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welcome back. live pictures there from capitol hill. this is normally where we go around the table and have our reporters share from the noteboo notebooks, but i will stay on this and we ll come back to it because we re waiting for the last official act of the 2016 presidential election even though it is january 2017. the senate will soon walk over from its chamber to the house chamber delivering the votes of the electors. the electoral college votes that will make donald trump president the president of had elect of the united states. it will make his victory official. let s head back. as we wait for this, as we wait for this, we re at the end of the first week of the new washington. we don t get the new president for two more weeks. what have we learned this week, and i ll just start with this observation. for all the talk from the trump campaign, the people are trying to delegitimize him. some democrats repeedly say we won the popular vote. russia put its thumb on the scale. don