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Reports: Two Police Officers Shot Near Pittsburgh; Trump Supporters Sound OfF on Their Vote; Clinton's Concession Speech: "This is Painful". Aired 6:30-7a ET

Aired November 10, 2016 - 06:30   ET

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[06:30:33] CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: We're following breaking news near Pittsburgh. CNN affiliates there are reporting a suspect has shot two police officers. There's an active search right now for the shooter. Schools in the area are delayed as officers try to track the man down. We're trying to learn more about how this happened, what the context was. We're told it was a search by the officers and we'll get their condition, as well. As soon as we get it, we'll bring it to you.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Seattle police are looking for a gunman who opened fire near an anti-Trump protest. Five people were shot. Two of them are in critical condition. Police say an argument broke out outside of a 7-Eleven after the gunman started to walk away from the group, then turned around and fired into the crowd.

CUOMO: There is a race against time going on in China. Hundreds of rescuers are trying to reach this 5-year-old kid who's trapped in an abandoned well. The kid has been there since Sunday.

They're digging out the wells, more than 130 feet deep. It's very tricky. It's too narrow for an adult to climb into. They have been putting food and water down the shaft. They have been pumping oxygen in, but it is not clear if the boy is alive.

CAMEROTA: Well, the support of white male voters in places like Ohio where the key to Donald Trump's win, so what drew them to Trump?

We hear from them, next.

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[06:35:22] CUOMO: Six-thirty-five in the East. Coffee comes up, sip is taken and we begin.

How did Donald Trump win? So many of you are wondering this. You are asking us about this.

Well, a big part of your answer is white men, especially in the battleground state of Ohio. Exit polls there show Trump won among male voters by about 20 percent. CNN's Martin Savidge is live in Cleveland with more.

What is the story from there, my friend?

MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, good morning to you, Chris. You know, really, it all boils down when you talk to these voters to one issue. And that one issue is change. They're literally mad as hell. They're not going to take it any more and their only decision was, which of these two candidates would make that change?

Here's what we found.

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MIKE YAEGER, OHIO TRUMP VOTER: I'm a angry, white old man. I just feel that I've been through. Well, I have been alive for 65 years and I've seen a lot go on. So, I just thought that maybe this is the first time I've seen something that we can actually change.

SAVIDGE (voice-over): We were in Anthony's Restaurant in Eastlake, Ohio, a county that went strongly for Trump.

Like many of his supporters, Mike is old enough to remember when good- paying factory jobs were plentiful, but times have changed and he feels kind of cheated.

YAEGER: Just got a notice the other day that my Social Security is going up $3.69. Boy, I can get a loaf of bread now. But, you know, it's -- I've worked all those years and I see all that money went into Social Security and I'm not benefiting really from it.

SAVIDGE: That sense that somehow life has been unfair is common in the areas that turned out for Trump -- hard-working people who got no break and no help from Washington.

(on camera): You mention this -- the idea of fairness and fair play and that there is a segment of our population that you believe is not getting their fair share they deserve.

LINDSAY NORTON: Absolutely not. I don't believe that.

SAVIDGE: We're living --

NORTON: We're living proof of it, yes.

SAVIDGE (voice-over): Lindsay Norton exposes a common myth. Voters sending Trump to the White House aren't all men and they aren't all old.

VINCE EADON, OHIO TRUMP WORKER: I'm a working man. I work 50, 60 hours a week, you know? When I leave, typically my neighbors are at home. When I come home, my neighbors are at home. So, I mean, I'm talking from an extreme side and I feel like I look around and not everybody's trying exactly, you know. A lot of people are taking, but they're not giving.

SAVIDGE: Trump voters were long suffering and they say often silent.

GREG MYTROSEVICH, OHIO TRUMP WORKER: A lot of people kept quiet about a lot of things as to what the government was doing. They wouldn't open their mouth to say anything about it. They were tired of being pushed too far and they decided to make a change in their lives and to vote for Donald.

SAVIDGE (on camera): This will send a message.

YAEGER: Yes, send a message to Congress or whoever, to Washington. You know, we're ready for a change.

SAVIDGE: And was Donald Trump the change or did he happen to come along at a time when people were just really --

YAEGER: He came along at the time when people were just fed up.

SAVIDGE (voice-over): The biggest issue for all of them, it's not the wall. It's not immigration. It's mostly jobs. The economy. They want jobs to come back and they simply think, Trump, the businessman, can make that happen.

Big factory jobs, I ask.

ANTHONY MOISSIS, OHIO TRUMP VOTER: I believe that small business make up a majority of jobs in our country. If we can open up little factories with 200 and 300 employees, that will work.

SAVIDGE: It turns out these Trump voters don't expect Trump to deliver on a lot of what he said.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As long as he puts forth an effort, I'll be satisfied -- to move in the right direction of prosperity instead of just giving it away.

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CUOMO: Anthony has it right. You have to find a way to foster small business. It has become a major engine of this economy.

Let me ask you something, Marty. When you were talking to them about the exit polls and how people got it wrong. What was your take on that?

SAVIDGE: Two things. They talk about the media. Was there something we didn't do right? He said, well, the problem was, you all focused on what the candidates were doing rather than asking what were the voters thinking.

Then on top of that when it came to the polls, I actually talked to one man who said that he had a pollster knock on his door and ask questions and got a phone call from a pollster who asked questions and in both instances, he lied.

CUOMO: Why?

SAVIDGE: He simply didn't tell them who he was really voting for.

You know, I asked, was it malicious intent? Were you purposely trying to steer the polls? He said, no, he wasn't.

Part of this goes to the fact that many people didn't want to openly admit they were voting for Trump.

[06:40:03] The atmosphere for them they thought was too toxic, so he gave an answer that wasn't the truth. And, apparently, he believes there are many others who might have done that, as well. They were sort of cynical about the whole polling process. They didn't want to give their real answer.

CAMEROTA: Marty, fascinating. Fascinating to hear from those men, as well. Thanks so much for that reporting.

So, Hillary Clinton not able to attract the outpouring of female voters that she had hoped for. What went wrong? We dig deeper on that, ahead.

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CAMEROTA: As you might imagine, Mexico is watching very closely what happens now after Donald Trump's unexpected win of the presidency. That country's president calling President-elect Trump and agreeing to meet during the transition to try to find, quote, "common ground" but Mexico's foreign minister and its former president are slamming Trump's plan to build a wall, saying they will not pay for it. So, it's complicated.

CNN's Ed Lavandera is live in Mexico City with more.

What have you learned, Ed?

[06:45:04] ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Alisyn, from a drizzly Mexico city this morning where many people still on edge, very much trying to figure out what exactly is going to be the future course between the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Of course, Donald Trump talking about building the wall, tearing up the NAFTA trade agreement and those sorts of things which has a lot of people here on edge.

In fact, it has been so tumultuous here that banking and finance officials had to come out yesterday morning to reassure the Mexican citizens that the election of Donald Trump would not spell a disaster or bring a hurricane, as one official described it, to the Mexican economy, which many people here are worried but. The value of the Mexican peso in just the immediate after hours when Donald Trump was elected president fluctuated and by late yesterday, it settled down, but still down.

So, there's a great deal concern of what the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico will do to the economy here -- Chris.

CUOMO: All right, Ed. Thank you very much. Appreciate the reporting, as always. So, back up here in the Northeast, the cold wind is blowing and

December-like temperatures are going to take us into a tumble this weekend.

Jennifer Gray has your forecast.

Why are you doing this to the end of my fishing season? Although we did kill it on the bass blitz last week.

JENNIFER GRAY, AMS METEOROLOGIST: See? See? You got it. You're giving me trouble last week, but you finally found a fish this week. Good for you.

Yes, you are going to start to feel a little bit more like the holidays in the Northeast.

This weather report is brought to you by Humana. At Humana, we think great things ahead of you and your health is ready for them.

So, let's get to it. Chris is right. Those temperatures are on the chilly side this morning. But tomorrow morning, you'd be even colder. New York City, 41 degrees. Right now, Boston at 39, Portland at 29 degrees. That cooler air is really going to usher in as we go through the next 24 hours or so.

So, by tomorrow morning, a lot of these cities will be in the 30s. In fact, New York has only had two mornings in the 30s. These temperatures will be even colder. In fact, D.C. could see their first freeze of the season. And, so, temperatures are going to stay in the 30s. New York, Boston, as well, and high temperatures are going to be right around where they should be, finally -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: That looks horrible. Thanks so much, Jennifer. I appreciate it.

Hillary Clinton is making a powerful concession speech with a message for women.

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HILLARY CLINTON (D), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And to all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful.

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CAMEROTA: What does Clinton's loss say about the future of women's leadership? We break that down, next.

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[06:51:51] CLINTON: I know how disappointed you feel because I feel it, too, and so do tens of millions of Americans who invested their hopes and dreams in this effort. This is painful. And it will be for a long time.

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CAMEROTA: That was Hillary Clinton delivering her emotional concession speech after her stunning loss to President-elect Donald Trump.

What does her loss mean for women going forward?

Joining us now to discuss this is CNN political analyst and "USA Today" columnist Kirsten Powers, and CNN political commentator and senior writer for "The Federalist", Mary Katherine Ham.

Ladies, great to see you.

KIRSTEN POWERS, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Good morning.

MARY KATHARINE HAM, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Good to see you.

CAMEROTA: First of all, can we all agree that every candidate going forward as we learned from Al Gore should just give their concession speech at the beginning of their campaign and on the stump every day because that's when people think that they're sort of at their most raw and genuine. But putting that aside, Kirsten, why didn't women voters pull Hillary Clinton across the finish line?

POWERS: Well, because I think women voters ended voting for a lot of the same reasons men voted, right? So, you sort of what we saw was more of a class and education difference between voters, and so, Hillary Clinton because she was the first woman and running against somebody who had offended women that that would be the driving force.

But in the end, it actually what ended up driving people was more I think their cultural concerns. So, if you look at white, working class women or white women without a college degree, I think that a lot of their concerns are the same concerns as their male counterparts. They didn't vote in the same numbers as white men without degree for Trump, but, nonetheless, I think that they have the same concerns.

CAMEROTA: So, Mary Katherine, why wasn't having the first female president the same motivating factor that having the first African- American president was?

HAM: Well, I think because it was counterbalanced with a bunch of baggage is one thing. You know, the Hillary Clinton campaign obviously hoped that she was a symbol for a powerful womanhood and to many people she was. To the other people, she was a symbol of everything that is wrong with the sort of incestuous Washington, powerful, super rich structure that they don't feel is benefiting them.

And you cannot separate her from that part of her career. And she had trouble communicating to people because she's -- I mean, let's be honest. She is very far removed from a normal American life for quite a long time and many candidates are. I think Barack Obama was closer when he ran. So, he was better able to speak to that.

And, so, I think it's just impossible to separate her from that past and her entire career.

CAMEROTA: Yes.

HAM: And become like sort of a clean symbol of just womanhood and people recognized that.

POWERS: Yes.

CAMEROTA: So -- go ahead, Kirsten.

POWERS: Oh, I was going to say, I do think, first of all, it's hard to compare Hillary with Obama. Obama is in a class of his own, right? Whatever color, white, black, it doesn't really matter. So, you know, as a politician, I think he connects with people.

But I also think women are harder on each other, frankly, you know? And so, I think that, you know, I think that plays into it that it's not -- same sort of cultural issues earlier.

[06:55:05] And I think a lot of what we are seeing is you have a lot of people who, I think, rightly feel that there is this sort of elitist class of people who are looking down on them and, you know, as you know, women within sort of womanhood, there's always a sort of battle between the professional woman and, you know, the college- educated professional woman and the working class stay-at-home mom or the stay-at-home mom.

So, we see these fights going on all the time between women. So, it's not that surprising that there might be women who look at Hillary and say, you know what, that's just not what my life is like. I am not like you, I have a different life, I have different values, and Donald Trump in his own way appeals to those values more.

CAMEROTA: So -- go ahead, Mary Katharine. Do you agree?

HAM: When it comes to that division, in particular, this is a woman who made part of her debut on the national public stage with the line about baking cookies. I could have stayed home and baked cookies, but I went and got this career. Many --

CAMEROTA: That was a long time ago. I mean --

HAM: Hold on. And then they doubled down on it in the past week of the campaign. It was part of her like in the online messaging in some of the ads they put out. It was part of it. It was sort of Beyonce referenced it in one of their rallies together.

So, I think it was a misreading of how she should be a symbol for womanhood and that is a divisive thing and it is something that annoys many women who feel like, hey, I do stay at home and I do these things and it doesn't mean I'm less.

CAMEROTA: So, what -- HAM: But that speaks to her skills as a candidate, which I don't

think are that good.

CAMEROTA: I mean -- but, Kirsten, what conclusions can we draw moving forward because of Hillary Clinton's loss about the future of women in leadership?

POWERS: Well, I don't think -- you know, Hillary Clinton is not, like Mary Katharine was saying, she came with a lot of baggage. And so, I don't know we can necessarily take away that every woman who ran for office would face what she faced.

I have said before, however, that I think we have a double standard where we are willing to accept a male candidate who has no government experience, who isn't interested in policy, who doesn't prepare for debates and I don't think we would do that for a woman.

So, I do think we need to reflect a little bit on that. I'm not saying we should do it for a woman. I'm just saying that I don't think we should have a double standard for men and women. But, Hillary Clinton is a really unique candidate and I think she brought a lot of things with her that very few other candidates would have, male or female.

CAMEROTA: Do you agree with the double standard theory, Mary Katharine?

HAM: Yes, I think there is some of that at play. Look, I think when you are talking about Barack Obama, when you're talking about Hillary Clinton and America as a whole, you are not going to completely remove issues of race and issues of sexism from these calculations.

But I do think, largely, if we read the electorate, we were in this strange moment. Hillary Clinton is a very specific candidate with a very specific history that people did not love and a lack of skills, frankly. And in the future, I think another woman could have a different kind of run.

CAMEROTA: You know, my 11-year-old daughter was rooting against Hillary Clinton because she, my daughter, wants to be the first female president.

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CAMEROTA: So, I mean, there is a message in there not only about her lack of generosity, but also about that she thinks it's possible. So, somehow maybe even just trying to become president and launching that campaign has taught little girls that it is possible.

HAM: And another thing, Hillary Clinton, I don't think, would hate on that at all. She would applaud that ambition. Another thing and this speaks to you as well, Alisyn, my daughters, they have someone to look up to, if I can say that. And like it doesn't necessarily rise and fall on the victory or defeat of one political candidate. And we shouldn't let it.

CAMEROTA: There you go.

Kirsten, Mary Katharine, great to talk to you. Thanks so much.

POWERS: Thank you.

CAMEROTA: All right. We're following a lot of news this morning. So, let's get right to it.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT-ELECT: I will be president for all Americans.

PROTESTERS: Not my president! Not my president!

HILLARY CLINTON (D), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This loss hurts. But we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.

REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Donald Trump heard a voice that no one else heard.

PROTESTERS: Hey, ho, Donald Trump has got to go!

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We are now looking for his success in uniting and leading the country.

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TRUMP: It is time for us to come together as one united people.

ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.

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CAMEROTA: We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. You are watching NEW DAY.

Up first, President-elect Donald Trump will travel to Washington to meet with President Obama to begin the transition of power. The Oval Office meeting at the White House is sure to be awkward, given the bad blood between these two men. Both are calling on people to unite around this contentious election.

CUOMO: All right. But we're seeing a very different picture playing out in cities across the country, largely in big cities, Clinton turf protests. Like what's on your screen right now. This is actually a good example.