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e news're seeing live coverage of the inauguration of the 45th president. welcome back to cbs news coverage of the 45th president of the united states. in that limousine right there with the first lady, as they proceed down pennsylvania avenue toward the whitehouse. we are expecting to see donald trump and his wife step out of the limousine at a certain point and walk part of the parade route. the president was stirred the oath of -- was administered the oath of office by the chief justice today. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> and the first lady melania trump.
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>> you know, andy card, chief of staff to president george w. bush. it seems to me that presidents always come to washington to change history and history always changes them. >> i think it is both. every president has -- changed much more than they thought they would be by serving as president. a lot has to do because of the sacrifices. they are very moved by the american people. especially those that step up and say i will serve. so the call to noble service is an important call for the president to recognize and reward. >> that is never taken for granted by george w. bush. never. he greatly appreciated anyone
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who served, whether it was as a staff at the white house. with the battle with iraq or afghanistan, he was completely grateful to the service people gave to this country. >> i have heard him say at times when he was being heavily criticized and he would say look, nobody made me do this. he recognized that that was part of the job. and it was very very tough. >> he had phenomenal parents who inculcated him with a call to noble service for our country. and he certainly has lived it. >> and the parade is passing, as you can see here, the canadian embassy which is right there along pennsylvania avenue. anna warner is also down at the crowd as the parade approaches her location. anna. >> you can see trump supporters who are pressed up against these barricades here and they are
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very excited. you can feel that excitement but i got to tell you, you can also hear what a moment ago was an under current of boos coming from the protesters and i can had hear them changt even as the band over here starts ma challenge by. so the question is, is president trouble going to get out in front of the hotel and what are we going to hear from these crowds. will the supporters drown out the protesters. >> moving along on pennsylvania avenue and we're reminded that also in the car with the president is his young son baron. so you have the president, the first lady and baron in the
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presidential limousine. it had been a very long time since we had a young son in the whitehouse. not since john kennedy have we had a young man in the whitehouse. you see the u.s. capitol there in the background and the big crowds lining both sides of pennsylvania avenue. joining us just now is bob wood woodward of the washington boast, legendary reporter of "the washington post." bob, i'm interested in your impression of the president's inaugural speech today. >> this was a surprise and as bob schieffer was saying he took the hide off everyone. it's a speech for the people who elected him. tftioit was a campaign speech nn
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inaugural speech. but you have to remember where trump comes from. he's a deal go. he spent his life making deals and in this case, what's happened is, this is his opening bid. i'm going to stick with the people who vote for me and then thithey will negotiate. i think the other side of this is what world he comes from. a culture, a bicyclure of exaggerationex-- business josep culture. doing a story on job creation and saying proveably that the numbers don't hold up and he called and say no wait a minute come on i'm trying to do great things, i'm trying to get jobs. don't get hung up on the
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specifics. i think to a lot of people even his own supporters is the sense of where is the outreach. then the luncheon he says nice things about bill clinton and hillary clinton. that might have gone in the inaugural address. >> the presidential limousine just passed the museum. you see it on the left of the screen inman yoanlta in monumens freedom of religion, freedom of speech, my favorite part freedom of the press. all surfed in stone. that tower you see is donald trump's new hotel on pennsylvania avenue. that is the old u.s. most office building, a 19th century building. there had been plans at various times to demolish it, but they had re23u refurbished it now ine
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new trump hotel. he's very proud of that and he will be driving by there shortly. bob schieffer has money but that is where donald trump will get out of the car and walk part of the way. >> that's generally where presidents when they decide to get out of the limo, they generally are in that vicinity. and i think fran, you pointed out it's one of the safest places you can kind of protect better there. >> it always seems sort of a sudden spur of the moment decision where the president gets out, it's not at all. he discussed this with the secret service and they have snipers in place. there's a whole panoply of security measures in that area and they kind of agree if you're going to get out, this is the stretch to get out and they deploy assets there. it's actually quite scripted. he can of course decide not to get out, it's inclement weather, it's cold.
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>> 47 degrees where our jan crawford is right now in the parade. jan. >> we are seeing a lot of protesters. we're approaching right in front of the national archives. this is a major protest to greet president trump. we saw a few signs earlier in this parade route but now these crowds here are all protesting the new president. everyone carrying signs not my president, impeach trump, shouting. this is an organized crowd. and you can hear the boos now, see the signs. no trump. everyone is carrying a sign. a very very few trump supporters here. we are of course across the street from the national archives and just approaching
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the fbi and the justice department in this stretch of pennsylvania avenue. >> jan how long does that stretch of protesters go. >> it's about half a block. it's about half a block i would say on both sides of the street but mainly concentrated on the north side across from the national archives, scott. and it is a loud group as i'm sure you can see. people holding signs and now a heavy security presence with the police officers and various law supporters started at the beginning of the parade i would say kind of wedged in the middle there were a significant group of anti-trump protesters. and now you hear boos. i don't know if you can hear the boos. these are people who are booing us as members of the newspapers media. and they are shouting usa and trump. so some of the boos aren't all
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for president trump. a lot of the boos we're hearing is the news crews roll by to report on this parade. these are all trump -- >> nu nothing new here. >> that is true. >> earlier today, we were seeing some violent protests distant from the parade route, a few blocks away, windows that were smashed by protesters come looking for trouble. they were armed with hammers to smash windows with. the metropolitan police went after them with pepper spray and flash bangs and grenades to disburse those crowds. we've been told there were at least 95 arrests. but again that was a few blocks away from the scene you see
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here. no violence of any kind along this parade group. but certainly getting into the thick of the protesters who have come to make their voices heard along pennsylvania avenue. a polarizing speech at the inauguration. a polarizing candidate and president for this country. >> yes. of course all of this in the maybe kind of trump can never get the nomination, trump can never win and he did. so there's some strategy by this that we probably are not aware of. what interests me in watching this is, this is the parade and the pomp of the presidency and there's been some criticism that trump and his team are not doing enough to find out what really the presidency is about, not
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reading memos, not having context, a time to do a little reporting. there's much more strategy. they are worrying about not the above the line but below the line. and big issue is putin and russia. what's the relationship that trump has and what are his goals with putin and russia. and outreach which has been criticized so much. and if you dig into this little bit, you find that trump and his team have a two-track strategy. they are going to reach out, try to work with putin. they also -- >> you see the secret service agents getting out which we suspect means that the next person we see is going to be the president and first lady and their young son.
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>> this is now between the justice department and the fbi on your left and the justice department on your right and it's just before the next big building on your right hand side is trump towers. >> let's watch and listen for just a moment. >> she may set the record here for the tallest shoes of the first lady walking in the inaugural parade here. >> she looks fabulous. >> she's gorgeous.
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>> >i was just watching jancrawfor. this is my 14th inaugural and i never got to do with jan did and is doing which is ride in the parade. i thought that would be a great assignment. >> let's go down to jan who is right there. >> bob, i was thinking i hospital that i get this assignment. in four years you can see the crowd, i mean there are no protesters around this vantage point where the president and the first lady decided to take a stroll down pennsylvania avenue. they got out right across the street from the justice department and now we are approaching the trump hotel. again, all we see right now are supporters. i know anna has said she could hear some protesters from in the distance. the prowdz now appear to be drowning out those protesters as president trump and the first lady make their way down pennsylvania avenue approaching
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the trump hotel. scott. >> let's go over to anna warner, now. anna what are you seeing from your vantage point. >> we see president trump and his family watching here and this crowd is going crazy. they're really excited. however now, just now i'm hearing the chants, one chant on my right usa, usa. boos and some not my president chants on the left. these groups have been trying to drown each other out all day long and here comes president trump in front of the trump international hotel along with his wife and family, waving at the crowd now. people taking, everybody here has a smart phone. they're all taking videos and pictures. he's waving at people at the hotel and it looks like he is getting back in the car. a lot of people here got to see exactly what they want to see, scott, which was a glimpse of
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president donald trump right here in front of them right here on the street. >> well the grips is about all we got. it's a very short walk for president trump. jimmy carter walked the entire way to the whitehouse from the capitol. no other president has done that since then but usually the walks are a good deal longer than that. that tower that you see there is the trump international hotel. and jan crawford is right there in front it. >> scott, remember we are just in front of the president and it may be well timed that he decided to get back into that car because there is a large group of protesters just across the street from the trump hotel. he will not be walking. he is back, he will not be walking past these protesters. there are a few trump supporters. the last group of people we saw but a lot of signs, very anti-trump. some of them quite crude. and you can see and hear these
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crowds now. so president trump and the first lady took a short stroll but did get back in that car just in time i would think from their perspective before these next group of protesters that will greet them. scott. >> bob woodward. >> very quickly. you saw the secret service getting back in the car now. shelf got a picture of him in front of the trump hotel. i think the secret service was
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probably wise in saying maybe it's time to get back in where it's warm and dry. >> they're getting -- they're going to make a right turn on 15th street and then connect back up with pennsylvania avenue across from the whitehouse. they're just a few blocks away at this point. sights and sounds of inauguration day. >> this idea of the two-track approach to russia and putin. i think this is really important. this is on the agenda. and as he said in his inaugural address, he's going to build the military so he's going to do thing that putin hates.
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so he's giving in the left jab and then reaching out with the hand okay let's work together. let's do things. this is granted strateg grand s. whether it works we will see but there's more to it than a kind of naive we're going to join putin on everything. >> bob, what do you think his strategy toward the press will be, all this talk about moving the briefing room to some place else. there were briefings in the old executive office, nothing new with that. >> trump has a love/hate relationship with the press as you know. he condemn us and then if you want to talk to him about something, he very often will do it. now whether that's the case as president, we are going to see. and this clearly marks 9
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demarcation loin here because now it's not just words. he's going to have to make decisions and do things. that's going to define him and his presidency. not everything that went before, including that inaugural address. >> as the new president begins to approach the whitehouse, chip reid is covering for us down there. chip. >> scott this is an interesting crowd. i know you had kind of blocks of protesters and supporters in other areas but here you've got a real picture with a lot of people with make america great again hats standing next to people with signs saying trump equals swawswastikas so you got. some screaming and saying foreletter words all standing next to each other and treating each other cordially by the way. there's no pushing and shoving
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or any kind of obvious disagreeableness. but people standing right next to each other and vehemently disagreeing with each other. >> chip reid, thank you cheap. it's been a little best less cordial in other parts of washington. there were protesters earlier and now we have jeff pegues who you see right there. jeff, what are you seeing? >> we're in one of the protest zones and you see right over here. you see this limo. this is one of the vehicles that was vandalized earlier. now someone has set it on fire and i am concerned. this car well it could go up in flames even further but
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see the police moving in to take control because i wonder how fast they can get the fire department over here to put this u.s. fire out. because ifate intensifies, there's a -- if it against fies there's a really good chance ... here we go. they're moving the crowd back. we're going with them. they have their pepper spray and trying to control the crowd. frankly this is something that is perhaps long overdue. because for several minutes now, this crowd has just been building here. they've been kicking in the windows of these vehicles over my shoulder and then finally someone set the limo on fire. >> jeff, have you xeno heard --n or heard about anyone being
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hurt. >> not yet but we know there have been 95 arrests. some police officers have been injured. but here in the last hour, we have not seen anyone injured. however, that could change. you just notice police with the pepper spray and over that line of police, we see the fire engine, the fire truck finally coming to the scene because they're going to try to get this fire under control. scott. >> the police officers have to make the area secure for the firemen to be able to do their work. fran townsend, when your job is protecting the president. protests like this are problems because they're a massive distraction for security forces. >> i was speaking to a member of the washington metropolitan police department and they are really taking the primary responsible for the protests because that's out side the
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bubble. let's remember we have it on a split screen. this is several blocks away from where the president's inaugural parade is so the metropolitan police department takes responsibility. they coordinate with the secret service. the information is set into the command post. they are the police officers and they'll have secret service with them. >> well, we're watching a split screen day. the 45th president of the united states and his limousine approaching the environs of the whitehouse and on the other side of the screen the protests elsewhere in washington. police have been using flash band compression grenades on the crowd in order to disburse them. they've used pepper spray. what you're seeing is recommend informants of a fire that jeff peckjeffpegues said someone stan
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fire. what do you see now. >> it seems like they've gotten the fire under control. let's move over here. you can see they are putting water on the smoke and flames so they're trying to get the situation under control. and the good thing is the crowd has calmed down because you see this line of police officers here with their shields, some with pepper spray. but the situation has calmed down quite a bit, scout. >> jeff pegues reporting for us with our camera man, tony furlough there in the protests. there has been some damage in the city. we saw protesters with hammers, smashing out windows earlier. but the police have been able to disburse these krowptdz very efficiently -- these crowds very efficiently and it doesn't seem things have gotten too far out
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of hand in the periphery of the inaugural ceremonies. jijan crawford is in the parade. tell us where we are now. it looks like you're going by the treasury and you'll soon be making a left on to the pedestrian way in front of the whitehouse judicial that is right scott and we're getting very close in making that last turn that will then be right where the whitehouse is. so you can hear they are announcing those who are coming up ahead, a smaller crowd through here as we're getting closer to the whitehouse, scott. but the president is back there somewhere. we can't see him as well right now. it's still kind of toward the end of the parade and he will then of course go and take his place in the reviewing stands and sit there and be able to watch what is going to be about 8,000 people in this parade, marching band and members of the military and assorted groups as they finish the parade in front
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of the whitehouse, scott. >> they are running about an hour late. the presidential limousine was supposed to arrive at the whitehouse at 3:35 eastern time and we're starting to close in on 4:30 at this point. so it's a little over an hour late by the time they get around there. there's been a very large reviewing stand built right in front of the whitehouse. and that is where donald trump and the first family and the vice president and his family will be watching the rest of the parade go by. the bands and other performers that jan kreuferred was just --d was telling us about. you can see the whitehouse in the background, the north lawn there behind and the president will be watching from that stand as the parade you bee unfolds. but certainly running late.
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as we see the presidential motorcade make that left turn back on to pennsylvania avenue in front of the whitehouse, we want you to hear this program note that we have. gayle king and john dickerson are going to bring you a cbs news primetime special tonight called change and challenge, the inauguration of donald trump. that is tonight on cbs at 8/7 central time and you won't want to miss that. the. >> do you want to straight thought. >> i would love a straight thought bob woodward. >> trump is not one who would be
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a person who keeps a diary. but wouldn't it be fascinating if he did and looked inside and he sat down and said these are the three things i wanted to accomplish. what are they and what is the -- because in a way that's the way business people think. what do i wanted to accomplish, how do i make more money, how do i stabilize. so he's got -- >> the president's limousine is stopped. someone is opening the door. he is nearly in front of the whitehouse at this point in front of pennsylvania avenue that's a pedestrian mall. for the soccer time he's stepping out with his young son barron. you got a sense of the doors on
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the limousine there and on you incredibly thick they sense -- e first lady joining him. hand in hand. joining us is the advisor to paul ryan when he was running for vice president on the republican ticket. dan, i wonder what you thought of president trump's inauguration speech? it certainly was different. >> it was different. it was a declaration of action against both parties. he technically ran as an independent. he basically said, i have an agenda and i will turn my fire on whoever stands in the way,
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including many of the people standing on that -- standing right around him, democrats, republicans, doesn't matter. so he's in an improbable marriage with the republican congressional leadership. they need him to get done things they want accomplished because he attracts political support they don't have. >> pelley: and he needs them. he needs them. he probably wouldn't be able to get his first choice for the supreme court had mitch mcconnell not done what he's done if trump didn't get the vote. he needs their expertise. it's an improbable marriage. >> reporter: now it appears that the president and first family are getting back in the
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limousine. on the left side of the screen, you see >> people are ripping bricks off the cement and then they're throwing them at the police officers, and the police officers are now responding. they have mace and tear gas. so you're hearing both sides out here. but we've seen police responding to the protesters and, really, they are protesters. there are people in the crowd with masks on their faces, picking up the bricks and throwing them at the police officers who are now responding. the police over the last 15 minutes or so have been trying to clear this street to no avail. you can see all these people gathered in the street on k
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street between 14th and 13t 13th. thousands of people here, some covering their face as a result of the pepper spray and the flash bangs. others with bricks in their hands. some of the people are throwing these bricks. don't block our camera. why are you throwing bricks? don't block our camera. >> pelley: what you see on the left-hand side of the screen is a car that the protesters set on fire right there. the fire department came, put the car out. the police have been trying to disperse the crowd with pepper spray as jeff pegues i should note that this protest like the others is distant from
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the festivities of the inauguration. this is several blocks away. it is not likely anyone who has come out to see the president has seen or heard anything like this. the national mall and its environs have been locked down by the security services and made a safe zone for the inauguration to take place. jeff pegues, if you can still hear me, what is happening where you are now jeff pegues? >> reporter: scott, can you hear me? >> pelley: i hear you, jeff. what are you seeing? >> reporter: now we're seeing a protest that has now developed all of a sudden. police are standing back, and this crowd is gathered near
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police, and they're saying "hands up, don't shoot." now we're being pushed back by police again. over my shoulder, there has been pepper spray in the air, trying to get the crowd to move back, and you just saw a brick. they're throwing bricks again, as the police officers who are trying to protect themselves with their shields. it goes back and forth. it's like an ebb and flow in this protest. you have people throwing bricks and they move up and they start chanting again. it's hard to tell minute-to-minute how this is going to change. you're hearing bangs again here as well. but here's the thing, scott -- the crowd is not dispersing. it's getting bigger. it's not dispersing. >> pelley: jeff pegues covering the protests a few blocks away from the presidential entourage. at this point, what we have in
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some with these protests today is a number of smashed storefront windows, at least one tar has been burned and the metropolitan police have arrested about 100 people at the point and the team of officers judging from the video have been injured. this is the inaugural parade. the police are standing directly in front of the motorcade of the white house. they opened the limousine doors again but i did not see the first family emerge. jan crawford, you are with the parade, tell us what's happening now. >> reporter: as we are waiting for the president and first family to take their places in the reviewing stand -- you can hear the announcement, "welcome home, mr. president," as this crowd, of course, is very
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supportive, and you can hear the cheers of the president and first lady. they're now right in front of their new home. as you said, there is still reports of rain, but it's been quite nice. he was able to get out of the cars twice, once before on pennsylvania avenue in front of the justice department, and then he got out here in front of pennsylvania avenue in front of the white house. and you can hear the cheers as they continue down pennsylvania avenue. >> reporter: as we watch the president and first lady and their young son darren, let's go to margaret brennan. >> reporter: scott, as you watch the first family walk those last few yards to the gates of their new home, it's interesting to note that it's only a few yards that the president has been allowed to walk on foot.
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he has been getting in and out of that motorcade, as you mentioned. the security is obviously very tight on pennsylvania avenue, as you would expect, but interesting, given the lockdown, that he didn't walk the length of this last block between where i am and the front door is. i don't why, i can't get an answer from security officials as to why the bleachers behind me are empty, but immediately on this street behind me next to the treasury, there are about five lengths of bleachers that are empty right now. the crowds that you're seeing around the president are really gathered closer to the front gate of the white house next to where the v.i.p.es are sitting behind that bullet-proof glass. so you haven't really been able to get the sense of a large crowd, but obviously the key v.i.p.s are gathered and cheering him on right now. i did ask tom barrack, the chair
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of the inaugural committee, planned these festivities, i shouted out to him, how's it going? he gave me a thumbs up, said it's all beautiful. the man planning it is very happy. don't know why we're seeing the empty bleachers the good half length of pennsylvania avenue, but we are seeing the president toward the gates of the white house getting welcomed by so many of the individuals who helped plan this, and they really -- the crowds, i have to say, appears to be the small children, ivanka's children, who are being held by jarre jared k. not everyone got to see the length of that walk, scott. >> pelley: margaret brennan, covering the parade for us. thank you very much. let me bring in the unique sight
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of dan senior. donald trump said he would wipe islamic terrorism off the face to have the earth which would make him the third president now the say that. what are some of the complexities? >> i think every president should be cautious about promises in the inaugural address. obama was going to eradicate crime from the streets of the united states. these are big chaj challenges. i think the biggest challenge he faces in this regard is very hard to wage any war against terrorism without alliances, traditional american alliances. i mean, think about what n.a.t.o. did for america after september 11th. think about how many nations were involved with us in iraq. think about the close working relationships we have in combating terrorism around the world. the capitals of the traditional
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american western-led alliances and parts of asia are jittery now. they are very worried we are not going to be there. you heard today the president said in his inaugural address, we'll stay true to old alliances. he was trying to reassure our old n.a.t.o. allies. but he said we'll look at new alliances, sounds probably like russia, that will make a lot of our traditional allies nervous. it's hard to do anything, let alone defeat radical islam on our own. >> pelley: n.a.t.o. has been fighting al quaida in afghanistan for 15 years, and, yet, donald trump says n.a.t.o.'s obsolete. >> yeah. >> pelley: he doesn't see it as part of the war on terror. >> he, i think, believes n.a.t.o. exists to protect interests that don't matter to us. that is a growing view in the conservative movement. in fairness, it's not just donald trump. you are seeing this growing school of thought that why isn't
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it in america's interest if russia rolls into estonia or lithuania? what do we care about what happens in big parts of western europe? so those questions are being raised by donald trump and others. >> pelley: dan, thank you very much. the presidential limousine now turning on to -- sorry. i'm just trying to make that out. that's the eisenhower executive office building. >> 17th street. >> pelley: what has always been known as the old executive office building. now they're turning there, and the parade is about an hour and ten minutes late, at this point. but we will be expecting the president to be getting out of the limousine with the first family and the vice president and taking their seats here at this reviewing stand to watch the rest of the parade, as it
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proceeds through washington. but it's getting to be 5:00 eastern time, and sunset will not be too far away. so they have gotten through the thing that makes you and all the security people most nervous. >> that's exactly right. the car is being brought around to is south gate where he'll go into the south gate entrance. it allows the first family now to have a moment to use the bathroom, to get blankets or sweaters or anything they want for their own comfort and to freshen up before they come out. >> they're entering the house for the first time as their house. >> that's exactly right. and the staff, the remarkable things that you mentioned is not only has the oval office been turned over and around, but also the residence has, and there's a professional, long-standing,
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professional staff in the residence that will be sure that they have drinks and snacks and things waiting for them and anything they might need. >> pelley: presidents come and go but the white house staff is a constant in many respects. >> and the residents in particular, they're really wonderful in taking care of the first family and the president's staff. >> pelley: bob woodward, the president made a lot of promises in his inaugural address. he's got his work cut out for him. >> he sure does. where he kept saying, i will never let you down, who's the "you"? the implication was his voters, the american public, and so forth. but, again, as i was saying earlier, it comes from that culture of overstatement, and for him to say he's going to wipe the islamic state off the face of the earth is not
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surprising. as long the lump in your stomach 24-7. >> absolutely. >> pelley: we're joined by john dickerson anchor of "face the nation." it occurred to me as the parade rolled down pa avenue, it was a little bit of a microcosm of america. you had supporters and protesters all the way down the street. >> that's right. today's reaction to this speech, you know, that you have been talking about, donald trump loves to keep the room engaged, loves to keep them up and loves -- i was talking to a republican lawmaker this week that said, you know, how are we in the boring making of relationship going to give him the things he can go to rallies and get everybody excited about? well, he gave a speech to keep the crowd in front of him
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excited, but the crowd of people nervous about his presidency are now -- if his supporters are more excited, the others are more nervous. >> pelley: and bob woodward, the president-elect comes into office, or i should call him the president, of course, since noon today. the president comes into office with the lowest approval rating of any president in modern times, about 35% in the cbs news poll which is the lowest we've seen since we started asking that question in 1981. >> yeah, and that can go up and that can actually godown. he said in that speech, he said this is the hour of action, and that is a very broad statement, and people are going to be asking, you know, what are the acts, what are you going to do? and we, in our business, i think very aggressively, hopefully
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fairly, will chart all those actions and try to measure the impact of them, but not just in terms of how does that correlate with his promise in the campaign, but what's the impact on people. i mean, he's made a big -- he said to his supporters, you can count on me for effort. >> pelley: one of the greatest reporters washington has ever seen, bob woodward of "the washington post." thank you so much. >> he spoke to his supporters today. a president does have to persuade. we used to think of the presidency as the art of persuasion, and, so, a speech in which he did not sound the notes to get that other part of the country on his side is, a, a missed opportunity, but also it
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suggests how is he going to persuade in office? some think it's so partisan now there is no persuading anymore. what happens when you want to do something difficult and the country doesn't like it? how does he make the case if he has not prepared the ground or rhetorically doesn't want to do that? it's a real challenge for his presidency and how he tries to get the countries behind his ideas. >> pelley: the inaugural address was very much donald trump versus washington, washington in all its forms, republican and democrat. in fact, it add the feel of calling washington a corrupt and venal place. >> absolutely. i mean, he essentially pointed the finger for all the country's difficulty, he pointed the finger at the people arrayed around him to applaud his inauguration. they are the ones that let the country down. he said they want to make their lives comfortable at the expense of yours.
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that is strong mustard. reactions from people on the hill said that's rhetoric and we're just going to go about our business. there is a gap between rhetoric and what they actually will deal with when they make legislation will be one of the fascinating questions going forward. >> pelley: many people have said, john, and you have been following the campaign from the very first day that when donald trump is nominated, he will be different, when donald trump faces the challenges of being president, he'll be different. i think the lesson we've learned again and again, and again today, is that this is donald trump, and he is not different. >> that's exactly right. then the question is when it comes to making legislation, will he have the other part of donald trump, which is he offers a big opening gambit, a real strong position when you talk to people who work with him in business, they say in negotiations, you set yourself way out on the extreme so we know you're going to negotiate back to the middle. that's part of his personality.
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the question is, is he going to be the donald trump 100% of his rhetoric or the negotiate who puts together a deal, declares victory no matter what the outcome and moves on to the next deal? >> fran, your expertise was in homeland security, your job in george w. bush's administration. what does this administration, what does president trump need to pay attention to, to ensure the security of the homeland? >> i think he laid it out in his inaugural address and this was the bold statement he was going to put an end to islamic state supremism, certainly that's a threat. he didn't mention cyber, which i think is the other great threat of our time. and then there is the geopolitical challenges, none of which -- he didn't mention the foreign policy stuff, iran, north korea, russia, china, he stayed away from that, in an effort, as john points out, to talk to his supporters and rally
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and reassure them. >> pelley: no the president and first family at this point are presumably in the white house refreshing themselves before they come out to the review and stand for the parade, and margaret brennan is down there at this point. margaret? >> scott, we're watching the vice president walk by. he's actually responding to some of the reporters, people shouting out to him. he is walking the stretch of pennsylvania avenue. you can see right now he's passing the empty bleachers, but getting close to the area where the v.i.p.es are sitting. and what i can tell you is that the president himself donald trump, once he gets inside the white house, he will have down time before he gets to parties tonight. we had been expecting a number of executive actions or orders that swift action they promised to be happening, but right now we are hearing from sean spicer the white house spokesperson, the new white house spokesperson that a lot of those actions will likely be pushed off till
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monday. today, donald trump may look at a few things, he may review a few options, but he's likely going to wait before signing off on anything till monday. so not the shock and awe in washington they promised immediately, but he's going to enjoy himself in his inaugural tonight, sounds like. you can hear the crowd on the ground. mike pence and his wife really getting a warm greeting from the revelers, and he really is responding to the cameras and responding to the people who are gathered here. donald trump did that movement back to his motorcade, not walking the stretch of pennsylvania up to the front door. so they have a long and fun night ahead for them, but it sounds like a lot of work will be pushed off till monday, the first big day in the office for the trump administration. >> pelley: margaret brennan for us, margaret, thank you very much. and we're joined by anthony mason, who has been following the events of the day.
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>> i'm struck, scott, in watching mike pence, something i thought about earlier when we were talking about the new cabinet, mike pence says the vice president actually has the lowest net worth of anybody in the new trump administration. there are five billionaires in the senior administration, five former c.e.o.s. these are as mr. trump said very successful people. what did he say last night? that they have the highest i.q. we can't, i think, establish that. >> pelley: he said they have collectively the highest i.q. of any cabinet assembled. >> yeah, i don't think we can check that fact, but we can check the net worth of these guys, somewhere up around $10 billion. so it's a pretty unusual bunch. >> pelley: that suggests, perhaps, a high i.q. >> yeah, it might. but mike pence's net worth is about $800,000 and that makes
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him the poorest man in the administration. >> pelley: the parade is supposed to wrap up in 25 minutes, and it hasn't begun yet. they are running more than an hour late, and now they are going to be pushing twilight here soon. but here comes the parade following up the presidential limousine. >> mike pence is going to be quite busy monday. mike pence is dealing with congress in a much more day-to-day, hour-to-hour way. you don't just bring him in for the last stage of negotiation. he's basically doing congressional liaison work, having been a member of congress
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and knows folks and has had good relationships. >> john, how strong do you think is the relationship between congress and paul ryan and pence in particular? >> it's a good relationship between paul ryan and mike pence. they both see the world ideologically the same way. donald trump and paul ryan are in different places ideologically on trade, entitlement and budget measures, but mike pence and paul ryan are conservatives who believe in the same set of ideology, know the shorthand of legislation, and that will be crucial because not only does donald trump not know how the sausage is made when it comes to legislation, but also his chief of staff, reince priebus, is a political guy. he's not somebody who came up through the political system. so, in terms of translating two things mike pence has to do, he has to be a trump whisperer, which is to explain to congress what donald trump means when he calls them out for the ruin that the country is in and blames
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them, does he mean it? he has to translate donald trump back to congress and congress back to trump in terms of you want obamacare to be replaced and repealed tomorrow but the following things are happening and not the result of stupidity, it's just how the place works and you're going to have to be okay with that. >> from what you've seen in the administration, how quickly do those relationships develop? >> mike pence has also been a governor and is uniquely positioned -- you know, we've seen him on capitol hill an awful lot during the transition period, renewing the relationships, wanting them back up. he's quite well respected, and not only on the democratic side of the aisle to disagree with him on social issues, traditional conservative values, i think he's respected and listened to. they think he is a thoughtful to
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interlocutor and somebody they can deal with so i think he's an important member of the team and can be very effective for the president in pretty short order. >> we mentioned that the speed with which that develops is kind of important. >> that's right. and for mike pence because they are pre-existing, i think you can't expect that from anybody else who hasn't served the time he's served. >> our coverage of the inaugural parade will continue in a moment. you're watching cbs. see me. see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that... ...i won't stop until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. proven to help the majority of people find clear or almost clear skin.
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>> welcome back to cbs news' continuing coverage of the 45th inaugural parade of
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president donald trump. i'm joined by michael gerson and janelle chief political correspondent. start with you. next week the work begins looks like donald trump will wait for the heavy stuff until monday. what does that week look like for him and congress how do they get their steps in order? >> i thing i think they have lot of the ground work done is reversal of executive order. actually working groups, feder federalist society on this top topic. environmental regulations. he has a choice, does he go after the dreamers. does he do the -- undo the executive order which changed enforcement allowing young people to stay in the country. it would be a sign of aggression if he were to do this. we'll see.

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