WHERE REPUBLICANS ARE IN
CONTROL.
WASHINGTON.
ELSA: JOINING US WITH SOME
ANALYSIS OF TRUMP TRANSITION
WEEK, POLITICAL SCIENCE
PROFESSOR.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
THANK YOU.
ELSA: YOU HEARD OF MOVEMENT.
#DUMP TRUMP, TOMORROW ELECTORAL
COLLEGE WILL CAST THEIR VOTES,
WE HEARD ABOUT SOME OF THE
ELECTORAL COLLEGE MEMBERS NOT
SURE, IS THAT REALLY GOING TO
MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR DONALD
TRUMP.
IT NEVER HAS IN OUR HISTORY,
ALTHOUGH, THROUGHOUT HISTORY,
THERE HAVE BEEN FAITHLESS
ELECTOR, DONALD TRUMP WILL BE
ELECTED TOMORROW SOMETIMES
AFTERNOON.
BUT, WHAT YOU SEE A LOT OF
PEOPLE SAYING, THIS IS SO
UNUSUAL.
THIS IS NOT.
LOBBYING ELECTORS IS VERY COMMON
COULD 4 YEAR AGO ABOUT HALF WERE
CONTACTED, WITH SOME KIND OF AN
EFFORT TO CHANGE THEIR VOTE.
THIS IS VERY COMMON, THIS YEAR
IT HAS BEEN MORE OPEN, IT WILL
NOT IMPACT THE OUTCOME.
ELSA: THIS IS BUSINESS AS USUAL
IN POLITICS, BUT IT IS IN THE
PUBLIC EYE THIS TIME.
WE'RE JUST SEEING HOW IT REALLY
WORKS.
MOVING ON TO RUSSIA HACKING
SCANDAL.
WE HAVE MORE DEFINITIVE PROOF
FROM CIA AND FBI THERE WAS SOME
SORT
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT POTENTIALLY
WITH PUTIN INVOLVED, HOW MUCH OF
A DIFFERENCE DOES THAT MAKE WHEN
YOU TALK ABOUT THE ELECTION AS A
WHOLE FOR DONALD TRUMP IF ANY
AND VLADIMIR PUTIN IF ANY?
WE DON'T KNOW IF IT EVEN HAD
AN IMPACT, IN ALL LIKELIHOOD IT
WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH TO EVEN SWAY
THE OUTCOME.
THE THING IS HOW HE -- WE RESPOND
TO PUTIN.
WHY WOULD HE DO THAT?
HE DISLIKES HILLARY, SHE WAS A
STRONG OPPONENT AND HELPED
IMPLEMENT SANCTIONS AGAINST
RUSSIA AFTER THEY WITHIN TO
CRIMEA, FOR SOME REASON TRUMP
AND PUTIN GET ALONG, A STRANGE
BROMANCE.
ALSO, PUTIN WOULD LIKE TO
UNDERMINE NATO, HE IS NOT ONLY
TRYING TOO IMPACT AMERICAN
ELECTIONS HE IS DOING THE SAME
THING IN EUROPE.
THAT IS PART OF HIS FRAGILE EGO
AND RUSSIA'S FRAGILE PRIDE, THEY
USE WILL TO BE A SUPER POWER,
NOW THEY ARE A SECTOR SOME MIGHT
SAY -- SECOND, OR IN MIGHT THEY
THIRD RATE POWER.
ELSA: SHOULD WE BE CONCERNED
THAT WHETHER OR NOT RUSSIAN
HACKING DID OR DID NOT CHANGE
THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION, WE
SHOULD BE CONCERNED THAT
RUSSIANS WERE ABLE TO HACK INTO
THE SYSTEM.
MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE IT TO BE
AN ACT OF WAR, THE QUESTION IS
NOT HOW OBAMA WOULD RESPOND, HE
IS IN THERE FOR ANOTHER MONTH.
THE QUESTION IS HOW WILL THE NEW
PRESIDENT RESPOND.
WILL HE BE FORCEFUL.
OR JUST LET IT SLIDE?
NOT THE KIND OF THING YOU CAN
JUST LET SLIDE BY, THIS IS IN
MANY WAYS AN ACT OF WAR.
ELSA: POLITICAL SCIENCE
PROFESSOR AT LOYOLA MARYMOUNT
