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  • CARE RECENTLY.

  • HE HAD SENT A NOTE TO DONALD

  • TRUMP EARLIER EVEN BEFORE HE WAS

  • ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL AND

  • SAID I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO

  • BE AT THE INAUGURATION BECAUSE

  • MY DOCTORS TELL ME SITTING OUT

  • THERE IN THE COLD MIGHT, QUOTE,

  • PUT ME SIX FEET UNDER, END

  • QUOTE.

  • SO WHAT WE HAVE TODAY IS FOUR

  • OUT OF FIVE FORMER PRESIDENTS

  • ATTENDING THE INAUGURATION.

  • >> AND JUST FOR THE RECORD IT'S

  • ABOUT 44 DEGREES IN WASHINGTON.

  • RAIN HAS BEEN EXPECTED, BUT SO

  • FAR IT'S HOLDING OFF.

  • >> AND PRESIDENT BUSH'S FATHER

  • HAD SAID HE WAS COMING.

  • AND HE WAS PLANNING ONCOMING

  • UNTIL HE WAS TAKEN ILL COUPLE

  • DAYS AGO.

  • >> JAN CRAWFORD IS WATCHING THE

  • PAGEANTRY DOWN THERE ON THE

  • NATIONAL MALL.

  • JAN.

  • >> YES.

  • WE ARE HERE AT THE CARRIAGE

  • HOUSE OF THE CAPITOL.

  • THE ARRIVALS ARE JUST STARTED

  • STREAMING IN, THE MOMENT WE'VE

  • BEEN WAITING FOR.

  • OF COURSE IT'S BEEN A STEADY

  • STREAM OF PEOPLE ARRIVING

  • THROUGHOUT THE MORNING, BUT NOW

  • YOU CAN SEE THE MOTORCADE, THE

  • PRESIDENT AND FUTURE PRESIDENT

  • AND THE ENTOURAGE.

  • WE SEE MELANIA HERE, THE FUTURE

  • FIRST LADY.

  • AND OTHERS ARE ALL ARRIVING TO

  • GO AND TAKE THEIR POSITIONS

  • WHERE PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL TURN

  • OVER THOSE REIGNS OF POWER.

  • AND PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP WILL

  • BECOME PRESIDENT.

  • >> YOU KNOW, SCOTT, THE

  • INAUGURATIONS UP UNTIL RONALD

  • REAGAN CAME TO TOWN WERE HELD ON

  • THIS SIDE OF THE CAPITOL.

  • AND RONALD REAGAN BEING AN OLD

  • MOVIE ACTOR AND HIS AIDE, THEY

  • CAME UP TO SORT OF SCOPE THINGS

  • OUT AS THEY WERE GETTING READY

  • FOR THE INAUGURATION AND THEY

  • SAID, WELL WAIT A MINUTE, THE

  • GOOD PICTURE IS ON THE OTHER

  • SIDE OF THE CAPITOL ON THE WEST

  • SIDE OF THE CAPITOL.

  • AND FOR THAT REASON THEY STARTED

  • TO START HOLDING IT ON THE WEST

  • SIDE OF THE CAPITOL.

  • AND SINCE REAGAN THAT'S WHERE

  • IT'S BEEN.

  • AND IT IS A MUCH BETTER PICTURE.

  • IT'S A MAGNIFICENT PICTURE

  • BECAUSE YOU CAN LOOK ALL THE WAY

  • DOWN THE MALL TO THE WASHINGTON

  • MONUMENT AND THE LINCOLN

  • MEMORIAL.

  • HERE YOU HAVE THE

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT AND THE

  • PRESIDENT FOR A FEW MORE MINUTES

  • BARACK OBAMA MAKING THEIR WAY

  • NOW UP TO THE STANDS.

  • >> HELLO EVERYBODY.

  • >> AND THERE OF COURSE WE JUST

  • SAW PRESIDENT OBAMA, THE 44th

  • PRESIDENT, ENTER WITH THE

  • SOON-TO-BE 45th PRESIDENT OF THE

  • UNITED STATES, DONALD TRUMP,

  • WITH BOTH THE CONGRESSIONAL

  • LEADERSHIP WITH BOTH THE HOUSE

  • AND SENATE.

  • THEY WILL BE ANNOUNCED ALONG

  • WITH THEIR FAMILIES ON THE WEST

  • FRONT OF THE CAPITOL.

  • WE WILL SEE THAT SHORTLY.

  • ONE PIECE OF INFORMATION TO PASS

  • ON, THE END OF THE OBAMA ERA IN

  • THE WHITE HOUSE WAS MARKED BY

  • VALERIE JARRETT TURNING OFF THE

  • LIGHTS, IT IS SAID.

  • AND NOW BEGINS WHAT IS CALLED

  • ORGANIZED CHAOS AT THE WHITE

  • HOUSE WHERE THEY'RE DOING

  • EVERYTHING FROM REMOVING THE

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA AND MRS. OBAMA'S

  • PERM STUFF TO REPLACE WITH

  • TRUMPS.

  • HERE IS IVANKA TRUMP, THE SECOND

  • OLDEST CHILD.

  • >> WALKING NEXT TO HER BROTHER

  • DON J.

  • AND THERE'S ERIC TRUMP AND

  • TIFFANY TRUMP AND BARRON

  • BRINGING UP THE REAR.

  • MELANIA AND DONALD TRUMP'S

  • 10-YEAR-OLD SON.

  • >> DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN VERY

  • CLOSE TO HIS FAMILY, AS WE ALL

  • KNOW.

  • >> YEAH.

  • >> ESPECIALLY THEIR ADULT

  • CHILDREN, THEY'VE BECOME VERY

  • CLOSE WITH THEM.

  • THEY WORK WITH HIM.

  • THE TWO OLDEST SONS --

  • >> YOU KNOW WHAT WAS

  • INTERESTING, ERIC TRUMP I SAID

  • WHAT'S YOUR BIGGEST FEAR FOR

  • YOUR DAD, HE SAID BRINGING NEW

  • PEOPLE IN.

  • WE'VE BEEN A VERY INSULAR

  • FAMILY.

  • WE TRUST EACH OTHER.

  • HE SAID THAT'S BEEN SORT OF THE

  • HARDEST THING FOR THEM ALL TO

  • GET USED TO.

  • >> JOHN DICKERSON.

  • >> YOU KNOW, THIS IS VERY --

  • THERE'S SUCH A WEIGHT ON THEIR

  • FATHER NOW.

  • AND THEY ARE HIS SUPPORT SYSTEM

  • AND HAVE BEEN IN THAT TIGHT

  • KNITTEDNESS AND I WAS REMINDED

  • OF FDR AFTER BEATING HERBERT

  • HOOVER, HE SAID TO HIS SON, HE

  • SAID, I'M JUST AFRAID THAT I MAY

  • NOT HAVE THE STRENGTH TO DO THIS

  • JOB.

  • AFTER YOU LEAVE ME TONIGHT,

  • JIMMY, I'M GOING TO PRAY.

  • I'M GOING TO PRAY TO GOD THAT HE

  • WILL HELP ME.

  • THAT HE WILL GIVE ME THE

  • STRENGTH AND GUIDANCE TO DO THIS

  • JOB AND DO IT RIGHT.

  • AND I HOPE THAT YOU WILL PRAY

  • FOR ME TOO.

  • A FATHER LEANING ON HIS SON AT

  • THAT MOMENT IN 1932.

  • AND THIS IS THE MOMENT FOR A

  • FAMILY, NOT JUST FOR A NEW

  • PRESIDENT.

  • >> AND I THINK THAT DONALD TRUMP

  • AS PRESIDENT WILL LEAN ON HIS

  • FAMILY, IN PARTICULAR HIS

  • DAUGHTER IVANKA TRUMP WHO HAS

  • LEFT HER BUSINESS IN NEW YORK SO

  • THAT SHE CAN HELP HER HUSBAND --

  • SON-IN-LAW TO DONALD TRUMP NAMED

  • CHIEF ADVISOR.

  • >> AND THEY WILL ALL ADMIT, TOO,

  • NORAH, IVANKA TRUMP THEY THINK

  • IS THE FAVORITE.

  • THE FAVORITE CHILD.

  • >> WELL, WHEN YOU ASK PEOPLE

  • WHO'VE BEEN ON THIS JOURNEY WITH

  • DONALD TRUMP IN THE CAMPAIGN,

  • WHO CAN MAKE HIM CHANGE HIS

  • MIND?

  • >> IT IS IVANKA TRUMP.

  • >> SHE'S THE ONE THEY NAME.

  • >> LISTEN NOW AS THEY LIST THE

  • CHILDREN.

  • >> CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR OFFICE

  • PHILIP G.

  • [ APPLAUSE ]

  • >> ONE NOTE, BARRON TRUMP AND

  • HIS MOTHER MELANIA TRUMP WILL

  • NOT IMMEDIATELY MOVE TO THE

  • WHITE HOUSE BECAUSE HE'S

  • FINISHING SCHOOL.

  • BUT WHEN HE DOES, HE'LL BE THE

  • FIRST SON TO LIVE IN THE WHITE

  • HOUSE SINCE JFK JR.

  • >> THAT'S BEEN MORE THAN 50

  • YEARS TO HAVE A BOY THAT AGE.

  • >> YES.

  • BECAUSE OF COURSE GEORGE W. BUSH

  • HAD TWO DAUGHTERS, BARACK OBAMA

  • HAS TWO DAUGHTERS.

  • >> AS WE WATCH THIS YOU WONDER

  • WHAT ARE THE THOUGHTS OF DONALD

  • J. TRUMP AND BARACK OBAMA.

  • >> WELL, WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING

  • AT FROM THEIR VANTAGE POINT IS

  • THE ENTIRE WASHINGTON MALL,

  • WHICH IS ABOUT HALF FULL WITH

  • SUPPORTERS.

  • THERE ARE ESTIMATES IT COULD BE

  • ANYWHERE FROM 800,000 TO A

  • MILLION.

  • ABOUT HALF THE SIZE AS BARACK

  • OBAMA'S, BUT LOOK AT THIS CROWD.

  • THIS IS WHAT THEY SEE RIGHT NOW.

  • A SEA OF PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED

  • DONALD TRUMP THROUGHOUT THIS

  • EXTRAORDINARY CAMPAIGN AND ARE

  • HERE TO WITNESS THE PEACEFUL

  • TRANSITION OF POWER.

  • >> WHAT WE WILL SEE ONCE

  • EVERYBODY IS THERE IS WE WILL

  • SEE OPENING CEREMONY, THEN THE

  • ASSOCIATE JUSTICE CLARENCE

  • THOMAS WILL ADMINISTER THE VICE

  • PRESIDENTIAL OATH TO MIKE PENCE.

  • AND THEN THE CHIEF JUSTICE WILL

  • STEP FORWARD TO ADMINISTER THE

  • PRESIDENTIAL OATH TO DONALD

  • TRUMP.

  • THAT OATH MUST BE ADMINISTERED

  • BEFORE 12:00 NOON, BEFORE 12:00

  • NOON.

  • AND THEY'RE A LITTLE BEHIND

  • COMING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.

  • SO THEY WILL MAKE SURE THAT THAT

  • HAPPENS BEFORE 12:00.

  • >> JOHN, SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT

  • THIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS?

  • I MEAN, YOU KNOW, HE'S GOING TO

  • BE TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE ON

  • THE LINCOLN BIBLE.

  • PRESIDENT LINCOLN OF COURSE

  • APPEALED TO OUR BETTER ANGELS.

  • WHAT DOES TRUMP NEED TO DO?

  • >> WELL, I THINK SEEMS TO BE THE

  • KEY HURDLE IS NOT JUST TO SAY

  • THE WORD UNITY BUT TO MAKE

  • PEOPLE FEEL IT.

  • THAT'S THE KEY WITH ANY PIECE OF

  • RHETORIC.

  • AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE

  • DAY AFTER THE SPEECH EVERYTHING

  • WON'T CHANGE BECAUSE HE'S GOING

  • TO START DOING THINGS AND THAT'S

  • GOING TO CREATE EITHER UNITY OR

  • DIVISION AND ACTIONS ARE MORE

  • POWERFUL THAN WORDS.

  • BUT AS WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT,

  • THIS IS A MOMENT WHERE HE HAS A

  • LOT OF TOOLS THAT ARE GIVEN TO

  • HIM BY THE CEREMONY AND

  • TRADITIONS OF AMERICA AND ALL OF

  • THOSE EX-PRESIDENTS UP THERE

  • WITH HIM AND WHO AS BOB POINTED

  • OUT DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM.

  • AND THE HISTORY AND ALL THAT

  • HE'S GOT AVAILABLE TO HIM OFFER

  • HIM A GREAT OPPORTUNITY IN THIS

  • SPEECH TO CREATE SOMETHING

  • SPECIAL.

  • AND IT IS A MOMENT AND THOSE

  • MOMENTS DO LAST.

  • AND THEY SET THE TONE.

  • AND YOU WILL GET A SENSE TODAY

  • FOR HIS SENSE OF HISTORY, FOR

  • HIS SENSE OF HIS PLACE IN

  • HISTORY, FOR HIS SENSE OF HOW

  • HIS MOVEMENT FITS IN WITH THE

  • COUNTRY WHERE THERE IS A

  • MOVEMENT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF

  • HIM.

  • ALL THOSE QUESTIONS WILL BE

  • ANSWERED.

  • >> WE WERE TOLD EARLIER TODAY

  • THAT HE HAS TO DELIVER A

  • SPECTACULAR ADDRESS, THAT WAS

  • HER WORDS.

  • AND FROM ELECTION NIGHT HE

  • HASN'T SAID ANYTHING BUT HAS

  • BEEN UNIFYING TO THE COUNTRY.

  • >> THERE'S BEEN -- IN DONALD

  • TRUMP THERE'S BEEN TWO TRUMPS.

  • THE DONALD TRUMP OF HIS KIND OF

  • INTENSE TRUMP THAT WE ALL KNOW

  • AND THEN THE OTHER AT TIMES BUT

  • AS SHE POINTED OUT HAVEN'T BEEN

  • THE SYMBOLS OF THAT SPEECH.

  • >> EACH COUNT.

  • BUT SMALL GESTURES CAN MAKE A

  • DIFFERENCE.

  • AND YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE

  • BEGINNING OF THE DEFINITION OF

  • THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY.

  • THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.

  • THESE ARE THE FIRST STEPS.

  • AND, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE YOUR

  • MOM TAUGHT YOU ABOUT THE FIRST

  • DAY IN SCHOOL, FIRST IMPRESSIONS

  • DO MATTER.

  • >> NOW DONALD TRUMP HAS MADE A

  • LOT OF IMPRESSIONS OBVIOUSLY

  • OVER THE COURSE OF A CAMPAIGN.

  • >> SHOUTING USA, USA.

  • [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

  • >> WE ARE AWAITING THE

  • ANNOUNCEMENT OF DMR. BIDEN AND

  • DR. BIDEN AND THEN MR. AND MRS.

  • OBAMA AND THEN OUR 45th

  • PRESIDENT AND HIS WIFE WILL BE

  • ANNOUNCED.

  • >> INTERESTING TO SEE OHIO

  • GOVERNOR JOHN KASICH SITTING IN

  • THE AUDIENCE TODAY.

  • >> SCOTT PELLEY AND BOB

  • SCHIEFFER ALSO WITH US.

  • SCOTT.

  • >> NORAH, WE'VE GOT ABOUT 45

  • MINUTES TO GO, A LITTLE BIT OVER

  • 45 MINUTES TO GO AS PRESCRIBED

  • BY THE 20th AMENDMENT, THE

  • CONSTITUTION.

  • SAYS THAT THE OATH MUST BE

  • ADMINISTERED BY NOON ON JANUARY

  • 20th.

  • ONLY PART OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING

  • TODAY THAT IS WRITTEN INTO THE

  • CONSTITUTION IS THE PRESIDENT'S

  • 35-WORD OATH.

  • ALL THE REST IS TRADITIONAL AND

  • ALSO GOVERNED BY THE 20th

  • AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.

  • BOB SCHIEFFER, AS WE WERE

  • LOOKING AT SOME OF THE PICTURES

  • OF THE NATIONAL MALL, 45 MINUTES

  • AWAY FROM THE INAUGURATION THE

  • CROWD IS BY HISTORIC STANDARDS A

  • LITTLE BIT THIN.

  • >> YES, IT IS.

  • IT'S AN ENORMOUS CROWD.

  • I MEAN, THESE THINGS DRAW AN

  • ENORMOUS NUMBER OF PEOPLE.

  • BUT COMPARE TO SAY THE OBAMA

  • INAUGURATION THIS IS PROBABLY A

  • THIRD, I WOULD SAY, THE SIZE OF

  • THE CROWD THAT SHOWED UP.

  • BUT THAT WAS THE LARGEST CROWD

  • IN THE HISTORY OF WASHINGTON,

  • THE LARGEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE

  • DESCEND ON A CITY AT ONE TIME.

  • BUT AS YOU CAN SEE THOSE LOOK

  • LIKE ICE SKATING ARENAS THERE.

  • ACTUALLY, WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IS

  • THEY'VE LAID DOWN THIS KIND OF

  • CARPET OF WHITE PLASTIC THERE TO

  • PROTECT THE GRASS ON THE MALL.

  • AND AS YOU CAN SEE IT'S FAR FROM

  • BEING FILLED IN.

  • BUT IT'S STILL, IT'S STILL A

  • GOOD SIZE CROWD.

  • >> I'M GOING TO BET THAT HIGH

  • ANGLE SHOT WE JUST LOOKED AT WAS

  • FROM THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.

  • AND IN PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS,

  • PREVIOUS INAUGURATIONS, YOU'VE

  • SEEN THAT ENTIRE AREA THERE

  • COMPLETELY FILLED UP.

  • CERTAINLY IN MR. OBAMA'S FIRST

  • INAUGURATION, WHICH WAS

  • TREMENDOUSLY HISTORIC FOR THE

  • OBVIOUS REASONS.

  • IT'S BEEN ESTIMATED THAT THE

  • CROWD WAS WELL OVER 1 MILLION.

  • HERE COMES THE FORMER FIRST --

  • OR THE FIRST LADY, FIRST LADY

  • FOR ANOTHER 45 MINUTES.

  • AND DR. JILL BIDEN.

  • >> YOU KNOW, THE OBAMAS OF

  • COURSE THEY'RE GOING TO FLY AWAY

  • IN THE HELICOPTER WHEN THIS IS

  • OVER AND GO, I THINK, SOMEWHERE

  • IN FLORIDA.

  • BUT THEN THEY'LL BE COMING --

  • PALM SPRINGS, I THINK IT IS.

  • AND THEN THEY'LL BE COMING BACK

  • TO WASHINGTON.

  • THEY'RE GOING TO LIVE JUST DOWN

  • THE STREET FROM THE WHITE HOUSE

  • JUST OFF MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE.

  • VERY NICE NEIGHBORHOOD.

  • I USED TO LIVE THERE.

  • [ LAUGHTER ]

  • MY WIFE GOT TIRED OF MOWING THE

  • LAWN --

  • >> AND OF COURSE THEY'LL BE

  • THERE AS THEIR DAUGHTER REMAINS

  • IN SCHOOL.

  • >> YEAH.

  • >> PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID IN HIS

  • LAST NEWS CONFERENCE A FEW DAYS

  • AGO THAT HE WAS NOT GOING TO RUN

  • FOR OFFICE AGAIN.

  • HIS NAME WOULDN'T BE ON ANY

  • BALLOT, BUT HE PROMISED TO BE

  • PART OF THE NATIONAL DEBATE ON

  • THOSE ISSUES THAT HE HOLDS DEAR

  • INCLUDING THINGS THAT HE SAID

  • INCLUDING THINGS LIKE

  • IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

  • AND REFORM OF THE CRIMINAL

  • JUSTICE SYSTEM.

  • >> BUT I THINK HE'LL BE QUIET

  • FOR AWHILE.

  • HE SAID THAT.

  • HE SAID I JUST WANT TO BE QUIET

  • FOR A WHILE.

  • THERE'S RICK PERRY.

  • >> FORMER GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, NOW

  • NOMINEE TO BE ENERGY SECRETARY.

  • ONCE CALLED FOR THE DISMANTLING

  • OF THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT.

  • YESTERDAY BEFORE CONGRESS HE

  • APOLOGIZED FOR THAT.

  • HE SAID HE LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT

  • THE WORK THAT THE ENERGY

  • DEPARTMENT DOES THAT HE FIGURES

  • IT WOULD BE WORTH KEEPING

  • AROUND.

  • OF COURSE BERNIE SANDERS, THE

  • INSURGENT CANDIDATE ON THE

  • DEMOCRATIC SIDE WHO GAVE HILLARY

  • CLINTON SUCH A RUN FOR HER

  • MONEY.

  • >> ESCORTED BY THE DEMOCRATIC

  • STAFF DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED

  • STATES COMMITTEE ON RULES AND

  • ADMINISTR

  • ADMINISTRATION -- AND MR. PAUL

  • PELOSI.

  • [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

  • [ APPLAUSE ]

  • >> I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO

  • REMEMBER THAT THE FIRST LADY AND

  • DR. BIDEN, IT'S AN UNPAID

  • POSITION.

  • AND THEY DO -- THEY GIVE UP

  • THEIR LIVES IN MANY WAYS TO DO

  • GREAT PUBLIC SERVICE.

  • AND THESE TWO HAVE BECOME VERY

  • CLOSE FRIENDS.

  • AND THEY HAVE WORKED SO HARD TO

  • BRING ATTENTION TO OUR MEN AND

  • WOMEN IN THE MILITARY.

  • >> YEAH, THEY'VE BECOME CLOSE AS

  • THEIR HUSBANDS HAVE AS WELL.

  • AND I THINK THIS IS GOING TO BE

  • A LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP ON BOTH

  • SIDES.

  • GREAT AFFECTION FOR EACH OTHER.

  • >> UH-HUH.

  • AND OF COURSE THERE ALONGSIDE

  • THE CLINTONS AS THEY WATCH THIS

  • MOMENT.

  • IT'S NOT ALWAYS BEEN EASY FOR

  • MRS. OBAMA AS FIRST LADY.

  • THEY SAY THEY'RE LOOKING FORWARD

  • NOT ONLY TO SLEEPING IN BUT ALSO

  • GOING TO THE GROCERY STORE.

  • >> I'VE HEARD HER SAY I'LL BE

  • EXCITED JUST TO BE ABLE TO ROLL

  • MY WINDOW DOWN WITHOUT PEOPLE

  • GETTING ALARMED AT THAT.

  • >> YES.

  • AND THEY'LL BE LEAVING

  • WASHINGTON IN ABOUT AN HOUR.

  • IT WON'T BE MARINE ONE BECAUSE

  • WHEN YOU'RE ON THE HELICOPTER

  • IT'S CALLED EXECUTIVE ONE.

  • THEY WILL TAKE OFF TO ANDREWS

  • AIR FORCE BASE AND FLY A PLANE

  • BUT IT'S NOT CALLED AIR FORCE

  • ONE WHEN HE'S NOT ON IT TO TAKE

  • A VACATION.

  • >> YEAH, HEADING TO PALM

  • SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, SAID THEY

  • BOTH NEED SOME DOWN TIME.

  • INTERESTING TO SEE WHO'S ON THE

  • PLANE WHEN THEY TAKE OFF.

  • >> IF THEY FOLLOW TRADITION

  • THEY'LL MEET WITH ANDREWS AIR

  • FORCE STAFF AS THEY TAKE THEM TO

  • PALM SPRINGS.

  • >> UP NEXT WE'RE AWAITING MRS.

  • TRUMP AND MRS. PENCE TO BE

  • ANNOUNCED AS FUTURE FIRST LADY.

  • LET'S LISTEN.

  • >> ELAINE CHAO, PAUL RYAN'S W

  • WIFE.

  • >> Announcer: LADIES AND

  • GENTLEMEN, MRS. MELANIA TRUMP

  • AND MRS. PENCE.

  • THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF

  • REPRESENTATIVES, KAREN HASS.

  • ABIGAIL BLUNT, THE HONORABLE

  • ELAINE L.CHAO AND MRS. JUDY

  • McCARTHY.

  • [ APPLAUSE ]

  • >> WELL, THERE IS THE PRESIDENT

  • AND THE VICE PRESIDENT COMING

  • IN.

  • AHEAD OF THEM THE SPEAKER OF THE

  • HOUSE AND THE DEMOCRATIC

  • MAJORITY -- MINORITY LEADER IN

  • THE SENATE CHUCK SCHUMER.

  • ALL IN ANTICIPATION OF THIS

  • MAGICAL MOMENT OF THE TRANSFER

  • OF POWER.

  • WAITING FOR THE PRESIDENT-ELECT

  • TO COME FORWARD TOO OBVIOUSLY

  • THE GREAT, GREAT JOY OF SO MANY

  • PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO'VE

  • COME HERE WHO SUPPORTED HIM AND

  • THEY'LL COME TO SEE HIM AND HIS

  • TEAM TAKE POWER.

  • >> AND AS PRESIDENT OBAMA GETS

  • ON FORMER MARINE ONE TO FLY TO

  • ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, JOE

  • BIDEN IS GETTING ON AMTRAK TO GO

  • BACK HOME TO DELAWARE.

  • >> WHICH HE DID EVERY DAY OF HIS

  • LIFE AS A SENATOR.

  • >> THAT'S RIGHT.

  • SAID HE'S GOING TO HAVE A

  • CHEESEBURGER.

  • >> GOOD OLD JOE.

  • >> LEAVING JUST LIKE HE CAME.

  • >> Announcer: LADIES AND

  • GENTLEMEN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE

  • UNITED STATES, THE HONORABLE

  • BARACK H. OBAMA AND VICE

  • PRESIDENT JOSEPH R. BIDEN

  • ESCORTED BY SENATE GARY, RULES

  • COMMITTEE RANKING MEMBER CHARLES

  • SCHUMER AND HOUSE DEMOCRATIC

  • LEADER NANCY PELOSI.

  • [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

  • >> THERE HE IS, PRESIDENT OBAMA

  • SHAKING HANDS WITH THE TRUMP

  • FAMILY AS THEY AWAIT THEIR

  • FATHER.

  • >> WHEN PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP IS

  • ANNOUNCED THAT WILL THEN

  • OFFICIALLY BEGIN THE CEREMONY.

  • >> PRESIDENT BUSH AND PRESIDENT

  • TRUMP EXCHANGING GREETINGS.

  • BUSH SMILING.

  • PRESIDENT CARTER LOOKING ON.

  • >> PRESIDENT CARTER.

  • FIRST LADY GOING BACK TO GREET

  • HIM.

  • >> SO MUCH HISTORY.

  • >> SO MUCH HISTORY.

  • >> ON THE STAGE, YEAH.

  • >> TRUMP!

  • TRUMP!

  • TRUMP!

  • TRUMP!

  • TRUMP!

  • TRUMP!

  • >> THERE WE SEE THE

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT AS HE COMES

  • FORWARD TO BE GREETED BY A CROWD

  • THAT'S ALREADY BEGINNING TO SAY

  • TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP.

  • BEHIND PAUL RYAN, SPEAKER OF THE

  • HOUSE.

  • >> WHAT MUST HE BE THINKING JOHN

  • AT THIS MOMENT AS HE'S WALKING

  • DOWN, SEE A SEA OF HUMANITY

  • WAITING FOR YOU AND HEAR THE

  • CALLS AS CHARLIE POINTED OUT

  • TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP.

  • THIS IS HIS MOMENT RIGHT NOW.

  • >> YEAH, I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT

  • HE'S THINKING, BUT IT IS A

  • SOLITARY JOB.

  • AND WHILE HE'S WALKING IN A

  • GROUP, HE'S ALL ALONE.

  • >> Announcer: LADIES AND

  • GENTLEMEN, THE VICE

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT MICHAEL RICHARD

  • PENCE.

  • [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

  • >> Announcer: LADIES AND

  • GENTLEMEN, ESCORTING THE

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT THE STAFF

  • DIRECTOR FOR THE JOINT

  • CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON

  • HONORABLE CEREMONIES, THE SENATE

  • SERGEANT AT ARMS FRANK LARKEN,

  • HOUSE SERGEANT AT ARMS PAUL

  • IRVING, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT

  • CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON

  • INAUGURAL CEREMONIES ROY BLUNT,

  • RULES COMMITTEE RANKING MEMBER

  • CHARLES E SCHUMER, SPEAKER OF

  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PAUL D.

  • RYAN, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER

  • MITCH McCONNELL, KEVIN McCARTHY

  • AND HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER

  • NANCY PELOSI.

  • >> Announcer: LADIES AND

  • GENTLEMEN, THE PRESIDENT-ELECT

  • OF THE UNITED STATES DONALD JOHN

  • TRUMP.

  • [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

  • >> Announcer: LAJS, HONORABLE

  • ROY BLUNT.

  • >> THANK YOU ALL, IF YOU HAVE A

  • SEAT, YOU CAN SIT DOWN.

  • MR. PRESIDENT, MR. VICE

  • PRESIDENT, MR. PRESIDENT-ELECT,

  • MR. VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT, LADIES

  • AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO THE

  • INAUGURATION OF THE 45th

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

  • OF AMERICA.

  • TODAY LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE,

  • JUDICIAL BRANCHES OF OUR

  • GOVERNMENT COME TOGETHER FOR THE

  • 45th INAUGURATION OF THE

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

  • MILLIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL

  • WATCH AND LISTEN TO THIS EVENT.

  • 36 YEARS AGO AT HIS FIRST

  • INAUGURATION, IT WAS ALSO THE

  • FIRST INAUGURATION ON THIS SIDE

  • OF THE CAPITOL, PRESIDENT RONALD

  • REAGAN SAID THAT WHAT WE DO HERE

  • IS BOTH COMMON PLACE AND

  • MIRACULOUS.

  • COM

  • COMMONPLACE EVERY FOUR YEARS

  • SINCE 1789 WHEN PRESIDENT GEORGE

  • WASHINGTON TOOK THIS EXACT SAME

  • OATH.

  • MIRACULOUS BECAUSE WE'VE DONE IT

  • EVERY FOUR YEARS SINCE 1789 AND

  • THE EXAMPLE IT SETS FOR

  • DEMOCRACIES EVERYWHERE.

  • WASHINGTON BELIEVED THE

  • INAUGURATION OF THE SECOND

  • PRESIDENT WOULD BE MORE

  • IMPORTANT THAN THE INAUGURATION

  • OF THE FIRST.

  • MANY PEOPLE HAD TAKEN CONTROL OF

  • THE GOVERNMENT UP UNTIL THEN,

  • BUT FEW PEOPLE HAD EVER TURNED

  • THAT CONTROL WILLINGLY OVER TO

  • ANYONE ELSE.

  • AND AS IMPORTANT AS THE FIRST

  • TRANSFER OF POWER WAS, MANY

  • HISTORIANS BELIEVE THAT THE NEXT

  • ELECTION WAS EVEN MORE

  • IMPORTANT.

  • WHEN AN 18-1, ONE GROUP OF

  • PEOPLE ARGUABLY FOR THE FIRST

  • TIME EVER IN HISTORY WILLINGLY

  • IF NOT ENTHUSIASTICALLY GAVE

  • CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT TO

  • PEOPLE THEY BELIEVED HAD A

  • DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT VIEW OF

  • WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD,

  • SHOULD AND COULD DO.

  • AFTER THAT ELECTION THAT

  • ACTUALLY DISCOVERED A FLAW IN

  • THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF, WHICH

  • WAS REMEDIED BY THE 12th

  • AMENDMENT, THOMAS JEFFERSON AT

  • THAT INAUGURATION BEYOND THE

  • CHAOS OF THE ELECTION THAT HAD

  • JUST PASSED SAID WE ARE ALL

  • REPUBLICANS, WE ARE ALL

  • FEDERALISTS.

  • OFF FOUR YEARS OF CIVIL WAR

  • LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURAL

  • SPEECH TRIED TO FIND REASON FOR

  • THE CONTINUED WAR WHEN HE

  • POINTED OUT THAT BOTH SIDES

  • PRAYED TO THE SAME GOD, HE'D

  • EARLIER WRITTEN ABOUT THOSE

  • FERVOR PRAYERS THAT ONE SIDE

  • MUST BE AND BOTH SIDES MAY BE

  • WRONG, BUT IN 1865 HE LOOKED TO

  • THE FUTURE AND MEMORABLE MOMENT

  • IN THAT SPEECH WAS WITH MALICE

  • TOWARD NONE AND CHARITY FOR ALL.

  • IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DEPRESSION,

  • THE COUNTRY WAS TOLD THAT THE

  • ONLY THING WE HAD TO FEAR WAS

  • FEAR ITSELF.

  • AND PRESIDENT KENNEDY TALKED

  • ABOUT THE OBLIGATION IN

  • DEMOCRACY TO COUNTRY.

  • THE GREAT QUESTION THAT DAY WAS

  • ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR

  • COUNTRY.

  • SO WE COME TO THIS PLACE AGAIN,

  • COM

  • COMMONPLACE AND MIRACULOUS, A

  • NATIONAL MOMENT OF CELEBRATION,

  • BUT NOT A CELEBRATION OF

  • VICTORY, A CELEBRATION OF

  • DEMOCRACY.

  • AND AS WE BEGIN THAT CELEBRATION

  • I CALL ON HIS IMMINENCE TIMOTHY

  • MICHAEL CARDINAL DOLAN, REVEREND

  • PAUL WHITE TO PROVIDE READINGS

  • AND THE INVOCATION.

  • >> THE PRAYER OF KING SOLOMON

  • FROM THE BOOK OF WISDOM.

  • LET US PRAY.

  • GOD OF OUR ANCESTORS AND LORD OF

  • MERCY, YOU HAVE MADE ALL THINGS.

  • AND IN YOUR PROVIDENCE HAVE

  • CHARGED US TO RULE THE CREATURES

  • PRODUCED BY YOU.

  • TO GOVERN THE WORLD IN HOLINESS

  • AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TO RENDER

  • JUDGMENT WITH INTEGRITY OF HE

  • HEART.

  • GIVE US WISDOM FOR WE ARE YOUR

  • SERVANTS WEAK AND SHORT LIVED,

  • LACKING IN COMPREHENSION OF

  • JUDGMENT AND OF LAWS INDEED

  • THOUGH ONE MIGHT BE PERFECT

  • AMONG MORTALS, IF WISDOM WHICH

  • COMES FROM YOU BE LACKING WE

  • COUNT FOR NOTHING.

  • NOW, WITH YOU IS WISDOM WHO

  • KNOWS YOUR WILL AND WAS THERE

  • WHEN YOU MADE THE WORLD, WHO

  • UNDERSTANDS WHAT IS PLEASING IN

  • YOUR EYES, WHAT IS CONFORMABLE

  • WITH YOUR COMMANDS, SEND HER

  • FORTH FROM YOUR HOLY HEAVENS,

  • FROM YOUR GLORIOUS THRONE

  • DISPATCHER THAT SHE MAY BE WITH

  • US AND WORK WITH US, THAT WE MAY

  • GRASP WHAT IS PLEASING TO YOU

  • FOR SHE KNOWS AND UNDERSTANDS

  • ALL THINGS AND WILL GUIDE US

  • PRUDENTLY IN OUR AFFAIRS AND

  • SAFEGUARD US BY HER GLORY.

  • AMEN.

  • >> FROM THE GOSPEL MATTHEW FIFTH

  • CHAPTER, GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO

  • ARE POOR AND REALIZE THEIR NEED

  • FOR HIM, FOR THE KINGDOM OF

  • HEAVEN IS THEIRS.

  • GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO MOURN FOR

  • THEY WILL BE COMFORTED.

  • GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO ARE HUMBLE

  • FOR THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH.

  • GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO HUNGER AND

  • THIRST FOR JUSTICE, FOR THEY

  • WILL BE SATISFIED.

  • GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO ARE

  • MERCIFUL FOR THEY WILL BE SHOWN

  • MERCY.

  • HE BLESSES THOSE WHO ARE PURE AT

  • HEART FOR THEY WILL SEE GOD.

  • GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO WORK FOR

  • PEACE FOR THEY WILL BE CALLED

  • CHILDREN OF GOD.

  • GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO ARE

  • PERSECUTED FOR DOING RIGHT FOR

  • THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS THEIRS.

  • AND GOD BLESSES YOU WHEN PEOPLE

  • MOCK YOU AND PERSECUTE YOU AND

  • LIE ABOUT YOU AND SAYS ALL SORTS

  • OF EVIL THINGS AGAINST YOU

  • BECAUSE YOU ARE MY FOLLOWERS,

  • FOR YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE

  • WORLD.

  • LIKE A CITY ON A HILL TOP THAT

  • CANNOT BE HIDDEN, NO ONE LIGHTS

  • A LAMP AND THEN PUTS IT UNDER A

  • BASKET.

  • INSTEAD, A LAMP IS PLACED ON ITS

  • STAND WHERE IT GIVES LIGHT TO

  • EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE.

  • IN THE SAME WAY LET YOUR GOOD

  • DEEDS SHINE OUT FOR ALL TO SEE.

  • EVERYONE WILL PRAISE YOUR

  • HEAVENLY FATHER.

  • RESPECTFULLY IN JESUS NAME.

  • >> WE COME TO YOU, HEAVENLY

  • FATHER, IN THE NAME OF JESUS

  • WITH GRATEFUL HEARTS, THANKING

  • YOU FOR THIS GREAT COUNTRY THAT

  • YOU HAVE DECREED TO YOUR PEOPLE.

  • WE ACKNOWLEDGE WE ARE A BLESSED

  • NATION WITH A RICH HISTORY OF

  • FAITH AND FORTITUDE WITH A

  • FUTURE THAT IS FILLED WITH

  • PROMISE AND PURPOSE.

  • WE RECOGNIZE THAT EVERY GOOD AND

  • EVERY PERFECT GIFT COMES FROM

  • YOU AND THE UNITED STATES OF

  • AMERICA IS YOUR GIFT FOR WHICH

  • WE PROCLAIM OUR GRATITUDE.

  • AS A NATION WE NOW PRAY FOR OUR

  • PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP,

  • VICE PRESIDENT MICHAEL RICHARD

  • PENCE AND THEIR FAMILIES.

  • WE ASK THAT YOU WOULD BESTOW

  • UPON OUR PRESIDENT THE WISDOM

  • NECESSARY TO LEAD THIS GREAT

  • NATION, THE GRACE TO UNIFY US

  • AND THE STRENGTH TO STAND FOR

  • WHAT IS HONORABLE AND RIGHT IN

  • YOUR SIGHT.

  • IN PROVERBS 21:1, YOU INSTRUCT

  • US THAT OUR LEADER'S HEART IS IN

  • YOUR HANDS.

  • GRACIOUS GOD, REVEAL UNTO OUR

  • PRESIDENT THE ABILITY TO KNOW

  • THE WILL, YOUR WILL, THE

  • CONFIDENCE TO LEAD US IN JUSTICE

  • AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE

  • COMPASSION TO YIELD TO OUR

  • BETTER ANGELS.

  • WHILE WE KNOW THERE ARE MANY

  • CHALLENGES BEFORE US, IN EVERY

  • GENERATION YOU HAVE PROVIDED THE

  • STRENGTH AND POWER TO BECOME

  • THAT BLESSED NATION.

  • GUIDE US IN DISCERNMENT, LORD,

  • AND GIVE US THAT STRENGTH TO

  • PERSEVERE AND THRIVE.

  • NOW BIND AND HEAL OUR WOUNDS AND

  • DIVISIONS.

  • AND JOIN OUR NATION TO YOUR

  • PURPOSE THY KINGDOM COME THY

  • WILL BE DONE, THE PSALM IS

  • DECLARED.

  • LET YOUR FAVOR BE UPON THIS ONE

  • NATION UNDER GOD.

  • LET THESE UNITED STATES OF

  • AMERICA BE THAT BEACON OF HOPE

  • TO ALL PEOPLE AND NATIONS UNDER

  • YOUR DOMINION, A TRUE HOPE FOR

  • HUMANKIND.

  • GLORY TO THE FATHER, THE SON AND

  • THE HOLY SPIRIT.

  • WE PRAY THIS IN THE NAME OF

  • JESUS CHRIST.

  • AMEN.

  • >> Announcer: LADIES AND

  • GENTLEMEN, THE MISSOURI STATE

  • UNIVERSITY CORRAL.

  • [ APPLAUSE ]

  • >> WELL, THE MISSOURI STATE

  • UNIVERSITY CORRAL PRACTICES AND

  • PERFORMS ABOUT TWO BLOCKS FROM

  • MY HOME IN SPRINGFIELD,

  • MISSOURI, SO IT WAS EASY TO FIND

  • THEM.

  • AND WE'RE PLEASED THEY'RE HERE.

  • [ APPLAUSE ]

  • ALSO A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR ME

  • TO INTRODUCE MY COLLEAGUE,

  • SENATOR FROM NEW YORK, CHUCK

  • SCHUMER.

  • [ APPLAUSE ]

  • >> MY FELLOW AMERICANS, WE LIVE

  • IN A CHALLENGING AND TIMULTUOU

  • TIME.

  • A RAPIDLY CHANGING ECONOMY THAT

  • BENEFITS TOO FEW WHILE LEAVING

  • TOO MANY BEHIND.

  • A FRACTURED MEDIA.

  • A POLITICS FREQUENTLY CONSUMED

  • BY RANCOR.

  • WE FACE THREATS FOREIGN AND

  • DOMESTIC.

  • IN SUCH TIMES FAITH IN OUR

  • GOVERNMENT, OUR INSTITUTIONS AND

  • EVEN OUR COUNTRY CAN ERODE.

  • DESPITE THESE CHALLENGES, I

  • STAND HERE TODAY CONFIDENT IN

  • THIS GREAT COUNTRY FOR ONE

  • REASON, YOU, THE AMERICAN

  • PEOPLE.

  • WE AMERICANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A

  • FORWARD LOOKING, PROBLEM

  • SOLVING, OPTIMISTIC, PATRIOTIC

  • AND DECENT PEOPLE.

  • WHATEVER OUR RACE, RELIGION,

  • SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER

  • IDENTITY, WHETHER WE ARE

  • IMMIGRANT OR NATIVE BORN,

  • WHETHER WE LIVE WITH

  • DISABILITIES OR DO NOT, IN

  • WEALTH OR IN POVERTY, WE ARE ALL

  • EXCEPTIONAL IN OUR COMMONLY HELD

  • YET FIERCE DEVOTION IN OUR

  • COUNTRY AND IN OUR WILLINGNESS

  • TO SACRIFICE OUR TIME, ENERGY

  • AND EVEN OUR LIVES TO MAKING IT

  • A MORE PERFECT UNION.

  • TODAY WE CELEBRATE ONE OF

  • DEMOCRACY'S CORE ATTRIBUTES, THE

  • PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER.

  • AND EVERY DAY WE STAND UP FOR

  • CORE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES

  • ENSHRINED IN THE CONSTITUTION,

  • THE RULE OF LAW, EQUAL

  • PROTECTION FOR ALL UNDER LAW,

  • THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, PRESS,

  • RELIGION.

  • THE THINGS THAT MAKE AMERICA

  • AMERICA.

  • AND WE CAN GAIN STRENGTH FROM

  • READING OUR HISTORY AND

  • LISTENING TO THE VOICES OF

  • AVERAGE AMERICANS.

  • THEY ALWAYS SAVE US IN TIMES OF

  • STRIFE.

  • ONE SUCH AMERICAN MAJOR SULLIVAN

  • BLUE.

  • 1861 WHEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH

  • WERE LINING UP FOR THEIR FIRST

  • BAT

  • BATTLE, A TIME WHEN OUR COUNTRY

  • WAS BITTERLY DIVIDED, JOR OF THE

  • SECOND RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS

  • PENNED A LETTER TO HIS WIFE

  • SARA, IT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST

  • LETTERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

  • IT SHOWS THE STRENGTH AND

  • COURAGE OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN.

  • ALLOW ME TO READ SOME OF HIS

  • WORDS WHICH ECHO THROUGH THE

  • AGES.

  • MY VERY DEAR SARA, HE WROTE, THE

  • INDICATIONS ARE VERY STRONG THAT

  • WE SHALL MOVE IN A FEW DAYS,

  • PERHAPS TOMORROW.

  • IF IT IS NECESSARY THAT I SHOULD

  • FALL ON THE BATTLEFIELD FOR MY

  • COUNTRY, I AM READY.

  • I HAVE NO MISGIVINGS ABOUT OR

  • LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN THE CAUSE

  • IN WHICH I AM ENGAGED.

  • AND MY COURAGE DOES NOT HALT OR

  • FALTER.

  • I KNOW HOW STRONGLY AMERICAN

  • CIVILIZATION NOW LEANS UPON THE

  • TRIUMPH OF THE GOVERNMENT AND

  • HOW GREAT A DEBT WE OWE TO THOSE

  • WHO WENT BEFORE US THROUGH THE

  • BLOOD AND SUFFERING OF THE

  • REVOLUTION.

  • AND I AM WILLING, PERFECTLY

  • WILLING TO LAY DOWN ALL MY JOYS

  • IN THIS LIFE TO HELP MAINTAIN

  • THIS GOVERNMENT AND TO PAY THAT

  • DEBT.

  • SARA, MY LOVE FOR YOU IS

  • DEFTLESS, IT SEEMS TO BIND ME TO

  • YOU WITH THE MIGHTY CABLES THAT

  • NOTHING BUT OMNIPOTENCE CAN

  • BREAK, AND YET MY LOVE OF

  • COUNTRY COMES OVER ME LIKE A

  • STRONG WIND AND BEARS ME

  • IRRESISTIBLY ON WITH ALL THESE

  • CHAINS TO THE BATTLEFIELD.

  • SULLIVAN BLUE GAVE HIS LIFE ON

  • THE BATTLEFIELD A WEEK LATER AT

  • THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN.

  • THEY WERE WILLING TO SACRIFICE

  • FOR IT THAT WE STAND TODAY IN

  • THE FULL BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY IN

  • THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH.

  • AND THAT SPIRIT LIVES ON IN EACH

  • OF US, AMERICANS WHOSE FAMILIES

  • HAVE BEEN HERE FOR GENERATION

  • AND THOSE WHO HAVE JUST ARRIVED.

  • AND I KNOW OUR BEST DAYS ARE YET

  • TO COME.

  • I URGE ALL AMERICANS TO READ

  • BALLOU'S FULL LETTER.

  • HIS WORDS GIVE ME SOLACE,

  • STRENGTH.

  • I HOPE THEY WILL GIVE YOU THE

  • SAME.

  • NOW, PLEASE STAND WHILE THE

  • ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME

  • COURT CLARENCE THOMAS

  • ADMINISTERS THE OATH OF OFFICE

  • TO THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE

  • UNITED STATES.

  • [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

  • >> VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT, WOULD

  • YOU RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND

  • REPEAT AFTER ME?

  • I, MICHAEL RICHARD PENCE, DO

  • SOLEMNLY SWEAR.

  • >> I, MICHAEL RICHARD PENCE, DO

  • SOLEMNLY SWEAR.

  • >> THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND

  • DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE

  • UNITED STATES.

  • >> THATLY SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE

  • CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED

  • STATES.

  • >> AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN

  • AND DOMESTIC.

  • >> AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN

  • AND DOMESTIC.

  • >> THAT I WILL BEAR TRUTH FAITH

  • AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME.

  • >> THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH

  • AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME.

  • >> THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION

  • FREELY.

  • >> THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION

  • FREELY.

  • >> WITHOUT ANY MENTAL

  • RESERVATION OR PURPOSE OF

  • EVASION.

  • >> WITHOUT ANY MENTAL

  • RESERVATION OR PURPOSE OF

  • EVASION.

  • >> AND THAT I WILL WELL AND

  • FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE.

  • >> AND THAT I WILL WELL AND

  • FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE.

  • >> THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE ON

  • WHICH I'M ABOUT TO ENTER.

  • >> THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE ON

  • WHICH I AM ABOUT TO ENTER.

  • >> SO HELP ME GOD.

  • >> SO HELP ME GOD.

  • >> CONGRATULATIONS.

  • [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

  • >> Announcer: LADIES AND

  • GENTLEMEN, THE MORMON TABERNACLE

  • CHO

  • CHOIR, UNITED STATES MARINE

  • BAND.

  • FOR AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN

  • FOR PURPLE MOUNTAINS MAJESTY

  • ABOVE THE FRUITED PLAINS

  • AMERICA, AMERICA GOD SHED HIS

  • GRACE ON THEE

  • AND CROWN THY GOOD WITH

  • BROTHERHOOD FROM SEA TO SHINING

  • SEA

  • AMERICA, AMERICA GOD MEND

  • THIEN EVERY FLAW

  • CONFIRM THY SOUL IN

  • SELF-CONTROL THY LIBERTY IN LAW

  • ♪ O BEAUTIFUL FOR HEROES PROVED

  • IN LIBBER RATING STRIFE

  • WHO MORE THAN SELF THEIR

  • COUNTRY LOVED, AND MERCY MORE

  • THAN LIFE

  • AMERICA, AMERICA, MAY GOD THY

  • GOLD REFINE

  • TILL ALL SUCCESS BE NOBLENESS

  • AND EVERY GAIN DIVINE

  • ♪ O BEAUTIFUL FOR PATRIOT DREAM

  • THAT SEES BEYOND THE YEARS

  • THINE AL BASTER CITIES GLEAM

  • UNDIMMED BY HUMAN TIERS

  • AMERICA, AMERICA GOD SHED HIS

  • GRACE ON THEE

  • AND CROWN THY GOOD WITH

  • BROTHERHOOD FROM SEA TO SHINING

  • SEA

  • AND CROWN THY GOOD WITH

  • BROTHERHOOD FROM SEA TO SHINING

  • SEA

  • FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA

  • [ APPLAUSE ]

  • >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT'S AN

  • HONOR TO INTRODUCE THE CHIEF

  • JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES

  • JOHN G. ROBERTS JR. WHO WILL

  • ADMINISTER THE PRESIDENTIAL OATH

  • OF OFFICE.

  • EVERYONE, PLEASE STAND.

  • >> PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND

  • AND REPEAT AFTER ME.

  • I DONALD JOHN TRUMP DO SOLEMNLY

  • SWEAR.

  • >> I DO DONALD JOHN TRUMP DO

  • SOLEMNLY SWEAR.

  • >> THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY

  • EXECUTE.

  • >> THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY

  • EXECUTE.

  • >> THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF

  • THE UNITED STATES.

  • >> THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF

  • THE UNITED STATES.

  • >> AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY

  • ABILITY.

  • >> AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY

  • ABILITY.

  • >> PRESERVE, PROTECT AND DEFEND.

  • >> PRESERVE, PROTECT AND DEFEND.

  • >> THE CONSTITUTION OF THE

  • UNITED STATES.

  • >> THE CONSTITUTION OF THE

  • UNITED STATES.

  • >> SO HELP ME GOD.

  • >> SO HELP ME GOD.

  • >> CONGRATULATIONS, MR.

  • PRESIDENT.

  • [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • >> WHAT A GREAT HONOR TO BE ABLE

  • TO INTRODUCE FOR THE FIRST TIME

  • EVER ANYWHERE THE 45th

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

  • OF AMERICA, DONALD J. TRUMP.

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • >> CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS,

  • PRESIDENT CARTER, PRESIDENT

  • CLINTON, PRESIDENT BUSH,

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA, FELLOW

  • AMERICANS.

  • AND PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, THANK

  • YOU.

  • [ Applause ]

  • WE THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA ARE

  • NOW JOINED IN A GREAT NATIONAL

  • PHOTOPHORE BUILD OUR COUNTRY AND

  • RESTORE PROMISE FOR ALL OF OUR

  • PEOPLE.

  • TOGETHER WE WILL DETERMINE THE

  • COURSE OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD

  • FOR MANY, MANY YEARS TO COME.

  • WE WILL FACE CHALLENGES, WE WILL

  • CONFRONT HARDSHIPS, BUT WE WILL

  • GET THE JOB DONE.

  • EVERY FOUR YEARS WE GATHER ON

  • THESE STEPS TO CARRY OUT THE

  • ORDERLY AND PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF

  • POWER.

  • AND WE ARE GRATEFUL TO PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA AND FIRST LADY MICHELLE

  • OBAMA FOR THEIR GRACIOUS AID

  • THROUGHOUT THIS TRANSITION.

  • THEY HAVE BEEN MAGNIFICENT.

  • THANK YOU.

  • TODAY'S CEREMONY, HOWEVER, HAS

  • VERY SPECIAL MEANING.

  • BECAUSE TODAY WE ARE NOT MERELY

  • TRANSFERRING POWER FROM ONE

  • ADMINISTRATION TO ANOTHER OR

  • FROM ONE PARTY TO ANOTHER, BUT

  • WE ARE TRANSFERRING POWER FROM

  • WASHINGTON, D.C. AND GIVING IT

  • BACK TO YOU, THE PEOPLE.

  • FOR TOO LONG A SMALL GROUP IN

  • OUR NATION'S CAPITAL HAD REAPED

  • THE REWARDS OF GOVERNMENT WHILE

  • THE PEOPLE HAVE BORNE THE COST.

  • WASHINGTON FLOURISHED BUT THE

  • PEOPLE DID NOT SHARE IN ITS

  • WEALTH.

  • POLITICIANS PROSPERED BUT THE

  • JOBS LEFT AND THE FACTORIES

  • CLOSED.

  • THE ESTABLISHMENT PROTECTED

  • ITSELF.

  • BUT NOT THE SILT SENSE OF OUR

  • COUNTRY.

  • VICTORIES HAVE NOT BEEN YOUR

  • VICTORIES.

  • THEIR TRIUMPH MUCHS HAVE NOT

  • BEEN YOURS.

  • AS THEY CELEBRATEDDISH OUR

  • NATION'S CAPITAL THERE WAS

  • LITTLE TO CELEBRATE FOR

  • STRUGGLING FAMILIES ALL ACROSS

  • OUR LAND.

  • THAT ALL CHANGES STARTING RIGHT

  • HERE AND RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THIS

  • MOMENT IS YOUR MOMENT, IT

  • BELONGS TO YOU.

  • [ Applause ]

  • IT BELONGS TO EVERYONE GATHERED

  • HERE TODAY AND EVERYONE WATCHING

  • ALL ACROSS AMERICA.

  • THIS IS YOUR DAY, THIS IS YOUR

  • CELEBRATION AND THIS, THE UNITED

  • STATES OF AMERICA, IS YOUR

  • COUNTRY.

  • WHAT TRULY MATTERS IS NOT WHICH

  • PARTY CONTROLS OUR GOVERNMENT

  • BUT WHETHER OUR GOVERNMENT IS

  • TROLLED BY THE PEOPLE.

  • IS CONTROLLED BY THE PEOPLE.

  • [ Applause ]

  • JANUARY 20th, 2017, WILL BE

  • REMEMBERED AS THE DAY THE PEOPLE

  • BECAME THE RULERS OF THIS NATION

  • AGAIN.

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • THE FORGOTTEN MEN AND WOMEN OF

  • OUR COUNTRY WILL BE FORGOTTEN NO

  • LONGER.

  • EVERYONE IS LISTENING TO YOU

  • NOW, YOU CAME BY THE TENS OF

  • MILLIONS TO BECOME PART OF A

  • HISTORIC MOVEMENT, THE LIKES OF

  • WHICH THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN

  • BEFORE.

  • AT THE CENTER OF THIS MOVEMENT

  • IS A CRUCIAL CONVICTION, THAT A

  • NATION EXISTS TO SERVE ITS

  • CITIZENS.

  • AMERICANS WANT GREAT SCHOOLS FOR

  • THEIR CHILDREN, SAFE

  • NEIGHBORHOODS FOR THEIR FAMILIES

  • AND GOOD JOBS FOR THEMSELVES.

  • THESE ARE JUST AND REASONABLE

  • DEMANDS OF RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE AND

  • A RIGHTEOUS PUBLIC.

  • BUT FOR TOO MANY OF OUR CITIZENS

  • A DIFFERENT REALITY EXISTS.

  • MOTHERS AND CHILDREN TRAPPED IN

  • POVERTY IN OUR INNER CITIES.

  • RUSTED OUT FACTORIES SCATTERED

  • LIKE TOMBSTONES ACROSS THE

  • LANDSCAPE OF OUR NATION.

  • AN EDUCATION SYSTEM FLUSH WITH

  • CASH BUT WHICH LEAVES OUR YOUNG

  • AND BEAUTIFUL STUDENTS DEPRIVED

  • OF ALL KNOWLEDGE.

  • AND THE CRIME AND THE GANGS AND

  • THE DRUGS THAT HAVE STOLEN TOO

  • MANY LIVES AND ROBBED OUR

  • COUNTRY OF SO MUCH UNREALIZED

  • POTENTIAL.

  • THIS AMERICAN CARNAGE STOPS

  • RIGHT HERE AND STOPS RIGHT NOW.

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • WE ARE ONE NATION AND THEIR PAIN

  • IS OUR PAIN.

  • THEIR DREAMS ARE OUR DREAMS.

  • AND THEIR SUCCESS WILL BE OUR

  • SUCCESS.

  • WE SHARE ONE HEART, ONE HOME AND

  • ONE GLORIOUS DESTINY.

  • THE OATH OF OFFICE I TAKE TODAY

  • IS AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO ALL

  • AMERICANS.

  • FOR MANY DECADES WE'VE ENRICHED

  • FOREIGN INDUSTRY AT THE EXPENSE

  • OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY, SUBSIDIZED

  • THE ARMIES OF OTHER COUNTRIES

  • WHILE ALLOWING FOR THE VERY

  • SAADI PLEASE OF OUR HILL -- VERY

  • SAD DEPLETION OF OUR MILITARY.

  • WHILE REFUSING TO DEFEND OUR

  • OWN.

  • AND SPENT TRILLIONS AND

  • TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVERSEAS

  • WHILE AMERICA'S INFRASTRUCTURE

  • HAS FALLEN INTO DISREPAIR AND

  • DECAY.

  • WE'VE MADE OTHER COUNTRIES RICH

  • WHILE THE WEALTH, STRENGTH AND

  • CONFIDENCE OF OUR COUNTRY HAS

  • DISSIPATED OVER THE HORIZON.

  • ONE BY ONE THE FACTORS REES --

  • KNACK TORE REES SHUTTERED AND

  • LEFT OUR SHORES WITHOUT A

  • THOUGHT ABOUT MILLIONS AND

  • MILLIONS OF AMERICAN WORKERS

  • THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND.

  • THE WEALTH OF OUR MIDDLE CLASS

  • HAS BEEN RIPPED FROM THEIR HOMES

  • AND THEN REDISTRIBUTED ALL

  • ACROSS THE WORLD.

  • BUT THAT IS THE PAST AND NOW WE

  • ARE LOOKING ONLY TO THE FUTURE.

  • [ Applause ]

  • WE ASSEMBLED HERE TODAY ARE

  • ISSUING A NEW DECREE TO BE HEARD

  • IN EVERY CITY, IN EVERY FOREIGN

  • CAPITAL AND EVERY HALL OF POWER,

  • FROM THIS DAY FORWARD A NEW

  • VISION WILL GOVERN OUR LAND.

  • FROM THIS DAY FORWARD IT'S GOING

  • TO BE ONLY AMERICA FIRST,

  • AMERICA FIRST.

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • EVERY DECISION ON TRADE, ON

  • TAXES, ON IMMIGRATION, ON

  • FOREIGN AFFAIRS WILL BE MADE TO

  • BENEFIT AMERICAN WORKERS AND

  • AMERICAN FAMILIES.

  • WE MUST PROTECT OUR BORDERS FROM

  • THE RAVAGES OF OTHER COUNTRIES

  • MAKING OUR PRODUCTS, STEALING

  • OUR COMPANIES AND DESTROYING OUR

  • JOBS.

  • PROTECTION WILL LEAD TO GREAT

  • PROSPERITY AND STRENGTH.

  • I WILL FIGHT FOR YOU WITH EVERY

  • BREATH IN MY BODY AND I WILL

  • NEVER, EVER LET YOU DOWN.

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • AMERICA WILL START

  • WINNING AGAIN, WINNING LIKE

  • NEVER BEFORE.

  • WE WILL BRING BACK OUR JOBS.

  • WE WILL BRING BACK OUR BORDERS.

  • WE WILL BRING BACK OUR WEALTH

  • AND WE WILL BRING BACK OUR

  • DREAMS.

  • WE WILL BUILD NEW ROADS AND

  • HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES AND

  • AIRPORTS AND TUNNELS AND RAIL

  • WAYS ALL ACROSS OUR WONDERFUL

  • NATION.

  • WE WILL GET OUR PEOPLE OFF OF

  • WELFARE AND BACK TO WORK,

  • REBUILDING OUR COUNTRY WITH

  • AMERICAN HANDS AND AMERICAN

  • LABOR.

  • WE WILL FOLLOW TWO SIMPLE RULES.

  • BUY AMERICAN AND HIRE AMERICAN.

  • WE WILL SEEK FRIENDSHIP AND

  • GOODWILL WITH THE NATIONS OF THE

  • WORLD, BUT WE DO SO WITH THE

  • UNDERSTANDING THAT IT IS THE

  • RIGHT OF ALL NATIONS TO PUT

  • THEIR OWN INTERESTS FIRST.

  • WE DO NOT SEEK TO IMPOSE OUR WAY

  • OF LIFE ON ANYONE, BUT RATHER TO

  • LET IT SHINE AS AN EXAMPLE, WE

  • WILL SHINE FOR EVERYONE TO

  • FOLLOW.

  • [ Applause ]

  • WE WILL REINFORCE OLD ALLIANCES

  • AND FORM NEW ONES AND UNITE THE

  • CIVILIZED WORLD AGAINST RADICAL

  • ISLAMIC TERRORISM WHICH WE WILL

  • ERADICATE COMPLETELY FROM THE

  • FACE OF THE EARTH.

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • AT THE BEDROCK OF OUR POLITICS

  • WILL BE A TOTAL ALLEGIANCE TO

  • THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND

  • THROUGH OUR LOYALTY TO OUR

  • COUNTRY WE WILL REDISCOVER OUR

  • LOYALTY TO EACH OTHER.

  • WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR HEART TO

  • PATRIOTISM, THERE IS NO ROOM FOR

  • PREJUDICE.

  • [ Applause ]

  • THE BIBLE TELLS US HOW GOOD AND

  • PLEASANT IT IS WHEN GOD'S PEOPLE

  • LIVE TOGETHER IN UNITY.

  • WE MUST SPEAK OUR MINDS OPENLY,

  • DEBATE OUR DISAGREEMENTS

  • HONESTLY BUT ALWAYS PURSUE

  • SOLIDARITY.

  • WHEN AMERICA IS UNITED, AMERICA

  • IS TOTALLY UNSTOPPABLE.

  • THERE SHOULD BE NO FEAR, WE ARE

  • PROTECTED AND WE WILL ALWAYS BE

  • PROTECTED.

  • WE WILL BE PROTECTED BY THE

  • GREAT MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR

  • MILITARY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.

  • AND MOST IMPORTANTLY WE WILL BE

  • PROTECTED BY GOD.

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • FINALLY, WE MUST THINK BIG AND

  • DREAM EVEN BIGGER.

  • IN AMERICA WE UNDERSTAND THAT A

  • NATION IS ONLY LIVING AS LONG AS

  • IT IS STRIVING.

  • WE WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT

  • POLITICIANS WHO ARE ALL TALK AND

  • NO ACTION, CONSTANTLY

  • COMPLAINING BUT NEVER DOING

  • ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

  • [ Applause ]

  • THE TIME FOR EMPTY TALK IS OVER.

  • NOW ARRIVES THE HOUR OF ACTION.

  • DO NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO TELL YOU

  • THAT IT CANNOT BE DONE, NO

  • CHALLENGE CAN MATCH THE HEART

  • AND FIGHT AND SPIRIT OF AMERICA.

  • WE WILL NOT FAIL.

  • OUR COUNTRY WILL THRIVE AND

  • PROSPER AGAIN.

  • WE STAND AT THE BIRTH OF A NEW

  • MILLENNIUM, READY TO UNLOCK THE

  • MYSTERIES OF SPACE TO, FREE THE

  • EARTH FROM THE MISERIES OF

  • DISEASE AND TO HARNESS THE

  • ENERGIES INDUSTRIES AND

  • TECHNOLOGIES OF TOMORROW.

  • A NEW NATIONAL PRIDE WILL LIFT

  • HOUR SIGHTS AND HEAL OUR

  • DIVISIONS.

  • IT'S TIME TO REMEMBER THAT OLD

  • WISDOM OUR SOLDIERS WILL NEVER

  • FORGET, THAT WHETHER WE ARE

  • BLACK OR BROWN OR WHITE, WE ALL

  • BLEED THE SAME RED BLOOD OF

  • PATRIOTS.

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • WE ALL ENJOY THE SAME GLORIOUS

  • FREEDOMS AND WE ALL SALUTE THE

  • SAME GREAT AMERICAN FLAG.

  • AND WHETHER A CHILD IS BORN IN

  • THE URBAN SPRAWL OF DETROIT OR

  • THE WIND-SWEPT PLAINS OF

  • NEBRASKA, THEY LOOK UP AT THE

  • SAME NIGHT SKY, THEY FILL THEIR

  • HEART WITH THE SAME DREAMS AND

  • THEY ARE INFUSED WITH THE BREATH

  • OF LIFE BY THE SAME ALMIGHTY

  • CREATOR.

  • [ Applause ]

  • SO TO ALL AMERICANS IN EVERY

  • CITY NEAR AND FAR, SMALL AND

  • LARGE, FROM MOUNTAIN TO

  • MOUNTAINF OCEAN TO OCEAN, HEAR

  • THESE WORDS, YOU WILL NEVER BE

  • IGNORED AGAIN.

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • YOUR VOICE, YOUR HOPES AND YOUR

  • DREAMS WILL DEFINE OUR AMERICAN

  • DESTINY.

  • AND YOUR COURAGE AND GOODNESS

  • AND LOVE WILL FOREVER GUIDE US

  • ALONG THE WAY.

  • TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE AMERICA

  • STRONG AGAIN.

  • WE WILL MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY

  • AGAIN.

  • T WE WILL MAKE AMERICA PROUD

  • AGAIN.

  • WE WILL MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.

  • AND, YES, TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE

  • AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

  • THANK YOU, GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD

  • BLESS AMERICA.

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • THANK YOU.

  • GOD BLESS AMERICA.

  • [ Cheering and Applause ]

  • >> AT THIS TIME I CALL ON RABBI

  • MARVIN HIER, REVEREND FRANKLIN

  • GRAHAM TO PROVIDE READINGS AND

  • THE BENEDICTION.

  • >> ETERNAL GOD, BLESS PRESIDENT

  • DONALD J. TRUMP AND AMERICA OUR

  • GREAT NATION.

  • GUIDE US TO REMEMBER THE WORDS

  • OF THE PSALMIST, WHO MAY DWELL

  • OP YOUR HOLY MOUNTAIN, ONE THAT

  • DOES WHAT IS RIGHT AND SPEAKS

  • THE TRUTH.

  • WHO KNOWS THAT WHEN YOU REAP THE

  • LABOR OF YOUR HANDS YOU ARE

  • PRAISE WORTHY THAT HE WHO SOWS

  • SHALL LEAP IN JOY.

  • BECAUSE THE FREEDOMS WE ENJOY

  • ARE NOT GRANTED IN PERPETUITY

  • BUT MUST BE RECLAIMED BY EACH

  • GENERATION.

  • AS OUR ANCESTORS HAVE PLANTED

  • FOR US, SO WE MUST PLANT FOR

  • OTHERS, WHILE IT IS NOT FOR US

  • TO COMPLETE THE TASK, NEITHER

  • ARE WE FREE TO RESIST FROM THEM.

  • DISSPENCE JUSTICE FOR THE NEEDY

  • FOR THEY HAVE NO ONE BUT THEIR

  • FELLOW CITIZEN.

  • BECAUSE THE NATION'S WEALTH IS

  • MEASURED BY HER VALUES AND NOT

  • BY HER FAULTS.

  • BLESS ALL OF OUR ALLIES AROUND

  • THE WORLD WHO SHARE OUR BELIEFS,

  • BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON WE WEPT

  • AS WE REMEMBERED ZION, IF I

  • FORGET THE OLD JERUSALEM MAY MY

  • RIGHT HAND FORGET ITS SKILL.

  • THE DOER OF ALL THESE SHALL

  • NEVER FALTER.

  • MAY THE DAYS COME SOON WHEN

  • JUSTICE WILL DWELL IN THE

  • WILDERNESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS

  • WILL ABIDE IN THE FERTILE

  • FIELDS.

  • AND THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

  • WILL BE PEACE, QUIETNESS AND

  • COMFORT AND FOREVER, AMEN.

  • >> MR. PRESIDENT, IN THE BIBLE

  • RAIN IS A SIGN OF GOD'S

  • BLESSING.

  • AND IT STARTED TO RAIN,

  • MR. PRESIDENT, WHEN YOU CAME TO

  • THE PLATFORM.

  • AND IT'S MY PRAYER THAT GOD WILL

  • BLESS YOU, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR

  • ADMINISTRATION AND MAY HE BLESS

  • AMERICA.

  • THE PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE COMES

  • FROM FIRST TIMOTHY CHAPTER 2.

  • I URGE THEM FIRST OF ALL THAT

  • PETITIONS, PRAYERS, INTERCESSION

  • AND THANKSGIVING BE MADE FOR OUR

  • PEOPLE.

  • FOR KINGS, FOR ALL THOSE IN

  • AUTHORITY THAT WE MAY LIVE

  • PEACEFULLY QUIET LIVES IN ALL

  • GODLINESS AND HOLINESS, THIS IS

  • GOOD.

  • AND IT PLEASES GOD OUR SAVIOR,

  • WHO WANTS ALL PEOPLE TO BE SAVED

  • AND COME TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE

  • TRUTH.

  • FOR THERE IS ONE GOD AND ONE

  • MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND

  • MANKIND, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS

  • WHO GAVE HIMSELF AS A RANSOM FOR

  • ALL PEOPLE.

  • NOW TO THE KING ETERNAL,

  • IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, THE ONLY

  • GOD, THE HONOR AND GLORY FOREVER

  • AND EVER IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.

  • >> WE THANK YOU, FATHER, THIS

  • GREAT MOMENT TOGETHER.

  • LET US NOT TAKE FOR GRANTED THE

  • AIR WE BREATHE OR THE LIFE

  • YOU'VE GIVEN US.

  • WE WERE ALL CREATED BY YOU WITH

  • ONE BLOOD, ALL NATIONS TO DWELL

  • UPON THIS LAND TOGETHER.

  • WE'RE NOT ENEMIES, WE'RE

  • BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WE'RE NOT

  • ADVERSARIES BUT ALLIES.

  • WE'RE NOT FOES BUT WE'RE

  • FRIENDS.

  • LET US BE HEALED BY THE POWER OF

  • YOUR LOVE AND UNITED BY THE BOND

  • OF YOUR SPIRIT, TODAY WE PRAY

  • FOR OUR 45th PRESIDENT THE

  • VICE PRESIDENT AND THEIR

  • FAMILIES AND GIVE THEM THE

  • WISDOM TO GUIDE THIS GREAT

  • NATION, THE STRENGTH TO PROTECT

  • IT AND THE HANDS TO HEAL IT.

  • WE BLESS PRESIDENT DONALD J.

  • TRUMP, WE ASK THAT YOU GIVE HIM

  • THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON, THE

  • LEADER OF CHRIST, SOLOMON KEPT

  • PEACE AMONG MANY NATIONS, JOSEPH

  • WANTED BETTER FOR THE PEOPLE AND

  • CHRIST WHO ACCEPTED US ALL.

  • O, LORD, MEND OUR HEARTS AND

  • STITCH TOGETHER THE FABRIC OF

  • THIS GREAT COUNTRY IN THE SPIRIT

  • OF THE LEGENDARY GOSPEL

  • SONGWRITER, MAHALIA, JACKSON,

  • DEEP IN MY HEART I DO BELIEVE

  • THE LORD WILL SEE US THROUGH, I

  • DO BELIEVE, WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO

  • VICTORY, I DO BELIEVE, WE WILL

  • WALK HAND IN HAND, I DO BELIEVE,

  • WE SHALL LIVE IN PEACE, I DO

  • BELIEVE, O, DEEP IN MY HEARTED,

  • I DO BELIEVE AMERICA WE SHALL

  • OVERCOME.

  • MAY THE LORD BLESS AND KEEP

  • AMERICA AND MAKE US SHINE UPON

  • US BE GRACIOUS UNTO US AND GIVE

  • US PEACE.

  • IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN.

  • >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE

  • WELCOME JACKIE EVACHO

  • ACCOMPANIED BY THE PRESIDENT'S

  • OWN UNITED STATES MARINE BAND.

  • PLEASE STAND FOR THE SINGING OF

  • THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.

  • ♪ O SAY CAN YOU SEE

  • BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT

  • WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILED

  • AT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST

  • GLEAMING

  • WHOSE BROAD STRIPES AND BRIGHT

  • STARS

  • THROUGH THE PERILOUS FIGHT

  • O'ER THE RAMPARTS WE

  • WATCHED

  • WERE SO GALLANTLY

  • STREAMING

  • AND THE ROCKETS RED GLARE

  • THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR

  • GAVE PROOF THROUGH THE

  • NIGHT

  • THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE

  • O SAY DOES THAT STAR SPANGLED

  • BANNER YET WAVE

  • O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE

  • AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE

  • [ cheers and applause ]

  • >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE

  • REMAIN STANDING WHILE THE

  • PRESIDENT AND OFFICIAL PARTY

  • DEPART THE PLATFORM.

  • YOU WILL BE RELEASED BY SECTIONS

  • SHORTLY.

  • >> DONALD TRUMP, 45th

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

  • AND THE PENDULUM SWINGS AS IT

  • DOES THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY.

  • THIS TIME THE SWINGS TOWARD A

  • POPULOUS ISOLATIONIST

  • PHILOSOPHY, PART OF THE AMERICAN

  • DEBATE FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS

  • HAS FOUND 21st CENTURY VOICE

  • IN DONALD TRUMP.

  • BOB SCHIEFFER, THAT WAS NOT TO

  • MY MIND THE SPEECH OF REPUBLICAN

  • OR DEMOCRAT, HE HE IS CORE

  • EVACUATED BOTH BOTH PARTIES, HE

  • CALLED THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE

  • AN AMERICAN LANDSCAPE WHICH HAD

  • FACTORIES FROM SEA TO SEA THAT

  • WERE SHUTTERED, PEOPLE OUT OF

  • WORK, AMERICAN CARNAGE, HE

  • CALLED IT.

  • >> Schieffer: I'M TELLING YOU

  • THIS WAS VERY STRONG STUFF.

  • VERY STRONG STUFF.

  • I DID NOT SEE ANY OUTREACH

  • EITHER ACROSS THE AISLE OR EVEN

  • TO HIS OWN PARTY.

  • I MEAN, HE BASICALLY TOOK THE

  • HIDE OFF EVERYBODY SITTING ON

  • THAT PLATFORM TELLING HIM THAT

  • POLITICIANS OF WASHINGTON HAVE

  • PROSPERED WHILE THE PEOPLE OUT

  • THERE HAVE SUFFERED AND HE SAID

  • IT'S GOING TO STOP HERE AND NOW.

  • HE KEPT SAYING "HERE AND NOW"

  • JUST AS YOU SAY, HE TALKED ABOUT

  • MORE PROTECTIONIST KIND OF TRADE

  • POLICY I WOULD ASSUME, WE'RE

  • GOING TO BUY AMERICAN, WE'RE

  • GOING TO HIDE -- GOING TO HIRE

  • AMERICAN.

  • HE SAID WE HAVE ENRICHED OTHER

  • GOVERNMENTS STAND DEFENDED OTHER

  • BORDERS WHILE WE FAIL TO DO THAT

  • FOR OUR OWN BORDERS.

  • THAT IS PART OF ALL THIS HE'S

  • BEEN TALKING ABOUT IS NATO

  • OBSOLETE.

  • WE'RE GOING TO BE UNPACKING THIS

  • SPEECH FOR -- IT WILL TAKE US

  • THE REST OF THE DAY TO GET

  • AROUND TO THIS.

  • I'M NOT QUITE SURE I'VE EVER

  • HEARD ANY INAUGURATION SPEECH

  • QUITE LIKE THIS.

  • >> Pelley: HERE IS HILLARY

  • CLINTON WHO WON THE POPULAR VOTE

  • BY 2.8 MILLION VOTES.

  • DONALD TRUMP WON BY 77,000 VOTES

  • WHEN YOU ADD TOGETHER THE STATES

  • OF PENNSYLVANIA, WISCONSIN AND

  • MICHIGAN, STATES THAT PUT HIM

  • OVER THE TOP.

  • DONALD TRUMP USED THE WORD, HE

  • SAID, PROTECTION WILL LEAD TO

  • GREAT PROSPERITY AND STRENGTH.

  • PROTECTION GENERALLY MEANT AS

  • TAXATION OF GOODS COMING TOWN

  • THE UNITED STATES IN ORDER TO

  • GIVE AMERICAN GOODS AN ADVANTAGE

  • IN FREE TRADE.

  • THE AMERICAN CARNAGE, HE SAID,

  • STOPS RIGHT HERE AND STOPS RIGHT

  • NOW.

  • YOU KNOW, BOB, UNLIKE MOST OF

  • THESE INAUGURAL SPEECHES I

  • DIDN'T HEAR DONALD TRUMP ASK THE

  • AMERICAN PEOPLE TO DO ANYTHING.

  • >> Schieffer: ONCE AGAIN, AS

  • WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, PEOPLE

  • KEEP EXPECT SOMEBODY KIND OF A

  • PIVOT FROM DONALD TRUMP TO MOVE

  • FROM PRIMARY ELECTIONS TO THE

  • GENERAL ELECTION TO THE

  • PRESIDENCY.

  • HE CAME HERE BEING DONALD TRUMP

  • AND THIS WAS ONCE AGAIN VERY

  • MUCH WHAT WE SAW THROUGHOUT THE

  • LAST TWO YEARS.

  • THIS WAS DONALD TRUMP.

  • >> Pelley: LET'S GO DOWN TO

  • NORAH O'DONNELL, GAYLE KING,

  • CHARLIE ROSE AND JOHN DICKERSON

  • ON THE MALL.

  • >> SCOTT, THANK YOU, I THOUGHT

  • THIS SPEECH WAS CALL TO ARMS

  • RATHER THAN APPEAL FOR UNITY.

  • IT WAS A POPULOUS MESSAGE THAT

  • GOT HIM TO THE PRESIDENCY, TOUGH

  • LANGUAGE ABOUT ELIMINATING THE

  • AMERICAN CARNAGE, TALKING ABOUT

  • ELIMINATING FROM THE FACE OF THE

  • EARTH.

  • RADICAL ISLAMIC EXTREMISM, IT

  • WAS A CALL TO ARMS, NORAH.

  • >> WE KEPT HEARING IT WOULD BE A

  • SPEECH ABOUT UNITY AND HEALING.

  • I KEPT WAITING TO HEAR SOMETHING

  • ABOUT UNITY AND HEALING.

  • THAT NEVER CAME.

  • I THINK THAT'S VERY SURPRISING.

  • AND TO SAY THE WAY HE SLAMMED

  • EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED IN

  • THE LAST EIGHT YEARS WITH THE

  • FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED

  • STATES SITTING THERE LISTENING

  • TO THAT AFTER THEY HAD JUST COME

  • FROM TEA AND COFFEE TOGETHER.

  • I THINK LOT OF PEOPLE ARE VERY

  • SURPRISED BY THIS TONE TODAY.

  • >> IT LACKED THE RHETORIC OF

  • MOST INAUGURAL ADDRESSES THAT

  • SPEAK TO OUR BETTER ANGELS AS

  • PRESIDENT LINCOLN DECLARED MORE

  • THAN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

  • INSTEAD HE TALKED ABOUT

  • RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE AND A RIGHTEOUS

  • PUBLIC.

  • I DON'T KNOW THAT I'VE EVER

  • HEARD INAUGURAL ADDRESS WHERE

  • CRIME, DRUGS, GANGS, AMERICAN

  • CARNAGE, RUSTED OUT FACTORIES,

  • IT WAS DARKER THAN MOST

  • INAUGURAL ADDRESSES.

  • BUT IT DID SPEAK TO THE

  • ELECTORATE THAT PUT HIM IN

  • OFFICE, THAT FEELS THAT THEY

  • HAVE BEEN LEFT OUT.

  • >> IT HAD ECHOES OF HIS

  • NOMINATING SPEECH AT THE

  • REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, THIS IS A

  • SPEECH TO -- THE EMOTIONAL

  • CONNECTION HE HAD WITH THAT

  • GROUP OF VOTERS WHO FELT

  • WASHINGTON WASN'T LISTENING TO

  • THEM.

  • BUT GOING BACK TO BOB'S POINT,

  • THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM WERE HIS

  • FIRST TARGET, THE POLITICIANS

  • WHO NOT ONLY ACTED TOO SLOWLY

  • BUT WHO WERE HAD SOLD OUT THE

  • AMERICAN PEOPLE.

  • WHO WERE MORE INTERESTED IN

  • THEIR COMFORTS, HE SHOT BOTH

  • PARTIES, MORE INTERESTED THAN

  • THEIR COMFORTS THAN THE AMERICAN

  • PEOPLE.

  • THAT IS A BOUT A BIG CRITICISM

  • YOU CAN MAKE OF THE PEOPLE IN

  • POLITICS AND CRITICISM OF THE

  • PEOPLE WITH WHOM HE'S NOW GOING

  • TO HAVE TO WORK NOT JUST LEAVING

  • ASIDE BARACK OBAMA.

  • ON THE RHETORIC QUESTION, HE WAS

  • TO THE EXTENT THAT HE DEPLOYED

  • RHETORIC IT WAS ALWAYS PAINTING

  • THAT DARK, DESOLATE, DANGEROUS

  • AMERICAN LANDSCAPE.

  • THERE WAS NONE OF THAT PARCELED

  • OUT TO ANYTHING UP LIFTING OR

  • AROUND WHICH PEOPLE COULD UNIFY.

  • >> IT WAS ALSO A REAFFIRMATION

  • OF HIS IDEA OF AMERICA FIRST.

  • AMERICA FIRST, RESTORE JOBS,

  • AMERICA FIRST IN TERMS OF TAKING

  • PEOPLE AND BRINGING THEM BACK.

  • WHATEVER HE MEANS BY MAKE

  • AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

  • >> I DIDN'T HEAR A LOT OF

  • APPLAUSE WHILE WE'RE SITTING

  • HERE LOOKING AT THE CROWD.

  • HE GOT HIS BIGGEST APPLAUSE SAID

  • WE WILL ELIMINATE ISIS THAT WAS

  • THE FIRST TIME THAT I HEARD SAW

  • SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF APPLAUSE

  • WHILE WE'RE WATCHING THE CROWD

  • HERE.

  • I'M CURIOUS TO SEE HOW IT PLAYED

  • IN THE COUNTRY THIS SPEECH.

  • >> AMERICA FIRST MEANS THAT

  • WALL, THAT PROTECTION, THE

  • AMERICAN JOBS, AMERICAN

  • COMPANIES IN AMERICA, NOT

  • OVERSEAS THESE ARE BATTLE LINES

  • WITHIN HIS OWN PARTY WHERE YOU

  • HAVE A LOT OF REPUBLICANS

  • BELIEVE IN TREE TRADE AS PART OF

  • THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM THEN

  • SECONDARILY WHO BELIEVE AS

  • RONALD REAGAN DID THAT THERE ARE

  • VALUES WORTH PROTECTING AND

  • PROMOTING OVERSEAS FOR THEIR OWN

  • SAKE AND PROMOTE THEM, TO

  • EXERCISE U.S. POWER AS A WAY TO

  • PROMOTE THOSE IDEAS KEEPS

  • AMERICA SAFE, THERE WAS -- THIS

  • WAS REAL CLEAR BREAK FROM THAT.

  • >> I JUST WOULDN'T POINT OUT

  • WE'RE SEEING NOW PRESIDENT

  • DONALD TRUMP AND PRESIDENT

  • BARACK OBAMA WALKING INTO THE

  • CAPITOL ROW TIN DA, THEY'RE

  • GOING NOW TO WHAT WILL BE A

  • LUNCHEON WITH MEMBERS OF

  • CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT TRUMP.

  • THEY WILL SAY GOODBYE TO THE

  • FIRST FAMILY, THE OBAMAS WHO

  • WILL LEAVE OUT THE EAST FRONT OF

  • THE CAPITOL BOARD WHAT IS KNOWN

  • TRADITIONALLY AS MARINE ONE,

  • SINCE HE IS NO LONGER, IT'S

  • CALLED EXECUTIVE ONE THEY WILL

  • GO ON TO THEIR POST PRESIDENCY

  • LIFE.

  • >> ONE MORE OF THE TRADITION, IS

  • THAT ARE PART OF EVERY INAUGURAL

  • DAY, MEETING WITH THE LEADERS OF

  • CONGRESS AFTER YOU MAKE THE

  • INAUGURAL SPEECH.

  • >> TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO WATCHED

  • DONALD TRUMP THROUGH HIS WHOLE

  • CAREER, THEY DEFINE HIS OPENING

  • GAMBIT AS RICHARD FRACK SAID

  • THROW HAND GRENADES AT THE

  • BEGINNING.

  • DESTABILIZE EVERYONE THAT SOME

  • INSTANCES NEGOTIATING PLOY WHICH

  • IS TO SAY, HE KNOWS ULTIMATELY

  • HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE

  • SOMEWHERE ELSE BUT IF YOU START

  • AT THE FURTHEST EDGE, THEN YOU

  • CAN COME BACK TO IT.

  • >> WE'RE ON THE NATIONAL MALL ON

  • THE OTHER END OF THE U.S.

  • CAPITAL IS THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL.

  • ON THE MEMORIAL ARE ETCHED THE

  • WORDS FROM PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S

  • INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

  • THAT'S WHY THESE INAUGURAL

  • ADDRESSES MATTER THEY GET ETCHED

  • IN STONE.

  • WHAT OF THIS ADDRESS DOES HE

  • WANT TO HAVE ETCHED IN STONE?

  • THAT WILL BE SOMETHING TO LOOK

  • CLOSELY AT, TO MARK HIS FUTURE

  • MONUMENT, TO MARK HIS FUTURE

  • LIBRARY, WHAT ARE THE MOST

  • ICONIC SPEECHES, SOME OF THE

  • MOST ICONIC THINGS OF AMERICAN

  • HISTORY.

  • >> AMERICAN KNOWN FOREVER AS THE

  • AMERICAN SPEECH, THAT WAS THE

  • MOST STRIKING THING.

  • HE WAS SPEAKING TO, IN MY

  • ESTIMATION AND ONLY TO, THE

  • PEOPLE WHO GOT HIM ELECTED.

  • >> LET ME JUST -- ADD ONE THING

  • HERE, CHARLIE, WHEN FIRST GEORGE

  • BUSH MADE HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS,

  • HE SAID, WE MEET ON DEMOCRACY'S

  • FRONT PORCH A GRAND PLACE TO

  • TALK AS NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS.

  • THAT IS THE DAY OUR NATION IS

  • MADE WHOLE.

  • THIS WAS NOT A SPEECH, A

  • FRIENDLY SPEECH TO THE

  • NEIGHBORS.

  • THIS WAS SERVING NOTICE THAT

  • THERE'S A NEW GUY ON THE BLOCK

  • AND WE'RE GOING TO DO THINGS IN

  • A DIFFERENT WAY.

  • >> HIS WAY.

  • >> IT WAS A SPEECH TO THOSE

  • PEOPLE ELECTED HIM, THERE WE SEE

  • THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND THE NEW

  • PRESIDENT WALKING THROUGH

  • CONGRESS TO ATTEND A LUNCH

  • TOGETHER.

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA NOT GOING TO THE

  • LUNCH HE'LL SAY GOODBYE TO HIM

  • THE PRESIDENT WILL COME BACK.

  • >> THIS IS THE EAST OF THE

  • CAPITOL AND THE STEPS THEY WILL

  • SAY GOODBYE.

  • IT'S A BEAUTIFUL WAY GOODBYE.

  • OBAMAS WILL GET ON THE

  • HELICOPTER GO TO JOINT AIR FORCE

  • BASE.

  • >> WONDER WHAT THEY'RE SAYING?

  • YOU THINK ABOUT THIS, THIS IS

  • THE WAY THE FORMER PRESIDENT

  • TRADITIONALLY LEFT.

  • TO THINK ABOUT BACK IN THE DAY

  • OF HARRY TRUMAN, HE PUT HIS

  • SUITCASES IN THE FAMILY CAR, HE

  • AND HIS WIFE DROVE BACK TO

  • MISSOURI.

  • WHAT A DIFFERENCE A FEW YEARS

  • MAKES.

  • >> PRESIDENT OBAMA KISSING HIS

  • WIFE'S HAND AS THEY ARE

  • PREPARING TO HEAD DOWN THE THE

  • STEPS TO THE HELICOPTER.

  • AND LEAVE WASHINGTON.

  • PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID MOMENTS

  • AGO, FROM THIS DAY FORWARD, A

  • NEW VISION WILL GOVERN OUR LAND.

  • IT IS GOING TO BE ONLY AMERICA

  • FIRST.

  • THE NEW VICE PRESIDENT SENDING

  • OFF THE OLD.

  • >> I REMEMBER THE DAY THAT

  • RONALD REAGAN LEFT AND SAM

  • DONALDSON OF ABC NEWS SHOUTED A

  • QUESTION, BARBARA BUSH ABOUT TO

  • GO TO THE WHITE HOUSE SAID, HE

  • GOT HIS LAST SHOUT.

  • >> BARBARA BUSH AND HER HUSBAND,

  • FORMER PRESIDENT, 92-YEAR-OLD

  • GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH HAVE

  • BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL.

  • BUT LATE REPORTS ARE THAT THEY

  • ARE BOTH DOING MUCH BETTER, THE

  • FORMER PRESIDENT HAS HAD

  • PNEUMONIA BUT WE ARE TOLD THAT

  • ALL SIGNS ARE TOWARD IMPROVEMENT

  • THEY HOPE TO HAVE HIM OUT OF THE

  • HOSPITAL SOON.

  • >> I GUESS THE FORMER VICE

  • PRESIDENT, HE'S GOING DOWN TO

  • THE RAILROAD STATION GETTING ON

  • AMTRAK GOING BACK TO DELAWARE

  • WHICH HE DID, HE COMMUTED BACK

  • AND FORTH IN THE SENATE FOR SO

  • MANY YEARS.

  • >> THERE HAS BEEN A LITTLE BIT

  • OF TROUBLE IN WASHINGTON, NARE

  • AWAY FROM THE CEREMONIES THERE

  • LAUGH BEEN SOME UNRULY CROWDS,

  • SOME BROKEN STORE WINDOWS AT ONE

  • POINT THE METROPOLITAN POLICE

  • USED PEPPER SPRAY TO QUELL THOSE

  • CROWDS.

  • SOME PEOPLE CAME TO TOWN TODAY

  • BENT ON TROUBLE, THAT IN NO WAY

  • HAS HAD ANY IMPACT ON THE

  • CEREMONIES HERE ON THE NATIONAL

  • MALL.

  • LET'S WATCH AND LISTEN NOW AS

  • THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN

  • PRESIDENT SAYS HIS FINAL

  • GOODBYE.

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA WAVES GOODBYE TO

  • THE NATION'S CAPITOL.

  • AS THE HELICOPTER, FORMERLY

  • KNOWN AS MARINE ONE NOW PREPARES

  • TO LIFT OFF FROM THE GROUNDS OF

  • THE CAPITOL.

  • THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED

  • STATES, DONALD J. TRUMPND AND

  • NEW FIRST LADY ARE HEADED BACK

  • IN TO THE CAPITOL FOR A

  • TRADITIONAL LUNCHEON WITH

  • MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

  • AND THEN HE WILL BE HEADING TO

  • THE WHITE HOUSE AND THERE WILL

  • BE HOURS OF PARADES AND

  • FESTIVITIES THAT GO WELL INTO

  • THE NIGHT.

  • MR. OBAMA SAID IN HIS FINAL NEWS

  • CONFERENCE THAT HE WAS LOOKING

  • FORWARD TO HIS TIME AFTER THE

  • PRESIDENCY, ONE OF THE THINGS HE

  • SAID WAS, HE WAS LOOKING FORWARD

  • TO WHEN HE WOULDN'T HAVE TO HEAR

  • HIMSELF TALKING ALL THE TIME.

  • >> SOME OF US IN TELEVISION, WE

  • GET THAT SAME FEELING SOMETIMES,

  • SCHOOL.

  • IT WILL BE INTERESTING NOW, SOME

  • FORMER PRESIDENTS IN YEARS PAST

  • THAT HELICOPTER HAS LIFTED OFF,

  • HEADED DOWN THE MALL, OF COURSE

  • WE'LL SEE IF THAT'S WHAT THEY

  • CHOOSE TO DO TODAY TO GIVE THEM

  • ONE LAST LOOK AT WASHINGTON

  • WHERE THEY HAVE SPENT EIGHT

  • PREVIOUS YEARS.

  • >> I'LL HAVE TO CHECK MY HISTORY

  • HERE, BOB, BUT BARACK OBAMA IS

  • CERTAINLY ONE OF THE YOUNGEST

  • FORMER PRESIDENTS IN OUR

  • HISTORYF NOT THE YOUNGEST.

  • HE HAS A LONG CAREER AHEAD OF

  • HIM.

  • >> YES, HE DOES.

  • WE'LL NOW HAVE FIVE FORMER

  • PRESIDENTS WHICH MAY BE A RECORD

  • NUMBER.

  • I'M TRYING TO THINK BACK.

  • >> PRESIDENT OBAMA'S

  • INAUGURATION DAY, FIRST ONE

  • EIGHT YEARS AGO HAS BEEN

  • ESTIMATED THAT THERE WERE MORE

  • THAN 1.6 MILLION PEOPLE IN

  • WASHINGTON.

  • IT WAS POTENTIALLY THE LARGEST

  • GATHERING IN THE HISTORY OF THE

  • NATION'S CAPITOL.

  • >> CERTAINLY THE LARGEST IN THE

  • 47 YEARS I'VE BEEN HERE.

  • AND THEY ARE OFF.

  • A SYMBOLIC END TO OUR

  • TRADITIONAL TRANSFER OF POWER.

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA AND -- I SHOULD

  • SAY FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA AND

  • THE FORMER FIRST LADY WILL BE

  • FLOWN TO JOINT BASE ANDREWS AS

  • IT'S NOW CALLED, OLD ANDREWS AIR

  • FORCE BASE.

  • WE CAN HEAR THE HELICOPTER GOING

  • OVER OUR STUDIO RIGHT NOW.

  • >> JUST COUPLE HUNDRED FEET

  • ABOVE WHERE WE ARE.

  • >> RIGHT ABOVE US.

  • VERY SHORT TRIP TO JOINT BASE

  • ANDREWS AND THEN THEY WILL BOARD

  • A PLANE AND LEAVE THE WASHINGTON

  • AREA.

  • GOING ON VACATION.

  • >> Schieffer: I'M ALWAYS -- I

  • WATCHED A LOT OF PRESIDENTS

  • LEAVE WASHINGTON, IT'S ALWAYS A

  • TOUCHING MOMENT FOR WANT OF A

  • BETTER PHRASE FOR ME.

  • SOME LEAVE HAPPILY, I REMEMBER

  • SEEING RICHARD NIXON LEAVE IN

  • ONE OF THE MOST BIZARRE AND

  • ALMOST SURREAL KIND OF SCENES

  • THAT I SAW AT ANDREWS AIR FORCE

  • BASE.

  • WAVING GOODBYE, AS HE ALWAYS

  • DID, YET HE HAD JUST RESIGNED

  • THE PRESIDENCY.

  • LYNDON JOHNSON LEFT A BEATEN

  • MAN, THE WAR HAD WORN HIM DOWN

  • AND YET AS THE YEARS WENT BY WE

  • CAME TO RECOGNIZE THE ENORMOUS

  • THINGS THAT HE HAD BEEN ABLE TO

  • DO IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS AREA.

  • MORE THAN 400 PIECES OF

  • SIGNIFICANT LEGISLATION.

  • WE BASICALLY TODAY LIVE IN

  • LYNDON JOHNSON'S AMERICA.

  • >> Pelley: THAT IS THE TOWER

  • OF THE TRUMP HOTEL THAT THE

  • HELICOPTER JUST FLEW BY, THE OLD

  • 19th CENTURY POST OFFICE

  • BUILDING HERE IN WASHINGTON.

  • THE FORMER PRESIDENT SAID IN HIS

  • LAST NEWS CONFERENCE THAT HIS

  • FAMILY, HIS DAUGHTERS IN

  • PARTICULAR, WERE DISAPPOINTED --

  • THERE'S THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT,

  • OF COURSE -- WERE DISAPPOINTED

  • IN THE WAY THE ELECTION TURNED

  • OUT.

  • BUT HE ALSO SAID, QUOTE, I THINK

  • WE'RE GOING TO BE OKAY,

  • REFERRING TO THE NATION, THE

  • TRANSFER OF POWER.

  • AND THE PRESIDENT'S FORMER

  • RESIDENCE NOW THE RESIDENCE OF

  • PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE NEW

  • FIRST LADY.

  • LET'S GO DOWN TO CHARLIE ROSE,

  • NORAH O'DONNELL, GAYLE KING AND

  • JOHN DICKERSON.

  • >> Dickerson: LOOKING AT THE

  • SPEECH THAT NEW PRESIDENT JUST

  • MADE, HE ALSO SAID, IT IS TIME

  • TO REMEMBER THAT OLD WISDOM OUR

  • SOLDIERS WILL NEVER FORGET

  • WHETHER WE ARE BLACK OR BROWN OR

  • WHITE WE ALL BLEED THE SAME

  • BLOOD PATRIOTS, WHETHER A CHILD

  • IS BORN IN IRRELEVANT BANDY IT

  • TO OR THE WIND SWEPT PLAINS OF

  • NEBRASKA THEY LOOK UP AT THE

  • SAME NIGHT SKY AND THEY FILL

  • THEIR HEARTS WITH THE SAME

  • DREAM.

  • THAT WAS WHAT HE ALSO SAID NEAR

  • THE END OF HIS SPEECH.

  • BUT IT WAS CALL TO ACTION TO PUT

  • AMERICA FIRST.

  • >> BUT FOLLOWING UP ON THAT,

  • CHARLIE, THERE WAS PART THAT

  • STRUCK OUT TO ME WHEN YOU OPEN

  • YOUR HEART TO PATRIOTISM THERE'S

  • NO ROOM FOR PREJUDICE.

  • I HOPE THAT IS AT LEAST A

  • MESSAGE THAT PEOPLE TAKE AWAY

  • FROM TODAY.

  • >> I THINK IT WILL BE OVER

  • SHADOWED BY THE DIRECT MESSAGE

  • THAT HE GAVE, IT WAS A WARNING

  • TO HIS OWN PARTY WITH WHOM WE'LL

  • NOW SEE HOW THINGS MOVE IN

  • PRACTICE.

  • BUT IF YOU ARE A REPUBLICAN,

  • HE'S PUTTING YOU ON NOTICE, TOO

  • IF YOU DON'T MOVE FAST ENOUGH

  • AND WITH THE PEOPLE'S INTEREST

  • HE COULD DEPLOY THAT KIND OF

  • RHETORIC TOWARDS REPUBLICAN

  • LAWMAKERS WHO HE IS BY TODAY'S

  • ACTIONS BY HIS CAMPAIGN REMEMBER

  • CAMPAIGN PAUL RYAN WAS ONE OF

  • HIS CHIEF TARGETS, THAT THEY

  • WILL BE AS QUICKLY ON THE WRONG

  • END OF HIS VIEW AS PERHAPS

  • DEMOCRATS.

  • YOU CAN IMAGINE DEMOCRATS BEING

  • MORE PLEASED WITH SOME OF THE

  • LINES IN THAT SPEECH THAN

  • TRADITIONAL REPUBLICANS IN TERMS

  • OF PROTECTIONISM AND AMERICA

  • FIRST.

  • >> THIS IS NOW DONALD TRUMP'S

  • WASHINGTON.

  • WHAT YOU SEE ON THE LEFT-HAND

  • SIDE OF THE SCREEN THERE IS THE

  • CONGRESSIONAL LUNCHEON FOR HIM,

  • THIS IS ACTUALLY BEEN TRADITION

  • MORE THAN A CENTURY, THERE WILL

  • BE ABOUT 200 GUESTS THERE

  • INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT AND VICE

  • PRESIDENT, THEIR FAMILIES,

  • SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AS WELL

  • ALL GATHERED THERE FOR SEVERAL

  • HOURS.

  • MAJOR GARRETT REPORTED EARLIER

  • THAT TRUMP ASKED IF HE COULD

  • JUST SKIP THE LUNCH GET STRAIGHT

  • TO WORK.

  • BECAUSE HE WANTS TO QUICKLY

  • BUILT PEN TO PAPER AND ISSUE

  • SOME EXECUTIVE ACTION.

  • IT WILL BE VERY SHORT INAUGURAL

  • PARADE AFTER THAT.

  • BUT THERE WILL SOMEBODY CEREMONY

  • THAT WILL COVER, WHAT WE'RE GET

  • CAN THAT SENSE HERE, WE SEE

  • REPRESENTED BY THESE PICTURES

  • OBAMA SAID FAREWELL.

  • THAT IS AN END OF AN ERA.

  • >> OFF TO CALIFORNIA.

  • I DO LIKE THAT HE TOLD "60

  • MINUTES" THAT WHEREVER HE ENDS

  • UP TOMORROW MORNING HE WILL NOT

  • BE SETTING HIS ALARM.

  • >> I ASSUME THAT THAT HELICOPTER

  • IS MAKING ONE LAST TRIP AROUND

  • WASHINGTON AS MOST PRESIDENTS OR

  • FORMER PRESIDENTS WANT TO DO.

  • LET US NOT FORGET WHAT WE SAW

  • HERE AT THIS INAUGURAL DAY WAS A

  • GATHERING OF REPUBLICANS AND

  • DEMOCRATS, MEMBERS OF THE

  • SUPREME COURT AND CONGRESS, ALL

  • HERE TO BE PART OF WHAT

  • DEMOCRACY IS ABOUT, PEACEFUL

  • TRANSFER OF POWER.

  • SOMETIMES BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO DO

  • NOT SEE AMERICA IN TERMS OF

  • POLICIES THE SAME WAY, THAT WAS

  • CERTAINLY TRUE.

  • >> WE'RE SEEING THE BIDENS NOW,

  • THAT IS A TRAIN STATION, THEY'RE

  • AT UNION STATION HERE --

  • >> THAT WAS QUICK.

  • >> NOT FAR TO GO.

  • >> THEY HAVE HELD THAT IS KNOWN

  • AS 1:00 P.M. FOR THE BIDENS WHO

  • WILL GO BACK TO DELAWARE.

  • FOR THOSE WHO KNOW, VICE

  • PRESIDENT BIDEN, FORMER SENATOR

  • BIDEN, HE WENT HOME TO DELAWARE

  • EVERY NIGHT.

  • HE'S TAKEN MORE THAN 8,000 ROUND

  • TRIPS IN HIS CAREER ON AMTRAK.

  • >> HE'S BEEN DOING THAT SINCE HE

  • WAS 29 YEARS OLD.

  • >> SHOULD GET?

  • FREE ONES BY NOW.

  • >> HE'S BACK ON THE TRAIN.

  • HE'S BACK ON THE TRAIN, BACK

  • HOME, ALSO WITH SENATOR CARTER

  • THERE FROM THE GREAT STATE OF

  • DELAWARE.

  • NO DOUBT MANY OF THE CONDUCTORS

  • THOSE WHO WORK ON THIS AMTRAK

  • KNOW BIDEN BY NAME AND HE MAY

  • KNOW THEIR CHILDREN'S NAME.

  • >> HE KNOWS THEM, TOO.

  • >> NANCY CORDES HAS COVERED VICE

  • PRESIDENT BIDEN AND HIS TIME IN

  • THE SENATE, SHE'S ALSO THERE ON

  • THE HILL COVERING THIS LUNCHEON,

  • NANCY?

  • >> NORAH, WELL, THE WEST FRONT

  • OF THE CAPITOL HAS NOW CLEARED

  • OUT, ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE WHO

  • LEAVE WAS, WAS STEVE BANNON WHO

  • NOW GOING TO BE A CLOSE ADVISOR

  • TO PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THE WHITE

  • HOUSE HE JOINED THE CAMPAIGN

  • LATE IN THE GAME, A LOT OF

  • PEOPLE HAVE SAID THAT HEARD A

  • LOT OF STEVE BANNON IN THAT

  • PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.

  • IT WAS VERY INTERESTING, AS THE

  • SENATORS WERE FILING OUT I ASKED

  • ABOUT TEN OF THEM, DEMOCRATS AND

  • REPUBLICANS WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF

  • THIS SPEECH.

  • FRANKLY THEY HAD VERY LITTLE TO

  • SAY.

  • MOST OF THEM LOOKED KIND OF

  • SHELL SHOCKED.

  • THE DEMOCRATS, OF COURSE,

  • DISAGREED WITH A LOT OF WHAT

  • MR. TRUMP HAD TO SAY BUT DON'T

  • WANT TO GO THERE ON A DAY LIKE

  • TODAY.

  • AND FOR THE REPUBLICANS, THEY

  • ARE MOSTLY WONDERING HOW IN THE

  • WORLD THEY ARE NOW GOING TO

  • ACHIEVE SOME OF THE OBJECTIVES

  • THAT HE LAID OUT.

  • HOW ARE THEY GOING TO ROLL

  • BACKED FORCES OF GLOBALIZATION

  • AND MODERNIZATION WHICH THEY

  • BELIEVE ARE MUCH MORE

  • RESPONSIBLE FOR JOB LOSSES THAN

  • U.S. TRADE POLICIES OR U.S. TAX

  • POLICY FOR THAT MATTER.

  • HOW DO THEY SIMULTANEOUSLY CUT

  • TAXES AND MAKE ENORMOUS INVEST.

  • HOW DO THEY ROLL BACK OBAMACARE

  • BUT COVER EVERYONE.

  • THIS SPEECH WAS AS MUCH A

  • CHALLENGE TO THEM AS ANYONE.

  • THEY ARE GOING TO BE GRAPPLING

  • WITH THAT CHALLENGE, BECAUSE

  • AFTER ALL IF THEY AREN'T ABLE TO

  • ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVES THAT HE

  • HAS LAID OUT THE OBJECTIVES THAT

  • A LOT OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE

  • DESPERATELY HOPING THEY CAN

  • ACHIEVE, THEN THEY, ALONG WITH

  • MR. TRUMP WILL GET THE BLAME.

  • >> NANCY CORDES THERE ON CAPITOL

  • HILL WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE

  • PICTURES FOR THIS KONG

  • DEPRESSIONAL LUNCHEON THAT IS

  • WELL ATTENDED.

  • BY A GROUP THAT'S GOING TO TRY

  • TO WORK TOGETHER AND NEXT

  • SEVERAL MONTHS TO ENACTS --

  • FIRST GOT TO VOTE ON HIS

  • CABINET, FILL HIS GOVERNMENT

  • THEN FILL HIS PROMISES TO THE

  • AMERICAN PEOPLE.

  • >> JOHN, YOU THINK THE PRESIDENT

  • HELPED HIMSELF OR HURT HIMSELF

  • WITH THIS SPEECH?

  • >> WELLF HE GOT ELECTED BECAUSE

  • HE WAS HIMSELF, THEN IN THIS

  • SPEECH HE WAS HIMSELF AND THERE

  • FOR HE STUCK WITH WHAT BROUGHT

  • HIM.

  • I THINK IF HIS GOAL WAS TO UNIFY

  • PEOPLE, THAT I DON'T THINK THE

  • SPEECH DID THAT.

  • I THINK THAT -- IT'S

  • EXTRAORDINARY HE'S GOING TO HAVE

  • THIS LUNCH AFTER JUST DESCRIBING

  • ALL OF THE MEMBERS AS TOTAL

  • SELLOUTS FOR THEIR OWN COMFORT

  • AND SELLING OUT THE AMERICAN

  • PEOPLE.

  • BUT HIS MODE IN BUSINESS HAS

  • BEEN TO DO THESE BIG OPENING

  • GAMBITS USE THAT TO CONTROL THE

  • NEGOTIATION AND THIS WAS HIS BIG

  • OPENING GAMBIT.

  • >> IT HAS WORKED FOR HIM.

  • >> THAT PUT HIM WHERE HE IS

  • TODAY.

  • >> BUILT ON THE OTHER HAND HE

  • HAS TO DEAL WITH THE POLITICAL

  • RALLY, THE LANDSCAPE HE FACES

  • WHICH IS HIS APPROVAL RATINGS

  • ARE LOW.

  • HE HAS AN INTENSE FOLLOWING BUT

  • THERE IS ALSO A LOT OF

  • NERVOUSNESS IN THE COUNTRY AND

  • THIS PROBABLY DEEPENED BOTH OF

  • THOSE FEELINGS.

  • THE FOLLOWERS WHO GOT JUST THAT

  • THEY WANTED AND THOSE WHO ARE

  • NERVOUS WHO ARE MAYBE MORE SO.

  • >> YOU SAID AT ONE POINT, JOHN,

  • SOME TIMES HIS MO TO THROW DOWN

  • A HAND GRENADE THEN DIAL IT

  • BACK.

  • WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THIS AS HAND

  • GRENADE BEING THROWN?

  • >> THEY SO.

  • TO ALL OF WASHINGTON NOT JUST

  • DEMOCRATS IT.

  • >> WAS A BIPART ZONE HAND

  • GRENADE.

  • >> YOU ARE WATCHING CBS NEWS

  • COVERAGE OF THE INAUGURATION OF

  • DONALD TRUMP COMING UP THE

  • PARADE AND DONALD TRUMP MOVING

  • IN TO THE WHITE HOUSE ON

  • PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.

CARE RECENTLY.

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