laptop. it s the same code that government officials believe was used by hackers to meddle in the u.s. elections. the vermont governor lashing out at russian president vladmir putin saying vermonters and all america should be both alarmed and outraged that one of the world s leading thugs, vladmir putin, has been attempting to hack our electric grid which we rely upon to support our quality of life, economy, health and safety. the criticism not hurting the relationship between putin and president elect donald trump. putin congratulating trump in his annual new year s statement, and trump tweeting putin was a quote, very smart man for not retaliating against the u.s. for imposing sweeping sanctions on russia for the election hack. which included expelling about three dozen russian diplomats. so these are new pictures now from dulles international
dog. he s going to keep me safe and keep my home. i think president-elect trump was so well known and so you know, he was because he was a reality tv star, people felt like they knew who he was in a way that we ve not seen before in a presidential race. and people were willing to forgive him things that they were frankly not willing to forgive other people. i think a big part of that or other politicians anyway. part of that is the fact that he was that s what he was selling. he was selling, hey, we don t have to all be politically correct. we can say what we think. we can say why we re being hurt and who we think is responsible for that. that is okay. i think people bought into that in a very intense way. did people buy into that and just not want to admit it to pollsters who were calling them on the phone? the pollsters were calling the wrong people. when we talk about this hidden trump vote and we joked and said, come on, how many people can there be living up on a h
electoral votes is hillary clinton. now it does not change the outcome of this race. remember, even winning the popular vote doesn t change the outcome. we know what the outcome is. donald trump is the president-elect. i want to talk about this with msnbc contributor and conservative talk show host in wisconsin, charlie sykes. hello. first, what is your reaction? well, first of all, i would like my crow served baked this morning. i already asked for it. you know, the loneliest people in america today are anti-trump conservatives. what happened in wisconsin was fascinating. donald trump got about just a few,0 thousand more votes than mitt romney did. the democrats did not come out for hillary clinton. they sat at home. milwaukee, it was dramatically down. here in wisconsin the report was exactly right. you know, from scott walker to reince priebus to paul ryan, they did turn people out. they turned people out for ron johnson.
woman stopped me and just started sobbing and said, please tell the country how devastated we are by this, how much we wanted to see secretary clinton win. we wanted to see the first woman become president. for so many of the folks here it is about seeing the first woman become president. it s aboutthem, they also saw a very sharp contrast with donald trump, they saw his message as one that was divisive. and secretary clinton at least very recently has talked quite a lot about how she hopes to move the country forward. i think those are some of the themes she s going to be echoing when she speaks today. thanks, kristen. hillary clinton did make history last night. look how far she has come. it was a move forward for women. we must say that. coming up, several world leaders have already reached out to congratulate donald trump. russian president putin is among them. what does that mean, putin congratulating trump and saying
like i don t think it s a politics thing. you don t think it s a positive thing. people are just trying to make sense of this, hallie. i guess one of the effects of events like this is in a barbershop like this you end up talking about geopolitics, what does this mean for syria, yemen, iran, china, there are so many questions. the underlying point, we just don t know what a president donald trump is going to mean for the world. keir simmons there in london as we take a look at donald trump and his family taking the stage from last night. i want to go now to nbc s lucy cavanaugh in moscow, the russia story is going to be one driving a lot of the foreign policy discussion for months to come. what can you tell us about what s happening where you are? hallie, to give you a sense of the mood here, when the u.s. election result was announced in the russian parliament today, the room exploded in to claps and cheers. it s not just putin congratulating trump. the people that we ve spoken