. >> dr. wongromised to eat a bug if he won more than 240 electoral votes which inspired an avalanche on my twitter page. here is one of many -- will you please have dr. wong back on to discuss where his logic went wrong. hoping to see bug eating video. dr. wong, you're a good man for being here. many others would have simply ducked. what did go differently than you envisioned? >> well, certainly i was wrong and i will say that i rely heavily as all do on the pollster community being accurate together. and last week we saw a pretty large pollster error in presidential races, senate races, house races up and down an era of 4 to 6 percentage points. that's an unusually larger ror. i agree i was wrong. i was trying to be a transparenting a gator of polling data. >> do you now reconsider your view of a week ago as to this issue of a hidden trump vote? >> well, i think there's a very important point here which is still the same and even though i was wrong about the outcome, it is very much the case that

dr. wongoins me now with a princeton colleague, a historian and together they co-host a pod cast politics and polls. dr. wong, you tweeted recently that you were so sure of the result that you would put it up on the screen, eat a bug in donald trump pulled this out. that was precomey, that was the prekony revelation, is that still your view? >> yeah. what i said in that tweet was that trump was unlikely to break 240 electoral votes and i think that's pretty much the same. honestly this race is the most stable statistically speaking since eisenhower beat stephenson in 1952. i think that things are looking the same and we should stay calm. >> i mean, this has been the most exciting, tumultuous race in the modern era and yet you regard it as statistically speaking dull. where do you differ from the conventional logic? >> yeah. i think that there's drama and then there's data. so if you look at the political campaign clearly this is the most emotional race in most people's living memory, maybe one

. >> you're a man of your word, dr. wong. how was it by the way? >> kind of mostly honeyish.or a snake. >> tastes like chicken. >> i don't know. >>. >> crunchy. >> melania trump has big shoes to fill in the first lady of michelle obama. >> melania was a professional model. it is michelle on the cover of this week's vogue magazine. it reads the first lady that the world fell in love with. >> will melania trump be a model first lady? here's jeanne moos with that. >> she's been a model, she's done commercials. >> aflac. >> she may seem like an odd duck for a first lady but melania trump is just like us. at least on first glance at her facebook where she posts videos of beautiful beaches. >> dream on ♪ ♪ >> that great aerosmith concert she attended as well as the fun night with my two boys, donald j. trump and their son barron. >> the donald is driving. son riding shotgun. like her husband, melania is not addicted to twitter. some of her older tweeted photos is fun. bat woman for halloween wearing a cat suit teasing her husband, honey, see you soon. this oldie but goodie, the cli

. >> you're a man of your word, dr. wong. how was it, by the way? >> kind of mostly honey-ish. enough for a snake. >> he didn't chew it. he was like getting rid of this. >> was not able to worm out of that one. couldn't help it. >> i knew that was coming from you, george. moving on here. melania trump has to fill the role of first lady, michelle obama who has been very popular, in fact more popular than her husband for the next president. >> michelle is on the cover of the vogue magazine. it reads the first lady that the world fell in love with. >> will the world fall for melania trump. here's jeanne moos. >> she's been a model, she's done commercials. >> aflac. >> she may seem like an odd duck for a first lady but melania trump is just like us. at least on first glance at her facebook where she posts videos of beautiful beaches. >> dream on ♪ ♪ >> that great aerosmith concert she attended as well as the fun night with my two boys, donald j. trump and their son barron. >> the donald is driving. son riding shotgun. unlike her husband, melania is not addicted to twitter. some of

here it goes. [ eats bug ] >> you're a man of your word, dr. wong. how was it, by the way? >> um, kind of mostly honey- ish, a little nutty. but, um, if it's good enough for a snake -- >> that, by the way, was canned cricket covered in honey. dr. wang says now he hopes to get back to discussing real issues. >>> thousands of california national guard soldiers are now turning to donald trump for help. we report, they are hoping the president elect can stop the pentagon once and for all from taking back their bonuses. >> we would love a one-on-one face to face with president trump or president obama. >> reporter: sergeant brian is pleading for a president's executive order to end the california national guard's bonus controversy once and for all. thousands of soldiers like him were being forced to pay back large incentive bonuses given to them improperly a decade ago. >> it was devastating. >> reporter: after public outcry last month, defense secretary ash carter suspended those efforts to recoup money. he said a new plan will start in january and all cases will be reviewed by

i don't know that dr. wong is a democrat, but he's a man of his word. give me another one. keep 'em moving here. "smerconish, i think you should run for president in four years. any chance?" no. zero chance. i'm out of time, unfortunately. thank you so much. tweet me @smerconish. i'll see you next weekend. >>> well, good morning and welcome to saturday. we're always grateful to have you with us. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. 10:00 here on the east coast. "cnn newsroom" begins right now. and we're starting with donald trump transitioning into power as democrats, they're doing some soul searching. both parties turning the page after this historic, stunning election. >> trump's team hunkering down, working to fill critical staff positions now. in fact, they're so busy, one trump insider who was booked on our show had to cancel. >> plus, vice presidential -- president-elect, i should say, mike pence now leading the charge on trump's transition team. >> and as both parties work towards unity, democrats are asking the critical question, what went wrong and idea do we

wong: the two sides, the senate and house negotiators need to come together and settle on a final product, then present that dr. their present of chambers. that is another item that needs to happen during the lame-duck session. in terms of flint funding, the house bill that was negotiated by kildee and speaker ryan is about $170 million. the senate bill contains a little bit more -- $300 million. they will probably have to meet somewhere in the middle. the good news for the people of flint is that donald trump has been very supportive of those efforts. he visited flint back in september. he spoke to a number of the residents and has been talking a lot about infrastructure spending on the campaign trail. up in the air, but i would expect the two sides can come together. host: mitch mcconnell also prioritized the defense authorization bill and this 21st century cures bill. tell us about that briefly. mr. wong: i don't have much information about the senate side. i do know that when mcconnell spoke to reporters the other day, one of his top priorities obviously was the repeal of obamacare. i think a lot of the di