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Anti-Trump Protesters March to Trump Tower in New York; President-elect Eyes Campaign Surrogates for Cabinet; President- elect's Rocky Relationship with the Media; France Marks one Year Since Paris Terror Attacks; Turkey's Take on New U.S. President-Elect; Muslims React to Presidential Election; Colombia, FARC Rebels Sign New Peace Deal; The Glamorous Life of Melania Trump. Aired 4-5a ET

Aired November 13, 2016 - 04:00   ET

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[04:00:10] GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Choosing his team. Donald Trump on the verge of picking his chief of staff. The decision could be imminent.

NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: It has been one year since the deadly terror attack in Paris. Now the Bataclan concert hall is open once again. We'll take you there live.

HOWELL: Plus, Colombia reaches another deal with the FARC rebels. Begging the question this time, will this one hold?

Live from CNN world headquarters in Atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm George Howell.

ALLEN: And I'm Natalie Allen. CNN NEWSROOM starts right now.

HOWELL: 4:00 a.m. on the U.S. East Coast. President-elect Donald Trump is putting together a transition team as he prepares to take over the Oval Office in January. His spokeswoman said Saturday a decision on White House chief of staff is, quote, "imminent." Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus, seen here on the right, and a close adviser, Steve Bannon, on the left. Both are being considered as top choices.

ALLEN: Trump is also busy mending fences with his former rivals within the Republican Party. CNN has learned that he spoke recently with former Florida governor, Jeb Bush, former Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, and Ohio Governor John Kasich. All have been extremely critical of Trump during the campaign, yet those phone calls were described as cordial.

HOWELL: We'll have more on the transition efforts in just a moment but before we get to that, the protests against Donald Trump. You see here. They continue to cross cities in the United States. Four consecutive days now demonstrators have taken to those streets in Los Angeles. They made a Trump pinata and then take turns as you see hitting it.

ALLEN: We're also keeping an eye on Portland, Oregon. Of all the protests nationally, Portland has been a flash point with dozens of arrests. Police in riot gear have been out in full force and reportedly 19 arrests on Saturday night.

HOWELL: And protests also continued in New York. Thousands of people marched down 5th Avenue to Trump Towers Saturday. Chanting anti-Trump slogans.

Our Brynn Gingras was there.

BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thousands of people shut down 5th Avenue in New York City with a clear message for President-elect Donald Trump. They marched from Union Square up 5th Avenue about two miles right to Trump Tower here behind me. Standing together all saying they are against what the president-elect campaigned on. Several issues but most of them in all to defy the hate they say he fostered throughout that campaign. Listen to what some people said was the reason they individually came out here.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is enormous. It's big. And I don't know what we can actually do to change things but we just have to keep coming out and making sure that his hatred and his fear and the anger that he is stirring up or using to get elected doesn't manifest itself in our country.

GINGRAS: What do you think the collective message is?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are getting together to support each other as a community because this is a huge loss. This election has set us back and has definitely shown the world that we are not as advanced as we claim we are.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GINGRAS: This protest lasted several hours and for the most part was pretty peaceful. NYPD officers actually walked alongside them that two-mile stretch. We know from the Secret Service authorities who were inside Trump Tower at one point because the protests were so large, visitors, tourists, who usually are able to get into Trump Tower were not allowed. And people were not allowed to leave just for their safety purposes.

At this point we don't know the exact number of arrests from this particular protest but we know they were pretty peaceful and minimal arrest. Back to you.

HOWELL: CNN's Brynn Gingras reporting there for us.

Security around the Trump Tower has been heightened. Of course now that Donald Trump is the president-elect of the United States and Natalie, also pointing out, you know, there have been a rash of incidents of graffiti confrontations since Donald Trump was elected. And this is the concern that many people have about those things continuing.

ALLEN: Yes. Donald Trump heads to the White House with a major lawsuit hanging over him. Remember that? It alleges fraud at his former real estate school Trump University. Attorneys for Trump filed a motion Saturday night to push the trial date from November 28th until after the inauguration.

HOWELL: The motion reaffirms the rights of the plaintiffs to sue but says the task of preparing for presidency is an unprecedented circumstance deserving a modest continuation. On Thursday the judge in the case strongly suggested that Trump settle the dispute before trial.

ALLEN: The president-elect has an entirely new Cabinet to fill and he may be rewarding loyalty above all as he names his team.

[04:05:07] Our Jim Sciutto looks at who's under consideration.

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JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Trump adviser and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani now helping to lead Trump's transition team.

RUDY GIULIANI (R), FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY: Donald has been my friend for 28 years. All of my work on behalf of him has been out of great loyalty and friendship to him. I can see already how he's going to be a great president and I'm glad I could play a small role.

SCIUTTO: Before the election, dozens of GOP national security officials and experts declared in two separate letters that they would never work for a Trump administration. But sources tell CNN that many of those so-called never-Trumpers are coming back, even offering mea culpas.

Still, Trump's innermost national security circle will be led by advisers who gave him early and unwavering support.

GIULIANI: The next president of the United States, Donald Trump.

SCIUTTO: Giuliani possible for secretary of state, chief of staff, and telling CNN on Thursday attorney general.

GIULIANI: I certainly have the energy and there's probably nobody that knows the Justice Department better than me.

SCIUTTO: Senator Jeff Sessions.

SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R), ALABAMA: Donald, welcome to my hometown, Mobile, Alabama.

SCIUTTO: A transition team leader and one of the first GOP senators to back Trump is also likely to land a plum job, including possibly secretary of Defense.

LT. GEN. MIKE FLYNN (RET.), U.S. ARMY: Donald J. Trump to be the next president of the United States.

SCIUTTO: Retired General Michael Flynn offered Trump vociferous support and Hillary Clinton vociferous criticism throughout the campaign, including tweeting just one week before the election, quote, "You decide. NYPD blows whistle on new Hillary e-mails, money laundering, sex crimes with children, et cetera. Must read," allegations that remain unsubstantiated.

He is a possibility for senior posts, including National Security adviser. His new National Security postings will send the world revealing signals about his new foreign policy. Earlier this year, Trump said that he wasn't looking for people with the usual backgrounds.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT-ELECT: I also look and have to look for talented experts with approaches and practical ideas, rather than surrounding myself with those who have perfect resumes.

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ALLEN: Campaign aides like Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon also could earn major roles in a Trump administration.

Joining us now to talk more about this new presidency, Leslie Vinjamuri, senior lecturer on International Relations at the SOAS University of London and an associate fellow with Chatham House.

Thanks so much for being with us, Leslie.

LESLIE VINJAMURI, SENIOR LECTURER, SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON: Thank you.

ALLEN: And it's interesting, isn't it, that Donald Trump ran a nonconventional -- unconventional campaign and he's looking for somewhat unconventional team. That makes sense, doesn't it?

VINJAMURI: Well, he has certainly run an unconventional campaign. The think the world is now watching and especially Americans to see what signals he's sending through the people that he picks, of course. This is absolute. Especially with somebody like Donald Trump, this couldn't be more important. Somebody who hasn't really been committed to detail, who's changed his mind a fair amount, who's been quite impulsive and instinctive.

The people that he surrounds himself are going to give us a lot of -- something to really -- that will really help us understand more about what we're likely to see and some of the choices that are really quite different. Depending on who his chief of staff, that will be probably the biggest signal that he sends. Is he going to be somebody who's going to work closely with Congress, who's going to tame the rhetoric and be more moderate or is this going to be somebody from his campaign team like Steven Bannon who was really very, very different from that?

ALLEN: Right. That will be interesting to see which way he goes there. And that chief of staff, too, part of his job is kind of have Donald Trump's back when it comes to being able to manage him when it comes to tweeting and such.

VINJAMURI: Absolutely. ALLEN: Would that be part of the job description for them? Moving on

here, once he gets his people in place, and he does have some traditional people he's looking at, too. Rudy Giuliani has been around for some time. How about the world seeing this a few days on, the --

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VINJAMURI: Yes. I think it's an extraordinary thing for so many leaders to watch, deeply concerning. This has been an America that they're not used to observing, especially here in Europe where I sit it's been a source of considerable concern. NATO secretary general has written today saying there is no more worrying time in this generation for European security and for the Transatlantic Partnership, and that America's commitment to NATO is absolutely vital and of course Donald Trump during his campaign suggested that this wasn't absolutely vital in his view, and that he wouldn't be pressing the Europeans to step up a lot more, that he wouldn't take it for granted that America would be -- would have their back.

[04:10:09] Angela Merkel has made it very clear to Donald Trump that Europe is absolutely committed to human rights, to democracy, to liberal values. And so I think there is tremendous concern.

The Chinese, as you know, have put forward an alternative regional trade agreement that has them at the center of it now that the Transpacific Partnership seems very likely to go forward. So I think world leaders are looking, they're watching and they're very concerned and they'll wait to see who these appointments are, and to see whether Donald Trump changes his rhetoric, whether he -- whether there's a bait and switch which I think in their view -- in many leaders' views will be a very good thing. But it's creating tremendous uncertainty. And there's also I think a move within Europe -- within the European Union to talk about moving forward on the issues of cooperation and security and defense because Europe is feeling like it might be very much on (INAUDIBLE). At the time which is already, you know, very problematic internally within Europe because of the British decision to exit the European Union.

ALLEN: Well, the first time he starts meeting with leaders we'll all be certainly watching to see what they say and what comes out of it. We thank you so much for joining us, Leslie Vinjamuri. Thanks.

VINJAMURI: Thank you.

ALLEN: Well, Trump is giving credit to social media for his election win. In an interview with CBS president-elect says social media gave him a way to fight back against negative news coverage.

HOWELL: Trump says he has about 28 million followers between Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. But now that the election is over he says that he's going to take a step back.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: I'm going to be very restrained if I use it all. I'm going to be very restrained. I find it tremendous. It's a modern form of communication. There should be nothing you should be ashamed of. It's where it's at. I do believe this. I really believe that the fact that I have such power in terms of numbers with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, et cetera, I think it helped me win all of these races where they're spending much more money than I spent. And I won. I think that social media has more power than the money they spent and I think maybe to a certain extent I proved that.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ALLEN: Donald Trump certainly was well known for having a volatile love-hate relationship with the news media throughout his long campaign. But now that the election is over that rocky relationship may be due for a reset.

Here's CNN's Brian Todd.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In a new interview, President-elect Trump suggested the acid-laced rhetoric that he used during the campaign which many believed helped get him elected could be toned down. Mr. Trump said things are different now, striking considering the relentless attacks he made on the media for the past year and a half.

(Voice-over): After months of openly sparring with the media during the campaign --

TRUMP: They are a bunch of phony low-lives. They're disgraceful. Bad people. Bad people.

TODD: His supporters joined that fight.

(CROWD CHANTING "CNN SUCKS")

TODD: Now new questions about how Donald Trump will treat the media as president. Questions fueled by Trump's team's ditching of the traditional pool of reporters assigned to cover him when he came to Washington to meet with President Obama. The head of the White House Correspondents' Association complained.

JEFF MASON, PRESIDENT, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION: To be there in case news happens, to be there in case something happens to him, it is important for us to be able to fulfill our responsibilities as journalists and to tell the story of what's going on and to inform the public.

TODD: On 9/11, if reporters weren't traveling with President Bush, the public may not have known certain details of where the president was. There could have been worrisome information gaps on the day President Reagan was shot.

During the campaign, Trump blocked the media from traveling with him. He blacklisted journalists who had been critical of him. He threatened to sue "The New York Times" for reporting on his taxes, threatened to sue NBC for the "Access Hollywood" tape release but didn't follow through. Still, the media is not blameless in the relationship.

DAVID FOLKENFLIK, MEDIA CORRESPONDENT, NPR NEWS: I think that there were a lot of mistakes along the way by the media. I think the media failed to treat Donald Trump seriously even as they covered him intensely and gave him extraordinary amount of airtime during the primary campaigns.

TODD: And analysts say, Trump's public disdain for reporters may well have helped him at the polls.

Now Trump is showing signs of flexibility. In his first interview as president-elect, telling "The Wall Street Journal," he'll change his overall tone. Quote, "It's different now."

ARI FLEISCHER, FORMER WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Well, the dynamics of the campaign are inherently different from governing. The campaign has a daily clash. Governing is different. Governing is leading. Governing is showing example. Governing is giving people a leadership role that makes people say to Congress, do what the president has said.

TODD (on camera): Media watchers say it's an open question whether Donald Trump will be more receptive to the media and allow them more access as president. But for now, a Trump spokesperson tells CNN they expect to operate a traditional pool for reporters and they're asking for patience as they navigate the transition process.

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[04:15:11] HOWELL: That was CNN's Brian Todd reporting there for us. And we're also now hearing from Hillary Clinton speaking out after her defeat. The Democrat spoke to some of her donors on a conference call Saturday and said that the letter from the FBI director James Comey -- that it was just too much to overcome in the final days of the campaign.

ALLEN: Yes. Comey announced a renewed investigation into Clinton's private e-mail server just a week before the election, then abruptly announced there were no wrongdoings just a few days later. Clinton urged her supporters to move forward and keep fighting for their belief.

HOWELL: Sunday marks one year since the Paris terror attack and now France is paying tribute to the victims. We have a live report from the French capitol coming up.

ALLEN: Also ahead here, a landmark deal between the U.S. and Australia. What it means for refugees at Australia's offshore detention centers.

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(SPORTS) [04:20:00] ALLEN: Welcome back. France is marking one year since the deadly Paris terror attacks. It was late in the evening November 13th when gunmen armed with assault rifles and explosives targeted six locations across the city. 130 people were killed. Hundreds more wounded that evening. Most of the victims were found at the Bataclan concert hall.

HOWELL: ISIS claimed responsibility for that attack. The deadliest attack in Europe in more than 10 years. Eight of the 10 known suspects died that night or in police raids in the following days including the suspected ringleader. Two others were captured and remain in custody.

CNN is following the story remembering the victims of this terrible tragedy in France. Melissa Bell is at the Place de la Republique and Jim Bittermann is at the Bataclan at this hour.

Jim, we'd like to start with you. We understand that Sting opened there and after a moment of silence telling the audience that they will remember the victims, that they'll never be forgotten.

JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, George. In fact, the ceremony here at the Bataclan is about to begin. We've already seen three ceremonies this morning basically at three of the six locations that were attacked. At each location the same thing happened. They unveiled a plaque, the names of the victims are read out, with the presence of mayor of Paris and government ministry there as well.

And at this particular location, though, one of the things that we have that's significant is we've got a number of the victims, the victims' families that are here as well as some of the first responders who have a direct connection to the Bataclan which of course is a place where there were 90 people -- 80 to 90 people killed on that night a year ago at the Bataclan.

One of the people we talked to beforehand was the minister who's in charge of victims here. And we asked her if the city is making any kind of preparations, the government is making any kind of preparations for any further attacks. Do they feel better prepared than they were on November 13th?

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JULIETTE MEADEL, FRENCH JUNIOR MINISTER FOR VICTIMS AID: In the case of new attack there is a need for urgent care. So right at the moment of the attacks we are able to have some medicine and doctors who are at the right place of the attack.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BITTERMANN: And the minister also told us that there are still 20 people still in the hospital from those attacks a year ago. And that 600 people are still being treated for traumatic and psychological injuries -- George, Natalie.

HOWELL: Jim, thank you.

ALLEN: That's quite remarkable. People are still in the hospital one year on.

Let's go back now to Melissa Bell. She's at the Place dela Republique to tell us what's happening there to commemorate this day. Melissa, hello.

MELISSA BELL, CNN PARIS CORRESPONDENT: Good morning. Well, as you've been hearing a number of those plaques have already been unveiled. And later today the people will gather here at the Place dela Republique. This was, of course, the place where people gathered in the immediate aftermath of the 13th of November with all of those flowers and tributes that had been laid by the fountain just behind me. They've of course now been cleared but it is here that a moment will be held later today not clear how the crowds will be like. There is of course a light drizzle over Paris this morning.

Last night at the Bataclan many of those seats that had been reserved for the families of the victims or for the survivors remain empty. And we've been hearing from groups of survivors or families of victims that many of those who were closest to those who lost their lives have left Paris or not wanted to be involved in these commemorations. So difficult is it for them one year on to look back at what happened.

And there is a sense among some Parisians with all of the sadness that they still feel about the events of the year ago, there has been this growing anger over the course of the last year especially after the July 14th attack the sense that the political classes simply haven't done enough to protect France and also that the political classes have been very quick to try and claim the grief of their own.

And so you will see some people stay away from today's commemorations. At the end of the day they'll come at Notre Dame Cathedral where a mass will be held in memory of the 130 people, Natalie, who lost their lives.

ALLEN: If I could ask Jim a question if you'll just stand by there for us, Melissa.

Jim, she talked about the anger there from some people. Can you feel a difference, though, with the security, the police that are on the streets of Paris in today's world?

BITTERMANN: Well, certainly, Natalie. And in fact, after the attacks on July 14th the security was increased. France is still under a state of national emergency. And there was a number of people in the government have said in the last few days that they expect that state of national emergency to be continued right through the elections here which are coming up in the spring of 2017.

So I think people -- it depends a little bit on the political implication if you ask people on the left who support the government if they feel safe, secure, there are probably 60 percent or 70 percent who would say that they do. [04:25:13] But on the right they feel that the security steps have not

been adequate to handle another attack and they're worried about another attack. There's been some polls out in the last couple of days that indicate people are really still quite nervous about the possibility of another attack here.

HOWELL: People nervous, and as Melissa just pointed out, some people even concerned about simply returning to the site where this a terrible attack happened.

Jim Bittermann, Melissa Bell, we appreciate your reporting this day.

ALLEN: Thanks, guys.

HOWELL: Thank you.

Australia has also reached a landmark deal with the U.S. to resettle hundreds of refugees held offshore in detention centers.

ALLEN: The centers have been criticized by rights groups for numerous alleged abuses. These images from Amnesty International purport to show one of the centers on the small Pacific nation of Nauru. Refugees who reached Australia by boat have been moved there and to an island of Papua New Guinea.

Here's how Australia's prime minister described the resettlement deal.

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MALCOLM TURNBULL, AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER: So I can now confirm that the government has reached a further third country resettlement arrangement for refugees are presently in the regional processing centers. The agreement is with the United States. It is a one-off agreement. It will not be repeated.

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ALLEN: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull there speaking there about a deal to resettle refugees in the U.S. It is unclear how the deal may be affected by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

HOWELL: Fair to say that foreign leaders around the world are still reacting to the surprise victory of Donald Trump, now president-elect of the United States, and at least one major power has some immediate business with the U.S. president-elect.

ALLEN: That is coming up. Plus, the Colombian government and FARC rebels have signed a revised peace deal to end more than half a century of fighting but the new agreement still faces opposition.

HOWELL: We're live at home and broadcasting around the world this hour. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

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[04:30:43] ALLEN: And welcome back. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Atlanta. I'm Natalie Allen.

HOWELL: And I'm George Howell with the headlines we're following for you this hour.

ALLEN: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly looking very close to home if he decides on his Cabinet. He's considering many of his campaign surrogates including Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich and Jeff Sessions to top positions.

HOWELL: ISIS claiming responsibility for a deadly suicide blast at a Sufi shrine in Pakistan. That attack Saturday killed at least 52 people and targeted a religious ceremony there in Baluchistan. An official says the remoteness of the shrine made it difficult to rescue hundreds of people.

ALLEN: Paris is making one year since terrorists targeted six locations across the city. The attacks left 130 people dead, 130 wounded. France is commemorating the victims with plaques at the attack sites.

HOWELL: Donald Trump's spokeswoman says a decision on the White House chief of staff is imminent.

ALLEN: The two likely choices are advisers Steve Bannon and Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus. The chief of staff is an enormously powerful position that controls who sees the president.

HOWELL: Anti-Trump demonstrators, they have been out in force for the fourth straight day. Thousands of people filled the streets. You see here in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday. Along with a large presence of riot police there. Portland has seen dozens of these arrests in the past three nights including 19 on Saturday night.

Trump's foreign policy intensions are not immediately clear but one world leader believes a departure from the diplomacy of the current president Barack Obama would be a welcomed change.

Our Will Ripley looks at the reaction in Turkey to the U.S. presidential election.

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WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): First the coup, then the purge. Four months after soldiers tried and failed to take over the Turkish government a staggering roundup. Tens of thousands of soldiers, professors, lawmakers, even journalists, many accused of ties to one man.

Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. Turkey wants the U.S. to extradite Gulen accusing him of master minding the coup. He says there's no proof. So far the U.S. has allowed Gulen to remain in Pennsylvania, his home for more than 15 years.

TRUMP: You have no choice. RIPLEY: That could change under President-elect Donald Trump. One of

his top military advisers, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, wrote an op-ed last week comparing Gulen to Osama bin Laden calling for his extradition.

HASAN BASRI YALCIN, PROFESSOR, ISTANBUL COMMERCE UNIVERSITY: He must be captured, he must be arrested and he must be put into the court.

RIPLEY: Professor Hasan Basri Yalcin of Istanbul Commerce University says Gulen's extradition would infuriate the cleric's followers but greatly improve ties between Turkey and the U.S..

YALCIN: This is going to be a really good message for Turkey because it's going to show that the United States is ready to work with Turkey against any kind of terrorism.

RIPLEY: Yalcin, who's pro-government, says Turkey will also try to convince Trump to stop supporting Kurdish militias fighting ISIS in Syria because Turkey considers them terrorists.

(On camera): But in this primarily Muslim nation many see Donald Trump as Islamophobic. In fact, Turkish President Erdogan even called for a name change here at Trump Towers Istanbul after the candidate proposed a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.

(Voice-over): Still, it seems Erdogan is willing to put it all aside. He was among the first world leaders to call and congratulate Trump. They did not talk about growing human rights concerns over Erdogan's ongoing post-coup purge of political opponents. Trump has said the U.S. should focus on its own problems and not criticize other countries. On the streets of Turkey, like everywhere else, a sense of uncertainty surrounding the new leader of the free world.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm afraid for Muslim people there.

RIPLEY (on camera): You're afraid for Muslims, why?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because I don't feel good. I'm afraid for my family.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't like his way when he speak but we will see what he will do in the world.

RIPLEY (voice-over): Right now nobody really knows what that world will look like.

Will Ripley, CNN, Istanbul.

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[04:35:03] ALLEN: Muslims around the world, as you just heard, are uncertain about what will come with a Trump presidency. And some say they're afraid.

Mohammad Lela reports from Abu Dhabi.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MOHAMMAD LELA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's bedtime at Bani- Rothman family's house but this isn't like any other night. Tonight there is a new reality, a new president in America.

(On camera): What was your initial reaction when you heard the news?

ESRAA BANI-ROTHMAN, AMERICAN EXPAT IN ABU DHABI: You know the thing is that, with the elections, of course there is no when you heard the news, it's this long, killing me softly process.

LELA (voice-over): Esraa is an American living and working here in Abu Dhabi. We first met her at an election viewing party that we live streamed on Facebook.

(On camera): I just want to play this clip for you so you can see. This is what you were telling us yesterday.

BANI-ROTHAM: I'm hesitant, I'm worried. So I don't know what to expect from the other end.

LELA (voice-over): And this is what she thinks today.

BANI-ROTHAM: I don't know. Like it's -- it's unpredictable. It's as unpredictable as the tweets that come out, like you don't know what's going to come.

LELA: That uncertainty is casting a shadow over Muslims around the world.

During his campaign, Donald Trump proposed a temporary ban on Muslims from entering the United States and he wasn't exactly clear about how or even if he tried to improve relations with the Muslim world. Many are now stunned that Trump was elected.

"In my opinion, this is the worst decision that America has made," this teacher in Baghdad says. "He will get America in to a lot of trouble."

"Trump's policy about Muslims, about immigrants, it's really bad," this tech workers in Indonesia says.

Even here in this remote Syrian refugee camp where people struggle just to survive, the news and the disappointment spread fast. "We were surprised by the victory of a racist and sectarian president who is against the Syrian revolution. If we had a little hope to go back home, we don't anymore."

Hope is what Esraa Bani-Rotham is left clinging to. She's a woman, a Muslin and an African-American, the very same demographics that voted in large numbers of Hillary Clinton. Now she wonders if people like her still have a place in President-elect Trump's America.

(On camera): Are you worried about going back now?

BANI-ROTHAM: I am. Most obviously, the feeling of a displaced refugee. LELA: Is that how you are feeling.

BANI-ROTHAM: I absolutely feel like a displaced refugee because --

LELA: In your own country.

BANI-ROTHAM: Absolutely.

LELA (voice-over): And as she puts her 1-year-old son to bed, her hope is that Donald Trump, the president, will be different from Donald Trump the candidate.

Mohammad Lela, CNN, Abu Dhabi.

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ALLEN: One of the leading Brexit campaigners in the U.K. sits down with the U.S. President-elect. Nigel Farage posted this photo with Donald Trump Saturday after the two had a what he called a very productive meeting.

HOWELL: Farage is the head of the U.K. Independence Party, UKIP as it's known in the United Kingdom, and is a long-time Trump supporter. He says that he is confident that Donald Trump will make a good president.

Still ahead here on NEWSROOM, a deadly suicide blast strikes a religious event in Pakistan. What authorities say slowed rescue efforts ahead.

Still ahead.

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[04:41:24] HOWELL: Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. The Columbian president is urging his country to give peace a second chance. The government signed a revised peace deal on Saturday with FARC rebels to end over 50 years of brutal fighting.

ALLEN: Colombians rejected the initial peace agreement in a referendum last month that shocked a lot of people. Critics said it was too lenient toward the rebels from the revolutionary armed sources.

Our Rafael Romo has more about it.

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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The first peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC guerilla group took nearly five years to be reached. The new and revised agreement was put together in only six weeks beginning with the agreement was held in Havana where the official announcement happened Saturday afternoon. Representatives of both the FARC guerrilla group and the Colombian government attended the ceremony. In an address to fellow Colombians Saturday night in Bogota, President

Juan Manuel Santos said the new deal will build a broader, deeper peace. Among the new stipulations are reparations for victims which will come from FARC's assets and money, Santos said. FARC can still form a political party under the new agreement but will not be given seats in the Colombian Congress automatically as the previous deals stated.

JOSE MANUEL SANTOS, COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT (Through Translator): I am invite all Colombians, including those who promoted both the yes and the no vote to give peace a chance with this new agreement. That's what the Colombian people are asking from us and that's also what the international committee is asking for.

ROMO: The new agreement even with the changes faces opposition. Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, the main promoter of the no vote, warned President Santos not to call the new agreement definitive or final before consulting with the Colombian people. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement saying, I want to congratulate the government and people of Colombia on achieving a revised peace agreement.

Rafael Romo, CNN, Atlanta.

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HOWELL: Rafael, thank you.

Now to southwest Pakistan, where a suicide bombing has killed at least 52 people Saturday. ISIS claiming responsibility for that attack which targeted a remote Sufi shrine in Baluchistan. About 500 people were assembled for a religious ceremony when that blast happened.

ALLEN: In addition to those killed, more than 100 other people were injured. An official says the remoteness of the shrine hindered rescue efforts. Pakistan's military has only recently acknowledge that ISIS is present in the country. The terror group attacked a police academy killing their 61 people back in October.

HOWELL: Switching now to weather, and our meteorologist Derek Van Dam, basically we now know because of a new study that coastal erosion is happening in parts of the Midwest.

DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes. This is actually very relevant to all populations that live close to the coast. 40 percent of the world's population actually lives 100 kilometers from a coastal area.

So listen up. We're going to focus in on southeastern Britain. Let me show you this because what you're looking at right now is the chalk cliffs. You may have seen these images in movies before or the Dover cliffs that are just east of the Sussex County region in southeast Britain. Beautiful part of the world. They're made out of limestone. But they are retreating very quickly. In fact what scientists have seen is what they were doing before, retreating roughly 3 to 6 centimeters per year, now they're seeing this acceleration, 22 to 32 centimeters per year. So that's 10 times its average receding rate.

[04:45:03] So this is significant because something is going on here. What is it exactly? Well, we're starting to see larger waves from stronger storm systems and that means coastal erosion continues to batter these areas. And we're focusing in again on southern Britain because the areas there are very evident. And we can actually see that with this latest study.

So what is coastal erosion? Again, we get the water, large waves just impacting that region and it really just batters the area. Think about the livelihoods that are impacted by this as well as a shrinking land mass encroaches on people's dwellings, their homes, their livelihoods.

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VAN DAM: So I'll leave you with a beautiful image coming out of the Red Square in Moscow. The snow looking beautiful as the backdrop. I should say the foreground there but that is just an incredible image. They have gotten pummeled with over 50 centimeters of snow this past week.

ALLEN: It's pretty.

VAN DAM: It is beautiful. Look at that. I wouldn't mind to visit that city sometime.

ALLEN: Thank you.

HOWELL: Derek, thank you.

ALLEN: Thanks, Derek.

VAN DAM: Thanks, guys.

ALLEN: Well, before the U.S. election one polling expert promised to eat a bug if Donald Trump won more than 240 electoral votes. Well, he got 50 more than that. We'll tell you if he ate that bug. That's next.

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[04:50:55] ALLEN: Well, "Saturday Night Live" perhaps more famous now around the world since the election for its parodies of the political candidates this past year. They really went after them.

HOWELL: But, you know, this time for the first show after Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election it took a very different approach with Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton paying respect to musician Leonard Cohen who died this past week. Listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KATE MCKINNON, "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE": I'm not giving up and neither should you. And live from New York, it's "Saturday Night."

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ALLEN: Like that.

HOWELL: Clinton did indicate it was a difficult and painful defeat that she said.

ALLEN: Very nice, though.

HOWELL: And many Democrats in the United States were upset, she did win the popular vote but the electoral college is what, you know, put President-elect Trump in this position.

ALLEN: Hopefully she has a lot of restorative songs she can listen to in her iPhone.

HOWELL: Dare to say, though, the electoral defeat of Hillary Clinton, it was difficult for many and that is especially true for one polling expert who said that Donald Trump would never get more than 240 electoral votes. In fact, Sam Wang promised that he would eat a bug if it happened.

ALLEN: I have a feeling we're going to see this.

HOWELL: It's not pretty.

ALLEN: OK. It takes 270 electoral votes to win, Trump got 290. CNN's Michael Smerconish reminded Wong about his vow. Here's what happens before and after the election.

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SAM WANG, PROFESSOR, PRINCETON ELECTION CONSORTIUM: What I said in that tweet was that Trump was unlikely to break 240 electoral votes and I think that's pretty much the same. Honestly this race is the most stable statistically speaking since Eisenhower beat Stevenson.

Now, Mike, you really want me to do this? Yes, you do. OK.

MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN ANCHOR, "SMERCONISH": I kind of would. You know, let's like put it to bed once and for all.

WANG: Sure. OK. So like John the Baptist in the wilderness, he ate locusts and honey, and so I regard myself as being in the wilderness a little bit because after all I was wrong. A lot of people were wrong but nobody else made the promise I did and I'm hoping that we can get back to data and thinking thoughtfully about policy and issues and having said that, and saying good morning to everyone out there on both sides, see this? Here it goes. OK.

SMERCONISH: You're a man of your word, Dr. Wang. I appreciate -- how was it, by the way?

WANG: Kind of mostly honey-ish, a little nutty but, you know, if it's good enough for a snake --

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HOWELL: Tastes like chicken. I don't know.

ALLEN: Crunchy chicken.

Well, Melania Trump has big shoes to fill in the role of U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama is more popular than her husband or the next president.

HOWELL: While Melania was a professional model, it is Michelle who is on the cover of this week's "Vogue" magazine. It reads, "The First Lady that the World Fell in Love With."

ALLEN: Will Melania Trump be a model first lady? Here's Jeanne Moos with that.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): She's been a model. She's done commercials. She may seem like an odd duck for a first lady. But Melania Trump is just like us.

[04:55:05] At least on first glance at her Facebook where she posts videos of beautiful beaches. And that great Aerosmith concert she attended, as well as, "The fun night with my two boys," Donald J. Trump and their son Barron. The Donald is driving. His son riding shotgun.

Unlike her husband, Melania is not addicted to Twitter. But some of her older tweeted photos are fun. Melania is Batwoman for Halloween. Wearing a cat suit, teasing her husband, "Honey, see you soon."

And there's this oldie but goodie, the Clintons at the Trump's wedding. OK, maybe she's not just like us.

MELANIA TRUMP, FIRST LADY IN WAITING: Hi, fans. It's Melania Trump.

MOOS: Not everyone has fans.

M. TRUMP: Hi, fans. I'm going to Metropolitan Gala.

MOOS: And not everyone goes to galas in the designer gowns.

M. TRUMP: Christian Siriano did for me. And I thank you, Christian, beautiful job. Fantastic job.

MOOS: You can't say Melania hasn't had plenty of training for all those state dinners she and President Trump will be hosting.

(On camera): Almost instantly after the election, Melania updated her Instagram.

(Voice-over): At RealMelaniaTrump became @firstladymelaniatrump. On Thursday, she chronicled her trip to Washington, writing, "Such an honor to visit the White House." Little did she know this would end up being her home back when she tweeted this photo captioned, "At home with my husband."

Don't worry, Melania. There is a piano in the White House, should you feel the urge to recline.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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ALLEN: From one posh life to another posh life. A little bit different, though, in that bubble. They'll see. At the White House.

HOWELL: Yes, it's a different world in the White House, for sure.

ALLEN: Thanks for watching this hour. I'm Natalie Allen.

HOWELL: And I'm George Howell. We'll have another hour of news from around the world right after the break. Stay with us.

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