no dairy. queen to ask. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle social media platforms today function as the public square they were key to almost everything we do when society the same platforms can ban you would be platform you essentially disappear you should private companies have that kind of power is it

time to rein in big tech. discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest lionel in new york he is a legal and media analyst in c. back we have geoffrey carr he is author of inside cyber warfare mapping the cyber underworld as well as founder of the suits and spooks cyber security conference and in los angeles we cross to graham elwood he is a regular on the jimmy door show is one of those host of the political financial entity and you to cross titles and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let's go to lionel in new york i mean we've had this flurry of events around big tech the you the banning of parlor but parlor appears to have reappeared of beastly donald trump has been banned from most of these platforms and there are a lot of complaints that. a lot of other conservatives are being treated the same

way essential the question that is before us right now is should these big tech companies define what speech is defined what it is and indirectly what dissent is and should they have the right to. arrange and define what the public sphere is lionel well the 1st thing is i've always believed in my line of law which means that people always like mine technology the 1st thing is we have to understand these are not private organizations or private companies social media is not some quirky little thing we talk to grandma about her favorite cappie oka recipes these are utilities this is the phone company this is f.c.c. this these are t.v. waves this is whatever analogy you want over the line and they're not legally bound i mean i think they should become utilities because what i'm saying is they function as utility that's what i'm saying that we have to change that this idea forget section $230.00 and all this kind of but we have to realize that when 90

percent plus of a country of a group of a world uses these people to cook to cooperate it's like trying to regulate oxygen and air in the atmosphere this notion of social media platforms are going to change this and what you're doing is they're throwing everything they can to see how much resistance don't receive how much center shift people will tolerate so it has to be done right now and the 1st thing is for going to 30 which is a big deal section $230.00 we have to recalibrate reframed these people as utilities imagine your phone company said your phone call dropping because it doesn't like what you're saying about whatever you wouldn't tolerate same should go for social media. jeffrey can you weigh in on the i mean i'm i'm really quite adamant that they do function as the public sphere and they do behave as utilities i mean where do we go from here because i just don't think you know that what why should mark zuckerberg or jack dorsey tell me what i can say and what i can say go

ahead. so yeah there's a difference between the utility in the platform so i agree that the utility there is a utility aspect but it now doesn't lie in facebook that it lies in you know my provider wave broadbent they're the ones giving me access to the internet that's the utility facebook needs to be. facebook needs competition facebook is dominant so requires competition so that maybe antitrust action against facebook the it is so that you've got more you know more options right more options and then regarding 230. i think they i don't think there's any. intention to deny free speech i think the the problem is is that there has been 0 constraint on speech published on facebook twitter and so on because of a kind of an of an of

a concept in the law that by that that i think new york courts were responsible for that if if an internet provider like facebook were to attempt to regulate speech then they would lose their section to 30 protections. there that it's all screwed up or it really does it really does need to be changed so that so that facebook is operates more like the newspaper you know you if you want to publish up in the newspaper you have to meet certain guidelines you just can't make up whatever you want and have it published but in a facebook today and on twitter you can do that so that's ron i think that's that's where we're having so much trouble we don't know how to categorize facebook you know is it he tell it is it a is it a is it is it more like a publisher. to me that's really what it is they are publishers so they should be

operating under the same restraints that all publishers have to operate under some responsibility for their content ok well finally at least we can all agree they need to be responsible ok and not make decisions on a whim you know graham i mean it it's these platforms they choose winners and losers i mean i mean a good part of our life is played out using these compounds directly and indirectly and if they don't like what you're doing or what you're saying they can disappear you i mean that is a major impediment to being a functioning person in society. yeah i mean it's i i totally agree it's absolutely they should be public utilities in the problem or happening is they are just you know unelected tech billionaires are just making decisions what can be said and what can't be said and that's that's the real scary thing and they're using the events of the capital i mean the commander in chief fabricated violence and neo nazis showing up with guns and that's bad thing that that needs to be addressed but just facebook is such

a great example of how they arbitrarily you know they'll they'll pull down anything that's pro palestinian but they'll leave up they've left up all right posts and stuff like that and for them to just. decide what we can and cannot say i mean i've been thwarted just as a comedian as a as an independent you tube or because they don't i'm pushing an antiwar message so that way that's offensive now and they're going to just use any anybody can be called a domestic terrorist so now is the sunrise movement going to be called domestic terrorism they have a peaceful sit in because they want to stop climate change i mean where does it end and the fact that we know this thanks to julian assange and wiki leaks that you know google and many of these other companies have been working hand in glove with the intelligence community so it's not even about that they're monitoring everything want to control every aspect of our lives and tell us what we can and cannot do and that's that's real scary to me what's really scary i mean you brought up such a wonderful point i mean if you're pro war you're never going to get. in trouble ok

medibank you'll probably be reach wheat or whatever reposed it all over the place if you're anti-war no no no that's but that's a suggestion is behavior in speech here i mean it's the hypocrisy is just so glaring you know one of the things is that you know when you think about you know we always talk about the terms of their services ok facebook and twitter and twitter i mean particularly 100 by story you know jack dorsey the most you know these are anti hacking. procedures but even though it wasn't happy they didn't apply to that story whatsoever here so i mean are these terms and conditions for these plot points supersede in the constitution well these are yes well he here is our problem the constitution applies to government state action let me try this one my short of why did you wait to get my friends who are on this all. to explain this and naginata and i and we had newspapers manually back and i happen to have the

perfect ink that is used by 95 percent own his name it's my private patent and already yours every plenty. healers knit and everybody uses it and i'm fine one day i get a hair somewhere and i just i don't like the washington post i'm telling them you can't buy my own can or i'm exercising my right and i don't like your company so i'm going to say you might be next thing you know i can shut down the ability for people to read newspapers because i exercise this terms of my my ink you don't go make build your own ink company or i think it's this response in the cracks when we're having right now is another the republican you're having people who are advocating like on c.n.n. there's a company called newsmax and it's a it's a competitor to to fox c.n.n. what are basically having people who say that their key ball cable subscriptions

cable providers should cut them because here's the best part all right right wing. neal a snake of nothing that you have to come up with a good label that people are saying. i won't say no more and that's it new ways to shut everything down don't fall under usually prescribed avenues of jurisdiction in jeopardy i mean the line brings up a really good point there because when the cover story is i would call it is that you know these other platforms promote hate speech if it's a place for. neo nazis or fascists or something like that but if we look at the case of parlor i mean you know that was just getting rid of your competition ok because the it was obviously understood that with trump being thrown off of twitter he would migrate to another platform with his $80000000.00 followers and essentially that was what was going to happen and then they say well you know

because they're promoting hate speech with any of the any and all the hate speech you can find on parlor you can find on twitter and facebook as well so i mean this was just a market grab ok these are monopolists ok i find i'm so insulted that they would use as moral high ground because they're just greedy. well. parlor. rather wasn't. it in my opinion parlor simply did not exercise any any restraint over what was published and what was said and and it was it was becoming a gathering space for acts of violence against the government and not only against the federal government but again state and local governments so i felt like there are significant you know practical reasons for taking action against against partly the people but if i have utilized but shouldn't the people that utilize the government take action to get over your competition take action team

that's a different thing you competition ok i'm not going to deny what you just said ok i'm not on parlor i didn't see it ok but it seems to me that be the people that you know turn off the valve it's your competitors it's not the government. so so the. state facebook had nothing to do with parlor i mean part parlor was removed from the google app store from the apple app store from the amazon store and from a ws. is on web services or hosting service so so facebook had nothing to do with parlor needed to twit rand but. so also you know the people that migrated there they had the ability to do whatever to say whatever they liked on twitter on facebook anywhere they wanted to they just happened to like there the fact that everybody who thought like them. we're all in one place this one place on partner

so you know when when it came crashing down it had a it had a massive effect on that group of people. the the i don't believe that i do re that facebook doesn't want competition purely you know for 5 purely financial reasons the big short of that i don't think that i've read that they have like either a pro conservative or a pro liberal point of view you know i haven't really noticed it personally i know that i have there are groups that are very conservative then there are groups that are very liberal you just choose which group you want to go to isn't it me a rabid later time and i want to go back to graham here but graham and i mean during during all of the events going on i'm accountable and accusing the president of incitement we can discuss that separately and if they think there was a hashtag paying a pence and out of that that trended for

a long time ok i mean so i mean they don't care about that ok because it suits their political agenda and the people they're acolytes in the media which apparently is so important to them to me but i'm just saying is it in trying to avoid these arbitrary standards so you won't have double standards go ahead graham before we go to break yeah it's an excellent point because you know again like if you're going to say you can't advocate violence then that like it should be done by the letter of the law and even now going back to your point about parlor yes they didn't do it but google and amazon other huge tech giant graham hold that thought we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on what to do with big tac mccarty. right now there are. people who are overweight or obese it's

profitable to self. and sugary and solti and. it's not at the individual level it's not individual willpower and if we go on believing that never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment. so what's driving the obesity epidemic it's. always said in 2008 right here on this show was that because there was no attempt to reform what the banks had done and the global financial crisis was caused by the banks who were hoarding the cash they were sitting on the cash they were lending it here we are in 2021 exactly as they predicted they did down reform the banks in fact they just expanded their credit card they expanded their capacity to print and borrow and then give away the cash to their friends causing now this huge crisis.

welcome back across town where all things are considered an m.p. really about to remind you we're discussing what to do with big tech. ok let's go back to graham in los angeles sorry my friend we had to go to a quick break there you want to finish your thought that you know we're talking about you know if we're going to do it then it needs to be done under some sort of a bill legal what what are the laws say like if i advocate violence public way down tell me what that law is and that how how my opinion housing should be regulated right now we have these massive companies as you just talked about are basically going after competitors and. again on the elected tech billionaires are determining

what we can and cannot say and i just have a hard time with that specially when there's a guy i used to be and in british intelligence that's an executive at twitter and it's all about data likes and i just don't trust these tech companies at all to tell me what i can and cannot say what their what their real reasons are you know who i don't like and so i think probably the big fundamental problem that we're dealing with here is because traditionally up until recently when we thought some about censorship we thought about censorship coming from the government and so and this is one of the this is how a lot of these people in big we go out and say well we're not government we're just a private company here ok but i keep going back to my mantra that this is the public square i think this is where we need to go we have to look at $230.00 i mean that has to be adjusted i mean the profit margins of these people are so it's so amazing ok you know you'd have to spend more money to have to have real fact checkers and and based on law and not your terms of service headline. let's

try to stop our theoretical speech for just one second and really call it the waves on cross talk if there was no donald trump you wouldn't have any and we went even me talking about how there be a left group here in our right now because there's always been that clanging or the area in the rent t.v. or whatever it is but a bank check is basically was designed or or turn into an egg tromp movement it'll come up with excuses understand this is minus b yeah yeah yeah let's go back and turn and try to remove trump from the equation the same for one minute we'd be talking about this do you think that jap dorsey or zuckerberg or anybody would be what even be discussing shutting down a platform if it wasn't trump trump was the reason for this there's always. think

let me also say that hate is guaranteed speech so long as i don't act i get beat broccoli i get he terrorist i did meet the it doesn't matter we've extrapolated this into this man began the heavy vanilla world where we can see bad things here's another one for you white supremacy i don't even understand what that means but if somebody were to explain what you believe in white people being supreme so what we have lost a concept of what many of these actual thoughts were incitement or submission or insurrection or plan the anything other than a bunch of blowhards saying about just of it nobody cared by the 1st of it a bit you know your life around. you're absolutely right but you know and but that's a very theoretical discussion and i'm talking about real world. events that really your problem is right that hurt people here if you know you're an expert on these

things here how did this all happen because you know i remember you know the advent of the internet and i was told it would be a even playing field that was the most democratic thing ever conceived where everyone would be able to participate and now we're having a conversation on this program is that all the different strategies to shut people out in shut people up i mean is it just because it's just power and money or was it somehow corrupted or maybe it was a corrupt idea in the 1st place going. well but i disagree that that that's what's happening. again i want to emphasize i think we've always had prior to the internet the only way you could could there was no public square you know effectively there's no real public square. that you may be really going to go to your local park and maybe a dozen people will listen to you that's ok well i guess technically i don't know that it but in reality noted there was a public square the concept it weren't new concept exists for

a reason it wasn't made up and public square has been in existence for hundreds of years actually ok keep oh i'm speaking practically practically speaking if you want your voice to to extend beyond your neighborhood you need to go to it before the internet you need to go to a newspaper and if you went to the newspaper you had rules you had to follow certain rules to get your content published it had a past fact checks it had it it had to be not not create liability for the newspaper and so whatever they were and facebook is a publisher they may not like it they don't want to call it that that's a problem with section $230.00 platforms in order to be exempt from liability for what's carried on them they cannot be publishers but they are publishers so they are responsible so so. that's what's happening here you can't just make up and pardon me for using that 4 letter word and throw it out there for the world to see you could never do that with

a newspaper and you shouldn't be able to do it with facebook you can't say that you know it. whatever you like free speech has always been a myth well i mean yeah i mean we recently went through 4 years of the russian gay hoax ok a.j. you can't make stuff up but apparently stuff is made up all of the time or it's a nasty distraction or you know the financial crisis i mean everything is made up because no one is ever held accountable when things go terribly wrong rahm my daughter's been with me graham is 8 is a far left winger i'm a conservative but you know the more we talk the more we find common ground on these things because we're looking at what abel's society ok we may differ on how to solve those problems go ahead well yeah i mean i just i just used to be a very that with respect to what lionel was saying about trump i think i agree that a lot of it was just oh we don't like trump but there there needs to be a clear distinction here when the commander in chief advocates for going to the capitol building and people showing up with their fifteen's and camp auschwitz

shirts and and commit violence and people die because manner in chief is different so in that that that needs to be that needs to be addressed and that's not a small thing that's all we can do on manby pamby we don't like trump that was that that was a really awful thing and you talk that it looked like germany and the you know late twenty's early thirty's now. what the problem is is that they're going to use that for any excuse so now somebody says well i will you know i'm organizing a strike because amazon doesn't have union labor all the hate speech you're out there you're if you're going to hurt jeff bezos you know trillion dollars or whatever that's where it gets real murky and that's where they're using this to in whatever manner shape they form they can and they can just say as they did after $911.00 ok what happened on $911.00 was awful there's dangerous terrorists out there but then they just wrote the patriot act where a friend of mine who was writing antiwar cartoons against bush was put on the no fly list so that's where it gets real dangerous for me and that they're just going

to arbitrarily anyone's a domestic terrorist now and when big massive corporations that are unregulated by nothing they pay no taxes they get tax breaks are doing whatever they want and effectively taking away that the town square as you put it and that that's what's that's what's bad for me well it's actually going well it's a worse in many ways and one of the things that's happened in the last few days is that we're focusing on should big tech be reined in and i think all of us agree with that it should be done maybe in different ways over a different time scale and things like that how much government involvement it should be again these things are all debated and should be debated but where we have coming out of particularly a o c and people like that that we need there needs to be a federal commission to regulate and investigate media when that's even more chilling ok because it least these platforms are a patchwork of distributing what media reports and some of it is just awful ok

nonsense it is some people do december mation that's what they're at their intent is do is it just inform the public and then there's a lot of other good stuff out there but when i hear someone might we not need to start regulating the media well that's making it even far worse lionel. we are losing this it isn't separate state from this this idea of free speech should be dangerous it would plunge free speech it is something that i can say that might make you lose your mind now there's a difference between standing up and saying i don't we're going to parse what trump said but i disagree minimally i know that he said that he says he is extremely reckless and he's extremely a childes but that's moot he's gone it doesn't matter but there's a difference between saying i want us and. we went from a 10 we love the year by george carlin's 7 dirty words the brandenburg cases supreme court said you can say the whole awful and terrible things but there is as

incitement a clear and present danger test we are becoming more and more immune to any in your ring to the notion of we were the center you can't say that you might say something what if you said what if something that was. what if he went in and that. and said you know what. i'll respond i mean we have become so prickly so so what are you going to i don't want anything that gets out of all what's what so it was so to disappointing and it actually terrifying is that there are so many people and i'm sorry on the left at this point in time then when they want more censorship shut him down shut them down ok you know it's because they don't have an argument or don't want to engage in a debate and that's we need to debate now more than ever let me let me go to jeff here because i kind of extrapolated something that line will just say here popular speech doesn't need any protections because it's popular all right fine but it's

unpopular speech that need protections here and that and that tests you know are our most important notion of our public existence and that is freedom of speech here and you know this is centuries in the making i mean there are still mitt many people around the world that we just envy the kind. speech privileges and rights that we have now and i'm just i'm so disappointed that so many people want to shut so many people down. i think that i want to i want to just get to the heart of really maybe the heart of the problem and address in this question about technology the problem with technology is that they have that that because of. because of ad advertising technology and the way that that your truck and the amount of data that's known about you it's possible to create news and and content that you are going to be interested in and to control your feed so that you see

more and more and more of what you already believe what you want to see there is no there is no you know i and my feet i may never see graham or peter or michael if they have if they say things that are ditz what that's a problem behind these big tech platforms that's what has never it's never existed before because we've never been at the technological point that we are today where we can feed and inflame groups of people with information that is not true at all it's a good point we've run out of time here but you know what we have in this day and age is that we're all the products ok and that's a very good bet a thanks as all the time we have want to thank my guests in new york city bank and in los angeles i want to thank our viewers for watching us here r.t.c. and it's time to remember cross across.

so become a battleground in the u.s. government people have demanding the shutdown of a local plant some yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no clare power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is or powerline with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways a struggle on o.t. .

a powerful blast destroys a church own building and madrid killing at least 2 people after a suspected catholic. not throughout the evening. donald trump steps out of the white house for the last time as u.s. president a massive security operation unfold in washington d.c. for the inauguration of his successor joe biden and i guess it's a pretty good chance what it's doing so they close a lot of this pretty much the whole downtown area market a check point there's no concrete blocks everywhere never seen security of like this here anywhere in america.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. we start with a developing situation in the spanish capital a powerful explosion has destroyed a building in central madrid after a suspected gas leak 2 people have been confirmed dead and at least 8 others are injured you can go live now to madrid freelance correspondent jamie of alaska's jamie please tell us what's going on in the city right now. good afternoon well as you can see now there's some flames at the bottom of the building and the firefighters are trying to control this fire not distinguishment because they are afraid that they might be more gas inside of the grill than adults would create a bigger explosion or another explosion as you can see the explosion has damage they build in and the structure is not safe at the moment our neighbors have been

instructed not to go back to their homes they have been back ated and it's a building that belongs to the spanish church some priests and some workers for the church were leaving that building at the beginning there was we were so very afraid that their explosion could have affected care home belonging that belongs to the church at some point but hopefully that didn't happen. we're now. very close to a brief report. it's a brave report of the nation of police. have you been able to speak to anybody who was in the area at the time of the blast you know what people are saying. there's a police nation a brief moment. close to me there's a police man briefing the media at this moment.

he says that in 30 minutes of a 1000000000 was absolutely by catered. that. emergency services had arrived to this spot very quickly firefighters are working to risk you and to. make sure that it's safe to 1000000000 and the surroundings. there's some. specialized agents. scientists police also information brigade as well working in the area in the area at the moment. this is what we are having in life at this moment here by the nation of police of the spanish national police. they are now trying to find out the causes of these blasts to rule

out anything that could have caused damage there's also some canyon some dogs that have been deployed to look for people that could be. trapped inside and also scientists police as we say to find out exactly what did damage what does caused the damage in do building and this is what we know so far life we thought we got this brief report in my left side you can see the nation of police who just briefed the police investigation of the moment what happened with. what happened what could have caused this explosion and some. emergency services of as well have been deployed to find out if some people could be trapped inside of the brace of this building that blast

in madrid. we've been slipping to local journalist jimi of alaska is that you for giving us that translation as that recap was coming to you. a reminder of what happened in madrid a powerful explosion destroyed a building in the east into the city center killing at least 2 people and injuring 8 others if not more the city mayor says the blast appears to have been caused by a gas leak but that has not been confirmed the building is owned by the catholic church and serves as a religious complex providing training for priests and food for the homeless and one church worker is reportedly missing at this time the building is near a care home for the elderly which reportedly suffered some damage but none of the residents seemed to have been harmed and there's also a school nearby which was empty at the time of the blast then flee and of course we're keeping track of the situation and are going to be keeping you updated as much as we can.

joe biden has arrived at the u.s. capitol to be inaugurated as the 46th president now we can cross live now to our u.s. correspondent caleb moppin for the latest on the events happening in the u.s. capitol hill tell us what's been behind the build up to today today's ceremony. well earlier joe biden was ensure there was a national church service that comes before the inauguration and it is important to note that joe biden will be only the 2nd roman catholic president in american history john f. kennedy and now joe biden are the only u.s. presidents who have been roman catholic every other u.s. president has been a christian protestant and after the church service was concluded at this point we understand joe biden has arrived at the u.s. capitol along with him at this point the vice president elect kamel

a harris is also at the u.s. capitol as is the vice president outgoing vice president mike pence now donald trump is notably absent and will not be attending the inauguration as is normally done by outgoing u.s. presidents they generally attend the inauguration of the incoming administration donald trump is not doing that donald trump did leave the white house here is some of what we heard from trump before he left the white house and went directly to florida. things that we've done have been just incredible and i couldn't have done i'm done it without you so just. say goodbye we love you we will be back in some form. thank you. now it's a rather interesting situation at this point washington d.c. is pretty much locked down you've got a large deployment of the national guard u.s. military forces on the streets out of concerns about security threats to the

inauguration and due to the pandemic there will not be big crowds to attend the inauguration ceremony rather a large a large amount of flags that will take the place of crowds of supporters gathering big supporters and meyer's of the president as is normally done can't be done because of health risk strict sions now the peculiar. situation now where you have an inauguration taking place under heavy security without the normal crowds kind of reflects the overall situation in the country polls show that at this point 4 out of 5 americans say the country is quote falling apart however similar numbers still say that they are also proud to be americans here is what we heard when we spoke to americans in washington d.c. this is what they had to say about the state of affairs in the united states i think there are real divisions and i think that comes from sort of last the caste system at least now. i mean there's there's

a kind of political divides that are often sort of manufactured i think that to want to things that happen at the capitol and yet i mean it's really easy to feel like they're trying to be supportive for i would say that really i'm a good spot there has to be a lot of people speak to this country. torn apart. you know that and then the tears serious everything they know about the president their 400000 individuals americans dying from 4 coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have business is falling for bankruptcy you can't play issues between the current president and the president coming it's not a very. it's a easy switch over i think a kind of what the current that the new president biden is doing as far as trying to impeach steele trying to tell the president is kind of childish. now at this point many americans will be paying close attention to today's ceremonies but they'll be doing it at home they'll be watching it on television paying close

attention many are optimistic that the biden ministration may be able to turn things around with the pandemic with the u.s. economy its cetera however the skepticism of the u.s. public and the big wounds and divisions that came from a hotly contested election those have not gone away so divisions remain skepticism remains americans say their country is largely falling apart but many are hoping that something can get better as a new administration comes in a lot of fear is a lot of concerns this is the situation in the united states of america as we inaugurate a new president artie's kalam up and thank you for bringing us that report. meanwhile rallies are planned by both democratic and republican supporters nationwide in violation of anti pandemic rules that's led to fear is that a day of supposin celebration could have disastrous consequences artist non-constant has a story the good news is it will be

a sunny inauguration for the 1st time in many many years it's about it for good news washington is on red alert had locked out no huge crowds no fanfare they've even divided the city into color coded zones like baghdad residents could move around in green zones but red zones are restricted and guarded by 25000 troops there guarding not against an enemy not against terrorists but against their room population. all of this of course following what they call the insurrection at capitol hill on

january 6th since then the secret service the f.b.i. the national guard intelligence anyone with a badge has been moved to prevent trump supporters from trying it again and everyone's a suspect even the troops stationed in washington being screened for right wing sympathies by the f.b.i. this is like something out of north korea we're continually going through the process and taking 2nd 3rd looks at every one of the individuals assigned to the suppression we need to be conscious of it and we need to put all of the mechanisms in place to thoroughly vet these men and women who would support any operations like this. and. distrust and fear are in the air hagon like like a poisonous me step every way and doesn't matter which way you voted people are statistically warrant this isn't the country they've lived in their entire lives i

guess it's pretty. tense but they do it so they close. pretty much the whole downtown areas to the barricades and check points there's no concrete blocks everywhere so you really can't get anywhere near the national or constitutions i mean you know it's really sad that it's lived in washington for 20 more than 20 years i've been to a lot of inaugurations and i've never seen security like this here or anywhere in america and it isn't just washington d.c. it's it's all over the country there is good cause one in 3 voters still believe that biden wasn't legitimately elected one in 3 hold this radical view and you were out so kay that's bad but in america where the most guns per capita in the world at really really bad right now there's too much going on in our country when all the election is not one but the trumpet ministration if you're scared of

a long gun our country was born on long guns the revolutionary war was won and fought with longer have a country that's getting more deeply polarized as we have 2 political parties are playing each other for each other's problems and issues the politicians of the parties something needs to be done these these congo law in the country needs to heal right you can't very well run a country with this kind of divide brother against brother neighbor against neighbor and if you listen to democrat press statements at's what they've been trying to do think the events of the past few weeks have proved out just how damaged the soul of america has been and how. important is to restore it that work starts on wednesday the thing with press statements and i can tell you this from experience as they are who always truthful and in this case it isn't they're preaching peace but what they're doing is something else entirely that turning the 74000000 people who voted for trump and to lampas to be shunned and costs that

there has to be consequences but history shows it is not reacting not forcing accountability only and all that in those people and those movements i don't know if there's such a job as a political exorcist but they need to do something to fix the republican party to get this demon out there are republican members of congress i know who clearly have lost their minds who just will not accept reality when it comes to the facts about donald trump if you voted for trump you voted for the person who the klan supported you voted for the person who nazis support you voted for the person who the all right supports that's the crowd that you are in and no one's trying to be the better person here trump is skipping the integration and flying them to florida not so much as

a good luck the biden too offended themselves good riddance they say what next merica hasn't been this divided since the civil war but nice to think that little be better off for the inauguration. but why would it no one seems to be in any rush to make the 1st move passions run high in america today and i think every precaution has to be taken to ensure that a repeat of january 6th doesn't occur. on inauguration day or trying to disrupt the now you ration of joe biden but the the imagery of 25 a nation governed. by a government that is not recognized legitimate by that number that you know that percentage of the american so you know this is it's going to be a very difficult 4 years for the united states i don't know if we're ever going to be able to recover from this the partisan political divide is so deep and so wide

joe biden is not the politician to bridge it he is one of the reasons why this divide exists so is donald trump and there's there's no easy joe biden will speak of unity he will speak of healing but the fact of the matter is he has now the trust of a significant percentage of the american people and there will be no healing there will be no unity you know a poll has revealed that 32 percent of europeans think the u.s. can't be trusted and over 60 percent of respondents say america's political system as broken we asked people in france and germany and the u.k. for their thoughts. the relationship is not good because of trump but whether it will improve its $5056.00 or so it will be difficult to unify because trump has a lot of radical supporters the us and e.u. seem to be taking a confrontational approach to each other at the moment i hope that biden will be more friendly towards the e.u. because under trump there was a lot of distance between that see just a musical stance i don't know but i have confidence in this president and you lot

of american people who love trial he was the man for the job they thought they were happy with what they saw what happened when we see what he has done and what he's doing we think to ourselves that he really must be stopped that's all trying to start quite large international relations i think you're going to see the repercussions about i think other nations leverage because so it's going to get better but it's not going to happen or not i know that this move. from. but i think vested interests in the traditional friendship trade relationships will win in the end. now for a recap of our breaking news from the spanish capital a powerful explosion has destroyed a building in central madrid killing at least 2 people and injuring 8 others the city mayor says the blast appears to have been caused by a gas leak the building is owned by the catholic church and served as a religious complex providing residential training for priests and food for the

homeless one church worker is reportedly missing the building is new york care home for the elderly which reportedly suffered some damage but none of the residents were harmed and there's also a school nearby which was empty at the time of the blast we're keeping track of the situation and we'll keep you updated. and our other top story joe biden is about to be sworn in as the 46th president of the united states is now in the u.s. capitol along with the next vice president harris the supreme court justices have already arrived are not taking their seats. all right now our sister channel our to america having special coverage throughout the day and we're going to hand over to them so don't go anywhere mind is there about this in the top leadership roles in the united states. we're now going to have lady gaga joined on stage and sing the national anthem.

i guess what are they made public are coming in 1st and i think about the ceremonies and obviously it's been very tight lipped the schedule on who's also and who's going to be here starting to see what she says vice president elect members of congress and the judicial branch former presidents and 1st ladies vice presidents leaders from a bride and a whole bunch of biden's america welcome to the 59th presidential inauguration where in just a few moments joe biden and carla harris will take their solemn owes. this ceremony. is the culmination of 244 years of a democracy it is the moment when leaders brought to this stage by the will of the

people promised to be faithful to our constitution to cherish it and defend it it is the moment when they become as we all should be guardians of our country have we become too jaded too accustomed to the ritual of the passing of the torch of democracy to truly appreciate what a blessing and a privilege it is to witness this moment i think not 2 weeks ago when an angry violent mob stage an insurrection and desecrated this temple of our democracy it awakened us to our responsibilities as americans this is the day when our democracy picks itself up brushes off the dust and does what america always does goes forward as a nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

this conveyance of a sacred trust between our leaders and our people takes place in front of this shy . capitol dome for a reason when abraham lincoln gave his 1st and address in front of this capitol the dome was only partially constructed braced by ropes of steel he promised he would finish it he was criticized for spending funds on it during the civil war to those critics he replied if the people see the capital going on it is a sign we intend the union shall go on and it did and it will. generations of americans gave their lives to preserve our republic in this place great legislation to protect civil rights and economic security and lead the world was debated in crafted under this stone now it falls on the whole of us not just

the 2 leaders we are not creating today to take up the torch of our democracy not as a weapon of political arson but as an instrument for good we pledge today never to take our democracy for granted as we celebrate its remarkable strength we celebrate its resilience its grit we celebrate the ordinary people doing extraordinary things for our nation the doctors and nurses on the front line of this pandemic the officers in the capital a new generation never giving up hope for justice we celebrate a new president joe biden who vows to restore the soul of america and cross the river of our divides to a higher plane and we celebrate our 1st african-american 1st asian american and 1st one and vice president thank god harris.

ok so many here on this platform who have forged their way to this day when. she takes the oath of office little girls and boys across the world will know that anything and everything is possible and in the end the fact is america our democracy a country of so much good and today on these capitol steps and before this glorious field of flags we rededicate ourselves to its cause. thank you. thank you. and i are honored to introduce to you this senator who has worked with me and so many others to make this ceremony possible my friend and the chair of the inaugural committee missouri senator roy blunt.

well i should have known was senator club a char got involved at least be a touch of snow up here this morning. of all the things we've considered i don't think snow was on my agenda till i walked out the door a moment ago but thank you sir club a char and thanks to the other members of the joint congressional committee on the inauguration as we officially began the 59th inaugural ceremony also want to thank the joint committee staff and our partners particularly our security partners for the date the way they've dealt with unprecedented circumstances when i chaired the inauguration 4 years ago i shared president reagan's 1901 description of this event as commonplace and miraculous commonplace because we've done it every 4 years since

1789 miraculous because we've done it every. but ok so obviously we're having a little technical difficulties but this is just a part of the ceremony one thing i do want to note real quick on this one you know when you saw the escorts down they obviously are putting a lot of focus on the events that happened last week at the capitol the office which escorted down kamel harris our actually does offer a scene defending the capitol which was going to make sure that they were honored and that procession what you're seeing right now is a lot of this the logistical as they introducing each other obviously it was very much challenge a challenge to plan at this year's this year's event considering everything going on let's rejoin right now the broadcast and obviously see what's going on for others if we are always working to be better than we have been the constitution

established that determine democracy what's its 1st 3 words declaring the people as the source of the government the articles of confederation hadn't done that the magna carta hadn't done that only the constitution says the government exists because the people are the source of the reason it exists they immediately followed those 1st 3 words with the words to form a more perfect union the founders did not say to form a perfect union they did not claim that in our new country nothing would need to be improved fortunately they understood that always working to be better would be the hallmark of a great democracy the freedoms we have today. the nation we have today. is not here just because it happened and they aren't complete a great democracy working through the successes and failures of our history

striving to be better than it had been and we are more than we have been and we are less than we hope to be the assault on our capital at this very place just 2 weeks ago reminds us that a government designed to balance and check itself is both fragile and resilient during the last year the pandemic challenges are free and open society and call for extraordinary determination and sacrifice and still challenges us today meeting that challenge head on have been an our health care workers scientist 1st responders essential frontline workers and so many others we depend on in so many ways. today we come to this moment people all over the world as we're here are watching and will watch what we do here our government comes together the congress

and the courts join the transition of executive responsibility. one political party more pleased today and on every inaugural day than the other but this is not a moment of division it's a moment of unification a new administration began as and brings with it a new beginning and with that our great national debate goes forward and a determined democracy will continue to be essential in pursuit of a more perfect union and a better future for all americans what a privilege for me to join you today thank you. please call to the podium a longtime friend of the president elect and his family father leo to o'donovan to lead us in an invocation please stand if you are able and remain standing for the national anthem and the pledge to our flag.

this. gracious and merciful god. at this sacred time we come before you in need indeed on our knees. but we come still more with hope and with our eyes raised to new to the vision of a more perfect union in our land. a union of all our citizens to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity

. we are a people of many races creeds and colors national backgrounds cultures and styles are now far more numerous and on land much vaster than when archbishop john carroll wrote his prayer for the inauguration of george washington 232 years ago. our special carol prayed that you a creator of all would assist with your holy spirit of counsel and fortitude the president of these united states that his administration may be conducted in write just us and be eminently useful to your people and. today we confess our past failures to live according to our vision of equality inclusion and freedom for all. yet twee resolutely commit still more now to renewing the

vision to caring for one another in word and deed especially the least fortunate among us. and so becoming a light for the world. there is a power in each and every one of us that lives by turning to every other one of us a thrust of the spirit to cherish and care and stand by others and above all those most in need. it is called love and its path is to give ever more of itself. to day it is called american patriotism born out of power and privilege but of care for the common good. with malice toward none and with charity for all. for our new president we

beg of you the wisdom solomon sought when he know before you and pretty age for an understanding heart so that i can govern your people and know the difference between right and wrong. we trust in the counsel of the letter of james if any of you likes wisdom you should ask god who gives generously to all without finding fault and it will be given to you. pope francis has reminded us how important it is to dream together. by ourselves he wrote we risk seeing mirages things that are not there. dreams on the other hand are built to gether. be with us holy mystery of love as we dream together. help us under our new president to reconcile the people of our land re store our dream and invest

it with peace and justice and the joy that is the overflow of love. to the glory of your name for ever amen. you are watching the continued coverage of the inauguration here in washington d.c. jane we will continue to follow along pressure along with the presentation of the national sollars and the national anthem as well of obviously the pledge of allegiance.

sure. sure. and as colors are marching in right now i want to take this out of change obviously talk about it's very interesting to see if they can the crowd the difference between this inauguration compared to past aggressions right there the pictures of the flag and having the thousands of people little flags were placed have obviously been illuminated over the last few nights there in the nation's capital and the people literally just being set in groups of 2 so they could keep up with the social distancing that where is required right now with in our country and hoping that we are in a better place moving forward. over national and led coalition and the president's

own united states marine band please welcome lady gaga. oh. shut up shut. up shut .

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feet. and that is that grammy award winning artist a lady gaga i want to take a quick minute i want to get a. around check out what's going on around washington d.c.

in the streets obviously that was a big part of the headlines in the stories going into it watching the tyro ventre is a joining us with the events going on outside the capital is it quiet or are we actually starting to see a little bit more movement on the streets outside of the zones there's a little bit of movement you see groups of people kind of walking towards the of the capitol or over to the white house behind me i believe over lofty apart by the white house you can actually hear the lady gaga singing the national anthem kind of coming in through the streets from some loudspeakers they upset up over there and it's pretty impressive but it's also very eerily quiet when you don't you know what everything kind of stops moving you get the sense that the city is very much shut down and very much secure you can see behind me you have national you know national guard men behind me and also the secret service has been all over today absolutely and speaking of that we're actually i would like us to tune in right now for the sake of the national anthem the national public for which it stands one nation.

under god indivisible with liberty and justice. for those watching that was probably when the 1st times i've seen a sign language for the pledge of allegiance in tyrrell that's obviously why i am once again another way that they're trying to diversify. those that are watching at home that are watching online and can't be there in person on this you know i still have to correct. i'm still here and there with your perfect ok so now we're seeing a.b. i think we're we're back to they're going to do a couple more words and we're close to getting to the vice president speaking real quick you mention the soldiers behind you 25000 troops law enforcement is there actually any sort of rumors still that there are protests possibly planned nothing that we've heard over another concrete at this point no that doesn't mean it can't happen that doesn't something couldn't happen here. very much in our life to this point. sonia sotomayor are ok well thank you for that now let's go back to fighting

right now justice sotomayor is actually walking out. to be administered the oath of office to soon to be vice president camila harris historical moment as a woman swearing in another woman into 2 powerful women here in the united states. to. come up to the house to somebody school related to their son that i will support him defend the constitution of the i gets to support and. unite against all enemies foreign and defense. that i will be seeing we can see this is that we feared for me and allegiance to the fact that i take this obligation freely that i take this up with feeling without any mental reservation or purpose of people without any mental reservation

or purpose of being that i will well and faithfully discharge that i will well and faithfully to the duties of the office china about the duties of the office upon which i am about to do so so nobody got. me and that is. i want to bring in a good friend of the show but donna jones i know you're watching this i know you are filled with pride on so many levels what does it mean for you dawn to be watching right now the 1st female to be sworn into the executive branch of office here in the united states and now we have president comma harris. if this is such a powerful moment i just pulled my kids out of their virtual class and lying to them was sort. of the one bring women to the table just for the diversity of the

way that women think. it will help america always get better and i would be remiss if i didn't point out that the beautiful woman who is doing the language pledge of allegiance is also a fire captain in the city that i live in here in the city of alton georgia and just all of that woman's how work is just such an amazing thing has a moment i can't stop smiling and i imagine it's actually a very good moment for you it's a good moment for our daughters obviously right on the screen murphy another powerful woman jennifer lopez walking down in a beautiful power to live in a white satin suit i like that you could be watching the grammys right now the fashion is definitely on display but you know when we're talking about this though and commentaries and how she got here i do have to ask you you know going forward we're seeing a lot of diversity going into this administration but is it a no do you feel like that everybody knows that we can talk about women we talk about minorities do you feel like everybody's getting an equal share right now as

they try to reach out and bring in representation young old variety of colors are they doing a good job so far and what we're seeing this cabinet going to look like. what we already know there it is a tremendous approve improvement over the trumpet ministration which was like many republican administrations unfortunately predominantly white male we need in this country people at the table working at the table who boyce's are actually listed at that table and that's not to a. great white christian radio right they are part of american society is all screwed in all of business and we want to make sure and i know that we're going to have so many different voices coming in because without that we cannot rebuild america and i want to inflict last battle that was important that include. minorities of women not losing their. feel that they're losing their city at the table making the table money well and there's been

a lot of talk about the details it's been a lot of emphasis put on comma harris's historical moment and then i said political party this should be something that every woman in the united states right now is celebrating i'm celebrating it for my own daughter. to be honest with you because this is such a powerful moment that being said there's a lot of emphasis on congress she's going to take probably a more aggressive role than we've seen in past administrations past a vice president even a democrat leadership is there a chance that that could ever overshadow even heard earlier today someone said to joe biden just a placeholder for comma harris to move on up. just the fact that you do have such an important being put on the vice pres office diminished any that could be any of the qualifications or what's going on with president joe biden once he's in office . the next question and i think that's an answer and the reason is because unlike many other previous vice president joe biden was

a vice president and also in remark how. former president obama has always happened the last person in the decision has made itself he was amplified and so i don't see how he would. weigh. in the 1st debate because they had that kind of chemistry with someone like that and then deal with them you know there should not be a problem even if you take a little bit at this time because that is part of being in america rising tide raises all boats and you know what you're right about that lead on the fact joe biden self-service vice president you know what it's like you know the frustration sometimes he probably will be a lot more sensitive to her office and obviously. try to promote it could obviously everybody wants to have the best people at the table in that debate going forward from this how are you celebrating the rest of this day and what is the conversation

happening amongst your girlfriend and girl talk. when it in regards to comma harris now being in office. you know one of the things that stands out the most you know you think about the violence that occurred at the capitol and the violence part of this entire civil unrest is that we have an african-american woman who was a former prosecutor she understands how important the rule of law in all of this not deny that that's the 4th well let me let me actually i hate to interrupt you i really do but this is a big point we do have the chief justice john roberts going to stand up right now and it's going to give the oath of office the president to be. a strong and. i. think least to be. easy to.

please raise your right hand and repeat after me i joseph robinette biden jr do solemnly swear joseph robinette biden during you do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute that i will face away execute the office of president of the united states office of the president of the united states and will to the best of my ability to offer the best of my ability preserve protect and defend preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states constitution of the united states so help you god so help me god congratulations mr president.

i. thanks. thanks. thanks. thanks. very much operation going on right now and the bible that was sworn in was actually the biden family bible dating are they back to 8903 lots of celebration right now with and the family on the podium and as we wait for the 1st speech given by

president joe biden's address. this is going to be interesting because they're calling for an actual longer speech that we most often hear from the president 20 to 30 minutes so be prepared but in this he's going to center around his normal what the theme of this entire service is which is unity but don it's been a rough year has been very much a rough year on the campaign trail and into home i don't leave thing 2 weeks ago. are in to really fill in the heart of hearts that democrats want to reach across and bring unity is there going to be any sort of giving from the democrats considering they hold most of the power right now in 2 of the 3 branches do you feel like that's actually an earnest or is this just more of just we're going to say we're going to do it but technically we don't have to. you know i would have given you a different answer 2 weeks ago than i would today but after what happened at our capital i do think that democrats realize how serious it is to take their power and

move before they learned under president obama when he had all of the control 'd for those 1st 2 years have to act quickly or not at all because he may not have that opportunity in the future so i the democrat i'm hoping that they power through our things like health care our being with things that we know as progressive will help make america better over law and in at some point after we get through our policy principle. that time in waiting for well and that is something that obviously a lot of democrats including the wide range of executive orders today let's try back on this summer graduation journey was a big day for you 46. joe biden and president joe biden deliver his 1st address to the united states as i said. thank you thank you

thank you. thank you robert. president her. speaker pelosi leader sure her beautiful crime own. parents. my distinguished guests my fellow americans this is america's day this is democracy day a day of history and hope every know every zollo through a crucible for the ages america has been tested a new and america has risen to the challenge. today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause the cause of democracy. the people the will of the people

has been heard and the word of the people has been heeded we've learned again that democracy is precious democracy is fragile. and at this hour my friends democracy has prevailed. thank you. on this hallowed ground we're just a few days ago violence sought to shake the capital's very foundation we come together as one nation under god indivisible to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than 2 centuries. as we look at head and i uniquely american way restless bold optimistic and set our sights on the nation we know we can be and we must be. i thank my

predecessors of both parties for their presence here today i thank them from the bottom of my heart and i know thank you know there is a message our constitution. and the strength of the strength of our nation as does president carter i spoke with last night who cannot be with us today but whom we salute for his lifetime of service thank you i have just taken the sacred oath each of those patriots have taken the oath 1st sworn by george washington but the american story depends not in any one of us not on some of us but on all of us on we the people who seek a more perfect union this is

a great nation we are good people and over the centuries to storm and strife in peace and war we've come so far but we still have far to go. we'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibilities to much to repair much to restore much to heal much to build and much to gain a few people on a nation's history have been more challenged. or found a time more challenging or difficult than time renowned. once in a century virus and silently stalks the country is taking as many lives in one year as america lost in all of world war 2. millions of jobs have been

lost hundreds of thousands of businesses closed a cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us the dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. thank you i for survival plan is itself a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clearer now a rise of political extremism white supremacy domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. thank you overcome these challenges to restore the soul and secure the future of america requires so much more than words it requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy unity. unity. in another january. new year's day 1963 abraham lincoln signed the

emancipation proclamation. when he put pen to paper the president said and i quote if my name ever goes down into history it will be for this act and my whole soul is in it. my whole soul was in it today on this january day my whole soul is in this. bringing america together uniting our people unite in our nation and i ask every american to join me in this cause. thank you thank you 90 to fight the foes we face anger resentment and hatred extremism lawlessness violence disease joblessness and hopelessness with unity we can do great

things important things we can right wrongs we can put people to work in good jobs we can teach our children in safe schools we can overcome the deadly virus so we can reward reward work and rebuild the middle class and make health care secure for all we can deliver racial justice and we can make america once again the leading force for good in the world. and i know speaking of unity can sound to some like a fully fantasy these days. i know the forces that divide us are deep and they're real. but i also know they are not new our history has been a constant struggle between the american ideal that we are all are created equal and the harsh ugly reality that racism nativism fear demonization. have long torn us apart. the battle is perennial

and victory is never assured through civil war the great depression world war 911. through struggle sacrifice and setbacks are better angelus have always prevail. in each of these moments anough of us anough of us have come together to carry all of us forward. and we can do that now. history faith and reason show the way the way of unity. we can see to other not as adversaries but his neighbors we can treat each other with dignity and respect we can join forces stop the shouting and lower the temperature for the out unity there is no peace only bitterness and fury no progress only exhausting outrage

no nation only a state of chaos this is our historic moment of crisis and challenge and unity is the path forward. and we must meet this moment as the united states of america if we do that i guarantee you we will not fail we have never ever ever ever failed in america where we've acted together and so today at this time in this place let's start afresh all of us must begin to listen to one another again hear one another see one another show respect to one another. politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war. and we must reject the culture in which facts

themselves are manipulated and even manufactured. my fellow americans we have to be different than miss america has to be better than this and i believe america is so much better than this just look around. here we stand with a shout of the capitol dome as was mentioned earlier completed amid the civil war when union itself was literally hanging in the balance you know we endured we prevail here we stand. looking out of the great mall where dr king spoke of his dream here we stand where 108 years ago at another inaugural thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote.

and today we marked their swearing in of the 1st woman in american history elected to national office vice president. dr ellington stand change. we stand across the potomac from arlington cemetery where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in the terminal priest and here we stand. just days after riotous mom thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people to stop the work of our democracy to drive us from this sacred ground. it did not happen it will never happen not today not tomorrow not ever not ever. all those who supported our campaign i'm humbled by the faith you place in us to

all those who did not support us let me say this. hear me out as we will forward take your measure of me and my heart. if you still disagree so be it that's democracy that's america the right to dissent peaceably in the guardrails of our republic is perhaps this nation's greatest strength yet here we clearly disagreement must not lead to disunion. and i pledge this to you i will be a president for all americans all americans. and i promise you i will fight as hard for those who did not support me as for those who did. many centuries ago seen augustan and say to my church wrote to the

people was a multitude to find by the common objects of their love defined by the common objects of their love. what a common objects we as americans low that define us as americans i think we know opportunity security for liberty dignity respect honor and yes the truth. recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson there is truth and there are lies lies told for power and for profit and each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as americans and especially as leaders leaders who have pledged to honor our constitution and protect our nation to defend the truth and defeat the lies. blood thank you i

understand that many of my fellow americans view. this fear and trepidation i understand they worry about their jobs. i understand like my dad they lay in bed staring at the night staring at the ceiling wondering can i keep my health care going to pay my mortgage. thinking about their families about what comes next. i promise you i get it. but the answer is not to turn inward to retreat into competing factions. distrust even those who don't look like look like you. or worship the way you do or don't get their news from the same sources you didn't. we must end this uncivil war the pits red against blue. rural versus urban or rural versus urban conservative versus liberal. we can do

this if we open our souls who said to harden our hearts if we show a little tolerance and you. and if. we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes as my mom would say just for a moment stand in their shoes. because here's the thing about life. there's no accounting for what fate will deal you some days. when you need a hand. there are other days. when we're called to lend a hand. that's how it has to be is what we do for one another and if we are this way our country will be stronger more prosperous more ready for the future and we can still disagree. my fellow americans in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other we need all our strength to preserve it to persevere through this

dark winter. we're entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus. must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation. one nation i promise you this. the bible says we be man door for a night jory comment in the morning we will get. welcome to our international we've just been listening to the new president of the united states joe biden inaugurated as the 46th leader of the u.s. he was sworn in by supreme court chief justice john roberts a few moments ago is being making a speech quite a combative one for the past number of minutes on the steps of the capitol

a number of issues going through we will be wrapping up all the main aspects of what he has said in his 1st speech to the american president a little bit later in the program the news team just going through the the big points of that speech. there is another big story to update you on a developing one in the spanish capital now a powerful explosion destroying a building in central madrid killing at least 3 people the city mirror said the blast the piers to have been caused by a gas leak let's start to look at this how may the lasco as who's in madrid what is known that by the explosion talk us through what occurred today. we know little about the explosion we know that it might have been

a gas leak they said that they were doing some repairs see the site of the. blast but if. we don't. i know much about that we know that there are some scientists police a specialized units of the police here trying to find out exactly how this blast happened around 3 india after noon today we see some flames are devout and of the building still and we know that the 'd 5 stories of the building the top of the building have seriously damaged a police and also the firefighters are now checking the building in case it will have to be the most list we know that at least the top stories of the building will have to be demolished but the mayor of madrid multi-national may that came here saying that this was actually a miracle. around at least 3 for this and some people injured but

there's a care home with 55 elderly people nearby these bilin and also a school the yard of the school was absolutely full of rubble after the explosion and fortunately not any of the pupils of the school and also the residents of this care home. were injured the police has also sent some conine brigade some rescue dogs to find out if they might have stills be somebody inside of the building or could be trapped in the remains of the building after this huge blast. you alluded to it there ya mean in terms of faiths how it seems we we've been hearing conflicting reports about how many actually have lost their lives at least 2 do you know anything more about that . we know so far the 3 people have died

and another person would be like in serious condition in hospital and we have been talking about a few feud few done in dolphin people injured and this is why the mayor of madrid martin said that it was a miracle because as you can see the explosion was huge we know that the neighbors are being told not to go back to the buildings to the surroundings of this building the building belong to the church. it was the residence of some priest and church workers unfortunately it looks like it could have been even worse. but the police is still looking for. people that could be trapped inside and we are going to be carefully watching the latest reports on casualties and the state

of the injured the damage quite incredible really in one of the main streets of madrid not very far away from the royal palace as well tell us how you managed to speak to the locals there i'm sure it's just it's shock at this moment but are they being telling you what what they what they saw or what they're feeling right now. yeah the explosion could be felt and heard from several kilometers from the sports the neighbors started recalled in with their phones right away with the flames and a lot of dust coming out of these 1000000 they were really worried about you know the situation especially for example the parents of those popeil some of these nearby school and also the relatives of the you know the elderly that live in these care home finally when we found. it was you know the buildings were not affected

just more reduced damage neighbors decided to to be more. but but definitely they were really really really worried and some of them they are still not able to go back to the buildings because it's not safe because that structure has been seriously damaged and the firefighters are now. going to do with the building. so there's. going to be quite unstable and we don't know exactly how it's going to play yard what is going to happen with the building and when the neighbors will be able to go back to the homes of bitterness tell me of a lost person madrid bringing us up the dates with what occurred in madrid just a number of hours ago thank you well let's just recap indeed what we've been looking at there with all those pictures a powerful explosion destroyed

a building in the city center of the spanish capital killing at least those we're hearing 3 people one more is missing and a number of people are injured but again as our correspondent there the local journalist excuse me was saying the city's mayor describing it as a miracle that more people were were not killed in this incident it appears to have been caused by a gas leak that's what the city authorities are saying we do know the building is owned by the catholic church it serves as a religious complex providing training for priests and food for the homeless you know one church worker is reportedly one of those people who is missing the building is near a curry home for the elderly as well which reportedly suffered some damage but none of the residents were harmed there is a school nearby as well just to reiterate where this is just south of the royal palace any. people who've actually travel not are you most likely will have walked

past here it's very central just saw it all of the the royal palace one of the biggest tourist spots in this city by the way was empty thankfully that time we are of course keeping track of the situation will keep you updated from madrid it's. ok to another big story of the day joe biden has been sworn in as the 46 president of the united states he has just finished his inaugural speech on the steps of the county a lot of musical renditions at the moment going on in celebration of the fact earlier we saw a lot of celebs we saw jennifer lopez we saw lady gaga all giving their salute to the new commander in chief not just among the key points of what he said in a round of 1520 minutes speech he promised the fords unity the time of crisis

challenge quote repair our alliances i'm engaged with the world once again and also quote reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated pretty come both of speech for his 1st time us us president let's not across the u.s. correspondent philip my pen for a little bit more just the pictures alone it's a sort of morning like no other a must have security build up in the city take us through what's been happening today. indeed well we heard joe biden take the oath of office and his presidency officially began at 12 noon when he was speaking while he was giving his inaugural address now this has been as many have noted a rather unorthodox inauguration ceremony we had lady gaga performing the u.s. national anthem we had jennifer lopez performing america the beautiful in this land

is your land you know speaking in spanish at one point in the middle of the of the anthem and it was quite dramatic and now at this point we've seen amy clover shar who was a presidential candidate who ran against biden she's been presiding over the ceremony kamel the harris who is the vice president she took the oath as well as john roberts the u.s. supreme court justice chief justice of the u.s. supreme court was actually presiding over the ceremony and administer the oath and then we heard that combative speech from joe biden which had quite a few not so subtle dig that his press predecessor now we did hear from trump as he was leaving the white house this is what we heard from donald trump as he was departing. things that we've done have been just incredible and i couldn't have done i'm done it without you so just. a goodbye we love you we

will be back in some form. 13. now usually of the outgoing president attends the inauguration as kind of a gesture of good faith that did not happen on this occasion donald trump immediately went to florida to after leaving office 1st thing he was on a plane to florida now it's also important to know that the circumstances under which this inauguration are taking place are pretty unprecedented as well not only is the ceremony rather unorthodox but in addition to that at this point there are tens of thousands of national guard troops that have been deployed on the u.s. capitol the washington d.c. is kind of locked down because of security concerns in the aftermath of the capitol hill incident on june 6th in addition to that we have a situation where there is not actually a crowd assembled to watch the inauguration very few people are there to witness it

because of the pandemic and health concerns so rather than a crowd there is kind of a sea or barrier of american flags that has been set up to kind of take the place of a crowd so it's quite a dramatic moment and it kind of reflects the situation in the country which is still very very tense at this point 4 out of 5 americans say the country is quote falling apart however roughly the same number say they are still proud to be americans here some of what we heard when talking to people on the street about the situation in the country. there are real divisions and i think i comes around. last week last summer now. i mean there's there's a kind of political divides that are often sort of manufactured i think the 2 want to cling to the hope of the capital but rather limited it's really easy to feel look. i'm going to be scolded for i would say that really i mean it's spot on there costs a lot of heat and speed this country. in the part. you know that and then me that

says everything you know about the president there are 400000 individual americans dying from before coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have business is falling for bankruptcy you can't play if she's a tween the current president and the president coming it's not a very. it's a easy switch over i think a kind of what the current. president biden is doing as far as trying to impeach steele trying to tell the president is kind of childish. now despite all kinds of anxiety that somehow there may not be a peaceful transition of power i it appears that joe biden is now the president of the united states he has taken the oath and the ceremony is wrapping up so at this point many americans are still still scarred by the deep divisions and wounds of a hotly contested election where millions of americans supported donald trump and there appear to be millions of americans who believe donald trump was the

legitimate winner of the election as donald trump claims the divisions are very very deep now joe biden is promising to turn the situation around regarding covert 19 and regarding the economy however there's a huge amount of skepticism in the air there are deep divisions among the u.s. public as we move into a new presidential administration joe biden is now the president connally heris is now the vice president donald trump has left the white house and is in florida and the country remains deeply divided as the inaugural ceremony takes place and the country is expecting that on some level there will be a moving on from the trunk presidency a lot of division remains it's quite a tense moment in the u.s. capitol. give thanks very much for our killer mobile our u.s. correspondent killed just going through what's happening at the moment we have portree recitals going on at the inaugural ceremony right as the new power team.

and u.s. president joe biden look on meanwhile rallies are planned by both democratic and republican supporters nationwide and that's of course in violation of and de pandemic rules it's led to fears that a day of supposed celebration could have disastrous consequences here senior correspondent. the good news is it will be a sunny inauguration for the 1st time and many many years it's about it for good news washington is on red alert had locked out no huge crowds no fanfare they've even divided the city into color coded zunes like baghdad residents could move around in green zones but red zones are restricted and guarded by $25000.00 troops there guarding not against an enemy not against terrorists but against their room population.

all of this of course following what they call the insurrection at capitol hill on january 6th since then the secret service the f.b.i. the national god intelligence seemingly anyone with a badge has been moved to prevent trump supporters from trying it again and everyone's a suspect even the troops stationed in washington being screened for right wing sympathies by the f.b.i. this is like something out of north korea we're continually going through the process and taking 2nd 3rd looks at every one of the individuals assigned to the suppression we need to be conscious of it and we need to put all of the mechanisms in place to thoroughly vet these men and women who would support any operations

like this. and. distrust and fear are in the air hagon like like a poisonous me step every way and doesn't matter which way you voted people are statistically warrant this isn't the country they've lived in their entire lives i guess it's pretty. tense but it doing so they close. pretty much the whole downtown areas to the barricades and check points that no concrete blocks everywhere so you really can't get anywhere near the national or constitutions i mean you know it's really sad. it's lived in washington for 20 more than 20 years i've been to a lot of inaugurations and i've never seen security like this here or anywhere in america and it isn't just washington d.c. it's it's all over the country and there is good cause one in 3 voters still believe that biden wasn't legitimately elected $1.00 and $3.00 hold this radical

view and you were out so kay that's bad but in america where the most guns per capita in the world at really really bad right now there's too much going on in our country when all the election is on one side and a trumpet ministration if you're scared of a long gun our country was born on long guns the revolutionary war was won and fought with longer we have a country that's getting more deeply polarized because we have 2 political parties that are playing each other for each other's problems and issues the politicians of the parties because something needs to be done these these congo law in the country needs to heal right you can't very well run a country with this kind of divide brother against brother neighbor against neighbor and if you listen to democrat press statements that's what they've been trying to do think the events of the past few weeks have proved out just how

damaged the soul of america has been and how. important is to restore it that work starts on wednesday the thing with press statements and i can tell you this from experience as they are who always truthful and in this case it isn't they're preaching peace but what they're doing is something else entirely that turning the 74000000 people who voted for trump and to lampas to be shunned and costs that there has to be consequences but history shows it is not reacting not forcing accountability only and all the. people and those movements i don't know if there is such a job as a political exorcist but they need to do something to fix the republican party to get this demon as out there are republican members of congress i know who clearly have lost their minds who just will not accept reality when it comes to the facts about donald trump if you voted for trump you voted for the person who the klan

supported you voted for the person who nazis support you voted for the person who the all right supports that's the crowd that you are in and no one's trying to be the better person here trump is skipping the integration and flying the into florida not so much as the good luck to biden to offended themselves good britons they say what next merica hasn't been this divided since the civil war but nice to think that little be better off for the inauguration. but why would it no one seems to be in any rush to make the 1st move passions run high in america today and i think every precaution has to be taken to ensure that a repeat of january 6th doesn't occur. on inauguration day or trying to disrupt the you know your ration of joe biden. but the the imagery of $25.00

a nation governed. by a government that is not recognized legitimate by that number that you know that percentage of the americans so you know this is it's going to be a very difficult 4 years for the united states i don't know if we're ever going to be able to recover from this the partisan political divide is so deep and so wide joe biden is not the politician to bridge it he is one of the reasons why this divide exists so is donald trump and there's there's not easy joe biden will speak of unity he will speak of healing but the fact of the matter is he has now the trust of a significant percentage of the american people and there will be no healing there will be no unity when the head of the inauguration currently ongoing you're looking at 200000 flags placed on the national mall they represent the people who were prevented from coming to the ceremony because of the pun tannic other safety measures though don't relate to covert follows of national guard troops are in

washington to maintain security r.t. america host ben swan spoke to guests on his podcast the but the prospects for unity under no president. i think the 80000000 people who feel disenfranchised today need to activate their inner honey badger this is something that i talk about in chapter 8 of the parasitic mind honey badger is someone who is ferocious and fierce right honey badger is the size of a small dog yet it could withstand an attack from 6 lions how does it do that it's because it is so intimidating and its ferocity so i suggest that if people hold to values that they could defend in a reasonable and proper manner then they should be ideological honey badger if your professor says something in class that is insane challenge them lightly if your friend says something on facebook that you think is incorrect or challenge them politely in other words don't retreat as you said into the corners and and tuck

your tail between your legs on the contrary if you have cherished values that you could defend be an intellectual honey badger and hopefully by each of us lending our voice to the battle of ideas we can redress the ship while last time i checked it was the democrats that we're partnering with tactile silence any discussion whatsoever about people's concerns over the selection and accepting the results of all an election requires a conversation it requires having a conversation and making people feel like their voice matters and you know with regards to this this topic of unity that you were just speaking about with your previous guest the worst thing that you can ever do to another human being is take away their voice and i don't i don't see how joe biden imagines the united united states right where we get back to a time of civility and unity when you're silencing half of the country as great as

civility as hillary clinton always likes to talk about comes from the latin word civets right which means citizen and unity it's a complete mess and you really cannot be a complete citizen if you do not have a voice so i would love to know how joe biden imagines a united america when you know conservatives are being completely disenfranchised joe biden has been sworn in as the 46 president of the united states the inauguration ceremony continuing here let's cross back to our to america's coverage all votes ceremony and the team in washington d.c. . or is. it central well as far as you think can pronounce fact when speaking of the military duty right now obviously the program has ended a right to that end ceremony has ended you are saying. that military review is about to happen and which is traditional that means however it's no west on this one and colonel we're going to get to foreign policy has a big part i had some but i want to talk about what you when you heard that speech

right now a lot of people have accused. ministration being progressive but i'm hearing a lot of the things like the star-spangled banner after him brought up you know when nation under god i'm hearing a lot of very conservative tones in that does this do you think just words or is this truly reaching out to the other side saying we see some of the things that you called valuable and we're bringing we're going to make sure that that stays protected i don't need this new administration. to board. the. board. with. the job. and. the do. or. sections of. 1 the elite busy.

because what's. so. you know one. 'd 'd of. those a. and the orders. well that's what these executive orders right now are very very concerning actually they're a lot of the same things that we saw were what president obama did under his 8 years some of their key legislation that trump on his 1st day repealed so i feel like we're almost getting political whiplash at this point going back to some of those same policies that you're seeing them walk across right now you're seeing the 1st family be escorted across for the military view things are a little bit different this afternoon peter not going to have the full parade like they've had in traditionally in the past but that does not mean that the new

commander in chief does not get to review the different branches of branches of the military that are going to be passing in front of him. when we're talking about the military now talk to me about where we stand today going into the military aspect of 2021st is where what president trump did and 2016 what he inherited and what is it going to be like as a member of the military during the next 4 years is there just is there any certainty as to what to expect. we have. or you. know. respiration. capability so he goes back to. the truck and that's exactly. what is correct busy.

when you talk about. all. we saw was. i don't want to go. we are constructing it. at all. or even. 'd any sources social program absolutely and that's going to be an interesting thing to see where it goes with that thank you kara colonel for joining us on this you know i want to turn our attention to china and alex i have which is going to bring us the latest on where the united states and china relations stand so we know where we could go in the future.

my abiding prayer is that we emerge from this ordeal with a new list of. the great war at that putting very large tariffs on china there it was to the coronavirus we did a great job with the china virus a great job to the trumpet ministrations ties with taiwan. don't tell me when years the us signed to adhere to the one china principles and and the provisions of the 3

us china joint communique and to stop any words or actions that enhance u.s. taiwan relations for strengthen military ties with taiwan president donald trump's government was relentless and its actions against china setting relations between the 2 countries into a downward spiral however now trump is out and biden is in and without the possibility of improving the strain ties the u.s. has with china. although there are many domestic issues that will need biden's immediate attention many say china should be at the top of the list when it comes to foreign relations a number of america's most pressing issues touch on china including the economy the global pandemic science and technology the internet and climate change the united states accounts for less than 50 percent of the global carbon emissions but without claire coordinated and committed approach from the other 85 percent of the carbon

emitters the world will continue to war for real progress to be made in any of the above a thawing of relations with china would help the asian superpower seems to be on board and believe china stands ready to work together with the united states to strengthen communication with focus on cooperation many differences in the spirit of non-conflict non-confrontation with respect and win win cooperation to advance the sound and stable development not imply lateral ties the challenges by may have with easing tensions with china could include forces that are much closer to home in a recent zoom call between democratic senator dick durbin and biden's nominee for secretary of state tony blinken that was made evident according to durban's website he said under president trump the state department took a drastic step backwards as america retreated from the global stage and cowered to

our enemies abroad i look forward to working with tony blinken to reestablish america's a leading role in the world including when it comes to addressing the worst refugee crisis since world war 2 supporting democracy in venezuela and ensuring we stand up to threats posed by russia and china. some analysts say that china will soon overtake the united states as the world's largest economy and while there may be reason to criticize china's initial handling of the covert 1000 crisis that country has recovered faster than most others a lesson biden may want to take from the people's republic also as america turned its back to the nation china has been strengthening its international ties even with u.s. allies such as europe and its military is said to be the 2nd most powerful in the world next to the states there is no doubt that china is a challenger to the u.s. but that doesn't mean that relations between the 2 countries can't improve and it's very likely that joe biden knows it for r t i'm alex my love it. a lot of the questions that there are about relationships

with countries like china but you know i want to head to the middle east where while i have you starting out you know we have seen things actually kind of calm down in syria as much as they have in recent years and you think there's any signs which make you think that will not continue under president biden as it was quite most with with under the obama administration. well there are reports of troop deployments already secretly being made to syria it hasn't been quiet likely because presumably with tacit approval from the united states schools have been killed in syria in the past few days israeli air strikes and there have been attacks on iraq in the past few days against the words went to new terror as the secretary general of the united nations whether there will be a china u.s. war depends on which billionaire donors get in to see joe biden for us perhaps i know this well the cross-fertilization but is silicon valley more powerful or less vocal than the arms company silicon valley depends on chinese components so i think

they're there inlays some of what we should be looking for it comes to war but i do want to mention one thing which was strangely european lady gaga has broach. i think which i think annoyed to the great communist spanish bring to picasso's don't have peace so how ironic that the piece was there singing the national anthem. coach and yet all we had to war i'm to say the media aren't talking about war they're celebrating the end of true you know after 10 you're a man of many not met much knowledge in many different areas i know never to pay tribute pursuit of us i'm on your team if you can pick out broaches that quickly i can i know you didn't go google it you know it is interesting because it does show that it's such a small world right now i can talk about theory but that does bring in obvious they the events going on in the middle east right now we have seen a step up from israel knowing that they probably had a lot more support under the past my straight and then under this current

administration that being said you know when you look at some of these alliances some of these treaties that trump got out of where do you think right now you already hear these reports coming out of iran that iran is asking the u.s. to get back into the iranian nuclear deal where does that help the situation or is it going to hurt the rest of the world considering you know the goal i would hope would be for peace for most where do you see biden going to be moving forward we have any sort of scientists to what his approach is going to be to iran in the middle east. i think another thing that we all fear is that i even was part of an obama administration that accelerates at the. diffusion of fundamentalist islam islam in the middle east. al-qaeda as the us and britain defacto sponsored these groups they were backing these groups in syria as hillary clinton admitted in the julian assange leaks that we have so i think that is very

worrying perhaps lincoln and others are thinking ok try and make some deal with iran civil taking to sleep by defacto helping islam but of course the big danger here is we're back are we back to the reagan years when the united states was what you would you know afghanistan which led to the destruction of the twin towers and these were some of the foreign policy ugandan ideas that stack the senate foreign relations committee so it had to back iraq. and then it will changed because we heard from that speech full of the usual plastic redolent of obama and they all cheering by. changing looting lincoln and all the rest to him that he's appointed. well and that's going to that's the thing is how much of it is going to change i don't actually expect much of a deviation or thing a lot of the same familiar faces that from the obama administration reemerging and the biden cabinet what we're looking at right now on the screen by the way is are

waiting for the passing review to begin that's on the cab of the it's friday basically just walked through the building this is a long standing tradition in which the new president assesses the military troops once again just a part of the problem and the all of the the excitement and some of the ceremonies that go along with this the various inaugural person perceiving you know action at how is the rest of the world watching this right now we heard that the world the dollar like there was this percent. and the trump did not get along with many other world leaders how is the world do you feel like in the various regions he's probably the happiest to say trump out of the trumpet misprision gone and the reemergence of the obama administration the biden administration or with m.r. tear me as obama 2.0. i think unless we didn't have to immediately start talking about the media rather than the people you would never think that anyone in britain supported all true albeit you probably wouldn't think

if you were in the. in atlanta c.n.n. say headquarters that anyone supported. we have here a problem about media perceptions of course because it's acutely the children over elites that manage to get the jobs in the media there will give us such that they would never understand why anyone would like donald trump so again here in britain we're getting the perceptions filtered through the eyes of the children of relatively rich people and they all say biden is wonderful trump was trash so is that an accurate opinion i think the idea is that catapult to trump into the white house very much alive in the media if it's not american car college the european continent all the 200 economic crisis now exacerbated by a climate crisis capsulized coronavirus which is of course affecting europe and i'm

going to tell you if you think your viewers may criticize drone sampling of coronavirus in the united states britain has the worst of the capita rates in the world well i don't think this is a race that they're one of the countries want to be number one and i'll be out of it you know this is nobody wants the olympic gold medal for had being the most devastated by the fires that being said you know obviously president trump was big on trying to put the tennis back on it china does it really matter to the world do you ever feel like that the rest that we're out of go are we ever go. to see actually the countries bonding together whether we're talking about the the un or the world health organization to figure out exactly where it came from and more importantly how we prevent it from happening again and devastating not only one country's economy but it truly the global economy like this has over the last year . let's hope you know the nuclear codes swack to. the religious was changed by joe biden from from that football in more him hurry where he

largo in florida straight to straight to buy we have to wish for a reproach more between these nations but you know you have a trillion dollar budget that was just floated through nothing has been seen like this in human history when it comes to us weaponry. i think alliances are being made in the global south and beyond realizing the dangers that america who says it's quite common in the global south to view the united states as a failed state and the pictures of the 25000 troops in washington d.c. contribute to that and i'm sure our reporters on the scene there know they weren't allowed to bring bulletproof vests helmets or a counselor to report from the mouth during this inauguration obviously people in the united states deep state very conversant with the idea that they do want the united states looking like a failed state or a well and that thing about everything and obviously president by any are in favor

of i think paul harris and the families made up their heading to arlington cemetery before i let you go i have to talk about something personal to you that you were on a can't campaign for because not only as a journalist but also i think as a friend a friend something we did not see a last minute pardon like many people both conservatives libertarians even democrats are calling for a last minute pardon a delay innocent people are outraged in america over they thought that was not the right thing for trump to do why did he decide not to pardon foley and i thought. well of course trump dismantle teach if he did do a few things to the 74000000 americans who voted him in one to 2 but i think in a sense emblematic of trump's utter incompetence at responding to the dreams and desires of his constituency the forgotten people. in the midwest of the united states is protecting julian assange the magic of the 1st amendment of the us constitution he obviously bow to pressure if he thinks the right bowing to pressure

from some republican senators so that he doesn't get convicted in the impeachment debate he's made in or out of the room cool these are the roll call is a known. and know and i know peter minds by donald trump he never he never really challenge the deep state the military industrial complex he gave the tax breaks to silicon valley what exactly can valley give him. freedom of speech the 1st amendment these are going to be huge debates coming up in these 4 years and let's just hope somehow that joe biden who called job julian assigns that beacon of free speech all around the world terrorists let's hope better voices prevail and people in biden's camp realize that if assad goes down so to the editors of the new york times the washington post and all of the new liberal media in the united states listen after we all want to be popular we all want to have friends i guess but in washington d.c.

that's one place that you don't want to be popular and i kind of shocking to me that even on present time for the last day he's still trying to sit at the core kids' table and tell you it's pretty caught on they have from from the other side where i like to look and transparency i get to sleep a lot better than a probably a lot of them do and i know you do too considering your work ethic absent thank you so much for joining us and thank you so much on this historic day here in the united states we will continue the conversation. so now that the official ceremony swearing in ceremonies are finished we want to take a look at how our president and vice president got to the point where they are today her now famous words were joe we did it are now dominating themes of the political pop culture however just like women like geraldine ferraro of sarah palin hillary clinton attempted to break the glass this is the ceiling of the executive office guess what the 1st woman who claimed that she did it is common harris tells us a little more about the 1st female vice president. come isn't just the

1st female vice president of the united states many are also noting she is the 1st black and indian descent let's take a look at how she got to the white house let me just say. we're going to be integrated period it's the day the former senator and california attorney general has been anticipating for months even when republicans question the validity of the election while harris remain confident in her role as the next vice presidents we are. working with all leaders regardless of what they believe in oakland california native harris was born october 20th 1964 her mother in indian immigrant was a biologist who helped discover the progesterone perceptor gene that helped to uncover research for breast cancer cures his father was a jamaican immigrants and is currently a professor of economics at stanford university she has a younger sister named maya they both seen choir at an african-american church while in grade school their mother introduce them to hinduism as well hera says

parents divorced when she was 7 at the age of 12 she moved to canada with her mother made her way back to california for law school at u.s. hastings after high school she attended howard university in washington d.c. in 1900. 80 district attorney in alameda county california it was a huge stepping stone which led the way for her to become. district attorney in san francisco. and in 2002 harris ran for district attorney of san francisco while she was the least known of the 3 candidates she eventually won after a special runoff election with 56 percent of the vote she ran for a 2nd term in 2007 without being challenged then in 2017 harris was elected as a u.s. senator 3 years later she ran for president and you don't drop an ounce but that wasn't the end for harris joe biden selected her as his v.p. running mate soon after even though she called him out during

a democratic presidential debate on the issue of race to hear you talk about the reputations of 2 united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country and it was not only that but you also worked to oppose bussing. and you know there was a little girl in california who was part of the 2nd class to integrate her public school and she was bused to school every day and that little girl was me and this last few months. than ever. there were cited a showcase getting vaccinated encouraging others to do the same. and the montana that my husband is going to hear today when i look forward to getting back. and literally this is about. was busy campaigning in georgia for this election

but it's good to be back in georgia and i am here to support raphael warnock and john and daniel black and to remind georgia. boy drawn and matters in there for election heroes also making the cover of vogue magazine although it didn't turn out exactly the way many had expected as here was cho. as her own close some on social media called her look disrespectful. if you voted for harris and biden or trump and pence there's no question this election has been anything short of historic reporting from los angeles and sweets r t. thank you natasha now it has been a long year for those on the campaign trail for joe biden it is 40th year and office i want to take a look at that long career and everything he has been able to accomplish that ended him in the oval office artie's fair i'm sac looks back. now that her 20th 142

in scranton pennsylvania joseph biden jr was born into a catholic middle class family the oldest child of 4 bidons parents moved the family to wilmington delaware when he was 10 after scranton saw a major economic decline and his family was at the brunt of that hardship while biden was a major standout on his high school football team he was a poor student it was in high school he learned of a lifelong struggle he would have to overcome day after day biden had a starter despite the setback it was in high school biden got his 1st taste of politics as class president his junior and senior year with practice biden starter improved as he went on to the university of delaware and syracuse university college of law where he was ranked $76.00 out of 851970 2 it was an uphill battle going up against an incumbent for a delaware senate seat but biden saw an opportunity his republican opponent did not biden won by just 3000 votes all those votes from the african-american community

housing to washington early to set up his new office biden got the call that would change his life forever his wife and 3 children on their way home from picking up a christmas tree were hit by a truck his wife and one year old daughter naomi were killed instantly his son beau a broken leg his son hunter a fractured skull it was at the hospital biden was sworn in as senator while working to make a name for himself among democrats biden met and married his wife jill and welcome to his youngest daughter ashley biden took a stab at running for president in 1987 it was then biden got his 1st taste of political scrutiny where it was discovered he plagiarized a notable speech and lied about his law school record while biden did apologize he dropped out of the race then as one of the top dogs on the senate judiciary committee biden and close friend senator ted kennedy oversaw the confirmation hearings of judge. robert bork were democrats blocked then president ronald

reagan's pick but were able to confirm judge clarence thomas in 2007 biden took another shot at the presidency but went on to be chosen by candidate barack obama as his vice president and 2015 though another tragedy biden's eldest son beau a rising star in politics and who biden often called him the better version of me died at the age of 46 of brain cancer but what urged his father to run for president in 2016 but still in mourning biden took a back seat and watch the election of 2016 go to donald trump. was a year after trump was inaugurated a group of white supremacist gathered in charlottesville virginia for a unite the right rally incited a self identified white supremacist to deliberately ram iscar into a group of counter protesters moving more than 30 injured only one woman dead biden says it was the lack of leadership from president donald trump that made his

decision crystal clear he would run one more time biden will inherit a number of injuries a shattered economy people still reeling from controversial political rhetoric and a nation still grappled by a global pandemic but is biden said throughout his 2020 campaign he can and he will heal the soul of the nation. praising god knowing. you're back to our team and for friends. and we were turned back to the events are happening there at the capitol as you would there outside the capitol you know i guess if you have the military gathering the military band there at the capitol in the motorcade waiting to depart like you said this is not traditional we've never seen a schedule like this before normally at this point you would begin the parade that would march down pennsylvania avenue that's not going to be happening so right now we're just waiting outside the the cow. well in the motorcade heading back down

towards pennsylvania at some point we're going to go to arlington and do the traditional wreath laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier and outside the capital also where we find our friend tyrrell ventura host of watching the hocks tyrrel i said they're coming for you that you haven't got to get they're still waiting on the motorcade nothing close quick in washington d.c. including at the traffic or even the new president at this stage how's it feeling and more importantly i know since you have been sitting out the you've been going over social media wow was the public's reaction right now to the 1st few hours and more importantly the speech in the ceremony and volved in the swearing in of the new president and vice president well you can definitely feel a kind of a giant exhale at least here in the city of washington d.c. because you know the streets have been called and there hasn't been any kind of altercation or anything major i mean there was a bubble even a bomb threat called in the supreme court earlier today but that proved to be not actually a threat and proved to be completely illegitimate and so there was no real cause for concern there at the end of the day and so really there's it's going to can

kind of like a sub just a nice exhale the streets are very empty you see you know journalists walking around a lot of secret service you know a few spottings a little bit of protesters here and there usually maybe like one or 2 people but not in large groups and i think overall what you're seeing on social media all that is not only excitement for a new dawning of a new political year here in the united states but also just the next sale of ok we're not seeing the protests that we thought were going to happen you know cities cities like philadelphia and other cities across the country were expecting you know major potentially major up on restaurant people but we're not seeing that so far today it is a relatively quiet inauguration day. me moving forward moving forward we hope it stays that way and if you look around washington d.c. there has been buildings have been boarded up restaurants closed the downtown closed the white house and the capitol for months now lots of questions and those that actually have to live. here. are the stores are those restaurants going to be

able to open back up is there any sense right i think the giant exhale but it's also going to be i have version of holding their breath can this city actually get back to normal are we going to see those boards come down are the military going to stop walking around the streets carrying being armed and also want to cairo where they're going to be heading your way as we're watching all of the former presidents the bushes the clintons everyone starting to get into their cars right now did but you know they are going to start to see city start to reopen now. i mean you would of the january 21st the word here in washington d.c. is that all the fences are going to come down the you know the military patrols on the streets in the checkpoints all of that is supposed to be gone as of january 21st tomorrow thursday now will it move that quickly as you said it is government in the hotel and it does move slowly it remains to be seen you know if there's a security threat here still you could still see a lot of the national guard things like that hang around but as of right now all

plans are that you will see the security presence that has been here in the bed on the streets here in the nation's capital for the last 23 weeks that is supposed to dissipate and eventually disappear probably probably by the end of this week if everything goes according to plan but again it is that exhale that it washington's a strong tough city we've had the boards go up over the businesses and come down quite a bit this last year and also remember too is that culvert is still the number one threat right now to the country and so you know that not everything is going to go back to normal normal it's going to go back to covert normal as soon as the inauguration is over and that's but that's a big part of we keep talking about coffee talk about the vaccine drugs the vaccine right here in washington d.c. has obviously had to take up like most communities across the united states a big focus right now until we feel like that that already that you've already got a better feeling obviously vice president biden has just said that's one of. his main goal is to get this out as immediate possible out of the public how best do

you feel like that is the community going to have to respond to that in what way and is washington d.c. kind of waiting for that to happen before they open up. well if washington d.c. can start working with the local legislatures are working with the states to really roll call that out then you could see i think right now the states when you look at across the board and in the local municipalities in that they're all screaming saying hey we're ready to go help us we haven't had the same you know we haven't had any kind of real direction coming from on a federal level beyond like you know here's the you know here's the vaccine go run with it so i think a lot of the states and a lot of the governments in the cities across this country are all going to be looking to the biden administration saying all right you promised us you know 100000000 vaccinations in the next 100 days let's make good on that because people are hungry they're hungry to get this disease behind us to get enough people inoculated so that way we can move forward we can get some of someone's back of the normal that we remember but let's also be on

a study after all the events of 2020 things are never going to go but are never going to go back to the way we remember and they're just going to go move forward to what we will deal with in the future well and that's that's the big the the new normal which we're all kind of going what is that going to look at stay safe out there like i said they're headed your way i appreciate you carol thank you's got it . president biden and vice president harrison their family start to make their way down to pennsylvania avenue for the 1st time to the white house being the new owners of it i want to bring in a man who has had a chance to serve in congress the newly sworn in president to get his take alan grayson former us up again from florida and alan thank you for joining me i know it is a historical they i know as a democrat you're probably very very happy today and probably get it soon as you're offered to go have your virtual inaugural ball hopefully in your living room but that means what does it mean today what is this transition looking like to you and do you think that it's too ambitious the plan that that president biden's already

put out and said that he's going to pass. well today's events were like sunday a religious service or like a wedding it has to happen in order to mark a transition and it went off flawlessly with all the right things. for the 1st 4 time in 4 years we had a president who spoke in a presidential manner has been literally unprecedented and unprecedented for the past 4 years he is saying the things that are necessary to take a stab at bringing the country together i i. i. am let's leave the team in washington for not return here to our moscow studios i mean and only needed joe biden has been sworn in as the 46 president of the united states bringing to a close donald trump's 'd 4 year leadership in his inaugural speech biden call for

unity and an end to they vote on civil war between democrats and republicans last night crossed our u.s. correspondent. who has been watching and following events i suppose as be fits the times it was an inauguration ceremony like no other take us through the day. indeed well we had joe biden taking the oath of office his presidency officially began at noon while he was giving an inaugural address fall at full of grabber not so subtle digs at his predecessor while calling for national unity now the ceremony itself was rather an orthodox we had poetry being performed we had lady gaga singing the national anthem we had jennifer lopez singing america the beautiful as well as this land is your land and giving kind of a loud outburst about justice in spanish amid the song and it was quite quite

an unconventional an unconventional inauguration ceremony joe biden is now the president of united states connally harris is now the vice president of the united states mike pence attended but donald trump was absent usually the outgoing president attends the inaugural ceremony this year that was not the case donald trump did leave the white house in any widespread anxiety about a possible non peaceful transition of power seems to have have vanished donald trump didn't leave did indeed leave the white house went directly to his property in florida this is what we heard from trump as he was vacating the home of the president of the united states the white house the things that we've done have been just incredible and i couldn't have done i'm done it without you so just. say goodbye we love you we will be back in some form.

or one. now tens of thousands of national guard troops were deployed around washington d.c. because of security concerns in the aftermath of the events on january 6th in which protesters supporting donald trump i went into the capitol building and vandalized property etc in response to that there was a very very very heavy military presence in washington d.c. in the for today's ceremony now it's also important to note that there are still deep divisions and feelings of anger and resentment in the country a poll taken among americans showed that 4 out of 5 u.s. citizens consider the united states to be quote falling apart in addition to that it's worth noting however that roughly the same number 4 out of 5 said they are proud to be americans regardless this is some of what we heard when engaging with americans in the lead up to today's inauguration i think there are real divisions

and i think that comes around sort of last the caste system at least now. i mean there's there's a kind of political divides that are often sort of manufactured i think there to want to things that happen in the capitol where the media it's really easy to feel like they're going to be scolded for i would say that really not a good spot there has to be a lot of. this country. playing a part. you know that and then there's serious serious things you know about the president here 400000 individuals americans dying from 4 coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have business is falling for bankruptcy you can't play issues between the current president and the president coming it's not a very. easy switch over i think a kind of what the current. president biden is doing as far as trying to impeach steele trying to tell the president is kind of childish. now unlike

what generally happens at presidential inaugurations there was no big crowd of supporters and admirers of joe biden that assembled due to the fact that code 19 and public health regulations prohibit such gatherings it's worth noting that the us media reacted to joe biden's inauguration quite a bit differently than they reacted to trump's inauguration 4 years ago there was quite a bit of positive statements and praising of joe biden from the u.s. mainstream media during this inauguration while much of trump's inauguration was subject to rather harsh scrutiny and criticism now at this point joe biden has taken the oath joe biden is the president of united states and he's calling for national unity he's promising to turn things around regarding the pandemic and regarding the economic situation in the country but there's a lot of skepticism and there's a lot of remaining scars and wounds the election was heavily contested there are still millions of americans who feel donald trump was

a legitimate winner of the election and don't accept the results so it's quite an intense situation here in the united states we are facing a very divided country as a new president is sworn in in new leader in many ways the same old as in the killer place very much for bring this through. in all rallies are planned by both democrats and republican supporters nationwide in violation of rules that's led to fears not to do you suppose that celebration could have consequences here's our senior correspondent mara goes to. the good news is it will be a sunny inauguration for the 1st time and many many years it's about it for good news washington is on red alert had locked out no huge crowds no fanfare they've even divided the city into color coded zones like baghdad residents could move around in green zones but red zones are restricted and guarded by

$25000.00 troops there guarding not against an enemy not against terrorists but against their room population. all of this of course following what they call the insurrection at capitol hill on january 6th since then the secret service the f.b.i. the national guard intelligence seemingly anyone with a badge has been moved to prevent trump supporters from trying it again and everyone's a suspect even the troops stationed in washington being screened for right wing sympathies by the f.b.i. this is like something out of north korea we're continually going through the

process and taking 2nd 3rd looks at every one of the individuals assigned to the suppression we need to be conscious of it and we need to put all of the mechanisms in place to thoroughly vet these men and women who would support any operations like this. and. distrust and fear are in the air hagon like like a poisonous me step 3 way and doesn't matter which way you voted people are statistically warrant this isn't the country they've lived in their entire lives i guess it's pretty. tense but they do it so they close. pretty much the whole downtown areas to the barricades and check points there's no concrete blocks everywhere so you really can't get anywhere near the national or constitutions i mean you know it's really sad that it's lived in washington for 20 more than 20 years i've been to a lot of inaugurations and i've never seen security like this here or anywhere in

america and it isn't just washington d.c. it's it's all over the country neris good cause one in 3 voters still believe that biden wasn't legitimately elected one in 3 hold this radical view and you were out so k. that's bad but in america where the most guns per capita in the world at really really bad right now there's too much going on in our country when all the election . when i and a trumpet ministration if you're scared of a long gun our country was born on long guns the revolutionary war was won and fought with longer we have a country that's getting more deeply polarized because we have 2 political parties that are playing each other for each other's problems and issues the politicians of the parties something needs to be done these these congo on the country needs to heal right you can't very well run

a country with this kind of divide brother against brother neighbor against neighbor and if you listen to democrat press statements at's what they've been trying to do think the events of the past few weeks have proved out just how damaged the soul of america has been and how. important is to restore it that work starts on wednesday the thing with press statements and i can tell you this from experience as they are who always truthful and in this case it isn't they're preaching peace but what they're doing is something else entirely turning the 74000000 people who voted for trump and to lampas to be shunned and costs that there has to be consequences but history shows it is not react not forcing accountability only and all the ends of those people and those movements i don't know if there's such a job as a political exorcist but they need to do something to fix the republican party to

get this demon out there are republican members of congress i know who clearly have lost their minds who just will not accept reality when it comes to the facts about donald trump if you voted for trump you voted for the person who the klan supported you voted for the person who nazis support you voted for the person who the all right supports that's the crowd that you are in a new ones trying to be the better person here trump is skipping the integration and flying them to florida not so much as the good luck to biden too offended themselves good riddance they say what next merica hasn't been this divided since the civil war but nice to think that little be better off for the inauguration. but why would it no one seems to be in any rush to make the 1st move passions run high in america today and i think every precaution has to be taken to ensure that

a repeat of january 6th doesn't occur. on inauguration day or trying to disrupt the now you ration of joe biden but the the imagery of 25 a nation governed. by a government that is not recognized legitimate by that number that you know that percentage of the americans so you know this is it's going to be a very difficult 4 years for the united states i don't know if we're ever going to be able to recover from this the partisan political divide is so deep and so wide joe biden is not the politician to bridge it he is one of the reasons why this divide exists so is donald trump and there's there's not easy joe biden will speak of unity he will speak of healing but the fact of the matter is he has now the trust of a significant percentage of the american people and there will be no healing there will be no unity it just brings something else

a recent poll has revealed that around a 3rd of europeans think the u.s. can be trusted and over 60 percent of respondents say america's political system is broken we asked people in france germany and the u.k. for their thoughts. the relationship is not good because of trump but whether it will improve its $55060.00 over the song it will be difficult to unify because trump has a lot of radical supporters the u.s. and e.u. seem to be taking a confrontational approach to each other at the moment i hope that biden would be more friendly towards the e.u. because under trump there was a lot of distance between it's just about music or just i don't know that i have confidence in this president and you lot of american people who love charm he was the man for the job they thought they were happy with what they saw what happened when we see what he has done and what he's doing with him to ourselves that he really must be stopped that's all trying to start quite large international relations i think you're going to see the repercussions about i think other nations

leverage because if so it's going to get better but it's not going to happen or not i know that biden is small pro you from. but i think vested interests in that tradition of friendship and trade relationships will win in the end well a key foreign policy challenge for joe biden will be restoring attention ship with china amid a long 'd running tara for some harsh beijing rhetoric from donald trump we spoke with a news anchor c.d.t. n. in beijing what the prospects for a new relationship i think for one thing beijing is ready to work with if i didn't at least ration our. well during his inauguration speech will come back to the piece in just a moment joe biden said america needs to front white supremacy and what some have interpreted as a veiled reference to the more radical supporters that comes. sure you know amid

a climate of highly charged language being used by both democrats and republicans against each other like never before r t america host ben swan spoke to his podcast guests about that hostility. the use of language is so important as a journalist i know words mean something and we constantly use language to to demonize and dehumanizing people on the other side it's leading us towards very drastic measures and i write about that are my overstating that no you're absolutely right listen the use of language is the most by which we communicate yes some of our communication modalities are non-verbal but we are a a dialoguing animal and so to the extent that we can serve the meaning of words then we control the narrative and so let me give you an example rape used to mean that you know the reprehensible diabolical crime that it was i mean typically

a male who you know a service is the right of a woman to have freedom of choice in terms of who she wishes to mate with but that wasn't enough so now we talk about things like visual rape right so if a man liers at a woman the wrong way well it might be reprehensible maybe you shouldn't do it but it's not a form of sexual assault but by altering the language such that someone who approaches you in a vulgar manner is engaging in linguistic rape someone who stares at you in a leering way is engaging in visual rape you create a new reality so of course language matters and you're exactly right that it's dangerous and to call your next door neighbor who is a white male who voted for trump the mystic terrorist is not going to result in good downstream effects and i always tell people there's only 2 options either we're going to resolve these issues peacefully through the battle of ideas or and

101520 a 100 years we will resolve them violently if you are on the outside of this if you're among the nearly 80000000 people who did vote for president trump who right now most of them by the way are ducking their heads and trying to be as quiet as possible because they're fearful of the retribution that's coming toward them. what do we do with those people to help them to know that it's ok to have a different thought and that doesn't mean that you have to now go into the dark corners i think the 80000000 people who feel this are fascist today need to activate their inner honey badger this is something that i talk about in chapter 8 of the parasitic mind honey badger is someone who is ferocious and fierce right honey badger is the size of a small dog yet it could withstand an attack from 6 lions how does it do that it's because it is so intimidating and its ferocity so i suggest that if people hold to values that they could defend in

a reasonable and proper manner then they should be ideological honey badger if your professor says something in class that is insane challenge them lightly if your friend says something on facebook that you think is incorrect challenge them politely in other words don't retreat as you said into the corners and and tuck your tail between your legs on the contrary if you have cherished values that you could defend be an intellectual honey badger and hopefully by each of us lending our voice to the battle of ideas we can redress the ship is there something that needs to happen in terms of trying to find some form of unity from now former president trump or about to be former president trying to create a feeling of unity he has talked a lot about defending his supporters and protecting them but at the same time what could he do to say there's got to be a better way to treat these people and to not not just demonizing the but the humanize them. yes so i mean frankly i think the message of this unity.

is not coming from trump it's coming from the incoming administration that strongly a spouses identity politics as a way to organize society identity politics by definition is the opposite of unity because it get allies us into tribes whether it be political tribes whether they be sexual orientation tribes were there be skin color tribes it is the opposite of a unifying message add a moment where there is such rage toward the losing side i don't think we've ever seen this happen before where rather than taking a victory lap rather than celebrating the win we're seeing almost like what you might call a sore winner is that is that how you would describe it. yeah well that the left is definitely projecting right that's what they get are classic projectors i like to say that projection is their game fascism or fascist is their name because that's

exactly what they're doing what conservatives are currently experiencing here in america and really all around the world regardless of which you know nationalist or populist movement you may be a part of is just a full blown assault on behalf of the democrat party and their alliance with the tech social media and tyrants to eliminate any way start any opposition any any political dissent that's going to challenge the radical left agenda and so you're talking about your politics people have a reason to be scared one side is not allowed to speak and it's more than just not speaking is it not it's you don't have the right to speak and we're going to talk in your place in your stead about how you must be deprogrammed you must think differently if you don't change the way you think you should have a job you should be a lot of fly on airplanes you should be allowed to stay in hotels or air b.n. b. this is not a new phenomenon right this has been happening under the eyes and noses of

lawmakers here in our country who have just decided to turn a blind eye to it because like you said it's easy for people to say well you know these things aren't happening or they can't happen on a bigger scale because you know maybe those people should have just found little quiet or you know maybe they were a bit too controversial but you know when you look at history and at absolute horrors and acts of genocide and atrocities that happen this is the same behavior right that leads to it and this is exactly what happened in 1930 s. germany where you think the movement goes from here and is that the big fear for not just democrats because it's not fair is the democrats by the establishment politicians the fear is we don't know what to do with these people because they are a real force on america. well there's discussions about a potential 3rd party rights and we've seen that it's you know very difficult to run as a 3rd party candidate here in the united states savvy people have been successful

but generally you know on a ballot 3rd party candidates don't succeed and if there's one person in the country who is capable you know crashing the republican party and potentially creating a 3rd party maybe a patriot party some people are calling it that it would be donald trump i think chaos is a good word to describe how most people felt even after the election going into what happened on january 6th of the capital coming into today i don't know if you heard the very 1st conversation we had with 25026000 national guard troops in washington d.c. on inauguration day it's unprecedented how do you kind of see today and where we go . from here with the new by the ministration it has been a lot of chaos but we just have to be honest and i know it's very difficult for some republicans and trying supporters to be honest but the chaos ensued because of the decisions and the statements and the aggravation from almost former president trump had he not convinced all of his supporters based on invalidated

complete lies about the election that i don't think it would have felt so chaotic so i get it you know many republicans felt like they had a great candidate and there's no way that they could leave but the reality is trump had angers so many americans he already lost the popular vote in his 1st election but this time americans were certain to come out to vote they organized here in georgia they organize to know him to win the senate and for some reason republicans simply can't accept the fact that they were beat and that was the cause of the chaos and it's our hope that now president biden will come in and he will help to calm the chaos helped to reach some of those gas now there's going to be some people who will never support president biden in the. that's perfectly fine but the reality is america more than anything else needs some calm some unity and some sense of security that is not based on fear mongering on disliking other people

building walls blocking people from coming into the country simply based on their religion and it is great to see returning back to the america and putting us back on the trajectory we were originally on. i think most people would agree with everything you just said by the way we just a moment ago former vice president biden about to be president biden standing by alongside dr joe biden about the into the arena but lived on it i think when you talk about calm and unity so many people tens of millions hundreds of millions of americans i think one that they want right down there to be calm and they want there to be unity so how does you know some of what some of the language that's being used right now some of that language is being used by katie couric coming out the other day and saying trump's supporters must be deprogrammed how does that help with the calm and what can a now president biden about president biden do to to assure people that hey we're

not all in a maze here and we don't have to be in a means we don't have to continue that how does this growing animosity between us as camps we can just come together as americans that is an excellent question so i think in order to bring calm we have to honestly address what was the cause of so many trump supporters who may not have really been stops republicans but they were stopped republican support what brought them out of the fall what made them so excited that they will follow everything that trumps it and there's a part of america that feels left behind for whatever reason they feel forgotten and if you know that neither the political parties back then and tap into that base in a considerable way so i think to bring unity.