(TOSS TO WEATHER)
HAPPENING TODAY... MEMBERS OF
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE ARE SET
TO MAKE PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD
TRUMP'S VICTORY OFFICIAL....
CBS NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
BROOK SILVA BRAGA, JOINS US
LIVE FROM NEW YORK WITH MORE
ON TODAY'S VOTE....
ELECTORAL COLLEGE MEMBERS MEET
ACROSS THE COUNTRY TODAY TO
FORMALLY CAST THEIR BALLOTS...
TO OFFICIALLY ELECT DONALD
TRUMP AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
THE DEVELOPMENT COMES AMID A
NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN TO BLOCK
MISTER TRUMP'S PATH TO 270
VOTES...CITING RUSSIAN
INFLUENCE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION.
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Demonstrators took to the
National Mall Sunday...trying
to persuade electoral college
members NOT to vote for Donald
Trump:
(SOT Protester) 2.7 million
more of us voted for Hillary
and yet he's going to take
office
At least one elector, Chris
Suprun (sue-prun) of Texas,
plans to break from his state'
)s vote... and wants 37 others
to join him in an unlikely,
unprecedented bid to overturn
the presidential voting
process.
(SOT Chris Suprun) There are a
number of electors in my
position, I'm not going to
get into names or how many,
specific numbers, we're at a
fragile point
Ahead of the vote many
Democratic electors, including
Clay Pell of Rhode Island,
demanded to see more evidence
about Russia's alleged
election hacking:
(SOT Clay Pell/ Fox News
Sunday/ D-Rhode Island
electorate) "What I want is
the information to be out
there so that the American
public and electors know who
has been involved and make
sure that we protect the
integrity of the American
democracy."
On Sunday...Mister Trump and
his team continued to cast
doubt on intelligence findings
that Russia meddled in the
election to help him win.
(SOT Priebus) It's about
Democrats that can't accept
the outcome of the election.
It's about delegitimizing
the American system. It's
not going to work
Hillary Clinton's former
campaign chairman, John
Podesta, whose own emails were
hacked, said it was an "open
question" if Russia colluded
with the Trump campaign
(SOT John Podesta/ Meet the
Press/ NBC) So I really think
not what Mister Trump knew,
but what did Trump Inc. know
and when did they know it,
were they in touch with the
Russians? I think those are
still open questions'
At least four Senators are
calling for a bipartisan panel
to investigate the hack.
LAST MONTH, PRESIDENT-ELECT
TRUMP WON 306 ELECTORAL VOTES
WELL OVER THE 270 NEEDED TO
WIN THE WHITE HOUSE...BUT LOST
THE POPULAR VOTE TO HILLARY
CLINTON. IF NEITHER CLINTON
NOR TRUMP GET TO 270 TODAY,
THE ELECTION WOULD BE TOSSED
TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
S.
REPORTING LIVE FROM NEW YORK..
I'M BROOK SILVA BRAGA..
ALABAMA MEMBERS OF THE
ELECTORAL COLLEGE SAY THEY
WILL BE CASTING THEIR VOTES
FOR DONALD TRUMP.
REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRWOMAN
TERRY LATHAN SAYS THE STATE'
)S ELECTORS ARE "ROCK SOLID
100-PERCENT" BEHIND TRUMP.
TRUMP WON ALABAMA WITH MORE
THAN 62-PERCENT OF THE VOTE.
THERE IS A FINAL DEMONSTRATION
TODAY BY PEOPLE WHO OPPOSED
TRUMP.
IT WILL BE HELD OUTSIDE THE
