in the hiring of others, she will likely make sure they have the same dna and will try to keep the chaos out of this next white house. he also said that donald trump asked to surround himself with winners, and that likely played into this as well, because susie wiles is certainly a winner, she has a stack of campaign victories here in florida and certainly the most recent presidential election. he likes that about her. anderson, keep in mind that donald trump, in his first term went through four chief of staff. though she is anti-chaos, it seems, we will see how it plays this time around. >> thanks so much. the news continues right here on cnn. up next, breaking news, bracing for trump. we are learning there are active discussions inside the pentagon, tonight, over how to respond if trump tries to deploy the military inside the united states. concerns grow over how trump will make iran pay after news of another assassination plot. plus, a bright spot for the democrats in the house seat in

new york. laura guillen joins me for her first tv interview since her victory. what did she do right? cashing in. elon musk bit huge on trump and now musk is getting richer by the day. in a special report, let's go out front. good evening, i am erin burnett. outfront tonight, bracing for trump's return. cnn learned tonight that pentagon officials are learning more about how to respond if trump follows through on campaign threats. officials have been gaining out various scenarios based on explicit things trump has said, like suggesting he would use the military to handle, what he calls, the enemy from within. >> we have some very bad people, we have some sick people. radical left lunatics . i think they are -- and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the national guard or if really necessary, by the military. >> so, national guard and military for radical left people . political rivals. that

is one group that he has said he would use the u.s. military against. and the other is using u.s. forces to carry out what he says will be one of his first orders as president, it is of course, mass deportation of migrants. >> under my leadership we will use all necessary state, local, federal, and military resources to carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in american history. >> that has been very clear. he has been exquisite about that. just to give context here, there are estimated to be 11 million people in the united states, illegally, give or take 11 million. okay? well, the context here, that is relevant in what he is saying is that the united states only has 1.3 million active duty personnel. 11 times more migrants than active-duty military. that is the sort of demand that could plunge the pentagon into a state of chaos. the u.s. military could be facing chaos both beyond the streets of

american cities but we are learning tonight of another assassination plot against trump, at the direction of iran's revolutionary guard corps. we have obtained the indictment from the department of justice which says the iranians were focused solely on killing president trump. putting aside all other assassination projects and focusing only on trump. the iranians gave their assassin just 7 days to come up with a plan to take trump out. what that could mean, bigger picture, is a much bigger war for america and american soldiers, if you believe what trump says, because he has actually talked about this very specific threat but he had found out about another iranian assassination plot, back in september but that was the first one, he said if there was a second one, he would blow iran off the map. >> we have been threatened very directly by iran . you do any attacks on former presidents, or candidates for president, your country gets blown to smithereens . >> kristen holmes is outfront to begin coverage in west palm beach, florida, tonight.

cristin, we also have new reporting tonight on a call that trump was on, today, that foreign leader president zaleski of ukraine. it was trump, zelenskyy, and elon musk, what are you learning? >> that's right. we had already learned elon musk was on the call but there are a lot of circumstances but this isn't readily notable given what donald trump has said about ukraine, one of the promises he has said is that he would end the war in ukraine by somehow getting putin and zelenskyy to agree on something but he never gives any more details to that and obviously it is also notable, given the fact that elon musk was on the call. i was told that this is purely circumstance, that musk happened to be at the club when zelenskyy called, and that trump put him on speaker. he was congratulatory, a source describing the call as cordele, as positive, but they also noted that zelenskyy thanked musk on the call for his help with starling. musk has been a pretty essential in bringing

medications to ukraine using starling during the ukrainian and russia war, but again, interesting dynamic here given the fact that elon musk is an outside adviser at this point, not a port of the government or foreign engagement adviser. i was also told on this call it was only seven minutes and no policy was discussed. one thing that we know for certain, donald trump and zelenskyy met roughly one month ago at this point. they sat down, they both came out of this talking very positive about each other but i was told part of the reason you heard a bit of a change in tune from donald trump was that zelenskyy spent a lot of the meeting praising donald trump, reminding him that they worked well together and we know that flattery goes a long way . just one brief mention here, a lot of these foreign leaders are trying to get ahead of donald trump on the world stage, i'm

told that a lot of these calls are quote unquote positive or flattering and that, trump himself has been reveling in what he believes is the respect and recognition he deserves. >> thank you very much cristin in west palm beach. david, let's talk about what we are hearing here. pentagon officials are holding these discussions, gaining out scenarios, about how the department of defense would respond as trump issues orders to deploy active-duty trumps dramatically, for the enemy within or useless it promises he has made about the petitions but i just put that number out to make a point, 11 million migrants, 1.3 million active-duty military. okay, what you make of this? >> there are legal strictures against that. against the deployment of the u.s. military on american soil. and, i think that for the military, the question is, are they getting a legal order here. you heard some of this bubble up in the last iteration of trump, so it

is concerning, and i think it must be deeply unsettling for the leadership of the military , to get an order from the commander in chief, but what is that order violates law? i don't know -- i presume they will resolve it by following their oath, but -- >> these are things that you have to figure out but he has been very blessed. now, whether he starts with criminal records here as it seems he might , we don't know but the point is you just don't know. we know what he has promised to do . do you fear what we will see? >> we should take very seriously what donald trump says. he says he was determining the constitution. let's not forget about that or the fact that he tried to overturn the last presidential election, which led to the deaths of a number of people and injuries for over 100 more. so, this is someone who, i am

concerned about, and americans should be concerned about, because they will not be the kinds of guardrails that existed the last time that he was in office but he's going to make personnel decisions that will result in people who submit to him being in the white house, and being cabinet secretaries. so, the whole of government approach led by people who are obsequious and who are going to do his bidding, and who are not to care about legal strictures that we just referred to. but how is that outcome avoided? i know that is also something you want to avoid. you want to get good people in government. >> what a ridiculous position to take, that anybody who goes into work for the president-elect does not believe in their oath to the constitution? that the strictures will not be there? i'm sorry, i have perhaps more faith in the united states petition then you do but the strictures will be there because it is the united states constitution and it very clearly lays out separation of powers, one of the things it

clearly lays out is that there are three branches, including the executive branch, for which the commander in chief , the executive is who is elected by the people in charge of the executive branch. so, to act as though anybody who goes in to work for him is going to bend the knee or be some sort of pawn in a scheme is offensive and it's the kind of rhetoric that led us to where we are right now. the people who go in to serve will be doing so and they will take an oath to the constitution and they will try to put forth the policies that the american people resoundingly said they wanted to this country, a safe and secure and prosperous america, and i think -- >> let me say, i appreciate that, but actually took civics, so i don't really need to be refreshed on it. the reason there are these concerns is because of what the president elect has said that he would do that fly in the face of that, and all the reports of things that he asked people to do that

they did refuse to do, because they were committed to the constitution . >> like bill barr, who eventually left >> right, or how about mike pence? >> or his longest serving chief of staff, john kelly. >> many examples of what i'm talking about. >> clearly we have seen what donald trump has tried to do in addition to the things that he has equitably said. so the gas lighting is appropriate. >> michaela, i hope as an american that the institutions will hold. i have great reverence for these institutions., they have been tested before and they may be tested again. >> the supreme court of the united states is overturning precedent by the day, like when it gave this president carte blanche in the former president immunity. >> they did not. that is not true. you read the opinion. that is simply not true. they gave him immunity on things for official acts and no immunity for unofficial aspic >> that has not been fully

adjudicated, because he won and jack smith is going to pull those cases. when you talk about, though, the moment that we are sitting in, david, we are sitting in this moment for a variety of collocated reasons. one of them may be decisions made by the democrats. many of them may be. one specific decision, which is how this came to be. nancy pelusi spoke to lulu garcia, who is on here all the time, and an extensive interview, and lulu just shared something that pelosi said it is incredibly revealing about how this democratic ticket came to be. >> had the president gone out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race. the anticipation was that if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary. as i say, i think, that would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. but, we don't know that it didn't happen. we live with what happened. and, because the president endorsed

kamala harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. if it had been earlier it would have been different. >> there was reporting at the time that pelosi and schumer, even though they wanted this to happen sooner wanted some sort of quick primary. biden came out 30 minutes later and endorses harris. this appears to cement that reporting, that is not what pelosi wanted, even in that moment, she wanted something else, biden made this decision. maybe because he was angry at them. for forcing him out. >> i can't speak to his motivations but let me say, there were some people, and i was one of them, who, quite a bit earlier, like the previous year, said that perhaps the president should consider stepping aside , i said then, it was an actuarial issue, not a political issue, that we have now seen come into play if he

had done that, there would have been a full primary campaign , and maybe the vice president would have emerged from it but i think that she over performed expectations as a candidate here , but maybe she wouldn't have and may be a candidate have emerged who was not so tied to the administrator and that they could credibly critique the whole picture. >> for instance, the border, which gives to the other issues. >> on that, you lost your bid to return to the house, your district swung massively to the right, that's a district that biden one cow easily by 10 points, and now, gop. how much of that is due to harrison biden? >> ballots are still being counted. but a district that biden one by 10 points may well have been won by donald trump a few nights ago and it speaks to the fact that the democratic party's brand is in shambles, in the suburbs, because of the issue of immigration. i have

criticized my party on this. we waited way too long to be tough on the border, to take seriously the migrant crisis, and to act to secure the border, and we are paying the price. we are seeing that, all throughout the united states and has district around the country. and it was too late, by the time democrats at the top of the ticket took this seriously and said let's pass this bipartisan border security bill which we all know sitting at this table to donald trump has been blocking. when he told the pelicans in congress to block it from going into effect. >> but while it was blocked, they have the opportunity to do things which they chose not to do on executive order but that did come into play in this campaign michaela, this leads me to what i was laying out, what trump has promised to do, using the u.s. military or national guard whatever it may be, for mass deportations, do you expect that is something that could really happen? do you expect i mean -- he will probably start with criminals, i am making the assumption, here, as a citizen that is what he will start with or do you think that he will go for the whole thing, all 11 million? >> he has said pretty clearly that there are priorities because it is important to remember that deporting illegal immigrants is something that every ad ministration does, the

previous administrator has continued to do it and we would not be in the situation if we would have a tighter border from the beginning because it is important to remind people that while there was a bipartisan bill, it wasn't introduced until 3 1/2 years into the administration. so, yes, there is a rallying cry to get the border under control, and for those people in the country illegally, who have committed crimes, i think getting them out of the country is a big first step. >> david, i would ask you one thing before we go in the context of these crucial conversations. there are things that happened, that are beneath these conversations and yet hugely relevant to whether donald trump actually wants to seize the opportunity , but once a chance and that is how he talks, not just how he walks, today he called gavin newsom gavin newsom,. those are the things that someone might laugh at and say that is just trump. does that matter when it

comes to getting the country behind him? >> if i were advising him, i would say, you one cow, act like a president, try and bring the country together, but i don't think donald trump -- he is donald trump and he has gotten pretty far with his brand, i don't think he will change now, the real question is, does he spend his time seeking retribution against his political opponents, or does he focus on the concerns of the american people. that is the question we are waiting to see the answer to. >> we don't know. thank you all very much. i mentioned lulu, her interview, lulu garcia's full podcast with nancy pelosi, their extensive conversation, you can tell it will be excellent from what you just heard there. that is tomorrow. next, breaking news, more congressional races have been called now. do democrats still have any chance of taking the house? stratmoor breaking news, trump ally, peter navarro, remember him? he went to prison for not selling trump out. now looking for a top job in the

trump administration. dramatic and chaotic. images of chinese soldiers invading taiwan. scenes from a new tv show. could it presage reality?

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jeff her right now excited to win the house seat in colorado against democrat adam fresh as the balance of power in the house is still up for grabs at this hour but it is a big question, republicans have 213 seats, you need to 18 to get the majority. for democrats this is a heavy lift. democrats needed 16 seats, so they need to hold 10 they currently have still outstanding and they also have to flip six. republican's are much easier, they just have to hold five edits there is. let's go to carry at the magic wall. what this map bully boils down to is that there are still 20 uncalled house races to watch. so, how much narrower is the potential path for democrats getting? >> it is getting late in the day for them. you mentioned a few minutes, 213 seats for the republicans, 202 for the democrats, we can also add in the seats were democrat and vulcans are ahead at this point and this is simply going in the

wrong direction for democrats. looking at the battle last night, religions were ahead in 222 seats, democrats were ahead in 213 seats and republicans are now ahead with an extra seat. let's look at some of those uncalled races. one of the reasons right now that republicans actually gained a seat in terms of how many seats, we will go into the great state of arizona, down to the tucson suburbs this is a flip from yesterday. cristin engel was ahead yesterday, now she is behind by nearly 1600 votes. so this is a seat going in the wrong direction. we can go to the great state of california, right? this is a place that obviously a lot of uncalled races at this particular point, and one of the seats i was looking at yesterday, this one outside of san jose and the republicans ahead yesterday, the republican's are still ahead today. the margin has not really shifted much. this is when i always look at in the 22nd district, counting takes a very long time in california, david valadao oftentimes waiting on days or weeks or sometimes nearly a month after the election. we got more of the vote and then we had

yesterday, his lead has actually gone up a bit, aaron, has gone up a bit and then finally, you go out and let's say we will go all the way up to the northwest part of the country, though in this particular diagram it is just off the map, alaska, this margin has not shifted at all, right? mary portola, the democratic candidate trailing. as we mentioned yesterday there is instant runoff voting that goes on in alaska so you don't reach 50% of them we read it to be third-party candidates but the bottom line, it is awfully close to 50%. at this hour it is getting very late. >> getting late. all right. senate races that have not been called we know the balance of power in the senate, but those seats and who gets them can be so crucial, so where do things stand? >> let's start with pennsylvania, right? dave mccormick has obviously been leading bob casey here. is higher than it was yesterday, higher than it was yesterday, we have been waiting on votes from philadelphia now we are up to 90% of the vote, and bob casey, simply put, this is not the margin bob casey needs to

win. if the race is within half a point you can have an automatic recount there which is part of the reason we have not called it there. let's go to some good news for democrats in nevada. jackie rosen, craddick and, despite the fact that trump is leading the state, she does have a lead right now of a bit more than a percentage point. let's go to arizona down here in the southwest. ruben gallego leaves kari lake but that lead has gotten smaller, so if we go back and we go back a little bit longer the 52% of the vote, his lead was six points, then we go in and we look, okay, 55% of the vote, his lead was then about less than five points, and then we look right now and what do we see? his lead is down to just a little bit more than a point, this is a race that i thought gallego was going to win. i still think he will but we have not called it because the margin has been drinking and drinking. >> that is incredible. you also

wonder how much ticket splitting was going on in so many places where people were willing to do that, and what that really says underscoring trumps victory. thank you so much , harry. outfront now, one of the few democrats who did flip a seat in the house, laura guillen, of new york. she beat republican incumbent congressman anthony d'esposito by 2 percentage point of this is her first tv interviewed since being declared the winner. congresswoman elect, thank you for taking the time. he heard harry lay out where we are in terms of the house right now, we still don't formally know the balance of power, why do you think, though, that you were able to do what so many other democrats running failed to do, which is, to flare up of the conceit. >> i have deep roots in this district. i grew up here, i am raising four kids here. i know the people in this district but i listen to them, and i talked about the issues that they

cared about. like the border. you know, that was a big added that iran, nonstop through the campaign because this is something that people on both sides of the political aisle care about in this district. you meet voters where they are, you talk about the things that they care about. yes, they care about reproductive freedom, but they also care about the economy . you can say that we were covered better than europe, but people still feel pain in their pocketbooks. you have to talk about how you will tackle those problems. >> all this things are hugely relevant, but you mentioned immigration, he ran ads on it and made it a part of your campaign . let me play one of your closing campaign ads >> near 2000 miles from mexico but we are feeling the migrant crisis almost every day. i wanted to hear me loud and clear. to send me to congress and i will work with anyone from any party to secure our southern border. >> what i am the most curious about is whether you ever talked to anyone in the harris campaign about the border but

did you tell them why you felt that taking this position was so crucial for voters? was there any feedback on that for did you just do that essentially on your own? >> i criticize the biden administrator and when 40,000 migrants were busted to new york and our mayor was asking for help and they said they would send guidance but we didn't need guidance. we needed resources and i called him out on that and wrote a letter to the biden administrator and saying that we needed to send more border patrol agents, we need to to send more resources, and we need to secure the border. so i did reach out, but this is something that i knew that i had to talk about in this district but you cannot run away from an issue because you think it might be a more republican issue. you have to talk about the issues that the people in your district care about. i think in this district, you know, i've been an elected official here in the past and i was able to get things done in a bipartisan manner anything that people trusted that is what i would do in congress. >> you mentioned, mayor eric adams, he frequently called out the biden admonition over the

migrant crisis. and then today -- or, just after trump won, adams announced that new york city is going to end a program that was giving migrant families prepaid debit cards. right? a program the city has reportedly spent more than $3 million on, obviously something that american citizens don't get. adams did this within 48 hours of trump winning but i am curious, congress went to lunch, whether you think this is just the tip of the iceberg? >> i think that new yorkers have paid an incredible amount to deal with the migrants that were sent here. in the campaign, i put aside my opponent because when you europe was asking for help, he was on newsmax blaming it all on biden instead of trying to bring relief here. i said that new yorkers should be reimbursed for the cost we had to extend to close and feed and house people who were sent here. we won't let them freeze and starve to death on our streets but this is a federally

created problem and new york should not bear that cost alone. >> your party has lost control of the white house and the senate. it is likely to remain out of power out of the house. if that scenario does happen, i am wondering, as you are walking in here, you will be a member of congress, who do you believe is going to be the leader of the democratic party right now? >> i think this is an issue , the border, that hakeem jeffries recognizes is important to people on both sides of the aisle. democrats care about this. democrats from my district, new york and new york city, they are concerned about what they see their. they want this problem fixed. >> congresswoman elect, thank you for joining me on this friday.

>> thanks. breaking news, peter navarro served his time , and now he wants a top job in the trump administration. plus, a mad dash for the border but there is a caravan of migrants coming to the united states and mexican border with the hopes of crossing before trump gets into office. is it possible another border crisis is in the offing?

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breaking news, we are learning that peter navarro, who went to prison for refusing to supply comply with a subpoena from the generous sixth committee is looking for a top job in the new trump administration . we are also learning that north dakota governor doug bergen, who was first a trump rival but then on his vp shortlist and a reliable surrogate, is under consideration for energy czar, czar being the word used. this comes as elon musk stock rises literally and figuratively. what does he stand to gain from this second trump presidency? he is already the richest man in the world. jason carroll is out front. >> a star is born. elon.

>> reporter: cheers for the president-elect and richest man in the world, who helped get him there. elon musk. >> as you can see, i am dark maga. >> reporter: musk spent $119 million to help get trump elected. returns on that investment are already paying off. tesla shares have soared 29% since the election. musks steak has gained more than 30 billion . investors betting that trumps win will boost the electric vehicle company, because of his closeness with musk. remember, there was a time, not long ago, when tesla was not looking so great with reports of sagging profits. >> when you look ahead, there are definitely opportunities for him to make money. >> reporter: max chutkan is a senior reporter at bloomberg and businessweek who covers musk. >> spacex, musks other main company is a major defense contractor. it's my support and contract is the u.s.

government and trump on the campaign trail talked about handing elon musk new contracts. >> what a great guy and he would rather be making rocket ships because he would really rather do that. >> reporter: spacex is a privately held company, so it is tough to put a hard number on how much musk stands to gain. the same can be said of his other privately held businesses such as the brain implant company, neural link. >> he's a super genius but we have to protect our geniuses but we don't have that many of them. >> reporter: musk could receive a position in the trump administration, running what he has called a department of government inefficiency. >> takeover, elon. >> reporter: where he could rollback government regulations and cut what he determines is wasteful spending. >> how much do you think we can rip out of this wasted $6.5 trillion harrison biden budget? >> i think we could do at least 2 trillion. >> your money is being wasted ,

and the department of government efficiency will fix that. >> reporter: whatever happens, musk is gloating in the wake of trump's victory. a political romance ruing. musk pictured with trump on election night, his family, and with caitlin jenner. musk posted this image, showing him carrying a sink into the oval office, saying, let that sink in, a throwback to when musk bought a twitter and posted this video of him carrying a sink into the headquarters, with promises to shake things up on the social media platform. it should be noted, musk and his co-investors bought a twitter for $44 billion, one recent accounting has it valued at less than 10 million. >> it is amazing to watch all that but it is not just the contacts or the role in an administration which could work to musks advantage here. >> right. when you think about all of these investigations that are floating around, the department of labor, department of justice, department of transportation, has these

litigations into musks various businesses. tesla, for example, spacex. now, you have to wonder, do some or all of these investigations now go away? that is certainly a boost for business as well. >> it sure would be. in addition to new business. >> jason, thank you. now, mark caputo has reported extensively on the machinations inside trump world . that's a fun word to say. mark, you just saw jason's report, right? musk is now attached to trump for now in trump's family photo on election night. what more are you learning about the true extent of his influence on trump? >> i think they have influence on each other. elon musk eggs being around, from what i am told, donald trump, because donald trump is this fascinating historical figure, and vice versa. donald trump would say at his rallies, frequently, he would go off on

these long tangents about how fascinating rocket ships were they are just mutually infatuated with each other. one thing that i think should be clear, is that, it's not as if elon musk will really come into the administrator and and get a job. he will be in one of these czar roles , probably, where he is going to have an interagency authority similar to operation warp speed , which had grouped together these different agencies. same thing, but like rfk will probably do that on the health side that is the chatter that is happening. >> i know some in the business will think, okay, if musk is involved with the way that he has run companies and cut wasteful spending, that could be a good thing. fine. my curiosity, you just used the

word, infatuation. often, infatuations don't end so well. right? they turn into -- they flip to the opposite side of things and we have seen this, before. remember steve bannon, when he was seen as potentially to influential in the white house. what is your sense of the depth of the relationship and whether it will last? >> i have no idea. there are a lot of similarities between donald trump and the way that he runs his administer rations, his campaigns, and like , professional wrestling. you have characters that are allied, and then the fallout, and come back. steve bannon is back in good graces with donald trump, for instance. what could happen next? who knows. is a part of the secret of how trump presses on, everyone kind of watches and sees what is next. >> you obviously know much about trumps inner circle , you have known susie wiles well before she came into the roles he was a trump campaign now chief of staff, how is she

going to run it and turn that into something with longevity? >> is in the same way she ran the campaign, which is, she puts the principal first, not herself, she is nonconfrontatio nal, she doesn't try to take credit . she has good selections, good pics , and empowers people to make decisions on their own, and rules or make decisions by consensus. he didn't hear any stories leak out about internal drama at the trump campaign surrounding susie wiles trying to manage the candidate, something that she doesn't do, and that worked. donald trump really appreciated it. you don't really hear donald trump thanking people a lot, but on election night, he made sure to go out of his way to thank her and bring her up on stage. along with crystal acevedo, campaign comanager, but to give

extra attention to susie for a reason because he is truly grateful for what she did so far, and he believes that she will do a good job going forward. considering her track record, they lot of wins in florida, that's probably a good bet. >> thank you very much. good to see you. next, people in one border town voted for trump, fully knowing his mass deportation plan, perhaps because of it. so, do they think that he will actually follow through on that promise, now? dramatic images, major economy collapsing and the u.s. rushing to evacuate its citizens. china launching a full-scale invasion. it is all a part of a television show that beijing does not want us to see.

tonight, a caravan of 1000 migrants will move through mexico and try to make it to the u.s. before president-elect trump takes office but this comes as some of donald trump's most ardent voters, came from border areas. just to show you how massive that change is to the left of your screen is 2020, you can see that blue in the southern part

of texas along the border, and on the right, you can see all that red. those voters , lured to trump by promises like these. >> on day one i will launch the largest deportation program in american history. we will have to do a very large deportation, because you cannot live like that. on day one of my new administration, the invasion ends and the deportation begins. outfront now, mayor victor trivino is from laredo, texas, in webb county which flipped red for the first time in more than a century. the first time in 112 years. i want to ask you, mayor, but these promises from trump in just a moment, but first, what i began with, that caravan showing on the screen, more than 100 thousand migrants heading to the u.s. right now, some of them told us they decided to do this and the got in this caravan as soon as they found out that trump won

because they want to get into the united states before he takes office. you are sitting right now at one of the largest border crossings in the united states of america. are you concerned you will see another surge in crossings before january? >> thank you for having me, first of all, and i do see that even though a great amount of people are coming, it won't be something that we have not seen before and as a matter of fact, we get the migrants referred to our city for processing. but, you know, when i see this, people maybe want to think that before president-elect trump goes into office, they can come in. so, that is unfortunate, because there's a lot of dangers and difficulties and it is not so easy to cross like before. >> to that point about not being as easy, if trump comes to you , he says he is pushing

forward with his plan for mass deportations, he said no matter what the cost it will do it. today, republican congressman jim banks, just elected to the senate, told us that every single , his words, every single undocumented immigrant has to go. with me just play how he put it. >> the american people spoke loud and clear on tuesday but they gave this president and republicans a mandate to do everything that we can. the goal should be to deport every illegal in this country that we can find. >> trump has talked about doing exactly that, mayor, but in the past, he has made promises , whether it is the wall, or locking up hillary clinton, that he did not keep. i am curious, from how you see it, voters in laredo, counting on him to do mass deportations. >> one of the things that we have to listen to their opinions, but to do a mass

deportation, first of all, who is going to work those jobs? what is our economy going to do without the people who fill those jobs that american people don't want to take but these are people who are working jobs that keep the country going, they're going out to field and doing jobs and cleaning restrooms, they are assisting in restaurants, all those jobs, you get rid of all those people, undocumented immigrants, i think that would be very dysfunctional, and it is not reality. this is just one of those things that i think that he is saying, he has been saying for years, and probably, that is not a thing that would be functional but i think that is the way that it would go. >> south texas overwhelmingly flocked to president-elect trump. your county flipped republican for the first time in 100 years. this is incredible, we've never seen a swing like that. madera, who

lives in texas, our reporter, he has been talking to latino voters who support trump and here's how one of them explain his vote. >> as someone who came from el salvador who loves this country, i have seen the destruction. i have seen the result of people abusing the system, i have seen death and destruction , and pain and poverty up close . and what he wants for this country is the opposite. >> mayor, we spoke several times during the campaign. you had a chance to speak with the harris campaign, i know that you supported her. did you see and hear this sentiment at the level that it turned out at the ballot box in the weeks before the election? >> we saw the will of the people being exercised. but i think the people did not choose between a democrat and republican. i think the choice

was between two people, and people chose president-elect trump, the good and the bad, they made a decision that the good outweigh the bad. these are things that i think our personal individual choices. the majority of latinos voting for trump despite his rhetoric, the elections really made a mandate for what the latino community had been saying for years. don't take the latino vote for granted and that is what we saw here. >> certainly send that message. mayor trivino, i appreciate seeing you. think you. >> thank you very much. next, no food, water, or power. chaos on the streets. it is the scenario playing out in a new show about a chinese invasion. we will tell you about it and the chance for reality.

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invasion is so intense in taiwan there is even a television show all about what it war between the two countries will look like. will ripley is out front. >> reporter: i am in a temple in southern taiwan on the set of zero day. and upcoming 10 part series, dramatizing for the first time, taiwan's response to a looming invasion. >> wire we nate temple with a table full of money? >> translator: many taiwanese temples have closed relationships with china, service will not fund bribery in elections. >> reporter: zero day errors a few months after taiwan's general elections. from how much research went into this?

>> quite a lot. >> reporter: zero day shows how quickly daily life in taiwan could crumble, before a single shot is fired. china's people's liberation army cuts off the island by sea and by air. within days of beijing's blockade, the financial system collapses . the united states and other foreign governments rush to evacuate their citizens. >> reporter: how the united states breaks through the blockade will be a challenge. >> reporter: vulnerabilities are exposed and everyday conveniences collapses. water, security, and communication systems fail. supplies run out, food and fuel shortages create total chaos. the world is watching, but hesitant to intervene , leaving taiwan on its own. day by day, fear spreads , and chaos unfolds.

divisions deepen, democracy crumbles, as pla soldiers set foot on taiwanese soil. >> reporter: in a lot of these scenes, even though they are fiction, producers say they are based, very much, on real life. the crew was allowed to film inside the presidential office and aboard a warship, leading to accusations from china's state run tabloid, global times, the show is up again the. >> reporter: it's a very sensitive topic. so taboo that the crew, the actors, the directors, they all take a risk of never being able to work in the chinese market. >> reporter: the u.s. believes china aims to have the ability to invade taiwan by 2027. that does not mean beijing has decided to invade.

>> reporter: what was the scariest part for you as you look at potential scenarios ? >> when the panic happened, that whole society will be in disorder. >> reporter: antics could happen very quickly but even before a single shot is fired , which is the point the producers of the show are trying to make, especially now with trump's return to the presidency and this potential shift in u.s. defensive policy.'s comments on taiwan needing to pay the u.s. for production. this is a transactional approach that raises a lot of doubts about whether the u.s. would actually intervene if china were to attack. >> all of this now is something we may all live through and see how it goes. will, thank you. thank you so much for joining us. the source starts now.

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