Trump goes off the record

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

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🗓️ 23 December 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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POLITICO reporters discuss Hillary Clinton's final vote count, Donald Trump's private security contracting, transition team vetting and the president-elect's unexpected off the record gathering in Mar-A-Lago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, December 22nd, and I'm Nancy Cook, your host for this week.
0:07.0	Here are the numbers that matter.
0:09.0	1 million, that's the amount of money that Donald Trump's campaign spent on private security
0:14.0	contracting through the end of November. Roughly 65 million. That's the number of votes that Hillary
0:19.4	Clinton receive now that all 50 states are certified.
0:23.0	Zero, that's the number of Hispanics
0:24.8	that Trump's recruited for the cabinet.
0:26.9	And 26, the number of public relations execs
0:30.0	that the Trump transition team is hired
0:32.2	to get its cabinet picks through the confirmation
0:34.2	process.
0:35.6	Now grab your calculators and enjoy the Politico Nurdcast.
0:41.8	It's our last nerdcast of 2016. Thanks to our listeners for supporting us and today we have joining us Shane Goldmacher.
0:48.0	Hello. Ken Vogel.
0:50.0	Hey. And Tara Palmeri.
0:52.0	Hello.
0:53.0	Now let's get to our first data point.
0:55.0	Shane, you want to start us off?
0:57.0	We're starting off with 65,844,610, and that is the official certified number of votes that Hillary
1:05.9	Clinton won far more than Donald Trump, but not nearly enough to actually win.
1:10.9	He was certified as the winner by the Electoral College this week.
1:14.0	And I think the interesting thing about that number is how close it is to Barack Obama's number from four years ago.
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