♪ well, day one of the second trump administration is nearly done. we just watched maybe the moment of the we just watched the newly minted couple watching and for the first dance of this administration. and while celebrations here in washington will run long into the night, there's a palpable anxiety about what is already transpired and what will happen when the country wakes up tomorrow. the world health

organization now cannot count the united states among its members, gone, are the 78 biden era executive actions, things that brenda things like sex determination or allow transgender people to serve in the armed forces. and if you wanted a government job, maybe too bad for you, there is a federal hiring freeze now in effect and those federal employees are now expected to be back in the office. there's also officially apparently a gulf of america, renaming the gulf of mexico. there were 10 threats, there's no more paris accord, there is a national energy emergency, it's likely to fuel and oil rush, there still tiktok, too, for 75 more days, at least. and tonight we are keeping our eyes trained believe it or not, on a jail here in the capital where we see the beneficiaries of trump's first pardons on his very first day in office, the january 6th rioters, the

president called these people who made plea deals or were convicted by their peers, he called them hostages and he did so in front of an israeli who was held captive by hamas. a real hostage, the families of others are still held by hamas as we speak tonight. >> i want to go to donnie o sullivan his outside the detention center, for some of the -- they might be released this very night, what is happening? >> that's right, i mean, just an incredible scene, people who have been campaigning for the release of these january 6th convicts, have been gathering for more than 900 nights outside this jail and finally, the campaign is coming to an end because they are expecting perhaps even any moment now, some of the convicts to walk

out of these stores. it's still unclear to us precisely when the folks will be released, but look, i mean it's incredible, what we've heard from the activist who have been here for many years now and they wanted everybody to have pardons they wanted violent, nonviolent, the proud boys, the oath keepers, but there was some nervousness in recent months, given that even some republican said violent protesters shouldn't be pardons, i think there was a surprise and a delight here, this evening, when it was announced that trump was basically pardoning everybody and some of the folks are still gathered here if you want to take a look some folks waiting on folks to be released, there's also some counterdemonstrators, and allowed -- a large police presence. and we've been speaking to one of the inmates

inside there, rachel powell, she was convicted on multiple accounts for what she did on january 6th, including breaking a window at the capitol, she called us from inside the jail, she's delighted and she wants to get out tonight and she said if she gets out tonight, she hopes to make it to one of the inaugural balls, now it's still not clear if folks are going to come through these doors or night, certainly none of these people are leaving until tomorrow, really, it's just stunning, for even the activists involved in this. >> of course, all the resources invested in doing the prosecutions at this point, to see what is happened tonight, thank you so much, abby? >> joining us is bill stepping, the former campaign for donald

trump in 2020 and he was supposed by the january 6th committee and who was part of the video testimony that played during the hearings. bill, basically what happened today, if we are being honest is that donald trump pardoned almost everyone, the violent ones, the ones who broke and entered, the ones who use weapons to break into the capitol, virtually all of them, and a handful more, their sentences work commuted with the possibility that they could be pardons, are you surprised that he went that far? >> i think pardons are always optically messy and a little unseemly, but i would also say democrats lost a ton of moral high ground when biden pardoned hunter, which is why putting aside legal argument, it was bad politics that boyden -- biden foisted upon them, trump was upfront, he played videos and songs, celebrating the

prisoners at many of his rallies and then what happened, america didn't penalize him at the ballot box, america didn't slap him down in november, they voted for him in november, would you expect them to not issue these pardons, after receiving that reaction? >> i mean, actually, yeah. i mean, bill, -- the voters -- >> bill, do you really think that pardoning people who assaulted police officers with a fire extinguisher is the same thing, even as pardoning hunter biden, as distasteful, ethically wrong or whatever that might be, putting that aside, are you really saying those are the same thing? >> i would ask, what personal benefit does donald trump get

from these pardons, none, does joe biden get personal benefit from his pardons? yes. what political benefit -- >> so you are actually saying that this is actually less significant thing, to pardon these violent criminals? >> i know it's very strange for politicians to talk about something on the campaign trail and then actually get into office let alone on day one and actually do it, that's what's happening here, he talked about this, i'm surprised anyone is surprised, i'm surprised that you are surprised. >> one of the reasons i'm surprised, last week, you know, his nominee, one of his nominees said that she didn't

think that donald trump liked people who assaulted police officers. she said, she didn't think that they would be on the list of people who were pardons, that turned out to be completely incorrect. it used to be, an article of faith that the republican party backed the blue, what happened to that? >> well, i've worked for donald trump long enough to know that you should never get in front of the president and his plans, look, president trump stood up those against the police, don't forget, abby, in september, vice president harris didn't get the fop endorsement, the largest organization of cops, donald trump did, so i think donald trump is reeling into that endorsement. >> what i'm reading a lot into are the images that you are not able to see but we can see of police officers fighting for their lives, and now vice president jd vance last week said, people who committed violence on january 6th, obviously shouldn't be

pardoned. they were pardons today. one more thing, i want to play for you something that donald trump said yesterday and today, about the election in 2020, listen. >> i like to think back to the past i said if only the election weren't raked, all of the things that would have happened it would have been so good but it was, we are not going to let that happen again. >> 2020, by the way that election was totally right but that's okay. it was a rigged election. you know the only thing good about it, it showed how bad they are. >> i believe in the sanctity and this was to break -- too big to read. really the opposite. >> and i should note, that the second of those clips was donald trump speaking in the very capital that was ransacked. you pointed out that

he doesn't gain anything financially but he certainly gains a lot politically, by rewriting the history of that day. what are the consequences, bill, do you think, for the country, that now, the president has said, there are no consequences for breaking into the capital, trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power and doing it on my behalf. >> america benefits when we look forward and not back to 2020, i think president trump benefits when we look forward to the now and the future as opposed to looking backwards. these pardons are not popular, seven in 10 republican support pardons but republicans are usually 90-10, if you consider this a base issue, two in three independent voters oppose these pardons, to me, this is not a political benefit to trump, if anything, it's something that is going to ding him politically, not help them. >> we will soon find out. inks for joining us.

our panel is here in the studio, your thoughts? >> to the victor goes spoils, donald trump has had a campaign that said for your half what he was going to do and i will say, democrats, had an opportunity to draw and contrast the argument for why they thought it was wrong and they attempted to do so and ultimately the voters have the opportunity to assess all of this and they made a decision that ultimately led to donald trump going back to the white house. we can debate about the morality of this or the ethics of this, i think if we are being honest, if you were to sit down with average americans and you were to draw a contrast with the slew of issues those individuals were facing in their day-to-day lives, i wonder, where does this rank? >> isn't that the point,

you're using the election to justify his pardoning, even though, it's also true that the top issues for the american people were immigration and the economy, this does not rank so the end of -- the id that they endorse this. >> has we moved into the election and did focus groups, folks forgot about january 6th and when you asked what they would care about it was gas and groceries and today, they are sitting here and we had a peaceful transfer of power, republicans are having their heyday, but the american people, when they went and voted, they want their gas and groceries to be cheaper. >> if i'm in the political shop at the white house and i know the president is absolutely going to do this, donald trump will do what he wants to do, that i'm assessing this i'm saying let's just get this over with now, so that in week three or four, month or two, we've moved onto another issue, so we can focus on other things like gas and the cost of groceries. >> you know, i am disappointed by these pardons but i am not surprised because he did commit

that during the campaign, and on this network, scott and i debated a lot about whether democracy was going to be a ringing theme that penetrated in the electorate, and it didn't for democrats, but i think this action and i sat on here and i will continue to say that i think this action is a threat to democracy. democracy does not die with one fatal blow, it dies by 1000 cuts, it dies by pardoning over 1500 today, that's 1500 cuts to democracy. we are talking a lot about pardons today and we will talk about the 14th amendment but let me tell you a couple of other things donald trump did in executive orders when you talk about helping the american people. he took away protections for workers, he took away the ability to strengthen medicaid, poor people, working-class people who voted for trump need medicaid and the affordable

care act and people said when they realized there healthcare was obamacare, they didn't want trump to take it away, he took away continuing to strengthen americans access to quality healthcare, he took away lowering prescription drug costs and prices for america. those are things that the american people wanted donald trump to do and instead he did something, he did an attack on our democracy by pardoning them and use doing things that is going to make their cost of living higher and he did one other thing, he took away the neighborhood partnerships and office that your boss created, that many people in the middle of america we had a lot of talk about god and scripture quoting and all of that and he took away the office in the federal government that works with faith based institutions. there's a lot of show that

donald trump does, a lot of dancing to ymca, but he still hurting american people and that was the message that democrats were not able to land and make clear but the clock has started to take any has to make good on his promises and the show is not going to end well for him. >> i would argue, he has every right to do all of those things, and that is well within the bounds of the things that any republican probably might want to do, but, that is the difference, right, between what you are talking about and the other thing. >> but is that what the voters wanted him to do. >> i appreciate your spin on everything but i would respectfully point out that republicans don't think we need a bureaucracy to intervene with us with the almighty. >> but your boss created that office. >> you are acting like this is -- >> george w. bush. >> we did okay. donald trump today, we spent 99% of our time today, and democrats that 99% of their time focusing on

january 6th. and i would humbly and respectfully submit to you all that if this is the conversation you intend to have an the script you intend to read for the next four years you will continue to get politically punished by the american people who are desperate to look into the future and not continue to ring their hands -- >> listen -- >> i agree. >> the only person who brought this up today was donald trump. he was the one who put on the agenda. he was the one who pardoned all these people. he did not have to do that. >> but he promised he would do that. >> why isn't he looking forward? >> i think what he would say is i'm trying to put this behind us and democrats and the media are continuing to make this the center of our national political conversation. >> tomorrow donald trump will still talk about him winning the 2020 election and talk about january 6th. it was a terrible day and i know you agree but what i'm charging democrats to do is don't lose focus. he still doing things that people who voted for him, it's not going to make their quality of life any better.

>> i disagree with that. >> the focus on immigration makes the quality of life better. >> i promised that we would do this so i'm going to make sure we do it. chuck you will be my victim now. joe biden , he did some extraordinary things this morning. really, historic and not in a good way. and he did muddy the waters on pardons, why did he do that? >> there people around him in the white house, who wanted things like this to happen but as a democrat he's got to run midterms in 30 congressional races, now i've got to go defend this in political ads, they will make all of these congressional's that piece, this piece that kind of muddied the job creation, unemployment,

but he did a lot of good things but people will talk about the exit and that's what will stick with me in the midterm elections. >> can someone tell me what crimes mark milley committed? no one? >> what crimes? >> what crimes did he commit that trump thinks he should be prosecuted for? no one? so why does donald trump keep talking about prosecuting someone -- >> did he get a pardon? >> he did get a pardon. donald trump, today, laura just played the clip , he was attacking milley, he took his picture off the wall. >> i'll tell you one thing -- >> he has said that he thinks that milley should be tried for treason. >> he thinks that milley was undermining him when he was the commander-in-chief. >> is that a crime? >> i'm sure it ain't good. >> listen, this is the

fundamental issue that we face as a country. they are crimes and they should stand but when someone like donald trump is willy-nilly accusing everybody and their mother that he does not like of crimes, that is deeply problematic and also undermines the system. what are we going to do about this question mark >> one could make the same argument that that democrats did the same thing against the president, they could point his children or others around him, who were not found guilty of crimes and i saw a lot of that. but the premise of your question was, donald trump saying this person did something illegally, my pushback is democrats also made similar arguments on the campaign trail. donald trump's children were never prosecuted or charged with crimes. donald trump, okay, donald trump, you

said, and cited in insurrection, you wrote that down, so he was investigated and charged for that. >> i'm saying -- >> he took classified documents that belong to the united states government, he was investigated and prosecuted for that. >> but not found guilty. >> of course, you're arguing that this is just people throwing charges that trump. he did something, he was investigated, charged, the process actually went through and it was thrown out, so it's not the same thing as him saying, liz cheney, she should go to jail. you can at least admit that, right? >> this is what i will submit, when people wake up tomorrow and have to put gas in the car, they have to go to the grocery store, they don't care what donald trump said about liz cheney or milley or anybody,

they want donald trump to figure out a way to bring the cost down, and it is going to be important for republicans to tackle some of those things particularly with these softer republican voters, of color, men, black, hispanic, latino women, if we a cop is that, the president is moving in the right direction. but these other things, i'm not convinced that people are focused on them. >> you are seeing right there, president trump, at the liberty bowl, one of the other balls that happening tonight, walking out on the stage with first lady melania trump, whose who of tech ceos at trump's inauguration including elon musk, the question is just how much does he have trump's here and will he have in the next four years. that's next.

you're watching president trump and the first lady, melania, and the entire family at their second party of the night , the liberty ball, and a day of images worth 1000 words, take a look at this one. if you add up the net worth of everyone in this picture, it's closing in on $1 trillion . mark zuckerberg, jeff bezos, google ceo, elon musk is there as well, just a few feet away from donald trump during his own swearing-in ceremony, other tech titan's weren't that far away, apples tim cook, openai ceo sam altman and tiktok ceo as well, they were all there, all there, by the president of the united states. musk, though, really is in the

category of his own, he even got a speaking role at the capital one arena today. >> my heart goes out to you. it is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured. and we are going to take doge to mars! i mean, can you imagine, how awesome it'll be to have american astronauts plant the flag on another planet, for the first time? yeah! >> well mark caputo is back and tim is here as well, let me go to you first, as we hear unchained melody in the background. >> everly brothers. >> for me, it's patrick swayze

in ghost. >> mark, you in danger girl, elon musk has been on the white house grounds tonight, it's cold, we've got to do this. talk about the amount of power that he might wield in the west wing? >> he already has a tremendous amount of power because donald trump prizes elon musk above anyone else currently, donald trump, what he really loves is guys who make money and this is a guy who has made more money i think than anyone else has, and then, just in case he is not wealthy enough, he's got these other insanely wealthy guys around him. trump is feeling it, and elon musk has his ear. what elon musk wants, assuming donald trump won, they will do the best job they can to make it happen. >> it was supposed to be a co-leadership with vivek ramaswamy, seems like he's out, does that mean that doge will be fully in the hands of elon musk? >> basically, yeah, it was all

along and elon musk idea and vivek ramaswamy needed a job and things didn't work out so he's no longer with doge. >> there's this discussion of course biden in his final oval office address, talked about the threat of oligarchs, in the context of a democracy that he was concerned about. i showed you all that picture of all of these people, in silicon valley, their huge multimillionaires, does that really fuel even further that threat for the oligarchs? >> it doesn't just fill it, it establishes it. i've been thinking about a similar tableau, if we wanted to have something like this, i was thinking what would you need to have, in the 1950s, it would be all of the ceos of the steel companies because in that era, u.s. steel was king and there was a concern about collusion and in fact, there was, you

would never have them turn up at a presidential inauguration and you wouldn't have them intermixed with members of the cabinet in the 70s you would have the seven sisters, could you imagine if the ceos of all the oil companies, came to the presidential inauguration and sat in the front row? you know, think about the marxist disinformation about the united states, the soviet union always put out the idea that these ceos -- >> i want to listen into what trump is saying. >> it began very early and then we decided you know, we made a good decision by the way, doing it in the rotunda as opposed to in about 4 degrees with the windchill factor, that would not have been pretty. and you know, did you ever speak in really cold weather? you can't, they would say, the fake news over there they would say,

he's cognitively impaired, there's something wrong with him. so we didn't want to give him the chance to do that, we had a great time, we have 72 degree temperature in the rotunda, we have the people that we needed and we have the people that we need tonight because you guys are unbelievable and we love you all and we said a lot of things today, i think we got tremendous reviews on the speech and you know, i wanted to put in some really rough stuff and all of my people including jd, they said, you know, let's not put that paragraph in, i love that paragraph, there was a paragraph on biden shouldn't be pardoning his family, and we had a couple of others that were far worse than that, but they said you know the speech is so nice and it's so unifying, i said all right, we will do it, i'll do it about two hours later so we've been

doing it all night long, but you know, we are going to turn this country around and fast . we have assets like nobody else, number 1, we have our people, that's the greatest asset, the people of our country, and i have a great family, i really do, i just look around, my son, eric has been so incredible, where married to a woman who became the head of the republican party -- >> we've been hearing iterations of this speech throughout the day, and of course during the day today at his swearing-in, i do see behind them, some famous characters, seem to be comprised, the village people, the ymca song being one of the signature tunes on the campaign trail. i want to go back to our colleague, and historian,

timothy naftali, the idea of the oligarchy and who is present with him -- >> i thought you're going to ask me about the village people. >> if you want to talk about that as well -- >> that is the funniest use of a song that has so many different meanings. >> well now, it seems petty. >> here's the point, it's incredible that the most important industry in the united states, okay, i mean, arguably, silicon valley, the source of so much of the important disruption, the good disruption going on, that those people should be there, at this inauguration, and they have two important sources of power, one, is there technological capability, the other is their ability to control speech, and what is worrying to me is not so much how many more government contracts they will get because they already have a lot and they are billionaires to begin with, it's the extent

to which they could do, if they wanted to, what viktor orban and vladimir putin, i'm not an alarmist, but other countries we've seen the far right, they've developed a system, to limit speech and if there any people who can limit speech, it is those men, they are all men, who are standing up for the president today. >> there's the idea of the quote unquote, common everyday person that trump has been trying to appeal to and then you've got the contrast of the people surrounding him, it might be that they become less of a symbol of alienating wealth and more of aspirational wealth for some people but you've been watching the comings and goings of people to mar-a-lago for very long time, including in that space, but there are people who are not in line with what trump believes about musk and i'm talking about steve bannon, for example. i want to play for everyone what you said about

him in an interview just recently. >> he just the maga movement as being racist to the old trope that the lefts said, these oligarchs in the silicon valley, they have a different view of how people should govern themselves, i call it techno-feudalism, they don't believe in the underlying tenets of self-governance. >> steve bannon is delivered -- revolutionary, he usually finds enemies in his own camp when there's no one to fight and when vivek ramaswamy and elon musk came out in favor of the h1b visas, that put a clear target . in the maga movement, even beyond that, and labor, the way in which these visa programs have been administered or described is unpopular. bannon is on the side of the base and bannon knows that and

he believes eventually, donald trump is going to come his way and not elon musk sway. >> mark and tim, thank you both so much, much more live cnn coverage from the second trump inaugural . ♪ ♪

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we are keeping our eye on these inaugural balls that are taking place tonight all over washington, the president and the first family, just at their second ball of the night, the liberty ball. in the meantime, one of president trump's executive orders begins this fight over his attempt to scratch out a piece of the constitution that outlines birthright citizenship. elliott, this will not come as a surprise to you, if you've been listening to conservatives for some time now, i've had one particular conservative who actually, i'm not sure would be covered by birthright citizenship under the way this is written, vivek ramaswamy argued that the 14th amendment doesn't apply to immigrants. what do you make of the way they wrote this and where it's going to go from here? >> i think he's wrong, and that's be clear, what power

does the president have? the president can issue executive orders unless he's number 1, doing somebody else's job or doing the job of the courts or reaching too far, the language of the constitution is quite clear about citizenship of the united states, it says all persons born or naturalized in the united states are citizens of the united states, that's right out of the 14th amendment. >> this is the part that's in the middle there, which is, subject to the jurisdiction there in. i want to be clear that they are disputing, they're saying, if you are a diplomat, you are not subject to the jurisdiction so therefore your kids are not citizens of the united states, does that apply here? >> i would say it does not. and reports have held that it does not. >> when you are the child of a diplomat, you are subject to your countries jurisdiction. that's part of the long-standing thing in the united states, united states

law enforcement, on the embassy, the can't -- >> but if your parents are the citizens of another country and they are here illegally and, wouldn't that also make them subject to the laws, i mean, i'm just asked >> not under the diplomatic arrangements that happen on the grounds of an embassy. if somebody is a diplomat ambassador, you know, they are not subject to the jurisdiction. >> they wouldn't, i don't think they would want that to be the interpretation of that clause, that would mean that if you are a citizen of a foreign country and you're in the united states, you are not subject to the jurisdiction of american laws? that's not what we want in this country. >> it's not what we want in this country, virtually every scholar who has looked at this thus far has said that this runs afoul of the law, that's of course say that it does and

they've got to file the lawsuits to see what happens but this is as aggressive and as much testing the boundaries of the 14th amendment. and again, the language is clear, they're all sorts of places in the constitution of american law where there's ambiguity, there's no ambiguity on the 14th amendment. >> but scott, you brought up, the eo that he signed about designating the cartels as terrorist organizations. you know, trump once to do this, i'm not sure he's going to get a lot of opposition to it, to be honest. >> he was asked, could you envision sending special forces to go after the cartels in mexico and he said well you never know what might happen. so for people, who live all over this country with this drug crisis that we have, and have been waiting for some kind of aggressive action and pushback about where it comes from, he's going to give it to them. as a political matter and

a policy matter, that will ring very well for people in the interior of the united states who seen this drug crisis -- >> the problem is connecting these two, and donald trump's mind, the birthright citizenship of my grandparents, and that because they came here undocumented that i shouldn't have birthright citizenship and he also thinks because he has said this that maybe i got something to do with the cartels because i'm a brown man. now i agree and wholeheartedly think we should do something with the cartels, i can agree on that issue my problem is that he thinks that i'm that person because i'm a mexican, that's what my problem is. >> i don't think he believes that people who are u.s. citizens living here with ancestry or heritage are part of cartels, i think he thinks cartels coming in from mexico, sending drugs here are terrorist organizations and i think you are conflating immigration policy issues with clear terrorist activity and as

you pointed out, most americans could agree -- >> as a democrat i agree but it would also be beneficial of the countries to get rid of cartels, they have a significant amount of influence. >> they don't want the united states coming into their country and carrying out voluntary operations. >> there could be joint partnerships, talking about human trafficking, sex trafficking, or the drug industry, it's absolutely beneficial to the residents of those countries to live in safe communities. and i would hope that the president of mexico and the other countries would agree with the united states, we would love your assistance and your support in ridding our nation of these drug cartels. >> one of the things i find fascinating about this is that, the president can't override the constitution, right, and trump is testing that with this executive order on birthright citizenship. he is hoping that it goes up to the courts and that the supreme court that

many americans feel is overly politicized, will side with him and potentially -- and he's kind of doing it also with the tiktok eo, and there is a law, i like tiktok but there is a law -- >> the eo is in violation. so again, i'm not saying this should be the democratic talking point but those are chips at democracy because it's an overreach of the office of the president. >> did you think it was chipping away when joe biden tried to alter the constitution by his social media post last week? >> you are talking about the e.r.a.? >> the constitution altered by virtue of his statement. >> i thought it was peculiar, i thought what is happening here and i think he did it when he

did it because he knew it would go through the courts, but this is what i'm saying, i think we now have four years of this -- >> ashley -- >> i feel uncomfortable. >> tell us what's going on -- >> i'm so distracted. it's so red. >> i forgot that. i forgot that was even there. i'm a buckeye, class of 2005. he played football, basketball, baseball, at ohio state, and tonight is the only thing jd vance and i will ever agree on, our buckeyes won the national championship. >> congratulations, ohio state, thank you very much, coming up next, we will speak with one of the performers at tonight's liberty ball, what he says that he wants to see from the trump presidency.

inauguration day is turning into a glitzy night here in washington, d.c., with celebrations, live performances, they are well underway, trump putting on his dancing shoes to cap off his return to the white house. and join me now country music star parker maccallum, he's performing at the commander in chief ball tonight, parker, so good to meet you. you major big debut at the grand old opry, just a few years ago. would you ever imagine performing on a stage like this now? >> you know, i guess i kind of

always had it in the back of my mind a little bit but me and my guys have been so blessed and we feel like we've earned every stripe that we have, and try to continue to do so, so, i try never to let the moment get too big, act like you've been there, like my dad always tells me, tonight is no different. there are definitely some nerves with all the hype about everything but we are honored to be here. >> my dad used to say, i've been to plenty of places like this, always have that attitude. but this is an inaugural ball, carrie underwood, the legend of her own rights, said she was humbled to answer this call, how are you feeling tonight about this opportunity, how did it all come about, anyway? >> my brother-in-law, and my sister own the company called tech strategies and they are based out of austin, texas but they were here in washington years -- for years, they built it from the ground up and they

contacted him and he called me and said that they want you to play at the inauguration, and i bleed red white and blue, i love this country with every fiber in my body, so it's an honor for someone to even consider us for something like this and get to come out here and do it, it's a long-winded way of saying, no, i never thought i would be on a stage like this but i'm humbled and honored and looking forward to putting on a great show. >> i love that your family said, i know a guy, he happens to have number 1 hits but that's fine, i know someone, listen, you will be at the commander in chief ball, that honors military service members, does that hold greater meaning, you have the inaugural ball then you have one, honoring the military. >> yes ma'am, it hold a special place in my heart, like i said, i love this country, i'm a proud american so to get

the opportunity to come here and play some of my songs and maybe a couple of surprises in there, one or two, -- >> what kind of surprises, tell me now! >> i don't want to spoil it but we will close with a good one, one that i think the military personnel that's here tonight, one that they will really you know, feel and identify with. hopefully we made a good choice on the set list and remember all the words, the nerves are high for me, which is rare but i'm looking forward to it. >> carried performed a cappella so sometimes you've just got to pivot, do what you know how to do. some people like to stay away from politics in general and they don't want to have anything to do with that. what would you like people to know about why you want to be a part of the inauguration and do you have anything that you would like president trump to try and

accomplish this term? >> on the political side of things, i've got guys that work for me friends and family that you know kind of step to both sides of the aisle and i'm really big on , everybody comes from a different background, everybody's had different life experiences, thinks a different way, so, whatever side you vote for or whatever you want to call it, it just doesn't matter to me if your heart is good and you are working hard and you believe in this country. so i certainly was raised a certain way and i believe that very firmly and i always will but it doesn't make a difference to me, what side of the aisle that you are on as long as you are a good person with a good heart and i will stand on that until the end. you know as far as what i hope trump will accomplish, i hope unity in the country to be number 1 on the list for me, if you love america, it doesn't matter who's running it. you've got to be pulling for whoever is running it, whether you voted for him or not, you know, if you want to see the working man

and the working woman elevated in this country, and achieve the american dream, doesn't matter who's running the country, you've got to be pulling from everybody, we are all americans at the end of the day and that is really the thing i would like them to focus on the most, showing that we are not as different as we are made out to be these days. >> it sounds like parker maccallum, you have a what they call a pretty hard, see what i did there, thank you so much for joining us, have a great performance, we will be watching, thank you. >> yes ma'am, thank you, laura. >> that was fun to have him on. >> that was fun, what a day. >> what a night if this is day one, i hope you've got some caffeine -- >> look, my advice to the

american people today, get some sleep, take it in stride, it'll be for years, i covered the trump administration the first time, you've got to pace yourself for this one, it is going to be a very historic week in washington. >> if i were a runner i would say, it's a marathon not a sprint but i don't do that so i will just say good night to everyone, and thank you, abby, so great to have you on my friend. special coverage of the trump inaugural balls, much more coverage of this historic day right after this.

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they count that as 80. requiring federal workers return to the office five days a week. and that is in addition to orders trump is expected to sign later tonight. those include the formal declaration of a national emergency at the southern border and ending birth right citizenship. that of course is a right in the constitution that if you are born in the united states you