowed in the door and i thought that would work and i actually wrote a book about this and both of these parties had fundamental hypocrisies and the problem was, was the races and in the party of lincoln going to blow up that party or the elitism and fdr's party blow that up? our party blew up because of elitism and it's not the obvious elitism in the condescension and the smarty-pants stuff and somebody called me a bipoc.

>> i don't even know what it means. >> they make up things every six months to make sure you feel like an idiot and that is not the worst of it. it is more insidious. we thought in philadelphia, we were like we are doing doorknocking and people going around and there is no ground game for trump and nobody walking around with literature or knocking on doors. they didn't have to because they were on this thing and -- >> what is that? >> it is a smart phone that makes it dumber when you look at it. but it does turn out that the whole working-class is information differently on channels we don't know about and streaming platforms and gaming services but the trump campaign was putting information advertisements and we woke up in a body bag and didn't know it and we thought that something on 60 minutes or here on cnn but it turns out the elitism got so bad that we didn't even understand who the

working-class was and that is much deeper a problem. >> i always thought trump could win but i didn't think he would win by these margins and i misread the room on a number of things and i always focus on suburban women and what i think the democrats focused on heavily was abortion and abortion which would be the animating issue and it was in the midterms in 2022 and it sounds like a lot of these states are okay with what trump said is let the states deal with it. this includes the fact that most of the battlegrounds other than georgia which is the only one that had a particularly restrictive law people separated the vote and they were able to separate the candidate from the issue but that didn't end up being the focus but something i heard from and i think could've been motivating were protests in the college campuses and women on campuses are horrified when they see jewish kids getting bullied by protesters who are defended by elitist academics

and that scares people and feels like a shift that goes out of the mainstream of where the country wants to be and i think that is one of the areas where the moon -- room was misread by democrats. >> an issue that was talked about before, joe biden said kamala harris can't win and said i am the only one that can win and there is a little bit of this built-in delay getting out and the only possible alternative is that kamala harris can't win so not to put her in a good light but she was starting out in a bad spot to begin with but the premise was that you won't win. and the second point is a little bit more kind of on the ground and van talked about knocking on doors and there was an article in the local silly news about the democratic chairman bob brady of the democratic party and said i would've liked to see the harris national

campaign coordinate with us a bit on the ground and talk to us and give us resources or show us some respect and that didn't happen. they were elitists and they did their own thing and they didn't include the democratic sitting committee or leaders and they didn't do it at all. >> they could bring about needed change from the exit poll with 28% of people said this was the most important thing and trump got that 7424 and it has a lot to do with this. >> it was a ballot in 10 states in losses on both sides we have more coming up.

welcome back to our special coverage of election night in america continuing in more than two years after the us supreme court overturned roe v. wade and left the issue up to the states voters in 10 states cast ballots on whether to keep it in their state constitution and cnn predict the voters in maryland, colorado and montana all enshrined a constitutional right to abortion in the state constitutions and in nevada they passed measures protecting

legal abortion of viability which rejected the 15 week ban in the state of arizona. and missouri voters narrowly rejected their states near total ban establishing rights up to the point of fetal viability in new york enshrined a broad set of rights including the right to an abortion and in nebraska two dueling measures were on the ballot regarding abortion and they kept the states ban on abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy and rejecting a separate more expansive measure and it failed to meet the 60% majority needed for passage keeping in place a six week ban and in south acorda that states near total ban will also remain in place. >> this is something i have been rattling around or has been rattling around in my brain since last night on the question of why the harris

campaign got it so wrong and the whole push for freedom and reproductive rights, for the idea that women and men were going to come out in droves on this issue in the first presidential election post roe v. wade in the way they did in 2022. >> can i stop you? why do you think that? >> i will tell you. >> most of them passed, right? >> i was told by a republican pollster looking at a lot of the data was that there has been time for the reality of the shift in the law from a national level to the state level to sink in and what has happened is that in some of these key states, michigan for example 2 years ago there was already a referendum on the ballot in arizona and nevada there were referendums on the

ballot and not that this isn't a huge issue for a lot of women and men but because many of them, particularly in swing states felt like they were dealing with it and not all states like georgia for example, but many of them felt like they were dealing with that and they could prioritize and did prioritize other issues like the economy, like immigration, ahead of this issue when they did decide to vote. >> the reason i ask is fundamentally those abortion measures did end up working and what they didn't do was over animate and they definitely didn't create a scenario where voters decided we will do this all the way up and down the ticket. the other thing is i am not sure that voters believed that donald trump was ever truly pro-life. while they do understand him and see him as a conservative victory, i think they were more or less convinced by his waffling this summer where he didn't really come down on some of these

issues. they didn't really see it as a threat. i think the idea was the damage was done and if i want to do something in my state, there were more than likely be a referendum. >> on this issue of how trump successfully was able to fuzz up this issue, we will be looking at the exit polls for weeks and find little nuggets and on this particular issue i did find one today when people were asked should abortion be legal in all or most cases, 65%, two thirds said yes and 32% said illegal in most cases. but while harris won overwhelmingly among people who said that abortion should be legal in all cases but in most cases it was a split with 49% who said they should be legal in most cases voted for harrison 49% voted for trump. i

think the point was that trump talking about well, it is up to the states and i won't push for a national abortion ban he fuzzed up the issue to a large degree and a lot of people very much pro-choice didn't see him as a threat. >> it is very interesting and we will be going through those for a very long time and up next the richest man in the world helped deliver donald trump a second term and what does elon musk want in return? stay with us.

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baron in this age of social media and somebody who is one of the most influential social media platforms become so involved with one person. >> reporter: he spent $118 million for trump and gave away $1 million a day to supporters and he also stumped for trump and inundated x the platform he owns with a torrent of pro trump posts and misinformation. >> he has millions of followers on social media and has spread his baseless lies about the election. >> reporter: somebody who said he voted for hillary clinton and joe biden now it trump side on election night posting the future is going to be so fire emojis and what does the victory mean for elon musk? >> he will definitely have his year. >> reporter: he said he will be an important part of his government tasked with downsizing the government and why would he tap musk? >> you are the greatest cutter. they go on strike and you say

that's okay they are all gone. >> reporter: he showed himself in the oval office saying let that sink in but he said he won't be a cabinet secretary. >> i would love to have them to be honest with you. >> it is a conflict of interest. he gets massive amounts of federal contracts from the federal government. >> reporter: his companies primarily spacex had $3 billion in government contracts last year according to the new york times and could as profits grow thanks to his ties to trump? >> there is some obvious policy benefits if he can get in with the administration. >> reporter: is platform could benefit as a hub of maga online and tesla saw the stock price jump acting percent after his win even though it has barely any contracts with the government. it talks about immigration deregulation asian and conspiracy theories. but -- >> they both have track records of having close relationships turned sour quickly and for some reason one delivers on a

relationship more than the other or one thinks they won't get as much out of the other that is where you can see it clashing. >> reporter: elon musk said during the live stream that his political action committee would keep going beyond the selection and weigh in heavily on future elections as the world's richest man, he is the means to back it up. >> thank you so much. back with the team. what kind of a role do you think elon musk might play? >> i think he and rfk junior will have one of those partner desks and sit across from each other in the white house. and i had an opportunity to spend some time with them and he is an incredibly bright guy which is an understatement and he is the u.s. space program at this point in time and putting payloads in space and done

incredible things. i think you will offer a unique perspective on how the government operates and i would love to see him come in and cut government spending and if elon musk can do that that is more impressive than landing a giant rocket. >> he is unquestionably a brilliant engineer and let's stipulate that. he also bought x and turned it into a sewer of conspiracy theories including those that support the presidents conspiracy theories. and i am sure the number will be far beyond the 118 million that has been reported. i think he really wants to be the great american oligarch. by the way, it was reported that he has had conversations regularly with vladimir putin. none of this makes me really comfortable with him playing this major advisory role. >> he also provided starlink.

>> absolutely. >> we can all praise elon musk and we should and when he is in his lane doing what he does he is one of the greatest people ever with neural link, tesla, but it is a structural problem that someone with his resources on his way to becoming 1 trillion ear can just dump unlimited amounts of money into our system and have undue influence and also by a simple half of social media on earth. >> i think the question is that we all have to grapple with is right after it was very clear that donald trump was the president-elect he started tweeting like you are the new media to get all of the folks on x like cnn mainstream media is extinct and like this was our plan to ruin it and i think that platforms like x and facebook and all the social media platforms do help when they are used properly to

democratize microphones for people to have a voice but it is very clear since he has taken over that the algorithms are working in a few ways that are causing greater division in our community. scott and i sit next to each other sometimes and he is a totally different feed than i have because we are getting fed things of what we want and they are very polarizing, our feeds. and then we have people who get lifted up more and they happen to be people who agree with donald trump and people who don't agree get shadow ban and that is not the media but a platform and you can do what you want but the influence that it does have , i am not talking about twitter and tick-tock,

instagram, facebook and there is an issue and i am not saying why that is why kamala harris lost but we have to grapple with what role social media plays with kids and our politics and our long-term future. >> we have search engines to google and prioritize and it all contributes in one way or another and it's very important to know who has those rains. >> there are two sets of laws and rulings to deal with with the supreme court allowed this unlimited amount of money and there are legal protections that allow these companies to do what they want to do it they will and i think in a normal country we would say, hold on a second. maybe we need to have a different set of regulations for social media platforms that are this big or maybe less money in a system but that conversation hasn't happened yet. >> and here with donald trump back in the white house what is it mean for the future of planet earth's climate and we will talk about that ahead with a lot more.

this is cnn, the world's news network. >> president-elect trump has said [ inaudible ] is a hoax and now that he is headed back to the white house, there are growing questions of what he will do if anything . >> one of the most urgent tasks, not only for our movement, but for our country, is to decisively defeat the climate hysteria hoax.

>> joining me now is cnn's chief climate correspondent bill weir. what do you expect from this administration wants >> well, i expect him to try to undo as much as he can. we just got data that 2024 will go down as the first year to smash past 1.5 degrees of global warming, that is the paris accord number that every country in the world is trying to hold. it is the warmest if you look at lake beds and i scores of 100,000 years, and as a result, off the charts ocean temperatures, sea temperatures, air temperatures supercharging the storms. we are seeing it from asheville, milton, the west coast of florida where we were in spain, there is no snow at the top of mount fuji, the amazon is in a drought, and the country just elected the most notorious climate denier of all. donald trump seems to be in the 5%

that says it is not happening or that it is some sort of natural situation right now. and this is a time-tested the next five years is so vital to bending that curve, scientists tell us, and he seems to want to pull out of the paris climate record internationally. there were real two years worth of momentum, hundreds of million dollars pouring and protects it wasn't something he really talked about much in this election at all. >> you know why i think it is, because it is often phrased as a false choice between economy or the climate, whereas people in nashville know that without a balanced planet, there is no economy right now. the health, wealth, and happiness of 8 billion people around the world depend on this sort of sweet spot on earth that we have now exceeded, and nobody knows how the physics were on this overheating planet, not just the mitigation of stop using feels that brandon has sort of fast is ethically possible, but also, how do you respond to the built in pain that is already

here, we saw a disaster response in the first trump administration where they will back depending on the politics of the state and that sort of thing, so it is a dark, dark day for people who work around climate space, earth scientists, people who thought the country was serious about this. >> bill weir, appreciated, thank you so much for coming up, our coverage continues of the 2024 election results, we will be right back. >> [ music ] the heart of political power in the united states and now preparing for the history making, nor breaking, disruptive come back of one donald john trump breed as election night in america continued but i am jake tapper. there is no disputing the sweep of now president elect trump's white house victory, there are many unanswered questions

tonight about the road ahead and for mr. trump's opponents, serious concerns about how he will lead the nation. is shakeup of the electoral map, his win of the popular vote for the first time, prompting republicans to claim a mandate to carry out mr. trump's most aggressive items on his america first agenda. there is one last hope for democrats in this election as they wait to learn if they have successfully flipped the u.s. house of representatives, or if republicans will hold onto control of the chamber. we could get new results on that at any moment. the party of trump is already set to wield a new power on capitol hill after winning that control of the u.s. senate. let's go to kaitlan collins now, anchoring west palm beach, florida. mr. trump will be back at the white house soon, at president biden's invitation. >> reporter: yeah, something, jake, that we do not see four years ago when the roles were reversed, but we are expecting to see that now. kristen holmes

is with me in west palm beach, and what are you hearing about when this meeting between donald trump and president biden could take place? >> biden invited donald trump to come to washington to talk about the transition, the trump team quickly accepted, not something we saw four years ago, they had absolutely no meetings. now we are told they want this to happen as early as possible. trump's team is having conversations about what exactly he is going to go to washington, but i was told it could happen as early as next week. they're trying to get all the wheels moving here. as we know, the transition is in motion, trying to fill in ministration slots, and now he wants this meeting to happen and happen quickly. >> it was so interesting today at the eric harris's concession speech and realize that she was giving trump something that he never again to them, not only a concession speech, but also in alleging a legitimate victory as she did when she came out and telling people it was going to be okay. she is going to be the one certifying his win, january 6th as the vice president, which obviously we all remember how

trump tried to pressure mike pence into doing what he did not have the legal ability to do, and two, just looking at this, yesterday throughout the day, as we were starting to cover trump's party, he was posting about fraud in philadelphia and detroit, and saying law enforcement was coming and there was student happening, even though officials there said there was no evidence of any vapid as you started to do better in the polls, though, or the results from the voting, all of that stuff, and he hasn't posted once on truth social today. was a what we saw leading up to the election as well. during a rally in pennsylvania, he started claiming 20 minutes that the 2024 election was going to be rich, something we never hurt again, coincidentally, especially as the numbers started coming in. >> is not a single claim of fraud since donald trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election. >> that is quite a coincidence. now let's go to abby phillip who has been covering the harris campaign and is anchoring here in d.c. where do democratic leaders go from here? >> reporter: date, we have been

talking a lot about the finger-pointing that is happening within the democratic party, and then i think after that, one of the things that we are hearing is the question of who is going to be the leader of the democratic party here in washington with jeff? jeff, what are you hearing about this bench that actually has been around now for a while, was sort of put on ice while joe biden became the nominee, that conversation has restarted. >> it definitely has. as we see president biden in the rose garden tomorrow, you know a lot of democrats in the state capitol will be watching this but if you look at the battleground states, a lot of them have democratic governors. josh shapiro of course in pennsylvania, gretchen whitmer in michigan. you know, a few ambitious senators as well. so, look, this is a point where democrats are going to begin rebuilding their bench. today was the day for vice president harris. >> and it was notably quiet from some of these very people who are actually very powerful surrogates for vice president harris, but i think there was a

sense, let her have her moment. also, let the campaign breathe. but it is only a matter of time before we start to see some of these people come out and take charge of what this sort of resistance, so to speak, of the trump era is going to look like a >> without question, this is going to be a changing of the guard, passing of the torch. what we saw on the campaign trail in recent weeks, you saw it, i saw it, the clintons, the obama's, this is a new moment, and we have course have to add vice president harris's name in the list, she will have an organization. she is just going to begin deciding what type of apparatus she might set up when she leaves. so, all these things will come in time. but there is a big democratic bench out there, and there is a range of ideologies and views, so that is what will be coming as the trump transition sort of begins. this will be the beginning of the democratic rebuilding as well. >> part of this is also some kind of rearview mirror looking at whether or not they should

have had a party, what would have happened if joe biden left the race even a month earlier than he did, or perhaps a year earlier than he did? there were so many people that i talked to this summer who really did want a primary where you saw a lot of these people, gretchen whitmer, josh shapiro, pete buttigieg, and others actually going back and forth about who could be the strongest candidate could >> without a doubt. just think how different this would be, president biden would be leaving office in a couple months in a much stronger position in terms of his legacy if he would have stepped aside on his own. that didn't happen, so now we are going to see this, but it is interesting to see, there is a democratic bench out there and this is one of the fascinating fallouts of any election defeat. many of them will rise. >> a democratic bench and a republican bench, many democrats are preparing for the next generation of maga, one of whom is going to be the vice president of the united states, jd vance, back to you. >> we want to get an update on

the ongoing fight for control of the u.s. house of representatives. forrest sanchez covering that for us but where do things stand at this hour? >> yeah, jake, the house of representatives is still up for grabs, but things are trending in one specific direction. let's take a look at the balance of power, the state of play for the chamber. 191 seats held by democrats with two pickups. 208 seats held by republicans with six pickups, republicans only need 10 more seats to take control of the chamber. currently, there are 36 that are still getting ironed out as we get more votes in. so, what does this mean for the magic number that democrats need to take control of the chamber from republicans question democrats have to pick up eight republican seats. currently, the lead in four races in republican districts, but complicating matters, republicans lead in two races where democrats hold seats. you do the math, that is a net gain of two seats, way fewer than the eight they need to take control of the chamber. but not all the votes have been counted. so, let's get you

some key race alerts now as we are getting live results trickling , slowly trickling into cnn, beginning with house district 19 in new york. this is in upstate new york. the ithaca area. there, democratic attorney josh riley currently with a 3800 vote lead ahead of incumbent republican congressman mark, a freshman. they both have sort of moderated stances throughout this race, but right now, riley has almost a 4000 vote lead with 94% of the vote there. meantime, zooming out to the west coast, this is the 47th district in california. scott ball, the republican in this race ahead of dave by about 1000 votes. this is the district left with an open seat, because katie porter decided to run for senate. she of course lost in the primary, here, a district won by joe biden four years ago. in 1000 vote lead, 69% of the vote in. these votes are slowly

trickling in, but we are keeping track of them. >> forest, thank you so much. meanwhile, inside the democratic party, the blame game has already begun. our chief congressional correspondent has more on that point it is all just getting started, the finger-pointing, trying to figure out why things went so terribly, terribly wrong for the democratic party. >> no question about it. the house democratic leaders are convening a conference call tomorrow afternoon with the full house democratic caucus, the first time for the members to get on one call and talk about everything that went wrong in this election. expect a lot of air clearing, some finger-pointing. you have already heard some of this out in public, some blaming joe biden for not getting out of the race early. some blaming liberals for pushing their party's message too far to the left mothers saying that it did not cater to their base. went after moderates instead, at the expense of their progressive base. you're starting to see some of this play out in public as well. a couple examples of just that. bernie sanders, the

independent who caucuses with senate democrats, put out a tweet earlier today, saying it should come as no great surprise that the democratic party, which has abandoned the working class people, would find that the working class has abandoned them. but then some folks who are not aligned with that wing of the party, the left wing of the party, have went after people like bernie sanders. this is what richie torres said, a democratic congressman from new york, he said donald trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of latinos, blacks, asians, and jewish people from the democratic parties. he went on to criticize the so-called define the police movement, among other issues as well. this all comes as a democrats in the senate and the house are grappling . in the senate for certain, about life in the minority, about how to position themselves with this new republican majority. do they go toe to toe like a resistance to block republican efforts at every turn question do they try

to cut deals with the new republican majority? we don't know if the house democrats will be in the minority yet, but with things trending in that direction, that is going to be a big question for the democratic leader hakeem jeffrey zaslow. >> thank you so much. my panel is back with me and i just happened to be on my phone and on twitter or x, and i saw a post from mike, who used to be bernie sanders' press secretary and is now a ocs press secretary. he noted that she had an instagram like that was about to start, so i clicked it and i watch my very first aoc instagram live, here is some of that. >> when he says he is going to do something, believe him. just -- i believe just today, his press secretary confirmed his commitment to mass deportations beginning, you know, the day or day after of his presidency. talking about rfk trying to remove fluoridated water. i am not here to sugarcoat what we

all are about to collectively experience. >> i was very proud of myself. >> congratulations. our baby is growing up. >> 55 years old and i figured out how to click on an instagram live. can you explain this to me? >> i'm not sure that i can. but she is not wrong, believe him. he has got a bunch of things he wants to do, he ran on them. you heard rick scott say -- i forget if it was rick scott or nancy mace, oh, it was nancy mace, i said what about this mass deportation? basically she said that he has the mandate to do it, he said he was going to do it and people voted for it. i absolutely agree with aoc on this. i mean, it may turn out not to be true, but three things come to mind, the mass deportation, using the military to put down domestic opposition, political opposition, not violent protests. pardoning the january 6th writers. i don't know any reason why you wouldn't say at this point, i fully expect that

to happen. >> and how did democrats deal with it, what do they do? not that anybody knows. >> yeah, i know, everyone kept talking about the autopsy or of vivisection over the next couple of days. they will probably be in a defensive posture and start thinking about the midterm elections, which sounds crazy to say, but it is much easier to be against something that is to sit down and figure out what you are for and how to communicate that more effectively, and i think it will be interesting to see who emerges from the bench. we heard abby talking about in terms of who is the democrat, what is the next step and what does it look like? >> the thing is this isn't just a problem that popped up in the 2024 election. this has been a slow burn, and a move and a shift among the democratic party and who people in the electorate actually feel that they have a connection with, and it started -- not , i

would argue, necessarily with donald trump, you could even go back to the tea party where there were a people out there who were maybe traditionally democratic voters, saying this is not who i am, this is not what i stand for, and we are maybe lord into the republican party by the tea party, and then of course the trump era started and he really connected with them. so, this is a very deep-seated shift, and frankly, problem that the democrats have that is going to take a lot longer than one cycle. >> so, some of these more extreme -- mass deportation, we are not talking about the people that come over the border, no, we are talking about people who have lived in this country. it could be 15, 20 million people that you're going to uproot and take out and they have been living for years in these communities. i

mean, if they were really talking about that, mass deportation camps, there would be a firestorm in this country. a lot of people would support it, a lot of people would violently oppose it. if you saw using the military, the national guard to try to put down domestic political opposition -- so you know, on the one hand, i believe it, but if he does follow through on it, it is going to break a lot of eggs. >> also, there is what he is going to do when it comes to foreign policy. he has made that very clear as well, let's listen to that. >> that is a war that is dying to be settled. i will get it settled before i even become president. if i win, when i am president-elect, what i will do is i will speak to one, i will speak to the other, i will get them together. that war would have never happened. on day one of my new administration, i will seal the border, stopped the invasion of people pouring through our border, and send joe biden's illegal aliens back home where they belong.

>> now the washington post saying you're talking about 60% tariffs on chinese goods, is that in the cards? >> no, i would say it is probably going to be more than that. >> these are pretty strong, some might even say severe radical moves. ending the war in ukraine, and there is only one way to end it the way he talks about, and that is to force ukraine to give up its own territory to russia, the invading force. >> pull the funding. >> et cetera, and of course, more than 60% tariff on chinese goods. these will have major life-and-death impacts, abroad, and also financial impact here at home. >> the stakes are incredibly high. on the terrace, it will be interesting to see how that actually clashes with the reality of who he puts in his cabinet, especially as he has leaned much closer to the business community and business relationships, in terms of really following through. on the issue of ukraine, that is also a reflection of voters'

will and the republican party that has backed away greatly from interventionism. and i do think that also internationally , this is what he is known for. bilateral kind of conversations. the whole everyone gathers around the table and figures it out, that is not what he does, and his voters don't want it. >> ra, anderson? >> thanks very much, let's continue the conversation with the team in new york. scott, do you expect mass deportations? >> i expect some deportations. i don't know the numeric threshold to make it mass, but yes, i expect donald trump to try to execute on what you said, we do have a huge illegal immigration problem in this country, some of them have committed violent offenses, so yeah, i expect him to be stronger on the border and to execute on what he told the american people, and i don't think he should hear doing it. all the polling in this campaign showed that a majority of americans supported, a majority of hispanic americans supported as well, something needs to be done, this is a top

priority. >> i was just going to say, i think everyone has said that if you do mass deportations, it will actually hurt our economy, but i just want to talk about -- i understand the voters have spoken and we will see what donald trump has done, but it is also about the fear that is weaving through immigrant communities right now. i spoke to someone whose parents immigrated over 40 years ago. she is in her 40s today. and she is what you would call an anchor baby, and she texted me today and she said i'm afraid i'm going to get deported. this is the only country i have known were daca students -- today, many people woke up afraid for the security of their future when this is the only country that they have known and they have given so much to this country. and that is why so many on the left right now -- or one of the many reasons why we are distraught. >> david, there were a lot of very conservative republicans

who negotiated this a bipartisan deal , you know, $650 million more for a border wall, were judges . obviously the former president put a kibosh on that. do you think a larger comprehensive border deal as possible? x this david or that david? i was hoping it was for him. listen, i don't know. because comprehensive immigration reform is incredibly difficult. i worked on comprehensive immigration reform in the bush administration. we start really crunching numbers. labor was one thing. sciu wants something else. it is great, a nice big concept. when you really get down to brass tacks, it is very difficult to hone in on. i know they had a goal that everyone said they agreed on, but it wasn't even close. >> the obama administration actually did. >> in 2013, it got a healthy majority. and then the republican speaker of the house

wouldn't take the bill up. >> the obama administration did deportations early on. >> for sure. and it was focused on people who had committed crimes, who had criminal records. but as ashley points out, when you talk about the 10 million people -- many of them here for many many years, who are certain pillars of their community -- by the way, paying taxes and social security, but not getting it or being entitled to it. you know, the amount of disruption -- i don't know how you execute it first of all. i mean, anything on that scale. and i think we will see whether he attempts -- if he attempts it, it will be incredibly disruptive. but it is something that sounds great in a campaign. and you know, he wanted to really hit that bell heard. you know, now reality is here and we will see if he

actually asked on -- >> some of the other things that are being discussed, tariffs, they are in place now, the biden administration didn't lift the tariffs on china. they work and they are a negotiating tool. ukraine, we talked about this during the break with what does success look like in ukraine? i don't know if president zelenskyy can answer that, but this president wants to be a good steward of america's taxpayer dollars, unless president zelenskyy can't define what it looks like, how are we expected to define what success looks like in ukraine, and should be continued to find billions and billions of dollars, send it to ukraine, when they don't even know what it looks like? let's first of all, a couple of things, just on the terrace. targeted tariffs are one thing. brad tariffs on everything that comes into the country from every country in the world is a completely different thing. >> am not sure that is what he is talking about. >> that is what he is talking about, that's what you said, go back and listen to the

video. and on the issue of ukraine, the question is, what are the terms of the negotiations, and are you going to force on ukraine vladimir putin stearns, and if people are suspicious that that might happen, maybe it has to do with the fact that trump seven times since he left the presidency has been in touch with putin and fundamentally, he called the invasion genius in the first place, so, if i were ukraine, i would be very nervous about that. >> so, what is the basis, why do you think president trump would favor the russians ? >> why do i think that? did you see the story this morning in the post? the russians were celebrating his election. >> actually bob woodward , i know he has talked to him, there is a conspiracy, he is being blackmailed. >> i didn't say that. >> why do you think at the end of the day that he is not going to say i want to support a democracy in europe? we are going to negotiate this out. i

want to stop the bloodshed, i want to stop the billions of dollars going -- >> he had been asked and he hasn't answered who he wants to win the war. >> defined winning again, that is what i am asking. >> that ukraine could stand and that russia's invasion would be backtracked and they wouldn't get territory. >> that is not going to happen. >> but to david's point, are you going to be negotiating on behalf of vladimir putin when you go to ukraine. and how do you know -- i mean, we just learned he sent covid test to him during the height of the pandemic. there is a relationship there, we should acknowledge it, and we can be skeptical. >> so, donald trump's commanding victory is sending shockwaves around the world. next. >> [ music ]

america's allies and enemies alike are reacting to donald trump's return to the stage. getting congratulatory calls from benjamin netanyahu. ukraine's president, the chinese president. welcome back to election night in america continued. i want to talk about the world reacting. what has been standing out to you in terms of what we have seen over the last 34 hours?

>> well, what you can expect, everyone is racing to congratulate trump, but in general, when you look at the surroundings, i would say europe is depressed. the gulf states, the rich gulf states in the middle east are deleted. china is anxious. india is happy, pleased. and russia is probably rejoicing. you know, so there is a mixture of reactions, because each one is trying to gauge what this means for them. but the broader question i think everyone is asking themselves is is the united states going to be out for just itself or does trump see america as the leader of the free world? does he see america as the force that helps create a certain kind of

international order? not simply every nation narrowly pursuing its own interests, the dictators doing well when they can, other countries doing well when they can, but a world based on, you know, a certain degree of openness, freedom, liberty, rules. that has been america's historical role since 1945. and what they are trying to get a sense of is are we in a new era completely? has the post 1945 american lead international system finally begun to see the twilight of its existence? >> trump suggested during the campaign to arab and muslim american voters that he would end israel's war in gaza. he also said in his words that israel should finish the job. he obviously as a closer relationship with netanyahu than joe biden did or perhaps a friendlier relationship. do you

think netanyahu gets a blank check from trump? >> i think netanyahu gets a blank check from trump on things like gaza. i don't think trump particularly cares about -- you know, he is not going to bring up the kinds of issues that joe biden was bringing up in terms of the level of damage to buildings and do you have to go after certain areas? are you providing enough humanitarian assistance? that doesn't feel like trump's style. in fact, you said several times, israel just has to finish the job. it is worth pointing out that half of israel disagrees with trump on that issue. you know? perhaps 50% of israel wants a cease-fire, not happy with netanyahu and his prosecution

of the war, but be that as it may, there is a broader issue which is israel's pursuit of the war in the north with hezbollah and iran. and i think there, the trump administration will be supportive, and frankly, israel has re-established a kind of deterrence in the north there, against iran, against hezbollah, and showed them to be much weaker than they are, so i think that is an area where there might be continuity. the biden administration has been very comfortable with iran, sorry, with israel taking the battle to iran, taking the battle to hezbollah, re-establishing deterrence, and i think the trump administration is likely to continue that. >> trump has also said he would end the war in ukraine within 24 hours. compare that with -- yeah, he has expressed admiration for vladimir putin, what do you think that means for ukraine? >> again, i think it get that's -- it gets back to the

issue, yes, there is a possibility for a deal in ukraine, the war cannot and should not go on forever, but does trump view this as being a kind of broker between two equal parties of equal value, and he's just trying to cut a deal. he is sort of the real estate broker trying to make it happen, or does he see himself on the side of the free world, on the side of the rule-based international order? trying to make sure that russia's complete and flagrant violation of those rules, it's naked aggression, is not rewarded. now, that doesn't mean that russia will not be able to hold onto some of the territory it has. there is a reality there that you can't get around, but perhaps it then means that you need to provide ukraine with security guarantees, like a nato membership, and maybe there is a deal to be had. if the ukrainians can be convinced that they will be secure in the

future from further russian aggression, maybe they can accept that they have lost 18% of their territory to russia. but the core is that trump has to see himself as part of an effort to stabilize support, encourage the world's great liberal democracies, those countries anchored in the west, those countries that want freedom, and not simply see it as, you know, a deal between two equal parties, and he is just trying to be the broker who can post at the end of it all that he got a deal. because i think, as one of your earlier guests said, there is a deal to be had, which is you just accept the russian terms, forced the ukrainians to surrender, which i doubt that they would do, but you know, blackmail them into accepting those terms . you know, that is not peace, that is surrender. >> i appreciate your time tonight, thank you so much.

next we are going to dive deeper on some of those exit polls, still a lot to learn about exactly what happened over the last 48 hours. particularly among latino men. we will be looking at that >> [ music ]

we are back in the cnn election center, breaking down how donald trump hold off his presidential victory and what is he is going to do with his new power. david, you have been doing a deeper dive on the latino vote. tell us what you think. >> among latino voters overall this election, jake, they make up 12% of the electorate. kamala harris wins 52% of latino voters to donald trump's 46%, six point margin of victory within that group of voters. four years ago, joe biden won latinos by 33 points, so a 27 point swing in terms of the margin towards trump. take a look among latino men. 6% of the electorate, a small slice, donald trump's number is that 55%. his number four years ago

among latino men, 36%. he increased his share by 19 percentage points among latino men. among female latinos, harris wins them 68% to trump's 38%. and when you look at latino voters , young latino voters, a very small slice, 3% of the electorate, harris wins them barely, 49% to 47%, two points. joe biden won the young latinos four years ago i 41 points, jake. it's fascinating stuff. you, david. joining the conversation right now, republican congressman carlos gimenez of florida, good to see you, congratulations on your re-election campaign. trump increases margins with latino voters by double digits, beating george w. bush's 2004 margins. why do you think that is? do you think it was specifically the economic message? >> i think a lot of it had to do with the same issues that

affect all americans. look, in my district, hillary clinton won my district by 16 points. joe biden lost it by five. that means president trump increased -- shifted that over 21 points, and then yesterday, he won it by 20 points. so, we have been seeing this shift to the right, especially here in florida, of hispanic voters, because i believe that the republican party and the message of the republican party is more aligned with the values of hispanic voters than the democrat party. we have so many people here also that were fleeing dictatorships, socialism, et cetera, myself. i mean, i came from cuba when i was six, fleeing communism, and you had a candidate that was to the left of bernie sanders, self-proclaimed socialist. a lot of different factors, but a lot of them have to do with the same factors of the economy, what is happening at the border, gas prices, or standing

in the world. all of that. hispanic voters are going to be pretty much aligned with the rest of america. >> congressman, it is dana bash, hope you're doing well, congrats again. one of the things that donald trump has been talking about on the campaign trail is the economic policy, and we have heard a lot about tara's, but he has also talked a lot about ending taxes on tips, ending taxes on overtime . at the end of his campaign, he talked about a tax credit for people who had to have childcare, or at least care for their parents. how realistic do you think getting these things through the congress is going to be? >> well, we are talking about revenue loss for the federal government, but we also need to talk about revenue increases. and i know he wants to tap into our natural resources, especially oil and gas, and make us not only -- we can't

continue to increase our deficit. i'm interested to see what the final plan is all about and how we are going to balance our budget in the long run, because we are piling on way too much debt for our children and our grandchildren, and it is a matter of national security when our interest payments on that debt is now exceeding our defense department expenditures, and so, i want to see what his plan is all about, but i know he has plans to increase our revenue, and i think that's something we should be looking more, how can we increase at revenue? also, regulations, we have got way too much regulation, we need to start reducing the cost of regulation, which i think will also incentivize the economy. when you do that, you're going to get more revenue into the cops and some of the revenue to pay for some of these programs that he wants to initiate. ask congressman chris wallace here. the

president-elect has pledged to launch the largest deportation and history, he has talked about deporting millions of people in this country illegally. first of all, do you support that, and if so, how would that be carried out without causing tremendous disruption in this country? >> well, i think what you have to do is -- look, we have got over 10 million illegal immigrants that have been allowed into this country, are in this country, in the last three or four years. i think that is very, very disruptive to our economy and our country right now, so look, we have to follow the law. number one, they have to have their due process. we have to hire additional hearing judges to give those folks their due process rights. those that have valid asylum claims will be able to stay in the country, because that is what the law says. and those that don't are going to have to be deported back to their country of origin, because that's what the law says, we need to follow the law. and so, look, as an

immigrant, i am an immigrant myself, if you have a valid claim, you are able to stay. if you don't, you're going to have to be deported. we just have to follow the law, that's what we needed to do in the first place. joe biden allowed parole on a massive scale and it should be allowed on a case-by-case basis. in my estimation, this biden-harris administration broke the law by allowing all these folks to come in on a mass basis and that is what is causing the chaos inside our country. >> the congresswoman cornish here, i want to ask you about something pretty fundamental to the immigration conversation, which is that donald trump has talked about ending birthright citizenship in the future. you talked about coming here as a toddler, i know i did. do you think that is something he has a mandate to do now? >> i think that question was already settled back , i believe, in 1898 or something

like that, where there is birthright citizenship. so, that is not something i am prepared to support. it has been part of the american way for over a century, and i don't think we need to touch it at this point. >> congressman, jake tapper, thank you so much, really appreciate it, and congratulations again on the victory, barely winning with 29 percentage points between you and your democratic opponent. thanks so much. >> thank you, i was sweating it out. >> coming up next, the top takeaways on this monumental election and how the country moves forward in the coming weeks and the next four years, stay with us.

donald trump's presidential victory sealed, his second inauguration about 2 1/2 months away. david, i want to start with you. as somebody who was the chief strategist on two winning presidential campaigns for barack obama, how do you see this , where the democratic party is now? >> look, the democratic party can react in two ways, it can react with rage with what

happened, and i think there will be some of that, because of help without -- provocative trump has been, and destructive in some ways, but the real question is why did the party fail to connect with so many working-class voters? white, black, and hispanic, and i think there needs to be a real discussion within the democratic party about the way forward, about what went wrong. >> who has that discussion? >> first of all, i think there is going to be a call among members of congress, but again, i think you're going to see a lot of governors step up and start leading that discussion. ultimately, it is a candidate for national office who helps define the party, and that comes through a primary process, and some of this may be litigated, but there is no doubt about it, you can't be the party of working people if working people don't feel they are connected to you. >> what do you think?

>> yeah, i mean, i agree, we need to have a conversation within our party. i do want to give some respect to the folks who just worked their tail off, not just in 107 days, but they were working on the campaign for biden, a lot of the stuff transitioned over, and it is hard to lose, right? so, i have a little compassion for folks. we aren't going to have all the answers about what went wrong today, and i think it is important not to rush to conclusions. to talk to people and have conversations, but i also think -- i agree the primary will help, but we cannot wait for a primary point we have midterms coming up in two years. we need to be going into communities in battleground states where we are going to have contested senate races, house races, and start having conversations in communities now, and really start building our state parties and community infrastructure, so that we never find ourselves in this place again. >> i think the democratic party -- you are right, it is hard to

lose, republicans went through this after 2012. and i think about the condition of the democratic party. it has been almost fully oriented around trump for a decade. and look at biden, i mean, his basic campaign promise initially was to rid the country of trump and trumpism, and as he leaves office trump, trumpism, and the maga movement is stronger than ever, so not only are you dealing with the wreckage of having lost an election, you are dealing with the total failure of the project of the current resident as he headed out when he got elected in the first place. i think part of the answers that you all are seeking are more than just tactical. some of it is what are we, who are we, what do we stand for? i think both parties go through this after these kinds of losses, but when you look at how biden is leaving, the very thing he vowed to rid us of is now the ascendant lyrical movement in this country, it has got to be

pretty demoralizing. >> in a stronger position. >> he has never been stronger, evermore popular, and never in a stronger political position to execute. >> can i just say about that, one of the questions is he talked last night about the mandate that he has, what does he think that mandate means? what is he going to do with that mandate? because if he thinks it is a mandate for him to punish his enemies and do some of the things that you talked about, that i think really weren't endorsed by voters, they endorsed him because they thought he might make our lives better, and if he focuses on that, he will be successful. if he indulges his instinct to punish people and to divide people, i think it is going to go badly for him, and i think the democrats -- it may temporarily solve their problem in 2026. >> the tough part is when you win, you have got to deliver, right? so, prices have to come down, the wars have to end, immigration has to be fixed. there are big things that need to occur, and people want to

see those occur quickly. and it will be interesting to see, i was just asking this question, who is going to emerge in the democratic party as the voice? is it going to be a conservative who takes the democratic party maybe center right? where a lot of these working-class folks are? or is it going to be somewhat centerleft? >> maybe there is a completely different paradigm that is very focused on the lives of people and not on some of the kind of debates we have had in the past. one good thing for your diet now, though, our guy, i guess, because he is going to be the president of the united states. for the second time, he is going to be inheriting in an economy that is actually improving and he will be able to take credit for it. >> that was a plug for -- >> our boss. >> might be debatable, but i agree with you. for trump, it's delivering on the promises that people voted for, and for democrats, i think they

had to make a decision about whether they are going to stand for things or whether they are just going to stand against trump. i think the harris strategy was just we are not trump. and if that continues to be the beating heart of the party, i think it is going to feel a little empty to people. what are you giving me the -- other than you are not trump? there is more to governing than we are not trump. >> i think there was more to it,, it was also we have got to do things about the fundamental things ailing people in their lives, the cost of things, the cost of healthcare for seniors, the ability to get loans if you want to open up a small business. she had ideas that were very prescriptive. the problem is that there are 40 years of history in which people in these communities feel as if the field has been tilted against them, and you can't show up late and say -- >> i think the one thing -- i agree. we have to build trust

with people again. even people who supported kamala harris, a lot of times black voters feel like we show up for the democratic party and there isn't a lot that is delivered for our benefit. and i think at large, the voting block that do not support kamala harris, she inherited that distrust. i will also just say to david, i think he has to deliver, but i think the way he delivers also matters but >> thinks everybody, stay with cnn for continuing coverage of the historic election results and all of the days news. we will be right back. >> [ music ]

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