I believe with all my heart she would have been a terrific president. Reporter former pennsylvania governor ed rendell is upset not only because Hillary Clinton wont be president but that his beloved pennsylvania, is now a red state that helped donald trump win the white house. Totally disinterested in learning anything about what goes on. He has made no effort to learn about Foreign Affairs or the military. Reporter rendell just doesnt professionally necessity clintons they are close friend and have been for years. He believes campaign staffers, knew Hillary Clinton was in trouble when vermont a liberal state went her way but with lower numbers then expected. As soon as i saw that figure i turn to the people i was watching with and i said were in trouble. Reporter rendell was one of the main drivers to bring Democratic National convention in philadelphia. He did. He is expect to deliver a pennsylvania victory for clinton. Exactly the opposite happened. I think it is a red state today
Ideas on making america great. This transition is so important because we found in the first 7 270 days of a new administration it can be faced with some major challenges. Take a look at this, in the early days of his white house, john f. Kennedy, he saw cuban militants launch the bay of pigs. And Ronald Reagan was now th donald trump is president elect, back home we have been hear from concerns from young people asking about subjects dealing with immigration and building that wall. Lauren mayk is joining me live now, and shes been talking to some of these students and parents about those concerns. Reporter the students we talked to today, they go to Constitution High School, they have a connection to the Constitution Center here where i am standing, but it is one thing to learn how elections work, its a whole other thing to deal with the outcome, especially when youre talking about an election that was so divisive and they were talking about issues dealing with race, sex and religion.
After more than a year of political bashing the president calling mr. Trump unfit for office, mr. Trump calling the president s policies a disaster, it was a respectful conversati conversation. I have great respect. The meeting lasted for almost an hour and a half. As far as im concerned it could have gone on for lot longer. I want to emphasize to you mr. President elect that we now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed f we succeed then the cup tree succeeds. Reporter president elect trump and his wife melania getting a tour of washington from never before from House Speaker paul ryan. Let me just say how excited we are about these opportunities for the country. Meetings with Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell the republicans in full control of political priorities for the next two years. People will be very very happy. Well look very strongly at immigration, the border, look very strongly at health care and jobs. When asked if he would ban muslims from the
Also this weekend on booktv on our after Words Program, author sebastian mall by talks about his new biography on former Federal Reserve chairman alan greenspan. Youll see the 2016 National Book awards, and we visit pittsburgh to tour thattys literary sites that citys literary sites. For a complete schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. And now well kick off this weekend with a ram from 2009 with a program from 2009. This is the late gwen ifill who taped an after Words Program with us in 2009. She died at the age of 61 from cancer this week. She was a journalist, of course, and author with more than 30 years of experience covering washington and the white house. Host hello. Welcome to after words, my names david brooks, im a columnist from the new york times, and im joined today by an author, gwen ifill, and we are not only going to talk about er book [laughter] no, we are going to talk about her book
Justin, i just tried to squeeze every last little bit out of this awesome weather. That is what you have to do because after this i dont see any signs of that coming back. Never say never, last december we had warm temperatures around christmas but yesterday, awesome, 70 degrees. We will get close to 70. Tomorrow big difference the something for everybody in this forecast this weekend. If you like it cool we will love tomorrow and really next few days but enjoy, at the day afternoon, it will turnout, plenty of sunshine, really nice outside once again. We are cool but nice and quiet here looking live at center city looking south, no issues, clear sky, current temperature 46 degrees, calm wind right now. Wind, will be increasing later on tonight and tomorrow, and that will usher in colder air. Still chilly, 39 in the Lehigh Valley. Thirtyeight in reading. Fortysix in philadelphia a. Thirtynine in trenton. We will do a pretty good rebound with that sunshine so we are coming off low to mid