clip #2 tom llamas: 14:54:59;08 did you think he'd make it this political experience. lara trump: 14:55:04;12 i would be lying if i gave him 100 percent chance to get him into the wh, no i think we were all very surprised-- early on, actually, by the number of people that got behind him. but i'll tell you that i did switch my tune because as soon as i got out and started campaigning hard, and got out on the road and talked to people, and really saw the movement that formed behind him and the enthusiasm of the people, tom llamas: 14:55:34;11 "he's gonna win this thing." lara trump: 14:55:52;27 // and we had 400 people come to an event who were so enthusiastic. women who were coming up to me crying saying, "if he doesn't get in i don't know what my family's going to do. everyone i know is voting for him. we have to do this. i'm praying for him." the number of-- of people that came up and said that they were praying for him, praying for us as a family, just right there i said, "there's gotta be gonna win. coming up later.. in tonight's abc primetime lineup.. 8:00 - last m

. >> and tom llamas, you have the champion of working class america, a man who inherited an awful lot of money, parlayed that into success in reality tv and hotels, moved himself as far connecting with the midwest. his message resonated with these people so well, and he never adapted or changed his style. wore that suit, threw on the hat, sometimes if he was going into -- an area with a lot of hunting, he would throw on a camouflage make america great hat. that was the only adaptation of jacket, played golf every sunday. but the message connected. >> and matthew dowd, he connected in a way, tom llamas is saying, people saw him as a truth-te truth-teller, even though if you look at the nonpartisan examination of the claims he was untruthful statements. >> well, his voters didn't take him literally, but took him seriously. things that many people laughed and said, he's not serious. but the bad things, he doesn't mean that. i think they've been frustrated at both political parties. this is not a reward for the republican party. they said, give us the biggest, brashest guy, he's giving vo

bring in ron because i know you spent an extraordinary amount of time in cuba and miami and then tom llamas. tom, your parents fled cuba. morning. this is very personal. your parents fled, but there's also this almost danger of romanticizing the revolution and what fidel castro was. >> yeah, that is so true. you know, i can't remember a time when i didn't know the name fidel castro i mean, i've known that name as long as i -- since i've been alive and something that's been part of my life and my family's life. they fled cuba, as you mentioned, as political exiles and there is this tendency when world leaders die to kind of misplace this romanticism around castro is someone who was a tyrant, he was a killer, he was a liar, and i really never realized how fortunate i was to be born in this country until i did a story that took me to the florida straits and i was embedded with the coast guard and they were intercepting cuban rafters and cuban go fast boats that were smuggling in cuban citizens, and i got to see firsthand what it looked like on these boats, dozens of families, babies in diapers

>> no way. >> and tom llamas joins us from michigan. we saw hillary clinton there with lebron james. bruce springsteen tomorrow night. >> reporter: everything with donald trump is a competition, even crowd sizes. he's accusing hillary clinton of cheating because she's using celebrities in the final days. donald trump is ending his campaign much like he started it, all by himself. david? >> tom llamas, in michigan. thanks. >>> so, the new e-mail headline, clinton now in the clear. but a battleground map that has tightened. days out? >> it's a map that still favors hillary clinton. here are the abc news race ratings. red states favor donald trump, blue states favor hillary clinton. if she just holds the states that favor her, on the top, 275 electoral votes, more than the 270 she needs to win. but the state democrats want to put this away, the state of florida. early voting ended today. democrats, with a 33,000 vote advantage over republicans florida, and the clinton team believes they have a big advantage among independents. if they carr

>> tom llamas with us again tonight. tom, we'll see you right here tomorrow night. >>> the race between clinton and trump has been really too close for comfort all along, and tomorrow night, it will be no different. take a look at this. the candidates just a few blocks away from one another, right here in new york. both of them very close to us times square. clinton's election night party at the convention center. it's that blue banner right there. and trump's party at the hilton midtown hotel, just a few blocks away, right there with the red banner. >>> in the meantime, a swift reaction tonight from wall street, to the fbi director's announcement that he is clearing hillary clinton after the discovery of those additional e-mails, saying there's nothing there. stocks losing ground every day since the investigation was the fbi said there was nothing to prosecute, the dow soaring, closing up 371 points, more than 2%. abc's chief business and economics correspondent rebecca jarvis at the new york stock exchange tonight with

>> tom llamas, leading us off. thank you. >>> president-elect trump, sitting down for his first tv interview with "60 minutes." here's what here's what he just said about obama care. >> let me ask you about obama care. when you replace it, are you with with preconditions are going to be covered? >> yes. we're going to very much try to keep it. >> let's get to mary bruce. first, signaling he may not repeal obama care entirely now? >> reporter: yes, he's walking back from an all-out repeal. open to keeping two of the most popular provisions, one that would allow children to stay on their parents' pla the other that prevents providers from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. >> thank you. >>> and tonight, more protests are under way. but there's a message being sent back tonight. did all the protesters turn out to vote? tonight, hillary clinton's lead but it will not change the outcome. democrats must now ask, were there middle-class americans missed? here's gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight, messa

tom llamas leading us off. armed police out front, the president-elect inside surrounded by his core team. his white house now taking shape. 24 hours ago, trump's visit to the obama white house, going off without a hitch. >> and i look forward to being with you many many more times in the future. thank you, sir. >> reporter: returning to his manhattan skyscraper, trump seemed pleased. "really good meeting," he tweeted. "great chemistry." but as night fell, the mood at trump tower growing dark. >> donald trump has got to go! >> reporter: on the sidewalk outside, and in cities around the country, protesters taking to the streets to denounce the president-elect. >> we reject the president-elect! >> reporter: trump keenly aware of it all. and at 9:19 p.m., firing off this angry tweet. "just had a very open and successful presidential election. now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. very unfair!" but overnight, trump's tone just after 6:00 a.m., a very different message. "love the fact th

>> tom llamas leading us off tonight. tom, thank you. >>> and this evening, hillary clinton and her concession acknowledging the pain. but then, offering encouraging words for the president-elect, and her hope that the country will now come together. after trying to become the first woman president. she also reached out to mothers and their little girls. here's abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: they filled the room, packing the balconies. long time hillary clinton aides and young women, many wiping away tears. >> please join me in welcoming secretary hillary rodham >> very rowdy group. thank you, my friends, thank you. >> reporter: hillary clinton addressing the disappointment head on. >> this is not the outcome we wanted or we worked so hard for. and i'm sorry that we did not win this election for the values we share and the vision we hold for our country. 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

tom llamas, i'll bring it to you first. we know donald trump started to get security briefings, the same that hillary clinton received. the conclusion of 17 of our national security agencies that russia was behind the hack of said, i just don't believe it. >> not only did he say that, he said, i love wikileaks. he said it over and over again, and crowds loved it. even when marc even when marco rubio said, it w wasn't a good idea that republicans were promoting this. donald trump said he was but he at one point endorsed the leaks. and when the embarrassing e-mails showed some voters, maybe he's got a point, maybe he believed that. >> but 17 professional intelligence a intelligence agency people, giving him the facts. than the generals in iraq. >> right now is a very critical time. he said the generals were reduced to rubble, but came back and said it's the civilians, not the military. >> and how could the intelligence agencies be wrong, but they told us we had weapons of mass destruction in iraq. incredibly unpopular. >> abs

. >> tom llamas, quickly. >> respectfully, i disagree with matt dowd. just because, if he wins tonight, it's a testament to himself. i did this by myself. a politician's job, to take a jaded perspective, is to get re-elected. if donald trump wins by big margins whatever he wants. >> donald trump, 26 electoral votes away from the white house. we'll be right back. vo: introducing the new motoz droid with moto mods, exclusively on verizon. boom! vo: transform your phone in a snap. with the only next gen network that lets you get the most out of it, because verizon lte advanced and $300 back. and get 20 gigs of data with no surprise overages, and 4 lines for only $40 each. why settle when you can have it all on verizon? what's going on here? you know, to show the importance of saving for the future. so you're sort of like a spokes person? more of a spokes metaphor. more "doing chores for mom" per roll more "doing chores for dad" per roll more "earning something you love" per roll so the roll can last 50% longer than the leading ordinary brand. so you get mo

>> tom llamas leading us off tonight. tom, thanks. >>> a full-court press from the trumps there, and from hillary clinton tonight, too. in north carolina at this hour. this time last night, in arizona. considered a red state there, but she was there, surrounded by one of her largest crowds to date. the illinois native happy about those cubs overnight, ending the curse. but she and trump are now both fighting for victory, of course. evening with the president, once again on clinton's team. >> reporter: hillary clinton in the final sprint. >> are you ready to vote? >> reporter: the long-time cubs fan, who watched the final game on an aide's ipad, now celebrating that big win. >> you know, the last time the cubs won, women couldn't vote. i think women are making up for that in this election. >> reporter: clinton fresh off a whirlwind, two-day, cross-country tour that took her from florida to arizona. this is one of hillary clinton's largest crowds of this entire campaign, here in arizona. a democrat hasn't won this state in 2

>> tom llamas leading us off tonight. tom, thank you. >>> and late today, before his final foreign trip while in the white house, president obama was like? our own martha raddatz asking the president, does he still believe president-elect trump does not have the temperament to be commander in chief? here's what he said. >> reporter: tonight, president obama opening up about what happened before this moment. >> thank you, everybody. >> reporter: pulling back the curtain on his 90-minute one-on-one meeting with president-elect donald trump. given some of the harsh words you had about mr. trump, calling him temperamentally unfit commander in chief, did anything surprise you about president-elect trump when you met with him in your office? >> well, we had a very cord nia conversation. that didn't surprise me to some degree, because i think that he is obviously a gregarious person. i also think that he is coming hard and fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with. i don't think he is ideolog

>> tom llamas covering this transition every step of the way. tom, thank you. >>> overseas tonight, and to syria, and to troubling pictures after a new round of air strikes killed at least ten civilians, trying to flee aleppo. video shows the bloody aftermath after government forces pounded the city, trying to reclaim one of the final outposts held by president bashar al assad's opponents. the u.n. reporting tonight up to 16,000 people have been displayed in recent days, trying to escape the fighting. >>> back here at home tonight, and to a stunning moment in court today. in south carolina, officer michael slager taking the stand in his own defense, charged in the shooting death of driver walter scott, after a routine traffic stop. here's abc's steve osunsami. >> i made the decision to use lethal force, because mr. scott never stopped. >> reporter: this former police officer took a giant risk testifying. michael slager looked into the jury's eyes and told them that at this very moment, when he started firing at walter scott in the green shirt, he

>> tom llamas leading us off. tom, thank you. >>> and you heard tom report there on the president-elect's tweets over the popular vote, which hillary clinton won. he also tweeted about the electoral college. this time are helping to fuel the protests and new katss of hate. tonight in washington, d.c., young people walking out of school, flooding the national monuments. and it also comes amid new and disturbing images tonight from supporters of both sides. abc's mary bruce now. >> we reject the president elect. >> reporter: in the nation's capitol today, hundreds of students put down their pens and picked up a protest sign. >> we want to let donald trump know that he cannot divide us with his racism, sexism, all that bigotry. >> reporter:he pennsylvania avenue, shut down the lincoln memorial. hundreds of d.c. students walking out of class to walk to capitol hill and make sure their voices are heard. many of those frustrated that those who are now protesting elsewhere and who could have voted did not. >> you should h

>> tom llamas will be here with us throughout the night. and george stephanopoulos will be leading the coverage here in primetime, and george, i'm just curious, you've seen the preliminary exit poll results. what are you watching? >> this has been a bitter, angry campaign all the way through. and i think you're going to see that played out in the results tonight. what you'll see in the results tonight, what it will reveal is a nation divided. by race. by gender. by age. by education. and the big question for either disliked. they are both distrusted. can either one of these candidates, if they win tonight, do something to bring this country, which is so divided, back together? >> this country waiting for either speech tonight, to accomplish the beginning of that work tonight. >> and a huge split between clinton and trump voters. most clinton voters say the country is going in the right direction. trump voters think it could not be going in the worse direction. >> george, can't wait to join you in a short time from now. has been studying the

>> tom llamas, leading us off. thank you. >>> president-elect trump, sitting down for his first tv interview after the election with "60 minutes." here's what he just said about obama care. >> let me ask you about obama care. which you say you're going to repeal and replace. when you replace it, are you going to make sure that people with preconditions are going to be covered? >> yes. because it happens to be one of the strongest assets. >> you're going to keep that? >> also with the children living we're going to try and keep that. >> let's get to mary bruce. first, signaling he may not repeal obama care entirely now? >> reporter: yes, he's walking back from an all-out repeal. he now says he's open to keeping two of the most popular provisions, one that would allow children to stay on their parents' plans until they're 26 years old. the other that prevents providers from denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions. trump earlier today said, i like those very much. >> mary, thank you. >>> and tonight, more

>> tom llamas in florida tonight. tom, thank you so much. so, let's get right to the map here tonight, because it's all about the battlegrounds, and, of course, the path to 270 electoral votes. let's bring in jonathan karl. the polls tightening. donald trump's pathways seem to be opening just a bit here. and does hillary clinton still ha a >> reporter: the map still favors hillary clinton, but donald trump has momentum. look at our ratings. every state that we've looked at, the red favor trump, blue favor hillary clinton. and two states since we last spoke have moved towards trump. utah and ohio. have both gone from tossup states to advantage donald trump. getting him closer to 270. but david, he still needs to win all the remaining tossup states, if he wins all three of those, he goes to 259 electoral votes, still short. >> still short. so, he has to pick off a couple of these blue states. >> reporter: and he's got good news on that front in two states. in the state of pennsylvania, a new poll out today shows trump within four. in wisconsin

tom llamas, take us inside the trump high command. >> they're excited, and they want the networks to call the election for donald trump. there's a little bit of frustration, because they feel they have won this race. that being said, donald trump got a promising sign, mary bruce reports that paul ryan congratulated donald trump and speaker ryan up close. what do you think is going through his mind? hope you heard the question. go ahead. >> george, we know that speaker ryan did have that conversation with donald trump, this is clearly a warming-up we're seeing. donald trump and paul ryan have had this very contentious relationship throughout the election. we've seen paul ryan over the last few days, saying he'd be willing to campaign with donald trump but it never ended up happening. we've heard paul ryan saying donald trump's name, the t-word, something he was reluctant to do throughout much of the campaign. now, you're seeing paul ryan trump, the healing process going forward if donald trump does in fact win the presidency. >> and we know paul ryan had a distaste for a lot of the la