as the 1st 2025, for more information, please visit the awards official website at w w w dot h t a dot q a the the you're watching now is, is there a news? our hello everyone is good to have you with us. i'm several venue in washington dc, coming up in the program today, donald trump has announced a series of controversial actions of to being sworn in as the 47 us presidents in a historic come back. all illegal entry will immediately be halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens

back to the places from which they came. we will reinstate my remain in mexico policy, the funds on the card info whole. so this new zone with thousands of palestinians and gallons of return to see what is left of their homes . on day 2 of us, the spot between israel and some of the scrambles to hide as more trunk since a guns are as part of the deal. but it is not nearly enough and a new era has begun in the united states with donald trump at the helm. trump has been sworn in as the 47th, the president of the united states, marking a historic return to the white house, preserve, protect, and defend 0, protect and defend the constitution of the nighted states,

the constitution divided state. so help me, god. so help regulations. he's taking the oath of office ushering and a new administration elements to jo biden's presidency. he valves to begin his term with sweeping executive orders and doing biden's policies and enacting his own top of that list is integration and board. a policy with an emergency declaration that the us 7 border and a complete halt to irregular crossings. and trump is returning to the oval office, backed by a house and senate under republican control. houses here was mike. hannah joins us live from the white house. might give us the latest on terms of movements. where is he at the moment? but at the moment, t xyz, available on his way to the capital rena, with the parade which was due to taking place off. the no gratian has to be moved inside. so he will be speaking to his support is in that arena, in the coming hour. then he is going to come back to the white house where he's

expected to sign a series of executive orders what they are specifically or what the language is. we're going to have to wait and see, but certainly top of the list it would appear is a executive order, or a member of old is dealing with immigration, strengthening the southern border, threatening to send troops to the southern border. also an executive order about gender as specifying that in terms of federal law, the early 2 genders within the us, male and female. he's also expected to introduce a number of executive orders concerning environmental concerns. well, actually reducing or removing those environmental protections introduced under the bite and administration bout to be very clear here. we've got to see what the old as off some of them may be subject to court review. some of them may be appealed in the. busy notes, this is something that we'll see as the time goes by just one note as well. one of

the 1st actions president trump is taken is old at old flags on federal property to be moved to full mosque. they've been flying at hoff last in the morning period for the former president jimmy carter, and that he has now gotten over a week to go. the president trump's 1st action is to order all the flags to be pushed up to full must despite the morning period for jimmy carter continuing. yeah, mike, uh, as you said that i'm taking a look around is we have quite a few flags since we're in front of the capital building. i can confirm that i can see a good half a dozen right now and that they're all flying a full mast. um, i saw the trucks behind you. what is that? is that moving trucks? is that is indeed that is the moving that is continuing the biden's position is that the move doc? we saw some of the paintings coming out. the crump positions are moving in. we saw

some of the paintings going in. so this mess of changes going on here. at the white house, obviously an exchange of families, a new family moving in. we have heard from donald trump, so i have my, let me have that. that is going to be a complete change to the decoration within the wind tiles. no doubt will be shown that in the hours of maybe days to come my mike had a reporting from the white house. thank you very much as go straight to patty. go, hey and patty, your, where is happening right now. you're at the capital one, sports arena. it's a couple blocks away from where we are. it's in central. washington dc is the main sports arena for the basketball team, the hockey team. but tonight, it really is the trump arena. that is where his supporters are waiting for him. tell us what you, what you see, what you hear, and what's going to happen. of the, i'm sorry, i just want to tell you. so what is talking about here. so i missed part of your question, but yes, this is where the action is going to be taking place. i'm sorry. okay. this is

where they actually, that's going to be taking place. donald trump is ready by my estimation, about 2 hours late. these people have been filled and authoritative for since basically 7 morning. so fraud at 8910 hours now at face is basically what the parts of donald trump said. what's going to move inside because the temperature is so bitterly cold. just to give you a sense of the stadium seats about 20000 people, take it all your committee said that they expect give that to it gets to 220000 people. and so if, if that had gone through the would've been much smaller than his audience the last time we can, we know crowd size really matters to this president, to the point that he made the park service doctor the photos the last time such as press secretary out to say that it was bigger than a mom, is it all your ation? which sort of set the tone for his administration's dealings with the media going forward? so basically, right now we've heard from a lot of the mega stars,

people closest to the president, trump, the crew, eli mosque, who got a standing ovation. and were just sitting here now waiting to see what the president squared to say. i can tell you during his speech during his inaugural speech to people gathered here they were really excited, fired up because it seemed so much look more like a campaign speech that it did like normal and orders and speech. but they did get very excited when he promised to depart millions to use the military to do that, even though you can't technically do that, that they were going to close the border that the gender was a huge when they said, well now just be val, are female that got a huge round of applause along with the golf is america, and the panama canal. so people are ex, the saudis had about panama, panama. very excited about that idea here. but again, so far, just a lot of music, a lot of people sitting around waiting for hours to see the band that they traveled

. most of it traveled very far to come see um, earlier when i spoke to you, you told us that there's a desk on stage. i think it is what i can see on stage behind you in the distance. what is that for me? well, we don't really know, but it would seem likely that it's designed the executive orders. it does seem like a fairly small desk. let me get out of the way and see if we're off could show you the, the desk. so yeah, there's a podium on one side and then a desk on the other with the presidential seal. it's pretty small, but it does seem like maybe there's microphones there or that's either microphone or telephone or i can't quite make out what that is. but it does have the presidential seal so far, we're not see that he usually can get a sense of the crowd when the it seems like the perks of all the presidents on his way. so far not see the whole lot of activity. but again,

this just to give you just heads, this is my fist and all your issues that i've covered at this is for security that i have ever seen for and it all your issues, they're always very secure. but it every single street there were dump trucks, try to block the intersection, their police all over the place, national guard troops. and again, it is very, very frigid out. but that's what they say is the reason they moved it here inside chapel want to read us. so i got people waiting patiently. the, they were very hard to get this to happen. there's definitely a sense of indication when you talk to people in the crowd, they really expect donald trump to improve their daily lives and they really want to see mass deportation. they want to see they want to see just uh versus the equity of inclusion programs bad, which they looks like they will be. so again, a lot of people waiting a very long time, but hopefully their weight won't take that much longer. yeah, patti,

thank you very much. i need no convincing by the way that it's cold outside i'm. i'm fully aware of that fact. this is our camera crew and thank you very much great camera work showing us the desk. i'm really wondering whether there's a possibility that donald trump might end up signing executive orders there in front of 20000 people. i don't know, but we'll come back to you. patty. thank you very much. let's introduce our guests, petty grandy, peggy grand, a, sorry you were a republican national committee delegate in 2024 in milwaukee or california. so i last year also a former executive assistant to president reagan that was after his presidency. 19994199948 full decade, just interesting because it was the republican party for so long was called the party of reagan. so i got a question for you on that. as a recap, political, endless author of the g o. p. civil war inside the battle for the soul of the republican party. to that question, guess is it still the party and for on the right?

and i think it can be the party of reagan and trump, but it certainly is. trump's party now, and i had the pleasure of also serving as a political appointee for president trump. and there's many parallels not just the fact that the inauguration was moved inside today. but reagan came on, the hills of an era of malays and trumpets saying that the american decline is over . and so there's this resurgence we saw this optimistic language infused throughout his speech today. talking about the impossible is what americans do best. this is a revolution of common sense, and so he wants to be the party of unity, the party of inspiration, he wants the world to once again, trust us and follow us. and so i thought today was a beautiful, optimistic, very reagan us, but very trump in as well. address today. eric a or was it. busy a beautiful speech of unity. no, not at all, but it never was. i think it was a signature. donald trump speech, and i think it was a speech that donald trump,

supporters was could certainly get behind. we certainly get a sense of what he looks to do with many of these executive orders that he's planning on sign in today. and i think what we are saying here is this is a continuation of the campaign where he is going to focus on immigration. and while he certainly talk to in expansion, his terms about canada, greenland, and the panama canal, he's certainly going to continue that with his discussions today about the panama canal. again, i think we are, my supporters were changing in panama, panama. yeah, right. i mean we, we see the ideas and now it's about the implementation. and what does that look like? and more importantly, what will the course actually say about some of these executive orders that we're going to see from the president today? are you, are you seriously? are you excited about the idea of donald trump saying we're going to take back the panama canal and we don't even know what that will look like. well, you have to remember donald trump loves it, giving himself room to negotiate. he dreams big. he has big ideas and we know that

dollars, not all of those come to true exactly the way he lays them out, but he likes to give himself room to negotiate. and what he's saying is america needs to stop thinking small. i think he will press the ideas and maybe even our borders, but he loves people who dream big and he's challenging americans to once again dream big stopped during it, dreaming small, stops settling for less. he wants us to be ambitious. he says, let's be ambitious. let's dream again, let's anyway, let's reinvest in america. let's believe that we can do more than we have done in the past. and so those are things that not only his supporters have demanded from him to implement, but we'll look at this party now of unity, that's so much bigger. we saved sucker bird. we see must we see bays of we see people that were adamantly against him saying us, we're going to boy, we're going to believe what you say and we want to be part of it. and so that to me is exciting. and i think america should be very helpful and excited about the next 4 years. do they do they, do they believe what he said,

or they just recognize the political reality? there's a new boston town, there's a new president, he's republican, his name is donald trump. they have to contend with him for 4 years, whether they like it or not, much of the same way that they have to contend with joe biden, whether they liked it or not, some 4 years. it does seem to me, certainly for people have corporate and huge financial stakes that they are looking to protect their interests regardless of who's in charge. i think they do believe him because he has been present it before. he's not a hypothetical presidency. he has served this country before in a position of leadership. and now instead of having head winds at every turn, he's got tail ends and he's got a mandate from the american people, not of the electoral vote, but the popular vote to implement what he is laid out is his vision. and there's a lot of unlikely um, previous opponents who are joining him this time during his address, trump said that he will sign a series of executive orders including on immigration by declaring a national emergency at the southern board. fall illegal entry will immediately be

halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. we will reinstate my, remain in mexico policy and i was sent to the southern border to rebuild the disastrous invasion of our country. so let's go to how do those castro, how do you live in texas at the us mexico border? so what are we going to see happened over the next few days? donald trump said that he was gonna send the troops, and of course i know he haven't signed the executive orders yet, but he said he's sending troops, he's shutting down the border. he's declaring it a national emergency. what is that going to look like on the ground? to 0. likely, that would mean the deployment of more national guard troops here in the colon, taxes, and along the us mexico border. similar to what we saw in 2019 when trump did this

same thing the 1st time around. but it's interesting, you just heard him call this scene behind me, supposedly an invasion. but in reality, there's really not much going on in terms of people trying to cross, even in the last few days that we've been here. the numbers have been very low. in fact, the lowest they've been in for years. and that is a fact that trump leaves out of his speeches, frankly. but as far as the deployment of national guard troops, i've checked with the mayor of the city macallan. i've checked with border patrol here. they're saying they're still waiting to see what happens because like, like you said, it really depends on that. and you know, signing trumps name to make this order effective. but notably, i have seen some steering's around town. in fact, i saw national guard troops and during a hotel a next to where we're staying in the calendar. so this would not be their 1st time around. there's a playbook that these troops could follow. and once they are deployed here,

then it gets interesting because what is there for them to do when there are so few people making the attempted crossing last time we saw them, you know, standing around there was a lot of, frankly, a lot of board of even national guard troops saying that it was a toll on their mental health. but this is the picture that trump wants to start his 2nd term with, with a bang, saying that there is a national emergency here along the southern border and making military assets deployable to cancer. that whether or not this emergency will stick, we'll have to see because it's hard for him to justify there being an emergency when the numbers are so low and he would, he would have to justify that if this is challenged in a court of law 0, the heidi. busy i'm a, by the way, just let you letting you know, i want to acknowledge the live footage that we're getting in right now. just before i get to the 2nd question,

we're seeing donald trump and we're seeing also the 1st lady, milan. ja trump. so several more things were expecting from trump. today he's going to go to a capital one sport. serena he's going to addressing, he's going to be addressing the crowds, his supporters there, and we are waiting for the signing moment, right? this is going to be the main executive moment of the day now that he's president, when he's going to sign these presidential, either executive orders or proclamation or declaration. everything that you know is in his speech, including the board of policies, the id was just talking about. he needs to sign the documents. i don't doubt that it's going to happen, but it hasn't happened yet. and we are, of course, keeping a very close eye on these live pictures. heidi, as we do that, i do want to ask you, because you've done a lot of reporting at the border, is there a deterrent effect? because that is something that donald trump was banking on in his 1st term that if

he signaled that he was shutting down the border, then people would stop coming. what's the track record on that? a yeah, there's certainly an argument to be made about that 0. and in fact, just a few days ago, we were in the humanitarian migrant shelter. here in macallan, who said, there are some people still in the waiting days of, of the bite. and ministration of course, were being allowed across the border. and some of them told us in fact, that their timing was time to the day of now they want it to cross the border before january 20th because they knew donald trump would be returning to office. and because of that rhetoric, he said that his 1st action would be to shut down the border and we've seen evidence of that happening. and so those people decided to cross without authorization. in those final days of slide is administration. of course we'll have to steve any try and i'm sure there will be some who attempt to cross. now,

despite these actions that trump this down taking yeah, we're going to see how that plays out over the next few days. i visual castro reporter, texas. the us mexico border. thank you very much. we're going to go even as we keep watching this for days, we're going to go to the mexican border city. now i still want to so in other words, on the other side of that boy, at the border where heidi was nowhere in mexico without your 0 as john holman, john donald trump referenced mexico and his speech. he said, we're going to bring back the, remain in mexico policy. that is the policy whereby when asylum seekers come to the us, they are sent back to mexico while they wait for a decision on their asylum request. so in other words, they don't wait in the united states, they are sent back to mexico. he made that pretty clear in his speech that it was a policy he had and he wants to bring it back. have you seen and have there been

any immediate changes since donald trump made his announcement a couple hours ago about the border of the have been some immediate changes 0, but just going back to what you were talking about. then i guess the remaining mexico disease set up to now the situation has been that you get your side of appointment. well that price is goes on, which contact is you can wait in the united states. now instead, the dice changed the guy because at donald trump, the re enacting and pull the sites that you had during his 1st administration, people are going to have to watch him next skirt if this plays out. the problem with that, and it's something that we documented during the 1st president trump administration, is it these know them for the cities in mexico are often quite that dangerous. there's a lot of criminal grades, so pray take steering t for an up and so you have a lot, a little right and also cities intimately post grouchy,

went that way. people were being systematically, kids not too much as soon as they crossed back into the bridge into mexico, off to that 1st i saw them appointment. so it's gonna have to be a way that makes car deals with that and which perhaps the united states gets to deal with that. how can those people be kept safely? mr. kerry said that so you know, actual decision from the us to bring back the remaining max code a system book, they'll have to see how the country adapts to it. so mr. hudson projected that they just gonna have to see how they implemented as john, home and reporting from don't want to mexico. thank you very much. we will continue to examine what the consequences are going to be of donald trump's, the upcoming executive orders in new policies on the border and on immigration. before we go back to that, i do want to acknowledge the live pictures list listed as donald trump. the 40 seven's president of the united states reviews the troops,

the explanation on what you're seeing and full transparency. this actually took me by

surprise. the reason being that ordinarily you would see the parade to that is actually part of what we're watching. think you would see the parade play out in a very different setting because it would be outside. and we haven't seen an indoors evaluation ceremony for 40 years since i'm a regular since ronald reagan, the 2nd ceremony in the 1985. but what normally happens as part of the nor duration day is that there is a parade. and at the top of the parade, you would see military regiments. so i believe that is what we're seeing. now. you're dressed as you can see is revolution. here are soldiers, but typically you see military regiments, then you see citizens groups and so on. going down pennsylvania avenue to the white house, 1600 pennsylvania avenue, being the address, the postal address to the white house. so. so this is what we're seeing, but it looks different from years past because it's all happening indoors. this one is happening at the visitor's center of the capital building

the in the lawn neutrons reviewing the troops as part of the parade happening in doors this year for the 1st time since 1985 that spring our panel back. you never can

thank you. grand a every we, we were talking about the border, but this is true, but other policies as well. one thing that's different is the donald trump, this time knows how to work the system. he knows how to work government, he knows how to work. washington dc. the rules is especially on the border on the issue of the border, whether it's building the wall, whether it's deportations, whether it was a ban on people coming into the country. in his 1st presidency, he had so many legal challenges it took him. there are some things he wanted to do, he couldn't do, and some things he wanted to do. it took him 2 years, such as, for instance, declaring a national emergency of the border. and that's how he got funds to build a wall, which he couldn't appropriate through congress, etc. now they want it's done. well, that's true. but there are still areas where he is going to need congress because he's going to need resources. for example, we know that he wants to do these mass before patients, which are expected to be upwards of

a $100000000000.00. he's going to meet the money appropriated by congress. now he's got the money. when you declare a national emergency, when you still need the resources, you still need the appropriations on say and, and particularly for what she wants to do with mass, the port taishan that's going to require an enormous amount from congress. he certainly has the numbers, but of course in the house of representatives with such a small margin right now, it's unclear if he can actually, if he actually has the votes in the house in particular for what his borders are. tom homan certainly wants to do. it's peggy, i'm mindful of the fact that we, we said earlier, you're from california. donald trump mentioned in his speeches 2nd speech of the day. and i don't know if you caught this, but he's, he said we could get california. we meeting the republicans could win california. california hasn't been won by republicans and i don't know how long california is a democratic strong whole. do you see that happening? do you think that's possible?

i'm always the optimist. i know you're on the mistake, but we have had a republican governor, ronald reagan, we've had wilson, we've had arnold schwartzenegger. and if you look at where the pulling went in this last election, every county in california moved to the right. and so it is happening unfortunately, the disaster in my beloved los angeles with the fires is something that even people who are politically are very left of this president have looked and said, well, maybe we need to rethink this. and maybe we need to do things differently. i think is a donald trump will leverage the power of federal aid as well and say you have to get the policies right before you get some of those federal aid. and maybe that's a good thing and it will for some changes in california. i love california, but it's criminal. what has happened there from the left not planning and preparing for these emergencies that they knew were coming. donald trump, uh, did blame the less and the leadership currently place in california that the state level of the more local level. i believe it was his inaugural address if it was no,

sorry, it was the speech that he gave right after that and he went right into political attack mode. eric, do you think that's fair? well, whether it's fair or not, what we're saying, clear out in california is a direct result of climate change. and so we know. busy that donald trump's policy, well peggy would tell you it's a result of mismanagement. well if they believe it's climate change, then they should have prepared adequately for it. if the climate has changed, then they should have adjusted to california would tell you that that's what they've been doing with eric. sorry, that is already on. that's absolutely right. and i think what we're thing now is donald trump's policies on climate are certainly going to come under the spotlight . in fact, what we're seeing right now is many of these executive orders that donald trump is going to sign and will be to undo a number of those borders. a number of those policies that were implemented by the find administration. and we know the binding ministration was very aggressive on this issue of climate. and so i think what we're going to see now is a pushing pool between the federal government led by donald trump and many of those

space that actually wants to see the country do more, not less on this issue of climate policy. but since we're on climate, donald trump says that he's pulling us out of the paris climate. of course he did that in his 1st term. he's going to do it again. it you most comfortable with that? just real quick before hand it back to don't. yeah, i think donald trump believes that and others in the court are not living up to their side of the agreement. and so if there is no agreement and no action on that is there's no point in being part of it. so or i think that was something that we knew was coming from donald trump project, even with the d. v. rollbacks that were saying from him course that could be problematic for one of his biggest supporters. the law most very true. eric ham. peggy, randy, thank you very much for joining us with the the news our and that's it from our little corner of washington dc, our rooftop studio overlooking the campus.