also today, he is going to sign a number of executive orders inside the capitol. he still has the lunch with lawmakers and he'll give a toast there. and he is going to start this 200 plus actions, executive actions, and orders, in the next few hours. >> martha: indeed. let's bring in dana again and harold is still with us. you know, dana, one of the things that we haven't talked about that i think is worth bringing up is the j.d. vance story. writer of "hillbilly elegy", you know, very, very troubled childhood. at one point he tried to leap out of the car to save his own life. his mother was there today. and he put himself through ivy league schools and now is the vice-president of the united states and he's the third or second youngest, i think, serving the oldest president. >> and he is a millennial, so they just skipped right over a generation "x" and harold and i are offended. we got to step up our generation

game. the other thing about him is that he is a rock star who is happy to be number two. and i think that's a very interesting situation. because he will be a very good executor of getting through a lot of things that president trump wants done. he'll be able to rally the troops. i think he'll be a lot more active. for example, if president trump says, i've named j.d. vance to handle this particular issue, he will handle that issue and he'll do it very well. he's not going to say oh, well, actually, i was going to do the root causes of that issue and i'm not going to do it and then never be seen again. he has the ability to do that and i'm not exactly sure how his and kamala harris' senate records comport because neither were there all that long. he has a lot of friends on the senate side who he's going to be able to help deal with that. president trump's going to need him maybe even more on the house

side and harold can speak no that. mike johnson of a speaker as such a narrow margin, they'll have to get every republican to vote for that so he'll be able to bring the pressure and the pain. also the youthfulness. president trump points it out. he goes into the overflow room. wow, everybody here is so young and so beautiful. and of course he's complimenting them. there is a stark generational change you can see like in the confirmation hearings. you see that the youthfulness of a pam bondi answering questions to senators who are a generation older than her and that makes the difference. the other thing i would like to say is something i think you and i were talking about, usha vance looks like a generally happy person. she has always got a little bit of a slight smile on her face. she's delighted by her children. she looks amazing and her choices of outfits, pink, very good choice on the pink but her outfit was amazing. her children are delightful. and one of the children have three band-aids on, cartoon

characters. it's not because she hurt herself probably. it was probably like, will this make you happy? are you going to get through this ceremony today with these band-aids? i think that j.d. vance is a fascinating character who is just at the beginning of the first part of his life. he's already written an autobiography. now he's the vice-president. where he goes from here, we'll see. >> bret: harold, we're being told that senator rubio could see confirmation today as well as john ratcliff so the secretary of state and cia director and we're also told the laken riley act expected to pass the senate this afternoon. back to the speech after the speech, you know, there will be some people out there that say he's stepping on his message today. he's doing what he did before and this is going to take all the attention. last night, alex castian know said, this is a nonlinear message guy who speaks all the time. and there's nonstop information. this is who he is. that's how he's going to be.

>> always has been. i do think there may be those in the white house that may wish he hadn't given the second speech. i think he's going to give a third one not long from now as he gives a toast. the president said so many things during an inaugural address. he said our power will stop all wars as you talk about radcliffe and rubio. i'm reminded of president kennedy who was inaugurated in january of 1961 on january 20th, and by april 17th, the way bay of pigs invasion had happened. i think karl quoted him saying, we ask not what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country. a lot of his presidency was shifted. i'm not wishing anything like this on president trump. even during his own first administration, he had covid. presidents can have grand ideas and you think about jdr who coined the first 100 days. he had to do everything he could to counter the great depression. this president talked about depression-like circumstances in our country, but the irony is some people in this country are doing really well. aide few of them on stage with

him today. there are others who are trying to find their way to higher ground. that is going to be the rub of this administration is cutting taxes, it's consulting regulations, raising tariffs. is that the answer? the one good thing about this guy, if you don't like president trump, he can change on a dime. if he thinks that something is working, he'll double down or if he thinks something is not working, this president has the ability to change. that is the hope as we sit here as a democrat that i have and i wish this administration, mr. radcliffe, mr. rubio and all the others, as they face confirmation. >> martha: i want to say one quick thing about the technology chiefs that we saw surrounding him. elon musk, bezos, mark zuckerberg, they also are part of the nation's defense because ai is so astutely important to how we go forward. when you think about radcliffe and hegbeth, so they're not here because they have turned and supported this president.

they also represent a really important part of the future. >> bret: kayla and trey, we'll check in with asha hasi who's in the russell rotunda where we saw that ceremony. >> i'm just across the street. what's happening is that the president is on his way to a very special room, a very ornate gorgeous room inside the capitol that is specifically designed for what he's about to do which is sign a bunch of executive orders and, in fact, ronald reagan, during his first inauguration day, signed executive orders in this room, as did president johnson, signed the voting rights act with martin luther king jr. in that room. so it's very historic, mlk day is today as well. we don't know which executive orders the president is going to sign or how many. they will announce each one right before and then he will.

been no other president that has made inaugural remarks inside the capitol visitor center because it didn't exist a very long time ago. this was the first time we saw if you want to call it, an inaugural speech or inaugural chat. this was the first time a president did this. i'm sure everyone in congress is really glad they built the capitol visitors' center because it came in handy today on a cold day. the second word to think about, "electric." this is the word that was used when i was texting lawmakers inside the capital rotunda during the swearing-in ceremony i asked them how does it feel in there? because when you're watching on tv, you kind of feel that moment, but what does it feel like in there? they said it was electric. into the just because of the moment but the people that president trump has curated in just the last year over this campaign.

jeff bezos, joe rogan who helped him reach an entirely new audience and also miriam edelson who helped him reach jewish-american vote. all of these people sort of helped him come to thissed moment and some new friends as well like the mark zuckerbergs that he hopes to work with in the future. all very new things for us to watch here and really exciting time right now. >> bret: live on the hill. thanks. brit hume still with us and kaley mcnainy here. how would you handle it? >> i'd be taking diligent notes. one of the great things about president trump learned was accessibility. i recall when jen staki asked,

i don't think she spoke to the president. karoline leavitt will not have that problem. the president an accessible. what came to mind is "my way" frank sinatra. he is who he is. the american people elected him president and a lot of americans were paying most attention to the first speech. it was made clear, this is a president with unfinished business. he has a to-do list. what president comes up and lays out twelve executive orders in an inaugural address? this president. one last note, peter alexander said, as they're setting up the oval office, they laid out the regan rug that nancy made for her husband. it's the sun beam pattern rug, same one i first walked on when i briefed him for a covid briefing. i think he's laying that out as a symbol. he's got more to do. he had four years. these are the four years that he wanted and now he has at the behest of the american people.

>> martha: trey goudy, i thought it was interesting, we haven't talked about the moment when many people thought this was impossible, that i would be able to make this astounding comeback. as you can see, here i am. the people have spoken. the reason that he is back in office is because the people wanted him to stay. and wanted him to have this comeback. he couldn't engineer it by himself. it was with really great support across this country. >> i mean, who's the last president to win the electoral college and the popular vote? it's been quite a while. republicans have given up on the popular vote. i was struck with the contrast. when he came in in 2017, he was under a cloud. his entire first four years. there's jeffery bezos, the owner "the washington post," sitting there, standing up cheering, the second time around, it was the post that put him under the cloud the first time. he's won over -- whether mark

zuckerberg found jail jesus or whether it's real, i don't know. the people that were the resistance, where is the resistance now? he won in a way that no one can challenge. >> we're looking at pete hegseth talking to senator wicker who's the chairman of the senate services committee. obviously pete is waiting for that confirmation vote out of that committee. brit hume, i know you listened into the second speech. it was classic president trump in his delivery and talking to those folks. your thoughts on where we are today? >> it took me back to 2016 when he was out on the campaign trail and delivered these rambling monologs much along the lines of what we just heard. i had all kinds of misgivings about whether he ought to be the president of the united states or even a major candidate. i've seen these rallies and i would think, are we going to carry the whole thing? i would say there transfixed by the whole thing and laughing and

wondering, boy, i didn't expect him to say that or never heard anybody say anything like that. that very kind of presentation that we just heard him make is a big part of why the people who love him love him because he's entertaining. and he's rambling and he's discursive and he says things that exaggerated and media get all upset about that. the people who support him, i think, get it. and of course he also let us know in his way that it's really cold out. and i got a kick out of that as well. i'm sure his supporters really enjoyed it. i can't do him as well as you do, bret. that was my best effort. [ chuckling ] >> bret: that was pretty good. >> martha: i just saw ivanka trump. there's don jr. talking to carrie underwood, no doubt about how the accompaniment did not happen in the rotunda and i was sitting here saying, accapella? and jason miller and sandra

smith with us as well, maybe one of my favorite moments, if you know the words, sing along with me, and everyone did. she kind of gave them an applause at the end. i think it worked out and almost could have been planned that way. >> sometimes the spontaneity adds to the event. >> i'm just glad they didn't ask me to sing. i couldn't do anywhere near as good. the energy that was in that room was amazing. what we saw was the return of trump time. president trump has said over and over, i'm going to do this on day one. we'll step in, secure the border, drill, baby, drill. we heard it. we haven't heard a president come in with that specific of a list of things that he's going to do in a long time. when ronald reagan came in 1981, he had some very tough words talking about the state of the country. president trump laid the table as well saying these are the problems. again, that's why he was elected. because he said he was going to fix it and do it immediately. he doesn't need to fish around trying to figure out where the light switch is.

>> bret: we did the reporting on president biden's pardoning of his family members. it happened officially in the last fifteen minutes. he, president trump, was meeting with president biden at the white house and then took that drive. did he know by the time he got to that stage that biden had pardoned his family members? >> i didn't ask him about exactly when he knew. this is president trump's day. i think for joe biden to do that, i thought that was nonsense. we've had four years of disaster with joe biden. let's get back to success. that's what we started doing. >> bret: the signings, they're already happening, right? >> the president started signing some things there in the capitol and then he'll be heading over to the capitol one arena downtown washington. there will be some additional signings. some of the bigger ones that have been talked about, that will happen at the white house later today. so it will be three different sets of signings that the president will do and we've never seen this happen this fast before. but that's trump time. >> martha: let me ask you one more question. he talked about north carolina specifically and california specifically. we understand he's going to go to california on friday.

what is going to look different at this point with his involvement? >> well, first, when he steps in, i can't speak on behalf of the president on this one, because obviously the government now is an official government, but the president's going to be responsive to it. it's absolutely shameful, joe biden's shameful, same thing with california. this white house has been asleep at the switch the entire time. >> bret: we're going to go to capitol hill. this is one of the signing ceremonies. the first. where he will be signing some documents there and i assume these are the first of the executive orders. >> yes. >> bret: let's listen in. >> president trump: that sun is deceptive. >> what would you like us to do? >> the official document. >> bret: i assume they're going to be happy with these documents.

>> the first is 22 cabinet and cabinet level appointments for your signature. >> president trump: okay. >> the next one will be -- the next one will be 47 subcabinet appointments, sir. >> signed for the second time. >> president trump: okay.

>> thank you, sir. now, 31 acting designations and appointments that effectively take control of the government. >> president trump: let's do that. >> that's important. >> we have fifteen commissioned chairman and acting chairman appointments. commission chairman. >> president trump: he was number one at harvard also. >> good counsel. >> president trump: they have something in common. >> thank you, sir. lastly we have a proclamation order of all future inauguration days, including this inauguration day, that flags shall be flown at full mast. >> very important.

>> president trump: this is a beautiful place to have an inauguration today. the sound was so good. the temperature was 72°. but the sound was good. maybe something to think about. i don't know. >> good acoustics. >> all right. thank you. we go to lunch. >> thank you, sir. >> did you have a good meeting with the former president biden? >> president trump: very nice. beautiful custom. before that it was a stagecoach. i thought it was beautiful. >> great job, thank you. >> reporter: do you have any

reactions to the pardons president biden gave at the last minute? >> president trump: well, i'm not going to discuss it now. i think it was unfortunate that he did that. we won't discuss it now it. there's plenty of time to discuss it. >> reporter: any [ indiscernible ]... >> we'll go to lunch. >> ready for lunch? >> okay. >> bret: president trump signing the official documents that set up his nominees, officially in the record. it's taking over the government. this is the procedural part. this is not list of executive orders and actions. we'll see those throughout the day at capitol one and later the white house some more. you heard him being asked there whether he knew about the pardons from president biden and said he didn't want to talk about it right now. >> martha: he kind of said he didn't think it was appropriate that he didn't want to focus on it and they're about to head

into the luncheon. we saw some people arriving there just a short time ago. a lot has been said about this president's stamina. he is the oldest president we've had and yet he seems to be outrunning everyone. he has been at events for the last several days. into the late hours of the evening and he's on another big stretch of speaking. is he going to give another toast moments from now when he heads into that luncheon. stamina is not a problem for the 47th president. >> bret: obviously he'll have all those signings and, the capital one, which the arena here in d.c., that has been the central focus of essentially ground zero for this inauguration. you had the event yesterday, a rally, and then the parade will be inside in front of a crowd there in capital one arena later on today and he goes to three balls. sandra, your thoughts on this day and what else you took away from his speech and the message as it's an action day. stuff's happening. >> interesting, if you go back

to the speech in the rotunda, you can imagine i was keeping track of when the economy came up. it was interesting, it wasn't a lead. it was about thirteen minutes into the thirty-minlt speech. almost halfway through. he stuck to his message on bringing prices down. we'll see what happens with the trade deals and the promise of tariffs and all of that and this was sort of the preview of what is to come. i think the tone today is just absolutely celebratory as you can see and i know for all of the us who have been in d.c. for several days now, you feel it in the streets, in the restaurants, you feel is in your hotels. in that first speech he called it liberation day. he vowed america's decline is over and promised a revolution of common sense. that is something i have heard all over this city for days now. people want to bring common sense back. he said that this is the golden age of america. it begins right now. so now the challenges come. right. how do you tackle some of these

huge promises that the american people have bought into, signed up for? and that's what we're about to see with the executive actions. i'm just thinking about the oil and gas and releasing some of those regulations that have been on the oil and gas industry to bring those prices down. n that is what we're going to see in the coming hours and days. a>> bret: let's take a listen. i think x3, we have a sound bite on liberation day. >> president donald trump: this is why each day under our administration much american patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength. we will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color, and create for american citizens january 20th, 2025, is liberation day.

>> bret: jason, can you talk at all about the formation of this speech, how he's worked on it, who worked on it with him. >> well, the president's been working on this for a while. he was telling us he wants to talk about, here's what we can do immediately. some of the things that you brought up, such as the tax bill, that's going to take longer, that involves capitol hill but the executive actions, the orders, he can step in and do those immediately. so he started the speech talking about some of his immigration policies, mexico, ending catch and release, obviously going to open some of the energy exploration. those are things he can do right away. of course, the peace deal he put together before he even got into office which is just nothing short of amazing. but on the trade side, i do think you'll see some action on trade. i think today you'll see more of the principles laid out for where they're going with that. some of these things are constricted by the pace of government and what you can do,

but keep in mind this is the important thing. we had four years of president trump. he knows what policies he wants to put back in place immediately and how to do it. steven miller, tom homan, kristi noem. >> martha: talk to me about doge. we understand in our reporting that vivek ramaswamy is leaving the doge effort that he may be announcing soon a run for governor in ohio. what happened there? >> well, with vivek, i'm not sure. i know elon is leading the doge effort. they're going to go to each agency, cabinet positions, and go and figure out how we're going to bring down the spending, cut the waste and people have said for so long, why do you have these big huge buildings? d.c.? they're not responsive to us. they make our lives more difficult. they'll go through and really figure out how to make them more efficient. we talk about at some of the technology, things such as ai, things that are antiquate and

had don't need to be part of government anymore. with when the president kicked off his speech he took on washington. he took on the establishment. that sent a big signal. i probably got more text messages and someone said, we're going to get these guys in line. no more messing around. i thought that sent a message for him to lead with that. >> martha: he talked about a radical, corrupt establishment and its inability to meet people's needs. i think it's going to be very interesting to see if we actually see slashing and elimination of agencies which he talked a lot about on the campaign trail. and he's appointed people to run those agencies. so are they it going to oversee the dismissal of education and energy do you think? >> ultimately some of those are handled different, not to get too much into the weed with those who will be sent back to states, but in some places things might be agencies that we can get rid of completely. but that's what they're going to go through. it's been a long time since someone actually looked at government and said how do you make it smaller and more responsive? keep in mind the president made the pledge, ten regulations

being cut for every new one that's put into place. that's real. that is pretty fantastic record in the first four years. you'll see that go into action big time. >> martha: that's going to unleash the economy. >> bret: trey, there's probably a lot of legal challenges to come, once you start doing big transformative things. we're understanding that doge is already under attack legally. probably going to see a lot of it. >> that's the last battlefield. they don't have the majority in the house or the senate so they'll have to go to the courts. i'm not worried what the president's going to do via executive actions. he'll be decisive. i was talking to john thune this morning and it struck me, he has a larger majority than mike johnson. so the smile you just saw on mike johnson's face may be the last one you see for the next two years. it is a narrow margin in a house

even when boehner, they couldn't keep the frogs in the wheel wheelbarrow. they couldn't repeal the aca. if mike has a beautiful smile, i'm glad i got to see it today. i may not see it again. >> bret: we're looking live at capitol hill, the luncheon. we expect president trump to arrive there any second. he will deliver a toast as you see all the lawmakers, a lot of honored guests, different seats. i saw tim cook in the middle there. the family is all there. kayleigh, this is pomp and circumstance, but everything has a flow to it today and it's very choreographed. it's in donald trump's style. >> it is in his style. so we'll see the lunch later at capri in a see him come out and sign those eos in a really celebratory format. i imagine you're going to get a loflt standing ovations in capri in a there. but what's interesting to me is when i look at this, president biden really raised the ante for

what an inauguration day looked like in signing fifteen executive orders. he stopped the construction of the keystone pipeline. he pulled out of the paris climate accords. he issued a mask mandate which didn't age well, overturned by a judge down in florida. he raised the ante. president trump came in and said, i'm requesting going to raising you 185. you put down 15. i'll put down 200. the executive orders, the omnibus ones, are clearly a theme that is broad that hit on the top two issues of the american people. he declared a national emergency on the border and a national emergency on energy, but what was interesting is he tied energy to inflation, to the number one problem of the american people. and these are going to have little bits and pieces. he's clearly had four years to think through this and it shows. >> bret: let's listen in to the luncheon. >> house majority leader, the honorable steve scalise, accompanied by mrs. scalise and house democratic leader, the honorable hakeem jeffries.

[ applause ] >> announcer: please remain standing for the honors and the invocation. ladies and gentlemen, escorting the vice-president of the united states, ranking member of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, the honorable deb fischer and mr. fischer. [ ♪♪ ] rage ladies and gentlemen, the

vice-president of the united states, the honorable j.d. vance, accompanied by mrs. vance. [ applause ] >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, escorting the president of the united states, the chairwoman of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, the honorable amy klobuchar and mr. bessler.

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

>> i have a feeling people are very hungry so i'm going to get this started. mr. president and madam first lady, mr. vice-president and madam second lady, my colleague, senator fischer, distinguished guests including the speaker, leader jefferies and thune and schumer, on behalf of the united states congress, welcome to this 60 inaugural lunch. big surprise, we are featuring nebraska beef and minnesota apples for dessert. we are here in statuary hall where these lunchons have taken

place since president regan's inauguration in 1981 and where the house of representatives met over 150 years ago probably before you were born, mr. speaker. in 1864, after the new house wing of the capitol was built and in the midst of a civil war, congress dedicated this to host statues chosen by every state. walking into the hall, we all passed under the arch holding the marble car of history clock. it shows recording events as they happen and as you can see, she's heard a lot of stuff. as she rides her chariot forward into the future, she looks behind her to remember the past. she remains here as she has for hundreds of years, a reminder that history will remember the events of the present and it is on us to write that history right now. speaking of art, the painting

right here before you, i chose this painting for this lunch this summer and it's titled "american horizon." it's by jane wilson who grew up on her family farm in seymour, iowa. coming from the middle of our country, senator fischer and i both liked the painting because the artist is from america's heartland but the horizon could easily be florida, mr. president. i will also note that this is the first time in history we are featuring the work of a woman artist at this lunch. looking at the vast open landscape, we're drawn to the bottom of the frame where the land or the water, depending on where you're from, meets the sky. and the horizon endures. the horizon is meaningful for us today as we mark our enduring democracy as we approach its 250th anniversary. it's a reminder that what's over

the horizon is our next chapter and it is my prayer that the people in this room can write that chapter together. i now would like to ask u.s. senate chaplain dr. barry black, and we thank godess back he is back with us to deliver the invocation after which lunch will be served. thank you. >> let us pray. king of kings and lord of lords, whose kingdom is above all earthly kingdoms and who judges all lesser sovereignties, look with favour upon president donald john trump and vice-president james david j.d. vance.

empower them with the wisdom and courage needed for our times. protect them from the disistudes and challenges that obstruct the making of the world of justice, peace and righteousness vicissitudes. lord, give them a deep desire to do their best for our country and world and a determination to act in ways pleasing to you. preserve their families in health and strength by your grace and power. bless now this luncheon as each of us finds your grace sufficient for every need.

we pray in your sovereign name. amen. >> bret: the luncheon is underway. these cameras will go dark here soon. it will be the beginning that we get to see as now we get an outside shot of the capitol. speaking of the capitol, they will go from here to capital one arena and that is where our own bill baltuge

>> we have got 20,000 people crammed into this arena waiting for president trump to arrive. you get the sense when he does show up, this place is going to erupt. the preprogram has started. charlie kirk is speaking behind me right now. we expect elon musk, virginia governor glen yunken and kash patel. we're told that president trump is going to sign a series of executive orders here in this arena. let me step out and give you a quick look. they set up a desk up there. they just put the presidential seal on it. we are told that president trump is going to sit down at that desk in front of this crowd of 20,000 of his most fervent supporters and start signing executive orders in front of them. you can imagine the crowd will go wild when he announces some of those policies. some of the speakers behind us have just declared that what they describe as an invasion at the southern border is over. every time trump has been on the jumbotron behind us today, this crowd has gone absolutely wild.

the biggest round of applause he's gotten all afternoon, the biggest cheers i personally heard was when trump was giving his inaugural speech and he said, it will be official, u.s. government policy that there are only two genders in america. out of everything he said, that was the most applause. the parade here is officially scheduled for 3:30 p.m. eastern time. we're not sure if they're running on time or not. but this place is packed to capacity about 20,000 people. they're waiting and they're ready for president trump to arrive here and to start signing some of these executive orders to get the first hours of his administration fully underway. we'll send it back to you. >> bret: bill melugin. we'll head back there. >> martha: i don't think we've seen a performative executive order signing before. i think it's going to be very interesting and very trump so we will obviously go there.

>> bret: maybe drumroll. >> this one is for jenkins at a very important spot. he's at the union pub where quite a few folks have gathered and they have screens there. it's good they have found a good pub as an alternative to being out on the mall. what are they talking about in there? >> reporter: we're a few blocks from the rotunda. they have been partying. they don't mind that they're not in the capital one arena. most of them had plan "a" and tickets to spend money but they're coming from all over. the mayor -- they're happy to be here witnessing this history. what's your name? >> taylor! >> reporter: where are you from? >> minnesota. >> reporter: minnesota. and now, did you have other plans than this? >> we were going to try to stand outside but our plans changed. >> reporter: are you happy you ended up here? >> yes.

>> reporter: fantastic. people are having so much fun. there's one young woman here somewhere. where are you from? >> france. >> reporter: france! were you going to be in a bar in d.c.? >> exactly. all the time. >> reporter: we've got people from all over the place. people that met each other. are you happy to be here? >> marine corps! let's go! >> reporter: i got to tell you, bret and martha, there's some families here as well. where's that young lady. come on. come over here. >> crowd: usa! usa! usa! >> reporter: over here. we've got this one -- okay. she's walking away with a young kid. you can see the party environment here has been huge.

what's really fascinating is that most of these people came from across, san francisco, minnesota, all over, and they're just happy. where are you from? >> i'm from indiana, south bend. >> reporter: are you glad to be here? >> oh, yeah! >> reporter: all right. i probably can't hear you. i'm going to send it back to you. >> martha: i'm betting that south bend lady will be sticking around for the ohio game. it sounds like everybody's pretty warmed up in there. >> bret: live tv, union pub, alcohol. there you go. throw in, stir. let's go back to the speech real quick. this is a moment where the president's talking about the assassination attempt in butler, pennsylvania. take a listen. >> president trump: over the past eight years, i have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year

history and i learned a lot along the way. the journey to reclaim our republic has not been an easy one. that i can tell you. those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life just a few months ago in a beautiful pennsylvania field an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear, but i felt they be and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. i was saved by god to make america great again. [ applause ] >> bret: a moment in that speech. joined by jessica tarlov added to the panel. good afternoon. >> thanks. >> bret: your thoughts today, what we've seen so far, and obviously president biden and mrs. biden heading off on special mission 46 flying to california. used to be called air force one.

not anymore. >> no. a big day. it felt as we were watching it more state of the union than inauguration. this was someone who has been president and he's president again and he says it's liberation day. and this is what's going to come next. but i'm glad that you played that about the assassination attempt because when he talked about that, i was thinking about the contrast of these big moments for both now former president joe biden and for donald trump. so with joe biden, the afghanistan withdrawal was the term in his presidency. where his approval rating tanked and it never recovered. and the assassination attempt for now-president trump, again, tony ferbitzio has been talking about what happened and he said that was the moment where he knew we were essentially coasting at this pointed. it permeated the conscience the way a lot of people had not taken account of. we have a new candidate now. it has breathed new life into the campaign. it's obviously an incredibly

important moment for the trump family and the country. i think he was right to spend time on that. in terms of the speech overall, and he's already given a couple, and he'll give more as the day goes on, you had to have erring everything. some was muted. what was interesting it me and we'll see if we hear more of this, there are 7 million people who voted for joe biden in 2020. who chose the couch. trump got two and a half people that switched over. there are millions who are clearly open to him and they signalled that by saying, we're not going to vote for anyone at this point. we don't think he's an existential threat to the republic. we'll sit this out. i'm curious to see where the overtures come when it comes to those millions of people. >> martha: when you talk about the assassination attempt as a turning point in the election, i'm reminded of mark zuckerberg, who put a couple hundred million dollars into the biden campaign fund, but watched that moment in butler, pennsylvania and said it was the most bad ass thing he

had ever seen. he said you can't watch that and not feel pa patriotic. the issue of patriotism, especially with young people in america, is something that i remember as a teenager back in the 80s, but but it is something, especially with young people, that you're feeling right now and seeing on these streets and seeing in these crowds. >> it's a great and important thing to see because as we have this tik tok discussion, i'm reminded of the really horrific moment when osama bin laden's letter to america was trending and there were young gen z tik tokers putting it out. discovering patriotism is an important thing. many of these individuals have found a home in trump. he increased his support according to our fox news analysis by double digits with black voters, with latino voters and with gen z. but the question i have and to your point is, can he turn this into a coalition that moves forward beyond him? he has four years to keep this

group and to move this new coalition, that's fragile. yes, it's republicans, it's establishment republicans, who may be reluctantly voted. it's the maga base but this new coalition of voters that he brought and can he find a home for that? whether it's in j.d. vance or marco rubio, maybe pam bondi. does it find a permanent place in the trump administration? >> bret: one of his actions today will be giving tik tok some breathing room to figure this out. but it's tough. it's a tough issue. there's 170 million americans who are on this thing and yet there are real threats that you hear from lawmakers on intelligence committees saying they are getting data and this is a problem and so figuring that out is going to be a challenge for this. >> you're going to have refresh my recollection. i think the initial ban was under the joe biden watch. pompeo experts, marco rubio, are clear, tik tok is not an american friend.

mr. wonderful happens to be a friend of mine. we'll go in together. he's going to put up 20 billion, i'm going to put up $20 and we're going buy tik tok together. and i think we're going to save it. tik tok, look, trump's right. it helped him. so he wants to keep the platform but you don't want the chinese stealing your information. >> bret: in order to buy something you have to have someone sell it. if the chinese don't want to sell it, you've got an issue. >> president gee jinping has that golden ticket, so trump will have to negotiate with him. you cannot keep chinese malware on an app, on american phones. all of his national security advisers are telling him that. if you don't want world war iii, my daughter was ready to take up arms when tik tok went off for thirty minutes? they were literally -- >> bret: that may be an issue of itself. >> absolutely. >> i had to ask her what tik tok

was. it cannot be saved, it's going to have to be purchased by americans and china is -- he's going to have to have a very uncomfortable conversation with ch china. >> martha: this was banned by congress by a bill that was passed and signed by the president. then that bill was upheld by the supreme court. so what is the president's ability -- i know that i believe that in the law, it said if there was an imminent sale or, you know, a real substantial sale that was in the works, it could be extended for ninety days. where do we stand on all of that legally? >> i think legally, where we stand is that is the law, but if the president says it's not the law, then you have to litigate it until someone says it really is the law. that's going to take a long time. courts move slowly. so he's got plenty of time to work this out. but if you're asking me as a lawyer, the ban is in effect.

you can't undo that effect. >> it's not. tik tok is back up. >> because the chief executive, there's a little clash of the branches right now, refresh my recollection, the president has an army. that's that old clash is who wins if? if the president says i'm going to give you more time, john roberts can't come over and say, no, you're not. i'm a rule of law guy. i think if the ban's in place, it ought to be enforced and will incent people to move more quickly and mr. wonderful can have another asset. >> bret: we're going to follow that because it's going to be complicated. sandra, we were are talking earlier about the economy and what this means immediately. there is this exuberance, but there are challenges ahead, bumpy roads ahead. >> i thought about that in the rotunda about how his performance in the economy may be judged. something everybody can relate to a the home is the problems in

the housing market and the lack of supply and the high prices, the high interest rates that are only in place to tame the inflation that happened over the past four years, and there is going to be a good hard look given to the progress he's able to make on the economy, how quickly he's able to make it. historically, it is extremely challenging to bring prices down. once they go up, it is extremely challenging to bring them down. what he can do is work to tame inflation and obviously immediately, you look at spending, which he's already indicated that he and his team are doing. so i think for a lot of people, they're going to judge that by can prices stabilize at the prices that they have risen to? will it eventually over the next couple of years be easier to get a new home? will it be more affordable to get into a home? those are those really tangible things i think people felt when they went towards election day. on the point of tik tok, as i always say, everything's for sale for a price. and i think that's something to be really -- that's going to be really interesting to watch. one other note was we were watching the pictures live there

before they cut out of the luncheon, to be a fly on the wall in that room right now, you saw some of those seating was really interesting and the supreme court justices looked like they were sprinkled throughout the room. you can only imagine some of the discussionings. i think i told you, i saw there was a moment where mark zuckerberg was chatting with brett kavanagh. you can imagine some of the interesting discussions taking place right now. >> bret: it's not just pass the bread. >> martha: one of the other things that helps to unleash the economy, and this is the idea that the president wants to carry out, jessica, is to lower regulations, to make it easier for businesses to grow, and the goal there is that you have an expansion of business and wages can rise when that happens. and, you know, that's the plan that is laid out there that joe biden, i mean, he threw trillions of dollars into the economy during covid and it led to quite a bit of inflation. >> absolutely. i think in the first term, trump, his goal was for every new regulation to cut two.

i think he wants to go ten to one this time. what i've been paying particular attention to in the wake of the horrific wildfires in california, is how quickly regulations can be cut when it's a state of emergency. and that's not to say that everything that's being done there should be implemented on a long-term basis because there is good reason for certain kinds of regulation. but that's obviously a bit of a guide book to democrats to say, obviously we don't want the trauma of all of this to lead to it but there's probably some things that we can do to get us in a better position for people to be able to afford their homes, for us to be building more housing supplies. that's what's going on in austin. rents are coming down in austin and housing prices are coming down because they're cutting regulations to make sure they can build more houses. mayor adams in new york city this whole house of the "yes," right, the promise of "yes," is about cutting regulations. so you can be liberal and cut regulations as well. but it is interesting to look at the people in the trump administration, the president

himself, j.d. vance, backing off this language of day one, the prices are coming down. i thought i could go to the store tomorrow and my eggs are going to be half price because donald trump is in office. now, we're talking about stabilizing prices. it's a much more moderated tone. i get it. >> martha: to be clear, he did say his goal is to bring those prices down. >> on the campaign trail, he said day one. he said you're going to the gas pump and have gas the same price. >> bret: ukraine's not going to be solved on day one. >> hopefully a hundred days. >> bret: we have a lot of things to cover today. that's a lot of events. we'll take a quick break as our special coverage of the inauguration of the 47th president of the united states continues here on fox. >> martha: stay tuned.

>> the golden age of america begins right now. [applause] >> that was the first line of a speech that was chock-full of lines about a number of different topics. the inauguration of the 47th president of the united states, chad live on capitol hill with what we can expect on cabinet confirmations today. >> it afternoon. they will start right away this

evening with a series of business meetings from various committees to try to get these tee up to move them across the senate floor. we don't think there will be any more than 2 at the very most. the one we think they will confirm for sure is marco rubio, the republican senator from florida for secretary of state. they will do that after they pass the lake and riley act. a procedural vote first at 5:30 o'clock eastern time. this is moving quickly then they will pass that act and probably go to marco rubio late in the 6:00 hour maybe 7:00 our and then they will try to get clearance on the nomination of john ratcliff to be the cia but i was told that they would not get to that today necessarily. they would not rule it out. it was contingent on how much blessing they would get from the democrats. john thune, the republican leaders says go back to president obama. he was able to move 12 nominees

in 15 days. he said for president trump last time around, 2017 it took him 43 days to move so they want to expedite those. just in the past 15, 20 minutes here we have heard that there is a business meeting coming up later this week to move the nomination of scott to be the treasury secretary and we will have a few others later this week may be on the floor, a confirmation hearing tomorrow for the republican representative from new york to be the u.n. ambassador and that should probably be an easy one to move also moving up in the queue, one of the business meetings today from the committee level. keep in mind you have to get it out of committee than you can move it to the floor. kristi, known to be the secretary of homeland security. what is up today behind the scenes, a business meeting by the armed services committee to move the nomination of pete to be the secretary of defence to the floor. that is something they will probably not confirm any time soon. at the very earliest later this week it has been speculated

maybe this weekend, maybe sometime next because democrats may require debate time and they might have to go across a procedural hurdle to stave off a filibuster and they would up sensibly have the votes to do that and you will need a simple majority to do this right now but the senate might be voting around the clock here at some point. i remember back in 2017 was some of president trump's nominees they had one vote at 7:00 a.m. and one to be the hss secretary at 2:00 a.m. so we may say that in the coming days. >> track, live on the hill, thank you. >> martha: peter is alive from the north lawn where there has been a chains of residency over the course of today. hi, peter. >> you can see it's happening just over my shoulder. there are big trucks moving stuff out from the biden family and moving stuff in for the trump family as we understand it they have been told they have about five and a half hours for that entire process to