vote, you could be forgiven for imagining the outcome of that vote was somehow in doubt. the recount effort that went nowhere fast, but got a ton of attention. tonight, chief washington correspondent james rosen explores the possible motivations behind the news media treatment of these post-election pseudo-events. all of this dampening what was otherwise a very bright day for donald trump as he crossed that 270 electoral vote threshold, the last ceremonial hertl p hurdle from preventing him to coming to the white house. reporter: the electoral college vote was seen as anything but ceremonial. is there any scenario where this could change the outcome of the election? so the electors could be doing their patriotic duty on monday by voting against trump. reporter: suddenly everyone was an expert on the federalist papers. a glimmer of hope on the constitution. reporter: at the new york times, the drum beat began
vote, you could be forgiven for imagining the outcome of that vote was somehow in doubt. the recount effort that went nowhere fast, but got a ton of attention. tonight, chief washington correspondent james rosen explores the possible motivations behind the news media treatment of these post-election pseudo-events. all of this dampening what was otherwise a very bright day for donald trump as he crossed that 270 electoral vote threshold, the last ceremonial hertl p hurdle from preventing him to coming to the white house. reporter: the electoral college vote was seen as anything but ceremonial. is there any scenario where this could change the outcome of the election? so the electors could be doing their patriotic duty on monday by voting against trump. reporter: suddenly everyone was an expert on the federalist papers. a glimmer of hope on the constitution. reporter: at the new york times, the drum beat began
if we really want to prevent gun violates, we would do that. secondly, we did have an instance of violence where there were armed guards. it was fort hood. it happened. thirdly, what he is advocating is incredibly anti-conservative. he wants a massive expansion of government. he wants essentially a tsa in every school. salon, i think, did a calculation of the cost. it would be $5.5 billion a year just to put people in schools. i mean, this is just a radical the national database of mental health so the idea that this is a practical solution is silly, and i am surprised that he went on air and did this because i have been talking with a couple of people on the hill, and our expectation was they would throw out a little bit for progressives or people gun control advocates to chew on. perhaps the high capacity magazine, but he had nothing in there that hinted at any reasonableness to compromise, any desire to compromise. i was very surprised sfwloosh that s what i thought i want