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  • PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE -- TO

  • PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, AND TO

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT.

  • TODAY WILL PUT HIS HAND ON THE

  • BIBLE AND BECOME THE 45TH

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

  • OF AMERICA.

  • GUESTS ARE GATHERING ON THE WEST

  • FRONT OF THE U.S. CAPITOL.

  • BC PRESIDENT CLINTON AND HILLARY

  • CLINTON.

  • OTHER PRESIDENTS ARE THERE A LOT

  • OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.

  • MEMBERS OF DONALD TRUMP'S FAMILY

  • HAVE BEEN IN PLACE.

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP AND

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA ARE HEADING UP

  • TO CAPITOL HILL.

  • THEY HAD COFFEE THIS MORNING.

  • 43 SEE BUSH 42 AND -- BUSH

  • AND HIS WIFE LAURA IN

  • ATTENDANCE.

  • SHORTLY WE WILL SEE THE

  • ANNOUNCEMENT OF MELANIA TRUMP,

  • THE SOON-TO-BE FIRST LADY.

  • KAREN PENCE, THE VICE PRESIDENT

  • TO BE'S WIFE.

  • OF AMERICANSRING

  • LITTLE LEADERSHIP BOTH PARTIES

  • ON WILL BE AN EXTRAORDINARY DAY

  • OF THE CEREMONY AND AN IMPORTANT

  • TRANSITION UNLIKE THE COUNTRY

  • HAS EVER SEEN.

  • JOHN, YOU SAW HILLARY CLINTON

  • AND BILL CLINTON TODAY.

  • THE EXPECTATION OF ANY ISSUE

  • WOULD BE TAKING THE OATH OF

  • OFFICE TODAY.

  • IN ONE OF THE BIGGEST SURPRISES

  • AND MAYBE THE BIGGEST POLITICAL

  • UPSET THE COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN,

  • DONALD TRUMP WILL BECOME

  • PRESIDENT AND ABOUT AN HOUR.

  • JOHN: GET THE NEXT ORDINARY

  • THING.

  • -- IT IS AN EXTRA ORDINARY

  • THING.

  • I THINK IT IS THE BIGGEST

  • POLITICAL UPSET OF ALL TIME.

  • THIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST SURREAL

  • -- CERTAINLY THE MOST SURREAL

  • OPERATION AND OUR LIFETIMES.

  • IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE WITH THE

  • CLINTONS ARE FEELING GIVEN THE

  • LEVEL OF EXPECTATIONS SHE HAD

  • ALONG WITH MUCH OF THE PEOPLE OF

  • THE COUNTRY THAT SHE WOULD BE

  • TAKING THE OATH TODAY.

  • THERE WAS A LOT OF SPECULATION

  • ABOUT IT THEY WOULD ATTEND.

  • SHE HAS BEEN, ACCORDING TO MANY

  • OF HER FRIENDS, AND A DARK AND

  • DEPRESSED PLACE.

  • I THINK IT SHOWS EXTRAORDINARY

  • FORTITUDE AND A GREAT COMMITMENT

  • TO THE GOAL OF TRYING TO UNIFY

  • THE COUNTRY THAT BOTH OF THEM

  • WILL BE HERE TODAY, PUTTING ON A

  • BRAVE FACE.

  • STILL A GREAT DEAL OF EMOTION

  • AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN.

  • MARK: ONE OF THE DRAMAS WE ARE

  • FOLLOWING TODAY.

  • HILLARY CLINTON IS THERE NOT

  • BECAUSE SHE IS THE ONE WHO LOST,

  • SHE IS THERE AS THE SPOUSE OF A

  • FORMER PRESIDENT AND THE FORMER

  • FIRST LADY.

  • AS GOOD A SEAT AS ANYONE

  • WILL HAVE BEEN UNDER AN HOUR

  • WATCHING DONALD TRUMP TAKE THE

  • OATH OF OFFICE.

  • THIS IS A DATE OR WE DON'T

  • EXPECT MUCH POLICY TO BE

  • ENACTED, ALTHOUGH THE NEW

  • PRESIDENT WILL SIGN SOME

  • EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

  • HE SAID HE WILL HAVE MOST OF THE

  • BUSINESS GET UNDERWAY ON MONDAY,

  • THE FIRST FULL WORK DAY HE WILL

  • HAVE AS PRESIDENT.

  • TODAY WILL BE A DAY FOR CEREMONY

  • WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT -- VICE

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT PENCE AND

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP TAKING THE

  • OATH OF OFFICE.

  • AND IN THE WIDELY ANTICIPATED IN

  • RELATIVELY SHORT SPEECH FROM

  • DONALD TRUMP.

  • THEN THE PARADE AND THEN TONIGHT

  • A FEW INAUGURAL BALLS.

  • IT WILL BE A DAY OF

  • EXTRAORDINARY MOMENTS FOR THE

  • COUNTRY.

  • THERE ARE A LOT OF PROTESTERS IN

  • WASHINGTON AND A LOT OF PEOPLE

  • VERY EXCITED ABOUT SEEING THE

  • CHANGE THEY VOTED FOR BEGAN WITH

  • WHAT WILL BE A SPEECH FOR THE

  • AGES.

  • THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A PRESIDENT

  • OF THE UNITED STATES WITHOUT

  • MILITARY SERVICE OR ELECTED

  • OFFICE SERVICE.

  • THERE YOU SEE THE

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP AND

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA AS THEY GET

  • READY TO BE ANNOUNCED ON THE

  • STAGE.

  • JOHN: THERE ARE A LOT OF

  • QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS SPEECH.

  • THE INAUGURAL ADDRESSES ARE

  • OBVIOUSLY A GREAT CEREMONY AND

  • GREAT TRADITION.

  • IT IS THE CASE THAT MANY

  • PRESIDENTS HAVE GIVEN THEM AND

  • THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ESPECIALLY

  • MEMORABLE, NOT OBVIOUSLY THE

  • CASE.

  • THIS IS THE SPEECH THEY ARE

  • REMEMBERED FOR.

  • BECAUSE OF THE DIVISION OF THE

  • COUNTRY AND BECAUSE OF THE

  • UNUSUAL THIS UP -- UNUSUALNESS

  • OF DONALD TRUMP, THIS SPEECH

  • SEEMS SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT.

  • MUCH MORE IMPORTANT POLITICALLY,

  • MUCH MORE IMPORTANT TO THE STATE

  • OF THE COUNTRY AND HOW THEY LOOK

  • AT DONALD TRUMP IN YOUR AVERAGE

  • INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

  • BEFORE WE MOVE ON WE GET TO SEE

  • THE SOON-TO-BE PRESIDENT AND

  • EX-PRESIDENT WALKING TOGETHER.

  • I WANT TO ASK YOU, AS YOU HAVE

  • SEEN THE END OF THIS TRANSITION

  • PERIOD PLAY OUT AND SEE THESE

  • DAYS IN THE RUN-UP TO THIS VERY

  • IMPORTANT DAY, WHAT STRUCK YOU

  • IN THE LAST 72 HOURS AS TRUMP

  • GOT READY TO TAKE THE OATH?

  • MARK: HE IS A MAN OF

  • CONTRADICTIONS.

  • -- THERE'S VICE

  • PRESIDENT BIDEN AND HIS WIFE DR.

  • JILL BIDEN.

  • THERE IS THE INCOMING VICE

  • PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE AND HIS

  • WIFE KAREN.

  • HE IS A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS.

  • GRACIAS AT TIMES AND

  • MEAN-SPIRITED AT OTHERS.

  • I THINK IN THE LAST 72 HOURS IT

  • IS AN ATYPICAL TRUMP, TALKING

  • ABOUT UNITY OF DOING SOME

  • DIVISIVE THINGS.

  • I THINK TODAY'S SPEECH WILL LEAN

  • TOWARDS MORE OF THE UNITY AND WE

  • WILL SEE WHETHER AMERICANS WHO

  • SEE HIM AS A DIVISIVE FIGURE

  • DECIDE IF THAT'S THE PRESIDENT

  • THEY ARE GOING TO GET.

  • AS RECENTLYSOMEONE

  • AS YESTERDAY, LAST NIGHT TALKING

  • ABOUT -- THERE IS THE INCOMING

  • PRESIDENT'S ADULT CHILDREN.

  • JOHN: SOON TO BE THE FIRST

  • FAMILY.

  • MARK: TIFFANY AND ERIC, BARON'S

  • YOUNGEST CHILD.

  • JOHN: THIS IS A MAN WHO RAN A

  • DIVISIVE CAMPAIGN BUT HE SAID IT

  • WAS CENTERED ON BRINGING THE

  • COUNTRY TOGETHER.

  • EVERY MODERN PRESIDENT HAS RUN

  • ON THE NOTION OF RINGING THE

  • COUNTRY TOGETHER.

  • WE WILL SEE HOW THAT EMPHASIS

  • GOES, WHETHER HE TALKS ABOUT

  • SOME OF THE THE -- THE THEMES

  • THAT IN MORE DIVISIVE OR

  • BRINGING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER.

  • THE FAMILY HAS BEEN PART OF

  • POLITICAL JOURNEY OF THEIR

  • FATHER'S.

  • THEY HAVE BEEN FOCUSED ON

  • HELPING HIM WIN AND NOW COVER --

  • GOVERN.

  • EVOCATIVE TRUMP'S -- JARED

  • KUSHNER IS NEW TO POLITICS, LIKE

  • HIS FATHER-IN-LAW, BUT PLANS TO

  • PLAY A MAJOR ROLE IN GOVERNING.

  • JOHN: IT SEEMS TO MEET ONE OF

  • THE QUESTIONS WAS DONALD TRUMP

  • ON ELECTION NIGHT IS A STRIKING

  • NOTED UNITY, A NOTEWORTHY TRIED

  • AND SUCCEEDED IN SOME RESPECTS

  • TO HAVE A SOFTER KIND OF

  • RHETORIC, A MORE UNIFYING

  • RHETORIC.

  • AND THEN OVER THE COURSE OF THE

  • TRANSITION WE SAW THE OLD DONALD

  • TRUMP IN MUCH OF HIS PUBLIC

  • PERFORMANCE.

  • CERTAINLY HIS TWITTER FEED,

  • COMBATIVE, OFTEN PROVOCATIVE.

  • AND DIVISIVE.

  • I THINK EVERYONE EXPECTS AND

  • RIGHTLY SO THAT HE WILL IN THIS

  • FORMAL ADDRESS TRY TO GO BACK TO

  • ELECTION NIGHT AND THE TOWN HE

  • STRUCK THAT NIGHT.

  • THEN THE QUESTION BECOMES WHAT

  • HAPPENS BY THE END OF TODAY?

  • BY TOMORROW?

  • THOSE ARE QUESTIONS FOR THE

  • PRESIDENCY, BUT TRUMP IS SO

  • UNPREDICTABLE HE COULD EASILY

  • GIVE A UNIFYING SPEECH RIGHT NOW

  • AND WITHIN HOURS BE DOING THINGS

  • THAT WILL UNDO WHATEVER GOOD HE

  • DOES IN THE SPEECH.

  • NEVER HAVE WE HAD A

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT REPRESENT SOME

  • OF THE UNPREDICTABILITY.

  • MARK: THE TRUMP CHILDREN BEING

  • ANNOUNCED.

  • THIS UNIQUELY AMERICAN TABLEAU

  • EVERY FOUR YEARS ON THE WEST

  • FRONT OF THE CAPITAL.

  • POLITICIANS FROM BOTH PARTIES

  • JOINING TOGETHER.

  • THERE HAS BEEN AS MUCH

  • DIVISIVENESS IN THE RUN-UP TO

  • THIS CEREMONY AS WE HAVE SEEN IN

  • MODERN AMERICAN TIMES WITH

  • SEVERAL DOZEN DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS

  • OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  • CHOOSING TO BOYCOTT THE EVENT.

  • THE COUNTRY'S LEADING DEMOCRATS

  • ARE FRONT AND CENTER.

  • THE OBAMA'S, THE CLINTONS, THE

  • CARTERS JOINING PRESIDENT BUSH,

  • VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY, BUSH 41

  • THE ONLY LIVING PRESIDENT NOT

  • PRESENT.

  • HE IS IN THE HOSPITAL IN

  • HOUSTON.

  • OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE

  • WITH HIM AND HIS FAMILY.

  • LEADING OF AMERICA'S

  • POLITICAL CLASS ARE HERE.

  • THE NEW FIRST FAMILY, THE

  • TRUMPS.

  • THERE IS JARED KUSHNER IN THE

  • DARK JACKET.

  • HE WILL NOT JUST BE THE

  • SON-IN-LAW TO THE PRESIDENT BUT

  • A TOP ADVISOR.

  • THIS IS A CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY.

  • YOU CAN BET ALTHOUGH THEY ARE

  • SUPPOSEDLY SEPARATING THE TRUMP

  • IS THIS EMPIRE AND THE TRUMP

  • PRESIDENCY THAT THE ADULT

  • CHILDREN AND DONALD TRUMP BE

  • FRONT AND CENTER THROUGHOUT THIS

  • ADMINISTRATION, BOTH

  • SYMBOLICALLY AND BEHIND THE

  • SCENE.

  • JOHN: IN PARTICULAR JARED

  • KUSHNER AND IVANKA TRUMP.

  • SOME ARE REPORTING OVER THE LAST

  • THAT THEYSURPRISINGLY

  • WILL POSSIBLY BE THE MOST

  • INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THIS

  • ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION.

  • LAST NIGHT DONALD TRUMP PUT AN

  • INCREDIBLE WEIGHT ON JARED

  • KUSHNER'S SHOULDER, SAYING HE

  • FELT HE WAS THE BEST SUITED

  • PRESIDENT TRUMP COULD IMAGINE TO

  • BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST.

  • A RATHER EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT

  • TO MAKE.

  • WHATEVER YOU THINK OF IT ON

  • MERIT, ONE THAT CASTS A YOUNG

  • MAN IN HIS 30'S WITH OR

  • FOREIGN-POLICY EXPERIENCE

  • WHATSOEVER IN THE EXTRAORDINARY

  • POSITION OF INFLUENCE AND

  • RESPONSIBILITY THAT TRUMP IS

  • ALREADY TALKING ABOUT.

  • -- ANDHEW -- ANDY TWO

  • THE TWO OTHER BOYS.

  • REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS

  • SUSPECT DONALD TRUMP WILL BE

  • SUED SHORTLY AFTER HE TAKES THE

  • OATH OF OFFICE AS HAVING

  • VIOLATED THE CLAUSE OF THE

  • UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

  • BECAUSE THOSE CONFLICT ARE

  • UNRESOLVED.

  • THIS IS A PRESIDENT-ELECT WHO

  • COMES INTO THIS MOMENT WITH A

  • DIVIDED COUNTRY, A MINORITY OF

  • THE POPULAR VOTE.

  • OTHER PRESIDENTS HAVE FACED THAT

  • IN FACED GREAT POLITICAL

  • CHALLENGES.

  • HE'S BEING INVESTIGATED BY

  • SEVERAL RANCHES E-GOVERNMENT FOR

  • CONNECTIONS, CAMPAIGN

  • CONNECTIONS WITH RUSSIA AND ITS

  • ROLE WITH THE ELECTION.

  • BUSINESS CONFLICTS THAT WILL BE

  • THE SOURCE OF CONTROVERSY.

  • POTENTIALLY SCANDAL.

  • BEEN EXTRAORDINAIRE SET

  • OF POLITICAL CHALLENGES TO

  • OVERCOME THAT HE WILL COME CLOSE

  • TO MAKING GOOD ON THE GRAND

  • PROMISES HE HAS MADE TO MAKE

  • AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

  • JOHN: LET'S GO TO CAPITOL HILL.

  • KEVIN IS STANDING BY AND IS

  • WATCHING OVER A LARGE CROWD THAT

  • A SUSPECT DONALD TRUMP WILL

  • ESTIMATE IS THE LARGEST CROWD

  • EVER TO ATTEND AN INAUGURAL,

  • ALTHOUGH IT WILL PROBABLY BE

  • SHORT OF THAT.

  • LET'S TALK ABOUT THE LEGISLATIVE

  • AGENDA.

  • PEOPLE TALK ABOUT

  • INFRASTRUCTURE, TAX REFORM,

  • BEINGATION, REGULATION AS

  • AMONGST THE BIG THINGS TO BE

  • WORKED ON FIRST.

  • WHAT IS GOING ON ON THE

  • LEGISLATIVE SIDE.

  • WHICH ISSUE WILL MOVE FIRST?

  • KEVIN: WE CAN SEE DEVELOPMENTS

  • AS EARLY AS TONIGHT IN TERMS OF

  • THE INCOMING ADMINISTRATION

  • TRYING TO REALLY LAY OUT THEIR

  • CASE FOR THEIR PRIORITIES.

  • MARK, I HAVE BEEN UP HERE FOR

  • THE PAST TWO WEEKS.

  • ALREADY THE REPUBLICAN

  • LEADERSHIP IS MEETING BEHIND

  • CLOSED DOORS WITH SOME OF THE

  • INCOMING POWERS THAT BE.

  • PEOPLE LIKE STEVEN MNUCHIN AND

  • GARY COHN ARE MAKING FREQUENT

  • TRIPS TO CAPITOL HILL TO MEET

  • WITH HOUSE SPEAKER PAUL RYAN TO

  • BEGIN LAYING OUT THEIR AGENDA ON

  • ISSUES LIKE TAX REFORM, PERHAPS

  • INFRASTRUCTURE, ECONOMIC

  • STIMULUS PLANS, AND EVEN

  • IMMIGRATION.

  • FIRST AND FOREMOST I THINK WE'LL

  • BE HEARING A LOT OVER THE NEXT

  • THREE DAYS ABOUT REPEALING KEY

  • PART OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.

  • IT'S BEEN A SOMEWHAT CHAOTIC

  • TRANSITION PERIOD.

  • MUCH OF THE GOVERNMENT REMAINS

  • -- A LOT OF OPEN SPACES.

  • A LOT OF JOBS TO BE FILLED.

  • MANY OF THESE NOMINEES FOR

  • CABINET POSTS AS YET

  • UNCONFIRMED.

  • SOME HAVE HAD A ROCKY HEARINGS,

  • SOME LESS SO.

  • WHERE DO THINGS STAND IN YOUR

  • VIEW ABOUT HOW SUCCESSFUL DONALD

  • TRUMP WILL BE IN GETTING ALL THE

  • PEOPLE HE WANTS INTO THE JOBS OF

  • RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT?

  • KEVIN: JOHN, I PUT THOSE

  • QUESTIONS TO THE DEMOCRATIC

  • SENATORS THIS WEEK.

  • PEOPLE LIKE SENATOR ELIZABETH

  • LAUREN AND SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ

  • FROM MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW

  • JERSEY RESPECTIVELY.

  • QUITE FRANKLY THEY WERE HONEST

  • WITH ME IN SAYING THE OPPOSITION

  • TO PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP'S

  • NOMINEE AND APPOINTEES HAS

  • REALLY BEEN LARGELY TO

  • CHARACTERIZE THEM, TO BEGIN

  • LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR

  • OPPOSITION ON KEY ISSUES LIKE

  • IMMIGRATION AND OBAMACARE.

  • WHEN YOU LOOK AT MNUCHIN'S

  • NOMINATION AND REX TILLERSON,

  • THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO

  • CONVINCE ANY OF THEIR REPUBLICAN

  • COLLEAGUES TO FLIP THEIR VOTE.

  • THAT MEANS THEY WILL BE

  • UNSUCCESSFUL IN BLOCKING ANY OF

  • THESE PARTICULAR NOMINEES.

  • JOHN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

  • YOUA, IF YOU ARE THERE,

  • HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS

  • CAMPAIGN CLOSELY AND SPENT A LOT

  • OF HOURS WITH DONALD TRUMP AND

  • HAVE A PRETTY GOOD READ ON HIS

  • PERSONALITY AND HISTORY.

  • WHAT DO YOU THINK HE IS THINKING

  • AS HE PREPARES TO TAKE THE OVAL

  • -- BOTH OF OFFICE?

  • -- OATH OF OFFICE AND WHAT IS

  • HIS MAIN OBJECTIVE TODAY?

  • JENNA: I WISH I KNEW EXACTLY

  • WHAT DONALD TRUMP WAS THINKING

  • AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT.

  • TODAY IS THE DAY.

  • THIS IS THE BIG, BIG DAY.

  • HE IS BECOMING THE PRESIDENT.

  • WHETHER HE EVER THOUGHT HE WAS

  • GOING TO GET TO THIS POINT OR

  • NOT, HERE HE IS.

  • MORNINGCHING HIM THIS

  • THERE SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE BIT

  • OF A HEAVY SOLEMN THIS TO HIM --

  • SOLEMNESS TO HIM.

  • STARTING TODAY HE WILL HAVE

  • A LOT OF HEAVY DECISIONS FACING

  • HIM.

  • I THINK PROBABLY THE WEIGHT OF

  • HIS POSITION IS PROBABLY GOING

  • TO HIT HIM AS HE TAKES THIS.

  • AS FAR AS WHAT HE IS GOING TO

  • SAY, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE HOPING

  • THAT HE WILL DELIVER A MESSAGE

  • OF UNITY.

  • THAT HE WILL FINALLY REACH OUT

  • IN A MEANINGFUL WAY TO THE

  • PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM.

  • LIKE YOU GUYS WERE SAYING

  • EARLIER, HE HAS MADE SUCH

  • COMMENTS IN THE PAST AND HIS

  • ACTIONS HAVE NOT REALLY MATCHED

  • THOSE WORDS.

  • THIS IS HIS OPPORTUNITY TO NOT

  • ONLY GET A MESSAGE OF UNITY, BUT

  • PERHAPS HIT THE RESTART BUTTON

  • AND GOING FORWARD TRY TO BRING

  • THIS VERY DIVIDED NATION

  • TOGETHER.

  • MARK: THERE YOU SEE THE TABLEAU

  • WAITING FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF

  • THE VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT,

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT, AND EXPECTING

  • THEM TO TAKE THE OATH IN ABOUT

  • HALF AN HOUR.

  • THERE YOU SEE THE CURRENT FIRST

  • LADY, MICHELLE OBAMA.

  • THAT IS NANCY PELOSI'S HUSBAND,

  • PAUL PELOSI.

  • CAMERAS SOHED TO

  • REPORTING AND TALKING IS NOT

  • ALWAYS EASY, BUT WHAT IS THE

  • LATEST ON THE SCALE OF

  • CONNECTIVITY OF PROTESTERS IN

  • AND AROUND THE INAUGURAL EVENTS?

  • JENNA: THERE HAVE BEEN LITTLE

  • OUTBURSTS HERE AND THERE.

  • WE HAD ONE RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE

  • WASHINGTON POST BUILDING IN THE

  • FRANKLIN SQUARE PARK.

  • A GROUP OF PROTESTERS ALL

  • DRESSED IN BLACK WHO CLASHED

  • WITH POLICE OFFICERS WHO WERE

  • THERE.

  • WE WILL KEEP OUR EYE ON THIS

  • THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

  • THE POLICE SEEM TO BE TAKING A

  • STANCE OF NOT LETTING ANYTHING

  • GO.

  • REALLY CONFRONTING PROTESTERS AT

  • THE PERIMETER.

  • WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

  • AS FAR AS I KNOW IT IS SMALL,

  • ISOLATED POCKETS OF PROTESTERS

  • AROUND THE PERIMETER.

  • MARK: JENNA JOHNSON FROM THE

  • WASHINGTON POST, THANK YOU SO

  • MUCH.

  • THERE IS MICHELLE OBAMA AND JILL

  • BIDEN, TWO PEOPLE LEAVING

  • AND THENT HOUSING TODAY

  • DAILY LIVES THAT IN THEIR

  • REALITY FOR THE LAST EIGHT

  • YEARS.

  • I THINK IT'S SAFE

  • TO SAY THEY ARE LEAVING THE NEXT

  • FEELINGS.

  • NOT EXPECTING TO BE HANDED

  • EXOTIC DONALD TRUMP.

  • WIDELY EXPECTED FOR OVER A YEAR

  • THAT TODAY WOULD BE A DAY WHEN A

  • FRIEND OF THEIRS, FELLOW

  • DEMOCRAT HILLARY CLINTON WOULD

  • BE PRESIDENT AT THE EVENT TODAY.

  • YOU SEE THE RICK PERRY -- EC

  • RICK PERRY, THE MAN IN LINE TO

  • BE THE ENERGY SECRETARY.

  • JOHN: AND NOT ONLY IS THIS AN

  • UNEXPECTED OUTCOME, BUT FOR ALL

  • THE PEOPLE IN THE OBAMA WHITE

  • HOUSE, ALL DISPLAYED IN

  • INCREDIBLY ACTIVE ROLE IN THIS

  • CAMPAIGN.

  • BARACK OBAMA CAMPAIGN FOR

  • HILLARY CLINTON A LOT.

  • MICHELLE OBAMA HAD SOME OF THE

  • MOST ROMANTIC AND EMOTIONAL

  • ROLES.

  • GAVE SOME SPEECHES IN THE FALL

  • CAMPAIGN THAT WERE EXTRAORDINARY

  • ON THE PART OF A FIRST LADY.

  • MARK: YOU SEE TWO MEN WHO HAVE

  • RUN FOR PRESIDENT, BERNIE

  • SANDERS AND TO HIS LEFT JOHN

  • MCCAIN.

  • ANOTHER SIGN OF THE

  • BIPARTISANSHIP.

  • >> FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA.

  • DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES

  • SENATE COMMITTEE ON RULES AND

  • ADMINISTRATION.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • MARK: THERE THEY COME.

  • MICHELLE OBAMA.

  • VERY VOCAL OPPONENT OF DONALD

  • TRUMP IN THE ELECTION.

  • GAVE THESE EMOTIONAL, POWERFUL

  • SPEECHES.

  • I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS

  • FOR ALLING HERE IS

  • THESE FOLKS THAT WILL BE ASKING

  • THEMSELVES FOR A LONG TIME, DID

  • WE DO ENOUGH?

  • DID WE DO THE RIGHT THINGS?

  • THEN WE DO THE WRONG THINGS?

  • EC SOUL-SEARCHING THIS WEEKEND

  • -- YOU SEE SOUL-SEARCHING.

  • THEY ALL FEEL AS THOUGH THEY ARE

  • TRYING TO BE -- TO DO THE RIGHT

  • THING FOR THE COUNTRY.

  • HISIDENT-ELECT TRUMP AND

  • PEOPLE HAVE EXPRESSED GREAT

  • APPRECIATION FOR THE FACT THE

  • OBAMA'S IN PARTICULAR HAVE BEEN

  • SO HELPFUL AND GRACIOUS IN

  • TRYING TO MAKE THIS A SMOOTH

  • TRANSITION.

  • YET YOU KNOW THIS GROUP OF

  • DEMOCRATS WHO ARE NOW EXITING

  • POWER ARE GOING TO BE HAVING

  • SECOND THOUGHTS FOR A LONG TIME

  • ABOUT WHAT UNFOLDED AND THE ROLE

  • THEY PLAYED AND WHAT POTENTIAL

  • CONSEQUENCES MIGHT BE FOR

  • DEMOCRATIC PRIORITIES FOR THE

  • COUNTRY IN THIS HIGHLY UNUSUAL

  • NEW PRESIDENT.

  • JOHN: YOU SEE PRESIDENT BUSH 43

  • IN HIS USUAL JOCULAR MOOD.

  • YOU LOOK AT THE CLINTONS'

  • FACES.

  • TEXTURED, AND

  • RICH VISAGES OF THE TWO PEOPLE

  • THAT ARE EXPERIENCING AS MUCH

  • EMOTION AS ANYONE UP THERE.

  • WE EXPECT SHORTLY THE NEW FIRST

  • LADY IN THE NEW WIFE OF THE VICE

  • PRESIDENT, MIGHT AND, KAREN

  • PENCE AND KAREN

  • PENCE.

  • YOU SEE THE SCOPE.

  • THAT LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE

  • WHO DEFIED EXPECTATION THEY

  • SOMEW -- THEY SOMEWHAT

  • PREVIOUS INAUGURATIONS LOOK

  • LIKE.

  • A SMALLER CROWD THAN BARACK

  • OBAMA EIGHT YEARS AGO.

  • HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE TRUMP

  • AGENDA, PLEASE TALK ABOUT

  • THAT WITH KEVIN, MIKE, WHAT IS

  • HAPPENING?

  • WIDER WORLDHINK THE

  • WILL REACT TO THIS?

  • MIKE: NOW WE GET TO THE POINT

  • WHERE DONALD TRUMP WILL SEE THE

  • PROBLEMS FROM TRANSLATING HIS

  • RHETORIC INTO REALITY.

  • THEY START ON CAPITOL HILL

  • BECAUSE THERE IS NO UNITY.

  • NORMALLY THE POLITICAL DYNAMIC

  • IS REPUBLICANS AGAINST

  • DEMOCRATS, BUT THAT YOU HAVE

  • REPUBLICANS AGAINST REPUBLICANS.

  • TRUMP WILL HAVE TROUBLE GETTING

  • MUCH OF HIS AGENDA THROUGH.

  • THE FIRST THING THEY WANT TO

  • FOCUS ON IS OBAMACARE.

  • THEY CAN DO TO REPEAL FAIRLY

  • QUICKLY, BUT THEY HAVE NO

  • AGREEMENT ON WHAT THEY WOULD

  • REPLACE IT WITH.

  • THE PRESIDENT-ELECT SAYS HE

  • WANTS REPEAL AND REPLACE AT THE

  • SAME TIME.

  • HE ALSO SUGGESTED HE WILL HAVE

  • HIS OWN PLAN COMING OUT WHEN TOM

  • PRICE IS CONFIRMED AS HHS

  • SECRETARY.

  • SECOND THE MID-FEBRUARY.

  • WE ARE WAITING FOR THAT.

  • FOUR COMMITTEES HAVE TO DEAL

  • WITH OBAMACARE REPLACEMENT.

  • THAT WILL TIE UP A LOT OF

  • MEMBERS OF THE SENATE IN

  • PARTICULAR.

  • IT WILL BE HARD FOR THEM TO MOVE

  • FORWARD ON TAX REFORM AND ON

  • INFRASTRUCTURES ENDING.

  • -- SPENDING.

  • I HAVEBERS OF CONGRESS

  • SPOKEN TO SAY THIS WILL BE A

  • MUCH MORE DRAWN OUT PROCESS THEN

  • TO DONALD TRUMP EXPECTED.

  • TABLE TAKE THEM WELL INTO THE

  • SUMMER TO GET ANYTHING PASSED.

  • NOTHING WILL AFFECT THE ECONOMY

  • AND THEREFORE THE MARKETS UNTIL

  • LATE 2017 OR EARLY 2018.

  • IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING

  • TO AFFECT THE MARKETS, IT MIGHT

  • BE A STRAIGHT TRUMP COMMENT LIKE

  • HIS TALK OF THE DOLLAR OR TALK

  • OF THE FOREIGN POLICY SITUATION.

  • MARK: WE ARE WATCHING MELANIA

  • TRUMP, THE NEW SOON-TO-BE FIRST

  • LADY MAKING HER ENTRANCE AT THE

  • INAUGURAL CEREMONY LOOKING

  • EXTREMELY ELEGANT IN THAT BLUE

  • COAT SHE IS IN.

  • WE SEE THE U.S. CAPITOL AS

  • PEOPLE PREPARE FOR HER TO MAKE

  • HER FIRST APPEARANCE ON THE

  • DAIS.

  • UNDERSTAND THERE WAS A

  • GREAT SENSE THAT TRUMPS

  • AMBITIOUS AGENDA WILL RUN INTO

  • THE TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL

  • ROADBLOCKS AND OBSTACLES.

  • HE WILL WANT TO PUT SOME WINS ON

  • THE BOARD.

  • >> MRS. KAREN PENCE.

  • MARK: YOU COME MELANIA TRUMP AND

  • KAREN PENCE.

  • >> MRS. JANNA RYAN, THE

  • HONORABLE ELAINE CHOW, AND

  • EUGENE MCCARTHY.

  • ♪

  • MARK: GIVEN THOSE REALITIES, THE

  • TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WILL WANT

  • TO PUT SOME WINS ON THE BOARD IN

  • THE FIRST 100 DAYS.

  • IT WILL NOT DO FOR THEM GIVEN

  • THE CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES TO

  • WAIT FOR THE SUMMER BEFORE THEY

  • CAN CHALK UP A WIN.

  • WHEN EASY EASY LOW HANGING FRUIT

  • FOR THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO

  • PUT SOME POINTS ON THE BOARD

  • QUICK?

  • --: THE EASIEST IS HIM

  • IS FOR HIM TO ISSUE EXECUTIVE

  • ORDERS TO REPEAL OBAMA EXECUTIVE

  • ORDERS ON REGULATION.

  • HE WILL SAY THEY ARE MOVING TO

  • CLEAR THE UNDERBRUSH ON THINGS

  • HOLDING BACK AMERICAN BUSINESS.

  • HE MAY DO SOMETHING ON

  • IMMIGRATION.

  • HE HAS SOME DISCRETION, BUT THE

  • CHANGES MAY NOT BE AS BIG AS

  • WHAT HE PROMISED.

  • HE HAS REALIZED IN RECENT DAYS

  • THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WAS

  • ALREADY DOING MUCH OF THE THINGS

  • HE HAD TALKED ABOUT LIKE

  • PRIORITIZING DEPORTING

  • CRIMINALS.

  • HE CAN ISSUE EXECUTIVE ORDERS

  • AND USE PREVIOUSLY EXISTING

  • LEGISLATION TO START SOME SORT

  • OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECT ON HIS

  • FAMOUS WALL.

  • THEY CAN GET SOME TALKING POINTS

  • OUT OF REGULATION AND

  • IMMIGRATION.

  • IT WILL BE HARDER IN OTHER

  • AREAS.

  • JOHN: WE ARE NOW WATCHING THE

  • OUTGOING PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

  • AND HIS PARTNER, VICE PRESIDENT

  • OUT TO SAYG THE WALK

  • FAREWELL.

  • YOU ARE WATCHING THE LAST

  • DIGNITARIES.

  • THE COMING UP BARACK OBAMA AND

  • JOE BIDEN ESCORTED BY NANCY

  • PELOSI TO THE PLATFORM.

  • BLOOMBERG POLITICS LIVE COVERAGE

  • OF THE INAUGURATION OF DONALD

  • TRUMP TO BE PRESIDENT.

  • IN A MOMENT WE WILL SEE BOTH THE

  • INCOMING VICE PRESIDENT.

  • BOTH WILL COME OUT AND TAKE THE

  • STAGE AND WE WILL SEE SOME

  • REMARKS BEFORE THE ADMINISTERING

  • OF THE OATH AND THE TRANSFER OF

  • POWER.

  • THERE IS MELANIA TRUMP WITH HER

  • SON.

  • JOINING US FROM WASHINGTON IS

  • ANOTHER CALL -- PROBABLY --

  • ANOTHER COLLEAGUE.

  • MARGARET, BARACK OBAMA HAS BEEN

  • ACTIVE OVER THE PAST WEEK.

  • RADIO ADDRESSES THAT WERE GIVEN

  • A LOT OF ATTENTION.

  • MARK, IS A LITTLE BIT

  • OF ALL THE ABOVE.

  • HE IS TRYING TO SET THE

  • PRIMITIVES AND BOUNDARIES BY

  • WHICH HE WOULD REENGAGE IF

  • DONALD TRUMP CROSSES A CERTAIN

  • LINE.

  • AND TO SUBMIT AS MUCH AS HE CAN

  • IN THE FACE OF SOME THOSE

  • REPEALS OF EXECUTIVE ORDER.

  • A LOT OF POLICIES HE PUT IN

  • MOTION.

  • THEM, FROM HEALTH

  • CARE TO THE ENVIRONMENT.

  • MARK: NOW WE HAVE THE

  • ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CURRENT

  • PRESIDENT.

  • LEADERTE DEMOCRATIC

  • INGLES COMMITTEE RANKING NEVER

  • CHARLES SCHUMER, AND HOUSTON OR

  • CREDIT LEADER NANCY PELOSI.

  • LEADERHOUSE DEMOCRATIC

  • NANCY PELOSI.

  • JOHN: THEY FORMED A GIANT

  • PARTNERSHIP OVER THE LAST EIGHT

  • YEARS.

  • HAD A BIT OF A BUMPY

  • RELATIONSHIP IN THE SENATE.

  • BOTH RAN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008

  • AS RIVALS, THEN TEAMED UP TO

  • WHEN THE WHITE HOUSE TWICE AND

  • HAVE BECOME, AS BARACK OBAMA

  • SAID ABOUT JOE BIDE WHEN HE

  • GIVEN THE MEDAL OF FREEDOM,

  • BROTHERS.

  • CLOSE, CLOSE COMING PARTNERS.

  • JOHN: WE HAVE SEEN SOME VICE

  • PRESIDENTS UNLESS YOU

  • ADMINISTRATIONS.

  • JOE BIDEN, DICK CHENEY, AL GORE

  • SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND

  • INFLUENTIAL VICE PRESIDENT IN

  • OUR ENTIRE HISTORY.

  • GENUINELY I THINK WHAT IS MOST

  • UNUSUAL HERE IS THERE WAS NOT A

  • BOND BETWEEN GEORGE W. BUSH AND

  • DICK CHENEY LIKE THIS ONE.

  • THERE WAS NOT A BOND BETWEEN

  • BILL CLINTON AND AL GORE LIKE

  • THIS ONE.

  • THE BOND BETWEEN THESE TWO MEN,

  • AND POLITICS PARTNERS OFTEN TALK

  • ABOUT HOW CLOSE THEY BECOME.

  • IT IS WATCHING THESE TWO OVER

  • THE LAST EIGHT YEARS AND IN THE

  • LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS IT IS

  • INCONTROVERTIBLE HOW MUCH THEY

  • GENUINELY LOVE EACH OTHER.

  • IT IS SOMETHING I THINK WE

  • RARELY EVER SEE IN POLITICS WERE

  • SOME IN RELATIONSHIPS AND SO

  • MANY PARTNERSHIPS ARE

  • ESSENTIALLY FORMED AROUND

  • POLITICAL NECESSITY AND

  • SELF-INTEREST.

  • THIS ONE TRANSCENDED THAT IN A

  • REMARKABLE WAY.

  • MARK: AN EXTRAORDINARY LOOK AT

  • AMERICAN POLITICAL ROYALTY, THE

  • OBAMA'S.

  • JIMMY CARTER, THE TRUMP FAMILY,

  • THE INCOMING FIRST LADY ON THE

  • FAR END OF YOUR SCREEN.

  • THEE IS JOE BIDEN AND

  • CLINTONS AS WELL.

  • THIS IS ALL THE LIVING VICE

  • PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT'S, SAY

  • BUSH 41 AND BARBARA BUSH WHO ARE

  • BACK IN HOUSTON RECOVERING.

  • THERE ARE THE SUPREME COURT

  • MEMBERS GREETED BY PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA.

  • THE PEOPLE YOU SEE, THE MIX OF

  • BIG PEOPLE, THEY ARE THE SECRET

  • SERVICE PEOPLE PROTECTING THE

  • MOST VALUABLE HUMAN COMMODITIES

  • IN THE COUNTRY.

  • JOHN: WE SEE DONALD TRUMP ABOUT

  • TO MAKE HIS WAY OUT.

  • WE HAVE SOME REPORTING WORTH

  • MENTIONING.

  • ONE IS SEAN SPICER, THE INCOMING

  • PRESS SECRETARY, SAID THAT IT

  • WILL BE NO EXCERPTS PROVIDED

  • BEFORE DONALD TRUMP'S SPEECH.

  • UNLIKE MANY CASES WHERE

  • REPORTERS ARE GIVEN TRANSCRIPTS

  • BEFOREHAND IT WOULD BASICALLY

  • ALREADY KNOW IF THEY ARE GOING

  • TO SAY, OR PLANNING TO SAY.

  • IN THIS CASE DONALD TRUMP WILL

  • BE SPEAKING WITH NO PREVIEW TO

  • MEMBERS OF THE PRESS.

  • WE WILL BE LIKE ALL VIEWERS HAD

  • HOME, SURPRISED BY WHATEVER

  • COMES OUT OF DONALD TRUMP'S

  • MOUTH.

  • THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAYS THERE

  • ARE VIOLENT PROTESTS GOING ON IN

  • WASHINGTON, D.C. AND THE POLICE

  • HAVE USED PEPPER SPRAY.

  • RESTAURANT WINDOW SEVEN SMASHED

  • DOWNTOWN -- WINDOWS HAVE BEEN

  • SMASHED DOWNTOWN.

  • APPARENTLY AT LEAST SOME OF THAT

  • IS NOT COMING TO FRUITION ON THE

  • STREETS OF WASHINGTON.

  • MARK: JUST A SMALL PART OF THE

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTINGENCY,

  • FEDERAL AND LOCAL.

  • ALL OVER THE NATION'S CAPITAL.

  • YOU WILL SEE REPORTS OF THAT

  • PROTEST.

  • WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED AND TRY

  • TO GIVE YOU A GOOD SENSE OF THE

  • PERSPECTIVE OF THE SCALE AND

  • SCOPE OF THEM AND HOW LARGE THEY

  • ARE.

  • THAT WILL BE PART OF THE TABLEAU

  • OF THE DAY.

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP ABOUT TO

  • COME OUT.

  • HE'S WITH THE REPUBLICAN

  • CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS THAT WILL

  • ESCORT HIM OUT.

  • THAT IS A SOMBER LOOKING,

  • SERIOUS LOOKING DONALD TRUMP.

  • I SUSPECT WE WILL SEE MOMENTS OF

  • LEVITY.

  • HE UNDERSTANDS THE FLOW OF A

  • LIVE EVENT.

  • I THINK PEOPLE BALANCE A LOT OF

  • DIFFERENT THINGS TODAY.

  • MIKE PENCE, PRESIDENT-ELECT.

  • THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE

  • INFLUENCE OF JOE BIDEN.

  • BUT MIKE PENCE HAS BEEN A BIG

  • PART OF THE CAMPAIGN AND THE

  • TRANSITION, WHICH HE ACTUALLY

  • RAN.

  • A LOT OF HIS ALLIES WILL BE IN

  • SENIOR POSITIONS IN THE

  • GOVERNMENT.

  • I SUSPECT MIKE PENCE WILL JOIN

  • DICK CHENEY AND AL GORE AND JOE

  • BIDEN, PARTICULARLY DEALING WITH

  • CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS.

  • GOVERNOR OF INDIANA NOW, HE WAS

  • GOVERNOR OF INDIANA, BUT HE WAS

  • ONE OF THE LEADING MEMBERS OF

  • THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

  • -- IT IS SO

  • ISORTANT -- SOME OF YOU

  • FAMILIAR FOR REPUBLICANS AND

  • DEMOCRATS ON CAPITOL HILL IF

  • THINGS ARE GOING TO GET DONE IN

  • THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

  • MIKE PENCE WILL BE A PART OF IT.

  • MARGARET, BECAUSE OF YOUR LONG

  • HISTORY COVERING BARACK OBAMA WE

  • ARE TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THIS.

  • COUNTRY,ALS AROUND THE

  • THE THING I HEAR MOST AND THEN

  • THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS IS

  • SORT OF HOPE THAT BARACK OBAMA

  • NOT ONLY WILL SET PARAMETERS FOR

  • ENGAGEMENT BUT WILL BE

  • ACTIVELY ENGAGED.

  • NOW THERE IS HOPE THAT HE MIGHT

  • BE.

  • WHAT IS YOUR SENSE OF HOW

  • REALISTIC IT IS FOR DEMOCRATS TO

  • THINK BARACK OBAMA WILL BE

  • INTERVENING IN THE POLITICAL

  • SCENE WITH ANY REGULARITY?

  • MARGARATE: I WOULD TOTALLY BET

  • ON THAT HAPPENING.

  • HOW MUCHT YET CLEAR IS

  • WILL BE IN THE PUBLIC SPACE AND

  • HOW MUCH WILL BE BEHIND THE

  • SCENES WITH FUNDRAISING AND

  • CONNECTING.

  • PART OF WHAT HE IS WAITING TO DO

  • IS WHAT WORKS BEST.

  • DOINGSN'T WANT TO KEEP

  • THIS.

  • IT THEY NEED TO COME UP WITH

  • THEIR NEXT GENERATION OF

  • LEADERS.

  • WE'RE WATCHING THE

  • INTRODUCTION HERE OF THE

  • CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP.

  • MARGARET, YOU'VE BEEN IN

  • WASHINGTON FOR THE WEEK.

  • TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE

  • MOOD OF THE CITY.

  • IS IT ON LOCKDOWN BECAUSE OF

  • SECURITY?

  • WHAT'S IT BEEN LIKE.

  • THE LAST COUPLE OF

  • DAYS AS THEY BEGAN ERECTING

  • THOSE BARRIERS, YOU GET TO THE

  • CROWDS LINED UP.

  • IT LOOKED DIFFERENT THAN THE

  • OBAMA STAFFERS WHO USED TO HANG

  • OUT THERE.

  • THIS IS A REAL CHANGE OF THE

  • GARDEN.

  • IT'S A DRAMATIC CHANGE OF THE

  • GUARD.

  • ONE THING WE HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET

  • IS WHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA WROTE TO

  • DONALD TRUMP IN THAT LETTER.

  • MARK: THIS IS THE OFFICIAL

  • ANNOUNCEMENT.

  • HE HEADS DOWN TO THE PODIUM.

  • LET'S PAUSE AND LOOK AT THIS FOR

  • A MOMENT.

  • THIS IS AN IMAGE THAT VERY FEW

  • AMERICANS WOULD'VE IMAGINED

  • THEY'D SEE.

  • HANDS.HAKING

  • SHAKING HANDS WITH THE MAN

  • WHOSE JOB HE IS ABOUT TO TAKE.

  • MICHAEL: YOU ARE A STUDENT OF

  • DONALD TRUMP.

  • JOHN: LOOK AT THE VISAGE THERE.

  • GIVE ME A SENSE OF HOW YOU THINK

  • HE IS CONVEYING HERE.

  • HE DOES NOT LOOK UNCOMFORTABLE.

  • HE DOES NOT LOOK JOCULAR EITHER.

  • YOU ARE A BETTER STUDENT OF HIM.

  • MARK: HE HAS HIS SERIOUS FACE

  • ON.

  • THAT'S WHAT HE DOES.

  • HE IS UNDERESTIMATED AND SO MAY

  • WAYS.

  • THIS IS ROY BLUNT WHO IS IN

  • CHARGE OF THIS EVENT.

  • BIT.LL LISTEN A LITTLE

  • WE WILL CHAT A LITTLE BIT AND

  • BRING OUR COLLEAGUES BACK IN.

  • AWAY FROMTLE WHILE

  • THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE OATH

  • OF OFFICE TO MIKE PENCE AND THEN

  • DONALD TRUMP.

  • WE WANT TO GO BACK TO OUR

  • COLLEAGUE MARGARET.

  • PRESIDENTSON IS

  • TO PASS ON ADVICE TO THEIR

  • SUCCESSORS.

  • THE THINGSKNOW ABOUT

  • THAT BARACK OBAMA HAS BEEN

  • CONVEYING TO DONALD TRUMP.

  • PRESIDENTWE KNOW THAT

  • OBAMA HAS SIGNALED TO DONALD

  • TRUMP THAT HE IS ALWAYS GOING TO

  • BE THERE FOR HIM TO REACH OUT.

  • THE UNITED STATES

  • IS A VERY BIG SHIP.

  • TAKE GREAT CARE BEFORE YOU

  • INITIATE SOMETHING YOU CAN'T

  • ROLLBACK.

  • HE SIGNALED PUBLICLY AND IN

  • PRIVATE.

  • IN THESE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN

  • IT'S AEN AND MIKE PENCE,

  • CONSISTENT MESSAGE THAT EVERY

  • PRESIDENT HAS THE RIGHT TO SET

  • AND THE WORLD

  • LOOKS TO THE UNITED STATES FOR

  • CONSISTENCY AND RELIABILITY TO

  • SET THE TONE FOR THE WORLD.

  • IT'S SMART TO TAKE YOUR TIME.

  • YOU MENTIONED ABOUT THE ADVICE

  • BETWEEN RESIDENTS.

  • THIS COMES IN THE FORM OF A

  • LETTER THAT THE OUTGOING

  • PRESIDENT LEAVES IN THE DESK OF

  • THE OVAL OFFICE.

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS LEFT THAT

  • LETTER FOR DONALD TRUMP.

  • WE DON'T YET KNOW WHAT IT SAYS.

  • THE OUTGOING WHITE HOUSE SO FAR

  • IS NOT RELEASING THE TEXT.

  • IT MAY JUST BE CEREMONIAL.

  • IT MAY HAVE SOME ADVICE IN IT AS

  • WELL.

  • I WANT TO ASK YOU THE FLIP

  • SIDE OF THE QUESTION.

  • DONALD TRUMP HAS REACHED OUT TO

  • BARACK OBAMA A FAIR AMOUNT

  • DURING THE TRANSITION.

  • IT WAS SOMEONE HE MOCKED AND

  • RIDICULED AND LAUNCHED

  • CONSPIRACY THEORIES AGAINST.

  • HE HAS SAID THAT HE APPRECIATES

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ADVICE AND HE

  • SPOKE OF THEM VERY FONDLY OVER

  • THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS.

  • IS IT YOUR SENSE THAT HE HAS HAD

  • A CHANGE OF HEART ABOUT THE

  • PRESIDENT?

  • IS HE JUST SAYING THINGS HE

  • BELIEVES HE SHOULD SAY AS A

  • MATTER OF THE QUORUM AND BEING

  • RESPECTFUL TO THE MAN HE IS

  • ABOUT TO INHERIT.

  • >> I THINK IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF

  • BOTH.

  • THE OUTGOING PRESIDENT IS VERY

  • POPULAR RIGHT NOW.

  • MUCH MORE POPULAR THAN DONALD

  • TRUMP IS.

  • I THINK HE HAS REALIZED IT COULD

  • BE GOOD FOR HIM TO BE FRIENDLY

  • WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA.

  • THEY HAVE HAD VERY LONG

  • TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS, TALKING

  • ABOUT PROBLEMS FACING THE

  • COUNTRY.

  • DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE HAS EVEN

  • RUN SOME OF HIS CABINET PICKS

  • PAST THE PRESIDENT AND GOT HIS

  • THOUGHTS ON THAT.

  • WE WILL SEE.

  • MINUTE THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA

  • IS CRITICAL OF DONALD TRUMP, YOU

  • WILL SEE HIM PUNCH BACK AT HIM

  • RIGHT AWAY.

  • IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE

  • HOW THEY CONTINUE THIS

  • RELATIONSHIP GOING FORWARD.

  • IT SEEMS LIKE DONALD TRUMP DOES

  • GENUINELY APPRECIATE THE

  • PRESIDENT'S POINT OF VIEW AND

  • SEEMS TO BE SEEKING IT OUT.

  • ASWILL SEE IF THAT CONTINUES

  • WE EXPECT PRESIDENT OBAMA TO BE

  • A BIG CRITIC OF THE INCOMING

  • ADMINISTRATION.

  • MARK: THIS IS CARDINAL DOLAN OF

  • NEW YORK.

  • PROVIDENCE WE RULE

  • YOU,REATURES PRODUCED BY

  • TO GOVERN THE WORLD IN HOLINESS

  • AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TO RENDER

  • JUDGMENT WITH INTEGRITY OF

  • HEART.

  • FOR WE ARE YOUR

  • SERVANTS, LACKING IN

  • COMPREHENSION OF JUDGMENT AND OF

  • LAWS.

  • THOUGH ONE MIGHT BE PERFECT

  • AMONG MORTALS, IF WISDOM WHICH

  • COMES FROM YOU BE LACKING, WE

  • COUNT FOR NOTHING.

  • WISDOM. IS

  • 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 DISPATCH HER.

  • SHE MAY BE WITH US AND WORK WITH

  • US THAT WE MAY GRASP WHAT IS

  • PRAISING -- PLEASING TO YOU.

  • SHE KNOWS AND UNDERSTANDS ALL

  • THINGS AND WILL GUIDE US IN OUR

  • AFFAIRS AND SAFEGUARD US BY HER

  • GLORY. AMEN.

  • MARK: THE FIRST OF SEVERAL

  • RELIGIOUS LEADERS WHO WILL

  • SPEAK. THEY ARE ABOUT 15 MINUTES

  • BEHIND SCHEDULE.

  • THEY NEED TO GET THE OATH

  • ADMINISTERED IN TIME.

  • THIS IS ABOUT 15 MINUTES BEHIND

  • SCHEDULE.

  • WE WANT TO ASK JENNA JOHNSON ONE

  • MORE QUESTION.

  • THAT IS WHAT I ASKED MARGARET.

  • HOW DOES WASHINGTON SEEM ON THIS

  • DAY?

  • DOES IT SEEM A CELEBRATORY OUT

  • THERE?

  • WHAT IS THE FEEL OF THE CITY

  • YOU'VE EXPERIENCED?

  • JENNA: THE CITY IS VERY QUIET.

  • I WAS SURPRISED ABOUT HOW QUIET

  • IT WAS THIS MORNING.

  • A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE

  • HAVE LEFT FOR THE WEEKEND.

  • MY NEIGHBORHOOD WAS VERY QUIET

  • THIS MORNING.

  • AN UBER WITHINET

  • A COUPLE OF MINUTES.

  • THE CROWD SEEMS SMALLER THAN IT

  • HAS BEEN AT THE LAST TWO

  • INAUGURATIONS.

  • THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT AND ABOUT.

  • ARE KEEPING AND I ON THE

  • PROTESTS.

  • THE NATION IS VERY DIVIDED RIGHT

  • NOW.

  • THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE EXCITED

  • ABOUT DONALD TRUMP BECOMING

  • PRESIDENT.

  • THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO

  • ARE VERY SCARED ABOUT THE FUTURE

  • , ARE VERY UPSET THAT HE IS

  • GOING TO BE THE PRESIDENT AND

  • ARE PUSHING BACK BY PROTESTING.

  • HERE IS HOPING THAT IT

  • DOESN'T GET UGLY, THAT PEOPLE

  • DON'T GET HURT.

  • WE HAVE TO LET YOU GO.

  • THANKS FOR BEING WITH US ON THIS

  • IMPORTANT DAY.

  • WE KNOW YOU HAVE TO GO.

  • THE PACKETERENCE TO

  • THAT YOU COVERED THE OBAMA

  • ADMINISTRATION.

  • , WHEN YOU THINK

  • BACK TO EIGHT YEARS AGO WHEN

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA CAME INTO

  • OFFICE, IT IS SO MUCH DIFFERENT

  • BETWEEN THIS INAUGURATION AND

  • THAT ONE.

  • ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS TRUE

  • EIGHT YEARS AGO WAS HE FACED

  • MAJORITIES IN THE HOUSE AND

  • SENATE.

  • HE DID NOT REACH ACROSS THE

  • AISLE VERY MUCH.

  • HE PASSED HADING

  • ONLY DEMOCRATIC VOTES.

  • WILL TRUMP BE LIKE PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA WITH A MAJORITY IN BOTH

  • THE HOUSE AND SENATE?

  • WILL WE SEE GENERAL OUTREACH TO

  • TRY TO FORM BIPARTISAN

  • COALITIONS?

  • HE HAS THE ABILITY TO

  • DO SOME THINGS THAT PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA DIDN'T HAVE.

  • THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DEMOCRATS

  • IN SWING STATES AND IF YOU KEY

  • POSITIONS AND HE MAY BE ABLE TO

  • CONVINCE THEM TO GO ALONG.

  • IT WORKS TYPICALLY IN THEIR

  • PARTY.

  • AS THE LESSONS OF

  • BARACK OBAMA THAT HE CAN TAKE

  • AWAY.

  • ONE DIFFERENCE TODAY AS HE TAKES

  • THE OATH OF OFFICE IS HE STARTS

  • WITH A MUCH SMALLER COALITION

  • AND LESS PUBLIC APPROVAL.

  • DIRECTY FORCE HIM TO

  • HIMSELF.

  • SHE IS A LONGTIME FRIEND

  • OF DONALD TRUMP'S.

  • THE FIRST WOMAN PASTOR TO LEAD A

  • PRAYER AT AN INAUGURAL CEREMONY.

  • THAT'S PRETTY EXTRAORDINARY THAT

  • HASN'T HAPPENED UP TILL NOW.

  • WE WILL HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE

  • POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE AND THEN

  • THE MAIN EVENT.

  • LET'S GET A QUICK WORD IN FROM

  • MICHAEL MCKEE.

  • WE TALKED ABOUT CONGRESS.

  • CHUCK SCHUMER, THE DEMOCRATIC

  • A MAJOR ROLELAYED

  • IN SLOWING DOWN THE CONFIRMATION

  • PROCESS OF A NUMBER OF THE TRUMP

  • NOMINEES TO THE CABINET.

  • HE WOULD NEED TO BE A BIG

  • PARTNER.

  • HE'S GOING TO NEED

  • CHUCK SCHUMER.

  • AREHIS POINT, REPUBLICANS

  • DIVIDED MORE THAN THE DEMOCRATIC

  • CAUCUS BETWEEN THE TEA PARTY

  • TYPES YOU DON'T WANT TO SPEND

  • MONEY AND THE REPUBLICANS WHO

  • WANT TO GO AWAY WITH FEET TAX

  • CUTS.

  • HE'S GOING TO NEED SOME

  • DEMOCRATIC VOTES ON DIFFERENT

  • ISSUES.

  • IN A GOODMER IS

  • POSITION TO DECIDE WHO GETS THE

  • VOTES.

  • WE HAD A BRIEF CHAT AND HE SAID

  • HE IS GOING TO TAKE THE ISSUES

  • ONE BY ONE AND THE PROPOSALS ONE

  • BY ONE AND SEE WHAT HE THINKS OF

  • EACH ONE.

  • HE HAS MADE A DECISION ON

  • CABINET OFFICIALS.

  • HE IS DELAYING THE VOTE ON

  • EVERYBODY EXCEPT GENERAL MATTIS

  • AND GENERAL KELLY.

  • HE IS ALREADY SLOWING DOWN THE

  • TRUMP TRAIN.

  • THAT HE ISTIONED

  • UNUSUAL IN A LOT OF WAYS, HE HAS

  • THESE VERY PARTICULAR AND UNIQUE

  • CHALLENGES, ONE IS THE

  • INVESTIGATIONS GOING ON ABOUT

  • RUSSIA IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS.

  • ANOTHER IS THE ETHICS CLOUD THAT

  • CONTINUES TO HANG OVER HIM.

  • DIVEST HIMSELFTO

  • FROM HIS BUSINESSES.

  • OF THOSE POLITICAL CHALLENGES,

  • WHICH DO YOU THINK MIGHT BE THE

  • BIGGEST IMPEDIMENT TO HIM

  • GETTING THINGS DONE?

  • HE'S PROBABLY GOING TO

  • BE ABLE TO SURVIVE ANY KIND OF

  • LAWSUIT OVER THE MILLIONS

  • CLAUSE.

  • ONCE HE IS TAKEN OFFICE, HIS

  • SUPPORTERS BELIEVE IT'S JUST ALL

  • POLITICAL AND JUST AN EFFORT TO

  • GET HIM.

  • MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

  • SEEM TO OVERLOOK A LOT OF IT.

  • IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT CAME

  • OUT OF THE RUSH INVESTIGATION

  • THAT COULD ERODE SUPPORT ON

  • CAPITOL HILL FOR HIM.

  • IT COULD CAUSE HIM PROBLEMS OR

  • IT COULD BE THE FACT THAT HE

  • COMES INTO OFFICE AS THE LOWEST

  • RATED PRESIDENT SINCE POLLING

  • BEGAN AND DOESN'T HAVE ANY

  • POLITICAL CAPITAL.

  • TO BE AN'T GOING

  • GROUNDSWELL OF PEOPLE CALLING

  • INTO CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES TO

  • SUPPORT HIS INITIATIVES AND THAT

  • COULD BE THE REAL PROBLEM THAT

  • HE FACES.

  • HE MAY HAVE TO GIVE A LOT OF

  • GROUND TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS,

  • PARTICULARLY PAUL RYAN IN TERMS

  • OF WHAT HE IS GOING TO BE ABLE

  • TO GET DONE.

  • MARK: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

  • LET'S GO BACK TO KEVIN.

  • YOU WERE MAKING A POINT ON

  • TWITTER ABOUT THE WOMAN WE JUST

  • SAW SPEAKING.

  • HEREABOUT WHAT HER PLACE

  • IS IN THE CEREMONY.

  • KEVIN: SHE IS A LONGTIME FRIEND

  • OF DONALD TRUMP.

  • SHE REPRESENTS A NEWER AGE OF

  • EVANGELICALISM.

  • SHE HAS THEOLOGICAL PROSPERITY

  • BACKGROUND, SOMEONE THAT USES

  • TELEVISION AND CELEBRITY TO HELP

  • BRING ABOUT HER VERSION OF

  • EVANGELICALISM.

  • TO SEE THAT JUXTAPOSE WITH

  • CARDINAL DOLAN, ONE OF THE MOST

  • INFLUENTIAL CATHOLICS IN AMERICA

  • IS AN EMBRACE OF WHAT THE

  • RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT DID MEAN TO

  • DONALD TRUMP WHO WAS QUITE

  • CONTROVERSIAL TO SAY THE LEAST.

  • THERE ON THAT

  • STAGE.

  • JOHN: YOU COVERED THE TRUMP

  • CAMPAIGN AND YOU SAW THE NEVER

  • TRUMP MOVEMENT TAKE SHAPE AND

  • THEN FADE AWAY.

  • DONALD TRUMP SAID IT WAS ALL

  • FANTASY AND NEVER REALLY

  • EXISTED.

  • A LOT OF REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE

  • NOW RALLIED AROUND HIM ARE STILL

  • HAVING PROFOUND DISAGREEMENTS

  • WITH HIM.

  • IS, HOW LONG DO YOU

  • PICTURE OF REPUBLICAN

  • UNITY WILL LAST?

  • HOW FRAGILE IS IT AT THIS

  • MOMENT?

  • KEVIN: I'M NOT SURE IT'S GOING

  • TO LAST THAT LONG.

  • I'M NOT SURE ALL THE DIVISIONS

  • BETWEEN THE NEVER TRUMP PEOPLE

  • AND THE ADMINISTRATION HAVE

  • HEALED.

  • IF YOU TALK WITH AIDS WITHIN THE

  • TRUMP POLITICAL ORBIT, THEY

  • STILL DO REMEMBER THOSE

  • DIVISIONS.

  • ON THE ONE HAND, HE IS TRYING TO

  • UNITE THE PARTY.

  • HE IS TRYING TO REWARD LOYALTY.

  • IS SOMETHING WE

  • ARE GOING TO BE FOLLOWING WELL

  • WITHIN THE FIRST ADMINISTRATION.

  • REMEMBER STEP BACK AND

  • JUST HOW FAR TRUMP HAS, SINCE HE

  • FIRST BEGAN HIS POLITICAL

  • WHEN HE ONLY HAD A

  • .ANDFUL OF AMATEUR STAFFERS

  • NOW TO SEE THE POLITICAL

  • APPARATUS THAT SURROUNDS HIM

  • THAN A TEAM THAT WILL BE IN

  • PLACE WITHIN AN HOUR AFTER HE

  • TAKES THAT OATH OF OFFICE IS

  • TRULY CAN'T BE UNDERSTATED.

  • SCHUMER, THE CHUCK

  • DEMOCRATIC LEADER IN THE SENATE.

  • IS A FELLOW NEW

  • YORKER.

  • HE WILL BE SENTRY TO ANY

  • LEGISLATING THAT GOES ON IN THE

  • CONGRESS.

  • THAT REQUIRES BIPARTISAN INTENT.

  • INTRODUCEING UP TO

  • CLARENCE THOMAS.

  • WE WILL SEE MIKE PENCE.

  • HE WAS UNDERRATED.

  • HE WAS FACING A TOUGH REELECTION

  • BATTLE IN INDIANA.

  • HE DROPPED THAT RACE AND FINDS

  • HIMSELF HEADING TO THE WHITE

  • HOUSE.

  • GOING TO BE USING

  • A BIBLE THAT IS ONLY BEEN USED

  • BY RONALD REAGAN.

  • MIKE PENCE LIKE A LOT OF

  • CONSERVATIVES OF HIS GENERATION

  • ARE A BIG FOLLOWER OF RONALD

  • REAGAN.

  • HE FANCIES HIMSELF A REAGAN

  • REPUBLICAN, BUT IS NOW ALSO A

  • TRUMP REPUBLICAN.

  • YOU ARE WATCHING BLOOMBERG

  • POLITICS LIVE COVERAGE OF THE

  • SWEARING-IN OF -- OF DONALD J.

  • TRUMP AS THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF

  • THE UNITED STATES.

  • TOOS LISTEN A LITTLE BIT

  • SENATOR SCHUMER.

  • SCHUMER: A TIME WHEN OUR

  • COUNTRY WAS BITTERLY DIVIDED AND

  • THE SECOND RHODE ISLAND

  • VOLUNTEERS PENNED A LETTER TO

  • HIS WIFE.

  • 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.

  • SARAH, HE WROTE.

  • THE INDICATIONS ARE STRONG THAT

  • WE SHALL MOVE IN A FEW DAYS,

  • PERHAPS TOMORROW.

  • IF IT IS NECESSARY THAT I 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'M ENGAGED.

  • MY COURAGE DOES NOT HALT OR

  • FALTER.

  • I KNOW HOW STRONGLY AMERICAN

  • CIVILIZATION LEANS ON THE

  • TRIUMPH OF THE GOVERNMENT.

  • AND HOW GREAT A DEBT WE OWED TO

  • THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE US.

  • WILLING PERFECTLY WILLING

  • TO LAY DOWN ALL OF MY JOYS IN

  • THIS LIFE TO HELP MAINTAIN THIS

  • GOVERNMENT AND TO PAY THAT DEBT.

  • IS BINDING ME TO

  • YOU WITH A MIGHTY CABLES THAT

  • NOTHING BUT OMNIPOTENCE CAN

  • BREAK.

  • MELOVE OF COUNTRY COMES OVER

  • LIKE A STRONG WIND AND IT BEARS

  • ME IRRESISTIBLE WITH ALL OF

  • THESE CHAINS TO THE BATTLEFIELD.

  • HE GAVE HIS LIFE ON THE

  • BATTLEFIELD WEEK LATER.

  • IT IS BECAUSE HE AND COUNTLESS

  • OTHERS BELIEVED IN SOMETHING

  • BIGGER THAN THEMSELVES AND WERE

  • WILLING TO SACRIFICE FOR IT THAT

  • WE STAND TODAY IN THE FULL

  • BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY, IN THE

  • GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH.

  • THAT SPIRIT LIVES ON IN EACH OF

  • US, AMERICANS WHOSE FAMILIES

  • HAVE BEEN HERE FOR GENERATIONS

  • AND THOSE WHO HAVE JUST ARRIVED.

  • I KNOW THAT OUR BEST DAYS ARE

  • YET TO COME.

  • READ THEL AMERICANS TO

  • 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.

  • THEY ARE BOTH OUT OF THE

  • CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT OF THE

  • SAME GENERATION.

  • CLARENCE OF AGE WHILE

  • THOMAS WAS IN THE REPUBLICAN

  • PARTY.

  • >> WOULD YOU RAISE YOUR RIGHT

  • HAND AND REPEAT AFTER ME.

  • PRINCE DOEL RICHARD

  • THAT I WILLAR

  • SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE

  • CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED

  • AGAINST ALL ENEMIES

  • FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.

  • BEAR FAITH AND

  • ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME.

  • THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION

  • ANY RESERVATION

  • OR PURPOSE OF EVASION.

  • THELL FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE

  • DUTIES OF THE OFFICE ON WHICH

  • I'M ABOUT TO ENTER.

  • SO HELP ME GOD.

  • >> CONGRATULATIONS.

  • AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY FOR

  • HIM.

  • A GUY WHO HAD PRESIDENTIAL

  • AMBITIONS.

  • IT LOOKED LIKE HIS NATIONAL

  • CAREER MIGHT BE ON THE ROPES AS

  • HE FACED A TOUGH REELECTION

  • BATTLE IN INDIANA.

  • HE ACCEPTED AN OFFER FROM A MAN

  • WHO WAS A STRANGER TO HIM.

  • HE EVENTUALLY SETTLED ON SOMEONE

  • HE DID NOT KNOW WELL.

  • THAT HAS BEEN THE PATTERN FOR

  • TRUMP AS HE FILLS HIS CABINET

  • POSITIONS.

  • THEY HAVE FORMED A VERY CLOSE

  • BOND.

  • WAYS BECAUSE OF

  • PENSES EXPERIENCE IN WASHINGTON

  • AND HIS FAMILIARITY WITH LEADERS

  • ON CAPITOL HILL, APART FROM HIS

  • BE INEN, MIKE PENCE MAY

  • THAT GROUP OF THE MOST IMPORTANT

  • PEOPLE IN THIS ADMINISTRATION.

  • THAT GENTLEMAN RIGHT THERE COULD

  • MATTER MORE THAN DONALD TRUMP

  • HIMSELF.

  • OF REPUBLICANS WHO

  • ARE WORRIED ABOUT DONALD TRUMP

  • ARE GLAD MIKE PENCE IS THERE.

  • THEY DON'T ALWAYS AGREE WITH HIM

  • ON POLICY.

  • THE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR IS

  • SINGING AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL.

  • AS WE LISTEN TO THAT, LET'S TALK

  • ABOUT THE SWEARING-IN MOMENT.

  • JOHN ROBERTS IS THE CHIEF

  • JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT.

  • THE SUPREME COURT IS FRONT AND

  • CENTER NOW.

  • IT WILL BE ONE OF THE FIRST BIG

  • BATTLES.

  • ONLY THISVE SEEN NOT

  • COMING IN THE WAKE OF THE YEAR

  • THAT A SUPREME COURT VACANCY WAS

  • NOT FILLED.

  • MERRICK GARLAND WAS A CENTRIST

  • JUDGE WHO WAS BLOCKED IN AN

  • UNCONSTITUTIONAL WAY.

  • THERE IS NOW A QUESTION OF

  • WHETHER THEY'LL WILL BE PAYBACK.

  • ♪

  • ♪

  • MAY GOD THY

  • GLORY FIND IT.

  • ♪

  • ♪

  • FOR PATRIOT'S DREAMS

  • THAT SEES BEYOND THE YEARS.

  • THINE ALABASTER CITY SWEEPS

  • UNDIMMED BY HUMAN TEARS.

  • GOD SHED HIS

  • GRACE ON THE.

  • AND CROWN THY GOOD WITH

  • BROTHERHOOD FROM SEA TO SHINING

  • SEA.

  • ♪

  • ♪

  • AND CROWN THY GOOD WITH

  • BROTHERHOOD FROM SEA TO SHINING

  • SEA.

  • ♪

  • THAT IS THE MORMON

  • TABERNACLE CHOIR FINISHING OFF

  • AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL.

  • WE WILL NOW SEE ROY BLUNT BRING

  • UP THE SUPREME COURT CHIEF

  • JUSTICE TO ADMINISTER THE OATH

  • OF OFFICE TO DONALD TRUMP.

  • >> EVERYONE PLEASE STAND UP.

  • WRITE AND IN REPEAT

  • AFTER ME.

  • DONALD JOHNUMP: I

  • TRUMP DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I

  • THE FAITHFULLY EXECUTE

  • OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE

  • UNITED STATES.

  • AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY

  • PROTECT, ANDRVE,

  • DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE

  • UNITED STATES.

  • SO HELP ME GOD.

  • >> CONGRATULATIONS, MR.

  • PRESIDENT.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • ♪

  • DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN

  • SWORN IN AS THE 45TH PRESIDENT

  • OF THESE UNITED STATES.

  • A REMARKABLE MOMENT IN AMERICAN

  • , SOMETHING THAT ALMOST

  • NO DEMOCRATS AND A FAIR NUMBER

  • OF REPUBLICANS AND MANY OF HIS

  • CLOSEST ADVISERS AND FRIENDS

  • BELIEVED WOULD HAPPEN.

  • >> THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE

  • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DONALD

  • J TRUMP.

  • PRESIDENT TRUMP: 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

  • EFFORT TO REBUILD OUR COUNTRY

  • AND RESTORE ITS 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.

  • DIDILL CONFRONT HARDSHIPS

  • WE WILL GET THE JOB DONE.

  • YEARS, WE GATHER ON

  • THE STEPS TO CARRY OUT THE

  • ORDERLY AND PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF

  • POWER.

  • WE ARE GRATEFUL TO PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA AND FIRST LADY MICHELLE

  • OBAMA FOR THEIR GRACIOUS AID

  • THROUGHOUT THIS TRANSITION.

  • THEY HAVE BEEN MAGNIFICENT.

  • THANK YOU.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • HAS VERYEREMONY

  • SPECIAL MEANING.

  • TODAY, WE ARE NOT MERELY

  • OR FROM ONE POWER,

  • PARTY TO ANOTHER, WE ARE

  • TRANSFERRING POWER FROM

  • WASHINGTON DC AND GIVING IT BACK

  • TO YOU, THE PEOPLE.

  • LONG, A SMALL GROUP IN

  • OUR NATION'S CAPITAL HAS REAPED

  • THE REWARDS OF GOVERNMENT WHILE

  • THE PEOPLE HAVE BORNE THE COST.

  • FLOURISHED --

  • WASHINGTON FLOURISHED, BUT THE

  • PEOPLE DID NOT SHARE IN ITS

  • WEALTH AND POLITICIANS

  • PROSPERED, BUT THE JOBS LEFT IN

  • THE FACTORIES CLOSED.

  • ESTABLISHMENT PROTECTED

  • ITSELF.

  • VICTORIES HAVE NOT BEEN

  • YOUR VICTORIES.

  • THEIR TRIBES HAVE NOT BEEN YOUR

  • TRIUMPHS.

  • WHILE THEY CELEBRATED IN 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.

  • THIS MOMENT IS YOUR MOMENT.

  • IT ALONG'S TO YOU.

  • IT BELONGS TO EVERYONE GATHERED

  • HERE TODAY AND EVERYONE WATCHING

  • ALL ACROSS AMERICA.

  • THIS IS YOUR DAY.

  • THIS IS YOUR CELEBRATION.

  • IS YOUR COUNTRY.

  • MATTERS IS NOT WHICH

  • PARTY CONTROLS THE GOVERNMENT,

  • BUT WHETHER OUR GOVERNMENT IS

  • CONTROLLED BY THE PEOPLE.

  • JANUARY 20, 2017 WILL BE

  • PEOPLERED AS THE DAY THE

  • BECAME THE RULERS OF THIS NATION

  • AGAIN.

  • THE FORGOTTEN MEN AND WOMEN OF

  • OUR COUNTRY WILL BE FORGOTTEN NO

  • LONGER.

  • EVERYONE IS LISTENING TO YOU

  • NOW.

  • YOU CAME I 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 AND

  • SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS AND GOOD JOBS

  • FOR THEMSELVES.

  • THESE ARE JUST AND REASONABLE

  • PEOPLE INOF RIGHTEOUS

  • A RIGHTEOUS PUBLIC.

  • CITIZENS, A OF OUR

  • DIFFERENT REALITY EXISTS.

  • MOTHERS AND CHILDREN ARE TRAPPED

  • IN POVERTY IN OUR INNER CITIES.

  • ARE LIKET FACTORIES

  • TOMBSTONES ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE.

  • EDUCATION FLUSH WITH CASH AND

  • LEAVES ARE STUDENTS DEPRIVED OF

  • ALL KNOWLEDGE.

  • AND THE GANGS AND

  • THE DRUGS THAT HAVE STOLEN TOO

  • MANY LIVES AND ROBBED OUR

  • COUNTRY OF SO MUCH UNREALIZED

  • POTENTIAL.

  • STOPSMERICAN CARNAGE

  • RIGHT HERE, AND STOPS RIGHT NOW.

  • WE ARE ONE NATION AND THEIR PAIN

  • IS OUR PAIN.

  • DREAMS ARE OUR DREAMS AND

  • THEIR SUCCESS WILL BE OUR

  • SUCCESS.

  • 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 HAVE

  • ENRICHED FOREIGN INDUSTRY AT THE

  • EXPENSE OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY.

  • WE SUBSIDIZE THE ARMIES OF OTHER

  • COUNTRIES WHILE ALLOWING A

  • DEPLETION OF OUR MILITARY.

  • WE HAVE DEPENDED OTHER NATIONS

  • OF BORDERS WHILE REFUSING TO

  • DEFEND OUR OWN.

  • WE HAVE SPENT TRILLIONS OF

  • DOLLARS OVERSEAS WHILE AMERICA'S

  • INFRASTRUCTURE HAS FALLEN INTO

  • DISREPAIR AND DECAY.

  • WE HAVE MADE OTHER COUNTRIES

  • RICH WHILE THE WEALTH, STRENGTH,

  • AND CONFIDENCE OF OUR COUNTRY

  • HAS DISSIPATED THE HORIZON.

  • ONE BY ONE, THE FACTORIES

  • SHATTERED AND LEFT OUR SHORES.

  • WITH NOT EVEN A THOUGHT ABOUT

  • THE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF

  • AMERICAN WORKERS THAT WERE LEFT

  • BEHIND.

  • CLASSALTH OF OUR MIDDLE

  • HAS BEEN RIPPED FROM THEIR HOMES

  • AND THEN REDISTRIBUTED ALL

  • ACROSS THE WORLD.

  • THAT IS THE PAST.

  • WE ARE ONLY LOOKING TO THE

  • FUTURE.

  • TODAY A NEW HERE

  • DECREE TO BE HEARD IN EVERY CITY

  • , IN EVERY FOREIGN CAPITAL AND

  • HALL OF POWER, FROM THIS DAY

  • FORWARD, A NEW VISION WILL

  • GOVERN OUR LAND.

  • FORWARD, IT'S

  • GOING TO BE ONLY AMERICA FIRST.

  • AMERICA FIRST.

  • TRADE, ONSION 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.

  • IT WILL LEAD TO GREAT PROSPERITY

  • AND STRENGTH.

  • I WILL FIGHT FOR YOU WITH EVERY

  • BREATH IN MY BODY I WILL NEVER

  • LET YOU DOWN.

  • AMERICA WILL START WINNING

  • AGAIN.

  • WINNING LIKE NEVER BEFORE.

  • , WEILL BRING BACK OUR JOBS

  • WILL BRING BACK OUR BORDERS, WE

  • WILL BRING BACK OUR WEALTH, WE

  • WILL BRING BACK OUR DREAMS.

  • WE WILL BUILD NEW ROADS AND

  • HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES AND

  • AIRPORTS AND TUNNELS AND

  • RAILWAYS 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.

  • BY AMERICAN AND HIGHER AMERICAN.

  • WE WILL SEEK FRIENDSHIPS AND

  • GOODWILL WITH THE NATIONS OF THE

  • WORLD.

  • WE DO SO WITH THE UNDERSTANDING

  • THAT IT IS THE RIGHT OF ALL

  • NATIONS TO PUT THEIR OWN

  • INTEREST FIRST.

  • WE DO NOT SEEK TO IMPOSE OUR WAY

  • OF LIFE ON ANYONE.

  • WE WANT TO LET IT SHINE AS AN

  • EXAMPLE.

  • WE WILL SHINE FOR EVERYONE TO

  • FOLLOW.

  • WE WILL REINFORCE OLD ALLIANCES

  • AND FORM NEW WINS.

  • WE WILL UNITE THE CIVILIZED

  • WORLD AGAINST RADICAL ISLAMIC

  • TERRORISM.

  • WE WILL EVER ERADICATE THAT

  • COMPLETELY FROM THE FACE OF THE

  • EARTH.

  • BEDROCK OF OUR POLITICS,

  • WE WILL HAVE A 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.

  • US HOW GOOD AND

  • PLEASANT IS WHEN GOD'S PEOPLE

  • LIVE TOGETHER IN UNITY.

  • OPENLY,SPEAK OUR MINDS

  • DEBATE ARE DISAGREEMENTS

  • HONESTLY, BUT ALWAYS PURSUE

  • SOLIDARITY.

  • WHEN AMERICA IS UNITED, AMERICA

  • IS UNSTOPPABLE.

  • THERE SHOULD BE NO FEAR.

  • WE ARE PROTECTED AND WE WILL

  • ALWAYS BE DETECTED.

  • WE WILL BE PROTECTED BY THE

  • GREAT MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR

  • MILITARY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.

  • IMPORTANTLY, WE WILL BE

  • PROTECTED BY GOD.

  • 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.

  • 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 IN SPIRIT OF AMERICA.

  • WE WILL NOT FAIL.

  • OUR COUNTRY WILL THRIVE AND

  • PROSPER AGAIN.

  • VERGE OF A NEW

  • MILLENNIUM.

  • READY TO UNLOCK THE MYSTERIES OF

  • SPACE, TO FREE THE EARTH FROM

  • THE MISERY OF DISEASE, AND TO

  • HARNESS THE ENERGY AND

  • TECHNOLOGY OF TOMORROW.

  • A NEW NATIONAL PRIDE WILL STIR

  • OUR SOUL.

  • IT WILL LIFT OUR SITES AND FEEL

  • OUR DIVISIONS.

  • IT'S TIME TO REMEMBER THAT OLD

  • WISDOM OUR SOLDIERS WILL FORGET,

  • THAT WHETHER WE ARE BLACK OR

  • BROWN OR WHITE, WE ALL BLEED THE

  • SAME RED BLOOD OF PATRIOTS.

  • WE ALL ENJOY THE SAME GLORIOUS

  • SAMEOMS AND WE SALUTE THE

  • GREAT AMERICAN FLAG.

  • WHETHER A CHILD IS BORN IN THE

  • URBAN SPRAWL OF DETROIT OR THE

  • WINDSWEPT PLAINS OF NEBRASKA,

  • THEY LOOK UP AT THE SAME NIGHT

  • SKY AND THEY FILL THEIR HEART

  • WITH THE SAME DREAMS AND THEY

  • ARE ENTHUSED WITH THE BREATH OF

  • SAMEBY THE FATE --

  • ALMIGHTY CREATOR.

  • FROM ALL AMERICANS,

  • MOUNTAIN TO MOUNTAIN, FROM OCEAN

  • TO OCEAN, HEAR THESE WORDS.

  • YOU WILL NEVER BE IGNORED AGAIN.

  • HOPES, YOURYOUR

  • DREAMS WILL DEFINE OUR AMERICAN

  • DESTINY.

  • YOUR COURAGE AND GOODNESS AND

  • US ALONG FOREVER GUIDE

  • THE WAY.

  • US ALONG

  • THE WAY.

  • TOGETHER, WE WILL MAKE AMERICA

  • STRONG AGAIN.

  • WE WILL MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY

  • AGAIN.

  • WE WILL MAKE AMERICA PROUD

  • AGAIN.

  • WE WILL MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.

  • WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT

  • AGAIN.

  • THANK YOU.

  • BLESS YOU.

  • GOD BLESS AMERICA.

  • HE ENDS UP THE 45TH

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

  • IN A RELATIVELY SHORT INAUGURAL

  • SPEECH, ECONOMIC POPULISM.

  • AAT WAS A TRUMP SPEECH, NOT

  • REPUBLICAN SPEECH.

  • NO ONE WOULD BE SURPRISED BY

  • ANYTHING HE SAID IF THEY

  • LISTENED TO WHAT HE CAMPAIGNED

  • ON AND WHAT HE'S BEEN TALKING

  • ABOUT.

  • IT IS 100% TRUE.

  • THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS TO SAY

  • ABOUT THIS SPEECH.

  • WAS A SPEECH THAT WAS VERY

  • CLOSE TO COUNTLESS SPEECHES HE

  • GAVE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.

  • THEY MOVE INTO A DIFFERENT KIND

  • OF RHETORICAL MODE, SOMEWHAT

  • MORE ORNATE AND WITH HISTORICAL

  • REFERENCE POINTS.

  • A CRITICISM,T AS

  • HE DID NOT TRY TO DO THOSE

  • THINGS.

  • WE CAN TALK MORE ABOUT THAT.

  • HE SPOKE IN PLAIN AND COLLOQUIAL

  • LANGUAGE.

  • HE HAD A LOT OF SHORT

  • DECLARATIVE SENTENCES.

  • SOME GRAND PROMISES INCLUDING I

  • WILL NEVER EVER LET YOU DOWN IT.

  • RHETORIC THAT

  • CARRIED HIM TO THE OVAL OFFICE.

  • SOMATIC'S,K TO THESE

  • SOME OF THEM DARK, SOME OF THEM

  • HOPEFUL AND OPTIMISTIC THAT THEY

  • BECAME THE STAPLES OF THE TRUMP

  • CAMPAIGN RALLIES THAT GENERATED

  • A HUGE AMOUNT OF ENTHUSIASM

  • AMONG A LARGE AMOUNT OF THE

  • ELECTORATE, A LARGE MINORITY OF

  • THE ELECTORATE.

  • SPEECH THEO GIVE THE

  • DAY AFTER ELECTION DAY, IT

  • WOULD'VE BEEN VERY SIMILAR.

  • THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE

  • RHETORIC THAT CARRIED HIM

  • WAGED THE 2016 AS HE

  • BATTLE TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE.

  • A RABBI FROM THE.

  • WEALTH IS MEASURED

  • BY HER VALUE.

  • BLESS ALL OF OUR ALLIES AROUND

  • THE WORLD WHO SHARE OUR BELIEFS

  • BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON.

  • WE WEPT AS WE REMEMBERED ZION.

  • MAY MY RIGHT HAND FORGET.

  • MAY THE DAYS COME SOON WHEN

  • JUSTICE WILL DWELL IN THE

  • WILDERNESS.

  • ABIDE AND THEWILL

  • WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL BE

  • PEACE, QUIETNESS, CONFIDENCE

  • FOREVER.

  • RAIN IS A SIGN OF GOD'S

  • BLESSING.

  • WHEN YOU CAMERAIN

  • TO THE PLATFORM.

  • THE PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE COMES

  • FROM FIRST TIMOTHY.

  • THAT PETITIONS,

  • PRAYERS, INTERCESSION AND

  • THANKSGIVING HE MADE FOR ALL

  • PEOPLE.

  • FOR ALL OF THOSE IN AUTHORITY

  • .HAT WE MAY LIVE

  • THIS IS GOOD.

  • IT PLEASES GOD.

  • ALL PEOPLE TO BE SAVED

  • AND COME TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE

  • TRUTH.

  • AND ONE ONE GOD

  • MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND

  • MANKIND, DEMAND CHRIST JESUS WHO

  • GAVE HIMSELF AS A RANSOM FOR ALL

  • PEOPLE.

  • GLORYLY GOD BE HONOR AND

  • FOREVER AND EVER.

  • HE IS HANDING OFF THE

  • BENEDICTION.

  • LET US NOT TAKE FOR GRANTED THE

  • AIR WE BREATHE OR THE LIFE YOU

  • HAVE GIVEN US.

  • WE WERE ALL CREATED BY YOU WITH

  • ONE BLOOD.

  • WE ARE NOT ENEMIES.

  • WE ARE NOT ADVERSARIES OR

  • ALLIES.

  • WE ARE NOT FOES.

  • POWER OF HEALED BY THE

  • YOUR LOVE AND UNITED BY THE BOND

  • OF YOUR SPIRIT.

  • FOR OUR PRAISE

  • PRESIDENT AND THE VICE PRESIDENT

  • AND THEIR FAMILIES.

  • GIVE THEM THE WISDOM TO GUIDE

  • THIS NATION.

  • TRUMP AND ASKED

  • THAT YOU GIVE HIM THE WISDOM OF

  • SOLOMON.

  • SOLOMON KEPT PEACE AMONG MANY

  • NATIONS AND JOSEPH DID FOR THE

  • PEOPLE AND CHRIST IS EXCEPT THAT

  • IS ALL.

  • STITCHED TOGETHER THE FABRIC OF

  • THIS COUNTRY.

  • O DEEP IN MY HEART, I DO BELIEVE

  • THE LORD WILL SEE US THROUGH.

  • WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO VICTORY.

  • WE WILL WALK HAND IN HAND.

  • WE SHALL LIVE IN PEACE.

  • BELIEVE,Y HEART, I DO

  • AMERICA, WE SHALL OVERCOME.

  • MAY THE LORD AND -- KEEP IN

  • BLESS AMERICA.

  • GIVE US PEACE.

  • AMEN.

  • GERMAN, IN

  • MARK: THIS WILL BE THE NATIONAL

  • ANTHEM.

  • DONALD TRUMP HAS TWEETED ABOUT

  • HER.

  • SHE FINISHED SECOND ON AMERICA'S

  • GOT TALENT.

  • FOR PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA IN 2012.

  • ♪

  • OH SAY CAN YOU SEE BY THE DAWN'S

  • EARLY LIGHT.

  • BY THE PROUDLY WE HAILED

  • TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING.

  • WHOSE BROAD STRIPES AND BRIGHT

  • STARS THROUGH THE PERILOUS FIGHT

  • OVER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCHED

  • WERE SO GALLANTLY STREAMING.

  • ♪

  • GLARE THECKETS RED

  • BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR GAVE PROOF

  • THROUGH THE NIGHT THAT OUR FLAG

  • WAS STILL THERE.

  • ♪

  • ♪

  • OH SAY DOES THAT STAR-SPANGLED

  • , D ARE YET WAVE

  • OVER THE LAND OF THE FREE AND

  • THE HOME OF THE BRAVE.

  • MARK: DONALD TRUMP SEEMS TO HAVE

  • ENJOYED IT.

  • THIS COMES AT THE END OF THE

  • CEREMONY.

  • JOHN: I WANT TO RETURN TO THE

  • SPEECH.

  • I WANT TO GET YOUR VIEW.

  • OF A SPEECH IN

  • KEEPING WITH HIS CAMPAIGN

  • RHETORIC AND HIS SPEECH AT THE

  • REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION

  • WHICH MANY PEOPLE SOUGHT IS A

  • DARK SPEECH.

  • HE DESCRIBED AMERICA AS HE SEES

  • IT TODAY, GANGS AND DRUGS AND

  • CARNAGE.

  • HE DESCRIBED A VERY DYSTOPIAN

  • AMERICA AND THEN PIVOTED TO WHAT

  • HE PROMISES WILL COME NEXT IN A

  • MORE HOPEFUL AND OPTIMISTIC

  • VEIN.

  • THAT WAS THE SPEECH HE GAVE IN

  • CLEVELAND AND SOME PEOPLE

  • THOUGHT IT WAS A BIT TOO DARK.

  • I WANT GET YOUR SENSE OF WHAT

  • YOUR VIEWS ARE OF THE SPEECH IN

  • GENERAL AND HOW IT FITS IN

  • HISTORICALLY.

  • I MODERNATIVELY SHORT

  • STANDARDS.

  • OF HOW DONALD

  • TRUMP COMMUNICATES.

  • A LOT OF DARKNESS AND

  • DESCRIPTION OF THE CURRENT

  • STATES OF AMERICA.

  • DONALD TRUMP DOES FEEL THIS

  • DARK.

  • INSPIRED BY THE

  • GRIEVANCE OF THE AMERICAN

  • PSYCHE.

  • WHO WILL ALWAYS

  • PIVOTED SAFE THINGS ARE GOING TO

  • BE BETTER.

  • I AM SURE HIS CRITICS WILL NOTE

  • THE IRONY OF A GUY SAYING THE

  • TIME FOR TALK IS OVER AND WORDS

  • MATTER.

  • HE NOW HAS MADE SOME GRAND

  • PROMISES ABOUT RINGING JOBS

  • BACK.

  • NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPECIFICS

  • TODAY IN A SPEECH LIKE THIS.

  • HIS SPEECHES DURING THE CAMPAIGN

  • WERE SHORT ON SPECIFICS.

  • HE LEFT HIMSELF NO WIGGLE ROOM.

  • HE SAID HE WILL NEVER LET THE

  • COUNTRY DOWN.

  • NOW WE WILL EXPECT A FAIR AMOUNT

  • OF PROGRESS IN SHORT ORDER.

  • HAVE INAUGURAL SPEECHES

  • POSITIVE EXPRESSIONS BUT THIS

  • 'S AND AWSLESS

  • REAFFIRMATION OF DONALD TRUMP'S

  • VISION FOR WHAT AILS THE COUNTRY

  • AND WHAT HE CLAIMS TO DO ABOUT

  • IT THEMATICALLY BUT NOT

  • PROGRAMMATICALLY IN THE NEXT

  • FOUR YEARS.

  • IF YOU WENT BACK TO THE

  • MODERN ERA, THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT

  • TO REACH FOR POETRY.

  • DONALD TRUMP CONSCIOUSLY DID NOT

  • DO THAT.

  • HE WAS SPEAKING THE COMMON LINE

  • WHICH OF THE COMMON PEOPLE BUT

  • NOT AN ATTEMPT TO BE POETIC.

  • OTHER SPEECHES TRY TO HARK BACK

  • TO AMERICAN HISTORY.

  • I WOULD BET THERE HAS NOT BEEN

  • INAUGURAL IN OUR LIFETIME WHERE

  • NEW PRESIDENTS HAVE NOT CITED

  • PRESIDENT -- PREDECESSORS.

  • THEY CITED ROLE MODELS AND

  • ASPIRATIONAL PAST PRESIDENTS TO

  • WHOM THEY LOOK UP TO AND ASPIRE

  • TO EMULATE.

  • DONALD TRUMP DID NOT OF THAT.

  • THERE WAS NO HARKING BACK TO

  • AMERICAN HISTORY OR TWO THINGS

  • THAT HAPPENED BEFORE AND I HOPE

  • TO BE CAST IN THAT MOLD.

  • YOU SAW NONE OF THAT.

  • THAT THERE WERE

  • NO HARSH NOTES OF DIVISION

  • STRUCK IN THIS SPEECH.

  • HE DID NOT LASH OUT AT ANYBODY.

  • HE DID NOT CRITICIZE ANYBODY BY

  • NAME.

  • HE DID NOT. CRITICIZE

  • DEMOCRATS OR HIS ENEMIES THERE

  • WAS NONE OF THE PARANOIA THAT

  • HAS COME THROUGH IN DONALD

  • TRUMP'S RHETORIC.

  • IT MAY RESPECT AT LEAST,

  • BE SEEN BY SOME ESPECIALLY HIS

  • FANS AS AN ATTEMPT TO UNIFY.

  • YOU CAN SEE THE GATHERING OF

  • THE INCREDIBLE COLLECTION OF

  • AMERICA'S POLITICIANS.

  • THEY WILL NOW SCATTER.

  • THE OBAMA'S WILL LEAVE

  • WASHINGTON AND TAKE THAT

  • HELICOPTER OUT OF TOWN FROM

  • ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE.

  • THE OBAMA'S WILL GO WEST FOR A

  • MUCH DESERVED VACATION.

  • THE TRUMPS WILL GO DOWN TO

  • PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE FOR THE

  • PARADE, THE INAUGURAL PARADE

  • THAT THEY WILL WATCH PRIMARILY

  • FROM THE VIEWING STAND IN FRONT

  • OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

  • THE CLINTONS DEPARTED A LITTLE

  • WHILE AGO BUT I'M NOT SURE WHERE

  • THEY ARE HEADED.

  • IT'S A COMPLICATED DAY FOR THEM,

  • A DAY OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

  • FOR HILLARY CLINTON AND HER

  • HUSBAND.

  • LET'S GO BACK TO CAPITOL HILL.

  • LET'S GET YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE

  • SPEECH AND WHAT IT MIGHT DO TO

  • FOR ANYGROUNDWORK

  • FORWARD PROGRESS ON ANY

  • EXECUTIVE ORDERS OR LEGISLATION.

  • >> IF YOU THINK THERE WERE TWO

  • AUDIENCES, MICHAEL: DONALD TRUMP

  • A SPEAKING TO THE 46% WHO VOTED

  • FOR HIM.

  • IT SOUNDED LIKE A CAMPAIGN

  • SPEECH BUT IT ALSO SEEMED LIKE

  • HE WAS DRAWING A LINE IN THE

  • SAND FRAUD MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

  • I WILL PROPOSE THE POLICIES, YOU

  • ARE NOT.

  • ON THE WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE, HE

  • HAS LAID OUT A SERIES OF

  • POLICIES ON VARIOUS ISSUES THAT

  • GO WITH HE PUT FORWARD DURING

  • THE CAMPAIGN.

  • HE IS TALKING ABOUT THINGS IN

  • TERMS OF TRADE LIKE WE ARE NOT

  • GOING TO HAVE UNFAIR TRADE DEALS

  • ANDWITHDRAW FROM TPP

  • RENEGOTIATE NAFTA AND OF

  • COUNTRIES DON'T, THEY WILL PAY

  • THE PRICE.

  • HE TALKS ABOUT THE IDEA THAT WE

  • NEED TO BRING BACK MANUFACTURING

  • JOBS TO THESE TOUGH BUT FAIR

  • TRADE DEALS AND TALKED ABOUT

  • BUILDING THE BORDER WALL.

  • HE PROMISED IT AGAIN ON THE

  • WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE THAT HE WILL

  • DO THAT.

  • THE CAMPAIGN CAME

  • THROUGH IMMEDIATELY INTO HIS

  • GOVERNING PLAN.

  • THE QUESTION IS HOW IT WILL BE

  • RECEIVED ON CAPITOL HILL AND HOW

  • QUICKLY HE CAN GET SOME OF THE

  • STUFF DONE AND WHETHER IT WILL

  • WORK.

  • WE TALKED BEFORE ABOUT LOW

  • HANGING FRUIT AND THE

  • POSSIBILITY THAT ONE OF THE

  • THINGS DONALD TRUMP CAN DO

  • QUICKLY TO MOVE THE BALL FORWARD

  • IS TO TRY TO DO REGULATORY

  • REFORM.

  • HOUSE.GOVT THIS WHITE

  • POLICY STATEMENTS, OTHER OTHER

  • THINGS YOU SEE THAT COULD BE

  • TRANSLATED IN A CONCRETE ACTION

  • IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE

  • ADMINISTRATION?

  • MICHAEL: HE TALKS ABOUT

  • ELIMINATING REGULATIONS AND

  • FOCUSING THE EPA AND ITS MISSION

  • OF PROTECTING CLEAN AIR AND

  • CLEAN WATER.

  • HE CAN EXECUTIVE ACTION,

  • KILL SOME OF THE OBAMA

  • REGULATIONS AND GET THEM BACK TO

  • WORK.

  • ONE OF THE MORE INTERESTING

  • THINGS ON THE WEBSITE IS A CALL

  • FOR OPENING UP FEDERAL LANDS FOR

  • DRILLING FOR NATURAL GAS AND

  • OIL.

  • HE HAS SOME POWER TO DO THAT.

  • IT WILL BE VIOLENTLY OPPOSED BY

  • PEOPLE ON THE LEFT SIDE AND IN

  • THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY BUT

  • HE CAN DO THAT.

  • WHETHER THAT WHAT A COP IS WHAT

  • HE WANTS IS AN OPEN QUESTION.

  • HE IS TALKING ABOUT BRINGING

  • BACK JOBS TO COAL COUNTRY AND

  • THE TWO THINGS ARE DIAMETRICALLY

  • PROPOSED.

  • FIGURE OUT THAT

  • BALANCE.

  • IT LOOKS LIKE HE WILL GO INTO

  • ENERGY IS ONE OF THE FIRST

  • THINGS HE WANTS TO DO.

  • THE OTHER INTERESTING THING IN

  • THE SPEECH DOES NOT SHOW UP AS

  • MUCH ON THE WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE

  • BUT IT'S THE IDEA THAT

  • PROTECTION WILL BRING

  • PROSPERITY.

  • WHEN HE UTTERED THAT LINE, THE

  • STOCK MARKET WENT DOWN.

  • OFY DON'T WANT ANY KIND

  • TRADE WARS BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE HE

  • IS EMBRACING THE IDEA IS A

  • POSSIBILITY.

  • REFLECTED INECH

  • ALMOST EVERY RESPECT THE

  • WORLDVIEW OF STEVE BANNON, THE

  • FORMER BREITBART EXECUTIVE AND

  • THE TOP WHITE HOUSE ADVISER NOW

  • WHO HAD A HAND IN CRAFTING THAT

  • MESSAGE AND REFLECTS THE PART OF

  • DONALD'S -- OF DONALD TRUMP

  • WHICH IS AT ODDS WITH THINGS

  • LIKE TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL

  • POLICY.

  • THERE YOU SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF

  • THE CAPITAL, THESE FRONT ON WHAT

  • IS A GRAY DAY IN WASHINGTON.

  • THERE IS THE HELICOPTER WAITING

  • TO TAKE THE OBAMA'S TO ANDREWS

  • AIR FORCE BASE.

  • IT IS A GREAT DAY IN WASHINGTON.

  • YOU SAW A NUMBER OF THE

  • ATTENDEES WEARING RAIN PONCHOS.

  • THERE IS THE SPEAKER OF THE

  • HOUSE, PAUL RYAN.

  • MUCH WILL BE MADE ABOUT THE

  • ATTENDANCE OF THIS EVENT,

  • DIFFERENT THAN THE OBAMA

  • INAUGURAL EIGHT YEARS AGO.

  • THE WEATHER PROBABLY CAP SOME

  • PEOPLE AWAY.

  • -- KEPT SOME PEOPLE AWAY.

  • THIS WAS NOT THE SIZE CROWD THAT

  • WAS ANTICIPATED.

  • LLIO ONRING BACKEVIN CERI

  • CAPITOL HILL.

  • LET'S LOOK AT HOW THE SPEECH

  • COULD BE RECEIVED.

  • HOW WILL THAT BE RECEIVED BY

  • PEOPLE WHO ARE OPPOSED TO DONALD

  • TRUMP?

  • DOES IT GIVE HIM A CHANCE FOR

  • THOSE WHO DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM?

  • , I THINK THE DEMOCRATS

  • HAVE DONE A SUCCESSFUL JOB OF

  • DEFINING DONALD TRUMP DESPITE

  • HIS EFFORTS IN THE SPEECH TO

  • REACH OUT AND UNIFY PARTICULARLY

  • ON THE ISSUE OF RACE.

  • WE HEARD HIM TWO TIMES DURING

  • THIS SPEECH ARGUE THAT WHEN YOU

  • OPEN YOUR HEARTS TO PATRIOTISM,

  • THERE IS NO ROOM FOR PREJUDICE.

  • THAT'S CLEARLY AN EFFORT ON HIS

  • BEHALF TO TRY TO BEGIN HEALING

  • OUR DIVIDED COUNTRY.

  • THIS WASDLY SPEAKING,

  • REALLY A SPEECH THAT I THINK WAS

  • PERHAPS A MIXTURE OF WHAT WE SAW

  • AT HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH,

  • ACCEPTING THE NOMINATION IN

  • CLEVELAND BUT ALSO A TAD BIT

  • MORE OF WHAT WE SAW HIM IN HIS

  • ACCEPTANCE SPEECH BECOMING THE

  • PRESIDENT-ELECT IN NEW YORK.

  • HAD DOSES OF THE TYPICAL

  • TRUMP CAMPAIGN STUMP SPEECH

  • ENDING WITH MAKE AMERICA GREAT

  • AGAIN.

  • ONE THING I THOUGHT WAS MISSING

  • AND I FOUND NOTABLE WAS HE DID

  • NOT MAKE A MENTION OF THE WORD

  • WALL.

  • HE TALKED ABOUT STRENGTHENING

  • THE BORDER BUT A KEY PART OF

  • WHAT HE SETTLED THE CAMPAIGN

  • TRAIL WAS USING THAT BRASH

  • RHETORIC, HE LEFT THAT OUT IN

  • HIS SPEECH.

  • AS MY COLLEAGUE POINTED OUT, IT

  • IS ON THE WEBSITE NOW.

  • PEOPLE ARE PARSING

  • THROUGH THE WEBSITE, TRYING TO

  • FIGURE OUT WHAT EXACTLY A TRUMP

  • ADMINISTRATION WILL BEGIN TO

  • WORK ON THIS WEEKEND COME MONDAY

  • MORNING.

  • MARK: TWO OTHER THINGS NOT

  • MENTIONED IN THE SPEECH, HE

  • TALKED ABOUT THE AFFORDABLE CARE

  • ACT.

  • THERE WAS NO MENTION OF HILLARY

  • CLINTON.

  • ABSOLUTELY, JUST WATCHING THE

  • FOLKS WHO WERE THERE WHETHER

  • IT'S HILLARY CLINTON OR THE

  • OBAMA'S, IT IT WAS A MOMENT THAT

  • MANY PEOPLE DID NOT EXPECT.

  • I CAN ALSO TELL YOU THAT IN

  • TERMS OF WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT THE

  • ADMINISTRATION TO BEGIN FOCUSING

  • ON, IF YOU ARE A DEMOCRAT, YOU

  • LIKE TALKING ABOUT

  • INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING.

  • HOW EXACTLY THE REPUBLICANS

  • WILMA GO SHE ATE PAYING FOR

  • THAT, THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN

  • AND HOW TRUMP COULD BEGIN

  • NEGOTIATING WITH DEMOCRATS, THAT

  • REMAINS TO BE SEEN.

  • THAT, YOUP SIDE OF

  • ARE A DEMOCRAT AND YOU KEEP.

  • ABOUT ECONOMIC STIMULUS AND

  • GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON

  • INFRASTRUCTURE.

  • YOU WOULD LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR

  • MORE THAN TEA PARTY

  • CONSERVATIVES IN THAT SPEECH.

  • LOOKING AT THE NEW

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

  • DONALD TRUMP AND HIS WIFE MILANI

  • AT STANDING WITH BARACK OBAMA

  • AND HIS WIFE MICHELLE LOOKING

  • OUT OVER THE MALL.

  • YOU JUST SAW JOE BIDEN AND HIS

  • WIFE GET INTO A BLACK CAR.

  • THEY WILL BE HEADED TO UNION

  • STATION WHERE THEY WERE -- WHERE

  • THEY WILL BOARD AN AMTRAK TRAIN

  • IN THE FINEST TRADITION OF JOE

  • BIDEN AND GO BACK TO WILMINGTON,

  • DELAWARE.

  • THAT'S THE FAMILY SEAT OF THE

  • BIDENS.

  • JOE BIDEN HAS TAKEN AMTRAK FOR

  • YEARS AND IS RETURNING HOME NOW

  • ON THAT SAME TRAIN.

  • WILL BE HEADED

  • OFF SOON BY HELICOPTER AND THEN

  • BY PLANE PALM SPRINGS,

  • CALIFORNIA LATER TODAY.

  • OUTGOINGAPPENS IS THE

  • PRESIDENT AND INCOMING PRESIDENT

  • JOIN IN A LUNCH AT THE CAPITAL

  • IN STATUARY HALL OF MEMBERS OF

  • CONGRESS.

  • TRUMP ISEE PRESIDENT

  • NO WALKING FORMER PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA TO THE HELICOPTER AND THIS

  • WILL BE A PARTING OF TWO MEN WHO

  • HAVE DEVELOPED A BOND OF SORTS

  • AND THE TRANSITION BUT WHO

  • OBVIOUSLY HAVE A HISTORY OF

  • NEGATIVITY BETWEEN THEM AND

  • BARACK OBAMA NOW IS FACED WITH

  • THE REALITY OF WATCHING HIS

  • SUCCESSOR TRY TO UNDO MUCH OF

  • WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED IN OFFICE

  • INCLUDING THE AFFORDABLE CARE

  • ACT.

  • AS WE WATCHED DONALD TRUMP,

  • WE COMMENTED ABOUT THE SPEECH

  • AND HIS DYSTOPIAN VISION OF

  • AMERICA AS IT IS TODAY.

  • IMPLICIT IN THAT IS A CRITIQUE

  • OF BARACK OBAMA.

  • WATCHING THE NOW FORMER

  • PRESIDENT, WATCHING HIM LOOK ON

  • AS TROMP WAS DESCRIBING AMERICA

  • AS EC'S IT NOW, THERE WAS A

  • CERTAIN KIND OF SLIGHTLY

  • DISAPPROVING STARE THAT BARACK

  • OBAMA -- NOT LOWERING BUT HE

  • NOT SEE THE SAME

  • AMERICA IN 2016 THE DONALD TRUMP

  • DOES.

  • ITRING DONALD TRUMP DESCRIBE

  • THIS WAY, I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA AGREES WITH THAT

  • OF -- THAT ASSESSMENT OR IT

  • RINGS TRUE TO HIM GIVEN ALL THE

  • THINGS THE PRESIDENT HAS

  • AND THE INCREDIBLY

  • OPTIMISTIC WAY THAT PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA TALKS ABOUT THIS COUNTRY.

  • MORE SO THAN ANY DEMOCRAT TODAY,

  • HE CONTINUES TO HAVE

  • EXTRAORDINARY FAITH IN THE

  • COUNTRY AND CONTINUES TO EXPRESS

  • A BRIGHT VISION OF WHAT WE

  • CURRENTLY HAVE TODAY, NOT JUST

  • TOMORROW.

  • ARE AMERICA'S NEW

  • POLITICAL LEADERS, THE PRESIDENT

  • AND THE FIRST LADY AND VICE

  • PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE AND HIS

  • WIFE.

  • AS THEMA ERA ENDS

  • OBAMA'S HEAD OUT WEST FOR A

  • VACATION BUT THEY WILL BE BACK

  • IN WASHINGTON BEFORE TOO LONG

  • WITH THEY WERE -- WHERE THEY

  • WILL LIVE FOR ANOTHER YEAR

  • DAUGHTER FINISHES

  • HIGH SCHOOL.

  • THE MARINE HELICOPTER WILL TAKE

  • THE OBAMA'S TO ANDREWS AIR FORCE

  • BASE.

  • IT'S A TRIP THEY HAVE TAKEN MANY

  • TIMES FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.

  • IT'S NOT USUALLY FROM THE

  • CAPITAL.

  • THE RIDE TAKES THEM TO ANDREWS

  • AIR FORCE BASE OUTSIDE

  • WASHINGTON, D.C. WHERE A

  • GOVERNMENT PLANE WILL FIGHT --

  • WILL FLY THEM WEST EVEN THOUGH

  • IT'S NOT CALLED AIR FORCE ONE.

  • DONALD TRUMP WILL STAY BEHIND AT

  • THE CAPITAL, ONE OF THE GREAT

  • TRADITIONS OF DINING WITH THE

  • CO-EQUAL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT,

  • THE PRESIDENT, THE VICE

  • PRESIDENT AND THEIR WIVES AT A

  • LUNCH, A TRADITION THAT DATES

  • BACK TO 1897 WITH PRESIDENT

  • MCKINLEY.

  • THEY WILL HAVE THINGS THAT MOST

  • AMERICANS WILL NOT EAT.

  • LOBSTER IS INCLUDED.

  • WITHED ANGUS BEEF

  • CHOCOLATE AND POTATOES.

  • IT'S A LUNCH THAT I WILL NOT

  • HAVE.

  • THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE WHEN YOU

  • GET TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE

  • UNITED STATES.

  • THERE YOU SEE THE MARINE PILOTS

  • TAKING OBAMA TO ANDREWS AIR

  • FORCE BASE.

  • ABOUT DONALDLIER

  • TRUMP'S FACIAL EXPRESSION AND

  • HONE.

  • I THOUGHT HE WOULD HAVE A FEW

  • MOMENTS OF JOCULARITY BUT HE DID

  • NOT.

  • THIS IS A SERIOUS SO FAR DONALD

  • TRUMP AS PRESIDENT.

  • A PRETTY SERIOUS LOOKING GUY.

  • >> ONE OF THE QUESTIONS PEOPLE

  • HAD ABOUT THE SPEECH WAS WHETHER

  • THERE WOULD BE ASKED THEM FOR

  • RISING-- ASKED HIM FOR

  • -- ASKED TEMPORARY COMMENTS.

  • ORARY COMMENTS.

  • THE,'SA HANDS OF SOME OF

  • BEFOREHAND BUT IT LOOKS LIKE HE

  • STUCK CLOSE TO THE SCRIPT.

  • IT DID NOT FEEL LIKE IT AS YOU

  • LISTENED TO IT.

  • NOT A LOT OF RIFFING IN THAT

  • SPEECH.

  • AND HISTORIC MOMENT, ONE OF

  • THE MORE HISTORIC SHOTS OF THE

  • DAY AS THE MARINE HELICOPTER IS

  • 44THNG OFF CARRYING THE

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

  • THE FIRST NONWHITE PRESIDENT OF

  • THE UNITED STATES.

  • TRUMP AND MIKE PENCE ARE

  • WATCHING THE DEPARTURE OF BARACK

  • AND MICHELLE OBAMA ON A RAINY

  • DAY IN WASHINGTON THAT IS FILLED

  • WITH HISTORY, FILLED WITH

  • SURPRISES AND THE CULMINATION OF

  • WHAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

  • NO MILITARY SERVICE RECORD, NO

  • RECORD IN ELECTIVE OFFICE AND

  • NEVER HAD RUN FOR ANYTHING UNTIL

  • HE DECIDED AFTER SEVERAL YEARS

  • OF CONSIDERING TO RUN FOR

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

  • WHOARET IS OUR COLLEAGUE

  • COVERED BARACK OBAMA FOR MANY

  • YEARS AND THE CAMPAIGN, I WOULD

  • OFE YOU TO DO SOME ANALYZING

  • THE BODY LANGUAGE AND FACIAL

  • EXPRESSIONS OF THE OBAMA'S OVER

  • THE LAST HOUR AS WE WATCH THEM

  • WATCH DONALD TRUMP HE SWORN IN.

  • -- BE SWORN IN.

  • MARGARET?

  • YES, THE OBAMA'S HAVE TAKEN

  • GREAT PAINS ALL MORNING TO SHOW

  • SUPPORT AND CALM FOR DONALD

  • TRUMP AT AS YOU LOOK ACROSS THE

  • DEMOCRATIC PARTY AT THE STONE

  • ISES IN THE CROWD, THERE

  • SOME DISCONNECT BETWEEN HIS

  • RHETORIC AND THIS SPEECH ABOUT

  • UNITY AND HIS RHETORIC OVER THE

  • COURSE OF THE TRANSITION FOR

  • MANY AMERICANS AND THE CORE OF

  • THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

  • THIS IS A MATTER OF HIS WORDS

  • AND ACTIONS MATCHING UP NOW.

  • MARGARET, I MADE A COMMENT

  • ABOUT THE FACT THAT BARACK OBAMA

  • SEEMED TO BE LOOKING ON STERNLY

  • AS HE LISTENED TO DONALD TRUMP

  • DESCRIBE AMERICA.

  • IT TODAY IN DYSTOPIAN

  • TERMS.

  • AS HE SEES IT TODAY IN DYSTOPIAN

  • TERMS.

  • WOULD IT BE HARD FOR PRESIDENT

  • OBAMA TO HEAR THE NEXT PRESIDENT

  • DESCRIBING THE AMERICA HE IS

  • INHERITING IN THAT WAY?

  • >> DONALD TRUMP PLANTED A GRIM

  • TABLEAU OF RUSTED OUT FACTORIES

  • AND CRIME AND GANGS.

  • WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA CAME INTO

  • OFFICE EIGHT YEARS AGO, CAME IN

  • ON HOPE AND CHANGE AND OPTIMISM

  • BUT ALSO WAS INHERITING THIS

  • COUNTRY IN THE MIDST OF A

  • FINANCIAL COLLAPSE AND BROUGHT

  • IT BACK FROM THE BRINK WITH HELP

  • FROM MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES.

  • I THINK HE DISAGREES WITH DONALD

  • TRUMP'S MESSAGE AND DISAGREES

  • ALSO STRATEGICALLY WITH THE

  • APPROACH OF ATTEMPTING TO UNIFY

  • PEOPLE AROUND THE THEME OF DOOM

  • AND GLOOM.

  • AND OF IT IS THE OBAMA WAY

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA PROBABLY TAKES

  • ISSUE WITH THE KIND OF TABLEAU

  • THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS PORTRAYED.

  • ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, THE

  • TRENDS IN TERM OF THE ECONOMIC

  • RECOVERY DO NOT MATCH UP TO THE

  • NEW PRESIDENT HAS PAINTED.

  • HELICOPTER A MARINE

  • HEADED TO JOINT BASE ANDREWS.

  • THE FAMILIAR IMAGE TO ALL

  • AMERICANS AND CERTAINLY TO THE

  • OBAMA'S AS THEY WING THEIR WAY

  • TOWARD ANDREWS.

  • THEY WILL TAKE AN AIR FORCE

  • PLANE THAT USED TO BE CALLED AIR

  • WEST,ONE BUT AS HE HEADS

  • HE GOES AS A CIVILIAN, A FORMER

  • PRESIDENT.

  • WE TALKED BEFORE ABOUT HIS PLANS

  • TO STAY ACTIVE.

  • DO WE KNOW HOW SOON HE WILL BE

  • BACK IN WASHINGTON?

  • SINCE HE HAS LEFT THE DOOR OPEN

  • TO COMMENTING WHEN HE GETS BACK,

  • HE MAY HAVE COMMENTS.

  • >> HE IS GOING TO PALM SPRINGS

  • TO PLAY GOLF AND GET SOME SUN

  • AND RELAX A LITTLE BIT, THEY

  • HAVE A LIFE WAITING IN

  • WASHINGTON.

  • THEIR DAUGHTER SASHA STILL IN

  • HIGH SCHOOL AND PRESIDENT OBAMA

  • IS SETTING UP A WASHINGTON

  • OFFICE IN FOGGY BOTTOM IN

  • ADDITION TO HIS LONGER-TERM

  • PROJECTS OF THE LIBRARY/MUSEUM

  • FOUNDATION BEING SET UP IN

  • CHICAGO.

  • THERE IS AN ENTIRE OPERATION

  • BEING SET UP IN WASHINGTON AND

  • WE ARE SEEING THE CONTOURS OF

  • THAT.

  • ASSOCIATES ARE

  • STAYING ON WITH HIM TO MANAGE

  • HIS DAILY MOVEMENTS.

  • ERIC SCHILTZ, THE DEPUTY PRESS

  • SECRETARY WILL TAKE ON A TOP

  • STRATEGIST ROLE.

  • THE COMMUNICATIONS STAFF IS

  • STAYING.

  • WE WILL SEE THE OBAMA'S OUT AND

  • ABOUT IN WASHINGTON AND

  • POTENTIALLY IN THE WEEKS AND

  • MONTHS TO COME.

  • HE HAS ALREADY SAID THROUGH HIS

  • AIDES THAT HE IS NOT PLANNING ON

  • WEIGHING IN ON THE SUPREME COURT

  • NOMINATION.

  • THAT'S BETWEEN THE NEW PRESIDENT

  • AND THE CONGRESS.

  • IN TERMS OF THE OTHER ISSUES,

  • WHETHER IT DEALS WITH HUMAN

  • RIGHTS OR THE PRESS, HE HAS

  • SIGNALED -- OR ANY OF THESE

  • IDEOLOGICAL REDLINES THAT

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS DRAWN, HE

  • MAY VERY WELL ENGAGE.

  • WISDOMK YOU FOR YOUR

  • ALWAYS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA.

  • WE ARE LOOKING AT STATUARY HALL

  • WERE THAT LUNCHEON, THE

  • TRADITIONAL LUNCHEON IS ABOUT TO

  • BE HELD.

  • STILL THINKING ABOUT JUNIPER

  • JUICE.

  • THERE ARE JUNIPERS INVOLVED IN

  • THE LUNCH AND APPARENTLY IT WILL

  • BE OPULENT AND TASTY.

  • MICHAEL MCKEE, YOU ARE IN THE

  • RUSSELL ROTUNDA.

  • WHERE -- TONSE OF

  • THE EXTENT THAT THERE ARE FAULT

  • LINES AND THERE ARE MANY THINGS

  • THAT DONALD TRUMP SAID IN HIS

  • FAR, FAR AWAYE

  • FROM REPUBLICAN ORTHODOXY.

  • I HAVE ASKED WHERE THERE IS LOW

  • HANGING FRUIT WHERE HE MIGHT PUT

  • POINTS ON THE BOARD.

  • WE ASK YOU THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF

  • THAT QUESTION.

  • AT LINDSEY GRAHAM

  • HAVING A PICTURE TAKEN.

  • WHERE DO YOU THINK THE

  • SIGNIFICANT FAULT LINES ON

  • POLICY MIGHT EMERGE MOST QUICKLY

  • BETWEEN BAMBER'S OF THE

  • REPUBLICAN CAUCUS AND THE HOUSE

  • AND THE SENATE AND PRESIDENT

  • TRUMP?

  • OBVIOUSLY, TAX REFORM

  • OF THE HARDEST THING FOR HIM TO

  • GET THROUGH BECAUSE THE TAX

  • REFORM BLEW A HOLE IN THE

  • BUDGET.

  • THEY SAY OF IT GENERATES MORE

  • ACTIVITY, IT'S $2.6 TRILLION IN

  • DEFICIT SPENDING OVER 10 YEARS.

  • THE TEA PARTY PEOPLE WILL NOT BE

  • HAPPY ABOUT THAT AND THEY ARE

  • ALREADY PUSHING BACK.

  • HOW HE WILL SEE

  • COMPLETELY REPEAL AND REPLACE

  • OBAMACARE WITHOUT SPENDING MORE

  • MONEY.

  • THAT WILL MEET HIS PROMISE OF

  • COVERING EVERYBODY.

  • IT'S REALLY A FAULT LINE OVER

  • HOW MUCH THE GOVERNMENT CAN

  • SPEND TO GET THINGS DONE.

  • TO SEE WHETHER HE

  • CAN COBBLE TOGETHER ENOUGH

  • REPUBLICANS BECAUSE THE

  • DEMOCRATIC ATTITUDE ON THESE

  • THINGS SEEMS TO BE THAT YOU GUYS

  • WORK IT OUT FIRST AND WE WILL

  • DECIDE WHAT WE WILL DO LATER.

  • >> WE GOT OUR FIRST TWEET FROM

  • THE NEW PRESIDENT.

  • ABOUTIS MUCH DISCUSSION

  • HIM CONTINUING TO TWEET FROM HIS

  • RIVAL TWITTER ACCOUNT WHICH IS

  • OVER 20 MILLION FOLLOWERS.

  • WE ARE NOT MERELY TRANSFERRING

  • POWER FROM ONE ADMINISTRATION TO

  • ANOTHER, OR FROM ONE PARTY TO

  • ANOTHER BY TRANSFERRING POWER

  • FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. AND

  • GETTING IT BACK TO YOU, THE

  • AMERICAN PEOPLE.

  • #INAUGURATION DAY.

  • WHAT TRULY MATTERS IS NOT WHICH

  • PARTY CONTROLS OUR GOVERNMENT

  • BUT WHETHER OUR GOVERNMENT IS

  • CONTROLLED BY THE PEOPLE.

  • HE IS READ EMPHASIZE IT A

  • POPULIST MESSAGE THAT NO ONE CAN

  • DISAGREE WITH BUT IT'S CERTAINLY

  • NOT THE EMPHASIS YOU NORMALLY

  • HEAR FROM REPUBLICANS.

  • MICHAEL: DEFINITELY NOT, THIS

  • WAS NOT THE SHINING CITY ON A

  • HILL THAT RONALD REAGAN TALKED

  • ABOUT.

  • AS YOU MENTION, THIS IS THE

  • DYSTOPIAN VIEW OF AMERICA THAT

  • PLAYS VERY WELL IN A LOT OF

  • AMERICA THAT HAS SUFFERED LIKE

  • THE RUST BELT AND COAL COUNTRY

  • BUT IT'S NOT THE EXPERIENCE OF A

  • LOT OF PEOPLE WITH THE ECONOMY

  • GROWING AT 3.5% AND UNEMPLOYMENT

  • AT 4.7%.

  • IT'S A MARKET CONTRASTED WHEN

  • BARACK OBAMA CAME INTO OFFICE

  • AND IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO

  • SEE IF HE AIMS IS RHETORIC AT

  • THE SMALLER SLICE OF AMERICA

  • THAT HAS NOT DONE WELL OR

  • BROADENS IT TO EVERYBODY.

  • ON HIS WEBSITE, HE SAYS HE CAN

  • GET 4% GROWTH.

  • REMARKABLE,E

  • ECONOMY SAY, AND WOULD DEPEND ON

  • SPENDING MONEY TO RAISE

  • PRODUCTIVITY.

  • IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN IF HE CAN

  • DO THAT.

  • ON SOMEUST CONCENTRATE

  • OF THE NARROWER SLICES OF THE

  • ECONOMY THAT HE HAS IDENTIFIED

  • AS PROBLEMATIC?

  • >> MAYBE THE BIGGEST AGENDA ITEM

  • AND THE BIGGEST TICKET AGENDA

  • AND ON DONALD TRUMP'S MIND

  • PEOPLE AROUND HIM IS THE NOTION

  • OF A TRILLION DOLLAR

  • INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN.

  • THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING BACK AT

  • HAVE A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT IN A

  • VARIETY OF WAYS ON THE ECONOMY,

  • NOT JUST IN TERMS OF FISCAL

  • STIMULUS BUT ACTUALLY PUTTING IN

  • PLACE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT COULD

  • BE THE BEDROCK FOR THE KIND OF

  • PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH YOU WERE

  • TALKING ABOUT BEFORE.

  • WHAT KIND OF RECEPTION DO YOU

  • INNK THAT PROPOSAL WILL HAVE

  • THE MONTHS OR DAYS OR WEEKS

  • AHEAD, WHAT DO YOU THINK

  • REPUBLICANS WILL SAY AND DO

  • ABOUT THE NOTION OF THAT VERY

  • LARGE, VERY EXPENSIVE ITEM?

  • TO BEL: IT'S NOT GOING

  • LARGE AND EXPENSIVE FROM DONALD

  • TRUMP'S POINT OF VIEW WHICH MAY

  • HELP REPUBLICANS EMBRACE IT.

  • HE DOES NOT WANT TO SPEND A

  • TRILLION DOLLARS, HE WANTS

  • PRIVATE COMPANIES TO SPEND IT.

  • HE WAS TO GIVE THEM TAX CREDITS

  • ANYONE'S THEM TO IDENTIFY

  • PROJECTS AND CHARGE THE AMERICAN

  • PEOPLE FOR USING THEM AND GET

  • THE REVENUE STREAM TO PAY BACK

  • THEIR INVESTMENT.

  • MANY PEOPLE SAY THAT WILL NOT

  • WORK VERY WELL PARTICULARLY ON A

  • LARGE SCALE.

  • WHO WILL INVEST IN A RURAL ROAD

  • IN INDIANA?

  • THEY WILL NOT GET A LOT OF MONEY

  • FOR THAT.

  • DEMOCRATS LOVE THE IDEA OF

  • INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING BUT THEY

  • WANT DIRECT SPENDING.

  • THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING

  • LIKE AN INFRASTRUCTURE BANK

  • WHICH BARACK OBAMA OPPOSED AND

  • REPUBLICANS REJECTED.

  • THE IDEA OF DOING MORE

  • INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING IS VERY

  • WELL RECEIVED ON CAPITOL HILL

  • BIBLE PARTIES.

  • HOW YOU GET THERE AND HOW MUCH

  • THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPENDS IS

  • STILL A VERY OPEN QUESTION WITH

  • NO GOOD ANSWERS.

  • WE ARE COVERING BARACK

  • OBAMA'S DEPARTURE.

  • YOU SEE HIS HELICOPTER LANDING A

  • OUTSIDEE ANDREW'S

  • WASHINGTON, D.C., SWITCHING FROM

  • A HELICOPTER TO AN AIRPLANE.

  • TRUMP, PRESIDENT, DONALD

  • HAS BEGUN TO TWEET AS PRESIDENT,

  • REFLECTING AN ECHOING THE THEMES

  • HE TALKED ABOUT ON THE ECONOMY

  • AND THE GOVERNMENT IN CONTROL --

  • BEING CONTROLLED BY THE PEOPLE.

  • THE PRESIDENT ELECT IS EXPECTED

  • TO SIGN SOME DEBTS THE PRESIDENT

  • IS EXPECTED TO SIGN SOME ORDERS.

  • WE DON'T KNOW IF HE CAN SIGN

  • ORDERS AND TWEET AT THE SAME

  • TIME.

  • WE SHOULD LEARN OF SOME

  • EXECUTIVE ORDERS HE IS EXPECTED

  • TO DO.

  • THEY HAVE BEEN TIGHTLIPPED ABOUT

  • WHAT KIND OF ORDERS HE WILL SIGN

  • ON HIS FIRST DAY.

  • HE WILL SAVE SOME SIGNING ON

  • MONDAY AND THEN WILL ATTEND A

  • LUNCHEON IN STATUARY HALL.

  • SOME MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE

  • MILLING ABOUT, WAITING FOR THE

  • PRESIDENT AND THE VICE

  • PRESIDENT.

  • THEY ARE TAKING THE OBAMA'S OUT

  • TO ANDREWS WHERE THEY WILL FLY

  • WEST TO CALIFORNIA WHERE THE

  • PRESIDENT PLANS TO SPEND TIME

  • AND PALM SPRINGS PLAYING GOLF.

  • >> WE ARE COMING TO THE END OF

  • OUR COVERAGE.

  • I PRESIDENT OBAMA LANDING AT

  • AND YOU ABOUT TO GO OFF

  • PULL BACK AND YOU ARE STRUCK

  • EVERY TIME WE DO THIS WHERE WE

  • HAVE AN OUTGOING PRESIDENT AND

  • PRESIDENT, THE

  • HUMAN ELEMENT OF THIS.

  • PRESIDENT, THE

  • HUMAN ELEMENT OF THIS.

  • IT'S SOMETHING BEYOND

  • IMAGINATION FOR MOST PEOPLE.

  • THERE IS THIS MOMENT WHEREBY

  • TRADITION AND CEREMONY AND BY

  • THEYNO MATTER WHO THEY ARE

  • GO FROM BEING A CIVILIAN TO

  • CONTROLLING THE MOST AWESOME

  • MILITARY OF ANY COUNTRY IN THE

  • , HAVING EXTRAORDINARY

  • EXECUTIVE POWER OVER THE ECONOMY

  • , THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

  • AND SO MUCH.

  • ON THE OTHER SIDE, SOMEONE

  • HASHER LAST EIGHT YEARS

  • ENJOYED THOSE PREROGATIVES IN

  • POWER AND NOW SUDDENLY GETTING

  • ON A PLANE AND BECOMING JUST

  • ANOTHER CIVILIAN.

  • HE HAS DONE EXTRA THINGS BUT

  • JUST ANOTHER GUY.

  • THESEALLY GET STRUCK BY

  • MOMENTS THAT IT'S AN AMAZING

  • THING THAT HAPPENS ON THIS DAY.

  • >> THE MAN WHO WAS ASSUMED THESE

  • POWERS IS ABOUT TO ENTER THIS

  • ROOM WITHIN THE CAPITAL

  • BUILDING.

  • ANDSEE SPEAKER PAUL RYAN

  • ROY BLOUNT, THE SENATOR FROM

  • MISSOURI AND MEMBERS OF THE NEW

  • PRESIDENT'S INCOMING CABINET.

  • DON'TS THE MOMENT IF YOU

  • COUNT THE TWEETS, DONALD TRUMP'S

  • FIRST OFFICIAL ACT.

  • ANDILL SIGN SOME ORDERS

  • SOME OF THESE WILL BE SYMBOLIC

  • BUT WE ARE WAITING TO SEE WHICH

  • TOPICS ARE COVERED BY THESE

  • ORDERS AND WHETHER ANY OF THEM

  • ARE SUBSTANDARD AND NEWSMAKING

  • IN A WAY THAT WILL DEFINE TODAY.

  • PRESIDENT TRUMP'S INAUGURAL

  • ADDRESS WAS NOT PARTICULARLY

  • NEWSMAKING.

  • YOU SEE THE MARINE HELICOPTER ON

  • AT SPLIT SCREEN WITH OBAMA

  • JOINT BASE ANDREWS.

  • THE OUTGOING PRESIDENT DEPARTING

  • , PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA LEAVING

  • POWER AND LEAVING OFFICE AND

  • GETTING HIS LAST TIME FULLY

  • WITHIN THE BUBBLE OF THE

  • PRESIDENCY.

  • THE OTHER BOX, THE LARGER

  • BOX, THE PRESIDENT'S ROOM AT THE

  • CAPITAL WAITING FOR THE NEW

  • PRESIDENT, THE 45TH PRESIDENT,

  • DONALD TRUMP, ENGAGED IN

  • OFFICIAL ACTIVITY.

  • THERE IS A LOT OF STANDING

  • AROUND TODAY.

  • THE PRESIDENTOF

  • AND VICE PRESIDENT WILL DICTATE

  • THE PACE AT WHICH THINGS GO.

  • THEY ARE MORE ON SCHEDULE MORE

  • SO THAN THE CLINTONS.

  • THINGS RAN FAR BEHIND INCLUDING

  • THE DAY OF HIS INAUGURATION.

  • BOTHEE THE MILLING ABOUT

  • IN THE PRESIDENT'S ROOM IN THE

  • LUNCHL AS WELL AS THE

  • THAT THE PRESIDENT AND VICE

  • PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND.

  • EXPECT TO SEEE

  • BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA HAVING

  • SERVED EIGHT YEARS, THERE IS

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA, THEIR FINAL

  • RIDE FROM ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE

  • AT THE END OF HIS PRESIDENCY.

  • >> THERE THEY ARE, THE PRESIDENT

  • AND FIRST LADY.

  • AGO, IT IS MOMENT

  • GENUINELY MIND-BOGGLING TO PUT

  • YOURSELF IN THE MINDS OF THESE

  • PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY ARE NOW

  • GOING THROUGH.

  • , IT'SENT OBAMA IS SOMEONE

  • AT HISEY THAT HE WENT ON

  • AGE, A YOUNG MAN, HE WON THE

  • PRESIDENCY AGAINST HIGH ODDS AND

  • HAS BEEN PRESIDENT AND HAS HAD

  • SUCCESS AND FAILURES BUT HAS

  • ENJOYED THE POWER OF THE OFFICE

  • AND NOW ESSENTIALLY REDUCED TO

  • WITHNE LIKE YOU AND ME

  • MUCH MORE FAME AND STANDING IN

  • AS OFE BUT YET STRIPPED

  • THIS DAY OF ALL OF THE OFFICE

  • AND POWER HE JUST HAD HOURS AGO,

  • MINUTES AGO.

  • AND DONALD TRUMP ENDOWED WITH

  • THOSE POWERS IN THE SAME STROKE

  • OF A PEN.

  • IT'S AN AWESOME DAY AND IT'S

  • HARD TO FATHOM FOR ANYONE WHO IS

  • NOT STANDING IN THEIR SHOES

  • WHICH IS BASICALLY ALL OF US.

  • KEVIN, TELL US WHAT YOU ARE

  • HEARING OUT THERE?

  • YOU HAVE A LOT OF LAWMAKERS

  • MAKING THEIR WAY BACK INTO THE

  • CAPITAL.

  • THEY ARE TALKING WITH SOME OF

  • THE OFFICES AND GOING BACK AND

  • FORTH.

  • IT WAS A PRETTY PARTISAN SPEECH

  • YOU ARE HEARING FROM DEMOCRATS

  • WHO ARE LOOKING TO ALREADY SHAPE

  • OPPOSITION.

  • LOOK FOR PEOPLE LIKE CHUCK

  • SCHUMER TO BE THE FACE OF THAT

  • OPPOSITION.

  • FROM A REPUBLICAN STANDPOINT,

  • RIGHT NOW, THEY WILL BE GIVING

  • DONALD TRUMP A CHANCE.

  • THEY WILL SEE IF HE REALLY CAN

  • LEAD THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN

  • PARTY, NOT JUST FACTIONS OF THE

  • REPUBLICAN PARTY BUT BASED OFF

  • OF WHAT WE SAW TODAY, I THINK

  • REPUBLICANS ARE RIGHT NOW

  • GETTING IN LINE.

  • DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT

  • WHAT ORDERS WE EXPECT THE NEW

  • PRESIDENT TO SIGN MOMENTARILY?

  • >> I CAN ANTICIPATE FROM WHAT I

  • HAVE GATHERED BEFORE THE SPEECH

  • LEADING UP TO THE SPEECH IN THE

  • 24 HOURS BEFORE, WE ALL KNOW

  • THINGS ARE SCHEDULED TO CHANGE.

  • WE CAN ANTICIPATE THINGS ON

  • TRADE AND HEALTH CARE.

  • QUITE HONESTLY, THERE IS NOT

  • REALLY A FOCUS IN HIS ADDRESS

  • THAT WE JUST HEARD.

  • I WOULD ANTICIPATE THE WORKING

  • -- THE WORDING OF THESE

  • STATEMENTS TO BE CAREFULLY

  • NUANCED.

  • TO USE RHETORIC

  • ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL BUT IT'S

  • AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THING WHEN

  • YOU ARE GOVERNING.

  • THERE ARE A LOT OF LAWMAKERS

  • BEHIND THE SCENES WHO ARE

  • ACTIVELY WORKING WITH THE

  • CURRENT ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE

  • REALITIES OF GOVERNING.

  • ON ISSUES LIKE IMMIGRATION AND

  • HEALTH CARE IN PARTICULAR, HE

  • FACES A NEW REALITY OF GOVERNING

  • AND IS AT THE MERCY, QUITE

  • FRANKLY, OF CONGRESS.

  • >> WE DON'T KNOW HOW COORDINATED

  • THE TWO PRESIDENTS ARE TODAY AND

  • THEIR STAFF BUT WE ARE EXPECTING

  • BARACK OBAMA TO GIVE SOME

  • REMARKS AT ANDREWS BEFORE

  • BOARDING THE PLANE.

  • THIS WAS ANOTHER IN A SERIES OF

  • PUBLIC STATEMENTS FROM THE

  • OUTGOING PRESIDENT.

  • HE SPENT THE LAST WEEK OF HIS

  • PRESIDENCY DOING A LOT TO DEFINE

  • HIS LEGACY AND INFLUENCE THE

  • INCOMING PRESIDENT AND TO MAYBE

  • SQUEEZE THE LAST DROP OF THE

  • HE HAD SOMECH

  • AMBIVALENCE AS PRESIDENT.

  • ,S THE TIME STARTS TO DWINDLE

  • WE HAVE SEEN THE PRESIDENT

  • RACING AT THE END TO GET AS MUCH

  • DONE AS POSSIBLE.

  • IN ANOTHER MONITOR, I CAN SEE

  • THE CLINTONS IN STATUARY HALL.

  • THEY ARE PART OF THE ASSEMBLAGE

  • WAITING FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT,

  • BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON INVITED

  • TO LUNCH.

  • >> LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT ONE

  • THING, DONALD TRUMP IS SEEN BY

  • MANY DEMOCRATS AS A PROFOUND

  • THREAT TO MANY OF THEIR

  • CHERISHED VALUES.

  • TO SAY IT'S IMPORTANT

  • THAT ONLY IN THE CONTEXT OF

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA, IF YOU HAD

  • ASKED EITHER OF US SIX MONTHS

  • AGO WHAT WE EXPECTED OF

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA POST-PRESIDENCY,

  • THE LAST THING WE WOULD HAVE

  • SAID IS THAT WE WOULD'VE

  • EXPECTED HIM TO BE AN ACTIVE

  • FIGURE IN POLITICAL LIFE, THAT

  • HE WOULD BE MORE GEORGE W. BUSH

  • THEN LIKE BILL CLINTON.

  • HE IS A YOUNG MAN BUT HE WOULD

  • HAVE AN ACTIVE LIFE BUT NOT A

  • BIG FIGURE ON THE NATIONAL STAGE

  • IN THE SHORT-TERM.

  • DONALD TRUMP'S ELECTION HAS

  • CHANGE THE CALCULUS AND FOR A

  • LEADER OF A PARTY THAT HAS BEEN

  • SHATTERED IN MANY WAYS.

  • THEY ARE GOING TO LOOK TO BARACK

  • OBAMA MORE THAN CHUCK SCHUMER OR

  • ANYONE ELSE ON THE STAGE.

  • THE MOST STAGGERING THING ABOUT

  • THIS IS THAT BARACK OBAMA AT

  • LEAST RIGHT NOW SEEMS READY TO

  • ACCEPT THAT MANTLE.

  • >> HERE HE IS, BARACK OBAMA AND

  • PEOPLE WILL BE WATCHING THESE

  • REMARKS CLOSELY FOR SIGNALS

  • ABOUT THE POSTURE HE WILL TAKE

  • BUT I DON'T THINK HE WILL SHOW

  • HIS FULL HAND AS TO WHAT KIND OF

  • POST-PRESIDENCY HE WILL HAVE.

  • THIS IS AN UNUSUAL EVENT.

  • THANKSART OF IT WILL BE

  • INCLUDING THE FOLKS AT JOINT

  • PLAYS AREWS, A FACILITY

  • HUGE PART OF ANY PRESIDENTS LIFE

  • AS IT IS THE ARRIVAL AND

  • DEPARTURE POINT DOMESTIC AND

  • FOREIGN.

  • YOU SEE THE OBAMA'S NOW AS

  • CIVILIANS AT ANDREWS.

  • YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW THEM

  • TO SEE THAT WELL

  • THEY RECOGNIZE WHAT THEY ARE

  • LEAVING BEHIND THEM WHAT THEY

  • ARE HEADED FOR.

  • AND IT'STAND THERE

  • IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THEY

  • STAND THERE, TWO OF THE MOST

  • POPULAR FIGURES IN AMERICAN

  • LIFE.

  • BARACK OBAMA'S APPROVAL READY

  • TODAY IS HIGHER THAN IT HAS BEEN

  • AT ANY TIME DURING HIS

  • PRESIDENCY.

  • HE LEAVES AT A PEAK.

  • IT'S NOT JUST BECAUSE OF HIS

  • PERFORMANCE BUT PERHAPS IN

  • CONTRAST TO THE DIVISIVENESS OF

  • THE CAMPAIGN.

  • MICHELLE OBAMA IS A WOMAN WHO

  • DID NOT WANT ANY PART OF

  • POLITICS.

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  • [APPLAUSE]

  • AGAIN, OBAMA WITH JUST THE

  • OBAMA'S WITH A MOTION ON THEIR

  • FACES.

  • FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN

  • PRETTY POKER-FACED IN PUBLIC

  • DURING HARD TIMES AND GREAT

  • TIMES AND THERE IS A LOT GOING

  • ON.

  • I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING BARACK

  • OBAMA LIKE THIS IN MORE THAN A

  • HANDFUL OF TIMES.

  • >>= THI IS TH MOMENT I THINK

  • TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO

  • REMIND EVERYONE, THIS IS THE

  • FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN, NONWHITE

  • COUPLE TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT AND

  • FIRST LADY AND THAT'S NOT ALL

  • THEY ACCOMPLISHED TO SAY THE

  • LEAST.

  • >> HELLO, EVERYBODY.

  • YOU KNOW, MICHELLE AND I HAVE

  • REALLY BEEN MILKING THIS GOODBYE

  • THING.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • IT BEHOOVES ME TO BE VERY BRIEF.

  • YES.

  • BEFORE AND I WILL SAY

  • AGAIN THAT WHEN WE STARTED ON

  • SO WITH ANY, WE DID

  • ABIDING FAITH IN THE AMERICAN

  • PEOPLE AND THEIR ABILITY, OUR

  • ABILITY TO JOIN TOGETHER AND

  • CHANGE THE COUNTRY IN WAYS THAT

  • WOULD MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR OUR

  • KIDS AND GRANDKIDS.

  • BUT CHANGE DID NOT HAPPEN FROM

  • THE TOP DOWN BUT THE BOTTOM UP.

  • IT WAS MET SOMETIMES WITH

  • SKEPTICISM AND DOUBT.

  • SOME FOLKS DID NOT THINK WE

  • COULD PULL IT OFF.

  • THEE WERE THOSE WHO FELT

  • INSTITUTIONS OF POWER AND

  • PRIVILEGE IN THIS COUNTRY WERE

  • TOO DEEPLY ENTRENCHED AND YET,

  • TOGETHER INAME

  • SMALL TOWNS AND BIG CITIES, A

  • WHOLE BUNCH OF YOU AND YOU

  • DECIDED TO BELIEVE.

  • AND YOU KNOCKED ON DOORS AND

  • MADE PHONE CALLS AND YOU TALKED

  • TO YOUR PARENTS WHO DID NOT KNOW

  • HOW TO PRONOUNCE BARACK OBAMA.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • AND YOU GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER.

  • AND YOU WENT INTO COMMUNITIES

  • THAT MAYBE YOU HAD NEVER EVEN

  • THOUGHT ABOUT VISITING AND MET

  • THE SURFACEON

  • SEEMED COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN

  • YOU, DIDN'T LOOK LIKE YOU OR

  • TALK LIKE YOU OR WATCH THE SAME

  • TV PROGRAMS AS YOU.

  • AND YET ONCE YOU STARTED TALKING

  • TO THEM, IT TURNED OUT YOU AT

  • SOMETHING IN COMMON.

  • IT GREW AND IT BUILT.

  • NOTICE.OOK

  • THROUGHOUT, IT WAS A HUGE SENSE

  • OF HOPE.

  • 2004, IT WAS NOT

  • BLIND OPTIMISM THAT DROVE YOU TO

  • DO ALL THIS WORK.

  • IT WAS NOT NAIVETE.

  • IT WASN'T WILLFUL AND IGNORE'S

  • TO THE CHALLENGES THAT AMERICA

  • FACES.

  • IT WAS HOPE IN THE FACE OF

  • DIFFICULTY.

  • HOPE IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY.

  • YOU PROVED THE POWER OF HOPE.

  • AND THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS,

  • MICHELLE AND I HAVE BEEN YOUR

  • FRONT MEN AND WOMEN.

  • BEEN THE FACE AND

  • FRONT ON THE VOICE OUT

  • THE TV SCREEN OR IN FRONT OF THE

  • MICROPHONE BUT THIS HAS NEVER

  • BEEN ABOUT US.

  • IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT YOU.

  • AND ALL THE AMAZING THINGS THAT

  • HAPPENED OVER THESE LAST 10

  • YEARS ARE REALLY JUST A

  • TESTAMENT TO YOU.

  • IN THE SAME WAY THAT WHEN WE

  • TALK ABOUT OUR AMAZING MILITARY

  • AND OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN

  • UNIFORM, THE MILITARY IS NOT A

  • THING.

  • IT'S A GROUP OF COMMITTED

  • PATRIOTS WILLING TO SACRIFICE

  • EVERYTHING ON OUR BEHALF.

  • IT WORKS ONLY BECAUSE

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • IT.HE PEOPLE IN

  • AS COOL AS THE HARDWARE IS AND

  • WE HAVE COOL HARDWARE, AS COOL

  • AS THE MACHINES AND WEAPONS AND

  • SATELLITES, IT ULTIMATELY COMES

  • DOWN TO REMARKABLE PEOPLE.

  • ARE CLOSER IN MIND

  • THAN ME OR MICHELLE.

  • THE SAME THING IS TRUE FOR OUR

  • DEMOCRACY.

  • OUR DEMOCRACY IS NOT THE

  • BUILDINGS OR THE MONUMENTS IT'S

  • , TOBEING WILLING TO WORK

  • MAKE THINGS BETTER AND BEING

  • WILLING TO LISTEN TO EACH OTHER

  • AND ARGUE WITH EACH OTHER AND

  • COME TOGETHER.

  • AND KNOCK ON DOORS AND MAKE

  • PHONE CALLS.

  • AND TREAT PEOPLE WITH RESPECT.

  • THAT'S IS NOT END.

  • -- THAT DOES NOT END.

  • PITSTOP.UST A LITTLE

  • PERIOD, THIS IS A,

  • IN THE CONTINUING STORY OF

  • BUILDING AMERICA.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • YOU, THAT HAVE PUT

  • YOUR HEART AND SOUL, NOT JUST

  • INTO HER CAMPAIGN BUT INTO

  • MAKING SCHOOLS BETTER, MAKING

  • SURE OUR VETERANS GOT THE CARE

  • THAT WEDED, MAKING SURE

  • LEFT BEHIND A PLANET THAT IS

  • SAFE

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • AND SECURE FOR OUR KIDS, MAKING

  • PEOPLEAT HARD-WORKING

  • HAD A LADDER OF OPPORTUNITY TO

  • SUPPORT THEIR FAMILY.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • WHO HAVE DONE

  • AMAZING, REMARKABLE WORK, MOST

  • OF IT UNHERALDED, MOST OF IT

  • WITHOUT FANFARE, MOST OF IT

  • WITHOUT YOU GETTING ANY WORD OF

  • THANKS -- WE COULD NOT BE

  • PROUDER OF YOU.

  • I COULD NOT BE PROUDER OF YOU.

  • THIS HAS BEEN THE PRIVILEGE OF

  • MY LIFE AND I KNOW I SPEAK FOR

  • MICHELLE AS WELL.

  • WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING

  • THIS JOURNEY WITH ALL OF YOU.

  • I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE WHAT YOU DO

  • NEXT.

  • AND I PROMISE YOU I WILL BE

  • RIGHT THERE WITH YOU.

  • ALL RIGHT?

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • GOD BLESS YOU.

  • THANK YOU, EVERYBODY.

  • YES, WE DID.

  • YES, WE CAN.

  • >> BRIEF REMARKS FROM BARACK

  • OBAMA, HIS FIRST PUBLIC REMARKS

  • AFTER LEAVING OFFICE AND YOU SEE

  • ON THE RIGHT SIDE, DONALD TRUMP

  • IN HIS FIRST OFFICIAL ACT AS

  • TOSIDENT SIGNING WAIVERS

  • ALLOW HIS CHOICE FOR DEFENSE

  • SECRETARY, GENERAL MATTIS TO

  • SERVE.

  • A WAIVER TO A LAW THAT PRECLUDES

  • ANYONE FROM THE RETIRED MILITARY

  • SHORTLY AFTER THEY LEAVE OFFICE

  • FROM SERVING.

  • IT'S SOMETHING SUPPORTED BY MANY

  • DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS WHO HAVE

  • ASEN MATTIS AS MUCH CREDIT

  • ANYONE DONALD TRUMP HAS PICKED

  • TO SERVE IN GOVERNMENT.

  • WE'RE TRYING TO FIND OUT IF HE

  • IS SIGNING OTHER ORDERS.

  • DONALD TRUMP IS SURROUNDED BY

  • HIS FAMILY, A MIXTURE OF TOP

  • GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS INCLUDING

  • , THERYAN, NANCY PELOSI

  • DEMOCRATIC LEADER BUT BEHIND

  • DONALD TRUMP, HIS FAMILY MEMBERS

  • AND SMALL CHILDREN WANDERING

  • AROUND, GRANDCHILDREN AS WELL AS

  • , THEOUNG MAN NEXT TO HIM

  • PRESIDENT YOUNGEST CHILD.

  • I THINK THIS WILL BE A FAMILIAR

  • SIGHT OF DONALD TRUMP'S CHILDREN

  • AND GRANDCHILDREN AS PART OF HIS

  • LIFE.

  • >> THEY ARE A CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY.

  • DONALD TRUMP HAS MADE IT CLEAR

  • THAT IN MANY CASES THEY WILL

  • PLAY IMPORTANT ROLES IN THIS

  • ADMINISTRATION.

  • SAY, PRESIDENT FAMILIES

  • ARE IMPORTANT AND SUBJECT TO A

  • LOT OF ANALYSIS AND INTEREST.

  • BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE

  • DIFFERENT IN THE SENSE THAT SOME

  • VERYOSE MEMBERS WILL BE

  • ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THIS

  • ADMINISTRATION AND IMPORTANT

  • ADVISERS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP.

  • AS YOU SAY, WE WILL SEE THIS

  • TABLEAU OR SOMETHING LIKE IT A

  • LOT OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.

  • >> ANOTHER THING THE PRESIDENT

  • IS SIGNING AS A PROCLAMATION

  • DECLARING THIS A DAY OF

  • PATRIOTISM.

  • THAT IS A BIG THEME FOR ANY

  • PRESIDENT.

  • HE EMPHASIZED THAT IN HIS IGNORE

  • JURAL ADDRESS.

  • -- IN HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

  • TRUMP WAS TWEETING FROM

  • HIS PERSONAL ACCOUNT, NOT FROM

  • HIS NEW PRESIDENTIAL ACCOUNT A

  • RESONATING ANDKS

  • REFLECTING WHAT HE SAID IN HIS

  • INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

  • HE WILL SIGN SOME ORDERS AND HAD

  • TO LUNCH AND THE INAUGURAL

  • PARADE AND THE BALL TONIGHT.

  • YOUR FINAL THOUGHTS AS WE

  • CONCLUDE THIS PART OF OUR

  • COVERAGE?

  • INAUGURATION DAY IS

  • STEEPED IN TRADITION AND RITUAL,

  • IT TENDS TO TAKE EVEN SOMEONE AS

  • UNUSUAL AS DONALD TRUMP AND MAKE

  • HIM LOOK LIKE ALL THE OTHER

  • PRESIDENTS.

  • ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WE HAVE

  • GOING FORWARD IS -- TO WHAT

  • EXTENT DONALD TRUMP WILL CONFORM

  • TO THE OFFICE?

  • TO WHAT EXTENT WILL THE OFFICE

  • SHAPE HIM AND MAKE HIM NOT

  • ORDINARY BUT MORE IN KEEPING

  • WITH WHAT WE EXPECT FROM A

  • PRESIDENT?

  • AND WHAT WAYS WILL HE BRIDLE

  • AGAINST THOSE TRADITIONS AND

  • CONSTRAINTS?

  • SO MUCH OF HIS POLITICAL SUCCESS

  • IS BASED ON HIS UNIQUENESS AND

  • THE WAYS IN WHICH HE IS NOT

  • TRADITIONAL.

  • AMERICANS WANT HIM TO BE SORT OF

  • PRESIDENTIAL.

  • ON THE OTHER HAND, IF IT BECOMES

  • TOO MUCH LIKE ANY OTHER

  • PRESIDENT AND TO CONVENTIONAL,

  • HE WILL LOSE SOME OF THE

  • POLITICAL POTENCY THAT BROUGHT

  • HIM TO WHERE HE IS NOW.

  • IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE

  • HOW HE MANAGES THAT BALANCING

  • ACT.

  • >> THIS LOOK LIKE OTHER

  • INAUGURALS IN ALMOST EVERY

  • RESPECT.

  • THE TWEET IS DIFFERENT AND IT'S

  • SOMETHING DONALD TRUMP WILL

  • CONTINUE, NO DOUBT.

  • HE WILL GO THROUGHOUT THE REST

  • OF THIS DAY BEING CONSTRAINED BY

  • THE SCHEDULE THAT OTHER

  • PRESIDENTS HAVE KEPT.

  • FEWER INAUGURAL BALLS THAN OTHER

  • PRESIDENTS BUT TODAY WILL BE A

  • NORMAL FIRST DAY OF A

  • PRESIDENCY.

  • THEN HE SIGNALED THE WEEKEND

  • WILL BE SOMEWHAT OF A DOWN

  • PERIOD AND MONDAY WE SHOULD SEE

  • AN EARNEST WHAT THIS

  • ADMINISTRATION HAS PROMISED TO

  • DO, BE DIFFERENT FROM WHAT

  • OTHERS HAVE DONE AND WILL SEE

  • THAT START TO PLAY OUT.

  • WE THANK YOU FOR WATCHING OUR

  • LIVE COVERAGE OF DONALD TRUMP'S

  • INAUGURATION.

  • WE WILL BE BACK IN THE STUDIO AT

  • 5:00 EASTERN TIME FOR A FINAL

  • ENCORE EPISODE OF "WITH ALL DUE

  • RESPECT." BLOOMBERG COVERAGE

  • WILL CONTINUE.

  • AND BLOOMBERGOU

  • WILL CONTINUE AFTER THIS BREAK.

  • >> I 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.

  • ♪

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