i accept, with humility, the honor which the american people have conferred upon me.

>> we must be willing, individually and as a nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. >> president-elect nixon's limousine moves up. the president-elect and the president, the transition, an actual drama right before your eyes. >> the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. >> there is nothing wrong with america that cannot be cured by what is right with america. >> i will bring the values of our history to the care of our time. >> carter means it getting next to the people. tradition shattered when he walked on pennsylvania avenue. >> holding hands, now as president and first lady. >> ask not what your country be c can do for you, ask what you can

do for your country. >> we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. >> when america is united, amrica is totally unstoppable. >> the inauguration of donald trump, now reporting from the nation's capital, nora o'donnell. good morning. thank you for joining us. it is the 20th of january, and on this date, every four years, the 20th amendment calls for a transition of presidential power at noon sharp. this year's inauguration will look a little different, and that's because of the cold weather right here in the nation's capital. temperatures in the 20s, windchills in the teens, and so the ceremonies have been moved inside the capitol building. in just hours, democrat joseph robinette biden jr. of delaware will finish his term as america's 46th president and republican donald john trump

will begin his term as the 47th. you might remember the inauguration of ronald reagan was also moved inside the capitol rotunda also because of the cold weather. president-elect trump and his wife, melania, are at st. john's episcop episcopal church for a prayer service. joined by his family and the vice president-elect and his family as well. after trump is sworn in, he will participate in a modified inaugural parade. that's indoors now too at the capital one arena, which is home to the washington capitals hockey team. other than the pomp and circumstance, including three inaugural balls, the trump team says he will get right to work signing roughly 200 executive actions. at a rally last night, trump vowed to get right to work, saying he "will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country." donald trump has been arguably the most influential

president-elect in recent history. he's taking credit for the israel-hamas ceasefire and the return of tiktok. but for a few more hours, joe biden is still president, and he is taking advantage of those final moments. we learned just this morning he has been issuing some preemptive pardons for dr. anthony fauci, general mark milley, and members of the january 6th committee. we've got the best team in the business with us this morning. around washington, d.c., the country, and globe, and right here in the studio. "cbs mornings" co-host gayle king, chief political analyst jon dickerson, margaret brennan, moderator of "face the nation," robert costa, and former senator roy blunt of missouri. he chaired the joint congressional inaugural committee four years ago. welcome, everybody. good to have you here. let's begin with applying correspondent caitlin hewy burns. >> reporter: good morning, nora. happy inauguration day to everyone. today is a day of tradition and the service here at st. john's

right behind me is also one of those inauguration day traditions. this goes all the way back to fdr, who attended a service here before taking the oath of office, and since then, every president since has attended a service here before taking that oath. actually, going back to james madison, every president, every person who has held this office, has attended at least some kind of service at st. john's, and that is why it is known as the church of presidents. now, just a few moments ago, we saw the president-elect exit his vehicle with his wife, the incoming first lady, melania trump, entering the church, greeting the reverend there. he's attending the service with members of his family that we also saw enter the church as well as his vice president-elect, jd vance and his wife. they will attend this service, which is supposed to be short, and then they will carry on the

rest of the day. but we can report that it is very cold out here, about 26 degrees at this point. there is chill in the air, but there is also such excitement, nora, even though the inauguration itself is going to be held indoors. you really can feel, here in washington, this sense of excitement and anticipation of one of the greates american traditions that we have. we know that the president-elect will exit the church, and we're hoping to hear from him, perhaps. he did not take any questions or address the press as he walked in. but a busy day ahead, as you mentioned, executive orders on the horizon, and an important day as he returns to power in washington today, nora. >> and we will cover it all, caitlin huey-burns outside st. john's church. thank you. gayle king, so good to see you. we've kocovered so many of thes inaugurations. i remember more than eight years ago, it was cold then too, but

not as cold as today. >> it was cold but i was bummed because i wanted to be outside because i wanted to sense the atmosphere, until i heard it would be 6 degrees. >> with the windchill, right. >> i took the train up, and it was really interesting to me, because there were a group of people who had had tickets before but now, because it had been moved inside, they no longer had tickets. they were saying, gayle, can you get us? i said, we're trying to get in, and we can't get in. i'm amazed by the number of people that still came and want to be in the cold streets just because they want to be part of history. people coming with their families. one funny story was a guy and his wife who said, listen, there's a 99% chance we won't get in, but there's still a 1% chance we will, so we're going to take our chances on that. even at the hotel, people walking around, showing me their dresses, what they're going to be wearing tonight. everybody's prepared. there is an excitement, an energy in this town that i think goes along with an inauguration day. people are happy, and they are excited.

and it's all part of our tradition. >> that's right. there were more than 200,000 tickets issued to be part of the inauguration, but really, only about 20,000 seats inside that capital one arena, so people have been waiting since last night to try and get inside. want to bring in john dickerson, and john, you've covered and written about the presidency and donald trump, of course. this is different. he's going to enter with shock and awe. >> he is going to enter with shock and awe. this is a day of action. usually, the inaugurations we've covered before and in history, they are this gentle wade into a presidency. there's a honeymoon to come. donald trump is hitting fast right away. that's very different. but what strikes me is what looks similar. visiting st. john's church. that didn't happen in 2020, as i recall, because of covid or perhaps there was some other reason. 2016 was a much different trump inauguration. so far, today, this looks like an old-fashioned inauguration. so, after the debates about the

peaceful transfer of power, certainly in 2020, today's traditions are really an attempt to try to return the idea of a kind of normal ceremonial peaceful transfer of power without all of the drama. of course, it's early in the day. >> yeah, we heard donald trump say last night that he would issue dozens, we're hearing, up to 200 executive actions on a number of things, and if you think about that, margaret, that's what makes this so unique. he's only the second president in history. grover cleveland, the other, to serve nonconsecutive terms, so he comes in with what he calls a mandate, and at the same time, knows the white house, knows how to work the levers of government, and so he's preparing to use them. >> he is. and he seems to have the confidence that a republican majority in congress will follow his lead. that's about to be tested as he comes to office, as i'm sure the senator will weigh in later. but we know in this sweep of executive orders, these are things that be signed in with the stroke of a pen. this is why you go to congress and make something a law if you actually want it to withstand the test of time.

among those, we expect him to issue an order designating mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups, something his national security advisor, mike walsh, shared on "face the nation" yesterday. we expect a number of things related to the border but these are things that can also be erased with the stroke of a pen by the next president, so we're going to wait and see what he is able to actually establish as his legacy, and in many ways, what we hear about donald trump is that's how he's thinking of these next four years. it's the second term. he didn't win in 2020, though he claimed he had. it's also striking when i look at caitlin outside st. john's church, i had that spot with the first inauguration, and it was cold, but i remember the feeling at the time was, what is about to happen? the pastor inside, fox news commentator robert jeffords, was known for some o the things that he said that was

anti-immigrant, anti-muslim. i look at st. john's and think of that consequential summer of 2020 and the black lives matter protest out front. that lafayette square area is now renamed the black lives matter plaza but i think of that image ofe standing outside, tal about his anger that some of the protests had turned violent and had done some damage somewhere within the church. so, as we talk about this new start, it's impossible to forget what happened in those four years, and i think we're all still trying to digest and wonder, will it look like those four years, or are we preparing for something that truly is a new man, a new presidency, and a different tone for the country? and we'll only be able to wait and see. >> robert costa, i know you spoke with the president-elect over the weekend. how does he see it? >> it's quite a moment, and it's great to hear your everyday stories from people coming to washington, gayle. i'm not going to ask you for inauguration tickets, but maybe some concert tickets because you're at all the cool events all the time.

i thought back this weekend to january of 2017, nora, when i spoke to then-president-elect trump and about how when he was coming into office the first time, he was, as margaret just said, this total outsider. he didn't understand the levers of power. he didn't really even understand his own party, the republican party, and i remember him reflecting to me back then that he was not really sure what it was going to be like. he wanted to be aggressive, but washington was a foreign place to him. and now, he returns, and he is in total command of the republican party. he's comfortable with his agenda. the lawmakers on capitol hill are trying to do his bidding. and when i spoke to him over the weekend, he reflected to me about how he really wants the country to be calm, that he knows that his agenda on deportations, on tax cuts, on so many other fronts with these executive orders, it is going to be, as john said, a version of shock and awe, and he's going to talk today about how he believes he has a mandate and that the

country really wants change, that he believes that in his bones, that the country wants change, but he also believes he's coming in now as someone who has been president before, and he believes he can have a steady hand in executing his policies, and when you talk to people close to him, as i did over the weekend, susie wiles, his incoming chief of staff, there is a different culture around trump now. to be sure, he's still president-elect trump, still donald trump and everything that means, someone who has spent 50-plus years in the public eye as a disruptive figure, but at the same time, he's coming in now with governing at the fore of his agenda, and he really knows what he wants to do and how to do it. >> we talked to so many people, and the thing i keep hearing, what they say about donald trump, you may not like what he says, you may not like how he does it, but they all believe he will get things done, and we had senator john in our last hour, who said something i thought was very interesting, that success will be donald trump's best

revenge, and that's what he thinks is going to happen. donald trump will be a very successful president. but as you say, the day is young. we shall see. we shall see. >> the president promising in his inaugural address, we've heard from excerpts, a revolution of common sense. i want to bring in senator blunt. so good to have you here as you have served on the inaugural committee. also served in both houses of congress. how much change can donald trump enact? >> you know, i think he has a chance to create lots of change. i chaired his inauguration eight years ago. i chaired senator -- president biden's inauguration four years ago. i think it's a great moment for democracy. it may be the pivotal moment for democracy. people all over the world watch what happens today, and it's a big, big, big moment. i wish we were outside. it's the greatest stage in the world, outside, but what happens inside will be watched by about 100 million people, and what we see here, i was at a couple of

things last week with some people who are going to be in the white house, and the theme was, we have the excitement of a new administration, but we have the experience of having been there and having four years to think about it. i think it's dramatically different than a normal second term. a lot of presidents sort of limp into a second term, and they knew they should have run for a second term and they do, but they don't know quite what to do with it. i think this experience of being out of the white house for four years but understanding the white house, you know, four years ago, eight years ago, president trump barely filled positions in the government. appointed secretary and nobody else. this time, there's five and six and eight deep in these agencies of people. they want to be there, who they expect to be there, day one, and i think it will make a difference. >> you know, john, you've pointed out that donald trump may be the least constrained president of the modern era. why? >> if you total it up, i mean, he doesn't have to worry about re-election. he got through two impeachments and not only -- and emerged

stronger. his view is that the supreme court has ruled that he can do pretty much what he wants in the white house. they may disagree, but he sees it differently. the democrats are in disarray. he no longer has cabinet officials who have come in with the express argument that they're going to constrain him. his vice president is no longer somebody who was put on the ticket to hold him back. he's got somebody who is the heir apparent, and -- and i'd loe the senator's thoughts on this. he no longer has republican senators like john mccain, jeff flake, mitt romney, who were a thorn in his side. he's got republicans who were elected in his image, who will be much more amenable, as we've seen from the advise and consent, mostly just consent so far. all of those constraints are gone and in his soul, he is unbound and always has been, so that's -- i can't think of a modern presidency that has had somebody who is as unconstrain pd as he has. now, reality is a constraint, and that's to come. we'll see. >> john, some people call that a

presidency with no guardrails. is that a good thing? is that what this is? >> well, it's why the founders, when they met in that sweaty summer of 1787, said, you know what's crucial for the president is virtue in the person who has the job because they have so much power, and we know from history that power corrupts even the most noble people and that at bottom, it is an unrestrained job and you need virtue, so that's why it comes down to the soul and character of the person in the job. >> want to take a look now. this is the north portico of the white house. you see the president and the first lady, the bidens there. they are going to be agreeing the vice president, kamala harris, as she returns to the white house one last time, and we should note too, of course, the president-elect and his wife will soon be making their way to the white house for the traditional tea and a discussion of the two of them together. and then the president and the president-elect will ride together to the united states capitol. let's take a moment here and

just watch what's happening. robert? >> what a moment for president joe biden, elected to the senate in 1972, sought the presidency, 1988, 2008, eight years as vice president to president obama. now, this politial career after more than a half century comes to an end. some disappointment in democratic ranks but a lot of pride in president biden's inner circle about what he accomplished on domestic and foreign policy over the last four years. >> i want to bring in senior white house correspondent weijia jiang. she is at the white house, and weijia, as we look at these pictures of the president and the vice president, they are leaving office with some breaking news, issuing some final preemptive pardons. what have we learned? >> reporter: that's right, nora. we know that president biden has already issued more than 4,000 pardons, especially in his final weeks of office, but he chose to use the final hours of his presidency to issue these preemptive pardons, and it

matters because it's not about the personal individuals. it really speaks to the state of politics in this country today. and he essentially, he said, in a lengthy statement, that he wants to protect these people from revenge, because even though gayle said revenge, you know, success might be the best form of revenge, we know what the president-elect has said extensively about payback, about retribution, about going after his political enemies, and so that is why, today, president biden issued these pardons. he said, "i'm exercising my authority under the constitution to pardon general mark a. milley, dr. anthony s. fauci, the members of congress and staff who served on the select committee and the u.s. capitol and d.c. metropolitan police officers who testified before the select committee." of course, that is in reference to investigating what happened four years ago on january 6th, and notably, it includes some of

trump's fiercest political rivals, including two republicans, former congresswoman liz cheney and former congressman adam kinzinger along with adam schiff. this speaks to where president biden is thinking could happen as president-elect trump takes office. and as you mentioned, he is preparing now to welcome president-elect trump and the first lady, melania trump, here to the white house for that traditional tea. they will spend a lot of intimate moments together, but nora, based on the pardons today, based on what we heard from president biden and his final days here at the white house, speaking about the warnings to come with the new administration, as you can imagine, those moments, those conversations could be tense. >> and weijia, we understand that president biden just spent his final moments inside the oval office?

>> reporter: that's right. this morning, he received his final presidential daily brief, and i did peek in front of the west wing, as you know very well, if there's a marine sentry standing there, standing guard, it means that he is inside the oval office, and he was there, but he must have had a quick walk to the north portico to prepare to welcome guests here to the white house. but i did speak to aides this morning who said it was really important to him to have that time in the oval, because it's not just capping the past four years of his presidency. it is capping an entire political career. and we don't know where he goes from here, nora, but at the end of today, he will be heading off to california for some rest, and we know last night he said, "i'm not going anywhere." he said he wants to stay engaged, and we should expect to hear more of him, nora. >> and weijia, we understand president biden left a letter for the incoming president? >> reporter: he is expected to leave a letter, nora.

we are told, of course, he is an institutionalist, which is exactly why he is hosting the trumps here, why he is participating in all the traditions, and we know that this letter this -- that presidents leave for each other means a lot to donald trump, because he has spoken about how much the letter that president obama left him meant to him four years ago, and we know that despite the fact that trump decided not to participate in all the traditions that we are talking about and celebrating today when it comes to the peaceful transfer of power, of course, he left town the morning of inauguration, even trump left a letter for president biden on the resolute desk of the oval office, so we certainly expect president biden to do the same today. n nora? >> let's listen in now to st. john's church as the president and future first lady leave the service there.

caitlin huey-burns is there. >> reporter: any response to the pardons? >> mr. president, how is this different for you from eight years ago? >> and there you can see the reporters there trying to get some questions to the president-elect, senator. >> nora, i went to this breakfast eight years ago. there are about 20 people that go, the six-member congressional committee, the people we've seen going in and out, and then i rode back to the capitol with just president obama, president trump and i, and that's an interesting ride. that's a ride you wouldn't get to take very often, and it's a big moment. usually, it's happened -- eisenhower was mad at truman, so

he wouldn't go in for breakfast, he waited in his car, but generally, this is a moment where two people and their closest family members who have this unique sense of the power of the office, come together and it's great to see the bidens starting that moment. i don't imagine there will be much discussion of any action either of them are taking today. it will be a very friendly passing of this unique place to live, this unique job, and then i think senator klobuchar will ride to the capitol with president biden and president trump, and again, another interesting moment. >> senator, what do you talk about in a moment like that? it's you, donald trump, barack obama, what is the conversation? i'm curious. >> actually, my wife, abby, rode to the capitol with mrs. trump and mrs. obama, and she thought she was the person that had to keep that conversation going. but i think they, you know, president trump did ask president obama, what was the biggest mistake you made as

president? president obama wisely chose not to answer that question. i think he said, this is a hectic job. i haven't had time to think about that yet. >> let's go back to political correspondent caitlin huey-burns. she's there at st. john's church. i heard him say something while he was pumping his fist. >> reporter: yeah, nora, he's actually still in the vehicle right behind me. i don't know if you can see. he just exited the church. it was about a 20-minute-long service, and we were trying to shout questions from him. we're standing right across the street from the church. you try to take every chance you can get on a day like this, and he essentially told -- we asked, how are you feeling, mr. president? and he put his fist up in the air and said, very good. he mouthed that to us. that is really kind of all he said, but nora, this is a moment of reflection before starting a very busy day. there is a lot of pomp and circumstance, and i can tell

you, i've covered trump's campaign through its entirety, and this moment feels a little bit surreal still. he is returning to power in washington. this is a familiar scene for him, but the pomp and circumstance surrounding this day is just a really special moment for all americans, and it really is an honor to kind of get that first glimpse of the president-elect, soon to be president, as he has that moment of reflection. i mentioned the history of this church. just to give you a little perspective, we're right across the park from the white house, and i mentioned before, this is called the president's church. there's actually a pew inside the church, pew 54, that says, "the president's pew." that is a designated spot for presidents, given this distinction here. but a short service that just concluded, and we see president-elect still waiting in

that suv right behind us, giving those words that he feels good ahead of this very busy day, nora. >> caitlin, thank you. no doubt the president probably waiting for the cue to make his way then over to the white house for that traditional tea with the president of the united states. i want to bring in chief white house correspondent nancy kordis in the capitol's emancipation hall, where there are 1,800 seats crammed in there. nancy, i know since the festivities were moved inside, everyone trying to garner one of those last seats inside. what can you tell us who will be sitting there? >> reporter: that's right. i'll give you a lay of the land, nora. we are about as close as any journalist is going to get to the swearing in ceremony itself now that it has been moved indoors to the capitol rotunda, one floor up. there are about 800 seats that have been crammed into the

rotunda for the vvips, we're talking about family members, cabinet picks, supreme court members, members of congress, and those tech titans that we've talked so much about like mark zuckerberg and jeff bezos and elon musk, who have been specially invited by the president-elect. emancipation hall, where we're standing, is normally where visitors come. it's their first stop before they go on their tours of the capitol, but today, it has been transformed. you can see all the seats that are set up, and about 10 or 15 minutes ago, they started allowing the first guests in. these are dignitaries, representatives from foreign countries, big donors. we've already seen some familiar faces, by the way, including the mayor of new york, eric adams, who just visited with president trump on friday at mar-a-lago. we also spotted danica patrick, the race car driver and trump supporter, and nora, the influencers, podcasters, and

sometime boxers jake and logan paul. so, that gives you a sense of the types of individuals that we are seeing here in emancipation hall. we did manage to get our hands on a program a few minutes ago. this is on every seat, the 60th inaugural ceremonies, this program says. "the presidential oath of office will be administered to donald john trump by the chief justice of the united states, john roberts," and the oath will be issued to the vice president-elect, jd vance, but associate justice brett kavanaugh. among those we expect to attend today, every living former president of the united states. of course, those we know who will not be here, michelle obama, the former first lady, no official reason given, but we know she's not a fan of donald trump, and there are several members of congress on the democratic side who are sitting this one out as well, including nancy pelosi, the former

speaker, who is still recovering from hip surgery after a fall on an overseas trip, nora. >> and nancy, i just have to point out the statue behind you, of course. that's the replica of the statue of freedom, correct? >> reporter: that's right. this is a plaster cast of the statue of freedom, that bronze statue that you can see from miles around on the dome of the u.s. capitol. they have replicated it here so that visitors, when they come to the u.s. capitol from all over the country, it's one of the first things that they see. really gives them a sense of what they're about to see in this majestic building. >> i love the statue of freedom. thank you, nancy kordis, because people can see that plaster model, as she pointed out, replicating what sits atop the capitol, the one place where a woman is the highest spot in washington, d.c. as senator blunt knows, the beauty and majestic nature of the united states capitol, and

while it is -- >> i was fascinated by -- when she was talking about the guest list of people who were going to be there. i would love to know who decides on the seating, like, who's going to sit here, who's going to sit there. i can't wait to see the optics of that. >> actually, the chairman of the committee makes most of those decisions. she had -- senator klobuchar had a number of platform tickets. senator fischer, the highest-ranking republican on that committee right now, had a number, and they decided that. you know, interestingly, there are actually more people at the capitol for this inauguration than there were four years ago because of covid. we went from 225,000 people going through the security system at president trump's inauguration to 1,900 people being present at president biden's inauguration. so, actually 2,600 attending today, only 1,900 attended four years ago in a very different circumstance. everybody had those masks on,

and it round most of the pictures, i will say that. >> we do all remember senator bernie sanders sitting there with his mittens. >> all by himself. >> that became a meme. you invited us many years ago to join the platform. i went back again this year with senator klobuchar and it is one of the most majestic places to be on the west front of the capitol. so, it's a loss that it won't be there today for people to see that. and also, the more than hundreds of thousands of people, friends and fans of donald trump, that have come to this town, hoping to catch some glimpse of him, robert. >> it's also, to senator blunt's point, a convening of the presidents club, even if those former presidents and presidents don't necessarily get along too well. it's a special moment for the country, just as we saw with president jimmy carter's funeral, to see these presidents and vice presidents, former vice presidents, together. i think back to january 2017. i ran into president jimmy carter and his wife, rosalind

carter and i was standing next to steve bannon, and he saw president carter show up, and bannon said to me, old-school. >> we are seeing members of the trump family also leaving st. john's church, all of his children, their spouses, and some of the grandchildren. we are told that they are -- that's tiffany trump with her husband there, and we are told that the president-elect and the first lady are returning to the blair house in order just for a short break before they go, then, to the white house for that traditional tea and then on to the united states capitol. >> everything is so well choreographed. i mean, for the whole day, you have to go here, here, but what we know for sure is noon where everybody's going to be, but i'm always fascinated by the pomp and circumstance of it all. never gets old. >> we've got the schedule, and so far, they're sticking to the schedule as the president has to be sworn in at noon at the u.s. caitol. let's head over to correspondent

kris van cleave outside of capital one arena where many have been waiting in line for hours. kris, so glad to talk to you. we were just talking about all the people that have come to washington to try to get a glimpse of the president-elect. >> well, and nora, people started lining up out here about 10:00 last night, spent the night in order to make sure they could get inside. right now, this line stretches down the street, around the corner, and then back around the other side of the block on 8th street. we're at 9th and g for people who know the d.c. area. that capital one arena only holds about 20,000 people. they have been letting folks in since about 7:00 this morning. at some point, they are going to reach capacity and there are far more people in line than will be able to get inside there. you had 200,000-plus inauguration tickets, so clearly, we know there are a lot of people in the d.c. area who came for the inauguration. this will be the best chance to participate in some of that, but

certainly, not everyone's going to be able to get in, and that's one of the things that police are watching very closely as they try to control the crowd as the day goes on. >> thank you so much. want to return to the white house and the north portico where you see the vice president and her husband welcoming jd vance and his wife, and robert costa, describe this relationship. >> it's not necessarily a close relationship, but you can see there it's cordial. handshakes. vice president harris has decisions to make, i'm told, by people close to her. does she want to run for governor of california in 2026? jd vance, just 40 years old, now the vice president-elect of the united states. what a rapid rise from best-selling author of "hillbilly elegy" to the u.s. senate and now the vice presidency. >> you describe the relationship as cordial, but it was reported when it was time for them to go to the vice president's residence, she declined. is that true? >> i believe it's not necessarily clear she declined, but there was not a visit by the

vance family to the naval observatory at this point. the details of that interaction, to be determined. >> what role do you think jd vance will play? >> jd vance is very close to donald trump jr. and the trump family. he represents somebody that has an ideological piston in his career far more than president-elect trump. he's someon who has developed an intellectual framework for much of his conservatism, and i will represent a heavyweight presence on policy and action inside this administration. >> and it is interesting, robert, as you just said there, jd vance, in all the times we interviewed him throughout the campaign, and he was front and center, very much engaging with the press, and he loves talking about policy. he will tell you there's a policy even if donald trump hasn't announced one yet. he is really into -- he wants to be that intellectual, as you said, sort of voice in terms of coming up with policies, it would seem. just yesterday, he was meeting with the vice president of china, very unusual, that high

level chinese official would even be invited or come, but donald trump extended a personal invitation to xi jinping and it's the vice president who came. he had a bilateral with jd vance, jd vance, who's only spent about two years in the senate, is now going to be part of that diplomatic outreach. he's going to be part of the outreach, i'm told, to capitol hill, and it should be interesting to see, because two years time, as you know, and you know this better than any of us, it's relationships. right? and crafting policy and actually getting congress to act on it, does he have the experience to do that, having not passed any major legislation in his two years' time? >> we're getting our -- thank you, target. we're getting our first pictures inside the capitol rotunda there, beautiful as the choir is practicing there. there's going to be 600 people that will fit inside the rotunda. we last saw images there for jimmy carter's funeral and the last time a president was

inaugurated inside was ronald reagan 40 years ago where there were also frigid temperatures here in washington. senator, it's so great so have you, just because of your knowledge of washington and legislative affairs. what kind of vice president do you think jd vance will be? >> you know, i think he's going to be very active as a vice president. he's intellectually strong. he's 40 years old. he's certainly not been in washington long enough to be tired of it. and i think -- i think he'll be very active, and i also think he's managed to figure out, through his friendship with donald junior, and his time with the president, how to be a partner without being the wrong kind of partner, you know? donald trump likes to be in charge. >> yes. >> and he will be. and i think jd vance gets that, but by understanding it, he'll probably get lots of assignments and opportunities that other vice presidents may not have had. and remember, vice president harris had sort of the same,

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capital one arena. let's check in with our maurice dubois with the reimagined inaugural parade. good morning, maurice. >> reporter: good morning to you, nora. there is joy. there is high energy. there are high expectations here among the crowd. we're here with the lucky few 20,000 are supposed to show up here. they'll fit into the arena. but as you know, some 200-plus thousand were ticketed to be on the mall to see the inauguration initially so it was first come, first serve basis to get those tickets to come inside so you have true believers who have been out here since last night, oh dark thirty. the lucky few are inside here, inside this arena. so, this is normally a basketball or hockey arena, and you can see there, the people will be sitting on the floor. the set-up is interesting. the president will be speaking at the podium back there as well

as there's a desk off to the left where he's expected to sit down and sign some executive orders. we'll see exactly how that goes. the people on the floor got here super early. they were among the first in line, and they get to sit on the floor to see the president when he gets here. every time they show his image on the screen, the crowd here starts to cheer. right now, there's something of a lull. it's going to be several hours before the new president actually gets here, but they are locked and loaded, and fired up to see their guy when he gets here, nora. >> and maurice, how full is the arena right now? >> reporter: it's getting there. it's a trickle. there's super tight security so they're letting people in rather slowly. this arena has the floor, the first deck, second and third. the second deck is filled. the third is not, but they're getting there. they're getting to 20,000 at some point. but until then, they're just kind of sitting and waiting.

>> all right, maurice dubois inside capital one arena where we just learned, as has been suspected, that not only will the new president, donald trump, give remarks, but he will have a table there to sign many of those executive orders in front of the crowd of supporters. let's bring in cbs news reporter nicole on national mall, and nicole covers homeland security for us, and nicole, i imagine it's pretty empty out there since they told everyone to stay indoors. what's being done to keep this inauguration safe? >> reporter: yeah, no rarks behind me, the stage is set, but the set is relatively empty here. what was meant to be a really jubilant celebration is now more subdued, a little bit more like an arctic tundra. we have been meeting supporters, passer-bys, spectators who have travels as far as arkansas, alabama, a couple from switzerland. we met a family from indianapolis who told us they've been to the past four

inaugurations, pointing out this one looks a lot different and those jumbotrons you normally see along the national mall, they have been taken down as well. one thing that has not been taken down, that anti-scale fencing you can see behind me. eight feet tall and when the president-elect takes the oath of office, he will be surrounded by just an absolute steel ring around him, and there is 30 miles of it throughout the capital, a little bit more about the security here. 25,000 officers, military and law enforcement personnel in place, including 7,800 members of the national guard coming from 40 states and territories, plus a lot of people don't know this, but 4,000 law enforcement officers from 178 agencies across the country, they were sworn in, deputized as u.s. deputy marshals just yesterday, and they will be patrolling the capitol. the security perimeter has

changed, adjusting to those plans around the capital one arena when the president makes remarks later today before that very crowded arena there. but here, relatively quiet right now, and u.s. capital police saying there are no specific or credible threats. of course, the u.s. capitol police chief, thomas manger, saying the biggest concern for law enforcement, a lone actor, similar to what we saw play out on new year's in new orleans. as of right now, though, this is law enforcement's super bowl. we've seen helicopters. we know that the coast guard is under way at the potomac nearby. just 360 degrees, 24/7 operation. i asked the assistant special agent in charge for the secret service of planning here. he's the lead coordinator for the inauguration. what makes today a successful event? he cited their zero-fail mission.

he said, no incidents, everybody goes home safe, and if it's truly successful, nobody's going to be talking about law enforcement tomorrow, just the peaceful transfer of power. nora? >> that's what everyone is hoping for. a peaceful transfer of power. nicole scanga, thank you so much. president-elect donald trump is expected to sign more than 200 executive actions today, a huge wave of policy proposals on everything from immigration to dei to establishing a -- an agency for government efficiency. we're going to go through all of th that. let's first bring in senior white house political correspondent ed o'keefe on capitol hill. what can we expect today? >> reporter: nora, good to be with you. happy inauguration day from capitol hill. just in this hour, trump aides in waiting have been briefing reporters on some of the details of those executive orders you mentioned that he is going to sign. there are at least ten regarding the issue that has defined his political career more than any other. immigration and border security.

ten of them. one aide says to rectify, as they put it, the situation at the u.s.-mexico border. first of all, the president will declare a national emergency along the u.s.-mexico border. that gives him immediate powers as commander in chief to begin deploying the military and other security assets to that region and to begin refocusing several federal agencies on the issue. he's going to clarify the military's role, they tell us, in protecting the "territorial integrity of the united states." they're going to end a handful of immigration-related policies from the biden era. catch and release. they're going to reinstate the remain in mexico policy, and they're going to restore construction of the border wall, particularly in parts of arizona and texas that we have seen that were literally construction was suspended almost four years ago this week and now it will resume. he's going to suspend refugee resettlement for at least four months, so that affects a handful of different countries around the world with various issues where refugees have been trying to get into the united

states. he's going to end asylum and close the border to illegals via proclamation, they say, create immediate removal process without the possibility of asylum for many of those. "we are going to then end birthright citizenship." remember, that's in the constitution. it's also opposed, ending it, by about seven in ten americans according to the cbs news poll that came out yesterday. they're going to try to enhance the vetting and screening of what they call illegal aliens and they're going to rescind "open border policies and try to bolster immigration and customs enforcement" restore the death penalty for any undocumented immigrant who kills a law enforcement officer and encourage states to do so. most urgently, we're waiting to see where immigration and customs enforcement might begin carrying out removal programs in cities to try to target undocumented immigrants who may have criminal records or be considered threats to national security and get them back to their home countries.

there have been a handful of discussions with latin american countries about establishing quick partnerships that allow those immigrants to be sent back, and we expect many major american cities, we heard over the weekend chicago will be one, but there will be others, and when it comes to classifying drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, watch for mexico's reaction. they're not going to be happy about this, because it will perceive them as harboring terrorists, and a big part of their society, of course, is controlled by drug cartels so it creates immediate problems in the western hemisphere as he starts to dramatically change immigration policy. >> we are looking at the east front of the capitol, and that's where president biden and the first lady will depart washington after the swearing in of donald trump. the east front was where traditionally inaugurations were held. the last there was jimmy carter, and then, of course, ronald reagan on the advice of some of

his political consultants, inclthey moved it to the west front, so traditionally, it has been on the west front of the capitol with that beautiful inaugural platform that won't be used today, but what we're showing you right now, too, is this presidential motorcade that is going right from the blair house, which is right across the street, into the white house as they are going to meet with the bidens for this traditional tea before heading up to capitol hill, robert costa. >> very quickly, the history of blair house is so fun. eleanor roosevelt did not love winston churchill staying at the white house, so the government purchased blair house so heads of state and dignitaries would stay across the street, not upstairs in the residence. ch churchill never took that direction and always stayed at the white house. >> the blair house has 14 bedrooms. i was just inside it and had a tour. it's where the whole first family is staying now. >> she may not have liked that, because there is a story,

perhaps apocryphal, of the british prime minister showing up in the altogether in front of the president. churchill said, "the prime minister of england has nothing to hide from the president of united states." >> i would like to know the circumstances of that. did he just get lost? >> busy times. busy time, gayle. >> when i spoke to president-elect trump over the weekend, he said he's really looking forward to getting back to the white house. he really loves the building. he said it was a special place, and he has made it in his image over the years. when he was president, he installed some golf screens so he could take some swings during his presidency in the residence. >> i know we want to be able to listen in here. you can hear reporters trying to get some questions in to president biden and the first lady, who is resplendent in purple, about to greet -- and they have done this before.

>> and there you see them posing for pictures as they move inside for tea and then on to the white house. a beautiful hat that melania is wearing, although it's hard to see a lot of her face with that hat on, but as you know, it's very cold here in washington,

and certainly, if they were going to be sitting outside, they would be a lot warmer clothes too. senator blunt is with us. >> everything is different, but this is the second time ever that somebody moved back into the white house. when the clevelands left at the end of their first term, mrs. cleveland, who i think was not yet 30, said to the white house staff, don't change anything, we'll be back. and whether the golf screens are still there or not, they'll be in there soon, i'm sure, but you know, moving back into the white house is something nobody living has ever seen happen before and it's a different dynamic in every way, i think. >> right. that was, of course, in the early 1800s, so -- late 1800s. >> 1893 would have been when they came back. >> one change is the family will not be with him this time. baron trump is now of college age, as i understand, will be in new york at nyu. and the first lady, i believe, is spending the majority of her time in new york as well. so, maybe those golf screens will come back really quickly. >> i want to just -- we were

talking about those executive actions and orders that will be issued today, that flurry of activity by the president. they will sign some of them in front of this crowd and we just heard from ed o'keefe. want to go to congressional correspondent nickole killion ad one of the other big stories involves tiktok. what do we know about that nikole? just to remind everybody, this ban on tiktok, the required divestiture was passed by congress, signed -- bipartisan way, signed by president biden, and now donald trump says he wants to undo that. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. and soon after he is sworn in here at the capitol, president-elect trump says he intends to issue that executive order to prevent the tiktok ban from taking place. of course, a lot of users were surprised to get those notifications over the weekend, saying that the service was not available, only to find out a couple of hours later that service was restored. tiktok putting out a statement, thanking "the efforts of president trump" and of course,

the president-elect has said that this executive order would basically extend the period of time before the law's prohibitions take place. and so, as you mentioned, of course, that law passed by congress just last year that would require tiktok to be sold off by its chinese parent company, bytedance, in order to keep operating. now, the president-elect says that he prefers to see some type of joint venture where a u.s. entity would get a 50% ownership stake in some potential deal, but that remains to be seen, and in the meantime, there are a number of congressional republicans who believe that the law should stand as is, particularly because congress passed it. it's been upheld by the supreme court. but the president-elect is still moving forward today with that executive order, and worth noting that tiktok's ceo is expected to be here for the inauguration, nora. >> nikole killion, thank you. we're going to keep talking about these executive orders, but i just have to pause for a moment because arkansas senator

tom cotton has issued a very stern warning after this and has said that any company that hosts, distributes services or otherwise facilitates the communist-controlled tiktok could face hundreds of billions of dollars of ruinous liability under the law. so, we see someone who is clearly in the maga camp rebuking those companies, warning them that they should not put tiktok back up, and at the same time, there are a lot of concerns out there as well about, what does this mean if a president can, with the stroke of a pen, undo what has been passed by a bipartisan congress and upheld by the supreme court? i may ask senator blunt about that. >> i think that circumstance, it could be a huge problem. i wasn't in the senate the last two years, so i haven't read the law carefully. i heard yesterday that there is -- if there is a purchase, a viable purchase in place, the president has some power under the law to suspend the law.

otherwise, i don't know how you suspend the law. it's passed by the congress, signed by the president, the law of the country, though there may be this viable purchase option, and maybe he decides there is one. >> but tom cotton's position, who is the head of the senate intel committee, is that that law would mean that 90-day extension would have been required to have viable and significant progress on a deal prior to january 19th. we're now past that, and he's trying to invoke a 90-day extension, also saying he wants a joint venture with the government of china, which i believe is not legal. but may be trying to gesture to china -- >> i sat by tom cotton for four years on the intel committee. he's not to be trifled with. >> senator, let me ask you a question about these executive orders more broadly. it's the theme of the day, certainly the theme of the beginning of the trump administration. mike lee once said about executive orders, the president is not a king. there is a period where

republican senators in particular did not like executive orders. help us understand how you see those in the context of a government that was built with checks and balances between the power of the presidency and the power of congress. >> well, what presidents mostly do now is they reverse the last executive orders, so you could argue they're trying to get back to where it was before the other person issued their executive orders. i think it's a huge problem. every president starts the presidency in this same way. this may be a little more dramatic than others, i don't know, but they all start it the same way. and find out in some cases they don't have the power to do what they hoped to do, just like president biden did about student loans. president trump may find out the same thing about the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship. but we need to -- the problem -- one of the problems here is, john, like the iranian agreement, it's only as good as the president who is willing to support it.

the presidents need to make the effort to get the congress to make this a permanent treaty, a permanent agreement about paris climate. if they can't do that, they should realize that we're moving forward here on shaky ground, and whatever we do could be immediately changed by the next president, and i'd like to see every president do a better job of getting permanently done what they think ought to be done, rather than temporarily done what they think should be done, though i understand why president trump is doing this today, because he's reversing a lot of the things that president biden did four years ago today. >> well, but some of these go beyond that and are probably going to go to the supreme court. with the 14th amendment and trying to end birthright citizenship, which is what the government interprets as the constitution saying those born on american soil are citizens at birth, regardless of their parents' immigration status. he says, no longer the case. that raises a lot of practical questions about, what does that mean for people currently in that status? and then those coming here. also, i would flag, for that

executive order, trying to end asylum by decree. asylum, under international law, is a human right. that you can flee persecution and come and ask for it. we have seen president biden test that with those -- that executive order that he just put in place right before the election to try to drive down those crossing the border. that's already in the courts. so, that is already been pressed. him trying to, today, end asylum by decree, would say, if you are politically persecuted, you are not welcome in the united states of america as a safe haven. >> of course, the problem is that over 90% of the people that claim asylum by decree don't get it. >> under current law, which is why you would go to congress to change that law. >> it's an excellent point, and i want to take a moment now to look at the former speakers of the house, and their spouses, gathered inside the capitol rotunda as we are getting our first look at the 600 seats, folding chairs, that are crammed in there to witness this

inauguration of the 47th president of the united states. people beginning to get there early, and you can see there, there's the podium where donald trump will deliver his inaugural address, and also be sworn in. i want to take a moment now to go to scott macfarlane. >> reporter: the senate carriage entrance was where rioters breached the capitol four years ago this january. the capitol rotunda, from which the president-elect will speak today, was an area that rioters marauded through on january 6th as well. this was the area, four years ago, where trump supporters maced, maimed, beat, clubbed police officers, so the question is, as this day develops, how many pardons will donald trump issue to january 6th rioters? he has said unequivocally it's a

first-day thing that he's going to pardon at least some of the rioters, but the question now, is it some or all? pardon the noise bind me. that is marine one getting a test engine run. this is the area from which president biden will depart the east front of the capitol but all of this happens with the background music of the january 6th cases. what becomes of them? we know a thousand people have pleaded guilty, have admitted their crimes. 600 were charged with assaulting police officers, but trump has not clarified, nora, how many people he plans to free or give clemency to on day one and whether it will be everybody. >> that's an excellent point, scott macfarlane, thank you. want to check in with chief washington correspondent major garrett also on capitol hill with the expected impact of some of these first executive actions. good morning, major. >> reporter: good morning, nora. good morning, everyone. happy inauguration day. couple of updates.

we've just seen the motorcades of three foreign leaders here for president-elect trump's inauguration. the next couple hours, leaders of italy, argentina, paraguay, have all made their way into the capitol complex. we've also confirmed former vice president mike pence will be attending the ceremonies here, arriving here at capitol hill very shortly. as we've talked about presidential powers, from the beginning of our republic, presidents have always exercised tremendous power over the executive branch. who works for the president and what they do, and we're going see some pretty sweeping changes, because a couple of former republican speakers of the house, kevin mccarthy, we just had a picture of him, and newt gingrich have told president trump, you need to tame the federal bureaucracy if you want to expedite the things that you wnt to achieve in your second term, and taming the federal bureaucracy is a huge, ambitious part of these executive orders. they're going to deal with diversity, equity, and inclusion. they're going to end all those programs within the federal government. there will be requirements no longer working from home, you

have to work at your federal agency, and there will be attempts to reduce the size and scope of the federal workforce, but there is a significant change in these executive orders on gender and sex definitions. let me read to you what the executive orders will say. it will be the policy of the u.s. government to recognize two sexes, male and female. federal employees will use sex and not gender in all agency communications. agencies will reflect sex accurately at the state department and the department of homeland security. these executive orders outline, including on government documents, and on passports. the government will not support gender ideology through any communication forums, including transgender visibility day. the executive orders will promote privacy in single-sex spaces like rape shelters, migrant shelters and prisons. these are all part of not only the way the federal government is organized by the way it talks to itself and talk to the

countries and on this question of sex or gender, these executive orders to come are quite explicit, nora. back to you. >> major garrett, that is part of what the president-elect promised on the campaign trail and is planning to carry it out on day one. thank you so much, major. also getting some breaking news right at this hour. the incoming press secretary has just tweeted that donald trump plans to rename the gulf of mexico and mt. dinali as part of these day one executive orders. going to rechristen, rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america and dinali will revert back to mt. mckinley, which it was called until president barack obama changed the name in 2015. so, a blizzard of executive actions and orders today from the renaming of landmarks in the

united states to these huge executive orders that will affect how government operates, issues about inclusivity and others as they take dramatic action today. we are watching more supporters of donald trump and others arrive now at the capitol. also want to point out that the american flag is flying at full staff over the capitol this morning. that is by order of the speaker of the house. it had been flying at half-staff in honor of president jimmy carter's death, but then, the house speaker, mike johnson, said, let's change that for a day in honor of the president-elect trump, and several states also changed their rules to bring the flag back to full staff early. i think then it will revert back to half staff to honor the late president jimmy carter. robert? >> you see members of the possible incoming cabinet for president-elect trump, the nominee for attorney general,

pam bondi, scott bessant for the treasury department, senator marco rubio, the nominee for the secretary of state. >> can we just take one second when you said about the executive order that he is going to rename it, i think, you said gulf of america. can he do that, historically, john? what does that mean? i mean, we say that that -- that, like, that's something that we've heard before or has been done before. senator blunt, you too. i'm curious about what you all think about that. >> senator, why don't you weigh in first? >> i don't have a sense that anything quite like that has been done before. it's been the gulf of mexico since the exploration times, i believe, and we'll see. our mexican friends are our good friends, and we ought to be thoughtful about that. they're our number one biggest trading partner and our -- we have this long border with both mexico and canada that's unique. >> they may be more concerned

about designating the cartels as terrorist organizations, which is going to create an immediate rift with that government. >> i can see, i think, ed o'keefe is waving his hand to say that he knows the answer. is this a "jeopardy!" question? i see you, ed o'keefe. do you have the answer to the "jeopardy!" question posed by gayle king? >> reporter: yes, well, gayle, he can't do it alone, necessarily. there is an obscure agency of the interior department, among other elements of the % government, that actually weighs in on geographic names, believe it or not, and it draws on people from all sorts of departments across the government, and they can rename things like rivers and mountains and bays and whatnot, but also, remember, when it comes to the gulf of mexico, that's going to require international acknowledgement, and mexico ■ha already said they want nothing to do with this. in fact, the mexican president, a few weeks ago, suggested, well, if he wants to rename the bay, we should probably rename the continent back to what it wasn't was, which was mexico america before the louisiana purchase and california became part of the united states. so, you can see where things may

be headed here when it comes to things like that versus the other, more significant policy changes that he's hoping to make with those executive orders throughout the day. >> on that note, we're going to squeeze in a quick break. you're watching cbs news coverage of donald trump's inauguration. we'll be right back.

i, franklin delano roosevelt, do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> the office of the president. >> of the united states. >> and will to the best of my

ability. >> preserve. >> protect and defend. >> the constitution of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. ♪ >> announcer: the inauguration of donald trump. here again, nora o'donnell. welcome back to cbs news coverage of the inauguration of president trump, and right now, we are watching the arrivals of dignitaries at capitol hill, and awaiting the departure of the incoming and outgoing presidents of the united states. they will ride together in a joint motorcade. this is tradition that they will ride together for the swearing-in ceremonies. that tradition has endured with just a few exceptions since 1837 when martin van buren and andrew jackson road in a carriage. no doubt, would be great to be a fly on the wall in that

motorcade, and there will be one, otherwise known as a senator. senator blunt had once been one. there we have it, the clintons arriving. and getting a quick picture as they go inside the capitol rotunda. it will be a remarkable group of five presidents, all inside that capitol rotunda to witness this peaceful transition of power. let's check in with our chief white house correspondent nancy kordis. she is in the capitol's emancipation hall. >> reporter: major garrett mentioned a few moments ago that we had confirmed that former vice president mike pence, donald trump's first vice president, would indeed be attending today. we knew he had been invited. we assumed he would attend, but now, we have confirmation via a statement that he posted on x, and in that statement, very interesting what he had to say. ba because as you know, nora, things did not end on great

terms between pence and trump after trump pushed pence to try to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. in fact, when they crossed paths for the first time at the funeral of former president jimmy carter a couple of week ago, mike pence's wife, karen, didn't even look at donald trump, and here's what mike pence has to say this morning about his decision to attend today. he said, "this is a day when every american does well to celebrate our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power." he said he encourages all of our fellow americans to join us in praying for president trump. so, not exactly words of support for his former running mate, but a sense of duty that it is important for the democracy of the united states for him to be here today and recognize the transfer of power. there, we see steny hoyer, former democratic leader in the

house. james clyburn as well. they will all have coveted seats within the roe tunda and vivek ramaswamy, who we have learn pd at cbs news, was going to be running doge with elon musk, this big effort to try to slim down the federal bureaucracy, but ramaswamy is planning to announce in the coming weeks that he will be mounting a bid for ohio governor, and so he will be stepping away. we've also learned that there were some within the doge effort who didn't get along that well with ramaswamy, didn't appreciate some of the things that he had to say, and so the departure, nora, appears to be of mutual benefit. >> how beautifully put, nancy cordes. let me ask about that. we see vivek ramaswamy, who ran for president himself, a young man, billionaire, been very successful in business, was supposed to be co-chairing this doge effort with elon musk.

robert costa, has there been a falling out or tension between the two? >> the real story here, nora, is that elon musk is as close as you can be to the president-elect of the united states. last night at the capital one arena, who did the president-elect bring on stage? elon musk. >> and as president-elect trump remarked last night, only elon musk could get away with naming his son "x." they seem to have a real rapport, this billionaire and the president-elect of the united states. it's highly unusual in american history to have that sort of relationship with a business titan, with someone who's in the presidency, but as senator blunt knows, doge and elon musk, even if vivek ramaswamy's busy in ohio, they're going to face some challenges from the appropriators on capitol hill. senator susan collins of maine, congressman tom cole, these traditionally are the people who decide how the federal government spends money, not some outside, informal group run by a billionaire. and that's already the real tension i'm detecting in my reporting.

it's not about vivek ramaswamy and elon musk. it's about congress and elon muk. >> congress, elon musk, every federal employee. if you're running for governor, you probably don't need this problem. you probably don't need to be at the point of the spear of trying to decide who you should eliminate and what you should eliminate in the federal government. so, probably a wise choice on his part, if that's what he's going to do. >> and the reason this matters is because in the way the american government was formed, you were supposed to have input, political input, from a president but also from congress to balance out representation across the country. there was a time, it's amazing to think of it, fdr had to go to congress to ask for changes in the executive branch. he couldn't do it himself, and when he made a very small, tiny little request, there were 330,000 telegrams sent to the capitol. they picketed washington, saying his tiny little request for aides was a power grab from congress. now, nobody bats an eye when the president says, i'm going to hire somebody to cut out $2 trillion worth of the executive branch.

>> someone with no political experience too. he's clearly a successful businessman. we get that. >> and wasn't elected by anybody. it's just a shift in where the power and representation lies in a system that was supposed to have an equal representation of power. >> or it's a test, as many of these things are, and john, i think you recognize this too, that some of it is sloganeering. some of these are campaign promises. they sound good but they're going to hit the wall of what is politically possible, not just within the bureaucracy but within how our government is set up. it's testing congress right from the get-go on so many fronts, how much they're going to demand the separation of powers. >> i remember a president saying the era of big government is over. who was that again? a democratic president who said that. and so, it has been popular by both presidents to say it is time to shrink the federal government. i think, overwhelmingly, the american people, the taxpayers would like a more efficient government. >> no one would object to a more efficient dmv in america. >> not all that unique. the first time herbert hoover

came back to the white house was when truman asked him to come back 12 and a half years later to put together the hoover commission to straeamline government. reagan had the grace commission. >> do you get a sense it might have more success because there will be less pushback from congress? >> maybe less pushback from congress. maybe -- there are so many things you could do, particularly in the technical i.t. area. we could be like one of those countries that never had a landline, but everybody now has a cell phone. we're about four generations behind in technology. there's a place where you really probably could make a huge difference. >> there we see the mayor of d.c., mayor bowser, greeting people and no doubt everyone saying congratulations to the commanders, which just had a big win over the weekend. let's bring in cbs news elections and surveys executive director anthony salvanto. how are americans feeling about this new president? >> reporter: good morning, nora. the answer is optimistic,

majority optimistic. let me show you from our latest poll here. 60% optimistic. now, everybody's been talking about history today, so let me put that in context. donald trump's optimism number is higher than the last time that he took office, maybe no surprise there. more people voted for him this time, right? but you also see when you compare it to cbs news polling over the years, for past presidents, there were higher numbers. there were 79% for obama, 68% for h.w. bush. the reason for that is the partisan era that we live in. there are democrats optimistic about incoming president trump, but there are also a lot of democrats who say that they're demoralized, who say that they're pessimistic, so that's a reflection of more recent times and that partisan era. >> i wouldn't want 60% on a test, but when you look at that, optimism for the next four years, considering what we've been through as a country, why are they so optimistic? >> that is the key question.

and the answer is, the economy, gayle. let me show you this. one of the big reasons, if not the big reason, that donald trump won was americans' dissatisfaction with what they said was a bad economy and also specifically about prices. inflation. well, look at this. especially for trump voters, they expect now his policies to bring down grocery prices. we all know presidents don't have magic wands to do that. president biden found that out. but at the same time, this really sets up a key metric for what we watch going forward, and then i'll also show you this. you've got the expectations for the u.s. economy. right now, as i said, they rate it as bad, but when we asked them, what do you expect for 2025? it's that the economy will be good. so, that's really the first thing voters tell us is, that's the first thing they want the new president to address. >> and then, anthony, what about immigration? >> yeah. this is also interesting, because all through the campaign, we saw that there was support for things like

deportation, and that's still the case among all americans. you see approval of the idea, in principle, of starting a program to deport immigrants who are in the u.s. illegally, and then i've got to point out, among trump voters, that goes up to a whopping 90%. so, you talk about these executive orders. you talk about these policies. we report he's going to try to implement. this is one that definitely plays to his base, but i should add, when you probe a little deeper and ask people, how should this be carried out? things get more mixed. not necessarily, folks say, using the u.s. military to do that, maybe using current law enforcement, and of course, there's a lot of details in this. this is one of the things we're going to watch as the administration goes forward. >> anthony, thank you so much. we want to bring in chief washington correspondent major garrett. he's on capitol hill, and major, you know, immigration at the centerpiece of donald trump's ability to beat kamala harris and say it's time for a change here in washington. >> reporter: sure.

that's right. and there will be tremendous executive actions and probably early legislative action on immigration. that's one of the key areas of conversation between the republican majorities and the house and senate and the incoming trump administration. but quickly, on this department of government efficiency, based on my reporting and conversations working with those as -- as those try to put that in place, they're going have much more success, they believe, working on the timing for federal permits, the timing of federal actions, and regulations as opposed to shrinking the federal workforce. couple of quick statistics on the federal workforce. two million employees. that's 0.6% of the entire u.s. population. that's been the ratio for about two decades, so the federal workforce has not exploded in size in the last two decades. also, about 71% of the federal workforce, in one way or another, works in national security. nora, the largest federal agency by population, 21%, is veterans affairs. so, when you dig into the

federal workforce, you find that most of it deals with national security or national security-type work, something republicans are not going to want to reduce in large numbers. also, 80% of the federal workforce doesn't work here in washington, d.c. it's distributed all over the country. senator blunt knows this very well. and the three states with the largest federal workforce outside the district of columbia, largely, california, florida, and texas. so, this department of government efficiency, as it really leans into this, is looking much more to cutting regulations, speeding up federal approvals, and not dramatically trying to reduce the size of the federal workforce, because doing so not only brings pushback from congress, but also begins to take things away that republicans and the citizens of the country at large value, like national security and things that are related. >> it's an excellent point, major. thank you so much for pointing

that out about the size and scope of the federal workforce. and in what states where they are centered. you can now see the first ladies together entering one of the presidential limos to make their way to capitol hill. just want to update you just a short time ago, president biden was asked, what's your message today? and he hanswered and said, "my message is simple. it's hope." they asked him, did you write trump a letter? he said, "i did." and he was asked, what did you say? and president biden said, "that's between trump and me." and the tradition continues as a president leaving for his successor a letter in the white house. john dickerson. >> the -- they eventually come out. we learned that ronald reagan left a letter for george herbert walker bush on stationery that said, "don't let the turkeys get you down." this moment of traveling from blair house to the white house, where the -- where the president and incoming president are

meeting, was the time that bill clinton said, it really hit him that he was president. that all this stuff he had been talking about in the abstract was his and we should remember that be today, donald trump is going to learn about things or feel the weight of thing that are in the deepest, deepest secrets of the federal government. barack obama learned about the cyber hacking operation against the iranians on inauguration day. he also learned there was a terrorist plot on the mall, and he had a script in his pocket that if the terrorist went down, he was going to read evacuation instructions on that day. it is a day where you learn serious, serious things are happening. >> this is it. we just got a shot of susie wiles, who is going to be the first female chief of staff in the white house. she rules with an iron fist, and many people credit her with not only the success of this presidential election for donald trump but also bringing order and stability to the many people that are around donald trump, and robert, one of the things that has been reported, too, is that even as they get ready to

enter the white house, she's l s already set up to change some of the things that perhaps hampered te president in his first term, which is the open access into the oval office. >> she also, nora, has a deep understanding of president-elect trump's personality. so, while she is trying to regulate the white house and the west wing in a new way, to make it more organized, sources close to president-elect trump tell me she doesn't try to control his phone or control his schedule in a strict way. she understands that he likes to have a wide circle of communication where he talks to lawmakers and other people outside of the government to get their view. but she wants to make sure that there is order inside of the white house. she was not part of that disruptive, to say the least, first year of the trump presidency in 2017. trump calls her "the ice maiden." >> i've also heard she likes to be behind the scenes. she doesn't like to be front and center, which i would think would be an asset in this administration. >> she has not been on television since the election,

and on election night, she declined to make remarks when president-elect trump invited her to do so. that's reflective of her personality and the way she will manage this white house. >> it's almost a throwbck in some ways to the bush era, the staffer era, to be first and foremost at the service of the president of united states. some of the reforms we heard that she is enacting is to make sure that people have specially coded passes so people cannot get in the inner sanctum of the president. >> here's speaker of the house mike johnson. >> there we have it, answering a lot of executive orders. >> which is briefly the point you made, nora. you said she's changing the badges. the famous blue badge to have access to the oval office, they're now going to become gold and platinum badges inside of the west wing. >> which is better? >> i believe the -- >> got to be gold. >> no, platinum is more expensive than gold. >> but costa, who controls the

cell phones and the phones? >> he does. >> exactly. >> as we know, as we've reported at cbs many times, he makes calls as he wants to, and he has his residence phone and his own cell phone. >> i'm fascinated, bob, that you seem to talk to him on a regular basis. >> i've known president-elect trump for 14 years and have been interviewing him and speaking to him for a long time, and he is someone -- this is part of the comeback story, total outsider in american politics, now twice president of the united states. >> there's a history to this chief of staff business. the chief of staff is the gatekeeper and basically helps promote the president's ideas and martial his forces towards his agenda. and there's always a ping-pong back and forth between the cloistered president who only has a communication with the chief of staff, which was kind of the nixon model. he didn't much like his cabinet. and then ford opened it up. everybody comes in, and ultimately in the ford administration, dick cheney said no and the metaphor for this was a bicycle wheel, the president

at the center with all the spokes and cheney broke all the spokes and had just that one line of communication. he gifted that to the carter white house, saying, you've got to run it this way. carter didn't. >> carter had no chief of staff. >> that's right. he thought he could do it himself. >> on this note, let's bring in historian douglas brinkley, who has also done so much studying of the american presidency. douglas? >> well, you know, what's striking to me today is that we're looking at these massive pardons, that the fact that the january 6th insurrectionists are now called by incoming president trump, he's calling them the j-day, you know, heroes, basically. and that's a radical departure on how one looks at january 6th. add to that the pardoning or preemptive pardon of dr. fauci, which seems to be happening with joe biden, but it's an attempt to put the two monstrous events

that swept the land, the covid-19 pandemic and january 6th, behind us, but with both trump and biden using pardon powers, and in this day, what we're watching right now, to me, what's historical, it used to be fdr almost branded the first 100 days. trump is doing day one. he did that over and over again and branded day one, and when you're signing these sweeping executive orders, this is not a traditional afternoon we're seeing here when the gulf of mexico is going to become the gulf of america and dinali is going to go back to mckinley. and so, there's a kind of -- he's living up to his campaign pledge but it's sort of punitive and reminding me when fdr did win in 1933, early on, he took herbert hoover's name off the hoover dam and put boulder dam

on it to punish. >> there now, president-elect donald trump, along with president biden, entering into the motorcade together. and this is a tradition for the presidents to ride together to the swearing-in ceremonies, a tradition that has endured with a few exceptions since 1837 when martin van buren and andrew jackson rode together, like i mentioned earlier, in a carriage made from wood taken from the "uss constitution." and as we noted, too, the first ladies are in a different motorcade. the vice president and vice president-elect in a different motorcade. this opportunity for them to ride together at this momentous time from the white house to the capitol before this peaceful transfer of power. and senator roy blunt has been part of this in the past, as part of the inaugural committee. senator? >> well, i have.

i was able to make that ride with president trump and president obama before. i've also always wondered. i've been at several inaugurations now, what moment does the current president feel the lifting of weight? and i think you can almost visibly see it if you look as the new president takes the oath of office at what moment does that happen? sometimes, we mentioned earlier, president obama having something in his -- that he would read if he needed to because of d disruption. i remember at one point during the inauguration outside, which is a great but vulnerable moment for the government, we were rehearsing, and i said to the chief military guy there, who was helping me, your job, if we have to leave this podium early, if we have to leave this platform early, your job is to see that somebody goes with the president, preferably the chief justice, the president-elect, if the president hasn't been sworn in yet, that can swear him in at

12:00. i don't want any question as to who's the president that has to make those decisions from 12:00 on. >> wow. >> if you just look at this motorcade now, and you think it was nearly ten years ago that donald trump came down that golden escalator at trump tower, and what has happened in that near-decade since. and it was only in late may of this year he was convicted in a new york court. it was only in july he survived an assassination attempt. and now, january 20th, 2025, he's about to be sworn in as the 47th president of the united states. what a political journey, something we have not ever seen before in american history. and we're now witnessing it in realtime. >> and getting it from joe biden too. just think about that. the power from joe biden going back to donald trump in this moment too. it's fascinating to see. >> douglas brinkley mentioned fdr. if president trump completes this term, he will have dominated the politics of the

country longer than any other person ever and as long as fdr, who was president for 12 years, and it's an amazing, amazing thing, to be on every issue, every day, your opinion matters, whether he's in the white house or not, is extraordinary. >> especially when you think how he started. people thought, he has no chance, you know? isn't he the guy from "the apprentice"? i remember in the beginning, they called him the celebrity candidate who had no shot. >> gayle, remember, some paper wanted to cover it on the entertainment -- >> i do remember that. >> there was a big argument about whether it was on the political page or whether you covered trump on the entertainment page. >> for me, the moment that, bob, as you were conjuring this political comeback, when trump left after biden was inaugurated, first of all, he's leaving at andrews, there's nobody there, and he says, goon, we love you, we will be back in some form. this is the form. >> and as we watch president

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♪ ♪ welcome back to cbs news coverage of the inauguration of the 47th president of the united states, donald trump. you are watching the motorcade carrying president joe biden and president-elect donald trump, the vice president-elect and current vice president as well as the first ladies are also in that motorcade in different vehicles as they make their way and are arriving now up on capitol hill. so, we'll watch this very closely as that ceremony will be held inside the u.s. capitol rotunda where already thousands have arrived, not only in the ro d rotunda but in the overflow room known as emancipation hall and that's where nancy cordes is. >> reporter: good morning, nora.

one of the most important, lasting speeches that any president can give is his inaugural address, and it is widely believed that trump's address back in 2017, when he took office the first time, was pretty dark. the most memorable line from that speech that often gets quoted is about the era of american carnage being over. in fact, former president george w. bush, who was sitting there on the platform that day, famously said, according to several people around him at the end of the speech, "well, that was some weird expletive." but what we have gleaned based on the excerpts we've seen from the speech he's going to give today is that the speech is much lighter, more optimistic than what we heard from him back in 2017. he is going to say, for instance, "i return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success, a tide of

change is sweeping the country." his long-time aide, jason miller, spoke to cbs news this morning. he said, this is going to be a nuts and bolts speech. he's going to get down to brass tacks pretty quickly to talk about what he wants to do over the course of the next week. >> nancy cordes, thank you. now, as you see the presidential motorcade arriving at the east front of the capitol, let's go to our own congressional correspondent, scott macfarlane. he's right there on the scene. >> reporter: about a hundred feet away from where the presidents are arriving in this motorcade. it's quite an image, nora, to see president biden and president-elect trump side-by-side in the same vehicle, considering just a few hours ago, president biden signed preemptive pardons to protect people from what he thinks is unjust prosecutions by donald trump. that happened the same day they made this ride over to the capitol. the motorcade comes with a separate vehicle, i think, for the vice president and vice president-elect. as they exit these cars, they're stepping through roughly 10 to

12-degree windchills, and about 20-degree temperatures with the short walk into the capitol together. the families arrived about an hour ago. the former presidents arrived about 30 minutes ago. this whole show happens inside the capitol rotunda, a striking contrast to the image that nancy described from eight years ago, a striking contrast from the image of four years ago. there go president-elect and the dignitaries into the capitol, into the senate carriage entrance from which they'l be ushered into the capitol rotunda. >> scott macfarlane monitoring that arrival of the presidents now, and we have learned that donald trump will call for a revolution of common sense in his inaugural address. that's according to prepared remarks capping this remarkable political comeback. also, we can see there in the green coat, senator fischer, who's also one of the -- is the republican co-chair of the

inaugurate the committee, along with senator klobuchar, and they were able to ride in the motorcade. you see there, the two presidents now entering the united states capitol to make their way up to the capitol rotunda. greeting members of the leadership there and others. >> you can be sure that president-elect trump wrote that line "a revolution of common sense" himself. i remember many conversations i have had with him over the years where i said, you're populist, and he said, no, bob, i'm common sense. common sense, in his view, encapsulates his entire political agenda, his political career. he doesn't want to be seen as a "conservative" but some common sense outsider businessman coming in. >> you can see the presidents there followed by members of the leadership. let's bring in congressional correspondent nikole killion. she's inside the capitol as we look at some of the tech titans, the head of google and elon musk

there as well, and nicole, what have we learned about the program? >> reporter: well, we have learned that, of course, to no surprise to anyone, obviously, this will be taking place in the rotunda as opposed to outside on the west front of the capitol. worth noting that it's not unusual for these types of ceremonies to take place at different places throughout the capitol sometimes. they have been on the east front, the west front, but in this case, because of the weather, we will see that swearing in ceremony of president-elect trump in the rotunda followed by his inaugural address, and of course, after that, we will see what we always see every four years. we saw president-elect trump and president biden ride up to the capitol together, but then following that inaugural address, will come that moment where then president trump will see off president biden and vice president kamala harris, who you saw earlier in the program, that helicopter there on the grounds of the u.s. capitol, and so, at

that point, we will see that official transfer of power with president biden departing and president trump then remaining here at the capitol. at that point, he is expected to address an overflow crowd in emancipation hall, where our nancy cordes is. because this is taking place inside, so many supporters are not able to be here, but there are a few gathered here at the capitol in addition to the many lawmakers you see there in the rotunda. at that point, we expect that the president will participate in a signing ceremony where we do expect him to sign a number of executive orders both here at the capitol and at capital one arena, where he will join supporters later in the day. of course, right now, we are seeing some of the president-elect's cabinet designees enter. many of them have already been through confirmation hearings here on capitol hill. we have seen many of them here

in the halls of congress. you just saw pete hegseth, of course, one of the president-elect's more controversial nominees, but in speaking to several sources, both here on the hill and with the president-elect's team, they still believe -- very confident that they believe he will eventually be confirmed, potentially with a vote, at least out of committee, as soon as this week. i would just quickly point out, as you see john ratcliffe there, the president-elect's cia pick, we could see a vote on him as soon as today along with marco rubio, the president-elect's pick for secretary of state, nora. >> nikole killion, that's right, thank you. you can see members of the president's proposed cabinet coming in together there, and we are hearing that his nominee for secretary of state could be voted not only out of committe today but also out of the full senate. pete hegseth for defense

secretary, just out of the committee, not clear there will be a full vote today in the united states senate. and as we look at the number of dignitaries and cabinet members there being greeted by susie wiles, the incoming white house chief of staff, there are a number of notable supporters of donald trump in this room, including lawmakers, not only dana white, who's the ceo of the ultimate fighting championship, the ufc, but as you can see there, sundar pichai, the head of google. there are some of the world's, if not the world's richest men, all in that room together to -- and there you see vivek ramaswamy. we mentioned earlier, standing next to christykristi noem, the president-elect's choice to lead

the department of homeland security. there's miriam eddalson, who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to elect president trump. she's standing next to dana white there. these are all close friends. oh, and that's the head of lvmh? other supporters there. forgive me, it's just about everyone who is gathered. >> it does look like arnaut, though. >> there you have dan quayle. there he is with his wife, and we are expecting, as we heard, of course, former vice presidents are invited, and we are expected to see mike pence. he has confirmed that he is attending. i want to bring in, as we watch these arrivals, chief washington correspondent major garrett. he's also at the capitol. major? >> reporter: this is the ceremonial recasting for the nation of what the meaning of january 6th, 2021, actually was. corporate america estranged itself from then president trump and many in the republican party

thought his political career was effectively over. he is now returning as president to the very place where those who supported him rioted on capitol hill to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power and overturn a legal and fairly held presidential election. what we're seeing here is a complete recontextualization of what january 6th means. those who have long supported president trump believe it was just a momentary spasm, a reflection of anger that grew out of covid-19 and lockdowns. many others, president biden in particular, in his inaugural was a symptom of something dark and dangerous in america. white supremacy, extremists, terrorists within the united states. he warned about all of those dark forces coming back into america. whether those are dark forces or not, president trump returns to power and can recontextualize

all of january 6th, 2021, as something that if it's momentary or not, did not discourage him and did not dissuade the american public for reinvesting him with powers he's about to possess in this room and the capitol rotunda in moments from now. >> it's an excellent point, major garrett. thank you. and there is going to be massive change here in washington, margaret. >> there is. it was notable there, nora, that mike pence, the former vice president, walked in by himself. karen pence was not with him. and we talked earlier about what was clearly tension between her and the former president, remembering on january 6th, she was sheltering in safety along with some of their children, as i understand it, and the vice president, as those mobs who were storming the capitol -- >> yelling to hang mike pence. i think as a wife, that's very difficult to forget. >> understandable. and she can't forget. we're acknowledging the awkwardness. i don't know if irony and

awkward are the right words to even choose when we talk about joe biden peacefully transferring power to donald trump, whose supporters tried to stop that transfer of power in 2021, and the biden campaign that ran on this idea of an existential threat to democracy, even in that farewell speech that president biden just delivered, warning of this dark future, saying, stand guard, talking about oligarchs as we look at the ceos in the room. tech billionaires. and today, walking side-by-side in this diplomatic, genteel way, as if none of that had happened, as if we had not heard an entire presidential campaign warning us of the dark future should donald trump be elected. we're now going to test and see what happens. nora, it's also interesting to see who was invited to this inauguration. there are a number of leaders. that is unusual. but it's also unusual to see who was personally invited. one of them, the prime minister of italy, a conservative leader within europe, that seems a

symbolic invitation, but there are party leaders from within europe, as you and i spoke about the other day, from the very far-right movements, anti-immigrant movements within europe and germany and in france, who sent representatives, and as you hear viktor orban, the prime minister of hungary, he sees this return to power by mr. trump as a sign of a global shift towards the far-right, empowering a conservative global movement. that's how he and his political advisor describe what we are about to see here. >> you see jeff bezos and lauren sanchez, his fiance, just arrived, standing next to mark zuckerberg and his wife, pri priscilla chen. >> what we are seeing right now, the world's richest men are all here at the u.s. capitol rotunda. elon musk is number one at that, worth over $200 billion, and then jeff bezos around $200 billion, give or take here,

bernard arnault. i should point out that shortly we are going to hear introduction of former president clinton, then former president george w. bush, former president barack obama, and then this whole ceremony will begin. john dickerson? >> i was just wondering why they're in the history of mankind there has ever been a geographical location that has had more wealth connected, collected in it, than what we're looking at right now. >> present arms. >> and as we mentioned, this is the introduction of former president clinton and former first lady and senator hilary rodham clinton as they make their way to the rotunda platform. normally, this would be through the chute, right, down that red

carpet on to the inaugural platform. that majestic platform which, for now, which took months to build, is just gathering some snow. >> it's a great feeling to be introduced, coming down that platform. i will tell you that. i'll also mention that president clinton and mrs. clinton were, of course, there eight years ago. they came to the lunch, the very small 200-person lunch afterwards, and president trump specifically expressed his gratitude that they were both there and for their service to the country. it's that kind of moment when a lot of things are put aside. sometimes they're pretty quickly recaptured, but this is a day that's more about democracy than party. >> and as we mention, these are members of donald trump's family that you just saw there. and former president barack obama heading to the rotunda platform, not joined by michelle obama. she did not also come to washington for the funeral of

jimmy carter. just recently, celebrating her birthday. >> committee co-chair, mr. steve witkof. >> in addition to these responsibilities as co-chair of the inaugural committee, margaret brennan, has just recently returned from israel after working to help broker that deal to bring the hostages home. >> donald trump's best friend, as he describes himself, also a real estate developer and now the closer on this major diplomatic deal between israel and hamas. we'll have to see if the trump team is able to continue to corral both sides to stay on track with a very complex deal that, if it works, would see the return of as many as three americans who were still believed to be held hostage by hamas and other terror groups. >> does donald trump call him the best friend? or is he self-professed best

friend? >> i don't know. ask bob costa. >> bob costa, you would know the answer to that question. >> there are a lot of so-called best friends here for president-elect trump. >> margaret, on the hostage cesefire deal, are you of the view that it took both presidents to get this done? if they both hadn't been involved, it wouldn't have happened? >> it is remarkable and the biden team is very clear about that. we had the negotiator on "face the nation" yesterday. he calls steve a friend also at this point. it was the idea that you can't find divisions between the two administrations and the fear on the israeli side that donald trump, who has been such an ally of benjamin netanyahu, might not take so kindly if he says no to a deal he wants. that helped. so, while brett was in doha, it was steve pressing the israelis to get to yes and that combined power got them there. now, we'll have to see if they can keep them on track with this

deal to bring those americans back and the rest of the hostages. >> we just saw tim cook a moment ago talking to somebody. have you ever seen this many business leaders and this -- these business leaders at this stature at an inauguration? >> i don't think so. i'm trying to remember if they would have been at the obama -- i think not. and of course, so much of this wealth has been created in the last decade. incredible accumulation of wealth and success by these individuals, and frankly, they don't all get along all that well together. so, they don't hang around together a lot. >> we just saw the ceo of apple, tim cook, and last night, we heard donald trump mention tim cook, saying that apple is promising to build some new businesses and make investments in america. talking about how much has

changed. he mentioned other companies who are investing, in his words, tens of billions of dollars. donald trump trying to make the case, last night, to his supporters at the capital one arena, in his words, that he's gotten more done than, in his words, joe biden has gotten done in four months. you can see already trying to draw that contest, even on the day before inauguration, which is usually a lot of gladhanding and pleasantries. there you see in the white coat, miriam eddalson, talking to john paulson, the palm beach billionaire, and noted hedge fund private equity individual who was involved for many years and is close friends with the president, was going to be part of the president's cabinet but also a supporter here, and everyone is gathered, including the former presidents, as we saw them come in, and what we're expecting just shortly is the chief justice will be announced. john roberts, as he will be the one swearing in donald trump.

and then, we will see jill biden and melania trump and usha vance, and here we go. >> and brett kavanaugh will be issuing the oath of office to jd vance. and a reminder that one of these justices, justice ketanji brown jackson, put into office by joe biden, but three of these justices were appointed by and confi confirmed by the senate under

donald trump and has remarkably changed the landscape of the supreme court. want to bring in chief washington correspondent major garrett, and major, given the changes that have -- that donald trump was able to enact during his presidency, and then joe biden, what do you see happening, even in this first year of office? >> reporter: yeah, what i hear, and what i envision for this second trump administration, nora, is emphasis on immigration, emphasis on tax cuts, not just extending the trump tax cuts passed during the first trump administration but possibly adding others, giving relief to some northeastern states that have been long seeking relief during the first year of the trump administration. all those things are going to be part of the domestic agenda. immigration, tax cuts, and a significant effort to boost what is already a significant amount of domestically produced energy t in this country. the biden administration kept

many of the trump policies, reversed some. there will be a tactical decision to encourage as much domestic energy exploration as possible. that's natural gas, liquefied natural gas, oil, all of that in the "drill, baby, drill" umbrella that trump talked about relentlessly during the campaign and a transformative approach to immigration that may not land well with all businesses in this country, small, medium, and large, if, in fact, workplace enforcement take laborers out of the economy. that's to be determined. but certainly, the american public will support efforts to take those who have either committed crimes or have been already adjudicated to leave this country to be removed immediately. that will be supportive. the polling data on that is clear. that's going to be the early emphasis of this administration on immigration. >> major garrett, thank you. and we look now at the number of vips who are seated in the front

row very close to what is going to be president's family. and here you have donald trump's five children. making the entrance into the capitol rotunda. they are the last of the trump family we'll see before we see jill biden and doug emhoff introduced, and robert, talk just about how close his children are with the president-elect in terms of advising him, supporting him, being inside that inner circle. >> they're everything. remember, president-elect trump grew up at his father, fred trump's, side and he was told from a young age, you trust family. everybody else, maybe have a bit of a question mark above them. and he has taken that approach to his life, to his business, and to his presidency. he has an inner circle. he has a wide orbit of friends

and allies, but it's his family he relies upon. ivanka trump, donald trump jr., eric in particular, they hae been with him through legal trials and political trials. >> you know, bob, i interviewed eric trump eight years ago when they first got into the office, and i said, what will be the biggest adjustment for your family? and he said, trusting people from the outside. because we are very close, we are very connected, and it's very difficult for us to let new people in. and that seems to have been the case, although ivanka trump has made it clear, she doesn't intend to engage this particular administration. do you think that's true? >> she will remain an informal advisor to president-elect trump, but will not join the white house staff. >> she will not have a formal role. >> i think there's a lot of the informal happening with this term. i know jared kushner, so-in-law, husband of ivanka trump, has been a conduit for a lot of outreach to the middle east. he is now invested in heavily by some of the middle eastern countries like saudi arabia and the others.

's staying on the outside while continuing business interests but a conduit to the trump team, particularly on issues of geopolitics. >> so much of what we are witnessing today is this peaceful transfer of power, a lot of pomp and circumstance and ceremony, but a lot of important things also happening today and i want to ask senator blunt about that because there are reports that pentagon officials do not know who will run the government's largest agency, the defense candepartment. donald trump has not signalled. what does that mean? >> well, i think the time between now and the time that the defense secretary is confirmed, whoever that turns out to be, it's really important to know, and surely those signals will come right away. the president would understand that you have got to have a chain of command, and i think he'll follow up on that. >> we've heard reports about other agencies, about people that would be leading them. those names have been made

public. is it notable we haven't heard who should be leading the defense department? >> i don't know that it's notable. i do think it's extraordinary how deeply they have gone into these agencies, the various -- not just the service secretaries but their undersecretaries, their chiefs of staff. if this was done in such detail before, i didn't see it done by anybody, and i certainly didn't see it done by donald trump the first time. i don't think he's going to miss something as important as knowing who's in control of the defense department at noon today. you still have the joint chiefs in place. that's important to understand. you still have the joint chiefs in place. so, we know who's in charge of every agency, and we know who's the chairman of the joint chiefs, so to some extent, the defense department takes care of itself. but i think he'll be very clear about what civilian person is filling that role in the interim. you know, i just noticed another kind of interesting, the

entertainment here, carrie underwood, that's always a challenge. it was particularly a challenge for trump in the first term, just getting entertainers, generally, and it's nice to see we seem to have turned a corner on that, but even four years ago, the biden administration had a -- the biden team had a country music singer who was going to sing. they never announced it on the thursday before the election -- before the inauguration, he said he didn't think he could come, and they called garth brooks that day. >> the honorable dan quayle accompanied by mrs. marilyn quayle and the honorable michael pence. ♪ >> thus begins the announcement of the former vice presidents. we should note that we have learned that the entire biden press staff has officially left the building, that kareen

jean-pierre was the last to leave. the jackson portrait is back on the wall and the reagan rug is back. they had to disassemble the resolute desk to switch out the rugs. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the 42nd president of the united states, the honorable william j. clinton, accompanied by the honorable hillary rodham clinton. ♪ ♪

♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the 43nd president of the united states, the honorable george w. bush, accompanied by mrs. laura bush. ♪

♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the 44th president of the united states, the honorable barack h. obama. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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

>> we're waiting now for the introduction of the president and president-elect, and as we can see, dr. biden entering with the second gentleman, doug emhoff. >> tiffany trump and baron trump. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> and we're looking at members of the first family, and there you have members of the united states senate, including senator cory booker and senator grassley and senator tom cotton, tweeting away, looks like, checking his phone for the very latest on

tiktok. >> not on tiktok. >> no. >> not allowed to be on federal devices because of national security concerns. >> well, i think it's senator tom cotton has appropriately and very succinctly said why it's such a concern is that, according to u.s. national security officials, backed by both republican and democratic senators, if you have it on your phone, they believe that they can monitor and the chinese-owned bytedance can monitor text messages, emails, location, and more, which as margaret points out why it's banned now from federal devices. >> i'm curious about the seating. where is the chinese representative? >> ms. emily leviner. the senate secretary for the minority, the honorable gary mynik, the house of representatives chief administrative officer, the honorable katherine spindor and mr. bruce fisher.

ladies and gentlemen, dr. jill biden and mr. douglas emhoff. ♪ >> there, the first lady of the united states, dr. biden, who has done so much for military families in her service as first lady of the united states. their son, beau biden, had served in the national guard and had served overseas, and they first started the initiative with michelle obama, first lady, and she continued the that then as first lady, making sure that military families received the attention that they deserve and the support that they need. it's been one of her hallmark issues, and of course, doug emhoff, the second gentlemn, has done a lot of initiatives to fight anti-semitism, and that has been at the forefront of his agenda, and you can see he's

seated right next to bill clinton there, and it doesn't take any special analysis to see people are tightly packed in there. >> behind president clinton, you see a man with glasses. that's phil rouffin from las vegas, the casino owner, treasure island, one of the closest friends of president-elect trump, 89 years old, someone the president-elect talks to all the time, and he has a prime seat. >> one of the close supporters, and as you said, friends of the president. it's also remarkable to see, i believe, every single one of our supreme court justices there in the front row as justice kavanaugh will deliver the oath to vice president-elect jd vance and then the chief justice to the incoming president of the united states. those words are important in delivering the oath, because when he did it with barack obama, he missed a word, and it was barack obama who caught it and insisted that night they redo it at blair house to make sure there was no question about whether barack obama was the legitimate president of the

united states, because there was a word missing in the oath of the office. and senator blunt, you were there. >> i was there, and i remember that happening. >> did you catch the missing word? or it was just barack obama's fine ears? >> i did not, but i swore the new governor of missouri in a week ago and i was sure i got every word. i didn't want to be part of a lawsuit. >> that's right, incredible. >> i have to say, i'm looking at this crowd, and i do not see many people of color. is anybody else besides me observed that? i'm fascinated by why that is. >> on martin luther king jr. day, the most notable and one of the most high-ranking is justice ketanji brown jackson, first black woman to serve on the u.s. supreme court, notably appointed by joe biden as he made -- wanted to follow in the footsteps of jimmy carter in appointing a number of women and black women to the federal judgeships. >> general brown is probably there. in fact, that might be the side

of his head. i can't tell. >> i can't tell from this. >> but he was undoubtedly there. >> i saw jim clyburn. i saw him. >> you are seeing you are seeini noem there in the blue suit. she will play a key role in carrying out a number of executive orders in terms of the mass deportation that donald trump has promised. >> yes. the south dakota governor will. she had, at one point, been considered as a vice presidential running mate by the trump team. a book she published may have gotten in the way of that. but it's not getting in the way, it would appear at this point, of her rising to a very key role. she will be working alongside a newly created role of a border czar and tom hoeman, also working with steven miller, who will be the architect within the

trump administration of upcoming immigration policy. so, she will be in a key position. >> i thought that was a very diplomatic way to phrase it, margaret, that the book she had written may have gotten in the way of that. it was the anecdote she told about killing her dog, and she detailed it. it's the type of thing that no one would have known about had she not -- i think people were surprised that she included that. >> a dog and then a goat and she said she met the leader of north korea and then said somebody else put that in her book, that she wrote, and had to pull it back from publication. we talked to her about it at the time. >> we did too. i think you're correct to say that book may have derailed things a bit for her. >> but she will lead a very powerful agency, the department of homeland security, and i want to bring in nancy cordes. she is in emancipation hall. nancy? >> reporter: nora, it's so fascinating to see who's in that room, try to read their body language, but the room itself is so majestic, which is why it was chosen for this indoor ceremony.

the capitol rotunda is at the very heart of the capitol, dead center, underneath the majestic dome. it was completed in 1824, and it was intended to recall the pantheon that ancient roman temple, and people have probably been seeing, as they take wide shots, these enormous paintings that are placed around the rotunda, revolutionary scenes like the signing of the declaration of independence, general george washington resigning his military commission, which was such a pivotal moment in u.s. history, and there are also some scenes of early exploration, notably the landing of columbus and the baptism of pokecahontas. she was represented three times in the art within the capitol rotunda, the second most of anyone other than george washington. >> nancy cordes, thank you.

we are still waiting for the introduction of vice president-elect jd vance and president-elect donald trump to be brought into the rotunda. senator blunt, it looks like we're running maybe 20 minutes behind schedule. does that matter? >> yes. >> yes. >> yes, it matters. >> in the effort of efficiency, we've got to get the president sworn in right at noontime, don't we? >> that's the tradition. i'm not sure that the world would end if that didn't happen. that's the tradition, and you always try to get there. i would say, of the -- in the rotunda, my favorite of all those pictures, because of the story it tells, is george washington leaving the -- resigning, going back home, maybe one of the -- maybe one of the two or three pivotal moments in the history of the country, when they told george iii that had happened, he didn't believe it, because he assumed, like everybody else, that washington would take over the government, and george iii purportedly said, if that's true, he is the greatest man alive.

>> and that painting played such a key role in the conversation about january 6th, because to your earlier question, gayle, about what checks a president who has unlimited ambition and perhaps not the regular constraints, that portrait was a sign of the international virtue washington, not seizing power, but in a democracy, protecting it and stepping aside. >> and maybe the second time the great pull of mt. vernon is when george washington decides not to be president more than two terms. >> that's right. >> both pivotal moment, i think. >> usha vance there, the wife of vice president-elect jd vance, who is a key counselor to him. >> and future first lady of america, melania trump. >> wearing an eric jarvis hat, they said. i think that's a -- >> what do you call it? >> the designer is eric vjarvis

they said. looks very elegant. ♪ ♪ >> it is just now about 11:30, so there are 30 minutes left of the joe biden presidency. >> so, what do they do, team, for the next half hour? >> you mean -- >> waiting until noon. >> well, we're going to have a whole -- there's a whole program that's set to -- the vice president-elect, jd vance, will be sworn in. we're going to hear from cardinal archbishop dolan, who will deliver remarks. we are going to hear from carrie underwood, and there's going to be the battle hymn of the republic, and the trump inaugural address and more. >> please welcome the armed

forces chorus and america's tenor, christopher macchio. >> and we should note, at the white house, there's a flurry of activity as they are cataloging the -- president biden's materials, getting them out, and then stocking the fridge and the valet is hanging the clothes for the incoming president. it's a whirlwind of logistical precision to move one in and one out in the short period of time that this is taking place. ♪ o america, you're calling ♪ ♪ i can hear you calling me ♪ ♪ you are calling me to battle to thee ♪ ♪ to thee, i will be ♪ >> oh, america, no weeping ♪

♪ let me heal your wounded heart ♪ ♪ i will keep you in my keeping 'til there be a new start ♪ ♪ ♪ i will take your hand and lead you to the sun ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ oh, america, i hear you ♪ ♪ from your prairies to the sea ♪ ♪ from your mountains grand and

all through this land ♪ ♪ you are beautiful to me ♪ ♪ oh, 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 as one ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ you are beautiful to me ♪ ♪ oh, america, you're calling ♪ ♪ ♪ i will ever answer thee ♪ >> the national anthem by christopher macchio -- that was "oh, america." i'm sorry. followed by the national academy glee club and the armed forces chorus backed up by the marine band.

want to bring in ed o'keefe, who spoke with him. ed? >> reporter: nora, you are okay to be confused there because he's actually the only person performing twice today. he is going to sing the national anthem a little later, and he's a great example of sort of the kind of every guy that has been elevated by the president-elect, by virtue of the fact that he met him many years ago when he performed at mar-a-lago, became a huge fan of his voice. he performed at the president-elect's brother's funeral, then at the 2020 republican convention, and as you heard there, he's now described by trumpworld as america's tenor. he told me in our interview that the president-elect is set to name him as some kind of ambassador for american music and culture and we can expect that he may actually travel the world on behalf of the country, performing, and with the president-elect next year as the country marks its 250th anniversary, but he grew up on long island and was told by a high school teacher years ago, you have a gift you have to share with the world.

today, before a global audience, he gets to do that. >> there we see the first lady and the president-elect, donald trump, entering the u.s. capitol rotunda. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> melania trump sitting next to her son, baron trump, and her father, and if there's something that's changed in the last eight years, it's baron trump, who has gained a couple feet there. he now stands at 6'7", towering over everyone in the room. now a student at nyu, living in new york city. and it is cramped. you can see there. everyone is packed in as they

have put more than 600 people inside the capitol rotunda, including many of the lawmakers and dignitaries. >> ladies and gentlemen, escorting the president of the united states and the vice president of the united states, ranking member of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremony, the honorable deb fisher, house democratic leader the honorable hakeem jeffries and the honorable robert duncan. ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, the honorable joseph r. biden jr. and vice president of the united states, the honorable kamala davie harris. ♪

♪ >> his career was forged at the u.s. capitol, led to the u.s. presidency, but in a way, as senator blunt knows, president biden has always thought about the capitol in a sense as home. >> wrapping up nearly five decades of public service and a standing ovation there for the president of the united states as the crowd waits. >> ladies and gentlemen, escorting the vice president-elect, the executive director for the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, mr. michael wagner, senate deputy sergeant-at-arms and door keeper, jason bell, and house deputy sergeant-at-arms, mr. sean keating.

>> the schedule calls for the vice president-elect to be sworn in first. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president-elect of the united states, the honorable jd vance. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and robert, a remarkable

moent for jd vance, a noted author who was well regarded by a number of democrats who then made his way into the united states senate and became very close with the trump family, and now is the future vice president of the united states. >> a remarkable and rapid political ascent for this 40-year-old man from ohio, went to yale law school, wrote about his tough upbringing in southern ohio, h"hillbilly elegy" become a runaway best-seller, captivates people in the business community. >> ron howard makes a movie out of it. >> and he's originally a critic of president-elect trump but then had a reckoning and became perhaps his biggest ally. >> the honorable william p. mcfarland, senate sergeant-at-arms and door keeper, the honorable jennifer a. hemingway, senate majority

leader, the honorable john thune and the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, house democratic leader, the honorable hakeem j jeffries, house majority leader the honorable steve scalise, the honorable mike johnson, senate democratic leader the honorable charles e. schumer, ranking member of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, the honorable deb fisher and chairwoman of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremony, the honorable amy klobuchar. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> ladies and gentlemen, the president-elect of the united states, the honorable donald john trump. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> let's bring in our chief white houe correspondent, nancy cordes. we're just getting some breaking news about president biden park members of his own family. why? >> reporter: that's right, nora,

with just 20 minutes or so left in his presidency, we've just gotten word from president biden that he is pardoning his brothers, their wives, his sister, other family members. he says that he is doing this because baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives of individuals. obviously, the message he is sending is that he believes the biden family will be targeted after he leaves office by the incoming administration, and he wants to head that off. >> remarkable. >> ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. >> absolutely remarkable, john. i can't think of a blanket pardons for every member of your family. >> no, and it's a reminder that despite the flpleasantries and ceremony and both sides applauding for each other and all that looks normal, ringed politics in america right now, and joe biden is anticipating something and acting to head it off. >> the statement says there's no

acknowledgement of any wrongdoing, nor acceptance that it be misconstrued as an admission of guilt. legally, you'd have to talk to a legal analyst about whether preemptive pardons for crimes not yet committed or no documentation of crimes committed or even charges brought stands. >> but the timing and the optics, i think, don't help here. >> good morning. 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 chaired the inaugural ceremony committee, which includes the leadership of congress from both parties.

we thank the committee and capitol staff and law enforcement, who work so hard over the last year and especially the last three days. you have done a beautiful job, and you have shown grace under pressure. [ applause ] >> our theme this year is our 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 quayle, and marilyn quayle. 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 democracy. it is the moment when 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, equal justice under law. [ applause ]

>> but what make this moment more than a passing ceremony is 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 a democracy, every citizen, regardless of interest in politics, holds office. of responsibility." with that responsibility of citizenship comes an obligation not to seek out malice, as president lincoln once reminded us, but to view others with 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 songwriter who just happened to be born in my state, to ensure that our nation's democracy is our shelter from the storm. there's a reason this ceremony takes place at the capitol. in other countries, it might be in a presidential palace or a gilded 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, grounded 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 health care workers who nurture us, the troops defending our freedoms, and yes, the firefighters 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, an 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 to 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 course. the past several years have 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. and today, we celebrate not only their decision to do so but also the simple right and wisdom of a free people to make their own choice so that their nation might endure. and now, allow me to welcome a archbishop timothy dolan and reverend franklin graham, who will deliver our invocation. 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, with firmness in the right as god gives us to see the right. remembering general george patton's instructions to his soldiers as they began the battle of the bulge, pray when fighting, pray alone, 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, blessed 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 advisors, his cabinet, his aspirations, his vice president, for the lord's 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 err 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 as he began his governance, god of our fathers, in your wisdom, you set man to govern your creatures, to govern in holiness and justice, to render justice with integrity, give our leader wisdom, for he is your servant, aware of your -- 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, mend her 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 are times i'm sure you thought it was 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 has said, blessed is the nation whose god is the lord. as the prophet daniel prayed, blessed be the name of god forever and ever. for wisdom and might 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 who have understanding. our father, today, as president donald j. trump takes the 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 that our nation would be blessed through him. we also ask that you would bless and protect melania, as first lady. we thank you for the beauty, 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, usha, and their young family. may he be a strength to president trump to stand beside him, to hold up his arms like aaron held up the arms of moses in the midst of battle. the prophet samuel reminded the people, it was you that brought them up from the land of egypt, and he said, now, stand still that i may reason with you before the lord. so, father, we take this moment to stand still, to remember the great things that you have done for this nation. thank you for the protection,

the bounty, 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 th king of kings, the lord of lords, your son, my savior, and our redeemer, jesus christ. amen. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome associate justice kavanaugh to administer the vice presidential oath of office. >> and these are jd vance's and

usha vance's young children that are joining for the swearing in, along with his mother there in red. >> please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, james david vance, do solemnly swear. >> 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 be bear true faith. >> and allegiance to the same. >> and allegiance to the same. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> without any mental reservation. >> without any mental reservation. servation.

and that i will well and faithfully discharge. >> the duties of the office. >> the duties of the office. >> on which i'm about to enter. >> on which i'm about to enter. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. vice president. >> and we have a new vice president of the united states, jd vance, sworn in by supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. we should note that the second lady, usha vance, actually clerked for brett kavanaugh when he was a judge at the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia. usha also clerked for chief justice john roberts when he was at the supreme court. she is a noted lawyer herself. . and they are slowly ushering their young children out the door along with j.d. vance's

mother, as it is just 12:01, the time when the new president is supposed to be sworn in. now the chief justice. >> please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, donald john trump, do solemnly swear... >> i, donald john trump, do solemnly swear... >> that i faithfully execute... >> that i faithfully execute... >> the office of president of the united states... >> the office of president of the united states... >> and will, to the best of my ability... >> and will, to the best of my ability... >> preserve, protect, and defend... >> preserve, protect, and defend... >> the constitution of the united states... >> the constitution of the united states... >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr mr. president. ["four ruffles & flourishes"]

["hail to the chief" playing] ♪ ♪ >> norah: we have the 47th president of the united states, president donald trump, only the second president in history to serve nonconsecutive terms. sworn in on the bible given to him by his mother, and the lincoln bible. congratulated by his family and friends. >> you notice a little scrambling of the family to get up there and they moved a couple of the music numbers later to get this done as close to noon as they possibly could, about 2r schedule but they repositioned. i don't know that it's absolutely essential but certainly traditional to get it done at noon. >> norah: because of that, we are not sure what's next.

[laughter] >> the way to start the trump administration. >> norah: because the schedule has been changed around a little bit. this is now the marine band. ♪ ♪ ♪ he is trampling out the vintage ♪ ♪ where the grapes of wrath are stored ♪ ♪ he hath loosed his fateful lightning ♪ ♪ of his terrible swift sword ♪ ♪ his truth is marching on ♪

♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i have seen him in the watch fires ♪ ♪ of a hundred circling camps ♪ ♪ they have builded him an altar ♪ ♪ in the evening dews and damps ♪ ♪ i can read his righteous sentence ♪

♪ in the dim and daring lamps ♪ ♪ his day is marching on ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ ♪

in the beauty of the east was born across the sea with a glory in his bosom veterans figures you and me ♪ ♪ as he died to make them holy, let us die to make men free ♪ ♪ while god is marching on ♪ ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪

♪ his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ his truth is marching on ♪ >> norah: that was "the battle hymn of the republic" by the united states naval academy glee club, a bit of history here. for over 138 years, this song has been a fixture of patriotic programs still sung in schools and churches across the nation.

"mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord." we are about to hear from senator fischer, who will introduce the president. the first time two women have chaired this committee. >> to introduce to you the 45th and the 47th president of the united states of america, donald j. trump. [applause]

>> president trump: thank you very much, everybody. thank you very, very much. vice president vance, spea speaker johnson, senator thune, chief justice roberts, justices of the united states supreme court, president clinton, presi president bush, president obama, president biden, vice president harris, and my fellow citizens. the golden age of america begins right now. [applause] from this day forward, our country will flourish and be

respected again all over the world. we will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. during every single day of the trump administration, i will very simply put america first. our sovereignty will be reclaimed. our safety will be restored. the scales of justice will be rebalanced. the vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the justice department and our government will end. and our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free.

america will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before. i returned to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success, a tide of change is sweeping the country. sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and america has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before. but first we must be honest about the challenges we face. while they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great momentum that the world is now witnessing in the united states of america. as we gather today our government confronts a crisis of trust. for many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has

extracted power and wealth from our citizens while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair. we now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad. it fails to protect our magnificent law-abiding american citizens but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions, that have illegally entered our country from all over the world. we have a government that is given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders but refuses to defend american borders or more importantly its own people. our country cannot longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, has recently shown by the wonderful people of north carolina. they've been treated so badly.

and other states who are still suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago. or more recently los angeles where we are watching fire still tragically burn. from weeks ago, without even a token of defense. they are raging through the houses and communities, even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now. they don't have a home any longer. that's interesting. but we can't let this happen. everyone is unable to do anything about it. that's going to change. we have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than any country anywhere in the world. we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases, to hate our country

despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them. all of this will change starting today. and it will change very quickly. my recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal and all of these many betrayals that have taken place and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and indeed their freedom. from this moment on, america is declining is -- america's decline is over. our liberties and our nation's

glorious destiny will no longer be denied and we will immediately restore the integrity, competency, and loyalty of america's government. over the past eight years, i've 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 into beautiful pennsylvania field, at assassin's' bullet ripped through my ear. i feel that an even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. i was saved by god to make america great again.

[cheers and applause] thank you. thank you. thank you very much. that is why each day under our administration of 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 creed. for american citizens, january 20, 2025 is liberation day.

it is my hope that our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of our country. as our victory showed, the entire nation is rapidly unifying behind our agenda with dramatic increases in support from virtually every element of our society, young and old, men and women, african americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, urban, suburban, rural, and very importantly we had a powerful win in all seven swing states in the popular vote we won by millions. to the black and hispanic communities, i want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote.

we set records, and i will not forget it. i have heard your voices on the campaign and i look forward to working with you in the years to come. today is martin luther king day. and to his honor, this will be a great honor, but in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality. we will make his dream come t true. [applause] thank you. national unity is now returning to america and confidence and pride is soaring like never before. in everything we do, my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of

excellence and unrelenting success. we will not forget our country. we will not forget our constitution. and we will not forget our god. today i will sign a series of historic executive orders. with these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of america and the revolution of common sense. it's all about common sense. first i will declare a national emergency at our southern bo border.

[cheers and applause] all illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. we will reinstate my remaining mexico policy -- my remain in mexico policy. i will end the practice of catch and release. and i will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country. under the orders i signed today,

we will also be designating the cartels is foreign terrorist organizations. and by invoking the alien enemies act of 1798, i will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks, bringing devastating crime to u.s. soil, including our cities and inner cities. as commander-in-chief, i have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats

and invasions, and that is exactly what i am going to do. we will do it at a level that nobody's ever seen before. next i will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices. the inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today i will also declare a national energy emergency. we will drill, baby, drill.

america will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on earth, and we are going to use it. we are going to use it. we will bring prices down. fill our strategic reserves up again right to the top. an export american energy all over the world. we will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it. with my actions today, we will end the green new deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great american autoworkers.

in other words, you'll be able to buy the car of your choice. we will build automobiles in america again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago. thank you to the autoworkers of our nation for your inspiring vote of confidence. we did tremendously with their vote. i will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect american workers and families. instead of texting our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our cit citizens. for this purpose, we are

establishing the external revenue service to collect all old tariffs, duties, and revenues. it will be massive amounts of money pouring into our treasury, coming from foreign sources. the american dream will soon be back and thriving like never before, to restore competence and effectiveness to our federal government. my administration will establish the brand-new department of government efficiency. after years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression i will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to america.

never again will the immense power of the stage be weaponized to persecute political opponents. something i know something about. we will not allow that to happen. it will not happen again. under my leadership will restore fair, equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. and we are going to bring law and order back to our cities. this week i will also end the government policy of trying to

socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. we will forge a society that is color-blind and merit-based. as of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the united states government that there are only two genders, male and female. this week, i will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the covid vaccine mandate, with full

back pay. and i will sign in order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experience while on duty. it's going to end immediately. our armed forces will be free to focus on their sole mission, defeating america's enemies.

like in 2017, we will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen. we will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end and perhaps most importantly the wars we never get into. my proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. that's what i want to be. a peacemaker and unifier. i'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before i assumed office, the hostages in the middle east are coming back home to their families.

thank you. america will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest most powerful, most respected nation on earth, inspiring the awe and inspiration of the entire world. will be changing the name the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america and we restore the name of a great president, william mckinley, to mount mckinley where it should be and where it belongs.

president mckinley made our country very rich through tariffs and talent. he was a natural businessman and gave teddy roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did, including the panama canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of panama after the united states -- the united states. think of this. spent more money than ever spent on the project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the panama canal. we have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that had never -- should have never been made and panama has promised us has been broken. the purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated. american ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape, or form, that includes the united states navy and above

all, china is operating the panama canal, and we didn't give it to china. we give it to panama. and we are taking it back. above all, my message to americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor, and the vitality of history's greatest civilization. so as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights with victory and success. we will not be deterred. together we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy, and disease free. the united states will once again consider itself growing

nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching american astronauts to plant the stars & stripes on the planet mars. ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation, and right now our nation is more ambitious than any other. there is no nation like our nation. americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers.

that spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. the call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls. our american ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of the vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on earth. no one comes close. americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness. they crossed deserts, skilled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the wild west, ended slavery, rescued millions from tierney, lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand. if we work together, there is nothing we cannot do, and no

dream we cannot achieve. many people thought it was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback. but as you see today, here i am, the american people have spoken. i stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do. in america, the impossible is what we do best. from new york to los angeles, from philadelphia to phoenix, from chicago to miami, from houston to write here in

washington, d.c., our country was forged and built by the generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our rights for our freedom. they were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steelworkers and coal miners, police officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward, and let no obstacle defeat their spirit or their pride. together they lay down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that they faced. after all we have been through together, we stand on the verge of the four greatest years in american history. with your help, we will restore america's promise and rebuild the nation that we love, and we love it so much.

we are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under god. so to every parent to dreams for their child and every childhood dreams for their future, i am with you. i will fight for you. and i will win for you. we are going to win like never before. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. in recent years, our nation has suffered greatly but we are going to bring it back and make it great again, greater than ever before. we will be nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism. our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a

world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable. america will be respected again and admired again, including by people of religion, faith, and goodwill. we will be prosperous. we will be proud. we will be strongly and we will win like never before. we will not be conquered. we will not be intimidated. we will not be broken, and we will not fail. from this day on, the united states of america will be of free sovereign and independent nation. we will stand bravely. we will live proudly. we will drain boldly -- we will dream boldly. nothing can stand in our way because we are americans in the future is ours and our golden age has just begun. thank you. god bless america. thank you. thank you very much.

thank you. >> norah: the inaugural address of the 47th president of the united states, donald trump. he was billed as an optimistic and hopeful address. donald trump said he wants to be a peacemaker and a unifier, promising to put america first and to usher in a revolution of common sense, in his words, you just heard him say our golden age has just begun. he then plunged into a list of grievances, set from this moment on, america's decline is over. we're going to dig into the details of this speech. i think first we want to hear from carrie underwood, who is set to deliver "america the beautiful." and then we'll talk about some of the details that president donald trump just outlined in his inaugural address. describing a liberation day, saying too that they will declare a crisis on the southern

border and that in his words, we will be a rich nation again. donald trump also using inaugural address to say there are only two genders, male and female. also talking about full back pay for those who refused the covid vaccine. it sounds like they are just trying to get the music ready, to hear from carrie underwood. this remarkable moment where you see five presidents of the united states in one room. it was more like a state of the union that inaugural address, in many ways, that's in part because of the location, inside the capitol rotunda, as opposed to out on the inaugural platform. so people stood and applauded. that's not something we usually see in an inaugural address. but it was notable that none of the former president stood up and applauded throughout his

remarks, including the former republican president, george w. bush. that's what i was just going to say. >> norrell, it was interesting to hear the now president say "i was saved by god to make america great," talking about the attempt on his life back in july so he believes he doesn't just have a political mandate. he believes he has some mandate from the divine. in seeing out the next four years. >> norah: john dickerson, you've looked at so many of these inaugural addresses. donald trump has always had a different style. his last one was described as dark. how would you describe this one? >> well, as you noted, i guess -- let's listen. >> ♪ o beautiful for spacious skies ♪ ♪ for amber waves of grain ♪ ♪ for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain ♪

♪ america! ♪ ♪ america! ♪ ♪ god shed his grace on thee ♪ ♪ and crown thy good ♪ ♪ with brotherhood ♪ ♪ from sea ♪ ♪ to shining sea ♪ [cheers and applause] >> norah: carrie underwood. asking the crowd to join her. she said "you know the words." a new department of government efficiency, they need to work on

the music i guess. the backup music was not there. really a remarkable -- performance. as we wait for the benediction from senator fischer. >> i call our rabbi. and our reverend to provide prayers of benediction. >> let us pray. almighty god, you were prophet jeremiah walked the streets of jerusalem and blessed its inhabitants with the hebrew words. [speaking hebrew] blessed is the one who trusts in

god. thousands of years later, this great nation which adopted these words as its motto, in god we trust, stands at a moment of historic opportunity. americans are searching for meaning. our merciful father, help us rise to meet this moment. bless president donald j. trump and vice president j.d. vance with the strength and courage to choose the right and the good. unite us around our foundational biblical values of life and liberty, of service and sacrifice, and especially of faith and morality, which george washington called the indispensable supports of american prosperity. guide our schools and college

campuses, which have been experiencing such unrest, to inspire the next generation to pair progress with purpose, knowledge with wisdom, and truth with virtue. hear the cry of the hostages, both american and israeli, who's paying our president so acutely feels. whose pain our president so acutely feels. we are so thankful for the people who returned home and pray the next four years brings peace to israel and throughout the middle east. almighty god, grant all americans the opportunity to realize our shared dream of life filled with peace and plenty, health and happiness, compassion and contribution. stir within us the confidence to

rise to this moment for a while we trust in god, god's trust is in us, the american people. america is called to greatness, to be a beacon of light and a mover of history. may our nation merit the fulfillment of jeremiah's blessing, that like a tree planted by water, we shall not cease to bear fruit. may all of humanity experience your love and your blessing. it may be thy will and let us say amen. >> let us pray for our 47th president. heavenly father, we are so grateful that you gave our 45th and now our 47th president in millimeter miracle. we are grateful that you are the one that have called him for

such a time as this, that america would begin to dream again. we pray that we would fulfill the true meaning of our creed, that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. we pray that you use our president, that we will live in nation where we will not be judged by the color of our skin but by the content of our character. heavenly father, and the name of jesus, we are so grateful today that you will use our 47th president so we would sing with new meaning "my country tis of thee. sweet liberty. land of the pilgrims pride, from

every mountainside. let freedom ring. because america is called to be a great nation we believe that you will make this come true. so let freedom ring. from the prodigious hilltops of new hampshire, let freedom ring. from the mighty mountains of new york, let freedom ring. from the alleghenies of pennsylvania, let freedom ring. from the snowcapped rockies of colorado, let freedom ring. from the curvaceous hilltops of california. god, we are asking you not only that. let freedom ring from stone mountain, georgia. let freedom ring from lookout mountain of tennessee. let freedom ring from every arrow and every molehill in mississippi, from every state, every city, every village and

really chuckle every hamlet. when we let freedom ring we will be able to speed up that day where all of your children, will black men and white men, protestant and catholic, jew and gentile will be able to sing in that old negro spiritual. free at last, free at last. thank you god almighty, we are free at last. if you believe where the spirit of the lord is, there is liberty, come on, put your hands together and give your great god great glory! >> almighty and eternal god, we

gather here today in reference, joined in our shared hopes and dreams, for our beloved nation. in this sacred moment of the inauguration of president donald j. trump, and vice president j.d. vance, we turn our hearts to you, seeking your divine assistance and abundant blessings upon this pivotal moment in history. we come before you with profound gratitude for the many gifts you have bestowed upon our land. thank you for the freedoms we cherish, for the strength of our communities, and for the resilience of our spirit. as our president and vice president embrace their newly appointed roles, we humbly implore that your everlasting love and wisdom will envelop them. grant them the clarity of mind to navigate the challenges that lie ahead in the compassion to

serve all citizens with fairness and integrity. and me their hearts be filled with a giving spirit -- may their hearts be filled with a giving spirit and sincere understanding of those they represent. may they be hope in times of uncertainty and prophetic voices and defending the dignity of all created life. we pray for a spirit of collaboration to flourishing our government fostering an environment where dialogue and heartfelt listening will prevail over division or discord. may each decision made by our president and vice president reflect the values of justice and peace. as we embark on this new chapter, we also seek your comfort, oh, god, for those who feel lost or disheartened. in this time of transition, may

your light shine upon them, reaffirming their belief in a brighter tomorrow. may we all strive to lift one another, supporting our fellow citizens with kindness and empathy, recognizing that together we can overcome any adversity. grant us the strength to endure, the courage to face our fears, and the clarity to see the light that remains even when clouds of uncertainty may gather. inspire our new leaders to be champions for the vulnerable and advocates for those whose voices are often silenced. may they pursue policies that promote the well-being of all, seeking to build bridges that will foster unity and belonging. as we stand witness to this inauguration, we hold fast to the faith, to our faith in the

goodness of each of us and the possibility of change. we trust with your guidance, oh, god, our nation can move forward to a future filled with promise, prosperity, and understanding. and finally, we lift our hearts in gratitude for the beloved parents of president trump. without mary and fred trump, this day would never be the miracle that is just begun. from their place in heaven may they shield their son from all harm by their loving protection and give him the strength to guide our nation along the path that will make america great again. let us go forth now with these words of president trump's, emblazoned on our hearts. as long as we have pride in our

beliefs, courage and our convictions, and faith in our god, then we will not fail. we stand tall. we stand proud because we are americans. americans kneel to god and to god alone. amen. speaker ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for our national anthem. ♪ ♪ ♪ o say can you see ♪ ♪ by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed ♪ ♪ at the twilight's ♪ ♪ last gleaming ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes ♪

♪ and bright stars ♪ ♪ through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts ♪ ♪ we watched ♪ ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare ♪ ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night ♪ ♪ that our flag ♪ ♪ was still there ♪ ♪ o say does that ♪ ♪ star-spangled banner ♪ ♪ yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪

♪ and the home of the brave ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. >> norah: we just had the national anthem by christopher, and the new president of the united states. and this is now where president biden is escorted by the new president of the united states. and president biden will depart along with some members of his

family, to california. santa ynez, for a vacation out there with his family. the president's inaugural address, he promised in a golden age in which he said a revolution of common sense, in which he promised a bunch of new changes. i think later today at capital one arena, if not in the next hour or so, we will see him signed what has been described as a blizzard of executive orders and actions on everything from the border to energy, to also government efficiency and issues about gender and more. >> in the spirit of getting right to it in his second term, the president kind of skipped the inaugural address and jumped right to the state of the union, listing promises and plans which were ambitious and disruptive and every inch what he was elected by his core supporters to do. but like a state of the union, the proof will be in the

pudding, in the doing. we also have the expense of the first administration and the infrastructure bill which was much discussed and never came. we were talking about this day which has a kind of special grace that hovers over it, political grudges are paused. donald trump benefited from that grace and the ceremony but as is often the case, he did not feel obliged to extend the same grace or ceremony. he talked at some length about the horrible betrayal about the president who is sitting right over his shoulder. the question is, as we have seen before, does he enjoy the benefits of the office but not the obligations? i should note one other thing. he took an oath today. he's the only person ever to take the presidential oath who's been accused by the leaders of his party in the house, the senate and his own vice president of actively working to overthrow an election and therefore break without

oath. >> norah: what does that mean? >> you make an oath to the constitution. the constitution says there will be a free and peaceful transfer of power and working to overthrow the election, he sought to thwart the peaceful transfer of power and undo the 81 million votes. mitch mccarthy, mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy. they said he had broken that oath. >> that's why so many people struggle. you hear from the country, they want to be united. he goes to the biden white house. they a bunch of crab cakes and ribeye steak and then he comes out and insults joe biden while he is sitting there. he did the same thing with barack obama. i am talking about -- through the course of the day. you keep hearing people say i

would like the country to be united. when you talk to people, he starts right away saying the golden age of america begins now. i did like that he acknowledged that it was martin luther king day and that under his leadership martin luther king's dream is going to come true. i'm curious about which dream exactly he's talking about. because he proceeded to say america's decline is over. we're going to reclaim the public. he was saved by god to make america great again. the american people spoke. he won. he won the electoral vote. he won the swing states. andeverybody understands that bt people are saying how are you going to unite us? if i'm sitting there as a democrat or if you didn't vote for trump, where do i fit in to this conversation? many people are wondering that. people at this point i believe really want to be united. we know he won. everyone i think has accepted

that donald trump won this race fair and square. >> norah: jubilant moment for the trump family, as their father is returned to office. i want to bring in historian douglas brinkley. douglas? >> well, i think it was really the speech about the golden age of the past america. he had all the tropes of american exceptionalism thrown into the hopper. pushing the concept of manifest destiny in the settling of the west, that god had ordained it, claiming that we were going to grab, and i think this is a news breaker, he is saying we are going to take back the panama canal. william mckinley thunder bay. theodore roosevelt built it. it's ours in china is controlling. straight on through. maga is american exceptionalism on steroids.

look how we have changed as a society, the days of the me too movement and black lives matter, climate activism. it's just gone. there is a void that president biden has left that no democrat right now is able to fill. nancy pelosi not being there. michelle obama. aoc not there. there's a little bit of a void but the speech i think was better than his first in the sense that the tone of it hung together well. it's not a unifying speech but it masqueraded as one. >> norah: donald trump is now the president of the united states. president biden is set to leap from the east front of the capitol shortly. because we are going to be spending so much of the next four years talking about donald trump, perhaps a moment to talk about how joe biden sees these final moments.

>> i was with president biden in the white house residence in august. he takes pride in his record, what he has done to navigate russia's war with ukraine. massive spending on domestic policy. he believes he has been a protector of democracy, in his view of how the american system should work. when we turn to president trump, this was a speech of action. as the president told me over the weekend, just watch what i'm going to do. stay calm. washinwaswashington should stay. republican majorities, paper-thin in the house and senate, pursuing a major package on the border along with tax reform. ending many agencies and departments across the federal government and scaling back of the size of the federal government. you see the trump family. this was a speech of action and he explicitly detailed what he is going to do. for people who haven't been paying attention to the campaign

or to the transition, this was trump underscoring "i mean business." policy changes are coming and they will be sleeping. >> norah: we want to note that hillary clinton and president bill clinton are shaking every member of the trump's family despite the things they have said about her. i think, i am told by people close to the clintons, it was very important for them to not only show up but to show the sort of graciousness that normally accompanies former presidents and to make sure that they publicly support this peaceful transition of power. there is news at this moment about those last-minute pardons. i want to bring in our senior white house correspondent ed o'keefe. we are watching lawmakers, democratic lawmakers, and other set to see president biden off. what have you learned about the pardons? >> it is not hyperbole to say as

the now former president was taking the stage in the rotunda, his white house was setting out word he had issued more preemptive pardons. this time to three people and their spouses who have been with him his entire political career. his siblings, james, valerie, and frank biden and their spouses, singing part of the met all the talk about political retribution he felt it necessary to do this despite his respect for the rule of law. in the remaining moments of the biden presidency, phone calls made by cbs news to try to figure out why he did this. one source familiar with the decision tells me the outgoing president made it to pardon his siblings and their spouses and the last few days amid the quote continuing talk and concern about possible prosecution and persecution by the new administration. the source so there was no specific recent action or statement by the now president that prompted biden's decision. the source didn't know whether the former presidents siblings

requested the pardon. all three have been active in the now former president's political career. james biden was his fund-raiser in his first campaign. his sister valerie famously was the campaign manager. helped raise hunter and beau biden after their mother died. frank biden, who served in the clinton administration, all have worked in lobbying and infl influence, and the last several decades and then i've been talk over the course of this most recent campaign that the biden family, as trump and his associates called it, the biden crime family, should face consequences for their alleged actions, none of which in any real way has ever panned out. he primitively pardon his son hunter. we should point out, issued thousands of pardons or commutations to everyday americans who had been seeking legal relief from the white house over the last several years. biden will leave office granting more of them than anyone else. this 53 year political career ending as he prepares to take

the walk, get on the helicopter, head to joint base andrews for a final goodbye. notable he did not walk down the steps of the east front. remember, but all the concerns about whether he can send staircases, especially in this tough weather, notable he did not do that. >> norah: it should be noted too, the ages of both of these presidents. donald trump, 78 years old, now becomes the oldest president elected, at age 78. will serve into his 80s as well, as well as joe biden who is now 82 years old, just having had his birthday in november. he will now join what is now special air mission 46. it's only called marine one when the president of the united states is on it, for that final flyover of our majestic

united states capitol to see those final moments. and while there has been much accomplished in the biden administration, the american people do not view it so, there were 17 million jobs created, certainly digging the country out of massive inflation and some say he helped with some of his big spending programs. much that those within the biden circle hope that the long lens of history will show he has achieved more than people give him credit for. >> in one of his last interviews he was saying he should have done a better job on messaging, letting all the people know what he had done. >> it's a kind of a standard button they push. some of that might be true. every voter had a certainty about the things done in your white house. also it's very true in american politics and very hard when the economy is against you, you can't talk your way around that.

>> norah: two-thirds of the country thought we were headed in the right direction. but i do think the biden administration suffered from an ability -- inability to communicate. their achievements. >> what will he do now? we hear he's going to california through what will he do now? >> delaware has always been home for former president biden and he will return to delaware. loves rehoboth beach. it's a place where he made that decision to exit the presidential race. he will spend time in wilmington, i am told. he has a lot of connections in philadelphia, nearby. family lives in the philadelphia area. he'll be in and around delaware and philadelphia and will surely make his way from time to time back to washington, d.c. what a political life for president biden. people close to president trump and president trump tell me these two men share a lot more

in common that may be fully understood. they have been on the public stage since the 1970s. they have been through ups and downs. they are at their core political survivors. that led i'm told to a relatively friendly oval office meeting when they met in private. there's an understanding that they have both endured, even if they both disagree with each other. >> norah: we are witnessing the former vice president, kamala harris' motorcade, just left and we are getting a sense of how things are changing here in washington and around the world. margaret brennan, you have new reporting. >> historic departure for the first female vice president of the united states. in terms of what's changing about we are seeing that the appointments that have been scheduled for interviews, for asylum-seekers, though seeking to enter the united states illegally through this app was

created by the biden administration to slow the crowds at the border and get them in through appointments, that's already been totally taken off-line. 30,000 appointments that had been scheduled for migrants to go through and have legal process, gone already. we are seeing changes in these executive orders that could actually create some questions about how does one legally enter if legal pathways are being shut down. this is a movie it came off at the debate if you remember, that you and i had with the vice presidential candidates, a campaign promise once again to do away with some of these things that the biden administration put in place to deal with what has been a historic hemisphere wide migration crisis with the crush of humanity unseen since world war ii. >> gayle: margaret are you saying people who want to enter the country legally have lost the avenue to do that?

>> the trump administration, they believe the biden administration's interpretation of the law was not legal but they had created this pathway. >> traditionally, the avenue for asylum was to go to any american embassy, american consulate and asked for asylum. this idea that you would come to the border and say i qualify for asylum and get in, very new. there's a reason, walking away from that, it doesn't work. there's a reason that every european country with their border problems, it's been a huge issue in every election for a decade. you have to do something differently. what we are doing is not wor working. >> margaret: great point. not just the hemisphere wide migration crisis but you see it in the middle east, africa, moving into europe. in terms of processing in this day and age, the poverty that exist for some people prevents traveling to the capital to go to an embassy. their workaround was to create the app on your phone.

>> leaving out far more dangerous country is not reason for asylum. you need a unique fear. people all over the world would come to the united states if there is a way to get here, for good reason. where the most open country in the world on asylum. we have made a joke out of the asylum process by what we have been doing at the border. >> margaret: and that would need to change through law or what was just announced, executive order by donald trump? >> norah: the full conversation to have about the process and failures of the immigration system that have largely been the product of the united states congress' failure to get something done for decades, even though multiple presidents, republican and democrat have tried valiantly to do that. now we see the helicopter known as marine one when the president is in it, now special air mission 47, departing, special

mission 46, departing the east front of that capital. as joe biden leaves washington for the final time, ending a half-century career as a public servant. want to bring in scott macfarlane who is there. scott? >> reporter: standing in the footprint of this helicopter about to take off on the east front of the capital. it really is quite a closing chapter two the peaceful transfer of power. it was four years ago when the rioters first fought with police in this very spot, disrupting the peaceful transfer of power, 2021. it's been secured here today with president-elect crump, now president trump side-by-side with president biden. watching president biden board the helicopter for this area liftoff, one-of-a-kind american image and moment on the east

front of the capital. if you can still hear me, there are police and fire, ems worker surrounding this area, taking pictures on their phones. it feels something a kin to a severe thunderstorm or small tornado in wind strength. the metaphor of a change in washington. >> norah: i can't remember the year than i was there in that exact same position. just to think about it. just to think about how president biden feels at this moment. >> gayle: that's what i was wondering. do we know who else is on the helicopter, if anybody? who else is on it? >> john: he is about to pass by the old home place. >> gayle: besides jill and joe biden, do we know who's on it? typically not just the two of

them. i wonder what he's feeling and thinking too. >> norah: to fly down the washington mall passed the washington monument, the lincoln memorial, the white house. and then on to andrews air force base where i imagine he'll be greeted by the members of his family for the trip out to california. and a vacation for the 82-year-old president. want to bring in democratic strategist joel payne. joel, while 49.8% of the country that voted for donald trump related today, winning the popular vote. about what's next. a number of people voted for the democratic candidate and voted for joe biden who were expressing sadness today and thinking about this presidency. what happened? >> what happened is a big question, good to be with you

all. i think what happened is democrats fundamentally lost two discussions with the american people. one was, the disruption of trump, was that disqualifying? was the return to normalcy that biden promised and attempted to deliver, was that good enough? i think democrats lost the public discussion on both of those points. unfortunately for us politically. when you have a public that is very rambunctious and angry and is disappointed in his felt like government and lots of institutions have failed them for years and years and years and years, you arrive at a point today where donald trump can ride grievance back into the white house. i think that's what we are witnessing with this inauguration. that's what we are witnessing with the messaging. i think that's what democrats will have to face for the next four years. >> gayle: that word grievance. i know you said he laid out an

action plan, plan of action. can you lay out a plan of action and not go with the grievances? did it feel like a grievance speech to you? >> the grievances of president trump certainly coursed throughout the remarks today but what is so clear to me based on my reporting in his inner circle, conversations with the president, he truly believes, and you can argue, that he has a mandate and washington has accepted his mandate by giving him republican majorities and he believes his critics, however they might be, will be relatively muted in the years to come. >> norah: we are about to hear from president donald trump but i wanted head to weijia jiang at the white house who has new reporting about the new trump team that's already there at the white house and at work. >> reporter: that's right, as all of this was unfolding of the capital, there has to be a

physical transition of power as well and so by the busloads, three busloads in fact, new incoming administration officials were brought over here to the white house from the capitol. we also know a van of national security staff drove onto the white house campus before noon and they went right into the situation room, according to aides who told cbs that they got right to work. we also took note that right at tthe strike of noon, if you clicked on the white house website, the government website, viewers could see a video of president trump, a montage of him doing various things throughout the country. there was already posted several of their priorities, there was space for executive orders which will be filled once he begins signing them and of course there is the physical move of stuff. moving trucks behind

wandering -- we could see people bringing things in an hour. we saw some of the last staffers from the biden administration here as well, including the press secretary karine jean-pierre. this was a very smooth transition so far physically. we expect those staffers to come in throughout the day to be with president trump. norah? >> norah: weijia jiang, thank you. we are listening now to speaker mike johnson who is in emancipation whole. let's listen in for a moment. >> hundreds of thousands of our closest friends. our disappointment as well overcome with our excitement for the future that we feel today. we have the chance to make the next four years the most consequential period in our nation's history. as speaker of the house, it's my great pleasure, my great honor to introduce to you the man who will lead us to this new golden age, the decisive winner of the

electoral college and the popular vote, the 45th and the 47th and the greatest president of our lifetimes, donald j. trump. [applause] ♪ ♪ ["hail to the chief"] >> norah: expecting another set of remarks from president donald trump because there is a huge overflow crowd. let's bring a nancy cordes, who is they are, at emancipation hall. >> reporter: that's right, norah. emancipation hall face irving is a very elegant overflow room. about 1300 seats that have been set up here for people who would've had a bird's-eye view has this event been held outside.

instead watched the events unfold on the big screen here in the room. it's a very partisan crowd. we had glimpsed florida governor ron desantis. we have seen governor bryan camp of georgia in here. the crowd applauded throughout the address as if they were in the same room. a few minutes ago we saw special intermission 46 lift off, there was a big round of applause about that as well. >> norah: all right, nancy cordes. just remarking about the number of governors that are there in emancipation hall, plotting as the president of the united states and the vice prest gather with many supporters ands like we're going going to hear from the vice president. >> vice president vance: was that a hell of a speech or what. i didn't know exactly what the

president would put in that speech i hoped he wasn't going to hold back and sir, you didn't hold back. that was a hell of a way to start the next four years. i want to say from the bottom of my heart i know i speak for the president and all of us, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for making this possible. we love you. we wouldn't be here without you and we are going to make america great again together for the next four years. and the last thing i'll say is you know, having stood outside for about 5 minutes to wave goodbye to the bidens, thank god we moved that thing indoors because it was a beautiful ceremony and it was cold as outside. sir, the 45th and 47th president of the united states, donald j. trump. [applause] >> president trump: he's right, i looked at this, look at this beautiful sunny day.

we blew it. we blew it. then i went outside. and we were freezing. you would have been very unhappy. the sun was very deceptive, i will tell you. it is called out. i'm sort of saying you know, it was so beautiful today. maybe they should do their every four years. does that make sense? i don't know. because you know the outdoor thing is really good but it gets a little cold around this time of the year, some people have noticed. a lot of times they suffer through it. there was no suffering in that room. it was 72 degrees, perfect. the best acoustics i think i've ever heard in the room. this is not so bad either. i just want to say you are a younger, far more beautiful audience that i just spoke to and i want to keep it off the record. i want to keep it off the record. because i don't want to have all those big shots up there, i don't want to thank -- you are more powerful than them. you look better than them. and i love you.

now, we just had a great time. we had a great day. this was amazing. when you think, we took a journey. i mentioned in the speech, a lot of people said that was not a journey. that was possible. it was indeed possible. i didn't relate too much about what they were saying when they said that. but a lot of people felt it. we hooked up with j.d. very early. i watched j.d. over a period of time. i endorsed him in ohio. he was a great senator. very, very smart. the only one smarter than him was his wife. i would have chosen her but somehow the line of succession didn't work that way, right? she's great and he's great. that's a great beautiful couple. unbelievable career. i just said to him, you are very upwardly mobile. he hasn't been doing it that long. but he picked it up so quickly. remember the first week was a little bit like the fake news

was hitting him really hard. i said, this may be tough. but after that it was smooth sailing for him. he took on everybody. he took on the meanest -- i don't want to use the word corrupt because we are in a new system. let's wait till the corruption begins because it will. he took on some pretty mean people and handled it well but i want to also congratulate mike johnson for the job he's doing. we gave him a majority of almost nothing and then i said to make it tougher on him, let me take two or three of the people, right? i said, he'll only have to suffer with that for about three months. how are they doing? is that moving along? i said, do you mind if i take this one, that wanted a couple of others. he didn't mind. he can handle it. he is a man that's liked by everybody.

i've never met a man like that. what is it, to 19, 220? of the 220, 219 really like him. he got one negative vote once about two weeks ago but i think even 220 like him. that's very unusual. i know a lot of nice guys and congress may have 35 people that hate him. so if you have 35 you that hate you on one or two or three votes, you have five i think but that's going to be like you know the good news is when we get to that five number it's going to feel like a massive majority. you can be really nasty to a couple of them. it's going to feel like hitting your head on the wall and stopping, it feels so good to stop but he's done a fantastic job. steve scalise, he's our hero. [applause] you talk about being shot. i was with him. he got some bad ones. his incredible wife and she really loves him.

you never know about that. i've been with other people that were doing poorly in their wife is like looking at her watch, she can't get out of the hospital fast enough. how is he doing? i don't know. he's all right. that woman was a mess. she was crying and crying. they're going to take him. they're going to take him. i told steve when he finally woke up. the doctor told me it was the most blood they've ever transfused in any patient. they had never done anything like it and here he is, the picture of strength, right? he's been a great friend of m mine. because of the family. and want a job you did. it worked out pretty much pretty much better than we ever thought. i did have a couple of things to say they were extremely controversial. between j.d. and melania. anybody else that heard, please sir, it's just a beautiful

unifying speech, please don't say these things. i said i'm telling you. it's going to play great. they said, you're right, for this group of people it's going to play great. we had some beauties, didn't we, melania? she said sir. she calls me sir when she's angry. i'm only kidding. i better same only kidding with the press is going to pick that one up. she said, it would be terrible, it's such a nice beach, it all depends on your delivery. how was the delivery? she said, it's such a beautiful speech, you can't put things in there that you're going to put in. i was going to talk about the j6 hostages. but you'll be happy because you know its action, not words that

count. you're going to see a lot of action on the j6 hostages. i was going to talk about the things that joe did today with the pardons of people that were very, very guilty of very bad crimes, like the unselect committee of political slugs trickle they destroyed and deleted all the information, all the hearings, practically not a thing left. they deleted all of the information on nancy pelosi having turned down the offer of 10,000 soldiers. you wouldn't have needed 10,000. you could have had 500. it would've stopped. a million people that day. you don't see any photographs. we have a lot of great photos we don't see those photographs. they don't put them in. i was talking about that.

i was going to talk about that. they said please don't bring that up. you can bring it up tomorrow. i said how about now in front of the very -- i'll bring it up right now. the time delay is good because we are getting great reviews of the speech. they will take the speech and say i didn't like it because he left there any talk to people but we are giving you a little more information. they pardoned a lot of people. they pardoned, for even get to today, they pardoned, 33 murderers? absolute murderers, the worst murderers. when you get the death sentence in the united states, you have to be bad. they don't give it much. he pardoned almost everybody having a death sentence and if you went through the crimes that were committed, you wouldn't even believe them, the level of violence. the people that were killed, the innocent people that were killed, children killed by these people and he pardoned them for

whatever reason. he spared them. they didn't spare the people he kills. who knows what happens in the future. it's one of the worst because a lot of times they let them out early after that, you know they say you're going to be in for life but all of a sudden they get let out for good behavior and then they go on a rampage. it's one of those little things. i was going to talk about that. i was really going to talk about the level of -- what's going on, why are we doing this? why are we trying to help a guy like millie. he was pardon. terrible what he said. why are we helping some of the people. why are we helping liz cheney? liz cheney is a disaster. she is a crying lunatic, crying adam kinzinger. i never saw the guy not cry. he's always crying. years ago he was actually on my side and then one day you know

when you don't want to kill people and wars, the turn against you. saying he hated the concept of not going to war with everybody. let's kill everybody. spent a lot of money on military equipment. you know where her father works, right? and what she did was incredible. think of it. they destroyed and deleted all of that information that went on for almost two years against trump and the reason they did, it was all false, like the person that said i tried to strangle a secret service agent. one of the toughest human beings i think i've ever seen. actually had a friend say please don't change that, you are the coolest sucker in history. she said i put my hands around his neck. made up fiction. i was rebuffed. the guy on the right is a massive weight lifter. probably stronger than me. do you think he's stronger than me?

you know who i'm talking about. possibly stronger than me. slightly younger than me. i won't say how many years. because i don't want to talk about that but a lot of years. i had a friend who said why are you dispelling that story, that's the coolest roi have ever heard, that i would attack karate champion champion, get slightly rebuffed and then throw my arms around a guy with a neck about this big. even though there are bars, you know there are bars and you can't really do that anyway so i wanted to talk about that. all of that stuff got deleted and the reason it got deleted is -- you note secret service testified that it didn't happen. actually the two guys were pretty embarrassed. they were suffering because their friends are saying, did trump really do that to you? but they gained a whole new respect for me. it was make-believe stuff. a lot of make-believe stories.

so rather than suffer the wrath, like the story with nancy pelosi. i offered her 10,000 soldiers. she knows it. she admitted on tape that her daughter made. she's an ideology for or whatever you call that. which i'm glad she is. nancy said it was my responsibility, as she's leaving the capitol, she said and it was, she's in charge of security at the capitol but i offered them up to 10,000 soldiers, even more. one side i said as many as you need. you needed four or 500. 10,000. that would be the number of -- more than the number of people there by a lot. we offered her 10,000. think of it. 10,000 soldiers. in other words, j6 wouldn't be j6. they would have been no j6 but he rebuffed them, she didn't like it. she didn't like it. maybe she wanted that to happen. she's guilty as hell and no we would have to go through the process because they destroyed all evidence.

they deleted everything. virtually nothing left. the other fake story and so many other fate stories -- fake stories. many people came out on our s side. those people now, got to find them, there's nothing left. that's a criminal offense. if that were a civil case, it would be a criminal offense. if that happened civilly, it would be a criminal offense. so i decided i'm not going to make this speech complicated. i'm going to make it beautiful. i'm going to make it a unifying speech and then when they said we have a group of people that are serious trump hands i said this is the time to tell those stories. [applause] seriously. i think it was a tremendous success. i think we are very lucky. it's really cold.

we just went to the helicopter. out of respect. for something that's taking place for a long time. it's as old as helicopters. used to get into a stagecoach. now you get into a helicopter. times changed. it's a pretty old custom. it's a beautiful custom actually. it's a beautiful custom. i wish we could have had a better relationship. i wish we could've had a better relationship between republicans and democrats. i was with senator schumer i said chuck, i think it's time we all start getting along a little bit because it doesn't make sense. we literally never get a democrat vote. they never get a republican vote almost. and although there is a bill coming up very shortly that we have a lot of democrat -- so is going to be a very beautiful bill. we're going to have a signing within a week or so and it's going to be a very good bill. you all know what i'm talking about. so i just want to thank you all for being here.

you've been fans from day one. all these people. this has been, this has been -- has there ever been anything like it? this has been a movement like no movement ever in history for probably any country let alone this country. somebody is running for president and if they go out and they announced they're going to arizona, they are going to nevada, going to someplace. if you have 200 or 300 people, that would be standard. ronald reagan would go out. outside the last couple days were people get a little excited but even then you have a couple thousand people. if you're going to go someplace, anyplace, anyone of the swing states, how about the nonswing states? we won alabama by 48 points, won tennessee by massive numbers,

wyoming, won by numbers nobody's ever seen. and places like california we did great but they send out like 38 million ballots and nobody knows where the hell they are sending them and then they come pouring back, the whole thing. they passed a law in california that if you work in the election bureau and if you so much as ask for a voter i.d., if you say sir, ma'am, could i please look at your voter i.d., they have the right to put you in jail. you're a criminal. can you believe that? there's only one reason that happens. they want to cheat. so they had it where motor i.d. wasn't accepted but now if you even ask, this is seriously a bill that was just past in their legislature. i think when we get things cleaned up and we get back to a little bit of normalcy, and going to ask the speaker to really get involved because i think we would have won the state of california.

if you look at numbers with hispanics, 56% and we won the texas border that had never been won, as the governor sent, he's doing a great job, the governor of texas, as the governor said it hasn't -- oh, did i get lucky? did i get lucky. supposing i said -- you know, he's not here, but the governor of texas has done a terrible job. wow, look at you. you mean we couldn't get you up in the front row? i'll tell you. supposing i said j.d., the governor of texas, he's not doing his job. you heard what i said. i didn't know you are there. i said he's doing -- he's doing a great job, a phenomenal job but now you're going to have a partner that's going to work with you because not only didn't have a partner, he had people selling the wall. we have a fenced structure that we worked on, the governor

worked on and i didn't love it, to be honest. i wanted up precast concrete, 40, 50 feet high. beautiful. i love construction. i wanted that sucker to go up 50, 60 feet, nice y shape. they said the problem is, sir, they climb that like our rabbit. i said what you mean, no way and they brought some of these guys out. they climbed it. the other thing is you hit it with acid and the thing will disintegrate. so they needed hardened steel, special steel. 7,000-pound concrete. and then they have a rebar that's the toughest steel made, very hard to cut. this is why your little is cut. we put the anti-climb panel on top. i hated it. i said it so unattractive and i said why would that work, i don't believe it works and i

went to watch the border patrol, we had actually two sets of climbers, the guys that climb up walls with drones on their back, they've got 60, 70 pounds of drugs and they go as fast as you can walk. or we have mount everest-type climbers and honestly the drug guys were much better. the drug guys blew them away, right? but it's true. the anti-climb panel, they couldn't get around it. they just couldn't. he didn't have it. so sometimes you sacrifice judy for efficiency. and we did so. we built this wall and we had -- we built over 500 miles of wall, that's why we have such good numbers, the famous chart that came down very thankfully, the chart that came down. you, j.d., a lot of great people in this party. i got very lucky but we had the

best numbers we ever had but you know what happens is it's like water, you fill it up and now we have 571 miles of wall and they would always say when we renovated a wall, there would be like a piece of plywood sitting there for 60 years, a two-by-four sitting for 60 years on the ground and rotting. because you know and they would say you didn't build a new wall. building 50 feet up in the air, 30 feet sections, 50 feet sections, steel, concrete, everything. by the way, they don't want me to say this but what the hell. they are wired for all the equipment, they put wires and everything so they can easily wire for all the types of equipment. you just find the wires all over the place of top so we can look it up. we don't have to have wires on the outside which wouldn't do too well, right?

so anyway, so we built an extra 200 miles of wall and the governor wanted to buy it and he tried to buy it and they wouldn't sell it to him. could have been done in three to four weeks, 200 more miles. when you do it now they just keep going further out, further out, further out. so we did an extra 200 miles and it was all bought and they announced they are not going to put it up and that's what i realized, they wanted open borders and that's when i realize people are going to come pouring through the wall like nobody's ever seen before but you've seen it. a lot of you are here because of that. i made it my number one issue, they also said inflation was the number one issue. i said i disagree. i think people come into our country from prisons and for mental institutions is a bigger issue for the people that i know and i made it my number one. talked about inflation. how many times can you say that an apple has doubled in cost. i would say it and hit it hard

and go back to the fact that we don't want criminals coming into our country. we don't want the jails of every country in the world virtually being deposited in the united states and that man had to suffer. he was a very popular governor. an unbelievable, unbeatable governor because of his border policies. he was fantastic. he really was. governor abbott, he's a great man, great leader. you didn't do that for politics. you did it because he wanted to do the right thing but it sure as hell worked for politics too. the people are demanding it, the people of texas are demanding it, the people are demanding all over. so we built it and they wouldn't let us use it, they would let the governor use it. other governors they wouldn't let them use it but he was the

leader of the pack and did a great job and then we heard about a month ago that not only wouldn't they -- they were going to sell it for $0.05 on the dollar. now, $0.05 on the dollar than but today it would cost more than twice as much to bill because we bought it like six years ago. it was just sitting on the ground and that does not do well for the whole thing but it was just sitting on the ground and i heard about it and i called the governor and i called a lot of people, the attorney general and here's the story. they were going to buy it, these are great businesspeople. they were going to it for $0.05 on the dollar or less and they were calling, we will sell it to you for $0.200 on the dollar. it will cost you twice as much. i said, can somebody explain that to a judge.

how corrupt. maybe they would say $0.20, $0.30 but not $0.200. they are going to buy something for $0.05 and sell market for fortune. in "fortune" magazine they would put it is the deal of the year, okay? you buy something like that but it was so corrupt and so horrible. they didn't care. they kept going forward. they knew that they were trying to sell it back to us. you would have ended up buying it and he would've paid 50, $0.60, who knows but they were going to use it for scrap metal. but then they had a much better deal. 20 times, think of it, 20 times but they paid. and we wouldn't let it happen. the governor with his attorney general ken paxton, made of fantastic, good lawyer.

we've got a great attorney general. they said leave him alone. ken and the governor went to court and the judge became incensed and called for an investigation after a thing like this happen. so he stopped at so we are waiting for that wallop another you have a new president, that wall will go up so fast. the governor will complain, sir. this is g greg abbott, sir, the wall is going up too fast. please don't do that. you know the story about winning. no, no, we're going to end too much. we are winning too much. people always love that. we will do that with the wall. governor abbott says sir, the wall is going up too fast. we can't take it. we can't take it. i think you'll be very happy if the wall goes up too fast. we will get that and work with you on that but it was a great decision by a great texas judge, right? it was beautiful.

beautiful to watch. stopped him right in their crack. they were literally loading the stuff under trucks, it was terrible, honestly it was terrible. he wouldn't take it so i'm so glad i mentioned that they have a really good governor in texas. and i swear, i didn't know he was here, i swear to you, sounds like a set up, i didn't know you were there. did i get lucky. i said the right thing. there would've been moments when i wasn't so happy with it. it's good to see you governor. i want to thank everybody, you've been incredible, i recognize so many of you. it's so crazy. this has been a long journey. this is a journey that started in 2015. probably 20 years before that. people say, you going to run for president. i always said no, no, no. one day i said let's give it a shot. when i talked about than was the border. probably was the number one

issue for me. back in 2015, 2016 i talked about the border. now i talked about the border but this borders much worse. we fix the border. 2020, by the way that election was totally rigged. but that's okay. it was a rigged election. you know the only thing good about it, a child how bad they are, show how incompetent and frankly historically this is a much bigger event, if that would have gone like it should have. the bad thing about it is some bad things happen like a lot of people in our country that wouldn't be in our country right now saying you know that's the bad part. but i will say it started in 2015 and right from the beginning, they announced trump and trump went to number one and stayed there for the whole primary and then we took on hillary. she didn't look too happy today.

we took on hillary, very nice person, we took on hillary and defeated and we did much better the second time in 2020. millions more votes, millions, ten, 12 million more votes than we did the first time. no president has ever gotten that many more votes. by 9 million more than anybody else. they said we lost. and because of that, i said to melania, what do you think? she said you want to do this again? had we lost and how i felt lost, i wouldn't do it again. that's the ultimate poll, right? i knew how well we did in this time we made it too big to rig. they tried. they tried. they tried like hell. they tried. they tried to do it. around 9:02, they gave up. last time they did bad things. this time they just said you know, i don't off you saw

mr. speaker in washington, they had placards. they were set to merge. they thought it would be. a gentleman asked me, very respected gentleman asked me yesterday, come the polls were so wrong? they showed you winning but not in a landslide. people that are true trum trumps are so angry that they don't want to talk to anybody so when you call somebody for trump, who are you voting for, they say it's none of your business. i'm not telling you. that was probably 40% of the people they called. so they would discard that one and they didn't show that and then when the election happened, the vote came it was much different, much higher. we're going to end. but they couldn't believe -- we won all seven swing states. we won the popular vote by millions of votes which is hard for a republican. i will tell you who came

through. the unions, the autoworkers, the teamsters, the firemen were great. i think almost every union was great. the only one that weren't great, although sean was great in the teamsters. sean o'brien, the head of the teamsters was fantastic. generally speaking, the head of the union was against trump but the union would be with us for like 80, 85%. look at what we did with the autoworkers in michigan, we did with the teamsters. the teamsters were unbelievable. they were a solid democrat vote and they voted for trump so we had a great experience. now we have to go to work and get it done because we have to do something that's going to be great. we're going to turn our country around and we are going to turn it around fast. and i think this was a better speech than the one i made upstairs, okay? i think this was better, j.d. i think this was much better.

and i got to see my friend. governor, take care of yourself. you call me. we'll start working for you know what that means with him? he's going to be calling me tomorrow morning. how about next week? call me and we are going to get it started real fast. we will help you a lot. you've done a fantastic job protecting something, it's not supposed to be for the states. amazing job you've done, thank you very much. i want to thank everybody and i have a first lady who has been incredible. i shouldn't say this. i'm going to get hell when i say this. but her feet are absolutely aching. you know those heels. we thought we were leaving, we were going home. sir, would you be able to go down and say hello to some of your other fans that are here? i said i didn't know that. while macro did you get to see

pretty clearly the picture i hope? wouldn't want to make the same speech again. she said darling, i love you so much for my feet are killing me. i said honey, let me just see how far it is. not that long. 400 or 500 yards. that's five football fields. i said can you make it? she said we are going to make it no matter what. we are going to make it. and then we went out to the helicopter just prior to this and said goodbye. the wind was blowing like crazy and with the hat she is wearing, she almost blew away. we almost lost her. she was being elevated off the ground. she almost blew away. no. we all appreciate it. she's been a great first lady. a beautiful and a great first lady and they love our

first lady. j.d., whenever i make a speech, i see hundreds of times, we love our first lady. and they do, and they should. she is great. i just want to thank you. thank you very much. i want to thank everybody. i felt, i said to j.d., should we give them the a treatment or the b treatment, c, d, f. you know what the f is? hello, everybody. thank you for being here. bye-bye. i gave you the a+ treatment. thank you, governor perry thank you very much. appreciate it. >> president trump completing a trump in speech is what we can call it without notes. going on to the overflow crowd. let's go to nancy cordes is emancipation hall. nancy, he is back.

>> i think that is what trump calls the weave. an unscripted rift about many of his favorite topics. he talked about his political enemies, he talked about voter i.d. laws, he talked about the cost of rebar. he talked about various people who he has lauded through including the governor of texas. he said he was eager to talk about all kinds of things that did not quite fit into his inaugural address which you just wrapped up a short time ago but you knew the folks in this room would appreciate because they are his hard court supporters. and donors. there were times where the speaker of the house mike johnson behind him looked a little bit pained, possibly because he is aware that there is an enormous a roomful of dignitaries upstairs waiting for trump before they can talk into the traditional inaugural luncheon.

>> thank you. let's bring in our chief washington correspondent major garrett. major. >> it's worth pointing out nora that there have been rituals today, patriotic songs. but this transition is one done through gritted teeth with pardons issued by president biden just before his presidency ended. he effectively told the country i believe my family would be criminally prosecuted unfairly by the next president of the united states. and with his remarks just now, president trump said he still believes those who have pled guilty to crimes on january 6 or were convicted by jurors are american political hostages. that is a hostility one administration to another that is befitting this moment in our history but is unlike any other in our history. >> nora: well said. thank you very much. outside capitol hill. we are looking at some of those dignitaries. i do see abby blunt, the wife of

senator blunt who is here and senator, because you have been on capitol hill for so many years previously as nancy cordes pointed out speaker johnson was sitting there with perhaps a gritted teeth because a lot of people are waiting for this luncheon and they are way behind schedule. >> not a whole lot because it is the hardest ticket to get. it's 250 people in statuary hall. normally what happens is the newly sworn in president goes to the presidential room over off the senate floor, nominates officially the people he is hoping can get confirmed in the next few days and then goes to this lunch. lunch will be cold. >> nora: i think that is an important point because while we are noticing the ceremony of this and the speeches, the work of government begins immediately. and of the signing of those documents and there are many people talking about right now. we do not have an acting secretary of defense. we don't have someone in charge

of the fbi. the fbi director and his deputy have resigned. concerns about the transition period. >> that's right. in the senate goes into session right around 2:00 today so right around now. for the specific purpose of seeing if they can't move some of these along quickly. things mentioned earlier this morning that maybe the cia director and the secretary of state would be among those that might be confirmed today and of course that answers every question about who is in charge the more of that that you could get done which is why the senate is in session today as opposed to in the morning. >> and right out of the gate, you expected to be with democratic support and that may be a rarity for some of mr. trump's picks. he does not need democrats because he has the senate majority 53 seat spirit he does not need democrats to confirm his picks but to have a right out of the gate soon to be secretary of state marco rubio,

the senator expected to be swiftly confirmed and john ratcliffe. >> previously served as the director of national intelligence. >> to key national security people on the job relatively soon. it is expected. but we may be waiting. there are ongoing fbi background checks for a number of these picks including as cbs just confirmed the man to run the fbi kash patel. the fbi has not finished looking into the man who might run the fbi quite yet same with the director of national intelligence. tulsi gabbard and her background check is still ongoing. it may be a while before we see that. >> nora: it was interesting to hear president trump address what he called his closest supporters. most of them were governors in the room that did not make it into the main rotunda but this was vintage donald trump including things that they told him not to say in the inaugural address. he talked about the january 6th "hostages" he calls them. people that have been tried in a court of law and are in jail

that he plans to pardon. and a lot more. >> i thought it was good that he went down to greet his supporters because of the way stomach weather conditions not in the main room. the fact that he took the time to go but it turned into another grievance after another. sometimes i feel like he talks stream of consciousness and i think people want to hear okay, let's get started. what are we going to do now. he has the country. he has the country. and everybody is ready to go and stand behind him and when it continues to just be one grievance after another, i think at times it feels exhausting. i liked in his inauguration speech he said never believe something is impossible to do in america impossible is what we do. and i think that is a strong message to send. >> this is a president who is returning to washington. yes, he has concerns and grievances about the past, but in my conversations with him before the election and after the election and over the weekend, it is so evident to me

that what is coming is fast. washington is bracing for a disruptive presidency but in a different manner than what we saw in 2017 where he was still trying to get a grip of how to run a white house, who to put around him. you see the repu republican parw is totally enthralled to president trump. they are with him. and you see this in the country and in state legislatures. this is a moment of republican power. >> why does he keep going back to past history then? >> that is who he is. he lingers on the past but he has now put in place an administration that will ramp up in the coming hours all of the action on immigration, executive agency, policy, and rolling back biden era regulation. >> use advanced action. executive orders will be signed today. >> we could see new information. >> nora: you are looking at now what is this luncheon. an inaugural luncheon for the

new president there and you can see a number of the dignitaries there eared barron trump speaking with governor burgum who will be the new secretary of energy. excuse me, interior. and there are a number of the trunk family members speaking with senator rubio. secretary of state. >> they don't look like they are rushing to their plates. >> there is clarence thomas. the vague ramaswamy. >> nora: i did just bought senator tom cotton. he's looking at his watch. the senate is supposed to get started with their business at 2:00 today and the business of government because a number of these agencies where the political appointees have left and they are gone and the new people need to be signed into office. >> one thing to watch quickly as the trump family and its finances peered so many democrats have been texting me and calling me in the last

24 hours paying close attention to how president trump and his family have put in motion certain business enterprises related to cryptocurrency and that whole financial investment space in recent days but they don't have any control in the senate or the house of screws in. it will sometimes not be met with a subpoena like it would happen if they had control of the house or the senate but you do hear the refrain from democrats that the trump families business interest is something that they want to spotlight even if they cannot formally investigate it. >> nora: there is an interesting hearing. justice league again and. >> and senator mcconnell. the trump team is a little bit worried when it comes to the nonpatients that he's an independent voice and they are not sure where he is going to land on tulsi gabbard, the director for national intelligence nominee or when it comes to pete hegseth. >> nora: let me ask you about that because in my conversations with people -- senator thune they said mitch mcconnell is

one of the most powerful people in the united states senate and he will be in charge of the senate defense of appropriation which is a key post. explain why that is important. >> he is powerful but he's also untethered which for 18 years mitch mcconnell has had to worry about everything he said and how it might affect every other republican. i think we will see him take a strong position on national defense, on our leadership in the world, and the importance of that. these intelligence and foreign policy confirmations will matter to him a lot. >> he has indicated that the health and human services secretary nominated matters to him a lot. he has put out a statement. he left rfk jr.'s name out of it but said anyone who wants this post better be very clear and distance themselves from anyone who is actively seeking to restrict or remove the polio vaccine from circulation which is someone who works very

closely with rfk jr. was -- there is well documented evidence of a campaign to do so and of course mitch mcconnell having been a polio survivor himself. >> had polio. was just old enough to have polio before dr. salk invented and found a way cure polio. and still has some aftereffects of polio. clearly a pro-vaccine guy. >> it seems if you go against donald trump you do so at your own peril. >> i don't think mitch mcconnell has much peril. >> you don't think he's worried about it? >> i think you just caught what i caught. >> remarkable to see ashley cavanaugh and justice kavanaugh having a conversation with mark zuckerberg and priscilla chan. the reason that is noteworthy is that there will likely be a number of antitrust matters including issues about social media that come for the supreme court and this is what happens in the cozy corridors of

power or in this case statuary hall of the united states senate where business leaders have the rare opportunity to have a conversation in a social way with the people that regulate them. >> you said earlier in the day that it is all about relationships. this is what we are seeing now. building relationships. >> the senate is relationship driven because under the rules of the senate to get almost anything done, you need to have somebody from the other side work with you to get things done and over time that builds up linkages that don't go away. >> do you think that donald trump will change or how do you think he will deal with the senate? would he do any actual outreach of the old kind that we used to talk about to the other party or any of that stuff? or less of it because he's been reelected and he has his own plans. >> donald trump is pretty approachable. one of the interesting things i think about president trump is

he will respond to you almost exactly the way you approach them. i'm sure he had a great conversation with senator fetterman who went to see him in mar-a-lago even that first long press conference he's already had. that was a relationship where it was an adversarial but the press got a lot of information. i think he will maintain that and also i've been fortunate to be in the room with several presidents. donald trump was the only president i was ever with who would let you say whatever you wanted to say. he would talk twice as much as everybody else in the room but he was also never in a hurry. there was never a staffer one single time that said mr. president you need to go to the next event. never rushed, wanted to listen, wanted to be absolutely sure you understood his position but was following that conversation. he was engaged in a way that is pretty hard to find. >> we are looking at pete hegseth, the pick to become the next secretary of defense

talking to roger wicker, the senator who chairs the committee that will as we understand meet later today to discuss his confirmation and see if they move that forward. earlier there was also a chat i spotted between lisa murkowski and senator barrasso. it will be one of those interesting people to watch in terms of whether she votes with the majority of republicans or take some stance on some of these nominees that she has been clear she has felt and she said there's a clear message being sent by the trump team that you better get in line and if you don't you will be primary. meaning, another republican will try to take you out. >> are you curious to see what susan collins does? >> absolutely. the women in the senate will be very interesting to watch. >> it's interesting to watch the change of joni ernst who seem to at the beginning be quite skeptical of pete hegseth but she's had a couple meetings and now seems to have change her opinion or two and about how she will vote on him.

true? >> she said she wanted to see the fbi vetting in relation to that allegation of sexual assault against him. but we don't -- we never got a clear answer. perhaps you know if any of the fbi briefing was shared beyond the ranking chair of the senate armed services. i don't know if she got her questions answered but in that hearing she seemed to be on board with pete hegseth. >> nora: i don't think it's clear that the fbi report on pete hegseth included any information about that 2017 and it is important to remember as we've done conversations about this as well is the fbi report is done at the behest of the client. the client in this case happens to be the president-elect in that case. it was compiled for the president-elect. not necessarily for the senators. while we call it an investigation or a report, it's not traditionally that appeared it is not an exhaustive report of someone's entire background. we will not expect that but it does go through some basics on

those things. i want to bring in historian douglas brinkley and douglas, i know as you are watching this, i'm curious your thoughts about this moment in history. >> robert costa rightfully pointed out in trump's first inaugural he did not really on the republican party. he was seen as a populist outsider in all the old george w. bush crowd really did not want to be seen with trump much. and his first inaugural, trump had this massive resistance movement. we aren't even talking about the women's march. it's the largest protest march in u.s. history in 2017 with women in pink demanding culpability for trump's misogyny and now look at him right now. he owns the republican party. he has defeated the two historic women nominees for president, hillary clinton and

kamala harris. you are just having a demoralization of women because cecile richards of planned parenthood died just hours before the inaugural to today. and that was kamala harris' big issue. women's reproductive health. the idea that republicans and the supreme court have worked to scrap a roe v. wade. it's a very odd moment in u.s. women's history. the demoralization that has come to them at the hands of donald trump while at the same time some women in the conservative movement like a joni ernst are rising. but what we considered the movement for women is in a bad place right now. >> nora: i want to bring in weijia jiang who is at the white house. we are waiting to have the president do some of the signing of the executive orders but i

know you have a recap for us of what joe biden said when he was departing joint base andrews. >> that's right. when he went to joint base andrews, there was a big crowd waiting for him. a mix of prominent democrats and staffers and supporters and friends. he said what i want you to take away from this farewell message today is that we still have a lot of work to do. he chuckled, he mentioned president trump's inaugural address and he said as an example, that shows how much work we have to do. and that was president trump's formal address. not even the impromptu one that we heard a short time ago when he went down the list of all the things he wanted to talk about and he said he practiced restraint and did not talk. so that is joe biden's last message to all of those who have stood by his side. there is still a lot ahead for this country.

>> nora: thank you. let's go now to president donald trump and the five binders that are there. >> the next one will be 47 sub cabinet. >> you don't need to sign 47 times. >> nora: you can hear the president getting instruction on what he is signing. 22 cabinet appointments there, this is the 47 sub cabinet appointments and you can see the sharpie is back. and what looks like the ekg signature of donald trump.

>> 31 acting designations. >> nora: 31 acting designations and appointments. >> we have 15 commission chairman and acting chairman appointments. >> nora: 15 chairman and acting chairman appointments. we have yet to find out if one of them is for the pentagon and the acting secretary of defense. >> this was probably fcc and those nominations. >> thank you sir. lastly we have a proclamation order for all future inauguration days including this inauguration day, the flag shall be flown at full mast. very important.

>> i was at jimmy carter's memorial service for it i think he would appreciate the fact that the day you are inaugurated president, the flag should be flying at full mast. i think they go back down tomorrow. >> and now we go to lunch. spew and they are hear senator klobuchar trying to move it along saying it is time to keep everything on schedule. handing out the sharpie is as commemorative pens to everyone. >> president trump: goes back here before that a stagecoach. i thought it was beautiful.

i'm not going to discuss that now. i think it is unfortunate that he did that. we won't discuss it now. there's plenty of time to discuss. >> break for lunch. >> nora: and there you see president trump declining to comment further on the fact that president biden pardoned members of his own family other than saying it was unfortunate. and moving toward -- i think he is getting a briefing on what exactly he signed. but what that means is we will be seeing the executive orders signed at capital one arena in front of his supporters and the estimated 20,000 people that have packed in there.

and i am told that the interim secretary of defense has been named. they will perform the duties of secretary of defense until pete hegseth is confirmed or someone is confirmed as the pentagon chief. it is a man by the name of robert salas is. he's currently deputy director for washington headquarters service. a name that is unfamiliar to me but there is someone in that position at this hour and back down to statuary hall where everyone is seated and waiting for the president to join them. i see the wine is being poured as it is now approaching middle to late afternoon i guess you could say. >> it was supposed to start at 1:30 so it's not so bad. you would pointed out that this was an exclusive lunch. only 200 people. how was it decided who gets to go to this particular lunch? >> 40 tickets are given to the

president group to use however they want to. the rest are generally members of congress or past presidents or past chairman of the inauguration or other things like that. but it is usually a hard to get ticket and everybody that is there is glad to be there. >> nora: and there is a special election menu right g gail? >> i actually have it. here you go. chesapeake crab cakes, greater omaha angus rib steak, thumbelina carrots. not sure what that is. broccoli and potato gratin and dessert you will be happy to know is an apple iced icebox terrine with sour cream ice cream and i do love a good salted caramel. >> but that apple icebox dessert is from minnesota peered minnesota apples. in the ribeye steak is angus. omaha appeared which is where deb fischer is from and i will leave it to senator blunt to fill this in but senator fischer and her husband own a ranch in

the sand hills where of the best beef in the whole country is from. >> i'm sure that's right and i'm sure that if she had not been invited it might not of been omaha beef but this one did say the menu did say omaha beef. >> nora: i did see senator fischer recently and she was telling me. >> are minnesota apples different? are they different from other apples? >> senator klobuchar tells me. >> i know that. but to minnesota apples have a different taste other than it is from the state were amy klobuchar's from? >> the answer is no but senator klobuchar might say otherwise. >> and we have the great national question of where the thumbelina carrots are from. >> we have got to that point. there's a number of serious things to discuss certainly this afternoon and that has to do with what the new trump white house will look like and what they are planning to do an

robert costa i know you have spoken with the president over the weekend. what did donald trump say he wants to do in the opening week? >> he's going to move quickly to use his executive power but also start to engage with congress to get a major package together that will couple his proposal on border policy and immigration with what he wants to do on tax policy. there are a few snags on the horizon. president trump has said to me and others that he wants to get rid of the debt limit. the nation's borrowing limit or extend it for two years or four years of possible. some conservatives in the house of representatives don't love that idea. how this will play out legislatively is very much something that is open to negotiation but president trump is telling people behind-the-scenes that he is very eager to get working on deals. whether it's addressing tiktok and how u.s. ownership could be part of that company or when it comes to russia's war with ukraine. he wants to be immediately on

the phone with world leaders coming up with diplomatic proposals and legislative proposals all while the executive branch really kicks into action. >> nora: we have learned that president trump plans to visit california on friday. >> he will visit there. that will be an interesting trip considering how hard he has hit gavin newsom and los angeles mayor. what you expect of that trip? >> gavin newsom is arguably one of the biggest stars in the democratic party right now. widely considered a presidential contender in 2028 and you saw president trump in his inaugural address take real shots and how california has handled the wildfires. whether they can come to a bipartisan consensus on the federal support for california, that will be something that will be closely watching. >> and we can see a number of the tech ceos and tech titans have decided to stick around for lunch and again there you have

apples tim cook sitting right next to donald trump jr. and justice alito at that prime table. as senator blunt said, this is one of the hottest tickets in town because not many people. just 200 people. inaugural balls are packed with a lot of folks but this is the exclusive spot. >> tim cook is an interesting character. in terms of ceos from the tech companies, he was one of the ones -- culturally, he has quite different views than donald trump but he was one of the first to learn to work with him. on the tariff question, a lot of component parts of apple products would've been hit by the tariff and he got exemptions for apple by working with donald trump and according to "the wall street journal," that work included going to texas with trump and saying we are doing more business in the united states and creating an event to glorify donald trump.

i think that might be a good rulebook for the rest of the tech ceos who were there in that same spirit but tim cook was an innovator in that area. >> nora: one of the first members of the president cabinet that will be confirmed as secretary of state marco rubio who got a warm reception in his senate confirmation hearings from democrats who have worked with them. senators who have worked with him and prays with him not only for his knowledge but his graciousness and you can see he is seated right next to jeff bezos and lauren sanchez as well as his wife and the senate majority leader john thune. all very important tables. >> barron trump was at that table. >> nora: and milani is father as well. >> i would say that's a good seat. >> nora: i would too. i would not turn it down. as it customary that we hear from the new president? >> i think he will give his speech of the last few hours. he will respond to a toast from

either the majority leader or senator klobuchar or maybe both and also on that high tech topic, a lot of the high tech investment in china has been pretty major and trying to figure out, explain how it benefits the final product and how the profits come back here are the kinds of things that those ceos are explaining to the president and anybody else who will listen. >> it will be interesting to see if mike johnson the speaker of the house who has vowed to repeal the chips acts which was a bipartisan act that put money into bringing those productions of some of those chips back to the united states into states like arizona and the like. i know as reporters we look at this room and stayed there are a million stories here. you could be overhearing at each table, i wonder what the conversation between justice alito and the ceo of

apple is about given the supreme court decision on tiktok. apple is one of the platforms that makes the app available and would have faced financial fines for making it continuously available after the 19th. senator tom cotton reminding them of that quite loudly. don't test us here on that law that donald trump is to test. >> that's a good point. and pete hegseth is sitting right next to justice clarence thomas and his wife. >> please welcome members of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies. the speaker of the house, the honorable mike johnson accompanied by mrs. johnson. senate democratic leader the honorable charles schumer accompanied by mr. schumer. house majority leader of the honorable steve scalise accompanied by mrs. kelis. and house democratic leader the honorable hakeem jeffries.

[applause] >> nora: we just heard from the speaker of the house. let's listen in now for the invitation. >> ladies and gentlemen, escorting the vice president of the united states, ranking member of the inaugural ceremonies, the honorable deb fischer and mr. fisher. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the

vice president of the united states, the honorable j.d. vance accompanied by mrs. vance. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> 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. bassler. ♪ ♪

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

[laughter] >> i have a feeling people are very hungry so i am going to get this started. mr. president and madame first lady, mr. vice president and met them second lady my colleague senator fischer and distinguished guests including the speaker leader jeffrey's and senate leaders dud schumer, on behalf of the united states congress, welcome to the 60th inaugural lunch. big surprise weirs featuring nebraska beef and minnesota apples for dessert. we are here and statuary hall where these luncheons have taken place since president reagan's

first inauguration in 1981 and where the house of representatives once met over 150 years ago. that would be before you were born, mr. speaker. in 1864 after the new house wing of the capital was built and in the midst of the civil war, congress dedicated this chamber to host statues chosen by every state. walking into the hall we all passed under the arch holding the marble carved of history clock. the statue shows cleo the greek means of history holding a book to record events as they happen and as you can she she has 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 is titled american horizon. it is 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 like 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 and we thank the art institute of chicago for their assistance. looking at the vast open landscape of this landscape, we are drawn to the bottom of the frame where the land or the water depending on where you are from meets the sky. and the horizon endures. the enduring horizon is especially meaningful for us today as we mark our enduring democracy as we approach it's 250th anniversary. it is a reminder that what is

over the horizon as 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 god he is back with us and in good health 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 favor upon president donald john trump and vice president james david vance.

empower them with the wisdom and courage needed for our times. protect them from the divisive dudes and challenges that obstrt the making of a world of justic, peace, and righteousness. 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 and 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. >> nora: and thus begins the long awaited senate luncheon which is been slightly delayed in part because of the number of extra speeches and more but for some of you, your local news is next. for others, we will be right back with continuing coverage of the inauguration of donal donald trump. donald trump. ♪ ♪ when bad allergies attack... trust claritin to keep you in the game. nothing is proven more powerful for continuous non-drowsy allergy relief. live claritin clear.®

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♪ ♪ >> 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 film and assassin's bullet ripped through my ear but i felt them and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. i was saved by god to make america great again. >> nora: the new president of the united states donald trump there in his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 47th president of the united states. welcome back to "cbs news"

coverage of the inauguration of donald trump. we have all witnessed a remarkable morning here in washington. the peaceful transfer of power that is outlined in the 20th amendment. and donald trump becoming the 47th president not only delivering his inaugural address but then going to emancipation hall where he spoke for another half an hour before supporters and the news this morning in addition to the president's comments that he plans to usher in a golden age and a revolution of common sense in his words is what we are expecting some 200 executive orders and actions that will have everything to do with immigration to energy and more on the federal workforce and regulations with them and we will dig into that shortly. we have also seen the remarkable gathering of people here in washington including these attacked titans that gathered that had better seats than most members of congress and even the president's incoming cabinet. you see them here.

these are the world's richest men who had the best seats in the house. they are in the capitol rotunda. you see elon musk there. the ceo of google center panchayat, jeff bezos and his fiancee and then you can see mark zuckerberg there of meta with his wife dr. priscilla chan. all of them some of the notable businessmen and the head of lv mh and his family i believe the third or fourth richest man in the world. all gathered here. we heard from president biden in his departing remarks from the oval office the other night, he warned about a tech oligarchy. for more on what that may mean, let's bring in walter isaacson. walter is a tulane university professor also wrote the biography on elon musk and so good to see you.

thank you for joining us. >> thank you nora. you saw that tech oligarchy right there didn't you. >> nora: the words of president biden appeared he called them that. but certainly a powerful collection of individuals here to witness in person trumps inauguration. those that i did not mention that you can see hereto including the ceo of tiktok and tim cook, ceo of apple. let me ask you, how many hours did you spend with elon musk? >> i spent most of the time for two years morning, noon, and night, because you can see all of this developing. what you will do in government as a whole playbook and he has been doing it for 20 years. both in terms of going too far sometimes and causing rubble in his wake up but also trying to get rid of every rule and regulation and make things happen fast. i think that is what he is planning to do in this new role as being the advisor of government efficiency.

>> nora: let me ask you because elon musk has arguably become one of the most closest advisors and confidants of donald trump. he is there a lot at mar-a-lago. how did that relationship come to be? >> it came to be rather quickly in terms of it being in the past year because when i was traveling around with elon musk, he did not have a whole lot of respect for trump. he supported ron desantis. he said trump is a charlatan, a carnival barker, he reminds me of my father is what he said. and if you know from the book, it begins with this difficult relationship that he had with his father and then he's almost trying to substitute. he becomes fascinated with trump especially because he felt biden had done too many regulations in the covid crackdown. he had not invited him to the electric vehicle summit and what he calls the woke mind virus. when i was traveling around with him, there's a scene in which he has a message from his first

born child saying i am transitioning and my new name is jenna and that got him onto this kick about what he calls the woke mind virus. >> nora: elon musk i think arguably a genius, also eccentric in many ways but a pioneer in so many different avenues. i want to say i spoke with a friend of his recently and he said what is wrong with having as someone who is smart as elon musk trying to eliminate waste. that would be a good thing peered what would be some of the challenges? >> everything he has done, he has been able to do things like a eliminate waste. there are scenes in the book about the latches that the military had you put on spacecraft and he said no, let's get the latch off the bathroom door stall. we can do it at 1,000th of the price. that generally works well but sometimes you cause problems. and i think elon musk is really

going to go full board. people have no clue what this flamethrower mentality that he shows throughout his life, how that will affect government. obviously that's probably a good sign. there is a lot of paralysis in government but you will see rubble just like you see rebel every time he tries to invent a new rocket. the book has them doing the first falcon launches and there are rubble and his wake. but eventually he gets orbit. >> i read your book. it's called elon musk by the way. i read the book from cover to cover. and it really is a good read and you mention him being a flamethrower. we talked to a lot of people on the streets who said we know he is brilliant, we know he's a genius, we know he is smart but they are very afraid of him. they say he has a very close access to the president. does he only care about the power? when you think about that, did you see that kind of thinking? that he wanted this kind of

power? some people call him presi president musk which drives donald trump crazy. did you see this side of him wanting to get into politics? >> you and i talked about this when the book first came out. i think he is in some ways it driven larger forces than that. he is a kid who has no friends. he's very lonely. on the autism spectrum. reading the x-men comics, the superhero comic's, imagining himself saving humanity. i think he imagines himself almost as the avatar and his own video game and he is getting to play hero. i don't think it is about getting tax credits because you saw trump's not going to keep those things going. it's about i feel humanity is threatened and i'm going to help us get to mars and fight all of the dark forces and when you have a sense of mission like that, it can be amazingly strong but as you said, it can also be

dangerous. >> do you think he and donald trump are a good team together? do you have concerns? you have gone to know elon musk very well. >> he is not exactly the most stable molecule because he has never really work for anybody and any time he tried to do a little bit is the beginning days of tesla and that didn't work and donald trump is not exactly showing himself to be an expert at sharing the limelight but my own prediction is you can see how dedicated musk is to this. steve bannon, the head of the other wing of the populist mega said i'm going to get musk gone by inauguration day. there you saw elon musk sitting in front of the secretary of commerce. standing in front of the cabinet. steve bannon nowhere around. so i think there is at least a good year in which the department of government of the you will see him doing in government what you saw him in the book doing to the private

sector. speak out this is margaret brennan. i to read your book including the parts about him growing up in apartheid era south africa and i think that is so interesting that he is an immigrant to this country and has taken on immigration as such a personal thing. even dabbling in european politics now on anti-immigrant platforms. he has talked and gone to some pretty big rhetorical battles with steve bannon who you just mentioned over h1b visas and bringing skilled workers into the united states. i'm wondering where do you think this is going and why is it such a personal issue for him not just in the u.s. but around the world? this anti-immigrant position. >> as you know, this populism that has swept the western world, europe, united states, is driven by many things including a sense that there have been open borders and you have had

way too many immigrants comment. you can go back in history from the 1840s to the president and you can get anti-immigrant waves. but what you put your finger on his very interesting. musk himself came in on a student visa and h-1b visa. he believes america is in competition with the rest of the world and we do have to let skilled immigrants end. we do have to have the best engineers in the world coming to the united states and so it is a very complicated sense that we don't want to have open borders but we do want to get the best and the smartest engineers into america. >> nora: walter isaacson, so wonderful to have you on this day. thank you so much. and we are seeing things change across washington this afternoon and here is one of them. you may have seen this portrait

of general mark milley unveiled just a few weeks ago in the pentagon and a notably there is -- what we are now showing you is where that portrait has been taken down from the pentagon as donald trump came to power we are told that the portrait of the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was removed. highly unusual for a man who served 40 years in the u.s. military. general milley got on the wrong side of donald trump and as a result president biden issued a pardon for him today to warn against any future protection. i know you spoke with the general and i interviewed him for speaking 60 minutes and spoke with him recently as well. he was very worried about his own personal safety and worried about retribution. >> it's interesting because he served very closely with donald trump as his main military advisor when he was chairman of the joint chiefs. this is not a relationship that

went bad. this is someone who felt when he took that walk back in 2022 st. john's and stood in the midst of those black lives matter protesters, he had been pulled into something in terms of appearing to represent in uniform someone backing what donald trump was saying in that moment in time and wanted to make sure he was not trying to cross the line of bringing the military into politics. something that he very clearly spoke out about after-the-fact and a sense that time, really became very clearly someone who was about lawful orders. obeying only lawful orders peered making clear that the president is not the emperor or the king. the president is constrained by design by our founding fathers in the role that he has. and it is not just our speculation that this was removed intentionally. katie miller who is the wife of

stephen miller, one of the top advisors to donald trump and soon to be director of homeland security or advisor to homeland security to the president was posting publicly and posted a few hours ago that this is coming down. she called mark milley a paper pusher and made accusations about him. but he served this country in uniform and there is also a cost to this for his personal safety. he's one of the people on the hit list for the iranian regime because of the role he played in helping to take out qassem soleimani that general which he did at donald trump's direction. >> nora: pulling back for a moment. what kind of message do you think this sends within the pentagon to other uniformed officers who serve the constitution, not the president of the united states by design? >> this is something, and i know you have heard this as well from others particularly who serve in uniform or have served, how much

aracter, how muchudgment, how much rules are instilled within you as a virtues when you take on that uniform because good order and discipline are part and parcel of having a well-functioning military. it's really challenging to some of those in uniform to see this idea of loyalty to anything other than the constitution. of putting aside as well the military -- the code of military justice. that's one of the things that came up for pete hegseth. it's not just because someone is approved and they don't like that you cheated on your last two wives. if you did that you would be prosecuted if you were in uniform. there are reasons some of those things are in there and some of the democrats in particular went at pete hegseth that way because they were trying to make that point including the ranking member of that committee saying character in this way is something you are supposed to uphold your troops to including

the laws of conduct. how can you elevate people who do not abide by them themselves? >> nora: and mark milley became the symbol for someone who stood up to donald trump as president. in many ways but just saying you need to sign the orders. you can't go shoot people in the knees as mark esper described to quality domestic protest. there and regulations that he spoke back to the president for lack of a better word and donald trump did not like that and has since been forced with a lot of threats including steve bannon saying there should be a military tribunal, that he should be court-martialed. how is that affected general milley recently? >> when you sat down with general milley for 60 minutes, he had a great answer to you about his own personal security. he has taken real steps to secure himself and his family in the wake of the trump presidency. the backstory here is important and in the days after

january 6th 2021, then chairman millie did three of her things. he called the leader of the chinese military and reassure them that the united states was stable. he had a conversation with speaker pelosi where they talked about what they believed was president trump's mental unfitness for office. and his conduct at the time. and he had a private meeting at the pentagon with key officials saying if president trump decides to do anything militarily, make sure that general milley is read end. once these episodes were reported by bob woodward and myself in our book peril, he became under enormous certainty and he had to testify on capitol hill about the decisions he took on january 6th, 7th, at 8 of 2021 and the consequences of those decisions as he told you on "60 minutes" continue to hover over his life and that is why i am told by a source close to president biden he built a

relationship with chairman millie in his own presidency and he wanted to make sure that he felt protected in this new trump presidency. % jan crawford because pardons are a big part of today because president biden issued in so many pardons in these final days. not only for general milley but also anthony fauci and at the last minute at an extraordinary move for every member of his family. >> those are preemptive pardons peered they have not been charged with any crimes, much less convicted. and those are highly unusual. not unprecedented of course. we remember resident ford pardoned former president nixon. he had not yet been charged. there is precedent for it. but this is highly irregular and i was thinking i remember there were some republicans who were urging then president trump before he left office to preemptively pardon members of his own family.

potentially even himself and obviously trump declined to do that. at least his immte family. he did pardon his father-in-law. >> charles kushner who is now in a diplomatic role. and he had served time. he had gone through the process. >> the message that it sends and with these people have been prosecuted, i think obviously it's hard to imagine. and of course they could be prosecuted for future crimes. but it goes to what you are saying. the numbers of pardons that we have seen from former now president biden, we are talking 4,000. in his first term, president trump pardoned, i think about 200, 238. quite a dramatic increase here. >> is interesting about dr. fauci who now says he has a

travel with security peered he released a statement then let me be perfectly clear. i've committed no crime and there's no possible grounds for any allegations but the fact is that the articulation of these baseless threats, the potential that they will be acted upon create and measurable and intolerable distress for me and my family. he says i acknowledge andapprect president biden has taken today on my behalf. >> and taking that action is not going to do anything about the threats. that is an issue that is not unique. we were talking about general milley, anthony fauci, that is a reality of public service. sadly. whether you are republican or democrat. the threat levels that people are under right now. >> but does it take away? >> the justices, there are justices on the supreme court who at times have to wear bullet proof vests think about that.

again, the pardons don't help that. >> but with the preemptive pardons of members of the biden family, not hunter biden right now who has been accused and was convicted, other members. >> he did also pardon him. >> nora: he did pardon him but other members of the biden family and for general milley and for dr. fauci. does that preemptive part and in some ways say to members of congress who wanted to hold these hearings and investigate probably not worth it or do they have it anyway? >> the question is what we do see from the state attorney general's. that's where you will see some of the real action. >> the president can only pardon federal crimes. we've seen that with president trump. he could not have gotten up pardon for his state convi convictions. whenever you are talking about with dr. fauci and being parted for any potential federal crimes, there is still a real avenue there for a state

attorney general to try to file suit. >> nora: i want to switch gears and talk about the luncheon that is going on right now on capitol hill. the cameras are dark but earlier we saw the world's most powerful men, the tech executives were back in the day donald trump jr. and others railed including the president-elect against big tax and now they are at a literal seat at the table not only with the incoming administration but with supreme court justices sitting right next to them. the justices and their wives. potential conflict of interest? >> one thing not on the table in these conversations is anything to do with tiktok or any issue that would involve social media. i'm sure it is lunch and pleasantries. who knows. >> really? you mean the justices would be very careful. but others may try to bring it up. >> they just aren't going to

engage in those conversations. tiktok and social media. >> if tim cook says to judge alito what are you thinking. >> are we going to have this? >> it starts a conversation. >> can you give me an advisory opinion. >> i'm being facetious. >> nora: i have another question to ask because we talked about this on the evening news. the president of the united states before he became president essentially said i'm going to issue the stay on tiktok which it managed a number of concerns because it was an act of congress signed by the president of the united states upheld by the supreme court. can a president with a sweep of the pen undo all of that? >> knelt. and that's what we talked about friday night prayer there is a provision in the law that said if there is a deal in the works and obviously deals take a long time. maybe it takes longer than you think. but if there is a legit deal in the works that the president could grant a 90 day extension.

but the way many members of congress including senator cotton read that law is that was something president biden could have done. once the law takes effect, which it did. >> but tiktok is on. they are saying they will be liable. they have decided to put tiktok back on. >> there is nothing that said tiktok has to go dark and tiktok was playing games on saturday. the law only says that you have to remove it -- if you don't have it on your phone right now you won't be able to get it because it has to come off the app stores. and you won't be able to update your app. so it will gradually lose its functionality over time. that was tiktok playing games. tiktok does not have to remove that. even now. that's not in the law. they have refused to entertain any offers whatsoever for over four years so that tells us that they don't want to sell and why they see that as having real

value to them to keep that ability to collect data on 170 million americans. >> nora: so great to have you. lots to discuss bird want to talk about what is coming up with integration because we learn that immigration raids are expected to ramp up this week. cbs news correspondent in chicago. one of the city's expected it to be targeted. what have we learned? >> good afternoon. what we have learned so far from ice and immigration officials is that we shall wait and see. right now we have heard from local community members, people who own businesses here from undocumented immigrants and advocates that there is a great sense of fear. we've heard from businesses that say some of our workers are not showing up to work tomorrow because they are in fear of the mass deportations. we know president trump has said he will begin the largest mass

deportation in american history. but the borders are who will become the borders are over the weekend and for weeks has been saying we are not going to do marades that are being reported. they are going after people who are considered national security or a public threat and the goal is to make sure that the people who they are detaining and the people who are going to be deported first are people who are under investigation by ice. that said, that is not what the president has said throughout his campaign. so there is a great deal of fear and anxiety in these communities. what we have also learned today is that the first order of business is something we expected because of the way that the president described it throughout the campaign. the end of the cdp one app. that is the app that people who seek asylum while in mexico were able to use in order to have an appointment that is confirmed by the u.s. government and make the beginning of their claim for

asylum at eight different points of entry along the u.s. and mexico border. that has ended meaning the tens of thousands of people who had appointments and are waiting on the mexico side now no longer have the opportunity to make their case for asylum for well-being in the united states and with that they have potential eligibility to work in the meantime. when i thought was interesting and having covered for years the trump administration's immigration policies is with out the cdp one app, you might remember the biden administrationlready shut down the possibility for people to their case for asylum if they came into the u.s. between points of entry meaning without that appointment is now it is essentially like going back to the remain a mexico policy where there is no possibility for people to write now show up at the border with an appointment in between ports of entry and try to make their claim for asylum legally. and this policy has allowed for

nearly 1 million people to enter the u.s. under the biden administration. >> nora: that is a big change today. as was mentioned there in chicago where some of the immigration raids could start as soon tomorrow. thank you lilia. i want to bring in omar villafranca in el paso, texas, near the u.s.-mexico border and you could hear lilia as well. what are you hearing about the real world impact for some of these migrants who were seeking asylum? >> on the el paso side it is hurry up and wait. of course when president trump was sworn in the cbp one app which is something that migrants would use to try to get some sort of meeting, i screen capped here what it was showing. it's as effective january 20th 2025 the functionalities that previously allowed undocumented aliens to submit info and schedule appointments at ports of entry no longer available. existing appointments have been canceled paired we've seen on social media that some people who were waiting on the other

side trying to get those appointments are in tears. they are crying. that was part of what the incoming trump administration wanted to control at the border. another thing i want to bring up. and my travels across the u.s.-mexico border from texas all the way to california with the president wanting to declare cartels a terrorist organization, i had republican and democratic sheriffs along the border telling me they were worried about that partially because if they are calling cartels a terrorist organization, they are wondering if people in mexico who are living in the areas of mexico would now have some sort of asylum claim to come to the u.s. saying they are fleeing terrorism. how that plays out in a court of law of course we will have to wait and see. the last thing i want to mention is declaring an emergency at the border. the president said he wanted to do that with an executive order and he wants to send the u.s. military good here in texas the texas national guard is already here. they have been here on the

border since 2021 as part of texas as operation loan start. as of right now, the texas government's footing that bill and governor greg abbott is hoping that the federal government will take over some of that payment but the incoming borders are has said repeatedly in his trips to texas that he wants to make texas the model for what the border should look like on the southern border and you were talking humvees, armed soldiers and why are all across border. greg abbott is a republican but in new mexico and arizona, they are democratic senators. how that plays out, we will wait and see. >> nora: omar villafranca, thank you for explaining all of that. president trump promising today to use the muscular power not only of the executive office but to employ soldiers to carry out the immigration crackdown. he will be signing those executive orders shortly and as we learn more details we will bring them to you.

we will continue this conversation and just a moment. you are watching cbs news coverage of donald trump's inauguration. we will be right back. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> nora: welcome back to cbs use cover of the inauguration of donald trump. you are looking inside the capital one arena. sports arena in our nation's capital and the preprogram is already underway. there are tens of thousands of supporters of president trump gathered there waiting to hear from him.

he will, and address the crowd there and we have also seen set up a small desk where we are told the president will sign many of these more than 200 executive orders that will be a crackdown on immigration. he will dismantle diversity initiatives in the federal government. there are energy initiatives and as the president outlined in his inaugural address, it will include his efforts to rename the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america. back to mount mckinley. much still expected as donald trump is trying to change things here in washington and in his words enter a golden era of government. we want to continue our conversation about the trump immigration policy and the ripple effects. nancy chen is out of form and

chester new jersey talking to farmers they are and how they could impact farmers. >> good afternoon. you talk to any farmer and they will tell you it is difficult work but it is becoming harder and harder to stay in business these days. there was a 7% drop in the number of american farms from 2017 to 2022. that is 142,000 fewer farms in just five years according to the usda. farmers are up against a whole host of issues including higher cost for feed and fertilizer, climate change as well as the outbreak of avian flu that we are seeing right now but few issues are as reoccurring and paramount as labor and the lack of it. that is why so many farmers we spoke with said they are watching very closely to see how president trump addresses this given that he has vowed to launch the biggest deportation effort in american history. about two-thirds of farm workers in this country are foreign-born and while many of them come to the united states and seek jobs legally through visas, a program

that could expand a trump administration, the usda estimates that 42% of crop laborers are undocumented. they tell us there's a lot of nervousness on farmworkers right now and the owner of this farm said his workers are all legally authorized but what trump does next is something he and so many others around this country are watching closely. >> when we talk about the ripple effects of potential mass deportation, labor is already hard enough to find as is. could it be even more difficult to find across the board if that happens? >> no question in the united states we have a shrinking workforce. there's more people retiring and aging out then there are entering the workforce appeared we are not producing as many children and we have a growing economy that requires workers. anything that happens from a policy standpoint that reduces people in our workforce is going to make it very difficult for

history and certainly for agriculture. we rely on a lot of people. it takes a lot of hands to hand harvest fruit and vegetables paired we are fruit and vegetable growers. we would be in big trouble if we lost the workforce. >> if a mass deportation did happen, economists that we spoke with said there wouldn't be a dramatic and drastic price increase at the grocery store for consumers but there could be an increase in the produce that is imported into this country which could lead to concerns about environmental and labor productions where they are produced and that could mean national security issues as well as the acceleration of the closure of more american farms. >> nora: nancy, thank you. why wouldn't it lead to an increase in prices at the grocery store if there are no workers? it's got to get passed on to someone. >> it's a good question because there are so many fruits and vegetables that are being produced and imported into the country right now.

they are saying this could speed up that process as well as lead to the more mechanization of farm produce that you see in this country. >> nora: nancy chen, thank you. i want to dig into those economic issues with cbs correspondent kelly o'grady who joins us now. good to see you. i know we have been doing an analysis here at cbs. what would that cost to be to do this mass deportation? >> at the broadest level over the past five years at cost about $19,600 to deport one undocumented person. if we brought annette out to 11 million possible deportations you are looking at something over $200 billion. of course that is not all going to happen at once. but you start to think about you have all of these different industries as nancy mentioned. agriculture, hospitality, construction. think about the reconstruction of everything that is happening

in los angeles. all of those workers that are not going to be there if you are going to reach the point where we are deporting those people. president trump is likely going to start with those with a criminal record but on the flip side, there is also drawing less on resources. housing. there's food stamps. things that undocumented workers are drawing on right now. so it is a push and a pole and it's all about how long it would take to go through with the deportation process but you have to think about the impacts to inflation because you could see prices rise from all of that lost work. the other thing is, yes, the argument is that would mean more u.s. jobs but you have to pay u.s. workers more. the average minimum wage for someone in california are working on a farm is $15 per at some undocumented workers make 5%-35% less because they don't have the leverage to ask for the

minimum wage. >> and did you say close to 19,000 or did you say 9,000. speak of 19,000. >> close to $20,000 per person. >> that's correct. >> richard escobedo on our team was saying a quarter of all guest workers in the united states are in the two states of florida and georgia. two republican states. on the question you raised about cost and immediate cost, we know this promises immediate action but it again is constrained by the existing resources. there are 41,000 detention beds, immigration and customs has right now. over 38,000 of them are currently filled. when you have 1.4 million people with court orders of removal against them, that's one of the criticisms of the biden administration. why didn't they remove them. there are defenses we prioritized those with criminal records who would be a risk to safety. how does the trump

administration defined criminal. we don't know the number. they throw around 1 million. lindsey graham the senator who on the budget committee is negotiating with stephen miller to work with the trump administration on this told us yesterday he is working with a $100 billion. that's what they want to put together in the senate package. they want to get it passed immediately but it looks like the spring. giving resources to do all of this. the promise of shock and awe, maybe the paper rather than the raids although those are promised because the other question is where to use and people? the executive orders we got today saying they will focus on two gangs. ms-13 from el salvador and a gang out of venezuela. venezuela does not accept deportations. if you round up the gangs, where do you send them to? and the national security advisor said they are trying to negotiate to find another country to take in people who are documented criminals. there's a lot that still needs to be worked out policy wise to

deliver on these things. >> nora: robert costa, and your conversations with the president and his close advisors and stephen miller, this is his goal. he is a deputy white house chief of staff and he's going to be homeland security advisor inside the white house which is a big job. this is priority number one. they promised this to their supporters and the people. do they have to deliver quickly? >> on day one. not just priority one, but on day one. >> it's not just a priority, it's a passion for this group. i remember going to see stephen miller at johnny hatchell. our restaurant that does not exist on capitol hill anymore. he would be huddling when he was a senate staffer for senator jeff sessions of alabama plotting out conservative policies on the border. never imagining they would have this opportunity to go to this length when it comes to immigration policy. i was with senator sessions when he first met donald trump and 2015 and mobile, alabama, and what were they talking about when they convened on the plane? immigration. they had grand plans over a

decade ago for what could be possible. now stephen miller is perhaps one of the most powerful unelected people in this country but he will be deputy white house chief of staff and he will be working with the borders are with the chief of staff with the head of dhs to use executive power as much as possible to put into motion president trump's vision. when i spoke to president trump especially on election day he said immigration is everything in terms of his victory and i said what about the economy and he said of course it's a big issue but he truly believes that immigration is why he is back and that is why he is pursuing it with such vigor. >> nora: i want to go back and show and keep up pictures of live inside the capital one arima where the program is underway and we will hear more from the president of the united states and his suppos and where i think he will talk more about those immigration orders and that passion that the president and his supporters have for the crackdown on immigration that was the

centerpiece in many ways of his election campaign and kelly i want to use your economic expertise while you are here as well to talk about bitcoin. we saw it surge and fall back. we saw the president of the united states as well as melania trump issuing their own bitcoin. what are the legalities of that and how much money have they made? >> billions and billions of dollars. the really interesting thing that i like to like in the mean coins to we saw happen with donald trump's stock. djt. you saw that trade with the volatility of his popularity and the chances that he might win this election over the past few months. you saw supporters just throw their money into that and it would soar and then it would also fall. you saw that happen with the meme coins the other night. billions and billions of dollars. what i will also broaden out to the cryptocurrency space, i know a lot of folks think of this as

it is this dark magic kind of thing. it has gained in popularity a lot. bitcoin specifically. one in five americans now own bitcoin. speak up but there a difference between. bitcoin is tied to something and means are not. >> if people try to sell this. >> that's fair. that's fair. but the meme coins, i think that is where this is people trading i like donald trump. i like president trump. i will throw my money an end you saw it happen with the celebrity meme coins where the celebrity will sell and people lose everything. that's going to be interesting. it could also trade with how people feel he is approaching the crypto industries. he could be making good on those promises. >> part of it is pulling back regulation and that is something

that donald trump ran on during the campaign and the crypto space was very upset with how the now former sec chair prosecuted to have them regulated as if they were more like a stock. but it is unusual. we have for the first time in american history a crypto czar. david sacks, a south african immigrant to this country who has promised to open that up and ai. artificial intelligence and promising big tech you won't see as much regulation as you saw under the last administration and i think it will be a real interesting area to watch because there is tension within the administration. you have j.d. vance who came from helping to fund start-up world and he says he likes little tech, not big tech. he would tell you he does not like tim cook and the other big giants in the room. >> in the front row. >> in the front row. >> how we ever had a president that has seen such a fast turnaround from a policy choice

$2 in some kind of currency whether it is a made up one or a real one or whatever. but that fast: response and market is amazing. >> nora: we will talk to two people on opposite sides of the political spectrum. they watched the inauguration together. we will be right back. ♪ ♪

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...in just one week. ♪ ♪ >> gayle: we welcome you back to the "cbs news" coverage of the inauguration of president trump. we are joined by two new jersey residents with two very different points of view. lou is a republican and they were nice enough to spend part of their day with us. he wanted to their reaction to donald trump's speech. lou and donna, good to see you. we talked to you before the election and we caught up after the election and wanted to touch base on inauguration day. you watched two different networks. danna, i want to start with you. >> what my thinking that i haven't said before? i'm thinking the worst and

hoping for the best. i am thinking that i have lived through four years of normalcy were i didn't have to predict what is going to happen next and now i fear that friday afternoon where he puts it all back out there and he's going to cut somebody we're going to hear about it all weekend. so i am fearful. >> gayle: you watched the speech. i know you watched the speech. >> yeah. >> what did we think? >> gayle: i want to know how you're getting -- i want to know how you're getting through this day. >> i'm getting through it with some beverages, okay? i am getting through it, hoping, you know what, those day one promises, i hope he's signing a lot of papers for all those d1 promises. >> gayle: dana just said it

felt like a campaign speech. what did you think? i see you have a libation as well. >> i'm so excited right now. i am so excited it's not even sinking in. we are doing all this filming. we were here all day today waiting to go on. didn't pay attention so much to the speech but i'm excited. i'm excited. i've been waiting a long time for this. >> gayle: lou. >> i finally came out of my coma. >> gayle: i know the feeling. sometimes intellivision there's a lot of waiting so appreciate you sticking around. it was or something that spoke to you specifically in his speech that excites you? >> i'm off those borders close. i want those people to get nominated as soon as possible. i want to get the ball rolling. we've been waiting four years for this. i am in a lot of pain. >> i am in a lot of pain starting today. i look around that room at that

whole spectacle and i didn't see anything other than all the yes-men, all the representation, his first presidency, he had checks and balances. he is footloose and fancy free right now. there is nobody there to reel him in. yes-men. zuckerberg kissing the ring. he's an oligarch. he has those pious men behind him and he is the puppet of these puppeteers. >> i want you to bring us back once a week or once a month to see how the update is going. with dana. >> gayle: i know you would disagree with everything she said. surrounded by oligarchs, surrounded by yes-men. when you look at his speech today, what did you see? >> i have probably watched almost all of his rallies in the past few years, so it's like a broken record to me really.

>> oh, it's a broken record. >> i think it's going to happen. the country is in bad shape. we've got to stop border, stop the illegal immigration. over 300,000 missing children, gayle. over 300,000 missing children. we've got to find these children. >> gayle: we are expecting to hear -- if you can hold a little bit longer we are expecting to hear his immigration plan very soon. dana, was there anything you heard that give you hope? i'd like to think maybe there was something to give you hope in the speech today. >> you know what, actions speak louder than words. what i'm going to hope for, i'm going to see the facts. 100 days out. let's see where this policy has led us. let's see if those d1 implementations have been started in a democratic way. see if we are able to hold back world war iii. let's see if we are able to put together and come together and let's see if all these promises

are not just geared towards the lous of the world but to all of us. >> gayle: i like that, the lous of the world. what i appreciate about you guys is that your neighbors. clearly your friends. you're able to have these difficult conversations that many people cannot have. it has fractured some families. fractured some friendships. why is it that you two are able to still maintain the relationship that the you to have and your spouses. >> we want to bring the country back together again. that is what trump is going to do. this division has to stop. we can never go forward as a country divided like this. it's never been like this. >> gayle: i never knew where my neighbors external politics. i never knew who voted where. until trump in 2016/'17 and then all of a sudden, everybody knows where everybody stands on politics. a lot of it caught me by surprise. i didn't know people didn't think like me.

a lot of my friends. apparently a lot of them don't. >> i think the country spoke in this election. >> gayle: the country has spoken. the country has spoken loud and clear. >> i want to say one more thing. >> gayle: yes please. speak i want to get this in there. the democratic party in my opinion has no leader. they don't have a leader, a man or woman and they don't have a message for the people. the people are looking for a message. this party has nothing to offer the people. that's why they got slaughtered. it's as simple as that. >> you've got two years until the next reelection and let's hope that holding the senate, the congress, the presidency, and scotus, for that matter, you can get something done. that's good for everybody. let's see. two years. >> gayle: lou and dana, we're going to save your number. dana, you're something optimistic i thought in his speech. "never believe something is

impossible to do, because in america, impossible is what we do." i thought that was a nice note to strike for all of us. >> that's well said. i will hold the same optimism you do. gayle, i've been watching you for years. i do respect you. if you hold in faith, i can do it as well. >> i respect you too, gayle. i've learned a lot about you in the last couple months. >> gayle: we want the president to succeed. thank you, lou. i come from this point of view that we want the president to succeed because we want the country to succeed. that's the position i hold today. i think you guys both then we will definitely check in with you. i'll tell tony you said hello. thank you both. two very vocal people on either side and it's fascinating. when tony went into their home and they are each watching dueling cable channels, that's how the conversation went when they were pointing out different stories on air. i liked their authenticity. i like that they feel so

strongly about their positions. >> norah: it's a good snapshot of america right now. >> i think they both expressed it very well how people are feeling. they could be a reality show. >> i want a shirt like that with your face on it. >> gayle: i think we'll pass. still we've been following donald trump is the 47th presid. snapshot of two key places. on capitol hill it's like the sun is beginning to set in washington. it's frigid here and that's why all the activities were moved indoors and there's a luncheon at statuary hall. the cameras are back on as they are wrapping up that delayed function at 3:38 where -- oh, we're going to hear the toasts here. it. >> gayle: the luncheon is still going on. >> norah: still going on.

let's listen to senator klobuchar. >> leader hakeem jeffries of new york for the presentation of the flags to the president and the vice president. >> norah: we are set to hear now from steve scalise and toast to the new president of the united states and the first lady. a lot of the pleasantries going on here. as you can see, enjoying a luncheon there, then they will head over to capital one arena where -- tens of thousands of people are waiting. let's listen. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, madam second lady, what a wonderful occasion. we all come here to celebrate what is a great tradition in the united states, that is the peaceful transfer of power. and when president trump spoke over in the beautiful rotunda, wonderful that it was indoors,

mr. president, because i don't think they crowd would have wanted to be in the 20s or below. one of the things president trump said that i thought was the most touching, he said "in america, the impossible is what we do best." i think that epitomizes the spirit when you think about this room, this statuary hall. we look at some of the statues. thomas edison. he did the impossible. elon musk, i'm not sure if elon is still here. elon does some of those things himself. you look at somebody like rosa parks. she did something that many would have said couldn't be done with just a simple gesture of saying "i'm not going to sit in the back of the bus." with the impossible is what we do in america. president trump said something else. he said "our golden age has just begun." america is ready for another

golden age. mr. president, we present to you these flags that were flown over the united states capitol at full mast in honor of being sworn in as president of the united states. [applause] >> thank you, chair woman clover klobuchar. i have the honor of presenting the vice president with our nation's highest symbol, the american flag. as a united states marine, vice president put on the uniform to protect and serve america. like so many men and women before him in our nation's history, old glory was adopted in war time by the second continental congress in 1777.

a full 12 years before the office of the vice presidency was even created. or the house of representatives convene for the first. the resolution said that the flag would be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. out of many, one. 250 years later, from appalachia to anacostia, middletown to mar-a-lago, the bayou to brooklyn, we remain one nation under god. vice president vance, usha, and family, may god bless and watch over you as you begin this journey. on behalf of the congress, we present one of the flags that flew above the capitol today to

the 50th vice president of the united states of america, james david vance, and wish you godspeed. [applause] >> thank you, leader scalise and jeffries. from nebraska, an excellent planner and coming today's event to come up and present the inaugural photographs. >> my thanks to chair klobuchar for putting together the 60th inaugural ceremony here at the united states capitol. amy did a wonderful job, along with all of the committee, all of our staff's, order for this to come together and be a very

memorable experience. it is a tradition that the committee give our new president and first lady, vice president and mrs. vance, the official photographs taken at the swearing-in ceremony, and so it is such an honor to be able to have those presented to you. i hope you will display them with pride, with honor, and with humbleness that i know you will will carry with you every single day that you serve the people of this country. may god bless you all. [applause] >> thank you, senator fischer. on behalf of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, i'd like to present the president and mrs. trump and the vice president and mrs. vance

with these crystal lennox basis. see them over here. for the tenth consecutive inauguration, lennox has provided the official inaugural gift. the hand cut edged bases display the white house for the president. and the u.s. capitol for the vice president, because i know that he is going to enjoy not only being the vice president but also as senator thune and schumer know, the president of the united states senate. there is no better job than that. these gifts symbolize our equal branches of government as well as our enduring democracy. there they are. i will now invite speaker of the house mike johnson of louisiana to give the toast to the vice president.

>> thank you so much. it's my great honor to offer a toast to our new vice president, mr. j.d. vance. j.d., you wrote something very poignant in your memoir. let me quote you. "what separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations they had for their own lives." that's really meaningful. that expectation is a powerful thing. we remember that the people in our lives who provided that to us, we all need that. everybody needs hope and encouragement. they need a greater expectation. many people in our lives who will make us look farther and reach higher. j.d. has written a lot about the people in his life that have done that. he has written about, we know the great story of your grandparents and what they did in your life. he has written about his professors and mentors that he met in law school. he writes a lot, speaks a lot about his gracious, beautiful wife, our new second lady, usha, as a great inspiration as well. j.d., you yourself have been inspiring people. your story really has.

it's one of the reasons i believe god has raised your platform as he has. you've been so grateful to tell that story and inspire so many others. our hope and our prayer is as you continue to do this, that is you go to help us execute on the america first agenda that you do what you been doing so well all along, that is provide a model for what is possible in america. what a great story, inspiring story you've had, and it's just getting started. i pray specifically that you inspire a lot of the young men in america. some that feel hopeless and stagnant sometimes and you're a great example to all of them and to all of us that if you work hard and play by the rules and do the right thing, you can live a better life. you are now the vice president of the united states, my friend. everyone, will you please join me in raising a glass to our own mentors, the people who have inspired us, to the possibilities of our own future, to these great new horizons. what a perfect choice this was

for the artwork today. and to the great example of our new vice president. mr. j.d. vance. hear, hear. >> thank you, speaker johnson and vice president vance. i will now invite my senator next door in the state of south dakota, senate majority leader john thune, to give the toast for the president. [applause] >> mr. president, madam first lady, congratulations. it is an honor for all of us to be able to be here today with you on this historic day as we celebrate your inauguration. mr. president, one of the most important influences in my life when i was getting started in

politics was ronald reagan. his philosophy of limited government, his belief in peace through strength, the strength of his convictions, they were all things that appeal to me but i was also drawn by his optimism and by his belief in america. mr. president, those are qualities i see in you. one of the things that resonated throughout your campaign was the unshakable belief in our country and in her citizens. you remind us of everything that's possible in america. i'm looking forward to working with you over the next four years to build up our great country. it says in the scriptures that if you ask for wisdom, it will be given to you and given to you generously. so i pray in our prayer is that god will richly bless you in the years ahead and grant you not only strength but wisdom. ladies and gentlemen, i ask you to join me in raising a glass to

the president of the united states, president donald trump. hear, hear. >> so, this has been a long day with many other things ahead for so many of you. but i want to thank you for attending the 60th inaugural ceremonies, and as we close, we ask that you pick up a gift. all of our guests are going to get a set of commemorative glasses and embossed leather featuring the great seal of the united states with senator fischer and i selected together and maybe senator mcconnell added some bourbon from kentucky. just saying. it's not my privilege to conclude this luncheon by asking

the chaplain for the house of representatives to deliver the benediction. thank you. we know, we love this eagle podium. it's pretty good, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the benediction. >> would you pray with me? holy and merciful god, having witnessed another successful moment in the experiment that you have entrusted into the hands of the american people, we pray our blessing on our 47th president of these united states, donald j. trump. and vice president james d vance. ensure that this mantle of singular responsibility that you have laid upon our president's shoulders remain secure in your will and safeguard it in your keeping. uphold him as he preserves,

protects, and defends the constitution to the best of his abilities, relying on your divine help. god of power and of might, grace and mercy, granted that your spirit of counsel has access to the president's heart, to search it, to his mind to examine it, to his will to test it, that his faithfulness would bear witness to your truth. surround him with angels and advisors who will serve as your agents to guide and guard him, caution and encourage him to remain upright and blameless in your site. buckled belt of truth around his waist, placed -- dashed without your wisdom and justice will shine forth throughout president trump's administration. we offer you this prayer to the ones whose voice we follow to guide all we do and all we hope for. amen.

>> ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. please remain at your seats as president trump, vice president vance, the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, and the official party department national statuary hall. >> norah: and we are watching the end of the ceremonies on capitol hill. donald trump's remarkable return to power, inaugurated as the 47th president of the united states. he gave an inaugural address and spoke to an overflow crowd in emancipation hall and this delayed luncheon that is just wrapping up at about 4:00 p.m. eastern time. but the day is not over. there is much more ahead. "cbs news" coverage of donald trump's inauguration will be right back.

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