oh perfect byner to live there about that she is sure and your intention and then you're a ministration professor thank you so much for joining us from tallahassee in florida on the day that the united states that washington begins the process of bidding farewell to president trump is 14 hours g.m.t. 9 am in washington where we're seeing the transition of power between the outgoing president donald trump and the man who will soon be sworn in joe biden you're looking at live pictures of air force one if you're just joining us the president and the 1st lady flew to andrews air force base on board marine one we had a small speech from mr trump we had a few words from the 1st lady malani a trump mr drum give us his take on his time in the white house what the white

house under donald trump flanked by ivanka and jarrett had achieved. let's show you the church scene in washington joe biden the incoming president along with his wife soon to be the new 1st lady. nancy pelosi is there as well they will know of course what mr trump was saying about we will maybe see you in some form in the future in the immediate future they will be seeing mr trump in effect on trial in the senate. i think it would be a fair extrapolation to assume that mrs palosi would like a situation after that trial comes to an end she would like a situation where mr trump cannot stand for political office. ever again. let's bring in our team covering this story for us as we

plot of course through the coming events of the next 3 or 4 hours she has returned she is on the national mall our diplomatic editor james bass is on capitol hill where joe biden will be sworn in of course let's talk let's go back to my colleague alan fischer who's overlooking the white house for us allan 74000000 people voted for mr trump not all of those 74000000 people are demonstrators not all of them invaded the capitol building there just people who believed that they were voting for the right guy at the right time to carry on doing the right job. you know peter i covered the 2nd event over with donald trump as i said in california and then followed his campaign always leaving new york in 2016 when he won the election. in a hall that was built really for a concession speech rather than an acceptance speech i have intermittently along

with my colleague kimberly hawke it covered the white house i was on a rooftop on the day that joe biden was declared the winner of the election and i've been at the white house almost every day for the last 3 or 4 weeks the change in the trump supporters in that time was quite marked 4 years ago 5 years ago people were coming along to the events to see the show they cared don't from say crazy things they saw how the media reacted to him in the united states they wanted to see what he would see next so they could go home and that night say to their friends i was there when he said that that was crazy wasn't i was there i saw the but going to trump events for this campaign and i was in iowa for a trumpet and it was completely different this time to use the american phrase the drunk the kool-aid they were absolutely supporters and followers of donald trump they were absolutely convinced he was the best president of the united states at that point if nor the best president the united states has ever had at the fever

and their support for donald trump and 74000000 people went out and voted for him as he rightly says it was a record for an incumbent president the difference was of course that joe biden managed to get $81000000.00 votes $7000000.00 votes more and so it really says that when donald trump insists that he's not going your way he's not going away and neither is the style of politics that donald trump brought to the united states no to me suggests that nancy pelosi would like to see donald trump banned from politics and never run for office again. there are many republicans who think that way just in the last half hour i have someone who have kept in touch with over many many years who is a republican and a very staunch republican who lives in iowa and they just sent me a text message that says shoot to them donald trump leaving the white house is the

equivalent of been able to shut the radio off after having it jammed on for 4 years they think the reason that they even as republicans. decided in the end to vote for donald trump is for his policies but the thing that he constantly said edited them was the fact of the constant noise that came from the white house to the extent that even when he was in hospital the tweet i got was the text i got was he doesn't even shut up there he managed to send a video message that he wasn't even quiet for a couple of days while he was receiving treatment he was it was like having the radio constantly jammed on and seems that some people even republicans who are supporters of trump think that there might be just a period of time we're just quite in stone a bit but you're right 74000000 people voted for donald trump he's a huge base of support and he's looking at ways 1st of all to money ties that because donald trump is a businessman but he liked being president he liked the power that it brought he

liked the way that he could command people did do his bidding much more so than being the chief executive of his own company and when you taste that poetess know something for some that they can easily walk away from and clearly donald trump hasn't reconciled with the fight that he has done not for the moment and may never get it back again. and we want to take a listen to a little bit of donald trump's speech here it is. i will always fight for you. i will be watching i will be listening and i will tell you that the future of this country has never been better i wish the new administration great luck and great success. i think they'll have great success they have the foundation to do something really spectacular when it comes to him not going away completely allan

can we just go back i guess 5 years now i remember you and i having a conversation you were someplace in the states i was here and the conversation was the republican party didn't have a problem if candidate trump didn't carry on as candidate trump but the republican party had a huge problem if candidate trump became president trump here we are now again 5 years on having a conversation about x. president trump but does the republican party trump's republican party still have that big problem. i think what it be fear to see is that the republican party. some of them don't like the idea of president trump but the a lot of his supporters they like the thought that he can get people out and so

they need donald trump. certainly many people even in the republican party have become trump followers there was always a small core of people you think of jeff sessions who was for a long time the only person in the senate who had backed donald trump in 2016 and became attorney general and when he recused himself from the russia investigation he drew the wrath of donald trump who but little tim and the rated him on twitter to the point where jeff sessions eventually resigned but he was the only one in the senate who supported donald trump and there was a feeling. that that was the limit of his support and you remember that many people in the republican party thought when he criticized john mccain because he didn't like people who were captured john mccain being a former prisoner of war and a beloved figure in the republican party the senator from arizona and when he criticized him they thought well that's it trump's done he's finished. when he

criticized gold star families people who had lost mitt family members in the wars that were being thought people thought well that's it trump's done when the end from this tape of his comments about sexually assaulting women came out it really did look like he was done and he was finished and there was no way his campaign could come back from that i even remember writing in a tweet saying that banging you heard was the door closing on donald trump's hopes of ever becoming president or everyone everyone constantly underestimated donald trump and underestimated the strength of his support and so it's been wrong for the republican party to think what we want his support but we don't want trump it would be wrong to suggest that the 2 are not in total linked and so the republican party has to be very careful on who the true. and that's why the republican party would be deeply worried if he did indeed pursue this idea of a petri party and a 3rd party being created in the united states alan thank you very much james bays

is on capitol hill our diplomatic editor let's just take a moment james just set the scene for us what's going to happen there. peter it's 3 hours away this is where we are going to see history play out president trump has left he has gone as you saw on the marine one and now on air force one he would have flown over this scene and look behind me that is the podium and that is where we're going to see in under 3 hours time joe biden sworn in to become the next president of the united states and i was here 4 years ago in a spot here to watch exactly the same thing with president trump it's very different this time you can see i'm wearing a mask socially distance because of covert but of course security 2 extremely tight because where i am right now is the very spot underneath this scaffolding we're

standing on that the protesters broke into capitol hill just 2 weeks ago so a very different organization for those reasons and of course for the obvious reason the 1st time in 152 years that the outgoing president is not going to attend the event and when it comes to the 1st 100 days of any incoming new president or prime minister that's a kind of a usually it's usually a kind of a journalistic construct you know they are given a 100 days or people check in on them what they're doing after 100 days but joe biden is saying after 100 days he will have made real inroads in the fight against coronavirus. when absolutely that is his benchmark and he's going to start doing things with regard to covert 19 almost the 1st day today among the executive orders we believe at about $515.00 eastern time he's going to sign those executive orders a few hours after he's arrived in the white house they'll be one to mandate the

wearing of mass on all federal property to rejoin the w.h.o. and to provide more funding for covert 19 it is the key priority of this administration and i can tell you speaking to diplomats from other countries including some of the u.s. is close allies they say it is priority number one yes every country is fighting coded on their own but they need more of an international effort not just for countries like the u.s. which is suffering so badly but for other parts of the world where they don't have the resources and they have managed to buy all the vaccines that rich countries of the west have so everyone i think around the world hope this president is putting more of an emphasis on the fight against covert compared with the trumpet ministration james can we talk clear specifics for a couple of minutes ok mr trump's 1st foreign policy trip his big 1st foreign trip saudi arabia that was perceived as a green light to start the blockade of the country i'm sitting in cattle because

that blockade existed almost perfectly inside the time lining of the trumpet ministration we think mr biden's 1st foreign trip will be to the u.k. but the relations between washington and the london government they're basically ok at the moment no. yeah i mean i was on the 1st trump trip one of the press pool that we're following president trump as you say very unusual going to the middle east 1st and as you say that trip to saudi arabia certainly cementing a very close relationship between saudi arabia and the u.s. brokered i think mainly by the president's son in law jared cushion or that. moment of those leaders with the alb in saudi arabia i think that was the moment that the meeting a bind between people like president of egypt the crown prince of saudi arabia president trump and others for that blockade of qatar which came to an end recently

as you say not clear when president biden will travel 1st because of what i was just talking about trove of 19 it's difficult for a president to travel at this time is difficult for anyone to travel at this time but yes i think a trip to europe and possibly the u.k. is is the most likely possibly if he went to the u.k. also could go to arlen too because of course president biden is. a catholic 2nd catholic president he has strong roots in oil and so that would i think be a trip that would be certainly a strong consideration for the 1st presidential trip but as i say don't necessarily expect a 1st biden trip in the 1st 100 days given the emergency of code number one and given what happened at this very spot 2 weeks ago the division in this country and that's why i think when you hear the biden address which is coming from the podium

in under 3 hours now it will be a message of unity so different from the vision of a dystopian america that came 4 years ago from president trump the america 1st isolationist speech this will be a speech of unity unity within the u.s. trying to get everyone together and unity around the world that the u.s. play its key role as an ally and an international player in the world that the theme of unity within the u.s. i think is playing out right now as we speak because the president elect is in some matthew's cathedral here in washington the catholic cathedral here but he has. the key congressional players or both sides have decided to attend. that church service that mass that's taking place right now what of course they could have gone to president trump's departure so i think michele good saw in him the president

biden's quest for unity here on capitol hill and relations as well between the incoming administration and various countries regions power players in the middle east 2015 the g. c.p.o. a everyone says we have a deal with iran income's donald trump pulls the plug on the u.s. involvement in that and we now with mr biden almost almost in the white house we're getting a kind of a twin track reaction from the iranian government they seem to robustly on the one hand saying be saying don't rock the boat but we would be receptive to more positive noises coming out of this administration given the sort of bellicose tones that it cannot come out of places like the state department and the outgoing u.s. secretary of state might pompei or. yes so i think it is interesting that the iranian government has waited out trump and hasn't completely gone against the

concept of the iran nuclear deal plots that deal history seriously unraveled since the u.s. pulled out and iran is not now complying with many of the terms of the deal that will be the difficulty i think of the diplomacy in the coming months in trying to get iran to quickly go back to full compliance the u.s. join the deal and also remember the biden ministration have said they'd like to expand the deal look at iran's regional influence look at iran's missiles things that the obama administration tried hard to get involved in the original deal but the iranians were having none of it and the deal was a compromise as all these things were that all that in the end the western powers and particularly the obama administration managed to get out of a deal remember there's a very tight timeline for these negotiations the original iran deal took years and years and years i went to some it's all round the world watching the efforts to get that deal well this time there's a real problem this time it's not the u.s.

presidential election which clearly was hanging over iran file for a long time it's the arabian presidential election which is coming up just a matter of months. or. james thank you very much let's go from the capitol building there to the national mall my colleague shihab rattansi is there so she have a guess when the actual inauguration begins it's going to be a moment of almost counterpoint because you can have the swearing in ceremony of the vice president and the president calmly harris joe biden looking forward it's all about the future but then you are is peppered with memories of the past or memories of people who can't be there because you've got literally a memorial a temporary memorial there to the people who died 400000 people have lost their lives in the united states to cope with 19.

that's correct that memorial is towards the lincoln memorial which is further in that direction further west we're in the national mall where we have around 190000 flags representing the $58.00 territories and states of the united states these are flags from different states which it which represents the people who should have been here could have been here but all that's going to be had because the mole has been shut down joe biden and the transition team had actually had actually also people to stay away not have big public events because of the pandemic to celebrate his inauguration but then following the the stalling of the capitol on january the 6th the decision was taken just to shut down the national completely because of all the all the online chopped off some sort of show of force from the same sorts of elements who stormed the capitol a few weeks ago instead things have been rather quote things are going to be quiet here in the national mall as far as protests are concerned but there is only just

one scheduled protest today and that's from the left the progressive party the working families party they have a permit to protest just to the north off the capital there union station to the main railway station here in washington d.c. progressives only do protest on on inauguration day because they're always worried especially when it comes to democrats and in fact especially when it comes to joe biden that for all his talk of change and and from the pasta joe biden is been effectively a center right establishment politician and they're very worried that he'll just he'll just return to 4 you've been talking about how there's an enormous sense of relief now that all the all the shouting is perhaps over the dole trump era well we'll move on and all this outpouring that of political activism that we've seen from the anti trump resistance the liberals the establishment republicans who will win you know very politically engaged during the trumpet minutes. ration whatever will just go back to brunch and things will go back to as they were before the root

causes of trump's rise the reason why 74000000 people voted for trump weren't actually be addressed so that's the concern that's why the left will be out but i'm sure we'll just only about 5 people have been given permits to protest by union station and i know we're going to be sending a team out there later bitching to see what they have to say that's another another fan of as well is it because of the events on january the 6th what a 1st amendment rights there is a constitutional rights to assemble to gather and to protest and there is that fair though that the events which under the 6th even though authorities had every indication that something was going to happen you just needed an internet connection to know that the right wing militias were planning something they didn't act them even though they had the ability to act they have so they have the means to act we have an incredibly militarized police force here after rule that they'll use that now to crush or the crackdown on dissent in the coming years is going to try to already about 30 from local authorities here about about protests in d.c.

in the future and whether whether they will be allowed him and elsewhere also talk about looking at the new new domestic terrorism laws and things like that when clearly clearly the means of the week you know we have the means to do something about 206 but it just wasn't i think was done so these are the kind of. the issues going forward the bubbling away in this deserted national mall the future of protestors fugit future of assembly in the nation's capital so that's interesting the main fit out there of course is the sort of groups that don't apply for permits for the demonstrations the white supremacists the extremists the right wing militia groups the indications have been have been encouraging given that in the last few weeks that had been cold so the days of protests surrounding joe biden's inauguration in state capitals around the country and in d.c. they just haven't come to pass so. there is a sense so far at least that the promised promised resistance from the rights to

drive by the inauguration they are materializing as you were talking as you are talking to is she we're looking at a wide shot there of the capitol building it is a stunning image with the capitol building done up in it's called winter finery for the inauguration of the next president of the united states when they've taken the beat when they've taken the week or 2 to decompress from the trump years and forget about writing the history books for a couple of months or a couple of years and they go back to political business and donald trump is on trial in the senate how do they make sure that that doesn't derail the incoming administration away from its key fight the fight against coronavirus.

and this is been a major concern in the incoming biden administration that have been suggestions that perhaps the senate trial could take place in the off to noon and senate congressional business could happen could could happen in the morning or in the only evening but this requires us all to consent from the republicans it's notable that nancy pelosi hasn't sent the the articles of impeachment to the senate yet if she adds when the trial would have to have begun on thursday at noon but she hasn't done that perhaps in part because they still try to work out how not to do you railed joe biden's joe biden's initial agenda then but because of what i talk about cooperation with the republicans if anything there is that sense that as you say once the senate and the house decompresses that we will end up just going back to business as usual as as we had under the obama administration with little or no cooperation from the republicans for joe biden's gender and you have issues

agenda beginning with money economic stimulus money for fighting the pandemic what is causing a great deal of debate here is joe biden it seems from various reports without still seems to think that he has this magic touch that will mean that the republicans will now listen to him and they'll be lots of because joe biden is involved and because of his his ability to try and be a political player he'll be able to bring republicans on bulls and they were and they were to be stand in the way of anything that might make things better for america because think if if the united states gives more economic stimulus and they start fighting to create a virus joe biden's presidency will be seen as pop's a success not something that it's clear from the obama years of the republicans they tend not to want to contribute to the national interest if it means the presidency has any success joe biden still seems to think that he has the magic touch in which he can bring republicans aboard for his agenda and there are lots of people. around i'm saying wait a 2nd that seems rather unlikely so. the congressional decompression as you say

that will be taking place it's true they'll be relief that donald trump is no longer around but but there's also a suggestion that will just go back to business as usual and the republican standing in the way off the of the of the biden agenda and by the way it was notable that when donald trump was running through all of his achievements an hour ago. it was very conventional you can see we know you'll find it why do the republicans stand by doldrum this and do all of his achievements massive tax cuts for the rich massive military spending i mean these are just all republican republican the republican wish list if anything donald trump's donald trump's presidency was marked by such continuity with previous republican administrations despite all the bluster 2 and that's why what probably has always stood stood behind him and he was very good for that republican agenda for the trouble to search for everything was basically a republican wish list come true out and stuck in the courts with extremely right

wing right wing judges are as always with the dog years we have to take a look at what he said and what he did and then look at the actual record which actually was was was based in in a in a in a long tradition of republicans and even on immigration and things like that we should remember he's leaving office he didn't deport lily as many people as as barack obama broke obama remains the deporter in chief so he didn't get keep that campaign promise to crack down on immigration as his supporters have wanted an interesting of clarity this you have thank you very much we'll talk you very soon joe biden on twitter saying it's a new day in america if you don't like twitter sorry it had to happen we had to start quoting joe biden on twitter sooner or later back to alan fischer overlooking the white house because alan we're hearing that mr trump has left us to buy a note. on the desk in the oval office the old resolute desk there. it's a note which we went expecting it would be part of the transition which is normal

going presidents tend to leave letters for those who incoming very often knows letters remain confidential but having had donald trump speech i would be prepared to bet a significant amount of someone else's money on the fact that the letter will say i wish you well i wish you success we have given you a great base to build on i suspect that's probably what's in the letter but we might never know but it certainly shows that donald trump at least recognizing some of the norms of what he admits was not a normal presidency what i'm also told from the south lawn of the white house the other side of the building the can see behind me that one marine one coffin you saw it do a loop around the city which is interesting and unusual and perhaps don't trump getting a view of the white house from all angles for the last time the media contingent that was there cheered know whether that was cheered because they were pleased that

he left or cheering because they wanted to wish him success under what i guess i would put someone else's money on not one but. certainly a journalist forgetting the that impartiality for a 2nd in cheating it has been a difficult 4 years for many media not least because the president of the united states who swell saying he supports the 1st amendment has described many members of the media as the enemy of the people and has attacked many members of the media simply because of the message that they have carried and i remember 4 years ago when barack obama stood in the briefing room of the white house and thanked the media saying he didn't often like didn't always like the stories that the they publish but he knew they had a job to do and it was very important for the public of the united states that they continue to do that don't trump never had that relationship with the media as a whole there were 7 lakes let's he liked and even tunde on them when he didn't report the way that he was. to report but you're right

a moment of normality moment of normalcy and the transition period eyes don't trump leaves a message for joe biden which he will get when he walks into the oval office and sits down behind the old resolute desk ok allan thank you very much alan fischer correspondent the overlooking the white house you're watching al-jazeera. welcome if you're just joining us my name's peter dhabi the agenda today of course dominated by one story the u.s. inauguration of joe biden in the past. donald trump left the white house for the last time in his presidency he's leaving washington ahead of joe biden's inauguration it is a break with tradition usually a departing president attends a success the swearing in ceremony mr biden is set to take the oath of office in just under 3 hours time. from the white house mr trump headed to.