there they are what are they motivated by, there motivated by something we haven't talked about this country for a long time which is unbridled freedom again to speak in do, how good is that. >> is coming up 11:00 o'clock eastern time monday january the 20th it is inauguration day, very soon donald trump will take the oath of office for the second time to become the 47 president of the united states. then you will have remarks from inside of the capitol hill return., today is martin luther king jr. day, the market is closed. now this. it is almost over, joe biden's four years in the oval office is winding down the presidency has collapsed, for trump the inauguration marks the greatest political comeback in generations, biden and trump what a contrast for years ago trump skipped inauguration he

did not believe that biden one the gop launched and deserted him after generally six right he was hit with criminal charges but his engine support is never left him he declared his run for the presidency in november 2022, he jumped into the primary and defeated a dozen rivals and then despite all he won and won big. no president has come back like this from defeat since grover cleveland from over 100 years ago and you can understand why his supporters are celebrates and why president biden shows signs of bitterness and incarceratedder and saying his presidency collapsed and it's not an exaggeration and failure of policies and mental and physical decline have become more obvious since he first walked into the oval office. the tragedy is the failure of his party and family to get real. it took a disastrous debate to make his decline clear to all seven then, he held out for weeks before he angrily left the

race. today, he's reduced to pardoning the people he thinks trump might go after: anthony fourth quarter chips act, mark millie, and others from january 6. what a way to go out. it's no the a day to look back but looking forward. the sense of opt any of them and the 37th -- optimism and the 47th president about to be sworn in and you'll see it right here. brian, biden is out and time to look ahead for the next four years with donald trump hawaii do you expect? >> to me, the most exciting part of the day, i love the pump and sean, it's great. when those executive orders and gets out that pen and i'm hearing something like 200 executive orders on his plate today covering everything we've talked about from the border to gender ideology and economy and energy, you name it. that's the forward movement. that's the vehicle, and that to me sin credibly exciting for the folks that stuck with him as you talked about, they've been waiting a long time on the

issues to get real leadership again and they'll get it today. stuart: okay. steve forbes walked into the studio on a big day, shall we say. inauguration day. what are you expecting over the next four years, steve? >> i think there's going to be obviously setbacks along the way and getting off to this kind of start is essential. the left is going to fight this in the courts and the like, but what trump announced today ryan higgins not announced but indicated on tariffs they're going to tell you measuringed approach is reassuring to the world. a big thing coming up is what decision he makes on tax cuts. do you do it in a big omnibus bill or split it up? very, very critical with margins in congress. the key thing is that to get these pro growth things in place, especially a big fat tax cut, a beautiful tax cut, i think it's setting the stage for any kind of set backs and china will test them and putin will test them and so it's not going to be done overnight, but the

fact of the matter is he has an authority he didn't have in 2016, and that make as huge difference. the world sees him differently today than they did eight years ago, and europe is shadow, never was very much of a threat, i mean of strength but a shadow of what it was eight years ago and looking, japan looking for u.s. to do well economically, and they'll follow suit. if the programs work, they'll do what they did in the 80s after reagan with the tax cuts, they'll put their own in. stuart: tax cuts obviously are really important for the economy and the markets. tomorrow, it'll be the president, president trump meemeeting with house house and senate republicans and got to nail down the house republicans and ensure absolute unity. that's the only way to get the stuff through. >> that's right. stuart: how do you do with it a razor thin majority of republican s? >> not just with negotiations with the house republicans. it'll be public opinion behind him. ronald reagan often said the

best persuader in capitol hill was heat of public opinion. if he goes out and tells republicans, you're representatives are dragging their feet. they're going to feel the fire of public opinion, and that's the obstructing cerumen way they're going to get it. that's how reagan got it through in the early '80s when the establishment was against it and same kind of thing here. he'll turn to the public and support them in critical moments getting a big bill through. not enough to preserve a status quo of 2017 tax cuts and has to have new ones to get the economy moving and tariffs down the road. >> if he doesn't get tax cuts and if the tax cuts from trump is the previous administration are rescinded and a disaster for the market, isn't it? and the economy? >> we can see that through and play that game, but that's the lowest hanging fruit out there and unity amongst his constituents and to steve's earlier point, the court of public opinion is so in his

favor right now, you think about what happened with tiktok, a generation of voters are now on his side. my daughter told me last night, one of the first trends she saw on tiktok going live again was people saying the liberalism leaving their bodies. stuart: really? >> yeah, it's amazing and fascinating. stuart: whoa. >> what does that look like? stuart: brian, this is for you, you've been watching and seeing the biggest names in technology attending inauguration, jeff bezos, elon musk, tim cook and on and on. a lot gave money for inauguration fund. what did they get in return? >> it's the third time someone references mr. forbes comment on this, but those guy os reason the stage, one, because they'd like to be in good with donald trump but two, they're on that stage because they know public opinion has moved against a lot of luisa torr cal policy on speech and censorship and don't want to be on the wrong side of

the american public. donald trump is on the right side of the american public on that one. they're there and if you'd have told me eight years ago that zuckerberg, bezos, and others on that stage, they would have done something wrong to end up in that spot. stuart: how do you feel about trump issuing a new crypto coin? it'll dollar sign trump after that and going to be valued at $10 billion. brings in $10 billion or more hawaii do you think? >> we're at the front end of the biggest era of innovation and currency and like commodity holdings that we've maybe ever seen in our lifetime but maybe ever. now, my buying that i'm not an owner of the trump coin, okay. i love the fact that we're in a world where you can issue these things and we can start sorting out which currencies make sense and the one big failure in all

this is the federal reserve has caused people to lose confidence in the american dollar. stuart: steve forbes, what did you think of an incoming president that issues a coin on which he might make a great deal of money? i don't know how he gets the money or when, but he could get a ton of money hawaii do you think? >> gee, i wish i thought of that when i ran for president. [ laughter ] >> could have been rich. stuart: address the ethics of this. >> i wish he wouldn't do that and doesn't have to do that in terms of the future. he's got a lot to do with the whole bitcoin, crypto coin thing anyway. so i wish he'd -- he doesn't need to do it. in terms of currency, nay son's point is absolutely right. jason's point is absolutely right. rising and real alternatives in the next few years to the u.s. dollar and paper money from other governments. you're going to see a real reaction from the empire of the

federal reserve and other central banks and fighting that ferociously and the real -- whole reason bitcoin rose up, stuart u was high-tech cry for help for what governments were doing to the currencies. stuart: okay, we're watching people arrive into the rotunda building for the wearing in. we're looking at family -- squaring in and looking at family. i saw eric and barron trump bringing up the rear. he stands out because he's 6'9 tall. that's eric and there's barron trump. interesting character. don't know much about him, but he's 6'9 and everybody knows that. i think they're almost all assembled now in the building. the swearing in will begin very shortly but they've got to get it all in the right place. there's some -- >> packed very tightly in that room. they weren't planning on cramming 650 into that room when all this started. stuart: that's right. it was not going to be indoors and radically reduced the number of people to be right there.

>> look how jammed in they are. there's not an inch of space between anybody. stuart: that's the ticket of the country to be there. i would imagine, sir. that's tim walls -- sorry -- >> mike waltz. stuart: yeah, standing uptaking pictures of the crowd. burgum. they're all there and now we're just waiting for the president and -- to walk n. and it's the supreme court chief justice that does the swearing in. >> roberts for trump and cavanaugh for vance. stuart: okay, and they're all there now. ashley webster joining us from afar. can you hear us? what are you seeing so far? ashley: you know, i've got several emotions. one, relief that we now know who's in charge in the oval office after years of not knowing who's pulling all the springs in there. but also optimism. there's -- we talked about it a lot, but we have a president who's coming in and he's done

this before. before covid hit, we had an economy that was at a 50-year high. i think there's a lot of optimism of what he can do and yes, we'll have a lot of hurdles, but also struck and i don't know if you noticed as previous presidents and first ladies were walking in. barack obama by himself. where is michelle obama? i don't believe her office has given a reason why she's not showing up, but it was very telling to me as he walked in by himself. stuart: ashley, thank you. i'm going to take full sound for a moment. let's listen in to what it sounds like inside that building as we wait for the swearing in. ♪ ♪ stuart: close to the swearing

in. we are close indeed. >> i believe i saw him. stuart: yeah, javier mile from venezuela is there. there they are. >> scott bessent, had a great day for the senate. stuart: rubio is there. there's bezos. earlier we saw a poll that 60%

say they were optimistic about the future under trump. 40% said they were pessimistic. that's a remarkable turn around. gop pollster mitchell brown with us this morning. mitchell, 60/40 optimistic, pessimistic, is that how your poll sees it? >> mine is a bit higher and people are ready for this. this is a water shed moment. they understand that trump got to do his job and learn what happens for the president and understand what's going for that and people understand he can actually dot things that he wants to do. we are going to attack the border, we're going to attack creating the healthier food system and bunch of things with people excited to happen to in a couple hours. >> yeah, every time he's

announced new appointment or going to lead an agency, there's a slight tick. this is what people voted for, this is the mandate. people that are going to shake this system up in a couple of hours for the executive orders. stuart: let's listen in for a moment. i hear the music playing. watch the people assemble. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the 42nd president of the united states, the honorable will gentleman j. clinton, accompanied by the honorable hillary rodham clinton. ♪ ♪ stuart: just noticed dan that white in the blue shirt and red

tie. he's greeting the clintons. smilesall around. smiles all around. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemens, the 43rd president of the united states, honorable george w. bush accompanied by mrs. laura bush. ♪ ♪

stuart: ladi system of articulan ladies and gentlemens the 45th president of the united states, honorable barack obama. ♪ ♪

>> ladies and gentlemen, the chief justice of the united states, the honorable john g. roberts jr. and associate justices of the supreme court of the united states. ♪ ♪

>> tiffany trump and baron trump. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, escorting dr. biden is mr. emhoff, director of joint committee on inaugural ceremonies, ms. emily leviner. the honorable gary myrick and house of representative chief administration officer catherine spindor and mr. bruce fisher.

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and america's tenor christopher d. maccio. ♪ o, america, you're calling i can hear you calling me: you are are calling me to be true to thee ♪ ♪ true to thee' i will be o, america no weeping let me heal your wounded heart ♪

♪ i will keep you in my keeping till there be' a new start ♪ ♪♪ ♪ from your mountains grand, and

all through this land you are beautiful to me ♪ ♪ and' o, america you're calling i can hear you calling me: you are calling me to be true to thee true to thee' i will be ♪ and we will be your voice ♪

♪ you are beautiful to me ♪ ♪ o, america you're calling i will ever answer thee ♪ [ applause ]

>> the honorable jackie barber, clerk of house of representatives, hob honorable kevin f. mccome bernards healthcare, mr. john bessent herrera, mrs. kelly johnson, mrs. schummer and mrs. jennifer scalise.

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>> ladies and gentlemen, escorts the president of the united states and vice president of the united states, ranking member of the joint committee and the honorable deb fischer, house leader hakeem jeffreys and senate majority secretary ron inertial robert duncan. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, the honorable joseph r. biden jordy and vice president of the united stateses the honorable kamala davie harris.

♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, escorting the vice president elect, the executive director for the joint congressional committee on inaugural service connected missouris, senate deputy sergeant in arms jason bell and house deputy sergeant in arms mr. sean catting.

sean keeting. [ trumpets playing ] >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president elect of the united states, the honorable jd vance. [ cheering and applause ] [ band playing ] ♪ ♪

♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, escorting the president elect, the staff director for the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, elizabeth farrah, house sergeant in arms, honorable william, and honorable jennifer a. hemingway and

honorable john thune and the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, house democratic leader, honorable hakeem jeffries, house majority leader, honorable steve scalise, speaker of the house of representatives, the honorable mike johnson, senate democratic leader, the honorable charles e. schumer, ranking member of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, honorable dib deb fisher and chairwoman on inaugural service connected moenys, on -- ceremonies, honorable amy klobuchar. [ trumpets playing ]

>> ladies and gentlemen, the president elect of the united states, the honorable donald john trump. [ cheering and applause ] ♪ ♪

[ cheering ] [ chanting "usa"] >> ladies and gentlemen, please be seated.

please welcome, the chairwoman of the joint congressional committee for inaugural ceremonies, honorable amy klobuchar. [ applause ] >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the 60th presidential inauguration. today, president elect trump and vice president elect vance will take their oaths of office, and we will witness the peaceful transfer of power at the heart of our democracy. [ applause ] >> for the past year i've cheered the -- i've chaired the inaugural ceremony including leaderships from congress for

both partis. we thank the committee and capitol staff and law enforcement who worked so hard over the last year, and especially the last three days. you've done a beautiful job and yuppies have shown grace under pressure. our theme are enduring democracy, the presence of so many presidents and vice presidents here today is truly a testament to that endurance. we welcome president biden and dr. biden. we welcome vice president harris and doug emhoff, president obama, president clinton and secretary clinton, president bush and laura bush, vice president pence, vice president quail and maryland quail. the justices of the united states supreme court are with us, all nine of them, i counted. and of course the trump and

vance families. this ceremony marks what will soon be 250 years of our knock situate it is the moment when -- democracy. it is the moment where leaders elevated by the will of the people promise to be faithful to our constitution, to cherish and defend it. it is the moment when they become as we all should be, the guardians of our country. through war and peace, through adversity and prosperity, we hold this inauguration every four years, and today it falls on martin luther king day, a further reminder that we must strive to uphold the values enshrined in our constitution, the freedoms, the liberties, and as is inscribed on the entrance of the united states supreme court, the equal justice under law. [ applause ]

>> what makes this market is a passing ceremony, all who are watching it across the country, the people of this nation, the ordinary people doing extraordinary things. president kennedy who at one point worked as a senator in this building and would often walk through this very rotunda once said, in the democracy, every citizen, regardless of interest and politics holds office. every one of us is in a position of responsibility. with that responsibility of citizenship comes an obligation not to seek out malice as president lincoln once reminded us, but to view other withs a generosity of spirit despite our differences. with that responsibility of leadership comes an obligation to stand our ground when we must and find common ground when we can.

with everything swirling around us, the hot mess of division, it is on all of us to quote an incredible song writer that happened to be born in my state, to ensure our nation's democracy is our shelter from the storm. there's a reason this sore mony takes place at the -- ceremony takes place at the capitol. in other countries, it might be in a presidential palace or guilded executive office building. here it is traditionally held at the capitol, the people's house. it is a fitting reminder of the system of checks and balances that is the very foundation of our government. three equal branches of government. that is how for nearly 250 years our great american experiment, growned in the rule of law, has endured. so as we inaugurate a new president and vice president,

let us remember that the power of those in this room comes from the people. the construction workers who build our country, the teachers and healthcare workers who nurture us, the troops defending our freedoms and, yes, the fire fighters in los angeles putting themselves on the line for us. [ applause ] >> our democracy's strength and grit must match theirs. may god bless our nation. thank you. [ applause ] >> good afternoon.

endurance through the years is the ultimate test, to persevere through time is the truest measure of an idea, of institution and a nation. our founders wrote the constitution so that america could withstand all the twists and turns of time. they wrote it to guide us and preserve forever our right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. but as much as the truths and principles enshrined in our constitution remain the same, our democracy promises the american people the power to change, to chart their own destiny, that's the beauty.

that is the importance of democracy. it allows the endurance, the permanence of a nation through change. it allows nations like our united states both to avoid the obstacles and to seize the opportunities god has placed before us. all while staying true to our founding principles. today is our country's 60th inauguration ceremony. like all the others before it, it is a celebration of our right to set our uniquely american chorus. the past several year haves been trying at times, for many, many americans, and also for the nations of the free world that we humbly strive to lead. in november, americans chose

again to steer this nation towards greatness, the secure, safe, and prosperous future that our founders envisioned for all of us. today, we celebrate not only their decision to do so, but also the simple right and simple wisdom of a free people to make their own choice so their nation might endure. and now, allow me to welcome arch bishop timothy dolan and reverend franklin graham who will deliver our revocation. please rise. >> be still and know that i am god, supreme among the nations,

supreme on the earth. let us pray. remembering general george washington on his knees at valley forge recalling abraham lincoln at his second inaugural with malice toward none with charity for all and firmness in the right as god gives us to see the right. remembering general george patton instruction to his sollers with the battle of the bulge, prey with fighting, pray with others, pray by night, pray by day. observing the birthday of the reverend martin luther king who warned without god, our efforts turn to ashes. we bless citizens of this one nation under god, humbled by our claim that in god we trust, gather indeed this inauguration

day to pray. for our president donald j. trump, his family, his advisers, cabinet, aspirations, his vice president. for the large blessings upon joseph biden. for our men and women in uniform, for each other whose hopes are stoked this new year, this inauguration day. we cannot air in relying upon that prayer from the bible upon which our president will soon place his hand in oath as we make our own the supplications of king solomon for wisdom and began his governance and god our father, his w wisdom to render justice with integrity and give our leader wisdom for he is your servant to wear of his own weakness and brevity of life. if wisdom which comes not from you, be not with him, he shall

be held in no esteem, send wisdom from heavens that she may be with him that he may know your designs. please, god bless america. please, mentor every flaw. you are the god in whom we trust who lives and reigns forever and ever, amen! >> mr. president, the last four years, there were types i'm you thought were pretty dark but look what god has done. we praise him and give him glory. [ applause ] >> let us pray. our father and our god thou have

said blessed is a nation whose god is the lord. as the profit daniel prayed, blessed be the name of god forever and ever, for wisdom and mine are his. he changes the times and the seasons, he removes kings, he raises up kings, he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those of whom have understanding. our father today as president donald j. trump takes oath of office once again, we come to say thank you oh lord our god. father, when donald trump's enemies thought he was down and out, you and you alone saved his life and raised him up with strength and power by your mighty hand. we pray for president trump that you'll watch over, protect, guide, direct him, give him your wisdom from your throne on high.

>> we ask that you would bless him and our nation would be blessed through him. we also ask that you'd bless and protect melania as first lady. we thank you for the butler joined i did, the warmth, and grace that she shows not only to this nation but to the whole world. we thank you for vice president elect jd vance, and his wife lucia and their young family. may he be a strength to president trump, to stand beside him and hold up their arms as arnold up arms of moses in the midst of battle. profit samuel reminded people it was you that brought them up from the land of egypt. he said, no, standstill that i may reason with you before the lord. so, father, we take this moment to standstill, to remember the great things that you have done for this nation. thank you for the protection, the., the freedoms that we so

enjoy. we remember, to keep our eyes fixed on you and may our hearts be inclined to your voice. we know that america can never be great again if we turn our backs on you. we ask for your help and we pray all of this in the name of the king of kings, the lord of lords, your son, my savior, and our redeemer, jesus christ, amen. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome justice cavanaugh to deliver the vice

please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i james david vance do solemnly swear. >> that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> that i will bear true faith. >> that i will bear true faith. >> and allegiance to the same. >> allegiance to the same.