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Trump Wins Presidential Race in Major Upset; Protesters Hit the Streets Across the Country; Aftermath of the Election. Aired 8-9p ET

Aired November 9, 2016 - 20:00   ET

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[20:00:00] ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, HLN HOST: A political revolution. Donald Trump`s surprise victory over Hillary Clinton may change the laws of

America for generations to come. What got us here? And what will the early days of a Trump White House bring to you and then to the rest of the

world?

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BANFIELD (voice-over): Get ready for Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT-ELECT: I will be president for all Americans.

BANFIELD: It was a victory that stunned his opponents, and frankly, many of his supporters, too. How will he change the laws of the land? Will he

deliver on all those promises? And can he bring together two sides that came to hate each other?

Also tonight, bodies keep turning up in shallow graves on that same property where a woman was found captive and chained in a shipping

container. Two more victims unearthed, a husband and a wife. But the question is, are there others still buried out there?

And a mom and daughter shot dead in their own home. The 16-year-old daughter has vanished and is in danger tonight. An Amber Alert for Kirsten

Fritsche (ph) of Texas. Where is she, and who heartlessly killed her family?

(END VIDEOTAPE)

BANFIELD: Hello, everyone. I`m Ashleigh Banfield. Welcome to PRIMETIME JUSTICE.

In just over 70 days, Donald Trump is going to be inaugurated as this nation`s 45th president. It is being called the most stunning election

victory in modern history.

We`ve got the numbers to show you at this hour. They have changed. Trump has won 290 electoral votes now and Secretary Clinton just 232, Michigan

the only thing that`s yellow on that map because it has not yet been called, believe it or not.

Well, Clinton is still leading, though, in the popular vote. Popular vote doesn`t get you elected, though. Electoral votes do. And that`s what

happened with Donald Trump. But will he be able to transcend his campaign, a campaign with so many highlights and so many lowlights?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: Now it`s time for America to bind the wounds of division. We have to get together.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BANFIELD: In the meantime, Hillary Clinton supporters asking how and why their candidate did not win, despite the polls and the pundits and just

about everybody who thought it was all but a sure thing? In her concession speech this morning, Hillary Clinton struck a conciliatory tone.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY), FMR. PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: 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.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BANFIELD: So before Donald Trump actually enters that Oval Office, he has a massive task, I think you can fairly say a daunting task of healing a

nation that feels pretty darn wounded by the nastiest election in our time. And he`s going to have to learn the ins and outs of a system in which he

has absolutely no experience.

So what`s going to happen in those first 100 days of the Trump White House? And how does this country, the United States of America, pick up the pieces

and move on from this moment forward?

Our Jim Sciutto has been tracking (ph) -- probably not sleeping at all. He`s CNN`s chief national security correspondent who`s live with me now

from Washington. OK, Jim, so I don`t have to tell you that half the country woke up in disbelief, half the country woke up in jubilation.

Everybody is absorbing, assessing, trying to do it in real time.

And the truth of the matter is, there`s very little time for that, for the Trump team, because they`ve got to hit the ground running. Walk me through

it.

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That`s exactly right. And it`s interesting, talking Trump transition, it seemed like such a theoretical

thing just 24 hours ago. Now it is very real.

Up until election day, neither Donald Trump or his family members, his daughter, his two sons, his two older sons, were not involved in this.

They left it to another team, a team of about 80 people, which is relatively small for presidential transition teams, and they`re consulting

a larger group of subject experts.

But the names leading that transition team are going to be very familiar to our viewers. Top of the list, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, also

Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, and in addition to that, Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich also advising. So you have those four there leading the way

in terms of looking at the possible cabinet picks.

Now, what`s interesting -- you can even say this is a little bit of Dick Cheney style, you remember, who was leading George W. Bush`s vice

presidential search and then said, Hey, what about me?

[20:05:06]So when you look at those four that are leading the transition team, Giuliani, Christie, Sessions and Gingrich, all of them come up as

possible names for cabinet picks, as well.

Governor Chris Christie, talk of him as possible chief of staff or attorney general. He of course was a prosecutor back before he was governor of New

Jersey. Rudy Giuliani, there`s talk of him being chief of staff, as well, possibly attorney general. He was another prosecutor, but also perhaps

director of national intelligence, even head of the CIA.

Jeff Sessions, Alabama senator -- he is someone who`s talked about as possible secretary of state. You also have on that list Reince Priebus.

He`s of course, been the head of the Republican National Committee. He`s helped unite the party as best as possible. There`s talk of him with a

senior advisory role, possibly, as well, chief of staff. And Newt Gingrich, also chief of staff candidate, but also secretary of state.

So among those four, those big four leading that transition team, they`re also leading contenders for some of the top jobs in a Trump administration.

BANFIELD: We should start getting very familiar with those faces because they`re going to be very familiar to us. Stand by, Jim, for one second. I

want to bring in Stephen Collinson. He`s a senior reporter for CNN Politics, so fair to say this is his season.

Stephen, the -- it`s pretty remarkable. There is barely time for Trump and his family and his supporters and his loyalists and his team to even finish

the champagne because they were hard at work today, physically getting plans in place, delivering documents, putting forth reports.

I think our viewers would actually be pretty shocked to realize that work has already been in progress. So tell me a little bit about when we`re

going start seeing the actual announcements and how it happens, physically how it happens.

STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right. Well, Donald Trump`s transition team has actually been up and running since August. There`s a

new tradition that`s unfolded over the last few presidencies to really get this transition working much more effectively and seamlessly.

So Trump`s team has been ready. He was delivered a transition plan yesterday evening in Trump Tower in New York. We`re going to see teams

from the transition start spreading out into the government departments, places like the State Department, the Pentagon over the next few days.

Donald Trump himself has been authorized by President Obama to have the highest level of security briefing, you know, the intelligence briefing

that the president gets.

You know, this is really going really, really quickly. It`s a massive task. You`ve got about 73 days to staff up the federal government, which

is much bigger than most international companies. You`ve got to fill 4,000 presidential appointments. You really -- to get your administration

running quickly in the first 100 days, you need to get your top people confirmed, you know, during the first few days of the administration.

So this is all starting to fold (ph) out. And I think in the next few days, perhaps early next week, we might start to see some key appointments.

BANFIELD: Yes, so have your nap now is basically what the guidance is for an incoming, you know, president-elect. Stephen, hold that thought for a

moment. Some of the biggest work is going to be starting tomorrow, as well, because there`s going to be a meeting with the president at the Oval

Office.

The president is going to not only bring Donald Trump in for a meeting, but first lady Michelle Obama will also be speaking with Melania Trump, who is

the soon-to-be first lady of this country, and there`s a lot to figure out, to say the very least.

I want to bring in CNN political commentators Alice Stewart and Symone Sanders. They join me now live. Alice is a Republican strategist, and

Symone is a Democratic strategist.

OK, you two, you`re going have to get along because that`s effectively now what the rules are. One day after, it`s supposed to be all kumbaya. And I

don`t think it feels that way for a lot of people.

SYMONE SANDERS, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: It doesn`t. There`s protests in the street right now here in New York City.

Young people all across the country walked out of their high schools today. I really don`t think...

BANFIELD: So you think that`s going to last, though?

SANDERS: I do think it`s going to last. I think what people are underestimating...

(CROSSTALK)

BANFIELD: We`re having some live pictures in New York.

SANDERS: This is happening right now. People are having "Not my president" protests. Young people, high school students, folks that

couldn`t even vote walked out. And you cannot underestimate the feelings that this electorate has had. And while Donald Trump, you know,

(INAUDIBLE) be a racist or a bigot, or even actually xenophobic or a sexist or any of that, he has made it OK...

BANFIELD: To be that way.

SANDERS: ... for people in this country...

BANFIELD: To say those things.

SANDERS: ... to be that way. He is -- the president-elect is endorsed by the KKK. And for many people in America, they woke up today...

BANFIELD: And some say that`s not maybe...

SANDERS: ... in shock.

BANFIELD: Strangely, though, some people say that`s not such a bad thing because if it`s just bubbling under that surface, why not let it boil?

Bring it all out, get everybody yelling in the streets and talking and actually discussing this for the first time in maybe the longest time.

(CROSSTALK)

BANFIELD: I know that doesn`t sound -- it just sort of defies logic, but what else can you do? (INAUDIBLE)

ALICE STEWART, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: It`s almost like the elephant in the room out there. And I think to one small

exception, I think his language that many perceived as racist and xenophobic and insulting toward women, I think many people on both sides of

the aisle do not think that`s OK. They don`t condone it. They don`t accept it.

[20:10:10]But to your point, it became such an everyday topic of conversation in the news and what people were discussing that it became

something that parents had to talk to their children about. And it`s not a comfortable conversation to have.

BANFIELD: Can I just ask you -- when you look at these pictures -- these are live. I can`t stress enough, you know, we heard about a couple of

protests throughout the day, and they started, you know, fomenting, as people maybe got out of work and had a chance to watch some of the, you

know, news coverage.

I think we`re switching over to Chicago. We`ve got -- yes, there you go. These are live pictures of the protests in Chicago, certainly not anything

other than peaceful protesting.

Alice, do you think in that crowd, there are Republicans? Alice, do you think in that crowd there are Democrats who can get over this, who can get

out and voice their -- how they have felt all day and eventually come around?

STEWART: I think so. What I was impressed with yesterday -- I took some time in the afternoon and went by Trump Tower and saw there were people

peacefully protesting. They were having conversations, you know, the Trump people in their Trump shirts and the Hillary people in their shirts -- they

were having conversations, the same right outside of Donald Trump`s victory party last night at the Hilton, same kind of thing.

Clearly, things are -- have stepped up to the next level. But I would like to think that if it gets to the point to where there`s hostility, Donald

Trump should step in and call for calm and call for peace.

BANFIELD: You think so? Do you think that this is cathartic? Is this what this is, everybody needed to just let out that primal scream after

what they went through last night? Because a lot of these people, last night was one of the most painful things in their lives.

SANDERS: I think you`re seeing the revolution literally televised. Revolution`s going to be televised, Snapchatted, tweeted, Facebook Lived,

Periscoped. This is not going away. So while we might not see people in the streets every single day, there are going to be folks that are going to

jump up and stand up and call for justice.

BANFIELD: Portland, Oregon. We got cameras all over this country, and we`re literally going to do the hopscotch to show what Americans are

saying, thinking, and doing as it just unfolds. (INAUDIBLE) I didn`t even know we had this lineup of live cameras, but there you go, right across the

country from New York to Chicago to Portland, Oregon.

And it`s interesting. Symone just said this revolution. I wonder whose revolution it is? Is it the revolution for those folks out on the street,

or is it the revolution for those people who went to the polls en masse to elect a guy that they said finally spoke for them, that they hadn`t been

able to say anything out loud about until he finally said it out loud, as unpalatable as it was for so many people to hear some of his rhetoric.

Pretty fascinating stuff.

We`ve got a live eye on these protests throughout the night. We`re going to take a quick break, be right back, and update you not only about what`s

going on in protests, but also what is going on to name the 4,000 people who needs to be named into the jobs of working for President Trump?

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[20:16:58]BANFIELD: Breaking news. We`re not even 24 hours since we started to really come to terms with the result of the United States

presidential election last night, and that was that Donald Trump would become the 45th president of this country.

So here`s what you`re seeing in certain spots around the country, primetime Eastern time, this eve, one night after the election. Things were fairly

quiet throughout the day, as people woke up, read the news, watched the news, and discovered the concession speech of Hillary Clinton this morning

and saw more clips of Donald Trump giving his acceptance speech last night.

We`ve got pictures that you just saw in Chicago, what you`re seeing right now, CNN pictures out of New York City, right in the heart of Manhattan,

thousands and thousands of people peacefully protesting in the streets.

This is courtesy of our affiliate KOIN in Portland, Oregon. A lot of things happening on the West Coast, in fact. Some of the first protests

that we were aware of today were happening in California during the daylight hours.

But as people get out of work and they`ve had a day to digest the news and hearing about the transition plans and seeing the pictures like you saw at

the top of this program of possible cabinet picks, my thought is possibly some of the people you`re seeing out on the street today are none too

pleased with perhaps those people and without question, the person at the top of the ticket.

Many of them are shouting, "He will never be my president." There`s some protesting going on in Boston -- I want to listen in. And if my producers

can let me know which one of these I`m hearing? I think it`s New York.

Pictures from New York, and you can see that rainbow flag in the background, a lot of gays and lesbians, LGBT community in this country very

concerned about what might happen under a Trump presidency and a Trump- appointed Supreme Court and a Republican Congress and a Republican Senate, what might happen to the gains that that community has made over the last

several years? Gay marriage, the transgender bathroom issue is right now in play. And many people have already articulated that sense of panic just

this morning.

I`m going to switch over to some pictures of Chicago. Look at the throngs! Wow! That`s coming to us courtesy of our helicopter shot from WGN, our

affiliate in Chicago. And it looks extremely peaceful. It almost looks as though it`s a sit-in. More pictures of Chicago, as well.

Jim Sciutto, if you`re still with us -- our national security correspondent was with us at the top of the program. I`m not sure if you`re seeing on

your monitor as we toggle between all of our live pictures across the country -- oh, another picture of Portland, Oregon, that I want to bring in

just after this Chicago picture.

I don`t know that everybody expected this. Maybe they did, or maybe no one knew what to expect because this is really uncharted territory. But what

are your thoughts, Jim?

[20:20:02]SCIUTTO: It`s -- it`s amazing to see this and in those numbers, and it`s interesting because there was talk that if Donald Trump were to

lose that his supporters would feel robbed. Of course, Donald Trump at times during the election talked about how the election was rigged, the

system was rigged. There was talk that if he lost, well, what would his supporters, his most ardent supporters do?

So now you have the surprise result. Hillary Clinton has lost. And as we watch this here, it should be noted these all look very peaceful to me, and

I`m sure to you, as well. People have a right to demonstrate in public and express themselves, and you have a large number of people who are not happy

with these results.

But again, this is not the vision that most people had because, of course, people -- most people were not expecting this outcome. But I think, to be

honest, Ashleigh, it`s not surprising because we know how divided this country is and the extremely disparate positions that Donald Trump`s

supporters had, their view of him, and Hillary Clinton`s supporters, right?

You know, the talk was not of, Well, I disagree with them on their position on entitlements, right? I mean, the talk of this election was, This person

is not qualified to be president. And you heard that from both sides. And in fact, the message from the candidates...

BANFIELD: Hey, Jim...

SCIUTTO: ... was that message.

BANFIELD: ... take a look at the monitor real quick. We`ll interrupt you only for a moment because we just got another signal in from Philadelphia,

from our affiliate KYW. And there`s a lot of, obviously, police presence in the street there. But these scenes seem to be replicating themselves in

the major cities across the country, I suppose not surprising, there were some -- there was a lot of angst.

If you just sort of did a whip around the nation and looked at the front covers of the newspapers, you could see the various degrees of frustration,

surprise. I`m not sure that there were many supportive newspapers. There were some that were just sort of flat and stating the case, President

Trump.

This is Portland, Oregon, again, a new signal from our KPTV, where you can see people flooding into the streets in Portland, Oregon.

But Jim, you know, not surprisingly, maybe this is what we should have expected.

I want to bring Stephen Collinson in, as well, because, Stephen, you know, you`ve been covering this campaign for a year-and-a-half. You`ve been

around the country. You`ve seen a lot of these folks out in the street, in the rallies, et cetera. But this seems remarkably peaceful, doesn`t it.

COLLINSON: Right, but I think it exemplifies the challenge that Donald Trump is going to face when he becomes president in January. You know,

it`s all very well to talk about uniting the country, healing the wounds, bringing people together, but this was an extraordinary acerbic and

vitriolic campaign.

You know, you had two candidates who were flinging some of the most violent rhetoric at each other that we`ve ever seen in a modern presidential

campaign, and that does have an effect in the country. If you look at the numbers of the election, if you want an indication of just how divided this

country is, 59 million people voted for Donald Trump so far in the popular vote, 59 million people voted for Hillary Clinton. She`s about 200,000

ahead of Donald Trump. You know, the country is absolutely split down the middle.

If you cast your mind back to Donald Trump`s convention speak, when he was talking about -- he had a very dark vision of a nation of unrest, a nation

of anger, you know, protests in the streets, this all is coming to a head, I think. I think it`s likely we possibly will see it die down after a

while.

But we have the inauguration. You already have to be thinking, you know, what kind of protests are we going to see of what is normally a very joyful

ceremony, a ceremony of renewal and a new start when a new president is inaugurated. So these are the things that Donald Trump is going to have to

deal with, I think, in the early days of his administration.

BANFIELD: And he`s going to have to listen to these voices, which is exactly what I`d like to do right now, if I can. If you`ll indulge me, I`m

going to ask my production crew in the control to just pump up the volume on the street.

And I will give you a warning. Sometimes when we do this, we hear things we would perhaps rather not hear. But this is real and this is the country

and this is the day after the election. Let`s listen.

So there`s the march in Portland, Oregon. We`re going to continue to give you the coverage of this. I`m going to take you to various cities so you

can hear some of the other voices from the streets because that`s what`s happening, folks. The streets are alive across this country just 24 hours

after Donald Trump effectively -- it became quite known that he was going to get the requisite number of electoral votes to become the 45th president

of the United States.

[20:25:02]While half of this nation is celebrating, the other half is doing this, despondent, angry, frustrated a sense of loss, you name it. There`s

a lot of emotions out there. The transition of power, however, is happening, whether they like it or not.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

BANFIELD: We`ve got live breaking news. We want to bring you pictures out of Seattle, Washington, courtesy of our affiliate KYRO (ph). These are --

I guess you could say this is the result of a hastily organized, perhaps Facebook-organized series of protests across the nation. This is Chicago,

many people turning out, in fact, in the thousands, protesting Donald Trump`s -- the new election, the new president-elect of the United States.

This is Portland, Oregon. I will give you the warning that some of these signs are less than ready for primetime. But you`re seeing live pictures

as we go from city to city.

[20:30:10] This is Philadelphia, our affiliate KYW, showing us throngs of people in the street.

I want to just read for you, if I can, what I saw about the organization in Seattle. Because the protesters who were at the Westlake Park in Seattle

had organized on a Facebook page, at least about 1500 of them, had -- had organized to go out to the Seattle protest that you`re seeing.

And I want to read for you what that page said, and I will quote directly, the democratic party has proven they are incapable of stopping Trump. The

democratic party has failed. This is the result of the democratic party leadership backing Hillary Clinton instead of Bernie Sanders. It is time to

build a new party of the 99 percent.

And what`s interesting, Symone Sanders, is that you said Bernie Sanders actually put out a statement today.

SANDERS: Yes, Senator Sanders put out a statement calling -- saying that progressives were ready and willing to work with the Trump administration

and a president Trump. But he also noted that if those policies were racist, sexist or anything of that nature, misogynistic,, progressives

would be ready to stand against it.

What`s interesting is Senator sanders is a -- he ran for office, he`s a legislator. He is keenly tuned into doing what he needs to do in the

senate.

BANFIELD: One of the first pictures by the way tonight that we went to at the top of the show was in New York City. Right here where we are in

Manhattan, the pictures are pretty electrifying. Thousands of people out on the streets in Manhattan.

Our Jean Casarez is one of them. She`s raced to catch up with some of the protesters. Jean, I don`t know if you can hear me, but if you can, can you

give me some color from where you are?

JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I can. There`s thousands of people here right on fifth avenue at 56th street, right before Trump Tower. I think we

want to show you some of these people. It`s built and built, because they started marching at Union Square and that`s where we started walking with

them and we`ve come 40 blocks up fifth avenue primarily here to Trump Tower.

Can`t get so close to the tower but almost there. And they`re really continuing to chant against Donald Trump, because they do not believe that

he represents this country. They did not want him elected last night. "Trump`s not my president," "get rid of Trump." A lot of vulgarities about

Trump that they`re saying as they march. They`re also chanting "black lives matter".

But the group has definitely grown. I think you can hear. It`s very, very loud now. Ashleigh, I think you were saying this a minute ago, this -- this

protest tonight was put on by, advertised by Facebook, socialist advantage.

And what that group said was that they not only are protesting Donald Trump being elected as the 45th president of the United States last night, but

also protesting the democratic party, that having a nominee as Hillary Clinton, that she was not able to stop Trump.

And so they blame the democratic party for that. Maybe it`s the time for a new party. Now, saying that, Ashleigh, the people that we have spoken to

tonight say they`re here to protest the election of Donald Trump. That`s why they`re here. But it was advertised to be both that and against the

democratic party, Ashleigh.

BANFIELD: Jean, we`re going keep the signal up. And if you can do me a favor, we`re seeing a few flashes of the signs that have gone by in your

general vicinity and the ones that are G-rated enough to be able to read, no more small men with big mouths.

But I would love it if you would collect some of those so when we come back to you, you can let me know what those signs say, when we can. In the

meantime, Jim Sciutto, I know that you were also scanning the social media genesis of a lot of these protests and you discovered that there`s also

another body that`s out there doing this.

SCIUTTO: That`s right. First, I checked to see those trending on Twitter, it is trending anti-Trump. I notice it there. We know social media is very

powerful for organizing gatherings. You see them on Facebook.

But I also saw that moveon.org has been calling for these gatherings. They say tonight, we`ll gather peacefully in cities nationwide to affirm our

continued rejection of Trump bigotries and misogyny, created gathering.

So, they have a tool here now online to create your own gathering in your hometown, but also find one near you. And that maybe some of what we we`re

seeing demonstrated out here. In addition, I would imagine people are organizing on their own.

BANFIELD: Yeah, we were looking at Philly a moment ago. We`re back to Portland. We`re literally doing the whip around, folks, so just be patient

with us. You`re getting them live. And I will give you that warning, that sometimes we cannot control what comes out of the mouths of people who are

passionate and angry and frustrated, and some of their signs are inappropriate.

So there`s that. But I think you should have the unvarnished view of what`s happening in this country, you know, one day after the election of Donald

Trump. So what`s interesting is, this could have been either side. Had this been the election of Hillary Clinton, there would have been so many of

those Trump supporters who were so passionate in those rallies.

Symone, I want you to weigh in on that. Someone said to me this morning, you know, if only Hillary Clinton had chosen Bernie Sanders as her vice

president, she would be president today.

[20:35:00] SANDERS: You know what? I think that it is very interesting that now all of a sudden everyone is like, oh, if only you had Bernie, because

Bernie was the one.

As someone who worked on the Sanders` campaign, who literally witnessed the passion of young people, old people, men, women, black, white, Latino,

Asian, American, native American, otherwise gay, straight, all genders, all backgrounds, who stood up and said this is what we want, and to watch the

establishment tell them no, not yet, to tell us to wait for incremental change.

And now to say, oh, maybe we should have had Bernie, we had the opportunity. The democratic electorate spoke. So we went with what the

democratic electorate said.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Interesting going through Twitter and looking at some of the signs, one of them is "they try to bury us." So that just goes to

say, yes, they tried to say sit down, wait your turn, you know. We`ve got this covered, but they`re clearly demonstrating regrowing or multiplying.

BANFIELD: It becomes a more historic election by the moment as you see these pictures play out on your television sets. These are live shots from

all over the country. And even as we went on the air, 36 minutes and 47 seconds ago, these crowds have swelled by the thousands.

And we are getting more and more cities up and online each time we do the whip around. This is Chicago. Look at those pictures. We have to zoom out

to be able to get it. Oh, dear. Don`t like to see this. This is not going to help them in unifying.

This is Chicago. Obviously, you know exactly what you`re seeing there. Different protesters on the sidewalk burning what`s become an iconic image

of the Trump campaign, the make America great again.

We`re continuing this live breaking coverage throughout the evening. I have more pictures, and I`m going to take you to the street level in just a

moment.

[20:40:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

BANFIELD: Breaking news. I`m Ashleigh Banfield. I`m taking you to street level right now. This is Portland, Oregon, courtesy of KYN. I want you to

listen in to some of the voices on the street as protesters across this country in the thousands have taken to the street to speak out about the

election results, and particularly the choosing of one Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States.

Many of them saying it`s the democratic party`s fault for letting this happen. Let`s listen.

(CROWD NOISE)

BANFIELD: Very peaceful. Many of these marchers from city to city have taken to the street. On occasion, you can hear them calling "not my

president."

(CROWD YELLING)

BANFIELD: Trying to make out what they`re saying. At least we can hear "our street." And I will give you the warning again as I have done a few times,

that these are live pictures and live protesters can be finicky folks. And we don`t know what`s gonna come out of their mouths at any given times.

But sometimes that is not particularly G-rated and neither of the signs on occasion. But I will tell you this, it is raw passion and the raw emotion

as Americans as they take to the street one day after the election of their new president, Donald Trump.

CROWD: Not my president! Not my president! Not my president!

BANFIELD: Folks in Portland, Oregon, gathering to march and saying "not my president" among other things. Jim Sciutto is watching along with me, out

national security correspondent here at CNN.

You know, Jim, while you are an expert in national security, there are a whole host of other issues that I`m sure on the minds of a lot of the

people that we`re seeing on our screen, not the least of which is what is going to happen under a Donald Trump presidency, when he appoints the

missing supreme court Justice Scalia.

And then after that, there could be three more, you know, vacancies in his administration. And that could be a generation of a republican-led supreme

court. So the host of issues now on the minds of so many, including abortion, including gay marriage, including immigration. The list goes on

and on. I can understand why there`s angst out there.

SCIUTTO: No question. Donald Trump said as much, Hillary Clinton said as much repeatedly during the campaign, that this election, one big factor in

this election is the supreme court. We`ve been down to eight justices for months now since Justice Antonin Scalia died.

As you know, Barack Obama nominated a successor, Merrick Garland, but the republican-controlled senate would not even take up that vote. There was

talk of a lame duck session consideration of Merrick Garland, but now with a republican president and republican control of the senate maintained or

taken over, I should say, that talk is gone right now.

Donald Trump has released names of several judges, he did this before the election, that he might appoint to that spot. Very conservative judges. I

think we have -- we might not put that up there since we have the protest on the screen.

[20:45:00] BANFIELD: I think we should. We will try to split the screen so we can watch the protest. This is Philadelphia as you can see now live, but

we do have a list of a lot of it -- there are a lot of people.

SCIUTTO: There are a lot.

BANFIELD: These are Trump`s potential supreme court picks so let`s try to have a peek at that.

SCIUTTO: The reason, and I`m not going to run through every single name of them, but a couple key points. One, these are very conservative judges that

Donald Trump has on his list. Just to pick out a couple. William Pryor. He`s on the U.S. Court of Appeals for 11th circuit.

He has described Roe V. Wade, of course, the decision allowing lawful abortion, the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law. You

can see William Pryor on that list there, bottom row, second from the left. Diane Sykes. She`s down there on the lower row, second from the right. She

wrote an opinion in favor of business owners who were asserting a religious objection to the Obamacare contraceptive mandate.

So just two big issues right there, two justices picked out of that long list on abortion, on contraception. Another thing when you put that list up

there that I think our viewers noticed, mostly white men. And Donald Trump got enormous amount of criticism for that. So, again, before the election,

he added a few names to his list.

BANFIELD: We have those.

SCIUTTO: We have those as well.

BANFIELD: We do. Let`s pop to the other list of the other five justices that came in the list. That is not a bunch of white men.

SCIUTTO: It is not. Still conservatives. You have on the far left there, Amul Thapar, he`s the first South Asian to be named to an Article III

federal judgeship, that was in 2007. Federico Moreno, he was actually born in Venezuela, a Latino. Robert Young, African-American, he was with

Michigan Supreme Court. We also have Margaret Ryan, she is on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Armed Forces.

So, Donald Trump aware before the election that he needed to broaden that list a bit. At least in terms of background. He updated the list, but we`re

still talking, Ashleigh Banfield, about very conservative judges, particularly on issues that Americans care about and might be brought into

the streets to protest about.

BANFIELD: Diversity and perhaps the demographic appearance of those justices. But not enough to mollify the people who you are seeing on your

screen right now who know full well what this Trump presidency and this republican house and this republican senate will mean for the kinds of

picks that will be on that court.

Jim, I know you have to run. I appreciate all of your analysis. We`re continuing to watch these pictures live. I`m happy really to say, 47

minutes past the hour, we`ve been on this live, so far there has been nothing but peaceful protests out in the street.

We have gone through six or seven cities now. Here`s New York. You can see the rainbow flag in the background. I`m going to take you down to street

level in a couple more city in a moment.

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BANFIELD: Continuing with our breaking news. We`ve got literally tens of thousands of people across this country coast to coast, from New York all

the way to San Francisco, California, pictures that you`re seeing on your screen right now, marchers in the streets. Many of them saying the same

things, effectively, whether they`re "G" rated or not, that they`re not happy with last night`s election results.

Frustration with Donald Trump being elected the 45th president. Frustration with the democratic party and how it handled its affairs with Hillary

Clinton at the top of the ticket. We`re literally looking at pictures from nine different cities. You`re seeing Boston on your screen right now. I`m

going list off a bunch of them. They will not match the pictures. I just want you to know what`s happening.

Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, Chicago, Portland, New York. And each time we go to these cities, there are virtually

thousands in some of these streets. This is Chicago where you don`t see thousands, but rest assured in a picture just beforehand, there were

throngs and throngs.

Stephen Collinson is our senior reporter for CNN politics. I just wanted to quickly tap you, if I can, none of what we`re seeing right now impedes the

progress that the Trump team is going to have to embark upon or has embarked upon in staffing 4,000 plus appointments, I think about 1100

needing senate confirmation.

There is a massive amount of work to put this transition team in place to hit this ground running. None of what we`re seeing out there is going to

impede that.

COLLINSON: That`s for sure. I mean, the election is over, and this is the aftermath. One thing that does strike you, that list of cities you reeled

off, they`re all epicenters of democratic support, on the coast, Philadelphia, Chicago, and out west.

If you look at the electoral map that Donald Trump won with last night, you had these blue areas and a sea of red, the rural areas of the United

States, most of the country, that Donald Trump won. So that encapsulates this two Americas, if you like, that we`re seeing playing out here.

One of the big questions that is going to unfold in this transition and in the first 100 days is, what is going to happen to this anti-establishment

feeling that power of this election, not just for Donald Trump but for Bernie Sanders.

BANFIELD: But spokes as well. Anti-establishment, a revolution on two fronts.

COLLINSON: That`s right.

BANFIELD: The popular vote, maybe many of these people are frustrated that the popular vote does not reflect the choice that was made last night.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Absolutely. You look at the popular votes directly. Hillary Clinton won 47.7 percent, Donald Trump 47.5. So, she had 59.

[20:55:00] BANFIELD: Our numbers are just slightly -- slightly different, but it was slim, but it was there.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was slim, but he won by the electoral college. So there could be some frustration on that one. Look, we had more people come

out and vote for her, similar scenario happened in 2000 with Al Gore and the Bush race and Bush won that. So, there`s clearly frustration.

BANFIELD: Symone, if there`s frustration, where were the demographics that made such a significant difference? Just 10 seconds left. But where were

they at the ballot box last night?

SANDERS: They were at home and they thought that never in 2016 could Donald Trump, someone who ran his campaign on rhetoric, racist would become

president of the United States.

BANFIELD: They thought wrong.

SANDERS: They fell asleep at the wheel. They fell asleep at the wheel last night, America.

BANFIELD: We`re going to leave some of these pictures. There you have it, folks. That`s the breaking news, 24 hours after America chose a new

president. Americans in the streets as well. At least half of the America that does not like that choice.

The other half may be watching with glee right now, because but for them, it might have been them out on that street instead. Thanks for watching,

everyone. I`m Ashleigh Banfield. We`ll see you back here at 8:00 tomorrow night.

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