>> i, donald john trump, do solemnly swear. the golden age of america begins now. >> my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. >> ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. >> tradition shattering walk down pennsylvania avenue. >> in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. >> there is nothing wrong with america that cannot be cured by what is right with america. >> on this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. >> during every civil day of the trump administration i will very

simply put america first. ♪ ♪ >> he is back. >> john: donald trump, president before is president again. good evening. i'm john dickerson. >> i'm maurice dubois. today the most powerful office in the world passed from one man to another peacefully for the 46th time. >> john: on a day when america had two presidents, one in the a.m., another in the p.m., both granted controversial pardons. more about in a moment. >> maurice: it's been a daylong celebration of american democracy that continued into the night with three inaugural balls. >> john: mr. trump is only the second president after grover cleveland to serve nonconsecutive terms. today the 45th president took the oath as the 47th, under the great dome of the capital. the inauguration was moved there to preserve, protect, and defend the constitutional rite of

passage from the elements. chief among them the following mercury. >> maurice: it was cold. mr. trump went into the record book survey. at 78, he's the oldest president ever sworn in. >> please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, donald john trump, do solemnly swear... >> i, donald john trump, do solemnly swear... >> maurice: just afternoon when the constitution dictates the dawn of a new presidency, donald trump took the oath of office for the second time. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. >> maurice: a windchill in the teens, the ceremony was moved indoors to the capitol rotunda, the same space stormed by trump supporter's four years ago. today the audience of nearly 800 included every living former president, the trump family, and some of the richest men in the world. they were there to witness this peaceful transition of power. >> the golden age of america begins right now.

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. >> maurice: angela and her two kids had hoped to witness the ceremony from the national mall but seven hours into their drive from muncie, indiana, they learned their tickets were now considered nothing more than souvenirs. plan b, the official watch party at the capitol one arena where we met them in line. >> you could be anywhere else in the world and you chose to be here in this kind of weather. what are your thoughts? >> we are so excited to be here. the excitement in the air. we didn't want to miss this opportunity, it's a once-in-a-lifetime to be here. >> maurice: being in an arena in fellow trump supporter's made it worth the long drive in snow and ice and today 3:00 a.m. wake-up call. compare what you saw it's what

you expected. >> it's exaggerated. the feeling around this is exaggerated. the excitement is exaggerated. i thought on a tiny scale this woods what we would experience but it's so much more. >> maurice: this is the stuff you talk about in school and i see in person. what was that like? >> it was amazing. >> maurice: trump started the day with the service at st. john's, known as the church of the presidents. the bidens are less hosted the trumps to the white house for tea. >> what did he say? >> that's between trump and me. >> maurice: trump left a note for biden four years ago but trump refused to accept the results for the 2020 election and chose not to attend biden's inauguration. today biden made dramatic moves until his final moments in office, delivering preemptive pardons to those mr. trump had threatened with retribution, and he addressed staff and supporters before leaving joint

base andrews. >> are leaving office boo are not leaving the fight. soon after biden departed, president trump made his way to the arena packed with supporters. some had waited overnight. at a desk with the presidential seal, he signed executive orders as he promised he would, on day one. the reverend sam rodriguez, justin from california. >> about to board the blessed red-eye flight. >> maurice: one of the many shut out when the arena filled to its capacity of 20,000. rodriguez delivered a prayer at trump's first inauguration. >> i do believe he's going to surprise all of us. he has the opportunity to bring people together that othe otherwise -- >> maurice: for the new president, the rest of the day brought music. first the reviewing of the troops at the capital. the indoor parade, and finally, the balls, where the inaugural day ends. the night of celebration before the hard work of governing begins.

>> john: since fdr and the new deal, new presidents have been measured by the first 100 days. donald trump, a new president for a second time, is getting a second first 100 days. >> maurice: as mr. trump writes presidential history, we are joined by a man who does that for a living, douglas brinkley. "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan. let's start with you. we couldn't help but notice the location today. no irony there. this is probably the ultimate irony really. >> margaret: president trump sworn in at the same capitol his supporter stormed. that wasn't lost on him because after his inaugural address, he gave extensive remarks about the election he lost in 2020, not the one he had just won. >> john: though he didn't say he lost it. >> margaret: of course. it's present, not just something reporters talk about. it's something that lives in his mind and became part of his very first actions while in office.

during his inaugural scripted remarks, he used a phrase. he said he was saved by god to make america great again. that stood out to me because he believes he has not just a political mandate but a mandate from the divine. he is showing us he's going to test the limits of our judicial and legislative branches and he's going to see if they continue to act as checks and balances. i think what's different this time versus the first term is he surrounded himself not with traditional republicans but by people who have remade themselves in the image of the trump conservative movement and it is going to be different this time. it feels different. >> douglas: i washed it at the capital one center with 20,000 of his biggest fans and he loved that line about "god saved me." they just loved it. he. >> margaret: not just evangelical christians who supported him in the first term. there's a sense, i have talked to people that said the near

miss with the bullet in butler helped seal the deal for them. >> john: dug, and inauguration not like when we have seen before. >> douglas: that's putting it mildly. the speech isn't going to be deeply remembered because it really was like a state of the union address, a lot of points about what he wants to accomplish as president. mrs. f -- -- but this isn't john f. kennedy challenging a nw generation. doesn't that sound bite moment. the festivities were kind of contained. it's an amazing american comeback story. i don't know, donald trump going through, problems with felonies, going through the january 6 w woes. as margaret mentioned, starting around the time of butler, he is kind of reason into like a folklore figure in america, with fight, fight, fight as a motto.

people like elon musk joining forces. now it's sort of donald trump and the so-called golden age he's going to bring against the world, so it's an attempt at policy and the big takeaways, it's going to be remembered as day one. no other president has tried to cram in so much in one day, with the number of executive orders. when you're doing 200 executive orders, that's breaking new ground. biden and president like obama, clinton did zero on the first day. >> maurice: what about pardoning everybody from januar. how do you think history is going to look at that? >> maurice: i don't think well. i don't think proud boys are going to be written about in textbooks is good people. in terms of making a mistake of taking people who broke into the u.s. capitol, people that killed police officers, elevating their status on day one, and

understood he was intimating he would do it when he ran but i wouldn't have done that. i would have looked that day one as being a little more unity and not just attacking liz cheney from the oval office this evening and doing the whole january 6th routine. >> john: douglas brinkley and margaret brennan, thank you so much. >> maurice: this is a very busy last day in office for president biden, issuing a series of last-minute pardons, including for members of his family. >> john: and it even busier first day for president trump who started signing hundreds of executive actions, as doug just mentioned. >> maurice: all that made for a very busy day for our weijia jiang at the white house. which of those executive actions are expected to have the biggest impact? >> reporter: maurice, the white house has president trump signed over 200 executive actions today, many linked to his top campaign promises. as for the pardons, one of the orders pardoned about 1600 people convicted in the january 6 the tax, including those who beat and maimed police

officers. proud boy leader who helped organize the insurrection was ed from prison tonight. on immigration, trump declared a national emergency which will increase the role and size of the military at the southern border. on the environment, trump announced he will pull out of the paris climate record meeting the u.s. will no longer be part of the combat against global warming. also meeting it abandons allies who relied on the u.s. to be a leader on climate change. >> john: weijia, trump also promised on our north american neighbors and on china, where are we? >> reporter: president trump says he could place a 25% tariff on mexico and canada on februart specify a date for china. those tariffs would apply to all imports and consumers could end up absorbing the cost. white house officials tell me trump will sign many more

executive orders tomorrow and plans to travel to north carolina and los angeles to tour disaster areas later this week. >> maurice: okay. weijia jiang at the white house tonight, thank you. >> john: we want to talk about those biden pardons in the trump executive actions with margaret brennan and robert costa. bob, i want to start with you. put donald trump's move on the pardons of january 6th in the context of what you think his project is in his second term. his mind-set, where do you see that in what he launched today? >> robert: great to be with all of you. for president trump, january 6th was a searing event. he, as you discussed, never accepted that he was defeated in the 2020 election. as he moves forward in this presidency, it's evident that he wants to reshape the justice department, the legal system in this country. he said in his inaugural address he believes the establishment, legal, political, social in this country, is radical.

needs to be upended. we're looking at a presidency that at its core is not only disruptive but it has as its center a president who sat there tonight in the oval office as he was signing executive orders and expressed comfort with power, comfort with pushing the buttons of not only his political critics but those running the core institutions of this country. we are in for something transformative if trump gets what he wants. >> maurice: what about the everyday person watching this and says cops were hurt. people died. damage was done. he's letting these people go. what is the every day -- what is the take away for someone who is watching this? >> robert: the take away is there's a real divide in this country especially in the leadership class about how to look at january 6. i spent the last week walking around the capital talking to republicans in it so evident that they want to move on from january 6th. it's not --

>> maurice: on both sides of the aisle? >> robert: just republicans. even democrats are not bringing it up in the same way with the same verb. you have seen senators like john fetterman of salina going to mar-a-lago to meet with someone who tried to overthrow the 2020 election. why is that happening? white it senator bernie sanders pulled me aside, the independent from vermont, and say i want to work with president trump on prescription drugs. some republicans like liz cheney, they say january 6th as a historic tragedy in american democracy. many democrats he at the same way. a lot of republicans privately see it as a terrible event but they believe their own party cannot function unless they put it on a shelf. to your point, it was a violent day. i covered it. i've written a lot about it. reporting for "cbs news" about it. it was a serious moment. we never reject calling it a serious and violent day, but our reporting also reflects this deep desire in the republican party to move on and

not talk about it. >> john: it was amazing today, he was the one talking about it more than anyone else. teasing it all day long. we think about these executive orders, somebody seems to have been told to call it the shock and all introduction of donald trump's second term. what are some of the challenges he might face immediately or is his party ready to go with him right away. >> margaret: dot, dot, dot. that's what we'll be following. there will be a challenge to things like immigration, executive orders declaring birthright citizenship no longer a right. that if you were born here to immigrants that you are not automatically a citizen, if you were born on u.s. soil. that will face an immediate legal challenge. immigration was the thing that helped propel him to the presidency. in our polling we see that it was the broken border and immigration system. when people say economy, they really mean they didn't like paying for things at higher prices when they went to the

grocery store, right? so those of the things that perhaps he will be measured by. what we don't see in our polling is support for what he just did the pardoning the january 6th attackers. in fact, our anthony salvanto had a pole in the field last week. 58% according to our polling show majority of americans do not support pardoning those who force their way into the capitol. 50% of people. when people say this is what they voted for, not on this thing. interesting on the rhetoric round up ending the justice system and legal system consultant that may be hard for democrats to challenge him on, what president biden did on his way out the door with the pardons, granting for his entire family in the earlier pardoning of his own son hunter who did have convictions. rhetorically it's going to be harder for democrats to say well, we don't have sins of our own. >> john: thanks, margaret. >> maurice: still ahead, someone you might not expect showed up at the inauguration. >> john: and how donald trump

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>> john: donald trump's inauguration as president today completes the biggest political comeback in u.s. history. >> maurice: it's a comeback from a reelection defeat and his attempt to overturn it, two impeachments, four criminal indictments, one felony conviction, two civil lawsuits and two attempted assass assassinations. >> john: janet shamlian looks at how donald trump persuaded 77 million americans to give him a second chance. >> reporter: four years ago donald trump did not seem like a man with the political future. after denying he lost the 2020 election to joe biden, he encouraged his followers to fight back. >> and if you don't fight like

hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> reporter: and fight back they did, mounting an insurrection on january 6th. on january 20, 2021 he boarded marine one and left washington and seeming disgrace, yet defiant. what has happened in the ensuing four years that has brought him back to the white house tonight cousin only be described as remarkable. despite being convicted and found liable in criminal and civil cases in new york, facing criminal charges for allegedly trying to steal the election in georgia and being the subject of federal investigations, donald trump maintain the loyalty of his base supporters. the nation struggled with the 40 year high inflation rate of 9.1% and there was growing disillusionment and joe biden's leadership especially after the deadly withdraw from afgha afghanistan. then in july, donald trump survived an assassination

attempt and in the moments after, showed defiance. from seized on the opportunity and cruised the republican convention. momentum grew in on election night, trump won both the electoral college and the popular vote by just 1.5%, the closest margin of victory in more than two decades. you voted for biden in 2020. and then you flipped. >> i did. >> reporter: we talked to voters who helped propel him to victory, like stephanie tim, a latino real estate agent and lifelong democrat from new york city. >> reporter: what are your expectations fred trump presidency? >> my expectations are that he does improve the economy, secure the borders in this whole issue that we have with the illegal immigrants and that we have a strong leader that's backing us up. >> reporter: tim was among the

larger number of latinos who broke donald trump's way. 8% improvement from 2020. why do you think somebody latinos flipped for trump? >> the illegal immigrant issue. i think even as, coming from immigrant parents, it's just -- it just wasn't safe. there's no way to do things the right way. >> reporter: then there was trump's loyal base, voters like amanda who lives just north of detroit. who did you vote for in 2016? >> donald trump. >> 2020. >> donald trump. >> 2024. >> donald trump. >> the navy veteran is a fan of what the president calls his miracle first policy. >> he puts the fear of god and other countries. >> you think he has a stance people respect? >> absolutely. i see the way all other world leaders look at him in the way they present themselves to him. >> reporter: in your mind, was

this his destiny after the close call with the assassination attempt? >> absolutely. i think people who may not have voted for him before saw the man he truly is, that even after getting shot, he will fight, fight, fight for this country and make sure we are putting americans first. >> reporter: trump's '24 when was helped by major swing in voters. these arrows show the vote shift his way in a most 90% of counties nationwide. >> republican turnout was strong on election day, helped by that maga base. they turned out for him in the end. one of the big reasons donald trump was able to make inroads with what would be traditional democratic constituencies was the economy and was inflation. >> reporter: cbs news election and surveys director anthony salvanto says trump's running mate, j.d. vance, made a difference. >> kamala harris has such great plans for how to address

middle-class problems then she ought to do them now. >> our polling showed people thought he did well and he won that and i think was one of the pivotal moments in the campaign in that it established vance and establish the ticket. >> reporter: we travel to vance's hometown. >> j.d. lived in this apartment unit. >> reporter: jake ferguson, not one of the pastors of a middletown church, met j.d. vance in middle school when they were living in the old town apartments. vance was raised by his grandmother, bonnie, while his mother beverly struggled with drug addiction. >> the day that trump and vance were elected, what was that l like? >> he did it. he always had this mentality and attitude that he was going to make it to this .1 day all the way back when he was a teenager. >> reporter: that was before vance burst on the national scene with his memoir "hillbilly

elegy," which was made into a movie. it documented his against all odds upbringing amid a broader social commentary. >> i felt like the cultural outsider. >> reporter: j.d. vance was initially critical of mr. trump. >> there is an element of donald trump support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. >> reporter: vance rebranded himself as a maga conservative in 2022. now he is trump's vice president. >> he was driven. resilience for sure. i say that because obviously knowing his background and his upbringing, he didn't let anything get in his way. he didn't make excuses. to see where he's at in such a short amount of time. i'm impressed but i can't say i'm shocked. >> reporter: what is the mood in middletown? >> there's political polarization. there is a lot of support surrounding j.d. >> reporter: do you think he could be ready to be president? >> i absolutely do.

>> reporter: the brash political upstart has taken his place alongside the comeback president. >> i am so excited to see what he is going to do and i'm so excited to see how the country is going to change and go back and be prosperous. he's going to put out all the fires in the world right now. >> reporter: if you could talk to donald trump right now, what would you say? >> please don't make me regret my decision. get the job done. >> maurice: now to a subject a lot of people are talking about, the hat. not since jacqueline kennedy wore a pillbox in 1961 has a first lady's inaugural hat received as much attention as melania trump's. >> john: look at this, as president trump attempts to navigate a kiss of the first lady. a military defeat for the commander in chief. >> maurice: anita mcbride knows firsthand about first lady's, fashion, and a whole lot more. she was chief of staff for any a

bush. what do you make of the hat? what you think melania is trying to say? >> i think melania trump is a beautiful first lady who understands fashion and is very comfortable and the choices that she makes. i think my only thought about the hat was what you said, john. it made it impossible for husband to kiss her. i don't think there's a message beyond that. in this is a person who knows how to carry herself. >> maurice: people are saying you can see her eyes. what's going on with that? >> that's true. you are focused on the hat maybe or looking for expressions. she smiled of course at times and i think also when she was trying to get close to the president to hold the bibles for him to take the oath. >> john: melania trump has always been a little bit have hidden in that sense. give me your sense of what she's going to do, do you think, in

this second term. how does that fit into the history of the first lady? >> she has told us from the beginning since 2016, two weeks after the first election where she said "i'm not moving down here right away." she said a new standard for first ladies. she's not going to do what i want to do, essentially. that broke a little bit of precedent. my feeling was that it made it easier for anyone that came after her that might want to do the same thing. i think she is not going to be defined by anyone else's expectations of her. its expectations for herself. >> maurice: what to think about the broader trump family? we know they'll be involved. who do you expect to play a bigger role this time around? >> i think certainly his sons, don jr. was a part of the campaign, was an enforcer of sorts for people around his father, recommendations also for personnel. i think we heard that. i'm not saying anything to you that you'll have already heard.

we saw more ivanka last general, now has that politics is not for her. >> john: we haven't had a president with adult children since george herbert walker bush, also a very loyal family but quite different in terms of the involvement. >> they were not really involved in a family business like the trumps are. that's an enterprise where each member of the family has been part of working with her father. they are a unit. that was not the case with the bushes. everybody have their own thing going on and the president, president bush, when he governed, kept his family at bay from any work involved with his office. except when he was running for president, he did tap his son george w to help them with the campaign. >> maurice: thank you so much for the insight. >> john: coming up next, there is a very unusual guest at the inauguration today. >> maurice: so unusual margaret brennan had asked thee.

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>> maurice: president trump faces a world of challenges, from the israel-hamas conflict to the war in ukraine, and what former fbi director christopher wray calls the greatest threat to the united states. >> john: that threat, he says, chinese cyberattacks, in spite of that, china's president got an invitation to the trump inauguration. he sent his vice president instead. margaret, you talked yesterday to the president's national security advisor. >> margaret: that's right,

mike waltz, incoming national security advisor. i asked about the invitation. the chinese vice president was there in the capitol rotunda today and that's very unusual. why launch a charm offensive with china at the same time we know that they are embedded in our infrastructure, if you have said, they have planted cyber time bombs. >> xi sending his vice president. president trump does not believe you can get into the types of deals he wants to get into, whether it's pushing the chinese to take on fentanyl, to put a death penalty in place for the producers of fentanyl, that know that they are killing hundreds of thousands of americans. whether its own trade negotiations, restoring some sense of stability in the western pacific, particular in the south china sea and unless he has a relationship with the

head of state. for >> margaret: as a congressman, you said the u.s. shouldn't go to the beijing olympics because of the genocide china is carrying out because of muslim minorities. >> what i said in particular, the sponsors that are hypocritically pounding the table about social justice here at home. at the time, this was '21-'22 and there was a huge movement here in the united states. you had a number of companies talking about lack lives matter, social justice at home but turning a blind eye to the genocide that was going on over there. >> mar those conversations unless competently with a top-down authoritarian system like the chinese communist party unless they have a relationship. that's president trump's style. he believes he can enter in these deals with that type of regime only by having a relationship. that's what he seeks to do. >> margaret: having a conversation is different than being an honored guest.

you are attacking the united states. >> he's not making any concessions on anything. it's about establishing a relationship. she declined to come personally so he sending his vice president. >> margaret: you told us, as i said, china put cyber time bombs throughout u.s. infrastructure in the u.s. needs to go on offense to impose higher consequences. are you going to keep the biden sanctions related to salt typhoon in place? did they go far enough? do you have an idea where you want to go next? >> we need to get our people in place. my job is to pull the agency together, tee up options for the president can help him make a decision and execute. i can tell you from my own perspective is broader framework, we cannot play perfect defense. we are under a tsunami of cyberattacks and we just keep trying to defend better. let's take a hard look at unleashing our private sector and those capabilities. let's take a hard look at trying to change behaviors.

that will mean a better, stronger, more capable offensive give ability so that any adversary if they believe they can destroy our greed, destroy our water supply, destroy our pipelines, if they know we can do the same, then hopefully that prevents it from ever happening in the first place. >> margaret: mr. trump's envoy to ukraine has set a 100 day timeline for trying to get an end to this war. is there a blueprint? will mr. trump go to kyiv? will he meet with vladimir putin. >> i'm not going to get ahead of it but the key pieces, whose we get to the table and how do we drive them to the table and what are the frameworks of a deal. president trump is clear this war has to stop. everyone i think should be on board with that in fact, zelenskyy even is walking into the room now saying we are ready

to work with you, president trump, to stop this war. it's a killing field. this was a world war i trench warfare with literally a meat grinder of people running across these open fields in eastern ukraine but with world war iii escalation consequences. it's expanding, with north korea sending intensive thousands. south korea very upset, talking about getting involved in some way. this conflict needs to end. president trump has been very clear about that and he's determined to do it. >> margaret: iran. they are closer than ever to nuclear breakout according to u.s. intelligence assessments. mr. trump didn't get a diplomatic deal in his first term. also didn't go to war with iran. what's his position? would he support an israeli strike on iranian nuclear facilities which would require u.s. assistance and help and weaponry? >> not going to get ahead of those decisions. however, iran is on its back foot thanks to the leadership of

bibi netanyahu and the israelis. hamas decapitated in an amazing covert operation. everyone said taking out hezbollah's leader would be too escalatory, provocative. they did it. it's led to a real moment of opportunity in lebanon. it has led to the fall of assad and his brutal dictatorship, led to hamas being completely isolated. they always thought the cavalry was going to come from the north with hezbollah. a key reason they've entered into a deal. iran's air defenses are destroyed. this is a moment to make those key decisions and we'll be doing that over the next month. >> margaret: marco rubio is now america's top diplomat. unanimously confirmed by the senate today. in addition what mike waltz talked about there, rubio will likely have to execute president trump's vows today to broker an end to the war in

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>> john: no president has ever talked quite the way donald trump does. he wondered about the impact his

words were having on kids. >> maurice: after mr. trump became president in 2017, peter van sant asked some kids about him. after he died in the white house for four years, he asked them again. >> john: those kids are all grown up now and after mr. trump was reelected, peter paid them one more visit. >> we first met them the first time donald trump was elected president. sanat, norah, brian. they were from one of the most diverse counties in america with students from 52 countries. >> my parents are from inner mongolia. >> my parents are from indonesia. >> in 2016 students took part in a short film. >> the light, muslims are

terrorists. >> black boys are bad. >> laying bare all the troubling things these children had heard in the election cycle. when we talked with them back then. >> we have to have a temporary ban on muslims come into this country, i'm sorry. >> they were worried. >> i'm scared about what he's going to do to other types of people, if he's going to kick them out of the country or something. >> when i first heard about him being president, i kind of got a headache. really worried and disappointed and angry at all the same time. >> when my dad puts on the news and i just hear "muslims are terrorists, muslims are bad," i feel really heartbroken. that's not me at all. >> reporter: four years later. hello. >> hi. >> reporter: nice to see you

again. they were teenagers in high school. >> hi. >> reporter: lovely to see you again. joe biden was about to become president. brian, good to see you again. looking back, brian told us his worries about president trump are overblown. >> i think he wasn't as bad as a president as i thought. >> reporter: hoping for change. >> my pressing issues are the pandemic and the black lives matter movement. >> reporter: norah was still scared. >> personally i've been living in fear, as a muslim woman. >> reporter: today, the children we first spoke to our young adults, they are in college, first-time voters, and donald trump's president again. >> i attended the university of maryland baltimore county and i'm starting economics.

>> reporter: sana voted for kamala harris. what worries you today? >> one of the issues that worries me the most, women's rights. when roe v. wade roe v. wade was overturned, it was really scary moment for a lot of women. >> reporter: for you, your future, this country's future. do you feel optimistic or pessimistic? >> i think that change doesn't come overnight and even though i'm not necessarily happy about trump's election, i am optimistic about the future of our country and that anything is possible as long as we just keep fighting for what we believe in and what we want. >> i attended the university of maryland at college park. i am starting public health science. when i first walked in here today, i felt like i was my 10-year-old self again. when i heard donald trump first

became elected, i felt a bit shook. now i just feel disappointed. i'm not scared of him or anything. >> reporter: if you're making that video again, what would the lie be today? or is there one? >> the lie, that almost him's are anti-semitic. the truth would be that just because i am muslim and pr pro-palestinian does not make me anti-semitic. >> reporter: with the war in the middle east on her mind, norah rejected all of the candidates and says she rode in one of her own. >> it's just that, why would i want a president who doesn't support my values? >> i go to towson university studying accounting. i'm pretty much the same person honestly. and of the guy i've changed that

much. the things he said about other people is not what a president should say. i like some of his policies. i just think he needs to deliver it better. i think that picture of him getting up, the blood across his face and he's pumping his fist, i think that did resonate with a lot of people because i think that made him come off as a fighter. >> reporter: to brian, trump will fight to improve the economy and end war. i asked him about trump's plans for mass deportations. >> will begin the largest deportation operation in american history. >> i think it absolutely does need to be done. both sides can see that immigration is a disaster right now. >> reporter: brian declared to say -- declined to say who he voted for but told us it wasn't kamala harris. if you had an opportunity, who knows, he might be watching, to say something to president trump, what would it be? >> i would probably want to tell him to listen to what other

people want in our country, not just what he wants. >> reporter: what would you like to say to president trump? >> i just can't wait for the day that you arch president again. the data you aren't president again. >> do what you feel is best for the country. don't put your party or yourself above the country. >> reporter: what do you want america to be in the future? >> more unity. people coming together when you can comfortably share your ideas. >> reporter: you think he's a man to do that? >> i'm not sure if he's the man. but i hope he is.

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>> maurice: only donald trump and grover cleveland have the chance to be a new president for

a second time. new president with an old presidents experience. >> john: and mr. trump goes to sleep tonight he will have one advantage neither cleveland or any other incoming president has had on moving day. mr. trump already knows where the light switches are, electric lamps and switches were installed between cleveland's nonconsecutive terms so he had to be enlightened. even if mr. trump knows his way around, there are obstacles to getting where he wants to go. susan page, washington bureau chief for usa today, has covered or interviewed the last ten presidents all void back to richard nixon. >> i think many things are going to be different. he's different. last time he was elected, he'd never served in elected office before. he had never worked out of washington. we know that he did not expect to win last time and he didn't do some of the basic things you do to prepare for the presidency if you think you're going to win. there was a long learning curve. he's gone through that.

he may end up being a very effective president or maybe not but he comes in with a stronger base of knowledge that he had before. >> john: when donald trump first came into office, how would you describe his cabinet? >> it was mixed and it reflected the views of establishment republicans about what trump needed. trump no longer cares for what establishment republicans think he needs. >> john: he has tailored his office to reduce friction. the vital position of chief of staff. which manages the president's interests and execute his agenda. filled by his loyal campaign manager. on those establishment republican fix the first time around, some were almost explicit in sort of being, we are going to keep him within the guardrails. >> some of them said that was their role. john kelly, his longest serving white house chief of staff, saw that as his role. susie wiles, who is going to be his chief of staff this time, does not see herself as a

guardrail for donald trump. she sees herself as an enabler for donald trump. >> john: let's talk about the senate. those republicans, they are all gone. >> they haven't survived. they are out of politics. if you want to survive in the republican party these days, you do not cross donald trump. we see that not just in the senate but in the house. the response to trump last time, there is a huge amount of resistance. you look at it this time and you see corporate executives and congressional republicans and foreign leaders and even media companies trying to figure out how to get on his good side. >> john: i feel like he is the least constrained both in fact and mind-set, for president we've had in modern history. >> absolutely. donald trump is the least constrained president we have seen in modern times, let's say since world war ii. i don't think there's a question. less constrained in his view of the powers of the office and in

how he intends to pursue it. >> john: woodrow wilson said a president is at liberty to be as big a man as he can be. donald trump hopes to prove him right but he faces the fixed challenges of the job. limited time, basic governmental roadblocks like the senate filibuster and the slim g.o.p. margin in the house. >> it's not a majority. it's a prayer. >> john: what's your assessment of what will constrain him? >> two things. he doesn't have four years, he's got two years. we know that from second term president. he is a lame duck purity can't run again. we'll make it to the midterm elections, which history says will be good for democrats, then we'll turn to the next presidential election. >> john: then there's the surprises, presidencies are defined by them. grover cleveland's clean slate was clouded mutely by the worst economic crisis in the nation's history to that point. >> things happen. last time around you think donald trump expected to be

dealing with a once in a century pandemic. but he did. did george w. bush expect to deal with 9/11? no. those things happened and they take over presidencies. presidents can come in thinking this is my agenda. this is what i want to do. sometimes just the reality of life and the crises they face take them over and redefine them entirely. >> john: presidents come into office after the successful campaigns. they just done an extremely hard thing which is win the u.s. presidential campaign. what's it like when they get there? >> it's always harder than they think. i think presidents almost always assume they have a bigger mandate than they do. you think about trump this time around. he won this election because he has a chorus of supporters and there were americans unhappy with the direction of the country and didn't trust the incumbent administration to change things. that doesn't mean they've signed on to every proposal. that doesn't mean they agree with his view on terrorists for

instance. when they see the consequences for some of these. >> john: traditionally one of the constraints for president, you said all the stuff on the campaign trail. are you going to deliver? donald trump has said he's going to solve the war in ukraine in 24 hours. that's not going to happen. he says his mighty grocery prices down. that's not likely to happen on this timetable. did he raise expectations too high? his race for the white house? >> i do think he's a little nervous about the economy. the fact is the economy is doing pretty well. jobs are doing well and inflation is under control so if he comes in, maybe he can't lower grocery prices after talking about that. what if he doesn't bring down egg prices? >> john: because presidents don't have any control over egg prices even though he said it so much in the campaign. >> the presidency is hard. people say it's the hardest job in the world. trump knows this because he was

president for four years. >> john: is our country begins a new chapter in its history, so do we at cbs news. >> maurice: starting next monday, john and i will bring you the cbs evening news each weeknight from "cbs news" headquarters in new york. >> john: two new faces at the anchor desk but we will continue to feature reporting in the tradition of cbs news. >> maurice: we hope you'll find it time well spent. >> john: until next monday, i'm john dickerson. >> maurice: i am maurice dubois. we leave you with a look at the white house has a new admin attrition begins. good night from washington. now at 11:00, president trump's second stint in the oval office is officially underway. >> our golden age has just begun. >> from ee