>> jenna: thank you very much, fox news alert, big day for our nation and an even bigger one tomorrow, president-elect donald trump arriving in washington now less than 24 hours before he takes the reins of power as commander-in-chief. welcome to the second hour of "happening now," i am jenna lee. >> hello, i am eric shawn in for jon scott. mr. trump at this hour holding the leadership muenchen as we have been reporting at that trump international hotel in washington, d.c. as you can seat on the right of your screen, the president-elect with the future first first lay arriving at our nations capital in the last hour. that will be their new albert, the pre-inauguration activities starting this afternoon include a visit in the next hour to arlington national cemetery to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown and he will be there along with vice president elect mike pence, meanwhile on capitol hill, two of his nominees have had a bit of a tough time this morning at their senate confirmation hearings. former texas governor rick.

for energy secretary, an investment banker steven mnuchin delete treasury. plus the transition team rounding up that cabinet choices today announcing former governor of georgia sonny purdue as the pick for agriculture secretary. >> jenna: in the meantime, capitol hill is buzzing, and the press roll along for the inauguration parade that will head down pennsylvania avenue. our chief white house correspondent john roberts speaking with the incoming press secretary and vice president elect getting us all caught up and ready for tomorrow. what is happening today? >> good afternoon to you appeared by the way, i will be on the flatbed for the parade tomorrow, looking forward to doing that again tomorrow like i did in 2012, an incredible vantage point to watch the incoming president greet the nation right after the inaugural address there at the west front of the capital. sean spicer, incoming press secretary held his first on camera briefing today, lamenting the fact that he believes and the trump transition believes the democrats are slow walking the process to confirm donald trump's nominees,

particularly for national security, charles schumer said that maybe they will confirm james mattis and john kelly, have a meeting on mike pompeo, but not nearly the number of confirmations they would like to have. they said president obama got seven on his opening day, and it is only fair they get the same number. also playing a little defense when asked why for the first time since 1988 there are no hispanics in president-elect trump's cabinet, saying that we have 4,000 positions to fill, and there will be plenty of hispanics who will have jobs in this administration. after the briefing, i got an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the transition office behind me here on e street, sean spicer walking me through the communications section. this is where they put together all of the public missives on both donald trump, mike pence, and on all of the nominees up there at capitol hill for confirmation. he then took me, very first time cameras have ever been into this mock hearing room, this is where

all of that cabinet nominees and mike pompeo were basically undergoing what they call a murder board where you had a bunch of people sitting in for the senators who would grill them in a mock confirmation hearing just to get them used to it. sean spicer told me they did everything they could to make it as realistic as possible. listen. >> before a debate, this would typically be known as the murder board, how tough are you on the nominees? >> they have had everyone from mock protesters to people getting up and yelling to replicating the actual senators that will actually be up there. as the individuals testify before this mock senate panel, they are presented with questions that we believe would come from the person that would be questioning them both on the republican and democratic side, so they are as prepared as possible to articulate the agenda that donald trump has so beautifully articulated is going to move this country forward. spicer telling us they pulled up slowly no punches when it came to murder boarding their

nominees, and i also got a chance to meet and greet the vice president elect, seem to be the vice president of the united states, governor mike pence of indiana who shares the concerns that spicer articulated that not enough of their nominees may be confirmed on the first or maybe even the first few days of the new administration, here's what pence told me. >> how important it is at least half the national security team in place by the end of business on friday? >> i think it is vitally important, but i would not limited to that. making sure we have our international team in place, at state, at the united nations, and other nominees like dr. courson, elaine chao of transportation, these are people with extraordinary caliber, they've been considered at the committee level, and we continue to be hopeful that we will be able to see a vote very quickly either tomorrow or early next week to make sure these people can step into those roles. i know the president-elect is anxious to get to work, in the

american people are going to see a tremendous amount of activity and energy from early on in this administration. having our team in place is going to greatly facilitate the ability to get the job done. >> pence and sean spicer lamenting the fact that people like ben carson, like elaine chao, like nikki haley who were pretty much consistent incenses on both the democratic and republican side are not getting their hearings in a timely fashion, urging the democrats to play ball here with the peaceful transition of power to get as many of these people in place as quickly as possible so that they can ensure an absolutely efficient transition of power and continuity of government as well. >> jenna: nothing to watch. just picking back up where you started, the flatbed truck, the parade that you are going to be on. do you get a seat belt with that? how does that work? >> it has sides on it, so it's not exactly a flatbread you can -- flatbed you can fall off the

side of. i had the privilege of being on the vip platform during inauguration then get on the truck to follow it down pennsylvania avenue, thousands maybe even millions of people will be lining the streets to pay their respects to the incoming president-elect. as i said, i did in 2012 for president obama's second inauguration, and it really is about the best seat in the house, really fantastic to be able to do it again. >> jenna: we look forward to photos for me on social media and your reports throughout the day and tomorrow, thank you very much. we were just seeing some live pictures of donald trump, just want to point to you what we were seeing and why we came off of it. mr. trump is at his hotel, giving an address to a group of leaders, if you will. we have one camera that was able to get inside that luncheon and we were hoping to get some of his remarks, but as you saw, that shot froze a little bit, but we might be able to listen. try to disregard some of the visual, we're just going to try to listen into what president-elect trump has to say here. >> first of all, i have to say thank you to my wife.

she has put up with more than anyone. [applauding] [cheering and applauding] [cheering and applauding] >> paid her dues, so i just want to thank her for that. would you like to stay? [laughter] >> it is great to be here. thank you all for your support and tomorrow, excited to work. helping a lot of people and we will make america great again. [cheering and applauding]

>> i guess she did not want to sit with you. [laughter] so anyway, i want to say thank you to you all. honey, sit right here. she believes and barriers, we do not. that is great. so i want to thank everybody. we have had such great, great support in this room, and we have, i think rich is here, where is he? there he is. [applauding] soon to be ambassador, ambassador johnson. [applauding] thank you. john cornyn is here, where is

john? thank you, john. [applauding] john has been coming to my office for years. they were always raising money, and it was the greatest, they asked for a lot. i did not even know, what is it going to cost? i said, oh, no, john knows. then he walks in, hello mister. so how much is it? could you go to 50. but for years, i did not know. then when i ran, he would say that is the way politics is. but he is good to me now, he is a great guy. i think we're going to have a fantastic relationship yet i appreciate it, john. [applauding] where is cory? saw you on television yesterday, good represented of, i will tell you. thank you. kevin mccarthy, where's kevin?

there is my kevin. [applauding] following me into the heat of battle, right? i don't know if paul is here, he might be writing legislation because he has so much legislation to write. he actually has someone that is going to sell you on it. [applauding] want you to really, really love paul. i just want to let the world know, we are doing very well. he called me up and said, do me a favor -- this was like two days ago. he said, let's not talk about the taxes publicly because we wanted work on it first with healthcare and it is really complicated stuff. i said, i know, but the problem is i gave an interview about 5-6 days before, so i said absolutely, i think you're right. i'm not going to tell them about

taxes. the following morning, this is an evening call, following morning, it came out, "tromp on -- "trump on taxes close will come as it or not, that interview was from five days before. and he's joining me in the heat of battle, so i appreciate that. [applauding] good to see you. all of my friends, patrick mchenry, what a name. that is a name for a true patriot, where is patrick? i see somebody in the audience. he has become very famous lately. the legendary jeff sessions. [applauding] [cheering and applauding] mr. sessions, was it easier than you thought? [laughter]

he said, what the hell did i do this before? you have done so well, so amazingly well. it was so tough on jeff at the beginning, then all of a sudden, they thought, man, this guy is smart. he is a great guy. he will be one of the outstanding stars of this country. he is legit all the way. so jeff, thank you. [applauding] anyway, so many others, cathy mcmorris rodgers, where is kathy? she is around here somewhere. so we also have steven mnuchin right now getting grilled. [laughter] he is doing a good job, you know this. he is out there doing what you were doing four days ago. he is doing a fantastic job. and i will say all of our

proposed cabinet members -- i think nikki is here somewhere, nikki haley. [applauding] went i sent her over to speak to everybody likes speaking to china, we're going to be a lot of great things, right? thank you so much. you did a fantastic job, thank you. tom price, it was so nice, they were so nice to tom, right? where is tom? [applauding] where is tom? man, they were hassling you. they wanted to end his career so fast. then they found out, man, he is smart. we have a lot of smart people. we have, by far, the highest iq of any cabinet ever assembled. [cheering and applauding]

where is betsy devos? she did terrific. [applauding] very easy to talk education, right? a little bit of a different take on it, right? it is called we want our children educated. that is our take. we will get them there. so we are number one in the world across the board, and we are ranked number 80, but on some charts even worse than that. i saw one thing the other day where we were 28 out of 30. [inaudible] >> jenna: this is what happens from time to time. there is a reporter pool camera that represents the press, if you will. we all get to tap into that shop. sometimes you don't know if you're going to have video of an

event. we did not know we would be able to see president-elect trump address this leadership luncheon they are calling it. it is a group of both campaign executives, if you will, for mr. trump but also cabinet nominees, lawmakers, you heard him rattle off a few names that are very familiar to all of us, but that is all we've got. when they say it is over, you've got to leave. [laughs] that is what happened. we will see if we get more headlines out of his remarks that look like they will continue. there are a lot of questions about the next few days and what trump's cabinet will look like. he mentioned tom price and his address just there, betsy devos as well, who we saw yesterday, over the last couple days, they've answered questions to be the secretary of education. we are going to pick up there, chris wallace is joining us, he has been standing by. again, the unexpected will happen over the next several days. we just have to kind of go with the flow. your reflections, here we are at this time tomorrow, we will be

in a much different place in some ways that we are right now. what are your reflections on the eve of inauguration? >> let's just talk first of all about what we just saw, jenna, and what struck me is that we have all been talking about how donald trump is going to have to adjust to the office of president, but as you watched him there, as he was speaking, talking about the relationships he had in a very informal and entertaining way with various members of congress, his cabinet, reviewing how they have done in their hearings, i was thinking that instead of trump adjusting to the presidency, the presidency is going to have to adjust to donald trump. it becomes increasingly clear that he is going to do it his way, and you're not going to tell a 70-year-old billionaire, now you have to do things in a different way than you are comfortable doing them. this is going to be that trump way, that is the way it's been in the transition, that is the way it was on the campaign, and

clearly the way it will be in the presidency. >> jenna: a reminder, we do not elect a king, there is a president with other branches of government that have checks and balances which is one of the reasons why we watch the cabinee team. i'm wondering if you can give us some perspective as we've been dipping into the hearings today with steven mnuchin, rick perry as well, what we are seeing on capitol hill, is this typical of the nomination for cabinet positions or is this something different because we are in a different period with what will be the trump presidency? >> in terms of the hearings themselves, i don't think that is so different. it is generally the fact that the people who are in the same party as the president tried to help his cabinet nominees get through in those congressional hearings, and members of the opposing party try to rough them up or to explore legitimate differences on policy to try to get them on the record. what doesn't seem to be unusual is how many are going to be approved.

this has been talked about at some length on day one, and they cannot approve any of the nominees until the president takes the oath of office because his nominations are not official as president-elect. as he becomes president and some of those people could be confirmed to take their positions, eight years ago with barack obama on the afternoon after his swearing in, seven of his cabinet nominees were confirmed and took office. at this point, the democratic senate leader chuck schumer, who does not have a filibuster because those rules have changed with the nuclear option that the democrats imposed, but does have an ability to slow things down, is talking about only confirming two of them. i'm trying to think who it is. james mattis and general kelly for dhs, and debating mike pompeo, but only to confirmations as opposed to as i say seven on day one for obama,

that would be a very dramatic difference, and part of that might be payback for the fact that senate republicans refused to even hold hearings on barack obama's nomination of merrick garland to the supreme court. i have a feeling that is going to change overnight, and you're going to see mcconnell, the republican leader and schumer the democrat leader try to work things out and get more of those confirmed on day one. >> jenna: a lot of this is inside politics as well and washington, d.c., paired watch the back and forth between the two parties. just for our viewers watching across the country, how will this impact president trump? >> in terms of whether these people are confirmed or not? >> jenna: right, getting his team together in a timely fashion. to be ready to go through the weekend or not. does that really impact the way the government will function? >> no, if it is just the weekend, it is not because mr. trump has made it pretty clear that they are going to take the weekend off and the first real official day of work will be on monday, if he gets

delayed beyond that, it obviously could be more serious. there is also just this question of accommodating, reciprocity and the idea that republicans help confirm, and they did have a filibuster back in 2009, seven obama nominees, so if the democrats this time, as they are able to do, slow down, they cannot stop, but slow down the gear and only put two of them in, it does not bode very well for relations between republicans and democrats up on capitol hill and the senate going forward, but i don't know it would have a dramatic impact on the operations of the government. there are an awful lot of civil servants to their and we just learned that president-elect trump has asked a lot of the under secretaries of some of the people who run these operations to stay in place from obama and to keep everything running until mr. trump gets his full team in place. >> jenna: it is good to big picture it because it is interesting to watch the back and forth just for what we get

to learn about the process, the procedures as well, but also important to remember that there is a big job that the president will be assuming, and that life will go on. [laughs] in many ways, for us as well, although sometimes -- i know you have a big show coming up this sunday, do you want to tell us a little bit about the exclusive interviews you have? >> i would love to tell you about the exclusive interviews we are going to have on fox news. first of all, i'm very excited to be part of our inaugural coverage from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. eastern time, so that will be very exciting. on sunday, he will no longer be the white house chief of staff designee, we will have exclusive interview with reince preibus, first sunday interview with being the official weight house chief of staff to talk about the agenda and how the white heat back white house will operate, competing sources of power. then i excessive interview with mitch mcconnell, and we will get to a lot of your very

partner delete my pertinent questions, jenna, about how they will get the first of all these nominees through against objection by the democrats and more importantly, the trump agenda on obamacare, taxes, immigration, and a whole host of issues. this enormous agenda he is going to want to get through in a hurry. one of the questions is can the senate and congress handle it all? it is a big agenda. >> jenna: some might say huge, but i don't know. >> "bigly" ." >> jenna: thank you very much pure nice to have a little laugh for what is heading into a significant time for our country. we are going to return to capitol hill. worth pointing out the parade tomorrow is going to go right down pennsylvania avenue. pennsylvania avenue really links together the white house and capital, that is supposed to be the route that allows lawmakers and leaders to go back and forth, so it will be interesting to think about that metaphor as you are watching the parade tomorrow. meantime, we go back to capitol hill where the senate finance committee is considering

the nomination of steven mnuchin, the secretary of the treasury. >> regarding funding for the irs, senator burr said some of the examples of irs poor management including promotion policies. obviously, we know there were politics involved in the irs, they make decisions based on political matters, which is totally inappropriate for a tax collection agency, so the irs has created huge problems by the way it has not performed in a way that anybody would expect as a taxpayer. on the other hand, by understaffing and underfunding the irs, taxpayer service has been eroded, that affects my constituents in a very direct way. are you committed to trying to fix these problems with the irs but also working with us to ensure there is adequate funding and support so that the tax system can work better? hopefully under a very civil if five tax code. >> absolutely. this is something i feel very strongly about. it is something that i hope we do have bipartisan support on

because this is one of the areas where i think we will all agree to the extent we add resources, we can collect more money. one of the things i have heard is one of the reasons we have technology problems is because based upon the guidelines, we cannot afford to hire technology people internally. while i think there is some external technology, i think we need to have internal expertise in the irs to manage our own technology system, and i think in this day and age in any entity, we need to have good customer service. if people are paying taxes, they have the right to get the information. they have the right to understand their information. i think that we should be able to interact electronically, securely, keep people's information safe. i can go on and looked look upy real estate tax bills in

california and see my information there. i don't see why we don't have good systems that people who pay taxes can see their information securely online. i look forward to working with you, and i also think we should be monitoring customer satisfaction. like anything else. we should understand what the taxpayers think of the service we provide them. >> i know my time is up, mr. chairman. >> eric: steven mnuchin as you can see, he is on the defense and offense during his confirmation on capitol hill. one of two hearings we have had today, not only mr. mnuchin but also former texas governor rick perry for energy secretary, nominee come his hearing has now been completed at this morning. they have taken a break. for more on this and what we can expect, we are joined in washington, d.c., by john who reports for x years.

first of all, pretty sharp, blunt questions for mr. mnuchin, georgia senator bob menendez pressed concern about his credibility, mated 100 dulac $1 million in assets, in those foreclosures, how do you think he is doing successfully rebuffing the critics? >> for what i've seen, he is just done a fine peer this wasl fairly predictable. we knew the big weakness is for him, and i have not seen anything from today that leads me to think he's going to lose any republican votes which of course is the key metric there. we should bear in mind steven mnuchin has real vulnerability. he is not a republican, he was a democratic donor before he became a trump finance director. he worked with george soros, has hollywood connections, so i'm not saying it is a huge reservoir of goodwill for him, but i have not seen anything in his hearing that leads me to think he is going to lose

republican votes. >> eric: as far as the democrats, they have been really hammering him especially over one west, the bank he bought, and all of those foreclosures, but he made a point in his defense that the foreclosures were part of the system. he actually blamed the policies of the obama administration. >> that is right. he had plenty of time to prepare for this. he was preparing -- the team was extra quite worried. we reported on this, they were worried about his preparation, his performance, so he really did have a heavy preparation. he knew these questions were coming, they were all out there. he had the opportunity to craft a pretty solid rebuttal to it. >> eric: meanwhile on the other side coming up texas governor, former texas governor rick perry. actually were numbering the hoops moment of over six years ago when he called for eliminating the department of energy that he is nominated to head. he started off his hearing this morning and a statement where he said he regretted that, let me play that for you. >> my past statements made over

five years ago about abolishing the department of energy do not reflect my current thinking. in fact, after being briefed on so many of the vital functions of the department of energy, i regret recommending its elimination. >> eric: will he get forgiveness from the democrats? >> he wants from the democrats, but again, this is the same thing. this is going to be a pretty easy confirmation for rick perry unless i am seeing something that is not out there. i think you might get a couple democrats. he might get manchin, but rick perry is going to oversee an agency mostly concerned with nuclear weapons, so it is not really an energy agency in the sense of oil and gas. again, he is a republican governor making an argument that he has managerial experience, and you might get an argument from progressive well, obama had a nuclear physicist and scientists in that role, but

again, the perry rebuttal to that is when is the last time these guys used their nuclear physics training and what is effectively a huge managerial role overseeing an agency with a $30 billion budget? >> eric: there was a report in "the new york times" that said he was not aware of all of that, but of course there are nuclear stockpiles and he is dealt with nuclear waste, and supporters point out the governor of new mexico was a clinton secretary. so these hearings can be pretty contentious at times, very blunt, perhaps impolite, but there was a moment of levity when the former texas governor was greeted by the senator from minnesota al franken, who you all know is a comedian who was on saturday night live. let's look at that exchange. >> did you enjoy meeting me? >> i hope you as much fun there as you were on the couch. >> well... [laughter]

>> may i rephrase that, sir? >> please, please. oh, my lord. [laughter] >> oh, my lord. >> well, i think we found our "saturday night live" sound bite. [laughter] >> let's move on. >> eric: then he did move onto some serious questions. with what we see, even in the contention, there were some comedy. >> i am glad your microphone was not on there because i was squealing. [laughs] >> eric: that probably will end up on "saturday night live." jonathan, thank you so much for your insight as the hearings continued this afternoon. >> such a pleasure. >> jenna: nice to have a little levity, and it is very serious talking about serious positions, but every once in a while, nice to have a little bit of a joke.

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>> jenna: welcome back, everybody as we watch the preparation for tomorrow's ceremony and washington, bear in mind presidential inauguration's did not always look at 8 like this, in fact, some years it was very impromptu. the very structure of our nation's capital will be h in focusd, the white house and as the executive branch and legislative branch are linked by pennsylvania avenue, a prominent part of the parade route. i will be reporting tomorrow from the side of the historic post office, the building in d.c. that actually belongs to you the american taxpayer. some refer to this location as a trump hotel, which it is, but you should know that business is just a leaseholder. it has one of the tallest towers in all of washington, and it has housed everything from the department of justice to the department of defense and it has survived many demolition plans. it is one historic site you will

see tomorrow in washington, d.c., but this gives us an opportunity to talk a little bit about the history of the inauguration with our friend doug lead, the presidential historian who tells us so many stories. where did the tradition for the parade and the speech and all of this come from? >> the speech happened very awkwardly. washington did not really want to do it. washington was very famous for looking regal and kingly, great posture. he knew it, and he used it to his own effect, but i believe there is debate about this in history because of his wooden teeth, he had to keep his mouth shut [laughs] so he had to look impressive and listen. when it came time for the inauguration, he had to give a speech, he was very awkward and clumsy about it and self-conscious, but that started -- those awkward moments launched is great, wonderful tradition. and jefferson, as you pointed out before when we were in conversation before we just came

on air, jefferson helped start the parade writing up pennsylvania avenue on his horse, so the parade evolved into the great event it is today. >> jenna: when we will be there to witness tomorrow and share with our viewers. what about this president who actually hosted a party at the white house, who did that? >> [laughs] yes, picture the first six presidents who were all episcopalians, and they were political aristocrats, they were from the east coast, here comes this presbyterian from the west who had bullets in his body from duals, and that is andrew jackson. he opened the doors to the white house, it was a wild party, the drapes came down, and he finally could not take it, he snuck out of the white house and went to a hotel so he could sleep his first night as president of the united states. >> jenna: we do know presidents need their rest, but i cannot imagine that at the

white house. was it open to the public? >> it was open to the public, and he invited all of his western friends to come. i don't think he expected that many of them to come. >> jenna: when you think someone should be invited, that is the one that shows up, not the one you necessarily wanted to be there. you told me an interesting story about jackson a few months ago, there are parallels between donald trump and andrew jackson, he tried to fill his cabinet with businessmen as well. can you talk to us about that and what transpired for that presidency? >> that is true. there was an establishment then. they were wanting to start a second national bank, and it jackson said, look, this national bank business is just a way for some people in this country to get very rich at the expense of the others. i don't like it. so the first six presidents, the establishment resisted the change that jackson was bringing, and they opposed him when he was elected president. he paid them back by appointing

businessmen and all of these positions of government instead of politicians. he was a controversial president. here we are. >> jenna: interesting as we come full circle with this but a good reminder even though we are in so much new territory, there are some past presidents we should remind ourselves of. i'm curious as a historian how much you are going to be paying attention to the inauguration speech and how much that speech can be significant for a presidency or not at all, what determines that? >> the deeds, what happens afterwards, what happens in the country, the future it writes the past, so i suspect this will be a great inauguration because the gift that the trump family s an donald trump has is this showmanship. that is one ability he really brings with him. so i expect it to be a good speech with some great, memorable lines, but he will have to back it up by good deeds, and if he does come if he

accomplishes good things, we will remember those lines. >> jenna: fdr, for example, had very memorable lines but a lot of us do not know the back story of him having to deliver that speech. >> that is right, he was in great pain, he had to have braces. the braces actually hurt his legs, left marks on his legs so he hated to use them, but he had to have these braces in place so it looked like he was standing when he gave his speech. he gave that great line "fear itself that we have to fear," that was a signal to wall street and business because you need more than an economist, you need a shrink for president. you need someone who can say, yes, we will release the money to the banks, but someone has to borrow the money and have the vision, want to start something, want to do something, or we are going to be stuck in this depression. he understood that. he was signaling to the business community, i understand what is at stake here. we have to get this cranked up,

and we need you to be able to help crank it up. >> jenna: just a reminder. we know so much about what president-elect trump's schedule is going to look like but we do not know what he is handling himself personally. even if he has a bad headache, he has to get up to deliver the speech to the nation. it will be interesting to hear more about the back story once we get into the presidency. it is always great to have you on the program, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> eric: it will be a momentous day tomorrow for evangelicals and catholics among the groups credited with helping donald trump win the presidency. some of the leaders will be in washington, d.c., to witness the inauguration tomorrow. laura ingraham has more about who will be there. >> including among the politicians and families and friends on the inaugural podium will be six numbers of the clergy, five christians including a catholic for the first time in 30 years and one jewish rabbi. while represented, though, will be evangelicals whose constituents, 80% support helped

trump win the white house. >> it is clear that the evangelical community has a sort of an unprecedented place in this particular inauguration ceremony. not just in this ceremony, across the event. >> evangelicals on the podium will include the reverend franklin graham, evangelist billy graham's son, pastor paula white, bishop wayne t jackson who is from a detroit megachurch that hosted donald trump back in september, and samuel rodriguez head of the hispanic russian leadership conference, and he has had many faithful who opposed his g.o.p. nomination. >> we were not electing a theologian or a pastor in chief, we were not electing billy graham to be president of the united states. we are electing a commander-in-chief, someone who will advance the cause of life, protect religious liberty, limit the size of government and work

for equality and justice for all. so donald trump is not the most christian president in american history, really, what a wake-up call. >> leaders say the clergy rep commence america's judeo-christian's foundations, saturday morning, prayers will welcome a more diverse array of prayer traditions. >> eric: two bibles use tomorrow, the same lincoln bible used by abraham ligon and the one mr. trump's mother gave him back in 1950. >> exactly, a long history with both of those actually. >> jenna: tomorrow at this time we will have the first hour of president donald trump's administration. it will be the culmination of a journey that began more than a year and a half ago, and i'm sure you remember this right down an escalator right before the announcement he was indeed running to become leader of the free world. up next, a recap of his road to the white house.

>> eric: you know from the moment donald trump steps onto the escalator and ascended to the lobby of trump tower to announce his candidacy delete my candidacy in 2015. i was standing at the base of the escalator to report on one of the most unusual presidential kickoffs in history. but he has consistently exceeded expectations of what a candidate can be. chief correspondent jim rosen has a look back at the moments that defined that eventful rise. >> we should not be surprised that a campaign season like no other produced a president like

none other. like you said, from the moment he declared his candidacy in trump tower and 2015, the flashy billionaire in reality tv start campaign like none of the other 16 republican nominees who outspent him. he assailed illegal immigration, got into desktops with sacrosanct figures and said things no politician has ever said. >> how stupid are the people of iowa? how stupid are the people of the country to believe this? i could stand in the middle of for theft and shoot anybody and i would not lose any viewers. >> huge numbers turned out for his rallies, tens of thousands, and the electorate and its hunger for change proved willing to overlook scandalous tapes, vulgar language and other drawbacks of the g.o.p. nominee and part because the democrat hillary could jim brought her own heavy baggage including narrowly escaping indictment for mishandling classified information but also because americans responded to the trump

promise to make america great again. >> we take care of illegal immigrants, people come into the country medially better than we take care of our veterans. that cannot happen. our policemen and women are disrespected. we need law and order, but we need justice, too. >> perhaps the most significant statistic associated with the trump victory, 209 counties that had twice voted to send barack obama to the white house flipped and voted for donald trump here tonight on "special report with bret baier" we will bring you a full look back at the trump phenomenon of 2016 with the highlights, though moments can ultimate moment of triumph for 45th president of the united states. >> eric: 22 hours or so, he will be our new president, thank you. >> jenna: speaking of the president-elect, he is actually at the trump hotel right now at what has been described as a leadership luncheon including lawmakers, top lawmakers as well as top officials as part of his campaign.

we saw some shots of the crowd earlier in what you see now is the security presence outside the hotel. we expect mr. trump to be leaving shortly because over the next hour or so, he is going to be heading to arlington national cemetery where they will be a wreath laying there, so there will be some things on the schedule he has to hit, and we will watch for any movement from this particular area. in the meantime, trump supporters are heading to d.c. ahead of tomorrow's historic celebration. rick x and is along for the ride, why the president-elect inspires these families to go trekking across the country. his musical ♪ ♪ club.

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>> hello everyone, i am martha maccallum coming to life from washington, d.c., this afternoon. the president-elect, incoming first family touching down in our nation's capital within the past hour on one of the air force one fleet planes, kicking off this historic transition of power that we are all about to witness. still ahead, the president-elect takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at arlington cemetery and we will look also at the issues he faces and what he wants to tackle on day one. but while his team be ready to hit the ground running or has partisan bickering put up more than the usual roadblocks that every new administration faces quick snack we will bring you all of that as the perforations are happening and underway on "america's newsroom hq" at the top of the hour. ♪ >> jenna: with less than 24 hours until the inauguration, a number of americans are vote tripping, climbing on buses down for our nations capital, rich edson is reporting live from college park, maryland, just outside d.c. where trump

supporters are parking their rvs. >> good afternoon. they have traveled already 650 miles and have about ten more miles to go tomorrow for the inauguration. we are about 10 miles outside of washington, d.c. last evening in atlanta, georgia, they loaded up on these five coaches, 72 trump supporters made the trip all the way up from atlanta, made it to i-95 and got to the washington, d.c., area this morning. as for who would wrap these buses and "make america great again," that is all danny hamilton. he is the owner of star coaches incorporated, we are going to talk to him right now. danny, as promised, we are live on tv. >> oh, wow. >> first, thank you so much for inviting us on board, tell us a little bit about what it was that inspired you to do this? >> basically one donald trump decided he was going to run for president, he caught my ear with a lot of the same policies that

maybe i've been wanting to talk about, but he spoke for me. he opened the door, man, and i've been on the train ever since. >> tell is a little bit about the ride up, the folks you've had with you along the way, and he was on board with you here? >> a lot of great people from georgia, all over the state of georgia writing with us. i was on the boat in the bus for several months, couple months in georgia. met a lot of great people, before it was all said and done, everybody wanted to come here, so i did a rock-bottom price that people can afford, and here we are, 72 people later, 449 miles, nine hours and 50 minutes, we are here. >> danny hamilton, thank you so much for joining us. folks getting their inauguration tickets now and heading to d.c. tomorrow. >> jenna: we know that he is a great american because i see fox news on the television right above you. >> as soon as we got on the bus, that was not requested. >> jenna: thank goodness. god blessed danny.

rick jensen on the bus. we will be right back with some more.

>> history will be made tomorrow. thank you for joining us. >> "america's news headquarters" starts right now. >> indeed it does. let the festivities begin. at this time tomorrow, the 45th. united states will have taken the oath of office. president jonld j. trump, number 45. i am happy to be here in the nation's capital. dramatic moments already as air force one fleet member touched down carrying the future first family. look at the pictures as they arrived at joint base andrews. you have to wonder what's going through the minds of those little kids. we see eric and laura trump as they deplaned. we saw don jr. first with his family. we have come to know them over the course of this whole process. and there is theo, baby theo with ivanka, donald trump's