[ laughter ] >> we won't take it ourselves. we give it to the food banks. [ laughter ] we are all wearing pink in reminder to tell somebody good morning. it's trump. >> usa, usa. >> donald j. trump will be the next president of the united states. an astonishing victory, and a massive repudiation of his washington establishment, and e media. trump speaking to his supporters early this morning. >> it is time for us to come together as one united people. >> hillary clinton calling him to concede, but no speech from her overnight. her supporters devastated. his, overjoyed. america as we know it has changed. the billionaire businessman and

he's set to take over the nation's highest office, today, wednesday, november 9th, 2016. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today" decision 2016, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from rockefeller the nation is waking up to a stunning upset. donald trump is the president-elect of the united states. anything new happen in your political world overnight? >> the voters have spoken and done so in resounding fashion. the political world remade the map, remade every assumption people make about politics undone. people have called it a political earthquake, i'd say, and a magnitude of quite a scale.

throughout the evening. it finally culminated in the wee hours of the morning. hillary clinton conceded the presidency to donald trump in a phone call. that came at about 2:30 a.m. but in a surprising move, she did not appear at her campaign's watch party and did not make an election night concession speech. she is, however, scheduled to deliver one later this morning. of course we'll have that for you live. >> so let's take a look at where things stand if you're just waking up. 278 electoral votes at this hour, 218 for clinton. we have yet to call a few key states, arizona, minnesota, michigan and new hampshire. >> as for the popular vote, it is a razor-thin margin. in fact clinton is actually leading this morning by several thousand votes. >> another major headline from the election results boosted by trump's performance. republicans were able to fend off democratic rivals. they maintain control of the u.s. senate, including key wins

of course republicans hold on to the house, so they have got the trifecta for trump, the white house, the senate and the house for republicans. our decision 2016 team ready to go this morning. let's start with nbc national correspondent peter alexander. he's at trump tower. peter, good morning. >> hey, savannah, good morning to you. no better way to put it than a political earthquake and this morning we are still feeling the shock waves of this. this was both a seismic and an improbable trump. trump, who this morning is still celebrating his victory from last night, has already returned to his favorite megaphone, twitter, now changing his bio to read president-elect of the united states. he also put out a message. his first words of this new day writing such a beautiful and important evening. the forgotten man and woman will never be forgotten again. we will all come together as never before. >> sorry to keep you waiting,

dramatic and sweeping victory. >> as i've said from the beginning, ours was not a campaign but rather an incredible and great movement made up of millions of hard-working men and women who love their country and want a better, brighter future for themselves and for their family. >> just before 3:00 in the morning on the east coast, trump announced he had received a call from his fierce va it's about us, on our victory. and i congratulated her and her family on a very, very hard-fought campaign. >> after a brutal and divisive campaign, trump is pledging to bring the country together. >> it is time for us to come together as one united people. i pledge to every citizen of our

so important to me. >> as his aides watched the improbable victory take shape, sources at trump tower tell nbc news there was euphoria, hugs and high fives. campaign manager kellyanne conway ticking off the ingredients of an upset. rally crowds matter, we expanded the map. trump's victory built on the backs of white working class voters for whom he was the candidate of hope and change. >> every single have the opportunity to realize his or her fullest potential. the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. >> reporter: more than 500 days after descending that escalator, trump now propelled into the oval office as america's 45th president, concluding his first-ever political campaign. >> it's been what they call a historic event, but to be really

and i promise you that i will not let you down, we will do a great job. we will do a great job. >> reporter: and donald trump's campaign manager, kellyanne conway tells nbc news that president obama called president-elect trump last night, though it's unclear whether the two men were able to speak. trump will be inaugurated on january 20th, at which time he'll move from one great avenue to another. from fifth avenue here in manhattan to 1600 pennsylvania avenue in the matt and savannah. >> peter alexander at trump tower. speaking of kellyanne conway, trump's campaign manager, she's with us now. kellyanne, good morning. i know it was a late night. congratulations to you on the campaign. >> thank you, savannah, thank you. >> can you tell us anything about this phone call that's been reported between president obama and mr.trump, what was said? how would you characterize it? >> it was a very warm conversation and we were happy to receive the call from the president. they had a great thorough conversation about mr. trump's

they resolved to work together, which is exactly what this country needs, to get the current president and the president-elect and others who are in leadership positions to help unify and heal the country. we expect that the two gentlemen will be meeting soon. >> kellyanne, i have to ask you a question. for months and months now donald trump has been saying that the election is rigged. would president-elect trump now agree that the election is not, was not and ner >> well, he certainly would say the system is rigged and it proved last night he's got millions of people who agree with him. i think, you know, when he says the election is rigged, matt, what he's really talking about is he couldn't believe that he wasn't winning. he'd look at these polls, hear everybody on tv constantly say he can't win, she's a shoo-in, the path is gone, there's no way. look what happened yesterday. i think there's just a frustration for him and for those of us close to him and working for him that you've got a lot of people talking to each

and that's what he was able to do here, he was able to put together a campaign, he and governor pence, that talked to people and talked with people and not at people. >> can we go back to last night. i know hillary clinton placed a call to mr. trump. can you tell us anything about that call? and was your campaign disappointed that she didn't come out and concede in the way that traditionally losing candidates do? >> well, it's not for us to judge her conduct. i would expect and i've seen reported, savannah, that secretary clinton will comeut the nation indeed today. i don't know if those reports are true, it makes sense to me. but she has to do that on her own comfortable timeline. we had made our way to the hotel to see our supporters and we intended just to do there what we were doing here all night, which is watch the returns, watch the different states be called, and then eventually a victor, a president of the united states. while we were getting ready to do that, we received a call from secretary clinton. i gave the phone to mr. trump and they had a very cordial, very warm conversation.

mr. trump on his victory and she commended -- excuse me, he commended her for being smart and tough and running a really hard-fought campaign. >> kellyanne, let me ask you a personal question. in your heart when you sat with us yesterday morning and said that you thought you would win this election and win michigan and some of the states that it appears you will have actually have won, did you believe it or do you have that good of poker face? >> i did believe it. we've seen that happening for a while now. we just modeled the electorate very differently than conventional pollsters do. i think that sometimes there are conclusions in search of evidence. if everybody around you is saying the same thing, then you convince yourself that it must be true. we just wanted people to tell us who they were, what motivated them, their fears and frustrations. we knew, matt, we'd be able to flip one or two of these traditionally blue states because donald trump is not a conventional republican mess messenger. there's a lot of what he says that harkens back to ronald

and creating jobs and being patriotic and renegotiating bad trade deals. you heard him last night, though, he wants to be a unifier. he wants to help heal and bind the nation. i thought the most important thing mr. trump said last night in his victory speech was that he wants to be the president of all americans, and that includes the many who did not vote for him. >> well, we knew whoever won, they were going to have that tall order before them right away, and so it is. kellyanne conway, again, congratulations. hope you catch some sleep and again. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> again, we expect to hear from hillary clinton later this morning. kristen welker covering her campaign. kristen, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning to you. shock, anger and disbelief. those are just a few of the words democrats are using to describe their mood this morning. they thought that secretary clinton was on the cusp of making history. instead she suffered a stinging defeat, one that has sent shock waves all across the world. she was poised to make history,

clinton's white house hopes ending. clinton calling donald trump to concede the election just moments before he took the stage. but clinton did not concede publicly. instead sending her campaign chair, john podesta, to address stunned supporters. >> it's been a long night and it's been a long campaign, but i can say we can wait a little longer, can't we? >> reporter: facing a shrinking elra attend her rally that was being held under the symbolic glass ceiling at the javits center in new york. hours before podesta took the stage, clinton supporters looking shocked. some openly weeping. >> we got a lot wrong. i'm not sure why or how. there's a lot of -- a lot of divide. >> reporter: state after state turning the election map into a sea of red. the billionaire chipping away at her so-called blue wall. winning in what were thought to

key battlegrounds. in florida, disbelief from latino voters after trump, who vowed to build a wall during the campaign, surged to victory. >> it's very hard for me to accept that a man of his caliber is going to be our president. >> reporter: but this morning, there is still uncertainty over a future trump presidency. dow futures plummeting overnight. an anxious crowd gathering at the white house. president obama, who campaigned furiously for clinton, stunning rebuke. clinton, whose white house hopes were dashed in 2008 boy a newcomer from her own party seemed often to be on a glide path to victory, but she was dogged by voters' lack of trust in her and an e-mail controversy that wouldn't go away. back in new york, the glass ceiling still unbroken, as democrats now try to pick up the pieces. and as we wait to hear from secretary clinton later on today, we're also waiting for an official reaction from the white

donald trump are bitter political rivals. they will inevitably have to find some common ground as the transition gets under way. matt, savannah. >> kristen, thank you very much. >> and that's going to happen sooner rather than later. the white house tomorrow, trump will meet with president obama. that is something that traditionally happens and the white house just released that information that, yes, that meeting will take place there at the white house between the president and the president-elect. let's go to steve kornacki who was at the board all night long paths to victory for both campaigns. take a look at pennsylvania, which was thought to be an absolute firewall for the clinton campaign. what can you tell us? >> pennsylvania really tells you a lot of the national story too. let's go inside and you see donald trump winning the state again, first time in 28 years a republican has done this. how did he do it? couple things we thought would be key. one, the black vote. it was there in a big way for obama. would it be there in the same numbers for hillary clinton? look at philadelphia here.

election eve. what do you see? the margin that hillary clinton got out of here was a little north of 450,000 votes. by comparison, in 2012, barack obama won philadelphia by 490,000, so they lost some ground there. they were ready for that, they thought, because what they thought would insulate them in philadelphia were those white college-educated voters in the suburbs right outside of philadelphia. this was supposed to be what really drove the margin up for hillary clinton, but check this out. hillary clinton winning buc donald trump. that is unchanged from four years ago. that's no progress for the democrats there. you go right next door in montgomery county, that is only a little bit of progress. they made some gains, the democrats did, in the philadelphia suburbs but they didn't make anywhere near the kind of gains with white college-educated voters they thought they would and that allowed donald trump with those two things happening, two things then, you look in the rural parts of the state, you look in the interior, he drove up the

he basically doubled the republican margins in counties like these and then think of scranton, scranton, pennsylvania, lackawanna county. it's blue on this map but four years ago barack obama won this county by nearly 30 points is. last night it was a nail-biter. look at all the ground that donald trump made up, white blue collar part of pennsylvania. it's a story there and a story we saw all over the map night. >> there's somebody very familiar who's from scranton, pennsylvania. >> joe biden is thinking if only. >> a lot of democrats are thinking that, if only about joe biden, bernie sanders. there's a lot of sanders supporters who are saying, hey, you know, we were talking to these voters. she wasn't. and so there's a lot of second guessing here. they're second guessing was tim kaines right running mate. should she have picked somebody that would have fired up more of the obama coalition.

>> nicolle, when you look at what steve was point out in pennsylvania and how it affected the rest of the country in counties across the country, what specifically was it about the trump message that resonated? >> well, a couple things. one, he closed very strong. the news, the comey letter that came out the friday before and that nine-day stretch represented his most disciplined period as a candidate so he settled on the closing message of the forgotten man and woman. talking about joe biden, joe de kellyanne conway, i don't know that we modeled incorrectly, but i think we underestimated that to the forgotten man and woman her ethical lapses were equal in their minds to his sort of outlandish statement with racial and sexist undertones. to the voter they cancelled each other out and we got that wrong. i think a lot of people thought he was disqualified for the things that he said on the "access hollywood" tape, the musz limb ban, the racially

mexicans. but in the voters' mind, her ethical lapses were greater than that. >> that's one of the most fascinating things about the exit polls last night. it's not as though when we see this trump sweep people decided, you know, he's a great guy. 60% in our exit poll still had an unfavorable opinion of trump. so it seems that it's really about the melsage that trump sent schls the-- as much as the messenger. >> that was supposed to be a change election environment. 'v country saying we're headed in the wrong direction. by the way, we've had eight years of a democratic president. sometimes we almost naturally are looking to change. this was always an environment that wanted to be for change. i think trump held himself back for a long time, but it may be that the comey letter sort of reoriented folks to say, oh, that's right, she's status quo and he's not. >> chuck, thank you.

little while. >> as the prospect of a trump presidency became clear, global financial markets reacted and plummeted this morning. the dow is set to open down hundreds of points. let's get to cnbc's jim cramer who's at the stock exchange for us this morning. hi, jim, good morning. what do you expect? >> well, i've got to tell you last night obviously around midnight there was pure panic. we looked like we were down 5%. that has changed rather dramatically. the markets have rallied and look to be down 1.5 to 2%. that's not down en the fact that we tacked on 2% since comey kind of vindicated hillary clinton. so i suspect we get back those two. i don't think that anything really dangerous is going to happen to the stock market because he is a businessman and he is pro growth and those are things that the stock market really does like. >> all right. jim, thank you very much. we appreciate it. let's get a quick check of the weather from mr. roker. >> that's one thing that always changes, what the heck. hey, and we are going to

north and so look at this swath of above normal temperatures. san diego, 90 degrees. that's 23 degrees above average. chicago is going to be at 57. birmingham 71. for tomorrow, the heat continues from las vegas, minneapolis, cleveland, all the way down to atlanta. the one exception is goingo be the northeast and the great lakes. we're going to see big changes coming as we head into the weekend. temperatures anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees below average.

and that's your latest weather. guys? all right, al. thank you very much. coming up, republican national committee chairman reince priebus joins us live. could he be looking at a new job in a trump administration? and the trump first family, over speculation to what ivanka's new role will i be in the white house.

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on channel 20. plus the financial markets are feeling the effects of the election. more on the response from around the world coming up. let's check weather and traffic now with amelia and marty. >> thank you, corey. we are going up with sky9, they are over 36th this morning, checking in near federal, backups pretty light right now, so it's not too bad across broomfield or boulder. i would take this drive any day but it is bright and sunny out there. you can see those long shadows cast across the roads. go out to our cameras now, 225 and parker, southbounders it's a little tough to see but approach to parker road nearly back to iliff and a couple of key locations with crashes include our eastbound sixth avenue drive at federal, delays of 16 minutes in place from golden and good news, northbound 25 is now completely clear, marty, right around speer. >> good to hear. speaking of completely clear, that's what we will be throughout the day today, a bit of a breeze on the eastern plains, clear conditions here and quite warm with 60s and 70s for the front range and east,

west. near 72 degrees for a very brief time this afternoon. most of the day will be spent in the 60s during the middle of the day. we do get slightly cooler tomorrow as clouds roll in in the afternoon, drop us down to the 50s on friday, but we are back to 60 plus for saturday

to those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, i'm reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that our great country. >> we're back at 7:30 wednesday morning, the day after election day. that was just part of president-elect donald trump's victory speech overnight after his stunning victory in the presidential race that surprised the whole world. >> people are waking up. the reaction is incredible here in this country. it's also coming in from around the world this morning. british prime minister theresa may has offered her congratulations to trump, while

solid base and shouldn't change with donald trump's election. >> and someone who was mentioned a lot during the campaign, the russian president, vladimir putin, also weighing in. he sent a telegram of congratulations to donald trump and in a statement putin said he hopes to work together for removing russian-american relations from their crisis state. >> it goes without saying that trump's unexpected surge of support was a shocking conclusion to what seemed like an endless campaign. nbc's hallie jackson is here with center and she's got more on that. hallie, good morning. >> good morning. donald trump has stunned a lot of people today, but not all of them, not his supporters who backed him from the very beginning. trump's campaign always said that their army of backers would mobilize at the polls. turns out they did. and now their impact is reshaping politics as we know it. >> i say it is time for us to

pe people. >> an ending fit for the most unpredictable presidential race in modern history. donald trump declaring victory after a tight battle against hillary clinton. >> it's surprising to say the least. >> i'm just so excited that america is speaking. not the political pundits, not the elite, it's the people. >> it is probably one of the most amazing things that i have watched and been able to be a part of. >> listen, we predicted that he will be the 45th president of the united states. >> that's saying "you're hired" to the real estate mogul turned reality tv host. the ultimate unconventional candidate who heads to the white house based on a simple pledge. >> we're going to make america great again. >> reporter: his path to victory shaking up american politics, despite unapologetically stirring up controversy with comments that might have been the phoned any other candidate. >> they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists.

muslims entering the united states. i love the poorly educated. >> reporter: trump unshackled and unfazed, connecting with those voters who flocked to his rallies. >> it's time to fight for america. i'm not a politician, i can say proudly. my only special interest is you. it's you. >> reporter: focusing on lost jobs, he shared common enemies with his supporters, from the government to the media. >> some of the media is terrific, but most of it, 70%, 75%, is absolute dishonest, absolute scum. >> reporter: and while the late-night comics struck a somber note. >> it feels like we're trying to avoid the apocalypse and half of the country is voting for the asteroid. >> reporter: the people have spoken. and in trump they trust to make good on his promise to, in his words, drain the swamp and maybe shake up washington in ways we've never seen. >> i can only say that while the

beginning. >> here's the challenge for trump now after a campaign slog in which both candidates tried to painting the other as unfit to take office. our exit polls show some two-thirds of the country do not believe donald trump is honest or trustworthy. he now has the challenge of trying to bring folks together, trying to bridge that gap, matt and savannah, and that is something you have heard him talk about already. >> hallie, thank you very much. coming out of the white house a short time ago that donald trump and president obama will meet tomorrow. we don't know the time. but can you imagine being a fly on the wall at that meeting, especially considering some of the things that president obama has said about donald trump in the recent past. >> said it to you basically, all but saying this day will never come. take a look. >> do you feel you're responsible for a certain hunger out there for the message that donald trump is putting out.

trump is putting out has had adherence a lot of times during the course of our history. talk to me if he wins, then we'll have a conversation about how responsible i feel about it. >> when you stand and deliver that state of the union address in no part of your mind or brain can you imagine donald trump standing up one day and delivering a state of the union address? >> well, i can ine saturday night skit. look, anything is possible and i think, you know, we shouldn't be complacent. i think everybody has got to work hard. >> i think it's safe to say this is a day president obama did not think would come. >> by the way, he's in good company. i think there are about 16 republican primary candidates who said something very, very similar that donald trump would never be the republican nominee. so fair to say nobody except perhaps donald trump in the

>> that's true. we're going to speak to the chairman of the republican national committee in just a second, but first let's get a check of the weather from al. >> we've got some wet weather making its way toward the northeast and also through the gulf coast. you can see along a frontal system stretching from brownsville, panama city, jacksonville, all the way into the northeast we're looking at wet weather making its way, nothing too horrible. as the morning wears on, low pressure develops along this system. brief heavy rains as this moves offshore, moving from boston all the way down into record highs stretching from the plains on into the southwest. we've got wet weather here in the northeast and still some

sglmp you can track that weather any time you need to by going to the weather channel 24/7. we're joined now by the right-hand side chairman, reince priebus. good morning to you. >> hey, good morning. >> i want a sense of what it was like last night. just give me some of the color behind the scenes, what was going on started out in the exit polling, i think a little concerned about what we were seeing. but like all elections, you get that exit polling and it's like -- to me it's like pure poison. everyone starts chasing it down, you don't know how scientific it is. you know what your voter scores say, you know what your modeling says, you know what your vote count is, you feel good about that, and then those come into play. we just kept our head down and as a team we just said forget

straight, we're going to do our job. let's not get down and move forward. and we did and state after state after state, donald trump and mike pence delivered. we delivered on the plan. that team did a great job and i was just honored to be a part of it. >> can you share at all what mr. trump's reaction was? were you there in the room when that moment happened and it dawned on him, hey, this is real. this is happening. i'm about to be elected president of the united times to people, the donald trump behind the scenes one on one just like this is the guy we always wanted america to see. it wasn't necessarily the guy the media portrayed, but it was the guy in private that we knew was the guy that could be a great president. >> maybe it wasn't the guy that he portrayed either. do you think you're going to see a different side of donald trump? >> what i was going to say is he was steady the whole night through. he never got -- he wasn't high

he understood what it was to be president of the united states and even preparing for that speech last night, he knew he wanted to deliver a calm, measured response and he did it. >> let me ask you the bigger picture question, that people have described this as a reinvention of the republican party. others have described it as a hostile takeover of the republican party. what is it? >> you know, look, i think -- i think in some ways it was a realignment of the midwest. there's a lot of people that feel that they were left behind. there were a lot of people that felt like politicians that have said things and never delivered. i think he captured the frustration of the american people. but i think he also -- donald trump understands that he made a commitment and he's going to deliver on that commitment. and i just have to tell you, just my own -- from my own experience, he gets it.

and i think he wants to really deliver and he wants to be a great president. >> a couple of things. your name has been mentioned as a potential chief of staff in the white house, having some role in the white house. is that a discussion that's happened, number one? and number two, do you feel like the trump team is ready? that the transition work has really begun in earnest and that they'll be ready to take the reins? >> first of all, no conversation about that, none. >> your own -- >> none. actually no -- hardly from our viewpoint, i mean we're not part between the rnc, the campaign, nothing. but those are the things that i think we just have to slow down on. this has been like three or four hours. i i think you and i are going on the same amount of sgleep yes, we are. >> mine was my accident by falling asleep on a chair and then getting ready for this interview. but i just think that what you're seeing from donald trump and that team is just to be

mature voice to the world and that's what you saw last night in his speech. >> do you want a role in a trump administration? >> honestly -- i know people say it can't be possible. i haven't thought about it. right now i'm chairman of the party, i'm excited about that job. we delivered on what we promised, which is to support our nominee like we've never done before. but donald trump himself made this happen and the american people made this happen and we are just a small part of it. >> he had high praise for you last priebus. thank you for getting up early and being with us this morning. appreciate it. >> appreciate it. up next, good-bye new york, hello washington. an inside look at president-elect trump's plans for his family when he moves into the white house. but first, these messages. (vo) what if the sweet stevia leaf was discovered before the sugar cane? after people were enjoying truvia in their coffee and everything else. sugar would come along and go...

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she retreated from the spotlight after being criticized for inadvertently lifting parts of her rnc speech from michelle obama. in the final days of trump's campaign, melania made a rare appearance to promote one of her agendas as first lady, protecting children against cyberbullying. >> we have to find a better way to talk to each other. >> it too garnered criticism, given her husband's insult-laden campaign. as first lady, melania will also be first mother 10-year-old son. he's the same age as malia obama when her family moved into the white house. as for trump's oether children, he's hinted as a possible cabinet position for ivanka, one of his closest advisers. >> he will fight for equal pay for equal work and i will fight for this too right alongside of him. >> i can tell everybody would say put ivanka in, put ivanka in. >> absolutely. >> she's very popular and she's done very well. >> reporter: another possible

ivanka's husband, real estate developer jared kushner, a chief advisor on trump's campaign, reportedly responsible for his social media strategy. trump has said if elected, he'd separate himself from his real estate company by turning over controisns, 38-year-old donald jr. and 32-year-old eric. >> i have ivanka and eric and don sitting there. run the company, kids, have a good time. >> the real estate mogul's new si chief. now of course if ivanka is not recruited for her father's administration, she will help run the trump organization with her brothers. now having the kids run the company would not constitute a blind trust, but that is perfectly legal. the president is not obliged like some members of the cabinet, the treasury secretary by way of example, to separate himself from his company. >> just to reiterate your point, if the kids run the company, none of the kids can have

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>> hi, everyone, i'm gary shapiro. here's what's happening on channel 20 for 9news 8:00 a.m. this morning. colorado went blue this year, voting mostly for hillary clinton. she won the state but some counties did stick with donald trump. we will talk about that more coming up at 8:00. plus democrats react to hillary clinton's dashed hopes of breaking the glass ceiling. but the white house is reaching out today. we will talk about an offer from president obama to donald

voters weighed on on election night. we will talk about the local initiatives and how they came out, that's on channel 20. right now let's check the morning commute and weather and traffic. >> this time starting off down south in the dtc because our i- 25 drive got a whole lot more difficult near arapahoe. cdot camera here, the backups are just starting to form behind and northbound 25 crash at arapahoe itself as we pull up our maps we are going to zoom down there to the south end and still sluggish north of the arapahoe area, the backups probably will go to c-470. just a little further to the east there is also a southbound parker road crash near orchard and that's a tough one to get around. those slowdowns just north of arapahoe could extend back to 225 and across sixth avenue we are finally clear of the wreck at federal and those drive times, marty, are slowly starting to tick on down. >> takes a little while for that to recover. for us today sunny day, breezy on the eastern plains but beyond that calm especially

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it's 8:00 on today. coming up, shocker. donald trump pulls off the biggest upset in modern political history, beating hillary clinton handily. the president-elect holding an early morning rally in front of friends, calling for the nation to come together after a brutal campaign. >> working together we will begin the urgent task of rebuilding our nation and renewing the american dream. >> his opponent, hillary clinton, calling him overnight to concede, but failing to address the nation. so what's next for the billionaire businessman turned 45th president of the united states? and how will the democrats

the house and the senate, and now the white house. we've got reaction from across the nation and around the world. today, wednesday, november 9th, 2016. and good morning again, everyone. this election went well into the wee hours of the morning, so if you crashed, if you went to sleep around midnight and you're just waking up, yes, that's the graphic you need to see. donald trump elected 45th president of the united states. >> and the republicans hold on to the senate, the republicans hold on to the house, so there is a new wave in washington. we heard from mr. trump last night. we're going to hear from hillary clinton a little bit later this morning. and the white house has announced this morning that the president will also speak out today. he's also going to meet with mr. trump at the white house tomorrow. we're going to bring you all these speeches live as the morning rolls on here. >> let's focus in on the results. nbc news has trump with 278 electoral votes. we expect him to pick up more

the battleground states of arizona, minnesota, michigan and new hampshire. >> it is a difference story, though, in the popular vote. take a look at this, hillary clinton has the lead. the lead has been expanding throughout the morning. her margin now nearly 150,000. >> as savannah just mentioned, president-elect trump, well, he'll enter the white house with republicans in control of congress. the gop managing to hold on to the senate. >> we've got our political team all lined up to break it down and start with peter hi, peter, good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, matt and savannah, good morning to you. i just spoke to a top official close to donald trump who tells me as they watched the results come in last night, they were simply stunned. that aides thought the race would be close, but never thought that donald trump would come out on top. trump now proving himself to be the great disrupter of american politics, single handedly overthrowing the status quo. it was the speech trump

>> i just received a call from secretary clinton. >> reporter: at 2:50 wednesday morning donald trump delivering a victory speech after completing a shocking upset of hillary clinton to win the white house. in a got you are from the historically nasty tone of this campaign, a humbled trump praised clinton and preached a message of unity for the country. >> hillary has worked very long d of time and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country. >> reporter: reaching out to all americans. >> for those who have chosen not to support me, i'm reaching out to you for your guide anance an your help so we can work together. >> reporter: and doubling down on his pledge to make america great again. >> we have a great economic plan.

anywhere in the world. >> reporter: trump surprised everyone by sweeping battlegrounds, florida, pennsylvania, michigan, ohio, wisconsin and north carolina. white working class voters in rural areas of the so-called big blue wall carrying trump to victory. the election a transformative event and a slam dunk win for republicans across the board. >> let's make it official, the republicans hold the senate. >> reporter: for hillary clinton and her supporters, an outcome still hard to campaign didn't acknowledge last night on stage. >> it's been a long night and it's been a long campaign. but i can say we can wait a little longer, can't we? >> reporter: shortly after the announcement, clinton conceding on the phone. >> she congratulated us. it's about us, on our victory. and i congratulated her and her family on a very, very hard-fought campaign.

>> oh, my gosh. you know, i kept looking up at the glass ceiling and it's still just solid. >> reporter: for trump backers, validation. >> it's huge. >> reporter: in an election that seemed to break down along class and cultural divisions, trump's win is seen as a statement by the american people against the status quo and a vote to take the country in a new direction. >> no dream is too big, no challenge is too great. nothing we want for our future is beyond our america will no longer settle for anything less than the best. >> reporter: and donald trump returning to twitter this morning, changing the bio that now reads president-elect of the united states, describing last night as a beautiful and important evening. as for that conversation, president obama did call the president-elect, president-elect trump, last night to congratulate him, inviting him to come to the white house tomorrow where he will update him on the planning that's

matt and savannah. >> peter alexander for us again from trump tower, thank you. >> we are joined now by tom brokaw, mike murphy and presidential historian michael beschloss. michael, let me start with you. this is the time of the morning we need perspective, all right? what do you compare this to? >> thanks a lot, matt. no one is going to argue that trump is andrew jackson, but that was a president who did run against elites, but maybe a better comparison is the mid-1930 still just under 20%. franklin roosevelt had been president and huey long was running against fdr saying every man a king, i'm going to redistribute wealth. long was assassinated, but had he lived could have really given roosevelt a run for his money, 1936. >> tom, a lot of people were thinking about the year 2000 last night. i know you have ptsd from 2000, but we may have that situation again where you have a winner of a popular vote but the ultimate

electoral vote. and to see that happen again in such a relatively short amount of time. >> well, the big difference is, however, that hillary clinton has called him and acknowledged what happened and we'll hear from her this morning what she has to say. i was thinking 24 hours ago we were sitting around saying how does the republican party put itself back together again after this devastating loss that will come tonight and what will happen to donald trump, you know, in the future. 24 hours later, we're saying how is the democratic party going to what are they going to deal with in congress. look, he made a very gracious speech last night and yesterday morning, the first thing that he talked about, but there's a whole trail of things behind that that he had to say and the kind of language he used and the way he treated people. how he mends that and binds up those wounds is going to be a high priority for him if he wants to move forward.

those republicans that said no thanks, no to donald trump, how is your week going? >> well, you're shocked and stunned like everybody, but in a larger sense, we've got to bring the country together and we all want our president to succeed. so the one thing about one party government now is it's a team and you have two very strong experienced people in mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. i think republicans have to come together and encourage donald trump to do what he did last night which is rise to the occasion. >> we know donald trump has a long is he going to reach out to those people who shunned him over the course of this election? >> that is the huge question, but he now has an awesome responsibility and people tend to rise to it. i think he very well may after last night and we've got to meet him there. i'm going to take radio gop and bury the transmitter for a while. the resistance will shut down and let's hope for the best and hope trump does that, president-elect trump. i'm learning to say it.

our leaders ought to fall in and see what happens. >> i think a really important thing is that we've gotten ourselves deeply involved in what i call tribal politics. we're playing one tribe against the other. we've got to get the african-american, no, we've got to get the chicano vote or the mexican american vote or hispanic vote, whatever you choose to call it. we've got to get the white working class vote. what we've got to do is find a way that they can all agree on a common goal and a common way to get to that goal because elections now are about separating them a leave a lot of bodies on the field and hope that yours survive and get you to where you need to get to and that's the single biggest issue for this country beyond everything else. >> michael, talking about the shifting of the tectonic plates, the redefinition potentially of what it means to be a republican party. yes, we're going to redefine the democratic party, but what does the republican party mean? have we seen -- is there a precedent for that in history? >> absolutely not in this case.

president trump is going to be donald trump's party and people are going to try to be like him in all sorts of ways. the interesting thing, though, is that this is a president-elect who has worn as a badge of honor, i've never had any military experience, i've never had any experience in political office. it's going to be fascinating to see how he's going to be able to do that without that kind of background. >> he has had the lowest expectations of any candidate i've ever seen and exceeded them. he now has low presidential expectations. it is he'll evolve into the job. >> tom, mike and michael, thank you so much. just ahead, what will a trump administration look like? who would he bring in to fill his cabinet? we'll talk more about that. and the world was watching, now it's reacting. the strong opinions pouring in from around the globe. but first on this wednesday

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8:15, democracy plaza right there. when donald trump is sworn in as president early next year, he will be a true outsider, the first with no government or military experience. >> but throughout the campaign he made big promises about what he hopes to accomplish when he's in the white house. nbc's hallie jackson joins us again with more on that. hallie, good morning. >> good morning to you both. now that we know who will be in the oval office come january, the question becomes what will donald trump do once he gets there? so we dove into what he's promised for his f who might be his closest advisers, and what other republicans who never backed trump could do now. >> ours was not a campaign but rather an incredible and great movement made up of millions of hard-working men and women. >> reporter: donald trump declaring victory in his unprecedented run for the white house. >> you'll be so proud of your president.

candidate now getting his chance to make good on some of those campaign promises, starting on day one. >> that begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as obamacare. >> on day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall. when we syrian refugee program. a trump administration will stop the horrible, horrible, horrible transpacific partnership. we will renegotiate nafta. and we are going to stand up to china's currency manipulation. >> we'll pass massive tax reform to create millions of new jobs and lower taxes for everyone. we're going to end the

>> reporter: along with the promises, a threat to his now former rival. during the second presidential debate, trump saying he'd seek to investigate hillary clinton over her e-mail controversy. >> if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. >> reporter: how will president trump work with his party's leadership. >> i know this election has taken some dark, sometimes >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan reluctant to support trump from the start. overnight calling to congratulate the winner. while nothing has been officially announced yet, trump campaign advisers have hinted at who he might appoint to his cabinet. possibly rudy giuliani for attorney general, newt gingrich for secretary of state, michael flynn for defense secretary or national security advisor. the election night shocker leaving democrats worried about

dodd-frank is done. it's hard to imagine what this means. it is no sense in sugar coating it to people. >> so democrats with questions. republicans will have some questions too about their leadership. for example, not just house speaker paul ryan, but what happens now to people like ohio governor john kasich, who opposed donald trump's candidacy and people like jeb bush, who trump has hit on the campaign trail and who this morning just a couple of minutes ago is now trump, saying he and his wife will pray for him. >> all right, hallie, thank you very much. let's bring in stoeve schmidt ad mark halperin. i think hallie did a good job laying out the promises donald trump made during the campaign. he went into the rust belt and said he's going to bring the jobs back and return them to their glory days, can he do it? >> it's going to be interesting to see. i thought he would rely more on

pretty big specifics on lots of issues. he didn't do that in the campaign. i suspect he may do it now. working with mike pence, who is going to be the capitol hill liaison in chief, they may to the house republicans and senate republicans, show us what you got and i think a lot of things will be signed into law. >> he made a lot of promises, build a wall, make mexico pay for it, he talked about bringing jobs back to the midwest and he has a republican congress. ready-made excuse some presidents have where i wanted to but had these obstacles. it's all his to do but of course the devil is in the details. >> some of these things are completely fantastical and they're not going to happen. there's not going to be a wall paid for by mexico with a terrific door. you have two experienced leaders of governor, speaker ryan, leader mcconnell. he's the president-elect of the united states now. awesome power, awesome

what they'll start working on now is what does that first hour look like, signing executive orders. what does the legislative package look like? and so i think that they will be hard at work over the next weeks trying to make him be successful. >> for as little as donald trump understands how washington works, mike pence really does. >> he does and paul ryan does and mitch mcconnell does and this is the moment. this is the moment they have been waiting for, here it is, so we'll see how it all develops. steve and mark, weather in washington? >> oh, yeah. >> mr. roker. he's got that down pat. >> there you go. as we look right now, we've got wet weather stretching from the gulf coast all the way to the northeast. some showers moving into the pacific northwest. temperaturewise it's going to be hot in the southwest with 90s in southern california. 50s as you get into the southwest and parts of the rockies where we've got some showers. 40s in northern new england. for today the big trouble spots really nothing too terrible. we've got wet weather from the

and that's your latest weather. guys. >> for more than 18 months now america has been gripped by a grueling, divisive and dramatic race. by the way, the rest of the world was watching. >> so how has the election of donald trump been playing overseas? nbc's keir simmons is on duty in london with more on that. hi, keir, good morning. >> reporter: hey, savannah, good morning. good morning, malt. folks in cafes like this around

themselves the same question you guys have this morning, what does it mean for my family, what does it mean for my country. let me just show you some international newspapers. the sydney morning herald with a picture of donald trump. revolution it says. there's another one here if i can get to it, "the wall street journal" president trump. many, many newspapers trying to make sense of what this means around the world. but the simple truth is, guys, many people here simply don't >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> reporter: america's political earthquake shaking the world this morning. >> he is the 45th president. >> reporter: few understanding what a president trump bill mean internationally. sending a jolt through global markets, americans overseas stunned. >> no one thought it could happen and it happened. >> one man in one election year in one branch of government is

>> donald trump -- >> reporter: international leaders waking up to a new world. the u.s.-backed battle to take mosul from isis in iraq under way. but the strategy questioned by doampaign trail. now he will be commander in chief. the region's strong men like egypt's president rushing to congratulate the president-elect. in israel, surprise and mixed reactions. >> ke >> reporter: but in mexico, where he promised to build a wall on the border, the peso plummeting this morning. in europe, one french diplomat tweeting the world is collapsing before our eyes. here in britain, they're calling this america's brexit. after this country's unexpected vote to leave the european union. trump transforming the landscape. and not just here. countries like canada sharing a

and politically. here in russia, relations with america increasingly tense from the kremlin. president putin watching closely. putin sending a personal message to trump this morning and calling for dialogue, but putin accused of supporting hackers targeting the election will be tough to deal with. while in china, questions over the future of world trade. >> we are seeing a disaster coming. >> i think it's because he knew how to do business. >> reporter: iran, north korea, syria. the list of global challenges is long. this morning trump promising great international relations. america, a beacon of democracy for so long, now watched anxiously around the world. and the world is so fragile right now, guys, it seems like if you think of the world as like a jigsaw, donald trump just

guys. >> thank you very much. coming up, donald trump's rise from his businesses to reality tv, now to the white coming up on channel 20. >> good morning. i'm cheryl preheim. here's a look at what's happening on channel 20 for 9news 8:00 a.m. donald trump is now the 45th president of the united states. hillary clinton won big states like california, new york and this morning it looks like she will win the popular vote but she did not win the electorate.

carolina, virginia, trump gave his acceptance speech early overnight in the morning hours, in fact. hillary clinton is expected to speak any minute now. wall street, well, people expected it to be in a tailspin this morning, although after it opened it was mostly flat. it's been up and down and now down dramatically, 854 points. locally one of the 9 ballot measures in colorado, five have passed, three have failed. one is still too close to call. what changes are let's check that drive and the weather now with marty and amelia. >> you got it, cheryl. let's start off with our cdot view here of -- actually, back it up once, here we go, southbound 25 near 128th, backups coming down from the north side, e-470 through thorton and northglenn sticky today. relief south of 84th avenue approaching i-70. we are back to normal after some earlier wrecks have been cleared out. if you are headed to the

outbound, inbound closer to 60 with the less than 10 minute drive. one big stall down along your c- 470 drive eastbound is keeping us very heavy towards santa fe, in fact, it's a 20 minute drive at sun -- add sun glare on top of that and still pretty slow. we will talk about the rest of the northern crashes over on 20. a lot of sun to talk about too in the next few days. today is going to be that way for everybody here across the state. a bit of a breeze over the eastern plains at times over 20 miles per hour but calm here warm. average high for the denver area this time of year, 56 degrees, we are clearly going way above that, shouldn't be a record today, we will fall short of that. light breezes in the low 70s today, a few clouds, slightly cooler with a cooler northerly wind tomorrow and then we settle close to average on friday before jumping back up into dry, warm conditions to

morning, 9th of november, 2016. about 50 degrees here in midtown manhattan as we check out the view of democracy plaza on this morning after historic election where the voters of the united states have spoken and spoken loudly. >> that rink really worked well last night with all the graphics showing the state-by-state results. i thought you guys did a great job last night. it was really interesting to watch. coming up, a look at donald trump's rise from a kid in queens to a brash businessman to

and the glass ceiling still intact for now. where hillary clinton fell short in her mission to break the ultimate barrier in politics. >> and tamron will take a look at how the drama of this election and the results are playing out on social media this morning. but first, mr. roker is here with a check of the weather. >> good morning, all. let's see what we've got as we make our way to the weather wall. you'll see record highs stretching from the plains into the southwest. we've got wet weather in texas, some showers and thunderstorms states. tomorrow that system moves offshore, the sunshine returns to the east, but gusty winds ahead of this front around the great lakes. unseasonably mild for the western half of the country with plenty of sunshine. very quiet tomorrow, just a few showers and thunderstorms down through southern texas.

>> don't forget to get that weather any time you need it, check out the weather channel on cable. guys. >> all right, al, thank you very much. now to hillary clinton's attempt to break theim a presidential bid that once again fell short. nbc's andrea mitchell was at clinton headquarters last night and she, of course, covered the clinton campaign in 2008 and now here again. >> good morning, savannah. good morning, matt. well, even as hillary clinton lost much of her ground in recent polls, late yesterday her team was still optimistic that they would prevail. instead she called donald trump overnight to concede as history

heartbreak. >> oh, my gosh. you know, i kept looking up at the glass ceiling and it's still just solid. >> reporter: eight years after her concession speech invoking that famous glass ceiling. >> thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. >> reporter: tuesday night, clinton a no-show. instead sending her campaign manager, john podesta, out to send devastated supporters home. >> so we're not going to have anything more to say tonight. she's done an amazing job and she is not done yet. >> reporter: unlike her 2008 bid for the white house, this time clinton embraced the historic nature of her run from the beginning. >> if america is going to lead, we need to learn from the women of the world who have blazed new paths. >> if fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in. >> reporter: breaking new ground on women's rights, even as first lady.

century in the spotlight also one of clinton's biggest obstacles as she struggled to fully earn voters' trust, despite a deeply unpopular opponent, never escaping questions about her use of a private e-mail server. >> it would have been better if i had two separate accounts to begin with. >> reporter: the fbi announcement bringing the scandal back into the spotlight becoming clinton's october surprise, knocking her from what seemed a comfortable lead just 11 days before the election. and despite a massive ground game n her ahead, analysts say her campaign vastly underestimating the depth of trump's support among white voters in suburban and rural areas. another weakness, winning over millenials, many of whom flocked to bernie sanders in the democratic primary. women supporters who had hoped this would be their year. >> somebody has to win and somebody has to lose. you move forward and you move on. this should be an example of why

country's first female commander in chief, 240 years and still counting. and if the woman who president obama called the most qualified person ever to run for the white house couldn't break through, the question remains, who can? and just ahead, the other side of the coin. a look at donald trump's unlikely path to the presidency.

welcome back. for donald trump what started as an unexpected campaign ended in a stunning victory, one that's bound to change the future of american politics. >> so how did we and he get here? here's a look at donald trump before his candidacy and the

>> usa, usa. >> thank you. >> he was the candidate few saw coming, and the candidate many never imagined would make it this far. >> ours was not a campaign but rather an incredible and great movement. >> his rise was improbable, his impact unprecedented. >> sadly, the american dream is i will bring it back. bigger and better and stronger than ever before and we will make america great again. >> donald j. trump grew up in queens, new york, the second youngest of five children and the son of a successful self-made real estate developer. >> i grew up with a wonderful family and i believe that's had

>> his father, fred, was an early influence. >> my father was great. good salesman, good builder. i learned so much from him and he was a great guy, a lovely guy. i loved my father. >> trump followed in his footsteps, joining the family business and later taking over the company. from the beginning, his ambitions were big. trump dreamed of breaking into manhattan's tough real estate market. and he did. erecting a 58-story ode to himself, trump his name was everywhere. >> trump, it's taking on new meaning. it's written all over new york and atlantic city. >> and the young tycoon quickly found himself empire. >> i believe to a certain extent you can make your own luck. >> but as luck would have it, the real estate market took a sharp turn in the early 1990s. >> finally the high-flying life style and hands-on management style of donald trump appear to be history. >> it left donald trump and his investments in financial ruin,

>> how much of a blow was it personally to have so much detail about your finances made public? >> i think that i've become very resilient over the years. >> with that resiliency, trump mounted his comeback, one he called bigger and better than before. >> people eat pizza the wrong way. >> crust first. >> now trump is calling himself the comeback kid. >> anyi didn't stop, i didn't g up. i worked harderha just never ended. >> rob, you're fired. >> i've been firing people all my life, so it's not like a big deal. >> but at the height of his popularity, trump also found himself embroiled in controversy. there were the women he loved. >> developer donald trump, who's been in the press plenty these days thanks to his marital troubles with wife ivana, his extra marlts affair with marla maples. >> i never had a drug in my

but i do go out with beautiful women. >> including his third wife, now future first lady, melania. >> we have a great relationship. i'm my own person and he's his own person and i think that's very important. >> and i'm happy to say -- >> and there were women trump mocked. >> it's very derogatory comments. if you're calling -- >> she said i had bad hair. she said i had bad hair. which is worse. i think i'd rather probably be fat. >> he also took on president obama. >> if he wasn't born in this country, then he of politics. >> in the early years, donald trump's political aspirations were merely rumors. >> you have flirted with the idea of politics. now you're here at your first national convention. does that get you interested in possibly making the plunge? >> now you have to tell me something. who told me i flirted. i didn't know that i flirted. >> but then in 1999 -- >> no jokes, presidential race. are you serious? >> i am serious. i've seen what's happened. i've seen polls come out that say that i'd win.

to really prove to people that you are serious, that you are a contender? >> i think i'm presidential. i think i have a very high aptitude. >> ladies and gentlemen -- >> the third time proved to be the charm. >> i am officially running president of the united states and we are going to make our country great >> support for this new unconventional candidate reached a fevered pitch early on. >> usa. >> though his brash, off-the-cuff style garnered just as many critics and sharply divided the republican party. >> you don't have the endorsement of one republican senator and you work with these people. you should be ashamed of yourself. >> ultimately, he would go head to head with hillary clinton. >> donald supported the invasion of iraq. >> wrong. >> that is absolutely -- >> wrong.

again. >> together they became the most polarizing nominees in election history. >> america is tired of waiting. the moment is now. there has never been a movement like this in our country's history. >> today the country has voted in a president whose rise to the highest office, though unexpected, has left a lasting mark on american politics. >> it's an amazing story. >> it rea now. >> and it's kind of just getting started, at least chapter 2. let's get to some other voter measures that were on the ballot last night. getting a lot of attention. so california, massachusetts and nevada have voted now to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. that gives a huge boost, of course, to allow pot nationwide but arizona voted no on its marijuana ballot measure. >> california and washington state voted to toughen gun control laws and in nebraska,

legislature's decision last year to repeal capital punishment. up next, tamron has her eye on what people are saying about the election results on social media. that should be fun to hear. >> it's interesting. >> first, this is "today" on

social media played a huge role in the president their thoughts on the outcome. >> i'm sure there wasn't even a peep. >> not a tweet heard in the world today. >> guys, this has been incredible to watch social media, whether it's twitter, instagram, facebook, all over the place americans wake up to the news that donald trump will be our next president and they have turned to social media to react for comfort, to express joy, it's all across the board. in the last 24 hours alone there have been more than 40 million

that shattered the number we saw four years ago. speaker of the house paul ryan tweeted out i want to congratulate donald trump on his incredible victory. this has been a great night for our party and now we must turn our focus to bringing the country together. clinton supporters also letting their thoughts be heard. ethan wrote this. congrats to everyone who supported trump. i voted for hillary but this is a democracy and i respect the process. he achieved the impossible. with such a closely contested race, there are still people resisting the results. e throughout the night was this, canada immigration. social media filled with images showing canadian official immigration site crashed and it is still experiencing sporadic issues this morning. regardless of who you voted for, wish the best for trump. pray he does well. if he does well, we do well. it's our country. just to remind you, remember, people were going into so-called safe rooms on facebook where they were not allowing their friends to talk about politics.

10% had ended friendships because of this election on social media. some of the dialogue. so we'll keep an eye on it. but if you log on to twitter, brace yourself. >> so many people are ready for the election to be over. >> but you said it. this is phase two. >> this is phase two. >> all right, tamron, thank you. coming up next, the sights and sounds from a ground-breaking election night. pretty unforgettable. but first, this is "today" on

interesting but "the new york times" and "the dallas morning news" go with trump triumphs. >> the papers in florida crediting them for pushing him over the top. florida lifts donald trump. themi et stage for victory against clinton. >> "people" magazine kept it t "president trump." "the new york daily news" suggesting 1600 pennsylvania guess it's just like anything, choose your own news source depending on what your point of

including the ultimate one at the very end. donald trump, now you're president-elect. here's how it all unfolded last night. >> and here we go, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to decision night in america here at nbc's democracy azoing to know early w late of a night this is going to be. florida is going to tell us everything tonight as far as th >> no one thought it was going to be this close at this point. trump can still win this thing >> i think there's some real jitters setting in in clinton headquarters right now. >> this map is suddenly 50-50. >> the presidency is up for grabs. the american people have a funny way of making sure they get heard and they are being heard tonight. >> we've overlooked rural america a bit too much. >> ohio will go to donald trump. >> we have a major projection. in the state of virginia, the projected winner is hillary clinton.

as we speak. >> he just blew through every single vote total estimate that democrats had and, frankly, even republicans. >> he is sending a message. my vote for donald trump says something to the establishment. >> and we have new projections at the 11:00 hour. nbc news projects that hillary clinton wins the state of california. two election viewing parties hoping to be celebrations a few blocks apart here in manhattan. no one is going home in either of them. >> wisconsin could b could be going republican for the first time in 32 years. >> it is 11:30 in the east and as we look at democracy plaza, nbc news projecting that donald trump is the apparent winner in florida. >> i need to interrupt with another one. trump wins iowa. >> they're chanting usa, usa, usa. they really feel like donald trump has a very good chance of winning. >> people just standing shell shocked. >> the mood is quite somber. you can sense it.

this is anything but a victory party. >> those faces at the clinton headquarters say it all. >> she needs a miracle. >> it's been a long campaign, but i can say we can wait a little longer, can't we? so we're not going to have anything more to say tonight. >> clinton has called trump to concede the election. >> it is my high honor to introduce to you the president-elect of the united states of america, d and i promise you that i will not let you down. it's my honor. it's an amazing evening, it's been an amazing two-year period, and i love this country. thank you. thank you very much. >> a political earthquake, a come-from-behind story for the

this is 9news. good morning. i'm corey rose with this 9news update. america has chosen its leader, donald trump. the republican is the first president elect with no government or military experience but he is a businessman promising to make america great again. he won battleground states florida, ohio, north carolina, winning pennsylvania put him over the edge as some states finger counting votes, trump at 278 electoral votes compared to hillary clinton who that her speech has been pushed back this morning. she will now be giving her speech at 9:15 this morning. we will have it for you on the networks of 9news. marty is joining us now, warm day today. >> i know, it will be warmer with the sun up now it's warming up so quickly so you will want to spend as much time outside as you can today. we are anticipating sun throughout the state, dry conditions, unfortunately, do continue. there's not much we can do about that so we will adapt to it as best we can.

make snow, it's the only way they are getting it until late next week. we will see 60s and 70s here in eastern colorado for a very short time this afternoon, between 70 and 73 degrees after 2:30, 3:00 we will already start cooling off again, small front tomorrow gives us a cloud or two, a breeze and it will push us back to 56 which is the average high for this time of year. we will do that on friday. "9 cares, colorado shares" will start in the afternoon so come out and join us for that and we are back to 70 plus by monday. >> can you believe it? that is insane. all right. back with another update for you in 25 minutes.

this morning on "today's take" donald trump stunning the nation and the world with a historic victory. what happens next. dr. oz unveiling his step-by-step plan to prevent and reverse wrinkles. plus look at how you work out. the hottest looks in >> announcer: from nbc ws, this is "today's take" live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning, november 9th, 2016. i'm al along with tamron and dylan. i'm still chuckling over our open. with this momentous election of any generation probably and

>> people care about wrinkles. >> but also life goes on. i was just doing the hit on the social media and the reaction from people. they kept saying when is this going to happen. when is this election. it's happened and you realize that you've still got to get up with your children, you still have to look forward to the birth of your child. there's halloween next year and costumes. we try to figure out who we are. it's democracy. >> 16 years ago we had a split between the popular electoral college. we look at the latest results and we're seeing right now that as we look at democracy plaza, even though donald trump leads -- obviously has won the electoral college, in the popular vote, hillary clinton is winning. >> currently, we've not finalized those numbers but a lot of people went to bed, it was a very long night. there was some predictions that it was going to be early depending on how florida went. that was not true. the polling, all of this

inaccurate. it was a historic victory for donald trump. look at the headlines from the papers, "the daily news." >> they're all over the place. >> they're all over the place but point in one direction, a victory for donald trump last night. people woke up this morning, you know, social media, what just happened? >> well, i was watching everything last night and then around 11:30 i'm like, all right, i'm going to bed because clearly this isn't going to -- there's no answer right away. and then i kept dreaming that -- it was like when you forecast a dreaming like it's not snowing or it is snowing. it's just weird. i had all these dreams. then i woke up and checked my phone. oh, okay. i had no idea what was going on but my mind was going crazy. >> and you look not just here, but the response around the world, incredible. let's take -- el periodico.

tr trumppocalypse. and "people" magazine's new cover out, president trump. >> what does this victory mean not just for donald trump, of course, but for the general public? you have now the senate and the house controlled by republicans. this is the first time someone who's never held office, he never served in the military, will now lead this country. he gave that vto 2:50 a.m. local time. after receiving a concession call from secretary clinton. >> now it's time for america to bind the wounds of division. we have to get together. to all republicans and democrats and independents across this nation, i say it is time for us to come together as one united

land that i will bow president for all americans, and this is so important to me. for those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, i'm reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great it's been what they call a historic event, but to be really historic, we have to do a great job. and i promise you that i will not let you down. we will do a great job. we will do a great job. >> there you have it. a very subdued speech. one tinged with humility. so one has to -- look, at the end of the day you want the president to succeed because

>> just a little factoid, melania trump now becomes the first foreign-born first lady since louisa adams. the question is also what role will his daughter, ivanka trump, play. he said the company will be in a blind trust. this is all new territory for this country to have a president who has a privately held company. melania trump said that she wanted to focus in on cyberbullying and some of the things that are happening on social medi forward, now president-elect trump has laid out a very ambitious first 100 days. he talked about repealing and replacing obamacare. of course as we know building that wall along the southern border, ripping up current trade deals. also nominating conservative justices for the supreme court and of course the total ban of -- he called for a total and

we can figure out what's going on. >> it's going to be an extraordinary event also for house speaker paul ryan who said he voted for donald trump but refused to campaign with him. very few republicans who were running for re-election or office campaigned with him. he had very few celebrities. the party was divided against him and it was in some ways political analysis, donald trump against the world. >> yeah. >> if you look at the fact that a lot to align themselves at least publicly with him. >> well, you look at what happened, i mean the two outsiders who made the biggest amount of noise, donald trump and bernie sanders. and in certain ways, they were very sympatico as far as the people that they tapped into. that makes you wonder like how did these polls get it so wrong? there was a whole group of people -- i think there were a lot of people who were a little nervous about saying they were

secret support. he had people who in polite company, as they call it in the cable news world, did not want to admit it. women, educated women particularly. so we don't know. we'll still look at the analysis of it. but this is the second election cycle where polls were completely off kilter. other than nate silver. >> and i don't really understand who they tap into. >> apparently they don't understand either because they were wrong. >> see, when we blow a forecast, now, is it, pollsters? >> meteorologists get all the grief when they get it wrong and not the pollsters. >> you could see all the pundits just like -- welcome to our world. >> nate silver, though -- >> we have science to back up why something might have changed. >> nate silver says he has science behind it. he's a very, very popular pollster if you follow him on his blog. he adjusted some models last

had given democrats cardiac arrest by these models because he actually said this is not right. and so he uses a scientific formula and it turns out he was on it. >> i think the three people who -- this morning waking up and what are they thinking. i think for donald trump, president-elect trump, it's like the enormity of it is settling in. obviously for hillary clinton, what happened. and i have to think president obama. >> yeah, he line. >> take a listen to what he talked about with matt back in january. >> do you feel you're responsible for a certain hunger out there for the message that donald trump is putting out? >> the message that donald trump is putting out has had adherence a lot of times during the course of our history. you know, talk to me if he wins, then we'll have a conversation about how responsible i feel about it. >> when you stand and deliver

a in no part of your mind or brain can you imagine donald trump standing up one day and delivering a state of the union address? >> well, i can imagine it in a saturday night skit. look, anything is possible, and i think we shouldn't be complacent. i think everybody has got to work hard. >> i want you to focus, because the choice you face when you step into that voting booth could not donald trump is temperamentally unfit to be commander in chief. >> ironically "saturday night live" became such a big part of the national discussion. when we come back, not only will we talk about what does it mean for hillary clinton's future, but we're also going to hear from alec baldwin, who talked about what it would mean if donald trump wins for his acting career. i've got more at progresso, we are passionate about our art. and our art is chicken soup.

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gender, not necessarily voting against her but understanding some of the conversation that happens. i do have people who are tweeting in to us saying what do i tell my daughter, because no matter how this turned out, there are things that came up in the last 20 months that if you have a teenage daughter or son are complicated things to talk about. so that's just real tough. >> absolutely. wondering what this means for, obviously, the president-elect and hillary clinton and prid the other man affected by this or could be is alec baldwin, who did that spot-on donald trump impersonation. i was actually listening to brian on w nnyc and he had alecn as a guest. >> so is the run as trump over now or are you back on saturday night? >> i hope it's over.

>> if he wins, i would imagine there might be some opportunity for that, but i want my weekends back so i can go be with my kids. >> i'm going to miss kate mckinnon as hillary. i'm sure they'll still work her in. >> so does alec baldwin come back? how does that work once the election is 's sovh a blur to m >> do you have the weather? >> that's right. no matter what happens, the sun always rises and always sets. and so in between, here's what we've some wet weather making its way into the pacific northwest. there's a frontal system stretching from the gulf all the way on up into new england bringing some showers. nothing too horrible, that's the good news. look at the heat down in southern california, 90s there. 40s and 50s in the northeast. 60s in the mid-atlantic states. and we're going to be looking at unseasonably warm weather. record highs from the plains on into the central rockies. look for wet weather along the mid-atlantic states, into the northeast some showers and thunderstorms down through southern texas. and again we are going to see

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look at it this way, our house majority is bigger than expect period we won more seats than anyone expected and much of that is thanks to donald trump. donald trump provided the kind of coattails that got a lot of people over the finish line so that we could maintain our strong house and senate majorities. now we have important work to do. many months ago republicans in the house united around a bold, specific agenda for this country. it offers a better way forward hit the ground running as we work with donald trump to do this. we will honor the timeless principles that our country was founded on, liberty, freedom, free enterprise, consent of the governed, and we will apply those principles to the problems of the day. this is the kind of unified republican government that we set out to deliver. i want to close with this, there is no doubt our democracy could be very messy, and we do remain

now as we do every four years, we have to work to heal the divisions of a long campaign. i think president-elect donald trump set the perfect tone last night for doing just this, and i know president obama and secretary clinton are committed to bringing the country together. this needs to be a time of redemption and not a time of recrimination. we all need to rededicate ourselves toward making america great and making it a more perfect union. with that, let me take your questions. >> kelly o. >> critical of donald trump, you said you could no longer defend him and today clearly you are embracing him. some of your colleagues were critical of you thinking you had not embraced donald trump enough during the campaign. is your relationshippresh ent-e conservatives in the house intact? can it go forward? >> think our relationship is fine. i've spoken with donald twice in the last 18 hours.

again this morning and i spoke to my good friend mike pence, as well. we've hit the ground running and we're talking about getting our transitions working together. look, kelly, when i say seven out of ten americans don't like the direction the country is going. they just voted. i think what donald trump pulled off is an enormous political feat and he heard the voices that were out there that other people weren't hearing and he just earned a mandate and we now have a unified republican government. if you listened to us in the closing days of the campaign whether it was america or criss-crossing wisconsin, we were making an appeal to our fellow citizens and we did just that and that's why i'm excited about where we are. yeah? [ inaudible question ] >> we had great conversations about how we work together on the transition to work together. we are getting our schedules lined up to meet to flush out

excited about our ability to work together. >> what do you say to voters in wisconsin and nationwide who were concerned about during this campaign. president-elect trump's about women and latinos. what do you say to people who are concerned? >> i'll say to wisconsinites what i said to wisconsinites before the election. look at the issues and look at the direction of the country and look at the direction we've been going and where we need to go and look at what a unified republican government can get you. i am proud of the fact tha the first time since 1984 wisconsin's ten electoral votes went to republicans. this is an enormous feat. frankly, you saw the marquette poll. charles, you saw it. donald trump turned this on its head. donald trump delivered the ten electoral votes and by the way, he helped elect a strong majority in the senate and a strong majority in the house. charles? >> you used the word mandate, you will repeal and replace obamacare, how quickly, how soon, what does it look like and

going to be their president? >> i think after a tough campaign where people believe they were pitching so hard for one side or the other and the time is to heal and unify, this health care law, charles, is not a popular law. this is collapsing under its own weight and to your specific question about replacing and repealing obamacare, this congress, this house majority and this senate majority has demonstrated and proven we are able to pass that legislation and put it on the president's desk. the problem is president obama vetoed it and no president trump coming who is asking us to do this. so with unified republican government we can fix this. we can fix these problems. look, it's not just a health care law that we can replace because we now have shown the willingness and the ability to do it. there are so many more things that i'm excited about. think about the laid off coworkers who see relief coming. think about the farmers in wisconsin who are being harassed by the epa and the waters of the usa and think about the ranchers in the u.s. getting harassed by

laid off timber workers. there is relief coming. this is good for our country. this means that we can lift the oppressive weight of the regulatory state. we can restore the constitution. think about the conservative constitution respecting judges that will be nominated. this is -- >> we've been listening to paul ryan, speaking of the house in janesville, wisconsin, pledging to work together with him to replace a republican agenda and we have other news happening in neyo >> let's swing our camera to new york city where hillary clinton is moments away from addressing her defeat for the first time. we did not see her last night after donald trump won that stunning victory, and the senior staff has assembled in this hotel room in new york city and we expect her to be moments away. andrea mitchell is in the room. andrea, are you get anything insight as to what we might hear from secretary clinton? >> reporter: i think what you

helpful. she talked to the president this morning and he called her -- he called her, i believe, savannah, and not the other way around, shortly after he spoke to donald trump. this room has been filled now with the staff, senior staff, joe crowley, the congressman who is so close to her and there were cheers moments ago when john podesta and jake sullivan and robby mook, the top staff members came in and there were some of the people seated are longtime clinton friends, hillary clinton friends former diplomats and women friends who have traveled with her this long route who showed up on primary nights and who keep her cheered up when times were difficult along the way. so this is a gathering of hillaryland, if you will. a lot of them go back as ann stock does to the social secretary from the east wing when she was first lady. this is a team of friends and of

involved in the project of hillary clinton becoming president of the united states. bill clinton will be here, as well, savannah and matt. so you're going to hear, i think a sad, but grateful hillary clinton today thanking supporters. >> andrea, stand by for a second. we have chuck todd in the d studio. how hard a speech is this going to be? >> she's done it before after losing to barack obama. i've heard that this was hard to take. she really believed she was going to be the next president of the united states, and it was a -- i think, i -- i don't think my -- my guess is she's probably not ready to give this speech, but for the country she has to give this speech. >> this contrasts where they were 24 hours ago. the mood inside the clinton campaign was jubilant, celebratory. >> i mean, look what they picked

javits center which is on the west side of the glass ceiling. they threw in symbolism and they had katy perry ready to sing, lady gaga, cher, it was -- by the way, it's, like -- and as the elites were celebrating, look what happened with people. it is sort of -- when you look at it in hindsight, what a contrast. >> there are some long faces. those are top, top staffers of hillary clinton who have been on the road with her, both the secretary of state -- >> kerry mcauliffe's campaign in virginia, jake sullivan and robby is right next to him there, right behind him. he was on the '08 campaign and he's basically been planning her run for the presidency for eight years. >> as has she, we might add. >> yes. >> it's a moment, and i think one of the ironies here, chuck,

after the debate when donald trump said he wasn't sure he would concede the election and so there became a lot of talk about what a graceful concession looks like and the peaceful transfer of power, if you're a fan of irony here it is because hillary clinton is now having to deliver that very thing. >> by the way, consider this, this may be the last major speech that we hear a clinton give as sort of as a head or as one of the heads of the democratic party. >> it's funny you say that because we alld election, what kind of coverage would we give to him in the months and years ahead? so the question is what kind of profile does hillary clinton have? >> i think -- i think the democratic party has a history of this. when you lose, good-bye, and that happened to dukakis. that happened -- john kerry sort of recovered thanks to barack obama, but it happened to walter mondale. i think it's going to happen to her.

>> by the way, the clinton foundation took some serious hits during this campaign, came in for a lot of scrutiny, and what does that look like in the future? that has been the clinton family work for the last 15, 16 years. >> there's no shortage of democrats who were ever in clinton world who looked at the history of the clintons and said you know what? the clintons have succeeded, but the democratic party hasn't always succeeded with them. bill clinton t on the ballot, democratic party lost senate seat, you know? she actually gained a senate seat last night on behalf of the party, but look at this, the party is a mess. >> chuck, do you have any insight -- i guess we can all assume and read the tea leaves but why it is last night that john podesta comes out and says we'll have more to say tomorrow and within the hour she calls and concedes to donald trump. >> it's my understanding where her head was at, and i'll just

>> not that they necessarily thought that there was more vote to count, but -- >> she wasn't quite ready to do this. not quite ready. this was apparently supposed to happen earlier this morning and it's been steadily delayed, you know, 15, 20 minutes at a time. >> this is, you know, this -- >> people forget politicians are human beings, too. >> this might be it, you know? this is -- this is sort of the political career here. it's a tough thing to do. my guess is the weight of the moment has hit her in some ways where the weight of the moment hasn't hit that crowd. and if you've talked to candidates who have run for office, obviously, they feel it personally, but they'll look at the sea of people who poured their lives into a campaign and poured their hopes.

for the clintons since 1996. >> and even though the mood there is incredibly somber and all you have to do is look at the images, i can assume she'll get a rousing ovation when she walks into the room. >> the personal loyalty the staff had for her was tighter than personal loyalty i remember for the staff and bill. it was interesting. hillary world is slightly different than bill world, and they look up to her in ways differently than that clinton crowd looks up to bill. it there is a connectivity to her. >> you almost have to say it, this looks like a wake. >> and when they do the forensics check and they look at the campaign that was, i mean, before the results came everyone was saying, wow, what a well-executed campaign this was. the results certainly throw that into a different light. >> there's a -- unfortunately, the uncomfortable part of the

in our system and it was john podesta's emails and i'll tell you what wikileaks did is it gave you a picture and they couldn't find a message. we saw how they were searching for a message and how she was going to connect with the democratic party that was going to move to her left. >> time kaine, we understand, will be introducing secretary clinton. he also loses in this effort. what's his future? >> this is the first election he's lost. you know, he has a very successful career, and a lot of people believed that he could -- he could be one of the leaders of the party. i -- i think he takes a hit on this one. i think he steps back. he is still from virginia. virginia is still a pretty good state to build a potential base from. i do think he has his own presidential ambitions, so i wouldn't be surprised if time kaine shows up in iowa or new hampshire. we'll start seeing that soon, you know? that happens.

know, you guys laugh, but it will probably be in january. >> it's not that we don't believe you, we're not ready for it. >> 1400 days away to 2020. matt asked this question of you earlier, it's worth discussing again as you look at what may be one of the final political appearances, who is the head of the democratic party? right now obviously president obama, but who is the future of the democratic party? operational control and he's senate leader and he is the guy that on capitol hill that stands up to trump or tries to hold up the agenda or fights for -- you know, basically playing to the base a bit and preparing democrats for the midterms. >> let's take a look at who's coming in. >> huma abedin, of course, her top aide and never far from her side. where huma is obviously secretary clinton can't be far

president clinton to be in attendance although we don't expect him to speak, and as i think matt, you mentioned, time kaine will introduce hillary clinton and -- >> i would imagine. >> you will see a fight to see what runs the democratic party. it's a campaign night. >> time kaine and anne holt, his wife taking the podium. >> thank you so much.

i am proud of hillary clinton because she has been and is a great history maker in everything she has done as a civil rights lawyer and the first lady of arkansas and first lady of this country and senator and secretary of state, she has made history in a nation that is good at so many thing, but has made it uniquely difficult for a woman to be elected to federal office, she became the first major party nominee, as a woman to be president and last night won the popular vote of americans.

it is an amazing accomplishment. i am proud of hillary clinton because in the words of langston yuw she's held fast to dreams and she was inspired at a young age an epiphany if families and children do well, a society does well and in everything she's done she's focused on that. we know she would have made history as president in one sense, but we've never had a president who has made their whole career about empowerment and children and i was excited in the office and as i was to have my friend hillary there. i'm excited and proud of hillary because she has built such a wonderful team. there is a -- there is a beautiful and kind of comical

about a vineyard owner who hires people to work and he says i'll pay you this for a full day and then he hires people at noon, and say i'll pay you the same and those who started earlier in the day said hold on, we don't like this that you're treating everybody who came late just as well as you're treating us. i'll tell you something, here's what i've come to know so well about hillary, the team that she has assembled over the years of people who are so deeply loyal to her because she's so deeply loyal to them is inspiring, but i've seen that same degree of loyalty and compassion and sensitivity extended to the most recent folks who joined the team, the folks who came to the vineyard with just one hour to go. her loyalty and compassion of hillary and bill to people, if you're with you, you're with you, and that is something so remarkable and finally, i'm proud of hillary because she

nobody had to wonder about hillary clinton whether she would accept an outcome of an election in our beautiful democracy. nobody had to ask that question. nobody had to doubt it. she knows our country for what it is. she knows the system that we have and its warts and blemishes. she's deeply in love with it and accepts it. she's been in battles before where if it she accepted and and woke up the next day and battled again for the dreams she's held fast to and the love of country is obvious to everybody and obvious to everyone. i want to thank hillary clinton for asking anne and i to join this wild ride. we, about a week before she asked if i would be her running mate, anne and i went up to westchester and we sat down with hillary and bill and with

three hours of conversation to try to determine whether we would be the right people to be on the ticket and when we got in the car to head back to the airport after the three-hour discussion ied to anne, honey, i don't know whether we'll be on the ticket or not, i'll tell you this, we'll remember that three hours for the rest of our life and now we'll remember the 105 days that we've had with this fantastic couple of servants and with you for the rest of our life. know well the wisdom and words of william faulkner. they say they killed us, but they ain't whooped us yet. they killed us, but they ain't whooped us yet. because -- because -- because we know.

empowering families and children remain and in that work, that important work that we have to do as a nation, it is so comforting even at a tough time to know that hillary clinton is somebody until her very last breath is going to be battling for the values that make this nation great and the values that we care so deeply about. so please join me in welcoming secretary hillary rodham clinton.

>> thank you all. thank you. thank you all very much. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. a very rowdy group. thank you, my friends. thank you. thank you. thank you so very much for being here -- and i love you all, too. last night i congratulated donald trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. i hope that he will be a

this is not the outcome we wanted or we worked so hard for, and i am sorry that we did not win this election for the values we share and the vision we hold for our country, but i feel -- i feel pride and gratitude for this wonderful campaign that we built together, this vast, diverse, creative, unruly, energized campaign. america and being your candidate has been one of the greatest honors of my life. i -- i know how disappointed you feel because i feel it, too. and so do tens of millions of

hopes and dreams in this effort. this is painful, and it will be for a long time, but i want you to remember this. our campaign was never about one person or even one election. it was about the country we love, and about building an america that's hopeful, inclusive and bighearted. we have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought, but i still believe in america, and i always will, and if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. donald trump is going to be our president. we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power, and we don't just

the rule of law, the principle that we are all equal in rights and dignity, freedom of warship and expression. we respect and cherish these values, too, and we must defend them. >> now -- and let me add, our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time. so let's do all we can to keep advancing the causes and values we all hold dear, making our economy work for everyone and not just those at the top, protecting our country and protecting our planet and breaking down all of the

back from achieving their dreams. we've spent a year and a half bringing together millions of people from every corner of our country to say with one voice that we believe that the american dream is big enough for everyone, for people of all races and religions, for men and women, for immigrants, for lgbt people and people with disabilities. for everyone. >> so now our responsibility as citizens is to keep doing our part to build that better, stronger, fairer america we seek, and i know you will. i am so grateful to stand with

i want to thank time kaine and anne holton for being our partners on this journey. it has been a joy getting to know them better, and it gives me great hope and comfort to know that tim will remain on the front lines of our democracy representing virginia in the >> to barack and michelle obama, our country owes you an enormous

>> we -- we thank you for your graceful, determined leadership that has meant so much to so many americans and people across the world, and to bill and chelsea, mark, charlotte, aden, our brothers and our entire family, my love for you means more than i can ever express. on our behalf and lifted me up when i needed it most even 4-month-old aden who traveled with his mom, i will always be grateful. to the creative, talented, dedicated men and women at our

across our country. >> you poured your hearts into this campaign. for some of you who are veterans, it was a campaign after you had done other campaigns. some of you, it was your first campaign. i want each of you to know that you were the best campaign anybody could have ever expected or wanted. >> and to the millions of volunteers, community leaders, activists and union organizers who knocked on doors, talked to neighbors, posted on facebook even in secret, private facebook sites, i want everybody coming out from behind that and make

forward. >> to everyone who sent in contributions as small as $5 and kept us going, thank you. thank you from all of us. and to the young people in particular, i hope you will hear this, i have as tim said, spent my entire adult life fighting for what i believe in. i've had successes, and i've had setbacks. sometimes really painful ones. many of you are at the beginning of your professional, public and political careers. you will have successes and setbacks, too. this loss hurts, but please, never stop believing that fighting for what's right is

>> it is. it is worth it. and so we need -- we need you to the rest of your lives, and to all the women and especially the young women who put their faith in this campaign and in me, i want you to know that nothing has made me prouder than to be

>> now -- i -- i know -- i know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but some day someone will and hopefully sooner than we might think right now. >> and to all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your

finally, -- finally, i am so grateful for our country and for all it has given to me. i count my blessings every single day that i am an american, and i still believe as deeply as i ever have, that if we stand together and work together with respect for our differences, strength in our convic nation our best days are still ahead of us. >> because, you know, i believe we are stronger together and we will go forward together. and you should never, ever

you know, scripture tells us let us not grow weary in doing good for in due season we shall reap if we shall not lose heart. so, friends, let us have faith in each other. let us not grow weary and let us not lose heart. i am incredibly honored and grateful for having had this chance to represent all of you in this con sequential election. america. >> hillary clinton speaking to supporters and friends and family members here in new york city, composed, gracious, eloquent, hopeful, saying that she hopes donald trump is a president for all americans and saying we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. >> you have to wonder if she had a lump in her throat a few

it's not the speech, chuck, that she thought she would, but having talked so much about the peaceful transfer of power, a graceful concession she showed what that looks like. >> she's done it twice. twice she's had to give these gut-wrenching concession speeches and the first one with barack obama and this one ten times rougher than the one she did in '08. she hit every note. she hit every single note that anybody would have wanted her to give whether you're a trump supporter or a clinton supporter, whether you're president obama or president-elect trump. she hit every note just right. >> a lot of tears in that room although none from secretary clinton. >> she got close. >> a couple of moments. the only thing you could

wonder whether she would accept the outcome of that election and a direct reference to donald trump in the closing weeks of this campaign. >> i guess it's a little dig. i might have not done it in a moment like this. i would have saved that for maybe the interview with "the new york times" or something. >> he got a lot of applause when he pointed out she won the popular vote. >> nancy pelosi put out her statement. she's still head of the house democrats and she brought up this and said because he won the electoral college and she won the popular vote he's got to vote in this outreach and i like this infrastructure plan. she actually, to me said, okay, she threw her cards down and said okay, i'll try to work with him. >> it occurred to me in watching this that the clintons have seen political phenomena from both directions. bill clinton was one himself all those years ago and hillary clinton lost to one in barack

>> you missed one. >> which one? >> ross perot. >> and some would argue bill clinton was the beneficiary of that phenomenon and the double irony is that bill clinton, he did connect to the donald trump voter. the donald trump voter of 2016 was a bill clinton voter in 1996. >> we talked about that with james carville who is the old clinton hand. >> and he admitted last night when we asked him that, how much has this bothered bubba. >> to lose that vote. >> he started, like, oh, i know how much i want to tell essentially. it bigs him. >> i thought there was an interesting part in what she just said in talking about being disappointed in not being able to break that glass ceiling at this level and spent the next minute or so speaking to young girls in this country encouraging them not to be disheartened by that failure and encouraging them to go out and attempt to do anything they can do because that is a -- and i'll tell you an anecdote.

and there have been some young ladies in tears because they're disappointed this didn't happen for hillary clinton this time, and i don't think that had anything to do with politics. >> eight years ago, my then daughter said something oh, girls can't be president after she saw that hillary clinton lost to barack obama, and i immediately got this book called "grace for president." it's a terrific book about a girl running for class president and it teaches you about the the 10, 11, 12, 13-year-old girls. they didn't see democrat or republican, they saw another girl. they saw a girl and my daughter has that placemat that's all men. so this was a -- the presidents' placemat and there was a connectivity and you would hear from the campaign especially with adolescent girls. >> well, she certainly has given a path for her supporters to continue the work that's

most telling lines from her speech is when she said we owe to donald trump our open minds and a chance to lead, and i think in terms of her political opponent i think that's about the best you can hope. >> it's the american way. >> it's the american way and the right thing to do. >> the people have spoken. respect the people. >> and she had to do this because remember, during that last debate when donald trump would not commit to accepting what she's called it, horrific. that is horrific and so she clearly stuck by her words in this. you know, there are tears now, i can see. now that she's greeting people on a one-on-one basis, it seems a little more difficult. where does she go now? chuck, what happens? >> i assume that she throws herself into the foundation a little bit. that's something that became such a controversial thing, but i think she's never really pursued that.

i've got to think she's got no more books in her on that front. >> don't forget she loves to talk about being a grandmother and when she was toying with the idea about whether to run she did talk about, you know, it might be nice to just be a grandma to these little kids, and as we all know that could be an enormous comfort. >> campaigns up end lives and i'm looking at huma aberdeen in the foreground here and you have to stop at this moment and talk about what has happened in her >> and her north star was hillary clinton, and that north star is not there. >> no. >> i mean, that's -- that is a tough position. look, that is -- having your marriage that public, nobody -- nobody wants that. >> we've now heard from secretary hillary clinton. we've heard from the speaker of the house and the los of statements coming in and there is another voice that we expect

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