it is important to separate the two, the popular vote from the electoral college. electors are obviously elected by every state. some have different laws that multiple and there are issues here at stake as well with some reforms being prompted by the left on the electoral college and generally our electoral system but the two are very separated. in the midterm elections, the electoral college will not have anything to do with that. that is only for the presidential election. host: one final point because political slurs and calling the president names is not the case. we want it to be civil on all levels. one last thing i want to share with you. this is what the president said at a campaign rally in nevada. pres. trump: democrats, i had to bring it out. democrats want to give welfare and free health care to illegal aliens, funded by the american taxpayer. how about this clown in california who is running for governor? we get a lot of people from california who moved here but how about this guy? he wants open borders. he once to give them health care, education, ever

elected by the electoral college, he had electoral fellows that voted for imagine that al gore lost -he had half a million popular votes, but one of two electoral college people elected him. he did not lose the election, he was sabotaged by a foreign power. protect america from foreign and domestic enemies in the state department. ,'m proud to serve this country and i believe our citizens need to be aware that our president ,s violating our constitution allies across the nation, and all over the world he is causing havoc in the united states of america. be warned citizens, be aware of the electoral college and votes strongly. thank you very much c-span, you're doing a great job and be proud. thank you. tyler, fromgo to west virginia, on the republican line. caller: good morning. i'm listening to some of the comments this morning, and it's always shocking to me when i hear anyone speak against president trump. his language is not always correct, nor his tone. but coming from west virginia we , but thet a bad rap president has done a turnaround here in west virginia. and he has around t

lock on the electoral college.'m somebody who has been consistent. i've written about this for years. i have a different view from ari but i see that you can protect the rights of small states and minorities and you can also reflect one man one vote with a mixed civil. that may sound radical but that is how i see things. i think it is pretty commonsensical. trish: look, i'm a student of history and like i said, i think the founding fathers did a pretty good job. >> no question i don't it worked for this long. i hope it continues. >> i don't question the question the constitution. i say you evolve as time goes along. trish: back to why i was bringing this up, i won't include you in this group. as you say you have been consistent on it but when i have made the point that vladmir putin is winning here, it's because all of sudden now we are so divided it makes it harder for us to come together to get things done. vladmir putin doesn't want a stronger nato, does he? >> well, look, pols hate the russians. that is growth

the obvious is the electoral college. it was supposed to be a group of wise men who would look over the scope of available candidates and choose those of the highest character and intellect. we know that that idealistic few of electoral college -- it never served that kind of aristocratic -- i mean, interest lecture ali aristocratic functions. with the rise of political parties in the 1800s, soon became a rubber stamp for the parties themself. a transformation that was reflected to the 12th amendment, which assumes the existence of political parties. the political parties was one of the major explosions of passion the framers could not and did not anticipate. they now the of parties as a form of faction and they imagined instead that representatives of the people and representatives in the electoral college would deliberate free of partisan passion. the parties developed in a way that proved to be a substitute for some of the cooling mechanisms that hadn't materialized as planned. many of the greatest constitutional trans

with their loss of the electoral college, that they should never lose, because the electoral college a group... years to approve them. years. - but-- - we have judges that are... you would think that these guys would treat me great. i made them a fortune, so-- but they treat me horribly. - okay. - and certain people say, "you're still looking good, mr. president." - all right. right. okay. - there is no collusion with me. - all right. - right. - i would rather have the popular vote because it's-- to me, it's much easier to win... - it's a--yeah, it's a totally different set of goals, as opposed to electoral college. - but we have an electoral college. - right. - i got 306 and she got what? 223. so remember... - right. - there was no way to break 270. i heard that on cbs and nbc and abc-- they're all fake news. - well, mist-- - i heard that for so long. - right. - at cnn. - let's talk about-- - better than people think-- - mr. president, the--right. we could talk to you all day, but it looks like you have a million things to do. - [laughing] [cheers and applause] oh, man! oh! oh, wow.

let me go back to new york i mean what you mentioned something you know you talked about the electoral college i mean now this is an issue because i suppose suppose your candidate last year but that's the way the system works you shoot for two seventeen you become president ok if it had been reversed no one would be talking about the electoral college at least i doubt that and on top of that you know these hearings with cowman are traditionally the they're just about is the person competent to do the job and watching those hearings that had nothing to do with his competence it although it's looking to ambush him and to destroy his character and you know i think he's like milk toast to i mean he's a really solid guy go ahead in new york so what i don't understand is if he's so milk toast if he's such a generic conservative then why not just put merit garland in or another conservative it's very clear how about actually was very unimpressive also in answering a lot of the questions earlier and then weighs heavily the allegations has been very disturbing and you know when you're appointing someon

so effectively they would circumvent the electoral college. i am not sure it would change gerrymandering, i think you have to make changes to the way that states operate their own sort of draw their own mind and the u.s. constitution gives the states the authority to change those lines. and to draw those lines. and in some states, we have seen the legislatures give up that power. in iowa, in the late 70's and early 1980's, they got sued so many times that they said to heck with this, we will let they legislative staff draw the districts that are fair and competitive, and effectively i would visit by the computer. and now iowa has four pretty decent looking districts. other states are involved it would more in negotiations. the washington system, my home state, has a commission that draws it that has five members, two democrats, two republicans and one independent chosen by the other four. and they usually come out with a unanimous decision that gives democrats x number of seats and republicans x number of seats, and they get to fight over one

you really understand the electoral college and how important it was.he founders that of the country that had a federal government that had relationship with the states but a representative government to prevent majority rule. it was brilliant then. i think it's brilliant now. it's very frustrating to them, however i do think the pressure about the electoral college is going to increase a lot in the next probably 20 to 30 years. soon you're going to have 70% of the population represented by only 30% of the senators. because of where people are moving. they are moving to the big cities. they are going to be very frustrated if the senators from wyoming decide to block something in the senate. that pressure about the electoral college and the whole is going to be immense, but i still maintain the founders had it right and that they anticipated these things. >> juan: let me interject. it's now 18% of the population is represented by half of the u.s. senate. to me, this is tyranny. >> dana: how is it here any? >> juan: the agenda of half the senate that's re

in the electoral college, kennedy did better, winning 303-219 with states rights democrats, senator harrybyrd of virginia, picking up 15 electors, including one republican who bolted from nixon. the extremely popular president dwight eisenhower had been term limited out after two terms. during 1960, there had been intense speculation about who would be the next president. in this talk, i will examine first the republican side, and then the fight for the emocratic nomination, and then finally the general election. republicans had a problem with 1960. the problem was this. half of americans called themselves democrats. only one third called themselves republicans, and 1/6 independents. republicans, however, were much more competitive, because much of the south remained a one-party democratic area where there was no organized republican party at all, and in most states outside the south, neither democrats or republicans dominated by very much. ideology, however, in 1960 had a nothing to do with party affiliation. democrats were split roughly three ways among liberals, moderates, and conserva

let me go back to new york i mean what you mentioned something you know you talked about the electoral college i mean it now this is an issue because i suppose suppose your candidate last year but that's the way the system works you've shoot for two seventy and you become president ok if it had been reversed no one would be talking about the electoral college at least i doubt that and on top of that you know these hearings with counting are traditionally the they're just about is the person competent to do the job and watching those hearings that had nothing to do with his competence it although it's looking to ambush him and to destroy his character and you know i think he's like milk toast too i mean he's a really solid guy go ahead in new york so what i don't understand is if he's so milk toast and he's such a generic conservative then why not just put america arlen. and or another conservative it's very clear cabot actually was very unimpressive also in answering a lot of the questions earlier and then weighs heavily the allegations has been very disturbing and you know when you're appoint

an easy answer but but when we hear things about like well the electoral college over represents really this is absurd if it's hillary clinton it got maybe a hundred thousand more votes two hundred thousand more votes in florida and pennsylvania ohio and had won the electoral college and won the election all the sudden the left would be telling us about the wisdom of our system prevented a demagogue from donald like donald trump getting in after all i mean literally three hundred twenty million people or letting a couple hundred thousand swing the balance between this mass hysteria of the you know hitler is in office versus all you know clearly the arc of progressivism is is moving in the right direction because of hillary clinton we're going to we're going to have that national mindset swung to these two degrees by a couple hundred thousand people it's absurd so count me out ok let me go back to you in new york you know in the questions that i sent out through my producers i mentioned the whole saga around bill clinton and his impeachment process and the there was a backlash against th

it is important to separate the two, the popular vote from the electoral college. electors are obviously elected by every state. some have different laws that multiple and there are issues here at stake as well with some reforms being prompted by the left on the electoral college and generally our electoral system but the two are very separated. in the midterm elections, the electoral college will not have anything to do with that. that is only for the presidential election. host: one final point because political slurs and calling the president names is not the case. we want it to be civil on all levels. one last thing i want to share with you. this is what the president said at a campaign rally in nevada. pres. trump: democrats, i had to bring it out. democrats want to give welfare and free health care to illegal aliens, funded by the american taxpayer. how about this clown in california who is running for governor? we get a lot of people from california who moved here but how about this guy? he wants open borders. he once to give them health care, education, ever

this is going to come down to the electoral college. those popular vote polls, she was ahead.hat is unfortunately not the way the president gets picked. because the democratic party and others have led no fight to get rid of the electoral college's 2000, yougore won in would think after that people would go, you know, this electoral college, i think it is time for it to go. there have been good people that have got the national popular vote thing going and they have got it passed in a lot of states. if you have not heard of this, go to nationalpopularvote.com. the law says, can i explain this? the law says that if you pass it in your state that your state's electors will go to whoever wiws the popular vote. we've got to get enough states to get to 270 electoral votes. we have enough states that have passed this where we are up to 172 electoral votes. , weust need enough states have 98 votes left, that is that, and now the winner who actually wins the popular vote will be the president of the united states. there is a possibility of fixing this without having to go through the

is going to some very obscure but in things like the folks who are pushing to get rid of the electoral college and so you've got that going on it was well as the great migration sort of shifting things as well as institutions within government trying really to change this thing and dictate policy and policies to people who live in these rural states. at the same time we had a good seventy years were journalism was truly objective journalism you know you reach back into history and you know that the printed press was largely partisan was largely one sided it was used for political propagandizing purposes and really in the early part of the twentieth century this changed and for a good fifty sixty seventy years you had journalists who were trying to be objective they would tell you the facts they would call balls and strikes in terms of who was doing what the terms of the the powerful part of the world but now we really have seen the media throwing itself and was one side over another exam going to just talking about this you know if you get gregory because i watching m s n b c and c n n i've ne

i was wondering, what are we going to do about the electoral college and the 3/5 vote? when will we get rid of that? this is a terrible thing we have to put up with, counting votes again and again and it's always a republican winner at the end, what about the 17th amendment? our senators and whatnot? i feel it there trying to get rid of this amendment. which i feel is very unfair. thank you very much and john mccain is my hero. guest: thank you. i think with the 17th amendment you are looking at the direct election of senators to the senate as opposed to being appointed by their state governments. the government does not appoint senators, best on my each individual state when there is an opening and the term has not and finished out. that is not something that the gets involved in, when you asked about the electoral college. our role is to ensure that those folks were eligible to vote are able to cast their ballot and have that ballot counted accurately. thejob is to help administrators of elections, the best that we can, ensure that they have the best election possible

a month before the twenty sixteen election that saw trump win the presidency by seventy four electoral college votes it is now been about one year or two hundred forty one days since nobody's counting since trump won those electoral college votes and took office so of course hillary clinton just wrote an op ed for the atlantic and titled american democracy as democracy is in crisis in which she claims quote the legitimacy of our elections is in doubt. well that's a horse of a different color she goes on to remind us that america as we know it is not a nation of people but a flimsy experiment easily broken by just one businessman in her in her piece she states how fragile our experiment in self-government is and when viewed against the sweep of human history how fleeting democracy may be our birthright as americans but it's not something we can ever take for granted. so guess how hillary clinton plans to save our democracy by blaming the likes of the koch brothers for pumping millions into our elections she wants to get secret money out of politics so her solution was to partner with billionair

i change the electoral college in 2022 blue, and at the same time, large puerto rican communities i can work with, helped grow, help fortify, help empower, so they can either go back to their island or be completely integrated in our society, whether florida or pennsylvania. but a know that simply running around the united states of america is foolish for me. i need to focus my energies where i can do the most good. if i believe that donald trump is a threat to the future of our democracy, and is a threat to my grandson living a full, meaningful life in the united states without discrimination, than i have got to work in pennsylvania and in florida and make sure the electoral college is reflected in november 2020 for a democratic candidate. steve: would you agree he could be reelected? rep. shuster: absolutely. and i think that is one of the things, we should not underestimate the power that from beinghatred, able to say, let's discriminate, from bias and prejudice. and wery, very powerful, have to counteract that with inclusion. we need to restructure our society so that we all do well

how much pressure will the electoral college be under?table that the pressure will increase. i think you're absolutely right, because the big states with all the population are going to feel they are underrepresented. that is the way it's meant in the beginning. the fear, if you get rid of the electoral college, is that the candidate might civilly go to the big state. they are not going to go to nebraska, they aren't going to go to utah. there might be some -- a friend of mine was a great historian, he didn't want to abolish it, but he said maybe you could give the person a bonus who wins the popular vote. then you could at least make it a little bit fairer. there will be pressure. ice done mike i expect nothing will get done. >> dana: is a good idea for americans to make big, dramatic changes that they think they're in the middle of turbulent times? >> no, i figure it's better to write it out and figure out -- there are changes that he did made in the political structure, i do think we have to figure out what to do about money in politic

he also won a plurality of electoral college votes. win the jackson did not majority of the electoral college and that's required to win the presidency, so that got thrown to the house of representatives, which the 12th amendment to the constitution ordained. house,n going to the henry clay, another candidate who did not make it into the final round, henry clay, the speaker of the house, agreed more with john quincy adams on policy that with andrew jackson. and so adams makes, according to jackson, a corrupt bargain -- clay makes a according to jackson, a corrupt bargain and in exchange he would, adams would give him the position of secretary of state. that event, secretary of state was seen as a primary route to the white house. so jackson loses in the house, he expected to win, he's obviously just as furious as you can imagine over what happened jacksonelection, and decidesis corrupt and in response to basically launches 1828 campaign a bit target of make the his 1828 campaign government corruption, a rigged system, rigged against de

to humphrey's 191 and to win two of those the election would go to the electoral college i'msorry to congress and state-by-state votes and if humphrey could have prevailed in that sense is questionable because wallace 15 southern states but in short he won the election by a narrow margin of white working-class the n-letter young into the un- poor and to the black. and to act differently but probably should have been tougher with johnson if not at the convention sooner than he did late september but to be frank, too much the elder son could not break as he was a powerful and a vengeful figure that one has to say to defy the party elders maybe he was clue too close to power and to betray the democratic party in the nation and as well as his own request for revered status to deprive the nation as the most all warts proponent to help nixon meant to seven more years of war in the beginning of the death of the great society to open the way but his role was not overcoming back to the senate when humphrey took it to push national health insurance to rebuild state and local facilities

he won the electoral college.t like the outcome of the election so now she demands that we change the constitution and write new rules that would ensure more democrats would win. out with the electoral college and in with california and new york in choosing the president, along with the tiny group of left-wing billionairele tech oligarchs who control our access to all news and information, like the hillary version of democracy and fewer people making decisions. other leading democrats seem to agree with this, and they agree that voters have too much power and voters are disgusting. watch as former attorney general eric holder who is now running for president suggests that trump supporters are apologists for slavery or something. watch. >> this make america great minds that is not only flawed but rooted in fear. and it favors an imagined past what time period do they want to wind the clock back to? what century, what decade? what year? certainly, it was not when people were enslaved, and certainly it was not when s

the electoral college is hard.are starting to find things out that we didn't know, it is hard and harder to win then popular vote. popular vote is three or four states. the hundred yard -- versus running the mile. you practice differently. she forgot that. she forgot to go to important states i don't think i'm going to go to michigan. i don't think them going to go to wisconsin, she said. her husband said, you better go to michigan, you better go to wisconsin. fortunately, she do not listen. think of it. i beat the republicans, governors, senators. i beat the bush dynasty. respect. i beat hillary, who stole it from bernie. bernie should have one, but that's ok. superdelegates. but she has superdelegates. bernie should be angry. why is in he angry? crazy burning. he is so crazy. i saw him the other day on television. he is ranting and raving behind a microphone i will do this and i will do that, his hair is flying, he is going crazy. he's going crazy. i said to my wife, honey, look at that guy. you got a hand it to

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that is a lot, that electoral college, we won by a lot.kay, so we are in there, we have the best employment numbers in our history. we have the best economy and our history. you look at the numbers in every category, it is great. we are doing a great job, putting on phenomenal judges, and you take that, then what? you have a country that is going to turn in to a third world country. because if the opposite party becomes president, every time before it even starts, before you have even found out whether or not he or she is going to do a great job, they will say "we want to impeach him!" and you will impeach him. it is so ridiculous. but we will worry about that, it never happens, but if it does happen it is your fault because you did not go out and vote. you did not go out to vote, that is the only way it can happen. i will be the only president in history that will say what a job he has done, by the way, we are impeaching him. today's it democrat party held hostage by haters, absolute haters, left wing haters. angry mobs, deep state radica

so effectively they would circumvent the electoral college.m not sure it would change gerrymandering, i think you have to make changes to the way that states operate their own sort of draw their own mind and the u.s. constitution gives the states the authority to change those lines. and to draw those lines. and in some states, we have seen the legislatures give up that power. in iowa, in the late 70's and early 1980's, they got sued so many times that they said to heck with this, we will let they legislative staff draw the districts that are fair and competitive, and effectively i would visit by the computer. and now iowa has four pretty decent looking districts. other states are involved it would more in negotiations. the washington system, my home state, has a commission that draws it that has five members, two democrats, two republicans and one independent chosen by the other four. and they usually come out with a unanimous decision that gives democrats x number of seats and republicans x number of seats, and they get to fight over one or t

in two thousand and sixteen donald trump defied the odds to seize the presidency through an electoral college and emanuel mcclellan followed suit under the french runoff watering last year leading a new party of the center. if such a variety of political revolutions under a variety of systems can sweep the boards in france america and scotland then why not in england and polling indicates the potential at least for mass support for a new party born out of mass disillusionment with the come offerings europe could be the defining cause to galvanize opinion an issue fundamental enough to cleave political parties apart and leave a sufficient gap for the new party to flourish. as of know that energy has been devoted to the call for the people's vote cross party cooperation to soft the brakes at birth have it may be that only an election and therefore only a new party can truly break the europe logjam the one fact that is less propitious than one thousand eight hundred one but then there was an obvious leader and roy jenkins former home set to a former chancellor former european commissioner up eve

given the composition of the electoral college, the victory fell to mr. trump. that, given my district, i saw more support than i would've liked. election,ay after the i was not as surprised as some. >> when you walk through these doors for a final time in december, what is going to go through your mind? >> it has been a remarkable experience. we are a remarkable institution. are andht as our times ,s deep as our divisions are each of us is elected to represent a place. have certainces things in common but are quite different. in so many ways. this institution is designed to bring all of those voices to bear on the issues that we face. it has been a great privilege to be here. it has certainly been a great privilege to be here. i'm confident that whoever takes my place on the democratic side will continue to fight for the things that i deeply value. >> what is the next chapter for you? >> that's a work in progress. i decision to leave was about have beeng, i will here 11 years. i feel proud of that which we have been able to accomplish despite the divisions in o

misleading investors over a tweet and organist that said he'd secure what funding to take the electoral college make a profit regulators are seeking for the actual penalties and trying to remove mosque from his position. has more from washington d.c. . the regulators now suing from the federal security and exchange commission says this all started with a tweet in early august musk tweeted to his twenty two million followers that he was considering taking tesla private at a price per share of four hundred twenty dollars federal regulators say there was never a real bases for musk to make that happen and in fact the way he came up with the four hundred twenty dollars valuation hording to the lawsuits is strange itself it alleges that musk made a general estimate and then rounded that number up to four hundred twenty because of the numbers significance to the marijuana culture claiming. that it would amuse his girlfriend while the s.e.c. regulators say this was not amusing at all to the stock to the shareholders who bought more tesla stocks based on this tweet alone only to have lost their money o

president, but once he is duly elected by the voters of this country and has an overwhelming electoral collegetory. for them to turn their sights on trying to delegitimize his election. that's the most of serious kind of crime conducted not against donald trump. this is a crime committed against the people of the united states and against the constitution that has a process for electing a president. judge jeanine: we all know it. but what are we going to do. the president fires comey on the memo written by rod rosenstein and rod rosenstein appoints mueller saying we have to investigate obstruction. this is corrupt. but what are we doing about it? what can we do? >> we are not doing anything about it. and that's the problem. judge jeanine: should christopher wray, the guy who will not hand over fbi documents unless they are blackened out totally, should he go? >> i don't know. i haven't had time to look through what he has or hasn't done. so let me give him the benefit of the doubt. the president is maybe at the point where he should order all of these documents released at least to the members

. >> he won the electoral college. if you want to oppose him, the checks and balances are with congress and courts, in public. >> didn't the secretary of state under nixon, said, do not launch missiles? >> then, do you follow the orders of an unfit president? >> i understand the argument. we have a 25th amendment, impeachment process. >> did anyone think, when your point of view, does anybody believe that michael pence would ever blow the whistle on trump's incompetence? >> no. >> the vp, get the ball rolling? >> if the president is not capable of being president, again to the individual who wrote the article, and the individuals part of the resistant movement, they should resign. come over, testify before congress, for these reasons, the president is unfit to serve. if that is indeed the case, if their critiques are found legitimate. >> we have two ways, is to leave the white house and write a book? >> yes. >> another is to put out an op-ed. which is the most admirable. funchlths put your name on t you suffer conseque

judge his case, after the access hollywood a tape, everyone knew what they were getting, the electoral college elected trump. >> i'm still trying to retain my capacity for surprise. >> i think this is a surprise. i saw the headline, i saw the language used, i was surprised that someone put this down in one letter. >> trump at the end of the day goes up to his private residence and reads briefing books all night, that would have been surprising. is this surprising? >> jeffrey is jaded. the president calls this treason, but he says he wants the times to hand over the name of the source here. what could happen to this person really? >> getting a big book contract, that's the risk they're running, and it is a firing offense. you owe your employer a certain level of loyalty. this person is some sort of political appointee. so he or she could be fired tomorrow if their name is disclosed. i'm sure they will be, and i'm sure many people will be angry at this person when their name is disclosed, but in terms of personal risk, in terms of the kind of risks that people run around the world for freedom of

the electoral college was set up so we can't win except, we want a lot of states that haven't been oned one man that i like watching him especially when he is upset. he said you know, i think trump is going to win wisconsin that hasn't been one. i think trump is going to win michigan. no. no. remember with the hand he's very confident i said okay this could be a quick evening then they said, wait a minute oh. trump just won the state of florida. no. happen, they don't say she spent about five times more money. in the old days if you spend less money and win, nobody ever says that. do they ever say that i spent 25% of the money. then they say wait a minute. oh no. remember the firewall? the guarantee, she spent a fortune this could be the great state of north carolina. we love them and they're going through a lot tonight. we say prayers for them. north carolina and south carolina. south carolina will be hit hard tomorrow around 3:00 o'clock. it's going to be horrible. but, they are ready. always talk about them i have to say god is with you, we are with you. [applause] and we have the b

and the electoral college map to lose people into thinking the split for him is bigger than it was. i think it was a very close run with the demographics looking at two years with a shrunken republican base it is smaller now. and i with a party of lincoln becoming the 55-year-old dude there are only so many in the country. so look at that swing voter people are drifting away because of his behavior, he screwed and people say that doesn't matter only results in policy matter but guess again. does policy matter then barack obama would have had his handed to him with accomplishments and mile-long versus someone in the senate for two years. it does matter. and presentation matters. trump every day drives a few more people out of the republican pool. many are now registering as independent and now democrats are coming in the future. >> i thank you definitely have a career as a standup political comedian with -- we are done with this one. if you consider these scenarios that the democrats take back the house and republicans keep the senate we still haven't heard from mr. mueller. at that