now it is much easier than we think. i must say, i was shocked myself by the nominations. these are the worst conceivable cabinenet secretaries and agency heads he could have picked. they want to dismantle the labor department, court has medicare, medicaid. -- corporatized medicare, medicaid, reduced enforcement and the civil rights area, depress more votes, a bigger military budget, more surveillance, more empire abroad. they want to dismantle the public school system. so, with all of the horrors, this could be an opportunity for the majority of the people who disagree to basically turn it into a boomerang opportunity. that is they might come in so drunk with their power that they fall into pitfalls of co-option youorruption, pitfalls of

legality, pitfalls of overreach. and at every one of those points, there ought to be lawyers, demonstrations, full-time monitors in every congressional district to take advantage of it. nermeen: you mentioned earlier how important congress is in this new administration and also more generally, but aren't there a number of changes trump can implement without congressional approval, , and that does adding -- and does that include what he said he would do, which is to cancel as many obama regulations as possible, including consumer protection rules, which of course, you know? alreadyr: he has aligned himself with a $10 trillion cut in health care programs, abolishing the endowment for the arts and humanities, and so for, -- so forth, and you know how hard it

is to get regulations in place, but it is hard to get rid of them as well. there will be a lot of public law forms, aclu, public citizen, common cause, and others recently who could continue to delay and block, however he could issue a lot of executive orders, as president obama and others have done, and that can do a lot of damage on certain things, like, forcible, he can repeal the overtime rule, which is in the courts now. he could repeal executive orders that oppose discrimination in terms of government purchase, but remember, he is very low in the polls. he is lower in the polls than any other presidential candidate coming into office. nermeen: apparently as low as 32%. mr. nader: and he watches -- he brags about polls. he will have that weighing down. people do not like him.

they do not trust him. he lost the popular vote big-time, and he has a tweeting media of 20 million, which he will use as his personal telik relation ploys, but that is not going to be enough. he is not used to working hard. he is not used to having to make dozens of decisions every day. as head of the trump organization, that is chicken feed compared to what is coming in on him. he is not releasing his income taxes -- that is going to be a controversy, with his far-flung accident, which he has not sold. he has given the management to his family. he is invaluable -- violation of the monuments clause, and as professor -- of harvard law school said, as of today, he will be a walking impeachment candidate. he has all of these problems, at

the same time he won't release his medical document. he has a cardiac diet -- eats fat, meat, french fries, and he will have his hands full personally in avoiding these conflicts of interest, these impeachment accusations, and change his temperament so he can start making these decisions. is that going to happen? i don't think it is. it is going to be usually chaotic -- you will have agencies jockeying for power. stay tuned. let's go to the people that are already protesting against him, back to the streets of washihington, d.c., right off of penennsylvania avenue, a at e navall mememorial, where -- is still with thousands of people at a rally organized by the answer coalition. can you tell us what is going on there?

we are on pennsylvania avenue. we are at the only officially permitted protests on the presidential parade route. i am here on a rainy, cold day in washington, d.c., here with one of the protest organizers. can you tell us your name and what brought you here today? eugene: i am out here to stand against trump's agenda -- it is anti-worker, racist, a bait and switch agenda about the corporations, supercharging changes we have seen that of stagnated wages, created mass incarceration, created an unbelievable deportation machine in this country. we need to recognize we are all human, and the rigid country that has ever existed, we can have things like health care and education as a right. they should not be commodities. to have that movement, we need to be out here and i'll do it in the resistance and pushing back.

how easy oreugene, difficult is it for protesters to gather you today -- out difficult was it to get a permit, to be out here today here in bc -- d.c.? -- the very difficult national park service is acting to restrict as much space as obsolete possible here for them to sell tickets and have big money donors. they do everything possible to hold the permits to the latest possible time that you cannot people where to gather. they would not let us have a podium or a microphone stand for some sort of security reason. you can see how absurd the process is, and the whole thing is designed to prevent people from exercising their first amendment rights on the presidential inauguration rate. close to us, trump supporters are gathered, so when the motorcade comes down, what is your message shoot trump

supporters who said give trump a chance? eugene: our message is he is lying few -- if you think he will help struggling working people in the rust belt, bring back jobs -- it is not true. he says unions are terrible. his infrastructure plan is a massive giveaway to big corporations that will own our roads, water, bridges -- things we should be controlling. it is the dictionary definition of bait and switch. he is using rhetoric to divide people, but he will not deliver the goods. deena: what else is planned here today in washington, d.c.? we are at one of the many protests. what are people planning on doing this weekend? deena: there are going to be many marches. nightat a teacher in last where people are talking about what is next, and how to continue to build the resistance. we will see the women's march tomorrow -- who knows, and 81

million people will show up to protest -- maybe one million people will show up to protest. we will see a resistance takeover of washington, d.c. there are more of us here than there are trump supporters. read the main stream news and you a few the protests are the main story today. deena: eugene, think you so much. we will see you on the streets. for democracyder now!. back to you. amy: you have been listening to deena guzder just off of pennsylvania avenue in washington, d c c, where the end all your rich and activities are set to begin at 11:30 a.m. -- inauguration activities are set to begin at 11:30 a.m. eastern time where chief justice roberts will swear in donald trump. we are talking to ralph nader, four time presidential candidate. we are also o talking to keeanga

yamahtta taylor, the author of a book about movements, from black lives matter to black liberation, as well as a professor at princeton university. , i want to asking about what is happening this weekend. a lot of the protests are leading up to the women's march on washington -- 200,000 people are expected. it may well be more. you are one of the people that will be there -- women and men. as we speak right now, in san francisco, activists have shut down the headquarters of uber as well. policing washihington, d.c., hae tear gassed people trying to shut down and inauguration checkpoint, and the clintons have arrived at the capital -- former president bill clinton and hillary clinton, who lost to donald trump, at least in the electoral college. you have the obamas and the trumps who have met at the white

house. the trump family is at the capital. george w. bush, president, and his wife laura, are at the capital. their parents -- george w. bush's parents -- the oldest living president of the isis, george h.w. bush is in the hospital, as is his -- of the united states, george h.w. bush, is in the hospital, as is his wife. and jimmy carter at the capital as well. presence thereng except for president george h.w. bush, who is hospitalized, keeanga but tomorrow, january 21, democracy now will be broadcasting eastern standard time 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. from the main stage of the protest --what is expected, how is it organized? what is the plan? : i think first thing, this is a very important step in what i think will be a million steps necessary to build the kind of resistance and movements

that will be needed to confront the trump regime. this demonstration started out, i believe, the day after the womenon, by a handful of who did not consider themselves activists, who did not describe the march tomorrow as a protest, and it has grown from something as small as that, into, really, the most important demonstration for the weekend itself, and i think that says a couple of things. one, i think it says something --ut the kinds of six date kinds of state of shellshocked that the traditional larger liberal organizations who one would think would be at the forefront with resources and people -- the forefront of the trump resistance -- they are still trying to figure out what to do, so that a demonstration

like this could be o organizeded that people who do not call themselves as activists is indicative of that. i also think that it is a very important marker. i think for people who are there , i think it will be an affront to trump. four people there who have been feeling, as many of us have, a sense of despair --that it will be a break w with that. amy: and we will continue this discussion in the next hour. that is keeanga yamahtta taylor, professor at princeton university. goodman with nermeen shaikh. this is live inauguration day coverage.

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amy: democracy nowamy:, democracynow.org, work, peace, and the presidency -- and inauguration day schedule -- special. we are broadcasting from the campus of howard university, the we are live on the air until 3:00 p.m. eastern time. in just one hour, supreme court justice john roberts will swear in donald trump to be the 45th president of the united states before hundreds of thousands of people, both supporters and protesters. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. president obama has left the white house for the last time. just a short while ago, barack and michelle obama greeted donald and melania trump at the white house. streets back to the

where thousands have gathered. police have already fired tear gas at some protesters, demonstrators witith black lives matter chained themselves to a barricade. carla willes was on site with ouour videoo producer. carla introduced to people locked down and sesent us this upupdate. carla: we are here at the checkpoint near the metropolitan police department on indiana avenue. the checkpoint is officially shut down. in part mostly because of the activists that came here and put their bodies on the line and change themselves. i'm here with one of those activists. tell me your name and where you are from. i'm here with one of>> rob from. carla: you are literally chained to several other organizers here and to the barricades.

explain what exactly this process is and why you did it. rob: we are locked down, connected to each other and connected to the barricades, blocking the checkpoint. we are here symbolically to the way the institutions affect black bodies in this country. we are still in bondage in many ways, physically, mentally, emotionally, economically, insert advert here -- add verb -- insert adverb here. let trump come here -- we will fight back. we are staying on these streets. carla: what about trump's let trump comepresidency?

>> you can look at every member of his cabinet, especially ben .arson and jeff sessions involved.le person will single nomination negatively impact undocumented --ple khamenei to people undocumented people, native people, people of color. carla: how long do you plan to be locked down? rob: i don't know. who shuts stuff down? we shut stuff down. >> i'm the coordinator of the

baltimore block, one of the member organizations for black lives matter. we are resisting the idea of a trump administration, what it represents. -- a returns a turn to before the civil rights movement. we will shut it all down. carla: tell me why you think this was so effective, this particular shut down. >> people dodon't like trump, so they did not come. they did not expect us to come. they thought we would fear trump supporters. we are willing to put our bodies on the line for freedom, so we will do so. carla: did you see other disturbances here? there.allies have been

carla: what concerns you about the trump presidency? >> [indiscernible] return.want to see it april and aaroerin return. blocked it in baltimore. carla: talk about what that's like. >> they walk outside of their house and walked down the street. police spotlight them all night every night. those are the kinds of things happening to us. >> there's been a livestream of every citizen in the city --

carla: thank you so much. we are at the checkpoint next to the metropolitan police department with some of the folks that have locked themselves down here. this checkpoint is officially closed. it looks like for the next few hours, this checkpoint will not be open. this is carla willes at the checkpoint at 300 indiana. amy: that was democracy now!'s carla willes. protesters spreading across the united states today. in downtown san francisco, activists have locked themselves to each other to shut down uber's headquarters with signs "uber collaborates with trump." meanwhile, students are walking out of classsses at indiana university.

while activists are also gathering in baltimore. the group bridges not walls is dropping over 150 protest banners across the world today. among those banners, signs that read "migrant immigrants welcome here." still with us, former presidential candidate and longtime consumer advocate ralph nader, journalist allan narirn and author keeanga yamahtta taylor. as we talk about what's happening in the streets, thee huffington post just had a really interesting report about what donald trump wanted in his inauguration parade that the military would not approve. >> my wifefe sent me an article wanted to trump team have tanks and missile launchers , north korean style, as a part

of the presidential parade. the military actually shot that idea down because of the potential damage it could do to the streets of washington, d.c. as ralph was saying down the , theng the break extent to which these people are drunk on their own power and the way they see things, it is not a coronation of the king. the protests that are happening today, the protests that are scheduled for tomorrow around the country show that our site is gearing up with too that side is gearing up, too. it is a beautiful thing. allan: this is their moment of triumph, the radical right oligarchs.

their moment of triumph that they are most vulnerable. first, they have not consolidated power yet. they have taken it after winning a minority of votes. they are now on stage and in the spotlight. they were exposed in a way they have never been before. they control all branches of government and it is more possible to hold them accountable. as to tactics, you have to attack on every front at once. you never know what is going to break through. in the streets and also in the halls. it is come i think, possible to take over the democratic party. sanders was almost nominee. chance to be the democratic chair. amy: punishment ellison of indianapolis. congressman -- congressman ellison of indianapolis.

allan: it is a different story if sanders is the nominee instead of clinton. if sanders government would be differerent from a clinton governrnment. he came close. in the streets, you never know what will work. in egypt, the arab spring actually kicked off from something that is very familiar to american activists, a demonstration of the usual suspects. one of those demonstrations where the same 200 people who turn out every time, at one point in tunisia, things exploded. startedian revolution with a demonstration on international women's day. that got out of hand and zar andely caught the c the mensheviks and bolsheviks offguard.

you never know what will work, especially when you're in a very unstable situation like we are in now politically. earlier, we were talking about the two parties, both incorporate. tillerson and exxon is an interesting example. the main thing with tillerson is climate change. exxon has been the main force funding the denial of climate change. the main source pouring carbons into the environment. how theset, to show corporations in general operate, -- onears in the western the western tip of indonesia, exxon had a huge natural gas facility. in order to be there, they pick up the invasion -- the indonesian army. the most intensively u.s.

trained unit of the indonesian army. , the army own grounds set up a torture and execution facility where they would drag dissidents for torture, gang rape and execution. exxon supplied the bulldozers which the indonesian troops used to date the mass graves they would throw their victims into that dig -- to dig the mass graves. my friend was among those who organized the lawsuit against exxon, brought in the u.s. courts, using a statute called the dutch which was originally statute that was originally designed against pirates. exxon under tillerson fought the suit in the courts. it is still ongoing.

, asn hired as their lawyer one of the key corporate lawyers, a favorite of the who was one of the two final contenders or obama -- for obama's supreme court nomination. clinton had him high on her list for the supreme court. that corporations could not be held accountable for crimes against humanity, even if they were aiding and abetting those crimes against demanded it. gut thehe tried to claim statute which made it possible for victims to try to hold these corporations travel. it is an interesting illustration of the corporate stances of the two parties. the lawyer representing the corporation which is trying to defend itself from the charge of

mass murder in itself, they never contested the facts, by the way. that is the democrat darling. who did the republicans put in? thatead of the corporation connects and defends these atrocities. that is what you are up against in this american two-party system. yet, it is vulnerable. don't fall into the trap of thinking everything is preprogrammed, everything is preordained. power is everywhere, structure is everything. this election was just another illustration of that. nobody expected sanders to come to the brink of victory and not many expected trump to actually go through and win because he came from the fringes of the republican party. he represents the greatest criminal element -- crudest criminal element of our publican party and the establishment did not pick him as their favorite but he has dragged them into power.

he calls the heads of corporations and says you don't go overseas. he calls the heads of corporations and says make air force one cheaper. amy: this strategy that he has that is extremely appealing to people saying, finally, corruption will be dealt with and rounded out and jobs will be saved. allan: because the democrats failed to address the collapse of the working class they had helped create with nafta and the wto and now- the tpp. they left the door open for fakes and charlatans like trump to walk in. they say, hey, at least he is acknowledging the problem and

trying to do something about it, even if the solution is a bit fake and phony. when he calls these corporations and the man's they cut their prices, it has tremendous public appeal. demands the cut their prices. when he calls the weapons companies and says you are charging 30% to much, the u.s. is able to kill even more people than they were before. oligarchy government that is addressing popular problems. it inevitably produces a result that is damaging, even when dealing with a real popular problem. infrastructure is in example. there is broad agreement that it is a great idea to do massive infrastructure investment in the u.s.

that could easily be done by far wing at the current low interest rates to finance it. that is not what the republicans are proposing. finance itposing to through tax credits which will mean a massive drop in revenue coming into the u.s. government. how will you deal with a massive drop? you will have to make cuts. they are planning to keep the sequester cap on domestic spending. the massive infrastructure plan under the republican scheme would be paid for by massive further cuts in domestic spending. people will see, at least he is trying to do some thing about infrastructure. dr. jill biden and michelle obama have come onto the capitol --ps as they waved to people the clintons are there. hillary clinton tweeted "i'm here today to honor our democracy and its enduring values.

" haverumps and obamas arrived at the capital. ttingdent obama pa donald trump on the back. also, mcconnell and nancy pelosi. my friend who helped organize that lawsuit against exxonmobil for their atrocities in 2000 was abducted and tortured to death. he had been a longtime activist against the indonesian army when we saw his body, it was unrecognizable. his abductors had used knives to slice off his face. that thehe world current regime of corporate power and american military presence sustains.

this is the reality that has existed for decades and now, trump and his administration by every indication is going to make it worse, make it more intense. has spent manyrn years in indonesia as well as the united states. as the capital events are taking place, the inaugural activities beginning come i wanted to turn to the streets along the inauguration root. interviewed dave siren. deena: we are on pennsylvania avenue in washington, d.c. on a rainy, cold day. i'm here with one of the journalists here in bc d.c.year in -- here in

dave: i'm looking for frogs and locust's, but we are to starting with the rain here for day one of the trump era. they're interesting. -- very interesting. i've lived in d.c. for a long time. i can't help but compare and contrast it to the 2000 bush inauguration, another election that was stolen, electoral college, all that. there were bush supporters everywhere and they were from a certain class, the very wealthy. a lot of new coats and cowboy hats and boots and people looking to fight and start trouble. they did not like singh protesters and journalists. -- they did not like seeing protesters and journalists. this doesn't have the same feel to it. is the know whether it

fact that trump's approval ratings are in the 30's right now, i don't know if it is because he made all these promises to his supporters and he's bringing in the same crew of goldman sachs berliners, i don't know if it's all the corruption scandals coming in, but you don't feel the same enthusiasm. -- the same crew of goldman sachs berliners. -- goldman sachs billionaires. these are folks who made their track, they come from a different class. they are not energized. frankly, that is a really positive point to take from today. deena: right behind us, protesters gather. what are the messages you are hearing from them, what are the concerns you are hearing from people on the streets? dave: this is one of many protests today. there's a group called disrupt j 20 that has earmarked over at union station that will march to

mcpherson square. there are people doing civil disobedience at all the checkpoints along the way. the messages coming up here are ones you might expect. standing up for people trump has spent the last year and a half stepping up. megan rice,for il lgbt writes, -- in the great , lgbt -- immigrant rights rights. also, several speakers on student debt. deena: you are a longtime sportswriter, covering the intersection of sports and politics. what is the likelihood of sports teams visiting the white house in trump's america?

dave: richard jefferson made the comment when the cavaliers visited the white house, he said "it is an honor to be the last nba team to ever visit the white house." there is that sentiment among nba players. the nba is an overwhelmingly african-american league, teams will not visit the white house. visits will have these where owners show up with three people on the team and everybody else boycott. trumps watching with and countryrities singers. when you are celebrity stalker like donald d trump is, i think few thihings upset hihim more tn the fact that people with a measure of fame are giving him the hi hat. it is interesting that in a poll , 99% of mike freeman

black players in the nfl were devastated by the election results. 100% of white players he spoke to all said they were thrilled by trump selection that trump -- thrilled by trump's election. the patriots are playing the steelers. roethlisberger and brady are open and proud trump supporters. ben rob was berger has a long history of sexual assault allegations. not a problem for donald trump at all. roethlisberger has a long history of sexual assault allegations. report.nk you for that as the inauguration is getting underway, we have seen the first lady to be melania trump just

walked in. now, barack obama and vice president biden have just come onto the capital rotunda as they walked down to take their seats. in a moment, the inaugural activities will begin. areguests a for this hour ralph nader and keeanga yamahtta taylor. asore these events begin barack obama is shaking hands with people as is joseph biden at this moment, your thoughts, ralph nader. ralph nader: i thought they were towo arenas of opposition. one was the civil service itself. whoer civil servants believe in the rule of law are going to be confronted with lawless activity, with

dismantling of their visions -- they will not go away easy. some will quit in disgust. he will have to deal with millions of civil servants who know what should be done for this country and know what the rule of law is about. the second area is a left-right coalition among the american people. in the areas where they agree on. one, they disagree reproductive rights, gun control, etc. in the economic issue, when trump starts to freeze the minimum wage and 30 million workers are making less today than they made in 1968 adjusted for inflation, a lot of conservative workers and liberal workers are included. that is a potential for an alliance. base,l be betraying his his blue-collar base. health care area, as he brings a wrecking crew to the

health care industry and there are more denials of health care and more gouging by the drug , that will be a left-right area. in the area of housing and tenants and the need for public transit -- once you get a left right alliance, that sends a completely different signal to the republicans in congress. they want to keep their jobs. they know how to game a left movement and pander to a right movement. when both come on the same side, do they say we want law and order on these corporate crooks, we want a living wage it is a different kind of opposition. amy: right now, donald trump is about to walk out onto the capitol rotunda. in front of him is the house speaker, paul ryan. your thoughts as this moment

unfolds? keeanga: it is like witnessing a hijacking. there is a certain level of disgust with this smugug group f racist rogues and reactionaries that are celebrating their coronation and their rise to victory. i hope they enjoyed themselves today because i think what we have seen thus far in the streets of washington, d.c. is only a taste of what is to come. there is deep bitterness in this country and i think we are all feeling it this moment. amy: but he did win. not the popular vote. but he did win the electoral college vote. now, we are seeing vice president-elect mike pence waving to the crowd.

in a moment, these inaugural activities are going to begin. the system that has been set in place in this country to elect presidents. keeanga: and it is a broken system. when six 2 million people of 240 million eligible voters are able to put this man into office, that is a symptom of a system that is very -- not very reflective of democracy. -- when 60 million people of 420 million eligible voters. this is not representative of what people actually think and feel and what most people actually want. that is why poll numbers are tanking. that is where the hope lies. that those people who remain disaffected will actually come together to oppose the agenda of this monster. amy: donald trump is about to be announced.

you are listening to democracy now!'s live coverage of the inauguration. mike pence has taken his place next to melania trump. right behind them, president-elect trump's daughters and his son, baron. we see barack obama and joseph biden. the health sergeant at arms, paul irving, the chairman of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, roy blunt rules committee ranking member and senate democratic leader charlie schumer, paul d ryan, mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy and nancy pelosi. [applause] ♪

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chairman of the joint congressional committee for inaugural sermon is, the honorable that's ceremonies, the honorable -- inaugural ceremonies, the honorable roy blunt. presisident, mr. vice preresident, mr. president-elect and mrmr. vice president-elect, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the inauguration of the 45th president of the united states of americaca. [applause] royy blunt: today, the executive, legislative and jujudicial braranches come toger for the 5050th inauguration does 45th inauguguration ofof the president of u united states. millions of people will watch and listen to this event. 36 years agogo in his first inauguration, it was also the

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-- invocation. [applause] >> the prayer of king solomon fromom the book of wisdom. let us pray. god of our ancestors and lord of mercy, you have made all things. haven your providence charged us to rule the creatures produced by you, to govern the world in holiness and righteousness andnd to render judgmentnt with integrity of hearart. gigive uss wisdom, for we are yr servants. weak and short-lived, lacking in comprehension of judgment and of laws, indeed, though one might be p perfect among mortals, if wisdom which c comes from m ub be lacking, we are nothing.

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deeds shine out for all to see that everyone wiwill praise your heavenly father. me.pectfully in jesus' na >> we come to you, heavenly father, in the name of jesus, with grateful hearts, thanking you for this great country that you have decreed to your p peop. we acknowledge we are a a blessd nation with a rich history of faith and fortitude. with a future that is filled with promise and purpose. we recognize that every good and every perfect gift comes from you and unite states of america is your gift. -- the united states of america is your gift. we now pray for our president, donald john trump, vice prpresident michael richard penc

e and their families. we asked that he would bestow upon our president the wisdom necessary to lead this great nation. and standto unify us for what is honorable in your site. you instruct us that our leaders heart is in your hands. god, revealed to our president the e ability to know ththe will, your will, the confidence to lead us in justice and righteoususness. and the compassion to yield to our better angels. while we know there are many challenges before us and every generation you have provided the strength and power to become that blessed nation. guide us in discernment and give us that strength to persevere and thrive. and heal our wounds and divisions s and join our

nation to your purpose. thy kingdom come, thy will be done. let your favor be up on this o e nation under god. let these united states of america be that beacon of hope to all people and natitions undr dominion, a true hope for humankind, glory to the father, the son, and the holy spirit. we pray this in the name of jesus christ. amen. [applause] >> ladies endowment, the missouri state university gentlemen,ladies and the e missouri statete universiy chorale. ♪ >> ♪ here are voices of every creedhorale

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we are pleased they are here. [applause] >> also a great opportunity for me to introduce my colleague, the senator from new york, chuck schumer. [applause] : my fellowwmer americans, we live in a challenging intimal twist time time. tumultuous a rapidly changing economy that benefits to view while leaving too manyny behind. a fracacturedd media, politics frequentntly consumed by rancor. we faced threaeats foreign andnd domestic. in such times, faith in our government camara institutionss -- our government, our institutions, even our

country can erode. give me american people confidence. [applause] senator schumer: we americans have always been a forward-looking, problem-solving , optimistic, patriotic and decent people. whatever our raisin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity -- whatever our race, religion, sexual orientatioion, gender identity,, disabilities, in wealth and in poverty, we are all exceptional in our commonly held yet fierce devotion to our country and our willingngness to sacrifice our time, energy and even our lives to making it a more perfect union. today, we celebrate one of

democracies core attributes -- democracy's core attribute, the peaceful transfer of power. stand up for core principles enshrined in the constitution. the rule of law, equal protection for all under law, the freedom of speech, press, religion, the things that make america, america. we can gain strength from reading our history and listening to the voices of average americans. they always save us in times of strife. one such american, major sullivan ballou. 1861 when the north and south were lining up for their first battle when our country was bitterly divided, major ballou penned a letter to his

wife, sarah. it is one of the greatest letters in american history. it shows the strength and courage of the average american. allow me to read some of his words which echo through the ages. , thery dear sarah indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days, perhaps tomorrow. if it is necessary that i should fall on the battlefield for my country, i am ready. orave no misgivings about lack of confidence in the cause in which i am engaged and my courage does not call or falter or falter. i know how strongly american civilization liens upon the triumph of the government and how great a debt we owe to those who go before us through the suffering of the revolution and i'm willing, perfectly willing

to lay down all my joys in this life to help maintain this government and to pay that debt. sarah, my love for you is desolate, it seems to bind me to hty cablea mig that nothing but omnipotence can break. yet, my love of cocountry comes me and bears me with chains to the battlefield. sullivan ballou gave his life on the battlefield a week later at battle of bull run. it is because sullivan ballou and countltless otrs believed dn sosomeing biggerhan n themselves anand were willing to sacrifice for battle of bull it that we sn the fullll blessings of liberty, in the greatest country on her.

-..n earth i know our best days are yet to come. i urge all americans to read his full letter. hihis words give me solace, they will givee you the same. while thee stand associate justice of the supreme court clarence thomas administers the oath of office to the vice president of the united states. [applause] wasice thomas:

president-elect doesn't vice president elect, raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, michael richard pence do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. enemies foreign and domestic. faith andl bear true allegiance to the same. that i take this obligation freely. any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. and i will well and faithfully duties of the

office on which i'm about to enter. so help me god. congratulations. [applause] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪

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an honor to introduce the chief justice of the united states, , who willerts, jr. administer the presidential oath of office. everyone, please stand. [applause] justice roberts: please raise your right hand d and repeat afr .. i, donald j. trumump is always wearar. mr. trumump: i, donald john trup to solemnly swear. >> that t i will faithfulllly execute. mrmr. trump: that i will faithfully execute. >> the office of president of the united states. mr. trump: chchief juststice roberts: a anl to t the best of my ability-

and will to the best of my ability -- chief justice roberts: preserve, protect, and defend -- mr. trump: preserve, protect, and defefend -- chief justice roberts: the constitution of f the united states -- - mr. trump: the constitution of the united states. chief justice roberts: so help me god. mr. trump: so help me god. chief justice roberts: congratulations, mr. president. [applause] ♪ amy: trump has just been sworn in as the 45th president of the

united states. he was surrounded by his family, he is waving to the crowd. he is about to give his address. >> what a great honor to be able to introduce for the first time 45th president of the united states of america, donald j. trump. [applause]

mr. trump: chief justice roberts, president carter, president clinton, presesident bush, president obabama, fellllw americans, and people of the world, thank you. [applause] mr. trump: we, the citizens of america are now joined in a great national effort t to rebud our country and restore as promise for all of our people. together, we will determine the course of america and the world for many, many years to come. wewe will face challenges. we will confront hardshipsps, bt we will get the jobob done. every y four years s we gather n thesese steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power, and we are grateful to president obama and first lady

michelle obama f their gracious aid throughout this transition. they have been magnificent. thank you. [applause] mr. trump: today's ceremony, however, has very special meaning, because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another, but we are transferring c, androm washington, d giving it back to you, the people. [applause] mr. trump: for t too long, a sml group in our natation's capital has reaped the benefits of our

while youovernment, have wonon the cost. washingtgton flourished, but the peoplele did not share and its wealth. politicians prospered, but the jobs left, and the factories closed. the establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. their victories have not been your victories. their triumphs have not been your triumphs, and while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land. that all changes starting right , because this now moment is your moment. it belongs to you.

it belongs to everyone gathered here today, and everyone watching all across america. this is your day -- this is your this, then, and united states of america, is your country. [applause] what truly matters is not which party controls our governmement, but whether our governmentntbut whetheher our government is controlled by the people. [applause] 2017,ump: january 20, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. [applause] the forgogotten menen and

women ofof our c country will be forgotten no longer. [a[applause] mr. trump: everyone is listening to you now. you came by the tens o millions to become part of an if stork movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before -- historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before. at the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens. americans want great schchools r their children, safe neighbororhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. these are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public, but for too citizens,s, a

different reality existsts. mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the net -- landscape of our nation. an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge. gs, the crime, and the gan and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. this american carnage s stops right here, and stops right now. [applause] mr. trump: we are one nation, and therere pain is our pain.

their dreams are our dreams to their success will be our success. we share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny. the oath of office i take today is an oatath of allegiance to al americans. [applause] four many decades, we have enriched for industry at the risk of american industry, subsidized other countries, while allowing for the said depletion of our military. we have defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend our own. [applause] and spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas, while america's

infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay. we have made other countries rich, while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon. one by one, the factories shuddered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions and millions of american workers who -- that were left behind. the wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes , and then redistributed all across the world. but that is the past. and now we are looking only to the future. [applause] mr. trump: we assembled here

today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power. from this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. from this day forward, it is .oing to be only america first america first. [applause] every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit on american workers and american families. we must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries, making our products, stealing our companies cap -- companies, and destroying our jobs. [applause]

protection will lead to greater prosperity and strength. i will fight for you with every breath in my body, and i will never, ever let you down. [applause] america will start winning again, winning like never before. [applause] mr. trump: we will bring back our jobs, we will bring back our borders. wealth,bring back our and we will bring back our dreams. [applause] mr. trump: we will build new roads and highways and bridges, and airports, and tiles, and railways, all across -- tunnels

and railways all across our wonderful nation. we will get our people off of welfare, and back to work, rebuilding our country with american hands and american labor. [applause] simple rulesw two hirey american, and american. we will seek friendship and goododwill with the nations of e world, but we do so with the understanding that itit is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example. we will shine for everyone to follow. [applause] we will reinforce old alliances and form new ones, and unite the

civilized world against radical islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth. [applause] bedrock of ourhe politics wilill be a total allegiance to the united states of america, and through our loyalty to our couountry, we wil rediscover our loyalty to each other. when you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. [applause] mr. trump: t the b bible tells s how good and pleasant it is when god's peoeople live togetether n ununity. we must speak -- speak our minds

openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. when america is united, amereria is tototally unstoppable. [applause] mr. trump: there should be no fear. we are protected, and we will always be protected. we will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law e enforcement, and most importantly, we will be protected by god. [applause] finally, we must think big, and dream even bigger. in america, we understand that a nation's only living as long as it -- is only living as long ass itit is striving.

we will no longer accept politicians who are no talk, and no action, constantly complaining, but never d doing anything a about it.t. [applause] mr. trump: the time for anti-talk is over -- empmpty tak is o over. now arrives the hour of action. [applause] mr. trump: do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. no challenge can match the heart, fight, and spirit of america. we will not fail. our country will thrive and prosper agagain. we stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries, and

technologies of tomorrow. stir national crowd will our souls, lift our sites, and heal our divisions. it is time to remember the old wisdom that our soldiers will nevever forget -- that whether e are black or brown, or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots. [applause] we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, anand we also loot the same great -- salute the same great american flag. is born in a child the urban sprawof detroitit, or the winds that -- windswept plains of nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, feel their hearts with the same

dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator. [applause] so, to all americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these wordss -- you will never be ignored again. [applause] mr. trump: your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our american destiny, and your courage in goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. together, we will make america strong again. we will make america wealthy again. we will make america proud again. we will make america safe again,

and yes, together, we will make america great again. thank you, god bless you, and god bless america. [applause] mr. trump: thank you. god bless america. [applause] amy: president donald j. trump's inaugural address after being sworn in as the 45th president of the united states, sworn in by chief justice roberts. before him, vice president mike pence sworn in by justice clarence thomas.

while donald trump was being sworn in, thousands of protesters gathered in the streets of washington. hundreds of thousands are planning to take part in saturday's massive women's march on washington. protests against donald trump are taking place worldwide today. yet mexico -- in mexico, activists burned effigies of .rump in mexico city demonstrators are gathering in berlin, germany, holding signs that read mr. president, walls divide. build bridges. hundreds gathered in tokyo, japan, and outside the u.s. embassy in the philippine capital of minnelli -- manila. liveis democracy now!'s coverage of the inauguration and its aftermath. there were about 40,000 people who packed the area around the

capital for the inauguration. about 10% of who packed it years ago, and when it came to the number of people who came out for this inauguration, donald trump had said his would be the largest. when president obama was inaugurated in 2009, there were nearly 2on people, million people. today, about half of the area was full. we are joined now by three guests as we continue our coverage. i am amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. we will be with you until 3:00 p.m. eastern standard time. naomi klein is back with us --

the author of "this changes everything, capitalism versus the climate." princeton professor keeanga yamahtta taylor, and four-time presidential candidate ralph nader is with us. twice he ran on the green party ticket, twice as an independent. well known as a consumer activist in this country. ralph nader, if you can talk about your thoughts listening to this address? just around -- under 18 minutes, around 15 minutes, donald trump's first address as he talked about issuing a decree, a new vision that is going across on, hed, from this time said it is going to be america first. mr. nader: well, we have heard it all before. the rhetoric is directed by his

nomination of the winners, racists to run his cabinet and other organizations. how long he can continue the fantasy between what he says verbally and what he is doing in the government remains to be seen, but he signaled two weaknesses of the democratic party. one is on trade, the democratic party bought into this economics 101 free trade, allowed whole industries and jobs to be exported to communist and regimes, hollowing out communities, and he took full advantage of that. had they not done that, he would have had a very hard time finding traction in the midwest of the united states where a lot of the factories are empty. the second thing that he took ofantage of was a sense subordinating our own missions to a -- for an -- foreign

expenditures and foreign involvements, although he is going to be a herald or of the empire with his nominees for sure. when he talks about spending trillions abroad while public works decay and our j jobs are t built here, t that is another he gap by the democratic party. they should not have allowed those kinds of vacacuums to occ. the lastst thing that he signal, and thisis is going to be troubling for everybody -- he is going to do a lot of things at once in the first 100 days, unlike barack obama, who figured he could only handle the democratic congress with health care, he is going to try to go on all fronts. that i is peerless for him, obviously, but it is also very perilous for the democratic party, which is now a minority in the congress. that means he will get the nominee to the supreme court fast, change the tax system fast, start rolling back health,

safety, and other regulations fast. so, what we are going to seeee here is a challenge to the ,tamina of the citizenry especially the majority of the people that voted against him, and whether they organize every congressional district, or they justst engage in the importatan, but shorort-lived resisistance,a al queststn now. we have to build sustained power in every congressional district to use that huge leverage over congress -- 535 people's whose -- as inknonow opposition to what the trump administration plans to do. he is now way in over his neck. he does not know how to run the government. he does not like to work hard. he does not like details. he does not like to read briefing memos. he does not like too be briefed. so, we're going to see a huge dedelegation of authority's to s

nominees, cabinet secretaries, etc., and we will see a new media emerge -- his tweeting media, basically his public relations arm to 20, 30 million people that tap into that account. finally, i think what we are going to have to -- we're going to have to do something to get over the yuck factor. liberals have to get over the yuck -- they disagree with conservatives back home on issues, reproductive rights, gun control, but there is a huge left-right worker alliance, because as he alluded to, they all bleed the same way, and as i would expand, they'll get ripped off the same way by the health care industry, utilities, the low wages -- that is the alliance for the future against donald trump and his billionaires. mentioned, ralph, famous or now

infamous for using twitter to convey his policies and proposed policies and all forms of communication. one thing that was striking about the speech is in a way it read or sounded much like his twitter messages, like a series of declarative statements, one not necessarily following from the other. keeanga, your response -- what struck you particularly about what he said? keeanga: i think that there are a couple of things. one is the, kind of, bellicose, bullyish nature of it, and not only did he declare a new decree of america first, but in the first couple of sentences, you know, he talked about how this election -- his ascendance to the presidency would not only chart a new course for america, but it would chart a new course

for the world. consistentk, that is with a, kind of, thuggish, bullying posture that trump and his supporters have taken certainly since the election, and i think that is worrying. it is concerning. of, the also, the sort language about america first,, hiring americans first -- what kind of threat that poses in combination with the continued discussion about the wall and the attacks on immigrants, and what that will mean, and also his strange call for unity through the, kind of, disappearance of important differences that exist. and, so, this whole discussion that we all bleed the same is a

way of, really, avoiding the issues of race and ethnicity in the united states in dangerous ways, i think -- in ways that really ignore the extent to been this country has embroiled in rachel -- rasul -- racial strife and discord over the last several years, evidenced by the struggles around immigration, struggles pipelinee dapl protests, and probably the most well-known, the struggles around black lives matter, and the movements against police abuse and violence. so, i think that in ways that those of us have been critical have talked about, that the breath of the trump attack was put on full display, and so if there was any surprise, it was the way there was no attempt to

temper that message, which is also consistent with the cabinet appointees, which, as naomi said earlier, there is no pretense that this is anything other than what it actually is -- a power grab by the rich and influential, a smash and grab operation to get away with as much as they possibly can to, as they have said, to reset government. ofhink that the parameters what the resistance has to do, and what it will look like have been set forth clearly, and it really is time to move from the despair and anger -- not necessarily anger, but the despair and disbelief into defiance, anger, and organizing against this. let's go back to part of president trump's speech.

speech. mr. trump: we assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, every foreign capital, and in every hall of power. from this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. from this day forward, it is going to be only america first. america first. [applause] nermeen: that is president donald trump speaking at his inauguration speech a few moments ago. commentein, could you on this -- his emphasis on america first, and another thing he lamented in his speech was the fact that the u.s. has so subsidized other countries that its own military has been depleted, which he, of course, naturally categorized as very

sad, of course, not mentioning at all that the u.s. spends more on its military than all of the other countries of the world combined -- give us your reflections on his speech. of course, one of the most remarkable things about his appointments is the number of not so recently retired generals , all of whom have ties to military contractors who are going to benefit directly from this arms race that he has been tweeting about, including a nuclear arms race -- right, bring it on? thise to say, listening to defiant america first-ism, and bringing up what ralph said about how this is tapping into the failures and the weakness of the democratic party, he is 'seaking directly to people's feeling of being disappeared, neglected, and so on.

until there is a very clear alternative, that will continue to resonate despite all of the obvious hypocrisy sweet have been delineating all day. it does make me think about something -- we have been delineating all day. it does make me think about something else. i have been involved in the free trade battles for a couple of decades now, taking on -- going back to the original free trade agreement with canada, nafta, the creation of the debbie t o, and all of that, -- wto, and all of that, but i was never comfortable with the way, practically, the u.s. labor first-ismsed america and did not use enough the language of internationalism, including employing easy, and xenophobic language about the chinese, and opposing these deals on the basis of this easy nationalism, and unfortunately, that, i think, moral failure to stand up for the printable's of

international workers rights, interventional environmental thatards, is now something trump can and is picking up. some of these messages are picking up. it is too familiar. it is wonderful to see the internationalism in response to trump, and we're going to be an international movement because this is not something just happening in the united states. it is happening in the midst of austerity programs around the world. and donald trump acknowledged he was speaking to the world and not just the united states. naomi: one thing i liked is now that he -- now arrives the time of action -- since he has taken

pseudo-populist messages, i want to take that. amy: i want to go to president trump's first and a girl address. mr. trump: we will -- and all girl address. mr. . trump: we will organize te world against islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the year. -- face of the earth. amy: so, there you have president trump talking about eradicating radical islamic fairport -- terrorism, something he hit president obama hard on, saying he refused to use those words. years, led the birther movement, which said very clearly that president obama was an illegitimate president because he was not born in the united states, was a secret canyon.

he would say he has investigigators on it, the documents to prove it. let's start with you, naomi, on that issue. naomi: i think a lot of what he is signaling here -- and i think we have to recognize, people in this country, and around the world are very frightened right now. about beinged rounded up in this country, because he is absolutely signaling that it is immigrants, and particularly muslims that are going to be targeted first. that is clear in this rhetoric. there is this pseudo-, weird in innerf people cities, but this is what he is signaling -- who is first in line as the enemies, and i think that if we are to have any hope in this moment, there has to be an absolute clear result to have each other's backs.

this has to be a unified movement, as ralph said. they are going to be trying to do it all at once, and our only hope is not putting us into that state of shock, scrambling, and all directions, but really building a unified movement that gets out of our silos, that does not just say we are safe because he is going after muslims that we will keep our heads down and hope you does not come after us. that is basically what was tried during the bush years, and it has to be more courage than that. amy: ralph nader. mr. nader: few noticed he never used the word piece -- he does not know how to wage peace, and if he is going to produce more military action overseas, he will spread the opposition, just the way bush and obama did. it started with a gang in northeast afghanistan and 9/11,

and metastasized into 20, 30 countries, and will always be there as long as the argument of the fighters against us is get rid of the innovator. as long as we are there, as long as imperialism, militarism, big oil, etc. -- they will have the argument that will enlist a lot of people on their side in all of these countries. so, he just gave us a prescription for more war, more boomerang, more reach into this it can, and, of course, turn into a monster if that happens. we will have another major attack or two. completeurn into a monster in civil liberties, prpriorities, and lashing back overseas, massive destruction, and we end up with a militarized society and a police state. we are very bondable to that -- laudable to that. our defenses as a democratic

society were shown to be very weak after 9/11 and he has that kind of demagogic ability to rush tote that kind of a fury that he can feed, and he can do it directly with his twitter masses, as well as with the mass media. it is a frightening thing -- you always ask in an inaugural address, what words are never used, and reagan never used the words justice. he used freedom and liberty. there is no freedom and liberty without justice. ce,never uses the word pea and he has these cabinet generals aching for a fight, except for with russia. that is the one bright light. hillary clinton was waiting to

pick a fight with putin, andd that has enormous vererificatio, so we willll see what happens, it's what he does, but the idea of -- what he does, but the idea of blaming china and -- it was u.s. multinational is a -- multi-nationalism that incentivize these companies to go to china and to go to mexico. the best word to define mr. twistifs --trump is the ier in chief. keeanga: you can see the movement from the dog whistle to racism, but iound think he is also trying to do something interesting, to try to include african-americans into this america first by talking about how, you know, we have the

bute infested inner cities, we are going to save them, and they are americans like the rest of them, and we need to include them in our efforts to put down radical islamic terrorists, our efforts to build the wall and keep the mexicans out. i think there is a basic incoherence at the heart of that, which is that the policies is pursuing domestically will have a disproportionate impact in their harm on african-americans. so, for people who are in disproportionate need of state protection of a public sector -- that the efforts to subvert that, to get rid of those types of regulatory protections, but also those types of self -- social welfare programs will have a devastating impact on black people in particular. so, the effort to, sort of,

unite people around this false idea of america first by attacking immigrants, by attacking muslims is built on sand in some ways, and it is when youincoherence begin to unpack that. story, andll the naomi, before you weigh in, the obama's helicopter has just arrived. donald trump and melania trump are bidding farewell to michelle barack obama. kissedtrump just michelle obama on both cheeks -- keeanga: where are his hands? naomi: where are his hands. [laughter] was caughtent obama

saying we will be right around the corner. president obama is waiting -- waving. they will now head off to palm springs california, where they will take a brief respite and return to washington, d.c., where their youngest daughter will finish high school. inht now, donald trump, hand hand with his wife, melania trump, are leaving the helicopter. there will be a congressional lunch, and then there will be the inaugural parade. as you pointed out earlier, by donaldhe attempts trump to have more military presence at the inaugural parade, to actually have tanks rolling down the street was the doubt by the military -- shot down by the military. they did not want the extremely

heavy tanks wrecking the streets of washington, d.c. trump,ow, mr. and mrs. mr. and mrs. pence are waving goodbye to the obama's. this is democracy now, democracynow.org, war, peace, and the presidency, as we broadcast from washington, d.c., at howard university. naomi klein. naomi: well, just picking up on what keeanga was saying earlier about this, sort of -- building --s kind of falls racial false racial unity united against muslims, it is interesting that his chosen model for this was the military, right? he said as the soldiers know, we all bleed the same. that is what he is holding up as the model of going to war, and

overwhelmingly against muslim countries, and this, sort of, heavily armed, united america against all enemies, and i think that is the plan. that is the game plan. i think -- jim hightower once said it is not left-right, it is top-down, and there is a real argument to be made. if you want to unify ththe amererican people against the trump billionaires and plutocracy that just acquired the u.s. government -- they are no longer buying and renting politicians, they literally acquired the u.s. government with this minority vote that he by thed then won electoral college, which i hope is on the way out. there is an interstate compact with many states now, pledging, california, illinois, new york, to throw the electoral vote to whoever wins the national

popular vote. the website's nationalpopularvote.com. he comes in -- he is not a majority president any means. he is low in the polls, so he is looking to make some daring, spectacular moves. amy: that is very important -- 32%, 34% in the polls, compared to when barack obama came in, he was 50% higher, 84%. that popularity rating is 10 thets lower than obamacare, health insurance, which is at around 44% right now, and it looks like people like we have never seen before our flocking to get this insurance that republicans are pledging to repeal. mr. nader: i think we should have a betrayal index because he will start be trained people from day one. imagine the expectation levels he has done in this little speech -- as of now,w, street crime, and bad schools, stop,

and gangs stop. everything will start as of now. he is holding himself up. naomi: he is. we talked about twitter, it is not just about twitter, right? there is a news infrastructure that will be amplifying the message. i do not think we should underestimate trump's brilliance as a marketer. he will be marketing, consummate, everything that he is doing. keeanga: and i also think the problem folks were talking about inevitablywhen he fails -- when the content of the programs, bringing jobs backck, refurbishing the cities,s, transfororming america -- when that inevitably fails, he and his administration will double down on racism, double down on the wall, double down on radical islamic terrorists in our midst,

and double down on racism and the blacks in the inner city. that is the political formula -- it has been a bipartisan formula, and we are about to see that formula amplified in ways that we probably have not seen in more than a generation. amy: we are seeing new things on websites -- what just went up on the whitehouse.gov website. it is a plan to get rid of the climate action plan. you know, for months now, climate scientists have been trying to copy the documents and science on government websites around climate change, making in canada.h data so, what this plan now says -- -- s called, let's see america first energy plan."

it says "for too long we have been held back by burdensome regulations on our industry -- energy industry. president trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the climate action plan and the waters of the u.s. rule." what does that say to you, ralph nader? mr. nader: he means what he says. he is like a bowl in a china shop. they are coming into washington milliners, -- the billionaires, the corporatist, drunk on their own power, and they will fall into a lot of traps. they are disqualifying civil servants ability to resist. they will not cater to have their missions unlawfully disregarded. there will be e a lot of whistleblowers. he will get in trouble. mass media is turning against him, because he turned against the mass media that created him in the republican primary, so i

think we are underestimating the trouble he is getting into. i mean there is a certain level where the passivity of the american people, and the notorious apathy of the citizenry reaches its limit. as tony -- a labor leader once said, you can push around the american workers, and pushed them, and push them, and push them. once you go past a certain point, watch out. the rhetoric cannot match the low-wage economy he is going to try to preserve. it cannot t match the rented corporate crime waves against consumers, tenants, homeowners, students that he is going to preserve. so, i do not think he is going to be able to paper this over. we have to assume the democrats are going to start getting a a little smarter, and showing how many achilles heels he has, stararting with his own personalitity and is easily usae ego whichuiseable

makes him a risky politician from his own standards. amy: we want to go to the whole issue of the border wall and cracking down on immigration. the whitehouse.gov website also the section "standing up for our law enforcement community," our country needs more law enforcement, more unity engagement, more effective policing. president trump is committed to building a border wall to stop illegal immigration, the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities. he is dedicated to enforcing our border laws, ending sanctuary cities, and stemmiming the tidef lawlessness associated with illegal imimmigration. it also reads -- and i am meeting from the whitehouse.gov website that went up minutes ago -- "the dangerous, , anti-police atmospsphere in america is wron. the trump administration will

end it. the republican national convention, one of the speakers immediately said the first movement that they would go investigate,alize, was the black lives matter movement. keeanga, you have written a book about the black lives matter movement. what about this? where would these movements stand, or is this now being taken to a whole new level? keeanga: well, i think that trump said on the campaign trail that black lives matter was a terrorist movement, and that organizations connected to the wellent were terrorists as . so, i think that the movements against police violence and abuse has been in the crosshairs , against not just trump, but the republican party since its

inception. so, this presents a significant challenge to the black lives think movement that i should not be underestimated. i think that is very important. i think also, what we said earlier today is that the issues of solidarity, the ability to connect with other social movements organizing is c critil right now. i write about this in my book. the need for the movement against police abuse and violence to align and connect itself with all of the groups and people that are threatened by this, and that, most pronounced way right now, concerns the immigrant community. it concerns in the -- arabs and muslims in this country, and we

really have to actively develop those links. amy: which brings us to ai-jen -- ai-jen poo. , thenight, ai-jen poo director of the national domestic workers alliance spoke, and i had a chance to speak with her just before she addressed the thouousands of people that came out for that ball. ,i-jen: my name is ai-jen poo and i'm the director of the national domestic workers alliance, and we work with caregivers around the country, many who are immigrant women, undocumented, and women of color, who will be on the frontltlines of some of the attacks of this administration, and i will say i have in my mind one of my members, who was on our tele-town hall the day after the elecection, and she said toe -- she said " ai-jen, i risked my life, crossing the border through the desert, to give my children a better life through

this country, and i want to fight. i want to fight for them. i want to fight for this country, and i am ready." i have her very much in my heart inwe enter this next period american political life in we are all marching on saturday as part of the women's march on washington. we are extremely excited about it. we are expecting one million people to come to d.c. there are 600 marches around the country. it is a small indication of how much energy there is to take action, to stand up, and to build the most powerful opposition movement was his ever seen. amy: one of the news reports around wilbur ross, who would be the wealthiest cabinet member if he is confirmed, is that he employed an undocumented immigrant in his home for years, so he assured people -- he fired her. your thoughts? : a clear indication of

the hypocrisy of this administration, and of this notion that we could somehow uproot and just dispose of immigrants. immigrants are already so deeply embedded in our homes, in the fafabric of this country, and people who are taking the stance dispose of somehow and deport immigrants in this country is just the most andmerican kind of attitude action that he took that i can imagine. completely hypocritical. amy: how will you be organizing from here on in, and the people that you work with, what else are they telling you right now? are people afraid? ai-jen: people -- it is interesting, left a member i iscribed earlier, ana, who without a doubt going to be at

the top of the list when the immigration raids start happening -- she has multiple family numbers who have deportation orders -- she is incredibly courageous. she is ready to fight and to organize. she is part of building defense communitieies aroundnd the coun. we are preparing to defend communities, but also to fight for what we deserve. we believe that the best defense and we should not give up the space around the solutions that we need and deserve in this country, and we should continue building movements and the power to win them. ,my: that is ai-jen poo director of the domestic workers alliance, who will be out in force with domestic workers tomorrow on the women's march in washington dc. democracy now! will be covering that from 10:00 in the morning tomorrow until 3:00 in the afternoon. check that out on democracynow.org. naomi klein, you address the peace, and the issues you want

toto raise now in the first minutes of a donald j. trump administration. naomi: it is tremendously inspiring and a real source of hope that there are a lot of these intersectional spaces that are emerging, and movements coming together, recognizing that the only way you can confront an onslaught like this is with unity, but not by collapsing everything into itself, right? not pretending everything is the same, but by developing -- first of all, identifying how all of these issues are interconnected. certainly, they are connected within the trump administration. the same people denying climate change are some of the most openly racist of his appointees. and the solutions must be connected to. what worries me is this idea that because there are so many obvious contradictions, we can kind of wait for it to collapse

-- i think that would be disastrous. it cannot just be a resistance strategy. it has to be resisting on the one hand, and proposing on the other, because people do feel so neglected that if there is not a real alternative that speaks to neglect, i think that a strategy can be successful. amy: i want to thank ralph nader for joining us, four-time presidential candidate, a well-known, world-renowned consumer advocate. klein, you are listening to -- "this changes everything," and keeanga yamahtta taylor, author of "from blacklives matter to liberation." i am amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. stay with us.

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>> this is democracy now, democracynow.org. an inauguration day special. we're broadcasting live from whut on the campus of the historically black university, howard university. we are live on the air until 3:00 eastern time in his inauguration day special. i'm amy goodman. >> donald trump has just been sworn in as the 45th president of the united states. trump was sworn in by the supreme court chief justice john roberts. vice president mike pence was clarence thomas. while trump was being sworn in, thousands of protesters gathered in the streets of washington. hundreds of thousands are planning to take part in tomorrow's massive women's march on washington. protests against donald trump also taking place worldwide

today. ofi like to go to the author a -- white house. in a few moments we will be going to clarence. we think it's interesting as a look at this transition of power , to look at the new home that donald trump will be living in. not only the white house, but his new city, washington, d.c., and who is responsible for building it. we are going to go to clarence of howard university in a moment. as we broadcast here from howard university, just a mile or two from the capital where barack obama and michelle clarence tho. while obama have just flown away, it's important to note, the house they lived in. this is an issue that the first

lady, the former first lady, michelle obama used to raise. talking about making her own daughters were the descendents of slaves, aware of wholady held to build the white house. let's go right now to howard university alums. thatm glad you pointed out president obama when he went to jefferson's home pointed out the slave history there. it's important to note the most iconic building in the u.s., the one of represents the country to the world, the white house, also was a place where slavery existed. not only that, it was built by our slaves, and none of that has been publicly acknowledged. there's over a million people who visit the white house every year who go on tours and come from meetings. you can go through that building and never have a sense of that important history.

i think president's day should be a period of critical reflection, not some blind celebration. it should be one where we tried to get a better sense of the country's history. significantly before the civil war, nearly every u.s. president was a slave owner. that meant they were compromised on the issue of slavery and that had repercussions through history. it's critical that we have that acknowledgment because we grow up, we go to school, we have our history classes. none of that history is told to us. >> give us a black history of u.s. presidents, as you call it. >> in looking at the white house -- and i use that as the prism look at this longer

history that basically lead up to president obama, one of the things we find his missing in that history is the voice of the people, particularly african-americans who were enslaved during that long history. and that was critical because when you think about george washington, madison, munro, all of the early presidents who wrote the declaration of independence, they wrote the constitution, the articles of the confederation. all of these documents, founding that stole the principles of democracy, liberty, equality. that contradiction is that every single day of their life, every moment in their life, they were surrounded by people who were enslaved. fortunately because of the hihistoric records thahat have n kept, we now know who some of those people were. hisge washington,

presidency was in philadelphia, had at least nine individuals with him who were enslaved. maria judge, who was a young woman about 22, who escaped from george washington. she found out that martha washington was planning to give her away as a wedding gift. she made contact with the free black population in philadelphia and was able to escape. this is a remarkable because we are talking about a young woman who basically traveled nowhere by herself who escaped from the most powerful person on the much, pretty much the most powerful person in the united states. her story is important because she outlived washington. be in her 80's, and lived a life where she learned to read, became active in her community. you had hercules, washington's cook, who also escaped from washington. there are people who were in and around the white house who have

stories to tell that are part of that history that we literally were never taught about for all of these years that we took schooling and we took classes in history. i thought it was important and there are others who have written to reenter into the historic narrative the stories of these individuals because they really are critical, if you really want to understand the politics of george washington, the politics of thomas jefferson, or any of the other presidents who held slaves. >> tell us about paul jennings. >> paul jennings, another he was enslaved to the medicines, james and dolly madison. first individual to actually write about working in the white house. he published a memoir in the late 1860's that talked about the time when he was in the white house. he was there in 1814 when the

british literally were burning down the city and was part of a contingent of folks who were attempting to give -- get materials out of the white house before the british came. he had a fascinating history. he was supposed to be free when james madison died but dolly reneged on thely deal. it took him a few years to buy his freedom, which he eventually did. he came to help dolly madison. she fell on hard times. she wasn't a wealthy person and she wasn't part of the social elite of washington. when she fell on hard times and her family and friends abandoned her, jennings would often bring her food and money and look after her. what's also important about paul alsongs is that he was central to the largest attempt at escaping from slavery that happened in washington, d.c.

this happened in 1848. for a number of reasons, the escape attempt failed, but er brought in,ev never seem to be part of it, it was only literally after his death that it was revealed that he played a critical role in that. my point is that you had these individuals who were enslaved to presidents who had fascinating weries and lives, that should know about, because they really are also part of the history of the white house and the history of the presidency. >> i want to play a clip from the trailer of the film released last year about president abraham lincoln and the fight to end slavery in the united states. in this clip you first hear abraham lincoln, followed by the voice o of fighting a stevenensd mary todd lincoln. thehe fate if human dignity iss

in o our hands. -- of human dignity is in o our hands. >> a abraham lincoln has askskes toto work with him to acaccomplh the death h of slavevery. >> no one has ever been loved so much by the people. don't waste that power. >> that was an excerpt of "lincoln." talk about abraham lincoln and slavery. >> the lincoln administration was a turning point in terms of the history of relationships between african-americans and the white house. it was during lincoln's tenure that the first meeting took place between a u.s. president and leaders of the black community. this happened in 1862, i believe. this was critical because up and to that point, although

northn-americans in the have been organized and have been raising issues, policy issues, issues around slavery, they simply had no access to the white house or to policymakers. lincoln would open up some of that space, and part of what i think moved lincoln from being not just simply antislavery but ultimately to recognizing that you had to eliminate slavery, that abolition was the only path forward. in part, it came because of his discussion with black leaders. not only church leaders, that people like frederick douglass. but also, discussions with elizabeth kegley. in the film, she is the woman who is often seen with mary lincoln. she's played by gloria reuben in the film. the film is a little bit disingenuous in that you can think that maybe she was a servant, but in fact she was an

independent businesswoman who had become basically best friends with mary lincoln. spent a great deal of time at the white house, having discussions with abraham lincoln about race, slavery, the future of the country. her story is important to be told because she again was part of a contingent of african-americans who sought to influence the presidency and to address issues that needed to be dealt with. "lincoln"e movie doesn't quite take you there to show you that side of the people who influence lincoln, but it is an important part of understanding what happened in the civil war and how lincoln actually got to the point where he said the only way out of the situation is that slavery has to end. >> than that moment, that meeting. abraham lincoln does somethingng unprecedented. he meets with a small delegation

of black leaders, clergy. >> right. at that point, lincoln had already decided to issue the emancipation proclamation. there was some debate about which date to issue it on. but he was already moving in a position where he saw the a future future as without slavery. and these leaders that he met mostly wereople who tied to the black church community, but people who also had ties to abolitionists and people who were active in other kinds of issues around the country. that really was kind of a turning point, and since that point, there has been a considerable amount of effort on the part of african-americans to negotiate and to meet with and lobby, not only in congress, but ves.president themsel

>> talk about these iconic structures that kids, adults go d.c. to honoron, this country, the white house, the capital. who built it? >> this is really important, because i think there may be some sense more generally that washington owned slaves and jefferson owned slaves, but i think there's a general ignorance about the role of people who were enslaved and actually building the nation's capital. the country was founded, the congress passed legislation to build a capital. washington, d.c. did not exist. there was a decision that land ceded from maryland and virginia would become the nation's capital and it had to be built and it would take 10 years. this is why washington sent all his -- spent all his presidedeny inin new york or pennsnsylvania. to build washington, d.c. you needed labor. george washington, who was -- who built who built the

buildings, the white house, and other buildings in washington, d.c. clarence, howard university alum and author of the black history of the white house. we spoke to him a few years ago when his book came out. yes, we are broadcasting from howard university, from whut, and right now president obama, former president obama, is speaking. president obama: put your heart and soul not just into our campaigns, but into making schools better. making sure our veterans got the care they need. making sure that we left behind a planet that is safe and secure for our kids.

making sure that hard-working people have a letter of opportunity to support families. der of opportunity to support families. all of you have just done amazing, remarkable work. most of it unheralded, most of it without fanfarere. most of it without you getting any word of thanks. we could not be prouder. i could not be prouder. this has been the privilege of my life. i know i speak for michelle as well. continuingward to this journey with all of you. and i can't wait to see what you do next. and i promise you i will be right ththere with you. all right? god bless you. thank you, everybody. yes, we did. yes, we can.

god bless america. obamamer president barack with his wife, michelle obama, applauding at his side. he's at andrews air force base, where he will take the plane that they will take to palm springs, california for a vacation before returning whereo washington, d.c., we heard barack obama saying to donald trump just before he was inaugurated as the 45th president, as they were walking through thee c capital with h an mike, he said i'll be just around the corner. because he will be living just around the corner from the white house. when he ascended the podium at andrews, people were chanting "yes we can, yes we can." this is a "democracy now!"

special broadcast of inauguration day of the 45th president of the united states, donald j. trump. donald trump was sworn in by the chief justice of the united , and theustice roberts vice president, mike pence, was sworn in by clarence thomas. i'm amy goodman share with -- here with nermeen. we are joined by two guests. black is the cofounder of lives matter and the director for special projects of the national domestic workers ,lliance, and still with us alan. to get a comment on that speech, president trump just gave his 15 minute inaugural address. your thoughts? is the most substantive

inaugural addresess i can rememr hearing. usually they are full of platitudes. this was packed with is the mose inaugural address i can remember political program. and it shows how serious this guy is. it shows how serious this movement is. we are facing a national emergency now. it's not a joke. has a team consisting of the most radical political party in american history, arguably current60, the republicans. he has a cabinet who believes in oligarchy unbound without limits , a lot of individuals in there looks to be very competent at their assigned task of dismantling those aspects of their respective departments that serve the poor, or working

people, as opposed to the rich. in that speech, which was a collection of the most severe moments from his sub speeches, you really felt again some of the ranist undertones through his campaign. this was a real signal. people better organize now. because up to now, in the course of this campaign, american progressives have not done very well. it was remarkable that sanders got as far as he did, but he didn't make it over the line, which is in a sense all that counts in the end. stopped.ld not be it's an interesting parallel with what happened in peru last year, in the peruvian elections. there you had three main

candidates, a progressive, a neofascist.and a mendoza, the progressive, narrowly was edged out of getting into the second round by the neoliberal. thehen faced in the runoff daughter of the former president, who had sponsored and ruled in a proto-fascist manner. she was promising to bring that back. although they were heartbroken by the narrow defeat of and rula veronica mendoza, the progressive candidate who had promised to in a very constructive direction, the peruvian

backing the neoliberal, figuring he would do less damage, and pushing him narrowly over the line. that didn't happen here,peruviap the return of neofascism by andw we've got trump and the radical oligarchs. they are prepared to devastate the last 100 years of social progress. one thing that has been hasresting to see is trump been working through his transition. he's got the preparation to wreck government as a force for working and poor people. one party hasn't addressed yet is mass mobilization of his people. i've been wondering if at some point he's going to do that. that's always a key element of any key fascscist type movement. is he going to set up trump leagues at the grassroots level that canthat's always a key elef go and gather outside progressive gatherings and intimimidate them, startrt rougg people up.

the tone of that speech suggests that may be the next step. amy: not far from the inauguration route, there is going to be a parade that donald trump will leave. we are goingng to turn right now to democracy now!'s carla wells. talk about what's happening .here [inaudible] we are going to try to make it

easier for you to be able to hear that report. somehow the microphone doesn't seem to be working properly. we will get there. earlier today carla was reporting from the black lives matter rally. but i think we have that microphone right now. if you can repeat what you are saying, talk about what's happening now, if there are protesters around you, if you could let us hear what someone has to say. >> thousands of folks all across the country coming for that. one of the most beautiful things i'd ever seen. on the other hand, we have been facing extreme repression from supporters. i got punched in the stomach here by a large man. it's definitely a mixed bag of emotions today. >> how long will you be out here today? >> i'm here to support the future of feminists checkpoints. we have four women locked down

and changed within the security checkpoint and they have requested that we stay here and shut it down and support them until they get arrested. >> what are your greatest concerns about this trump presidency, particularly in terms of what policies may be, about women, his record? >> my biggest concern is a normalizing a hateful agenda. donald trump threatens every community in our country except for rich, white men. i think the biggest threat is our fellow americans around the world normalizing this type of outrageous behavior that you hear. eporter: we are here at the intersection of 10th street and e. is now in the process of being shut down. here by a large man. this is a route along 10th street to get inside the

checkpoint to see the inaugural parade. heregain, a protest shutting it down right now. a continuation of what we've seen all day. there are trump supporters who are confronting all of the activists along the routes along the city. again, more confrontations going on right around this as we speak. we will continue to give you live updates on what's going on here from tents and. e.10th and amy: e. that was carla wells on the streets of washington, d.c. .eena is also there special thanks to our videographer. tona, can you introduce us activists where you are right now? ,eena: pennsylvania avenue

where protesters are waiting for the presidential motorcade. [inaudible] deena,u're listening to but we are going to go to that report in just a minute. continue there in studio, journalist and activist, spends a good deal of time in asia and indonesia in particular, also in guatemala and latin america. as you look at what is taking place with donald trump. are one of the only journalists who from the beginning said that donald trump would win, even when all the other pollsters and journalists and networks with their high-tech gadgets were showing the polls indicated a clinton sweep. you from the beginning to the end, even in times of the

greatest controversy like when that videotape came out of donald trump saying that he sexually assaulted women, you still said, i think he's going to eke out a victory. >> well, because polls are very oldrate at measuring the electorate that turned out last time. they give you a very good picture of where that old electorate stands now. but they can't know who's going to turn out this time great and what trump did was mobilize. he mobilized his people, he mobilized various kinds of white americans. i believe he got 58% of the white vote. clinton did not mobilize the democratic base, so the electoral model as reflected in the polls were a bit off. clinton still won the popular vote by a couple points so the polls weren't that far off.

trump did the mobilization strategically. etc.,higan and wisconsin, and the clinton people did it. so, he won. now, we have the prospect of a president who came to office was campaign that proto-fascist in many respects and was described that way across the political spectrum, from old white republicans to centrists to l lt-wing pepeople. he's got his cabinets in place, and now, i think, from that speech, the next phase could be mobilizing his public. getting his trump people out on to go after progressive people, public officials who step out of line,

to intimidate, to change the atmosphere. he's got that capacity. the a capacity that political right and the corporations never had before. it is something that hasn't been in americanhile politics. i in american politics. if people think ththere is repression now, you ain't seen nothing yet. among those internationally who like admires, are figures those from the philippines, who talked about the need to murder millions of filipinos and hasugh police death squads, thousand,eral ostensibly in a war against drugs, a really targeting many just ordinary poor people on the streets. say, just talking

about international news, we just got word, this latest tweet from gamambia. it says, the third president of the republic of the gambia, he said that, i would like to scheduled to step down. a very interesting development. gambia a little sliver of land in senegal, where the previous presidents said he would step down. he went on television, had a i concede and said, see the presidency to you, but then said god had spoken to him and he would rule for a billion years. the west african of senegalese soldiersrs and other countries

moved into gambia to remove the defeated president, and the wasent incoming presidents sworn in as president in the gambian embassy in dakar, senegal. it looks like this conflict has been resolved. >> when it comes to authoritarianism, gambia and the u.s. are moving in opposite directions. it is the u.s. that is moving towards authoritarianism and gambia t that is moving away frm it. who ist's go to deena, joined by a teacher activist brian jones in the streets of washington, d.c., just before the inaugural parade. tell us what's happening there. deena: protesters are continuing theieir opposition to donald trp waiting for the

presidential motorcade to drive by. it's a very mournful yet defiant theme here. protesters have out to continue despite the long lines. we are joined by a longtime education activist, brian jones. tell us where you come from and what you have seen here at the protests. >> i'm coming from new york city. wewe drove early in the morningo get here through the secreret service checkpoint, which was quite an ordeal. ii got an pretty quickly, only about an hour waiting online, because we got here at 6:00 in the morning. people who got here at 7:00 in the morning waited three hours ononline who also came from new york, and friends of mine who arrived from bostoton told me ty waited five hours on line. the secret service played a role in disrupting this protest. as we were discussing earlier, this is the only permitted si te for protesting during today's event. people are allowed to be here,

but the secret service effectively disrupted the protest by making people wait 1/2 day just to get inside. deena: you heard the speech donald trump gave recently. what was your reaction to what he said? >> i understand why some people think donald trump is going to deliver for them because he really swung for the fences and made it promises. -- big promises. but i think when you look at the messages underlying his speech,, there is something that should frighten us. he's promising that he is going to deliver for some people and not for others. he's talkingou" to, who are the people that are going to get their country back? and we know that there are some people, from his earlier rhetoric, who will be left out of that. for people who are included, he made great promises. they are n not going to have problems with crime..

but i fear for the people who are left out of his vision. immigrants, people of color. he went out of his way to praise the police. we are having year after year an epidemic of police violence and murder. there are some people who are left out of these big promises. he's promising people a kind of collectivity that he is saying will deliver a great life. you are a longtime education activist. your reaction to his pick for education secretary? >> it seems like she's similar to other picks he's made in that she knows very little about the department she is supposed to be overseeing. it was clear from her prepared statement and it was clear from her confirmation hearing that she really doesn't have much to say about what teaching and

learning should look like. she's not an educator. she doesn't have any idea what a classroom should look like or what school should look like. her entire proposition is that we can fix what's wrong with schools by changing how we shuffle students around via, in her proposals, choice mechanisms . if we introduce more competition between schools and shuffle around students between the schools, he will end up with great schools. we've seen this neoliberal privatized vision of choice. we've seen it realized in detroit, in lououisiana, and it really ends up resulting in -- and reaffirming and reinstating the same kind of divisions and hierarchy and inequalities that have plagued american education all along. it's not really a solution. we need an educator in that position, not someone who really just is pushing privatization.

it's quite frightening. she lied in her senate testimony. she said she has nothing to do with the so-called conversion therapy for gay people and she doesn't participate in her mother's foundation, but she's on record for several years back being on the board of directors. is that a clerical error? the reality is we have an anti-gay bigot who will be in charge of the nation's schools and school children. that is a frightening proposition. people who care about schools, children, parents, teachers, community members, now is the time to speak up and fight back, exercise your right to have civil disobedience, refused to take standardized tests. exercise your right as parents to opt your children out of the standardized tests and throw a wrench in the years of the privatization mechanism.

there's a lot we can do to fight back. we had better get started doing it. deena: thank you so much. na onemocracy now!, i'm m dee pennsylvania avenue right next to capitol hill and the white house and the trump hotel here in washington, d.c. amy: deena on the streets. i'm amy goodman, and we are in the studios at the pbs station whut at howard university with a journalistlann, and activist, as well as the black lives matter co-founder, alicia garza. alicia, we wanted to get your comments. this is very interesting. at 11:59, the website of whitehouse.gov was wiped clean and a new website went up. and that is the trump administration website. it says, first and foremost, it

was going to wipe out under the climate section the climate action plan and work towards deregulation. standing upon on for our law enforcement community, it reads, our country needs more law enforcement, more community engagement, and more effective policing. theit goes on to say, dangerous anti-police atmosphere in america is wrong. the trump administration will end it. matter, your organization, decentralized throughout the country, really rose up in response to police killings of young african americans. can you comment on this new position, this new administration? this is obviously a moment where everyone is trying to get our bearings. frankly, this has been an impending threat that folks have

felt is coming for a while, and during the campaign we say a lot i this rhetoric from rudy giuliani, who said the black lives matter itself is racist and he had done more for black people than black lives matter had. you had sure if david clark, who was essentially saying that black lives matter is an urban warfare organization that should be compared to isis. we have been seeing this kind of rhetoric that is essentially trying to change the narrative from responsibility and accountability for law enforcement that does not actually protect and serve, but instead acts as judge, jury, and a secure she and her comment to this additional rhetoric of what weo make sure that see about law enforcement is not that they essentially need to change the way that policing is happening, but instead that we have curated some kind of anti-law-enforcement climate and

environment grade all i can say is that's not true. what we see in places all over the country is that law enforcement is still, for better or for worse, continuing to be valorized, even in the face of questionable incidents and cases, at least 1000 last year alone, where people who are unarmed are being killed by police and there is no accountability for those actions. i can also say that i think there's a racial rhetoric that is underlying all of this as well. and we are seeing here, quite frankly is that in the inauguration speech rhetoric and in the rhetoric meeting up to this very moment -- leading up to this moment, there is a notion that white people are being forgotten about and black people and folks of color and women and other oppressed groups are getting all the attention, getting extra rights. and it's garbage.

this is stuff we can expecect to sesee over the next two years, four years, and hopefully not eight years, which is that essentially, there is a way in which trump and his administration are setting up a set of rules for some people and another set of rules for other people. what we want to do is close the gap. if we are really concerned about how it is that we protect democracy, it means we have to have one set of rules for everybody to adhere to. unfortunately, what we see in this incoming administration is that there will be one set of rules for rich and white people. there will be another set of rules for people of color, carp -- color, women, immigrants, or anyone who is considered different than the trump -- i'm not even going to say majority, but anybody who is associated with trump's fiefdom. wereinterestingly, as we

broadcasting just now, the in air force -- what is the plane they took off in? they flew off to palm springs for a vacation before returning home to washington as private citizens. maybe the same time -- you have the documentation, the actual scripts of the new press secretary, sean spicer. at that moment, president trump was signing a series of proclamations. if you can share with us sean spicer's first three tweets as press secretary of the new president. >> now apparently they have multiplied. so first he thanked josh earnest, his predecessor at the white house, obama's press

secretary, and then he explained the 3 -- because we saw that while obama was leaving, trump are a shortly after making his inaugural speech and started signing documents which of course weren't visible to us, and his press secretary informs us via twitter that he was signing three things. bill into law, formal nominations to senate, and a proclamation for a national day of patriotism. can you respond to that? alicia: while we are seeing is the introduction of a pro-fascist administration. i think what we can expect over the next two years, is what i'm hoping, 4 years more likely, is there will be these types of unilateral actions that are being taken that continue to

narrow and put many different types of boundaries around peop le's rights, people's liberties, and also people's abilities to understand what is happening in their own government. we are seeing the gap between what the trump administratations saying they will be doing, and the actual kind of implementation of that. two separate set of rules. one set of rules for them, another set of rules for the rest of us. i watched president obama's last press conference and he talked a lot about the advice that he trump coming into president obama's role. essentially he said, one of the things i warned him about was if you find yourself taking action unilaterally, if you find yourself taking action with people who only agree with you,

you should stop and ask yourself, what am i doing? what obabama was able to do, whether you agree with everything he did or not, what he was able to do was to build really effective coalitions of people who didn't always agree, but he found the common denominator. the other thing i think we should be paying attention to, and i was watching the signing disappointedery with our own legislators, right -- nancy pelosi is from my state. and or does seem to be the sway onwhich folks are going business as usual, as if they are just participating in pomp and circumstance and not actually grappling with the weight of this moment. i'm concerned about what the resistance will look like in the democratic party.

and i think all of us should be concerned about that. quite frankly, there are at of our democratic legislators who did not attend this inauguration today, and they should be commended. and then there are a majority of senate democrats who didn't participate. participate. really trying to push to make sure there is an actual a plannce plan, but also to govern differently and alternatives that are being put forward to be able to govern differently. just swirling around the internet right now that pbs, ap, everyone is also tweeting out. said, donaldpbs trump has vowed that his inauguration will draw unbelievable, perhaps record-setting turnout. "usa today" says the washington transit agency tweeted a little before noon that there were 193,000 trips taken today, down

from 513,000 by the same time january 20, 2009, and less even then george w. bush's second inauguration in 2005. wrote, federal and local agencies have estimated that 900,000 from 700,000 to people will be in washington, d.c. today for trump's inauguration, roughly half the number of people who attended obama's inauguration in 2009. it's also less than the turnout for obama's 2013 inauguration which drew a million people. the significance of these numbers, and also, just thiss language in his 15 minute address, using words like a decree across the land, make america first, or just america first, using words like allegiance, and now, in one of sean spicer's first tweets as

press secretary, talking about a day of hatred. of the turnout, the very low turnout for trump, i think the key fact is in an impoportant sense it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter at all because they have the power. it d doesn't matter in a sense that he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million. it doesn't matter. he's the chair with the presidentitial pen, and not just his hand on the button, but his hand on the use of violence all over the world. u.s. special forces just under obama recently gone into 138 countries. strikes, assassinating and one country after another. all this under obama. now that apparatus is in trump's hands. it doesn't matter, because the

republicans have become very proficient in recent decades at political engineering, at studying in a serious way, anyway the democrats have not, exactly what the rules are, exactly what meetings you have to go to, what levers you have to pull and push, and through things like voter suppressionon, throrough gerrymandering, throuh redistricting, through the passage of laws regarding ., theyn-finance, etc have been able too win political power with a minority of political support. and, people in oppoposition to them have to getet serious about learning this kind of political engineering. earlier you were talking about enforcing the law. same rules for everybody. the idea is equal justice under the law, which is supposed to be a credo of the american system.

we don't have that in this country. if we had equal justice under the law, donald trump would have done time for sexual assault. general mattis, his current defense nominee, would have stood trial for the wedding massacre. this was a wedding party in iraq, near the border of syria, in 2004 when mattis was in command, and his troops went in and bombed and slaughtered the people. he was asked about it afterwards. he said, we thought they were insurgents. he was asked, how long did you deliberate on this? for about 30 seconds. he gave it the back of his hand. in a serious system of equal justice, he would've had to stand trial for that rather than being elevated to power in high office. mattis is one of the figures around him democrats and republicanans have coalesced. the democrats praise him to high heaven. he was invited to speak at both the republican and democratic

conventions. he was the man put forward by the bill kristol neocon, -- bill kristol neocon figure. there is a consensus within the u.s.-washington system in favor of the killing of foreign civilians. if we really had equal justice under law, every past president would have to stand trial for the role in the killing of civilians. in terms of the conduct of police on the streets, my god, think of it. what are the chances now that under a trump administration, police killings of unarmed african americans go down as opposed to going up? what are the chances that white vigilantes with guns become less active as opposed to becoming more active? and how is the trump justice department going to react the first time there is another videotape case -- videotaped

case of a black civilian being shot by the police, and the community responds with repudiation for the police? what are they going to do? do time fort never this, or the protesters. at least if we know there's been violence against protesters, police there hasn't been attempted systematic prosecution. now there's every indication that that could be a priority of this new justice department. amy: abs -- alicia: absolutely. billshave been five introduced in five states to criminalize any protest that happens on a transportation system. amy: indiana the home state of pence. alicia: essentially what they are trying to prevent us what they're calling economic terrorism. when you block transportation, block freeways, block buses or

train systems, essentially they are saying you are blocking commerce, and that under these new bills will become a crime. i couldn't agree with you more that we have a bigig contradictn in terms of the idea of democracy that the united states and what we actually inhabit and what we practice. at the same time, i think if a resistance -- i think a resistance is possible. we have the talk about what kind of democracy we want to see, and we have to start drawing out in very clear ways that it's not enough to have allegiance to the democratic party or the republican party, that in fact we need to be very serious about building an independent political power that has the thistial to reshape country and the way that we interact around the world. amy: block traffic and you die? alicia: exactly.

in the image of the vision we want. i want to make that clear. over the next few years, it's very possible that what progressives can start to do is pick things apart so much that people actually feel like there's nothing that can be done. it is an overwhelming situation we're facing right now. this is a moment where we do have to start saying, what is it that we want to see? what are we seeing right now, and harding -- how do we close the gap between what we want to? see and what we are seeing right now to see and what- we are seeing right now. one of the reasons trump also wasis because nobodody actually talking about the populism that really exixists in this country, where people do want folks to pay attention to the experiences and the that multiple communities are living in. people do want these political parties to pay attention to what

economic security really means, without exploiting people's labor, and certainly without taking advantage of people and having some people have another people not have. and then of course, i think people want to address the contradictions in our political system, where hillary was certainly seen as somebody who didn't tell the truth, she was seen as somebody who again, in similar fashion to donald trump, had a set of rules for herself and the people around her, and a different set of the other folks. that is something we have to address a serious way. i appreciated your example earlier from peru. i couldn't agree more. there also needs to be a very cogent strategy coming from progressives, or whoever identifies that way, that is not just about the ideal that we want and turning away from everything if it's not the ideal that we want, but that it's towardsking chess moves

the vision that we want. sometimes by doing things that don't feel good, but actually do move us forward. >> what type of things? alicia: who duly coalesce around when we have a major threat, somebody like donald trump, but the candidate that so many people are rallying around clearly isn't going to win. absolutely awas missed opportunity, and it's a disagreement that i had with many people. when you take a step like that and you say, i don't really care for hillary clinton but i really don't care for donald trump, and so i'm going to get behind her in order to eliminate this threat, one thing progressives can do is eat each other alive and say, you are not radical enough. honesty, there is a mandate that we have every want to be serious about governing, which is to keep our people safe and keep our people alive so

that we can continue the fight towards what it is that we actually want. i couldn't agree with you more. idea abouta key finding and advancing ideas that lots of people can rally around. expand, notto contract. not to get into smaller and smaller groups, but get into big groupsps that can take power and mamake thingngs better. ion is -- be evenhanded. enforce the law. you do the crime, you do the time, no matter who you are. even if you happen to be a member of the police force, even if you happen to be a local prosecutor, even if you happen to be a general or president of the united states. in some way it's a very american notion, because americans pride

themselves on the idea of fairness and giving everyone a fair shake. that is one reason sports are so popular, especially among men. the game,hat in everybody has to abide by the rules, it's clear, guys love that. a lot of these guys who ends up voting for trump apply the same principle to law and order. amy: democracy now! is going for another hour in this special live inauguration broadcast. the inaugural parade will be beginning soon. we will be joined by angela davis, longtime activist bringing us a historical perspective. we have been speaking with alicia garza, cofounder of black lives matter. i'm amy goodman.

amy: this is "democracy now!" , war, peace,org and the presidency. i'm amy goodman. we are broroadcasting live from pbs station whut, on the campus of historically black university howard university. we are live on the air for onone more hour this inauguration day with president donald j. trump sworn into office just two hours ago by the chief justice of the united states, judge roberts. before that, just minutes was swornke pence into office as vice president of the united states by justice clarence thomas clarence thomas. we are going to turn right now to cory booker, who made history last week, the senator from new

challenged the candidacy, the nomination of a sitting senator, his colleague, alabama senator jeff sessions. last night, at the piece all at the african-american museum, run by the smithsonian's attention, the most recent museum that has been built, i had a chance to talk with new jersey senator booker. made historyr, you this week. senator booker: i don't know about making history, but i definitely spoke my mind against someone who is coming in to be the highest law enforcement officer in the land, who has systematically spoken out against actions the justice department has been taking on voting rights, police accountability, really, to advocate for the mold -- more vulnerable populations of our country. it was a time i just could not be silent, and he is not

confirmed yet and i'm going to continue to do everything i can to try to stop him. amy: what do you most objects to your colleague senator sessions? before you answer that, the fact that you were testifying at the end of the confirmation hearing rather than you and your colleagues like congress member john lewis testifying at the beginning -- isn't it customary for congress member sessions to speak first? senator booker: i will talk more about the sessions in general, but i broke custom, and they broke custom. i will not get into a tit-for-tat on those things. i was happy to have an opportunity to speak in front of a committee were even republicans have joined with us on criminal justice reform efforts. the one senator that has been -- one of the few senators that has been an outlier, jeff sessions was one of the legislators against justice reform.

it is not one thing with jeff sessions. this is someone who spoke out against the matthew shepard act, against violence against gays and lesbians, spoke out against the violence against women act, spoke out against the justice department reducing sentencing. this is a person who has againstntly spoken out issues of protection where the justice department has a role, especially since the 1957 civil rights act to protect civil rights, someone who has been hostile to so many of these issues to now be running that agency, for so many of us whoo have been living with these issues and fighting or them their entire career, the threat of him becoming the highest law enforcement officer in the country is real and unfortunately, very present. amy: do you think he will be confirmed? senator booker: i'm a prisoner of hope, so i will hold onto that help, but he has a very only the of cards, not

republican majority, but at least one of my democratic colleagues has come out and said they might support senator sessions. amy: who? want tobooker: i don't put him in a box and i'm hopeful he will change his view. amy: will you be going to the inauguration tomorrow? senator booker: i will be. of my colleagues who are not. president obama will be there. i respect the presidency if not what donald trump has been doing. as soon as that hand goes up on the bible and he swears his oath, i will continue what i'm doing right now, planning and working to strategize him from -- planning and working and strategizing to stop him from doing the things he said he would. amy: donald trump tweeted on martin luther king weekend that john lewis is all talk, talk, talk, no action. your thoughts? senator booker: that's hurtful, not just to me, but from all the

americans who drank from the well of his efforts. thisw -- in fact, i said in my testimimony before knowing donald trump would attack him as he did that i can literally link my family possibility to move into the town i grew up in, the lawyers involved are visiting us, interviewed one of them a couple of years ago said he was inspired to get involved with civil rights work in new jersey because of the people that work on the pettus bridge. john lewis is not only an actor on behalf of this country, but he stood up against dogs and billy clubs and untold violencn. if there's anybody that should set the standard for presidents, congresspeople, public servants of all types, it's john lewis. he is a legend. i do not mind you disagreeing but-- disagreeing with him, to attack his character makes my blood boil. amy: let me ask you a question where you spoke against senator

sessions but then voted against senator sanders' bill. i wondered if you could talk about the whole issue of keeping drug prices low, perhaps importing them from canada. people were somewhat surprised that you voted against that. senator booker: i'm actually glad a lot of progressive bloggers are coming out saying that they got this wrong. politico today called it misleading what people are saying. we were unified as a caucus voting for not a bill -- it was really just a sense of the senate about doing things to hold prices down. senator sanders did put something forward -- not a bill, not a piece of legislation but an amendment that acts as a nonbinding statement of purpose. a lot of us talked about putting some extra sentences, literally words to say that we should make sure that they are safe. in america, a bottle of drug gets you sick, we have technology to find out where those drugs come from. the same thing should happen for imports, especially if we have

seen drugs coming from canada are not the safe canadian drugs but are repackaged drugs coming from somewhere else. i support things pharmaceutical companies hate even more than are canadian drugs cheaper? it's because canada is able to use the power of the government 's collective buying. somehow thpharmaceututicals in this nation were e able to convince the governmnment not to negotiatate down medicare part . we should do a lot of other , like pharmaceutical companies have allowed something called a delay in pay. people want to put generics out,

and they allow them to take payments s not to put the cheapr drugs on the markets, so there's lots of things we can do, but when i saw this week, and thank god now the rest of the bloggers -- rising about it, was senator sanders and i talked a lot about this issue -- a false fight around progressives trying to string up a bunch of democrats who just because they were looking for one more sentence on a nonbinding messaging bill, a lot of people tried to run with that and say what theybetrayed on stood for. i stand for imports and things that are more dramatic that .eciprocal companies opposed amy: do you think it was fair ? e criticisms people have are peopleker: there who receive more money than i do that support that bill. with, it had nothing to do

it. i love my city. i love my community. we have a wealth of talent, spirit, community, but i have to go home to one of the poor census tracts, and my commitment, these are the folks that i got into politics to represent and serve, the most vulnerable people -- that's where my heart is. i would never do anything that any corporation wants to do that's contrary to the interests of those struggling in this country. i feel like the reaeal issue we should have been talking about in the progressive community these last few days is what is really coming around health care, which is the repeal of the affordable care act, which even the cbo has said that if we allow republicans to go through with that, 18 million americans will lose their insurance in the first year alone. when i look at my community that is struggling, i'm glad to be working with senator sanders and a lot of otherer progressives -- patty murray, another

significant progressive, voted against it as well. all of us are intent, unified on fighting republicans, who are the real threat when it comes to health care in america right now. i'm happy with my caucus even though we have people farr more conservative than me. they are actually real partners when it comes to the overall fight on lowering drug prices but more importantly, preserving health care f for all. most americansns do not realize- even peoplee that voted for donald trump do not really get it yet, but the agenda they put forward on health care, on the full rights, even on making sure things werere made in amerericad fightiting for lababor unions -o many of the things they are proposingg for the people they putt an offifice like e the seca ofof labor, who is a against a 5 minimum wage or was against a , they doage, period not realize these are policies being put forth at a time when

we should be expanding social security. why do we have 5 million people in america, seniors on social security living below the poverty line? that's unacceptable, and here are people threatening to cut back on social security? we need to get folks will -- , as they say. trumpast question, ivanka holdlding a fundraiser for you n 2013. where did it happen? your thoughts on her and her father today? senator booker: it was not a senate fundraiser, it was back when i was mayor of newark, and the cushion or family -- she was married to a kushner -- was very involved helping me out in my career, and i am proud of that, as were people on both sides of the political aisle. i wawas fighting against machine politics. there has been an ososcar-nominated movie about te battle we took.

african-american kid in newark now has a 300% greater chance of going to a high-quality school then before our efforts. from everything from the largest park expansion in the century to helping prisoners when they come home, we were getting a lot of things and compress, and i was happy to have the support of everybody. even chris christie, who i have to write a dissertation on my disagreements about, we found common ground and was actually able to help my city. amy: do you feel like you have an inroad in dealing with the trumps? she is a real powerhouse behind donald trump. never knew her i as a republican. i was happy she brought al gore to meet with donald trump. she spoke out for more paid family leave. as much as i think donald trump got to the white house by the

meaning and degrading people and inciting a a lot of hatred in if country, the reality is you want to attack things like carried interest, that is something i would love to see. amy: you have been listening to new jersey senator cory booker. i interviewed him last night at the smithsonian new african-american museum here in washington, d.c. this is "democracy now!" live coverage. teargas and flash bangs as riot police clash with activists on the streets of washington, d.c. we are going to turn now to carlo willes. can you tell us what is happening, where you are, and described the scene. carla: we are seeing police and protesters here, police in full riot gear. we are at the intersection of k street and 12th northwest, where there has been a confrontation between police and full riot gear and protesters.

police holding the line here at have been crossing throwing pepper spray, concussion grenades, teargas, and protesters who have thrown some rocks at the police, again, dressed in full riot gear. there are about i would say 500 protesters here holding the area. spraying pepper spray directly into protesters' faces, into the area, teargas, concussion grenades. again, rocks have been thrown. police have pretty much held the entire intersection from 12th on all four corners, pushed protesters back. we understand this confrontation began when a protester was asked to the police to step back. the police then pepper sprayed the protester, and it escalated from there. again, there are police in all right gear here across 12

street, k, and northwest repeatedly throwing tear, ,oncussion grenades, and n now we've got helicopters overhead. tell us your name, where you are from, and what is going on right here. n. my name is an i'm actually from new york. there were a bunch of people who were being kettles, which is when they block you in, two by one, and then they started shooting teargas, concussion grenades, pepper spray, and now we have all been separated, and now we are here. it escalate tod that point? quach -- >> a march that up with us. we were all standing here and we were like let them out because they werell being g arresteded d this march met up with us, and they started firing. carla: again, we are here at

12th and k, northwest, live, where police are standing off with protesters. back to the studio. thank carlo to wills and her videography -- or videographer. you can hear her continually clearing her throat because they have been under teargas for a while, and it's very harard to e lele to maintain yourr breath at that time. we want to thank our reporters on the street. we will keep you updated on what is happening. i'm amy goodman. howardat whut at university. joining us now, angela davis, author, activist, professor emeritus at the university of california. you were here last night speaking at the peace ball. you just watched that report,

and of course, you are here on inauguration day. the 45th president of the united states was sworn in, donald j trump. your thoughts. angela: well, this is certainly the beginning of a new era, and we are aware that the trump administration is determined to turn the clock back on so many accomplishments of the last decades, not only of the last four years, but of the last .ecades as i was saying last night, it appears as if this i is a kind f dying white male supremacy. the actions of donald trump and his proposed administration are -- seem to me to be actions of accepttion, refusal to

the way in which history has unfolded, but it's not possible to turn the clock back. it's not possible to "make america great again." if there is to be any greatness on the agenda of the united states of america, it will come continuedt of the struggles of masses of people. on the one hand, i am, of course as everyone else is in the country and around the world, extremely sad that we have to witness this moment, but at the feeling ofi sense that solidarity. all the people i've met on the way to the studio today were talking about how important it is going to be to engage in a continued fight over the next am very sad,o i

but at the same time, i'm excited because it appears as if we are witnessing, thanks to all of the work that has been done of this and-- all now, i think we will begin to , thehe fruits of the work organizing work that has happened over the last years and the last decades, even. concerne have expressed that because there's so many powers of surveillance and control power that trump will now have access to, it may be harder for these same groups to organize, mobilize, communicate without the threats or the actual fact of state retaliation. angela: well, of course. those are the conditions we sometimes you know,

people call me an inveterate optimist, but i'm trying to be realistic, and i'm trying to ask what are the possibilities for the future? it's true there is pervasive surveillance, but we have to figure out how to organize despite and through that surveillance. i can remember many, many years thewhen surveillance meant fbi was listening in on our telephone calls or that they were insults traded, and we figured out how to work despite that. the situation is far more complicated today, and the organizing strategies are simply going to have to take that into consideration, and i think it means we are also going to have to rebuild our defense movements. that is to say, we can foresee

the possibility of more people more peopleed, falling under the threat of political repression, so that means we have to gather all progressive lawyers, the people who are willing to donate their services to creating a powerful, united movemenent of defense, those activists who are willing to put themselves on the line and face those consequences. amy: what are your reflections of the fact that a presidency like trump followed president barack obama, the first african-american president of the united states, not just in one term but in two terms, the massive differences between, which everybody is commenting on .

angela: i actually did watch part of the inauguration. notow that we probably were supposed to watch it so the ratings would be low, but i looked in vain for a blackface on the podium. face on the podium. what is that all about? lookis why i say if we with the gaze of history, if we look at past history and future history, this i think will be a moment. this will be characterized as the refusal to accept the fact that white male supremacy no longer reigns in the united .tates of america we have a lot of work to do to guarantee that happens, but certainly, the frustrated

expressions and actions of donald trump and his administration are an indication of the fact that they refuse to accept the verdict of history. amy: right now, the website of 11:59 was.gov at taken down and the new whitehouse.gov was put up. the violence against women act that sheet was taken down. now it shows an error page. the list of senators who voted against the senate version of the bill -- senator sessions voted against it and voted against renewing it. now in the trillion dollar cuts that they say they want to make that have reported, the funding for the violence against women act removed. what does that mean? angela: well, of course, i'm not

surprised, and i don't think anyone would be surprised given the actions of donald trump and given the way he has come in the misogyny,ymbolize assault on women. i think it means we will have to in all of our work these areas. particularly gender violence, and we have to develop more ofplex and n nuanced analyses what gender violence is all about, the connections with state violence and institutional violence. oftentimes, we assume that these are discrete an entirely different problems, that gendedr violenence has nothing to do wih police violence or violence in prison, and of course, the

feminist movement has been really helpful in producing analyses that ask us to think about these issues together, so the page has been taken down, but i think that there will be many more people -- women, men, -- willing to stand up in opposition to violence. amy: just speaking about that issue, there was a lot made of the act that president trump could not get a list celebrities toto perform. ultimately, they announced that they would have an american institution performing, and that was the rockettes. immediately, they started writing to each other and madison darden told him they had

to, but there was such tremendous outcry they backed off and told them they could do it voluntarily. we interviewed one of the rockettes and asked if it is voluntary, why are theyy becaused, and they said they know who dances and who does not. they know who is working that day and who is not. when we asked about all the private facebook postings of the rock, writing specifically having to dance for a man who was a can -- a man who was a confessed sexual assault her, and men who himself boast about this and woman after woman has come forward. just this week, a woman came forward announcing her lawsuit against donald trump. donald trump said he would sue these women after the election. the election was in november. it's now january and no one has been sued. would you like to comment?

>> if you look at what came out during the campaign regarding sexual violence, it's kind of the attitude of the old feudal lord, the idea that he was entitled to take whatever he wanted, including any woman he ,anted, any woman on the street and there's a lot in sexual violence that is to a certain extent inherent in men. you see it in all sorts of cultures. you see it in cultures that are very progressive in many respects, but in other respects, there is this real link to things like state violence, to larger phenomena. the u.s., for decades and decades, has been backing represses militaries and paramilitaries around the world,

and one of the fundamental tactics of these forces is capture and rape of women. , where the reagan administration -- and others, but principally the reagan administration -- backed the guatemalan army, they systematically massacred the mayan population. one of the tactics was sexual slavery. just this past year, survivors of that, women who had been andaved by the u.s. backed trained and enslaved by the guatemalan army succeeded in bringing a legal case against some of the surviving perpetrators, some of the officers and military commissioners they could find, and they got them sent to prison. ,t one point during that case you had a courtroom full of heroes because on the side of

the plaintiffs -- in guatemala, the law is such that individuals can initiate a criminal case done through the public prosecutor. you had the women who were the survivors who had initiated this case, and presiding as the judge was judge jasmine barrios, who had presided over the genocide trial of the u.s.-backed dictator who had been convicted in a guatemalan court a couple of years ago of genocide against the mayan population, and she did it at tremendous personal risk. she was actually thrown out of the legal profession for a year .ecause of it she had to come to court in a bulletproof vest. due to figures like her and the survivors and supporters, they were able to get a measure of justice, and it's a broader reminder that people in all ive under r much

tougheconditionsns than we do, yet,t, they are still able to andd up and fight it, sometimes they fall. more often than not they fall. the in-depth in a mass grave or crushed legally are psychologically or morally, but sometimes they win. we have to start studying the taics of pepeople who were able to do thatt i in repressed countriebebecause arere about to get a small taste of our own medicine. for years, the u.s. has been saying fascism is ok for chile, for guatemala, for all cece's -sisi's- four -- for al egypt, but suddenly, fascism in america? we cannot have that here. that's what we have been promoting in otother countries, and in a small way, , we are gog to get a little with of that,

and we have to learn how to respond. amy: if today is any indication -- an error banner went up, a plane flying a banner over the statue of liberty that says, "we outnumber him. resist." and if the people in this room are any indication -- look at the people next to you. two generations of resistance. we have angela davis with us who was born in birmingham, alabama, and we have alicia gaza, the cofounder of the black lives matter movement. in a sense, alicia, and if you could talk to angela, about what you feel you have inherited and how you are inspired by alicia, the next generation. angela: well, thank you so much, alicia.

thank you. i am so happy that i survived and am able to witness the emergence of this new movement, and i see myself as witnessing it on behalf of all of those who did not make it this far, who are no longer with us. so excited over the .ast several years it doesn't seem as if it has only been four years because of the work that you and patrice and opal and the entire black have matter movement accomplished. it is phenomenal. before that, you hardly ever saw a official acknowledgment's of racism. even obama did not talk about the problems of police violence

and racism. now, it's on the agenda. in a sense, the fact that trump was elected can be attributed to this upsurge, this radical upsurge and the sense that so iny people did not discover the opposing candidate the person they needed to give expression to this new i think it is and so important for us to remind ourselves that we are in the majority. voted forf the people donald trump. not only did hillary clinton get 3 million more votes, but if one considers all the people who did not vote who are in their majority, people who would not have voted for trump.

the organizing work that you are of thethe contestation old paradigms, leadership, masculinist, individualistic, charismatic forms of leadership, of the insistence on collective leadership, the insistence that who have always done all of the work, always, should be able to be seen and should be able to receive the credit for this. i think it is because of the work that you have done that now , as thengton, d c resistance takes shape, it is the women's march that of thents the resistancee entire country. thank you so much. alicia: thank you. i have to say one of the things i appreciate so much about you is that you are not waxing poetic about things that

happened. in are still very much relationship to all of us and still teaching us and learning from us and pushing us to get sharper, to get stronger, and to keep fighting, and that is really rare, so i just want to say thank you. thank you for being a constant presence for us. you are always 100% available and paying attention, and it means a lot to all of us. i know that it has not been my lots of folksh that people who have played such incredible roles in social movements continue to be present , front and center, but a also n a relationship with the new kind of way of of activism andd organizizing that happening that is unique and special and

critical, so i want to say thank you for that. you areust want to say one of my greatest teachers. i have a bookshelf full of your writings. very specialthing and powerful about what you have offered to all of us. unapologetic way of making sure that we understand how intricately connected race and class and gender is, and then pushing that up against the state and state apparatus and having us understand how we need to fight that with the relationship between race and ours and gender and shaping strategies and our movements is unmatched, so i want to thank you for that. we all still have a lot of questions about what is coming

and what we can expect, and it is powerful to be able to be learning with you, alongside of you, and knowing that you are right there with us ready to tear down the walls, and the last thing i want to say -- i mean, there's so many, but we don't have a four-day segment. we only have a couple of minutes, but the work you have done to inform not just us but this nation and this world about the car several state and how it sorates, to make it plain that we can really enter in to dismantle it is phenomenal. ,ou are not just a professor you are an organizer, and the institutions and organizations have helped to create and that still kind of flourish today and uslly form the bedrock to

understanding how to fight police violence, how to create a world where we can all these eight in real time, and how to fully protect each other and stand up for each other is really, really critical, so i just want to say thank you for that. i want to say thank you for shaping not just our ideas but the fights we have on the ground . the people that are locked down in d.c. right now have been influenced by you. the people taking action all across this country have been influenced you, and i hope your heart is warmed by knowing that we all know that and knowing that we are just so horrible grateful to you. >> just to say right now on the streets of washington, reports ofm mcpherson square newspaper boxes burning. i wanted to ask angela -- you

were born in alabama. alabama has become a center. with senator sessions. yes, i could not believe that jeff sessions was the proposed nominee for the .ttorney general you know, once again, this is an example of the degree to which the trump administration looks a repressive past, a racist past as the path for the future, and that's just not going to happen. i mean, i know that we have to thatalistic and recognize the administration has powers that will affect the supreme court and, you know, all of the

legislation, but at the same time, we have to remember that change happens because people struggle together on the ground. it does not happen simply because of particular presidents or particular attorney generals, and i think it is really important to have that larger perspective so that we do not what isencumbered by happening that we fail to recognize that we have agency, and agency not only with respect to what can happen in our .ountry but all over the world when i was talking about what i theeciate about alicia and younger movement, it is the internationalism and the recognition that we are not in this alone. american exceptionalism is a myth, despite the fact that

obama tries to make it means something else. i think we have to recognize that we are a parart of a planet that is seeking to survive, so all of these struggles against forsm, against xenophobia, the climate, against homophobia -- these are global struggles, so i really appreciate the incorporation of the call for justice from palestine, for example, into the movement for black lives. this represents the way we will respond to people like jeff sessionsns over the next few years. amy: i want to turn to another pioneering woman, the legendary poet and activist sonya sanchez. met upmocracy now!" team with her last night at the peace

ball and asked her to read a poem. sanchez, and sonya i'm here at this great museum peace festival. that's what i like to collect it, and i'm going to do a poem for a great woman by the name of maxine greene, who was a dear friend. "peace -- what is it? is it an animal, a bird, a ? ane, a train is it a verb, a noun, and ajit if? a profit with no pockets? the boys said the cause of war is the preparation of war. dubois said the cause of war is the preparation of war. i say the cause of his must be the preparation of peace. i say the cause of peace must be the preparation of peace.

shall i set a table of peace before you in the preparation of my enemies? shall i prepare a table of peace ? will you know how to eat at this table? is -- wherere are the forks of peace? where are the knives of peace? where are the spoons of peace? where are the children of peace? is peaeace andnd action, a way f life, a tensision in our earth body? you and i see beyond bonds and babies resting on a country road peace must not be still we have to take it on the road marching against pentagon doors, lurking in obscenity peace must not find us on our knees while the country holds hostage the hearts and pieces of he rugged

can you say peace can you resurrect peace can you house the language of peace? can you write a sermon of peace echo can you populate the cause of peace? a long time ago, someone said "i think, therefore i am a long time ago, someone say i think before i am now we say preemptive strikes, therefore we arm now we say drones, drones, drones therefore we arm can you rise up at the sound of peace can you make peace lighter than air can you make peace sing like butterflies until peace becomes the noise of the planet until peace becomes the noise of the planet peace peace peace

i know as an ok new that the universe is curved ultimately toward justice and peace i know as mlk knew that the universe is curved ultimate toward justice and peace martin said a right it is the language of the unheard, and i say terrorist bomb is the language of the unheard how to make the unheard heard without blowing themselves and the world of how to make the unheard heard without blowing themselves and the world oup boom bang my world into shape, now let it fall i say peace is my hammer bang my world into peace and let it fall on the eyes of the children jacquesues -- frere frere jacques

where are the forks of peace where are the knives of peace where are the spoons of peace where are the eyes of peace where are the children of peace you are you, you, you, sharing ofsanchez poem last night at the peace ball at smithsonian past african-american museum. this is "democracy now!"'s live coverage of this iuration weekend, which we continue tomorrow broadcasting from the streets from the women's march on washington from 10:00 in the 3:00ng eastern time until in the afternoon. our guest, as we begin to wrap up this seven-hour special, angela davis, longtime activist and professor.

also with us, we are joined -- and professor emeritus at the university of california. we are also joined as well by alicia garza, who is cofounder of the black lives matter anement, and we're joined by activist and journalist. as we begin to wrap up, what you expect to happen and how, angela, your past organizing as you describe what happened in alalabama in the past -- you describe and have told the story often of the four little girls .ho were blown up that you knew what could be a lower point in this country's history? and yet, you had hoped, and people organized to change things, and now we are here in 2017. what you hope to come from saturday, the women's march not only on washington but all over the country. we have reports that hundreds of people are protesting at the

, forrsity of texas austin example, but how you see yourself moving forward. angela: well, you know, i have always imagined myself not as an individual, but as a part of a larger community of struggle, and i know alicia was talking construed asght be my own individual accomplishments, and, you know, all of these things occur as a result of p people coming togetr and thinking g together and movg together and organizing together and fighting together, and, you know, i'm remembering when richard nixon was elected in was. and what a blow that i also remember that the largest protest against the war in vietnam took place under the nixon administration.

as a matter of fact, nixon was impeached and forced to leave office, so there are -- amy: one by a landslide in 1972, out by the summer of 1974. angela: exactly. first of all, we have to guarantee that if trump lasts the next four years, he will be only a one-term president. i think that has to be on everyone's agenda. amy: didn't he already come up with his campaign slogan for 2020? great." rica heela: yeah, , that's trtrue, did, but we have our slogans and we have our goals, and we have to figure out how to transform this into an air of radical activism, so it means the activism has to happen at every

level. i was saying last night that now 460 more days before the .ext inauguration let us guarantee that on every single one of those dadays, thee will be a significant act of collective resistance. it means that we also have to recognize the intersection analogy of our struggles. we talk about intersection analogy a lot, but we have to recognize the interconnectedness of our struggles, and we have to be willing -- those of us who are attached to one particular movement or cause, we have to be willing to stand up for everyone who is under attack, so that means that everyone has to be mobilized to stand together with immigrants. we have to prevent deportations. we have to stand up against islamophobia and recognize that

the struggle for peace, the struggle against militarism of the most be one important points on our agenda. ththe struggle for justice for importantis even more now, particularly considering the appointment of david friedman to the ambassadorship to israel. i think this should be -- this is going to have to be an era of struggle, of collective resistance. for your f final thoughts on this -- someone has compiled a list of words that were used for the first time in a u.s. inaugural address. i will just read a few of them -- bleed, carnage, depletion, ripped, rusted, sad, stealing, tombstones. just a random list. the list is much longer of words that have not been used before.

what some of those words indicate or gesture at is a more evercit violence that has been -- one could argue that an inaugural address is always abouout a certain kind off nationalism, but it is an implicit kind of violence. the words here are somehow laying bare what american power -- what trump would like american power to be. your final thoughts on that. the inauguralk address made it really clear wants to makerump great again, but what feels clear to me is that he does not have a mandate, that the words that we would use absbsolutely would be resistance, would be rnable, would be disrupt, would be defiant. i think there is also very much

words being used today like solidarity and love and resistance and care, and i'm carrying that into the women's march tomorrow, quite frankly, where there will be at minimum, 250,000 people who have traveled to show over the world their resistance but also to show that our futures are connected to one another, and that is what is carrying me .hrough this incredibly sad day i think that what is important about the list that you have generated is that it makes it really clear what their agenda is -- they are masters at trying to mask what it is that they actually want to do, so we should take this as an indication of the america that they want to see and use it as our compass to move away from and to orient all of our work

around. allen: as they say, every person contains multitudes. within everyone, there's this capacity for tremendous nobility and also the capacity to do horrible things, to commit the most atrocious crimes, and trump , like other demagogues, this ability to reach inside the soul of many people and pull out the worst, but it doesn't have to be that way. only theirson is not own worst instincts. you can reach inside that same person a and pull out the best, and what a person does and to a large extent depends upon the situation that is presented to them, the conditions they are

living under, the challenges that are put to them. trump has put a certain set of challenges, particularly to white americans, and he has gotten this very ugly response, simple thingsvery have been done by the bureaucratic, corporate, democratic party, and they had presented a constructive agenda that simply responded to aople's needs for work, for salary, we would have had an entirely different outcome in not nowtion and would be facing the very real threat on the street of perhaps vigilante violence, more racist violence from cops, and god knows what could be unleashed overseas by general mattis and trump.

this could easily swing the other way and it can still. the pendulum goes this far, the energy is gathered, and it is poised to swing almost as far back in the other direction, and i think that''s where we are politically now. four years from now, sooner, we abouteat talking revolution of a different sort in a much more constructive direction, but we have to make that happen because if we do not, it could just continue to the right. in two years, the republicans may get a veto-proof majority -- a filibuster-proof majority in the senate. they may get total control of the supreme court in a way they do not have now, and then they really are in position to essentially rule by decree, with no real countervailing force within the system. this has to be stopped and we have to get serious and do some very persistent organizing that reaches out very broadly and

mobilizes the majority that, as we have all been saying, actually exist. amy: we are going to have to leave it there and we thank you also much for being with us, joining us for this special.

veronica: all i hear is, "we can't do this. it's too many miles." we just need d to get it done no matter what. nono matter how log