today he likely would listen. >>helikely would. his director has been by his side throughout the day. just to give people a sense of what we're talking about there are over 28,000 security personnel helping out with security today. they swore in over 3,000 police officers from around the country to augment the already sizeable capitol police, d.c. police. you're talking about a mammoth amount of people and the national guard as well. they have planned for every possible scenario. one thing that struck me is spraying gas, all the different types of nightmare scenarios. they are ready for anything. again, right now i think they're pondering will the president of the united states donald trump decide that he wants to get out of the car and talk to some of

the people along the route. >> it looked like it was going to stop and now it's continuing to roll down pennsylvania avenue. interesting sign we saw. ivanka 2020 is pushing things quickly. is he coming into focus lara? >> reporter: no. still several blocks away. i'm sure the president enjoying every minute of it knowing him. but no, we are -- it's going to be quite a while. it's 1.8 miles. we watched him go from the white house to the capitol hours ago. sworn in and now making the journey back to the white house. he'll get about a ten minute break before enjoying the rest of the parade. this parade can run for hours. at this rate it's going to be a long one. >> jon karl? >> reporter: we're about five, six blocks away from the trump international hotel. i am now told definitively that donald trump is in the backseat of the limousine with melania

just to make that clear. this route is filled with history, all the presidents that have come down here. we'll be passing as we mentioned the trump international hotel. i can see the tower, of course, it's the old post office building. down a little further on the other side of the street is the willard hotel which is the hotel abraham lincoln stayed in for several days before he was inaugurated in and moved into the white house as the 16th president. you know, we're passing the canadian embassy over here. the museum. this is the street that connects the center of power of the capitol with the white house and so remarkable to think donald trump's hotel stands almost exactly at the midpoint between the u.s. capitol building and the white house. when he bought that building by the way, he put out a huge sign out front, trump coming in 2016. that was far before he was

planning to run for president but the hotel opened in 2016. >> jon we should point out that hotel a point of some controversy in a couple of different ways. some suggesting having foreigners puts the president in violation of the clause of the constitution and administered by the general services administration, the lease of that hotel prohibits an office holder from holding it. >> it says in black and white, george, that the hotel may not be run by somebody who is a federal government employee. so that is a clear violation of that contract. now, donald trump has turned control of his company over to his sons but it is still his company. >> cokie roberts, jon karl mentioned how this route is such a historic route. when presidents choose to make real statements by how they handle it. >> they do. this military presence, the security presence really started with lincoln because he was in

tremendous danger when he came here and in fact, one young woman standing on the route, the parade route later wrote, one of the ladies near us said there goes the illinois ape, the app ligsist but he will never come back alive. that fear was there that day and been there for presidents ever since. so this joy that has always been mixed with this concernment. >> these motor kads, george, living in was d.c., it's never like this except for every four years, but there is never a moment when there is a motorcade that i don't turn and look. if others don't look when the president goes by, what is the matter with you? you have to look and respect that office. it becomes routine here but not to me. >> it doesn't become routine to presidents. we were just talking about george h.w. bush. i love the stories he used to tell of how great it felt to

look out from that limo and know the minute you catch eyes with somebody on the side, you light them up. >> remember seeing gerald ford in 1976 and just meeting the eyes of the president meant so much to me as a kid. it's interesting. the one thing is, he does not get out and walk some of the parade route, he will have been the first president since jimmy carter not to have done so. jimmy carter did so pointedly to show he was one of the people, invoked a tradition that was begun by thomas jefferson. when he walked back to his boarding house after his inauguration. but every president since jimmy carter has done that. >> amy robach, we're watching the motorcade right now. you're still at the mall. been talking with supporters all day long and hoping for that moment with the president. >> reporter: absolutely. you know, it was really interesting watching everyone's emotions on the mall today. i just loved looking out and

seeing so many young people and one of my favorite moments of the day was talking to that group of high school students from kentucky. they were all there wanting to see democracy take place and it was cute because some were trump supports and most were not. yet, they were all the best of friends, flew on a plane together to come watch history happen and they could put their political differences aside and just celebrate the fact that we are living in a nation where we can all be together on the mall in the nation's capital and enjoy our democratic process and it's important to point out that absolutely was taking place in many ways, in many families, friend groups here today and across the nation on a day we're seeing protests in the streets and unrest. there was a lot of unity on the mall today as well. that was a beautiful sight to see and so many people as you see gathering here in this nation's capital to watch history being made and of course, waiting to see if president trump will step out of

that vehicle with his wife melania and then you see the signs like that where you have people voicing their opinion in the democracy we live in but peacefully for the most part. it's been a beautiful day. for me watching everyone come together and be side by side, hundreds of thousands of people gathering, not as big of a showing as expected but still a peaceful and respectful day. >> unity and support of the democracy where everyone can say what they think and feel. we hope without any fear of retributi retribution. matthew dowd, we're going to talk about -- you have been close to presidents in the past. donald trump has been famous for an awful long time. famous for most of his adult life. but this is different. when you're president, almost every encounter you have for the person you meet is the most important part of their day, month and year.

>> he's been a public personality through his entire adult life. >> see the secret service. go ahead. >> he's been a public personality his entire life, so he's used to some of this. but the idea now that any specific interaction, whether he touches somebody, hands a pencil over, writes a letter, every piece of that is a part of history. the other thing i wanted to mention is once he took that oath of office, went through the capitol and got in that presidential limousine the bubble hardened around him and his ability to act and react and have personal privacy and all those things is forever changed in his life. >> i was talking to president obama and he talked about the bubble, how the bubble overtime can make you a less effective president even though he was saying he thought he got more effective over the eight years. that bubble closes in on you every day and every week. we saw movement here. you see many more secret service agents surround the car, the presidential limo. usually a sign that the

president is going to get out pretty soon. jon karl, a lot of activity now. >> reporter: a lot of activity right now. he's not going to get out on that block. huge amounts of anti-trump protesters lining the left side of pennsylvania avenue. many of them holding signs about russia, some very unflattering things about the president-elect. the president. but now we are just, george, about two and a half blocks from the trump international hotel and as itime. do you have any sense of kind of the division between supports and protesters there? >> reporter: it's been -- it was primarily supporters until we hit that two block range. not a lot of supporters. it's a small crowd compared to previous inaugurations. i don't know if these because security has been so intense here and people have had to go through multiple security check points to get to the parade

route but it's been primarily supporters until we have gotten to this point. now if you pan the camera back over to this side, you see again more anti-trump protesters on this side. they are quite vocal. >> no question. those signs are really something? >> you said earlier how donald trump is an optics guy. he looked the part. think about this crowd and think about the divided america. we talked about the noise of the racial divide, this is the whisper of the racial divide in america. think back to when president obama took office for the first time. how diverse the crowd was. you saw the rainbow of america. today this looks like the ice cream of america. right? it is an overwhelmingly white audience. donald trump clearly is the president of blue collar america. you talked about the forgotten people. there are a lot of folk who we'll see today and feel forgotten because they don't see themselves in the audience.

>> we're talking about russia before. a lot of signs about russia. >> that has been the controversy that accompanies him into the oval office. there is an active fbi investigation at least until he is president of the united states calls it off. >> he hasn't said he's going to do that. >> but he certainly has the power if he wants to. that is one of the sources of opposition. i want to get to the support. going out to wisconsin this week and throughout the country during the course of the campaign he's an interesting -- he's got an interesting charisma. a billionaire with blue collar charisma and he has a hard-wired connection with millions of americans who say i get it, he's a rich guy. but if he walked in this room i would feel comfortable with him. held probably be drinking a miller lite. >> that was almost a magic trick for a politician to pull that

off. we're seeing the motorcade continue up pennsylvania avenue. we have heard just about everything happens on twitter right now and we have heard from the former president. he says hi, back to the original handle. is this thing still on. michelle and i are off on a quick vacation and then back to work. approaching now the hotel. lara, he is getting close. >> reporter: he is getting close, george, but they are not moving very quickly. i will say they have picked up the pace. earlier the secret service had to slow down because they were walking too fast. they were getting ahead of trump's car. but now they have picked up the pace a little bit. i wanted to give you trivia. who had the largest parade of any president? >> wasn't barack obama? >> it was not. i stumped george stephanopoulos. 1953 dwight eisenhower, 73 bands, 59 floats, 5,000 civilians and not nearly that

big, that would take a very long time today. it does appear we will have a sighting of president trump. he is in fact getting out of the car as we speak. >> the door is opening. jon karl you're right there and we see the president. >> reporter: yep, there he is getting out of the left side waving. a lot of the supporters on this part of the parade route. melania out of the car as well. their son barron. amazing moment. >> he's giving a little wave, too. >> yeah, a little wave. >> i'm 10 years old. >> he's a tall 10 years old. >> he really is a tall 10-year-old. >> got a tall mom and tall dad. >> yes, he does. >> sweet. >> and we got the older children on the parade as well. they're all going to be sleeping

in the white house tonight. jon? >> reporter: george, he is exactly one block away from his hotel. he's incredibly proud of this place. i did an interview with him in the hotel when it was still a construction project. the way this happens, this is the old post office building. it had been vacant for almost a decade. simply unused. there was a big, you know, effort to do something with it. decided to put it up to bid. the trump organization won the bid and opened the hotel. when they first began construction on it, i did an interview with him about it and asked him about running for president. he still talks about that interview because i took it seriously, the possibility he could run for president and very few people were. i'm not even sure he was taking it all that seriously. but there he is walking down pennsylvania avenue about to cross his hotel, not to go to his hotel but to keep going five

blocks further to the white house. >> on his way to his new home. and there you see the crowds right there. lara spencer on the scene. >> reporter: george, he is a stone's throw away and what do you know, approaching the trump international hotel as we speak. about to come upon it. jon karl you said it best, he is so very proud of this business venture. and has to be so proud of this moment as you can hear the cheers far more positive than negative. for president trump and making his way over here. let's see how it goes. >> just don't jump out there. a lot of secret service there lara, but do your best. >> reporter: i'm trying, george, you know it. so close and yet so far i'm afra afraid. >> that may be it. made it just about to the hotel. but it does look like he's going to be heading back. into the limo right now to make his way to the reviewing stand.

>> reporter: kbri don't know ifu saw ivanka, all of the children and grandchildren just came out at that corner of pennsylvania boulevard not quite in front of his hotel but very, very close for a quick moment and the chanting has begun usa. >> and that hotel, pride and joy of ivanka as well and the president so proud of his daughter for all the work she put into that hotel, gives her the credit for the design and decoration of the whole place. there we see ivanka right there. and so much security here on inauguration day. the president now getting back in that car, riding a little longer heading up to the white house. when he arrives he'll go to the

reviewing stand, watch the bands go by before tonight's inaugurals. might go into the white house first and freshen up a bit. it's been a long day for the president. so exciting. lara, we're watching you give him a wave. you weren't able to shake his hand. >> reporter: i just got a thumbs up. you missed the moment, george. it was magical. he just passed his hotel and thumbs up. >> all right. we're going to let you go right now. thanks for joining us as we keep an eye on the president heading towards the white house right now. martha raddatz, the world is quiet on this inauguration day. >> the world has been pretty quiet. there's some reaction from around the world, congratulations, but that's -- the russians heavily congratulating him. the former president of mexico saying america was great until he got there, until donald trump

got there. but the world has been pretty quiet. as you know, george, we were talking about earlier, there were fears that north korea might try to launch the missile today to start -- to send a message to donald trump. that could still happen in the coming days but pretty quiet as people watch and wonder what all this means. >> matthew dowd, the president got in a famous dispute with the pope during the campaign and received a congratulations from the pope. today pope francis saying i offer you my good wishes and all mighty got will grant you wisdom and strength. under your leadership may america's stature be meshed above all but its concern for the poor, the outcast and those in need who stand before our door. >> interesting the pope's message who always is a humble man, obviously heads the catholic church but also is very politically savvy and many of the things he said hasn't been

any director confrontation with donald trump but there's an underlying message of pay attention to the world, the needy, the refugees in this. one thing before donald trump spoke at the inauguration, i thought he might do which was what pope francis did when he became pope and said pray for me. i thought that would have been actually a good moment for donald trump to try to copy that but he didn't. >> not in that speech. the president, also hearing from the prime minister of israel. saying congrats, looking forward to working with you to make israel stronger than ever. president trump has made a promise that other presidents have made saying he's going to move the embassy to jerusalem, the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. that would be seen as an explosive move in the region. so far no word if he's going to follow through on that. >> that will take a while for

sure. the reason it's so explosive is because that would probably do in the idea of the two state solution, the palestinians feel that jerusalem is partly theirs and if you put the embassy there that sends a very strong message. >> presidential candidates promised to back away pretty quickly. no one knows what president trump will do. >> there have been reports in jerusalem that transition officials were scouting out locations. >> the question is when, how, where. >> next to the u.s. consulate in jerusalem. >> as we said, that would be something. no announcement of that on day one. and the president, we have been talking about what kind of actions he might take day one. he stuck to mostly ceremonial executive orders so far. he actually signaled that himself at times. that's when the real work

begins. tomorrow the president suggested that he wanted to visit the cia but the director mike pompeo has not yet been confirmed by the senate. we're not sure what's happening with that yet as we keep our eyes on those crowds for the president. seems to have calmed down jon karl, now passing before more supporters. >> reporter: yeah. they have calmed down. we're getting very close to the white house george. solid block of trump supporters. a few scattered protesters. i saw a guy with a sign that said she got more votes. i think i know what he was referring to. but it's -- there are a lot of enthusiastic trump supporters out here and a fair number of protesters. but overall, an incredibly modest sized crowd for a inaugural parade. >> your first one was george w. bush in 2001? >> yeah.

2001 after the extended recount of the supreme court playing a role in ending that recount and making george w. bush the president. there was so much tension andy vision in the country that the parade route was really lined with protesters. almost as many protesters as there were supporters. even though when bush came into office he was actually more popular than trump is at this point. >> about 20 points more popular than president trump. right now we'll see what happens with that in the days and weeks after this inauguration. >> reporter: george, we are about to take the turn up 15th street, pennsylvania avenue kind of takes a bit of a jog. we're going to pass the willard hotel which i mentioned is where abraham lincoln stayed before he was inaugurated. the white house is right over to my left. so we are coming very close to the final turn in this parade.

>> okay. as the president's car makes the turn, we have video coming in right now of a different kind of scene a few blocks away from the parade route. we're told this is -- there you see a car burning there. that's on kay street. in washington, d.c. these protests have been about several blocks away from the parade route. i see david kerley. can you hear me? >> reporter: yep. >> what's happening there? >> reporter: i hear you, george. the police moved on these protesters who ignited two vehicles. two vehicles have been ignited. the fire folks just moved in and you can see the firefighters just starting to work on this fire. the police have moved off their line they have been at for an hour and a half. once the protesters started the fire here they made the

perimeter larger so the firefighters could put out the vehicle fires. luckily the gas tanks did not go on these vehicles. it has been a standoff for about an hour and a half. we are about six blocks north of the parade route. i'm guessing that police were waiting until the president passed the street six blocks to the south before they move. but the protesters forced their hand by igniting these two vehicles which you can see. the fire is out and we're seeing the smoke from the two vehicles. they did move the protesters back so the firefighters could get in. over the past hour and a half the crowd diminished by about half. >> david, i don't know if you can hear me, but with all the police around, how are the protesters able to set those cars on fire? >> reporte >> reporter: the police set up a block on the street and were holding their line and the protesters had been moving back

and forth on kay street. they had access to this vehicle and actually there have been some protesters on top of the vehicle about 45 minutes ago and then somebody just decided to go ahead and torch it. as you can see if we come back up here now if the police are not going to move, the protesters had filled the street with several trash cans and now police and fire trying to move them out of the way. once the fire started in those vehicles, police moved their perimeter so the firefighters could get in. now trying to clear the street. the protesters have moved into the square. this is frankly square as i said. we are about six blocks north of the parade route. >> so the police are giving them space just trying to contain them in that area? >> reporter: that's what it appears to me, george. that better here than down at

the parade route. that's why we had the standoff for an hour and a half. then when they made the move on the vehicles the police had to make the move so they could put the -- >> as we keep an eye on the presidential parade, jon where are you right now? >> reporter: we're passing the treasury building. it's right next to the white house. a short while we'll be making the final turn on to the last stretch of pennsylvania avenue in front of the white house where the big reviewing stand is. it's the section of pennsylvania avenue that is now completely closed to vehicle traffic due to security concerns but open for these vehicles. the presidential limo and this parade. the treasury building right here. interesting the big signs he's passing over include a sign of harriet tubman and the $20 bill.

the first african-american woman to be on a an american currency. >> you talk about the security. we've seen a real evolution in security and the first barriers were put up on pennsylvania avenue after the oklahoma city bombings back in the 1990's. martha, with each passing year it gets more intense. >> it does and after ni9/11 it became incredibly intense and remains. they have built embassies around the world. you go to the state department and you can't get anywhere near that either because you have barriers as well. but security all over the city. we have gotten used to it and we know how long it takes to get some place. but donald trump has great respect for the secret service. he had a couple of incidents, probably more than a couple on the campaign.

i can remember one where they had to rush him off the stage. he ducked a little bit but he said they tell me where to go, i'm going to do it. >> i don't know if tom llamas is still with us. tom, the president is used to having body guards and is even taking his personal body guard into the oval office with him. >> reporter: the main difference between that situation and the secret service is that the private security guards would do whatever trump would say. they would surround him and his campaign people and say don't go here. if you saw supporters before the secret service got involved he would make a bee line of the supporters. he loves to be surrounded by people who love him and sign autographs. i remember he signed a woman's upper shoulder area during a campaign rally. he would sign photos of himself, sign trump -- the board game. he would love doing things like that and when the secret service got involved for him it was difficult to get used to because

he likes to do what he wants to do and with the secret service it's very hard to do that. i could tell just moments ago when he was outside walking by the hotel by his hotel, i'm sure he would have loved to get into that crowd at least shake a few hands, at least thank those supporters up close because he would always take the time to thank the supporters who had waited for hours. he did appreciate all the people who would wear those red hats, make america great again and wait for hours. a lot of times in freezing temperatures to support him. he's getting out again. a moment like this is something he loves and now he could be closer to the people. we'll see if he gets closer. >> jon karl, he is getting out again. tom mentioned that donald trump is a germaphobe. >> reporter: there was a time he simply didn't want to shake hands, called it a disgusting habit at one point but long before he decided to run for president, he overcame that.

here we're on -- this is the part of pennsylvania avenue called pennsylvania plaza, lafayette park is coming up soon. the official reviewing stand. this is a part where to get here you really had to have tickets to attend this. there's not a single protester i could see in sight here. this is a very friendly crowd for him. >> cecilia vega what can you see. >> reporter: it's interesting to me what donald trump will see is a huge section of empty bleachers and i'm struck by the fact this is the area he chose to get out of his car if in fact he's going to walk the way to his seating area in front of the white house. i'm directly in front of the white house. the crowds hear the president coming and they're cheering is picking up. from my vantage point i can get my first view of the president trying to catch a glimpse. you could hear the crowds

excited. this is friendly turf. but i have to say not just a vip section empty, there's a public section here and there is still a lot of empty seats in this area. but the crowd that is here are on their toes. they are peering over the people in front trying to catch their first glimpse of president donald trump. >> i'm surprised to see the empty bleachers, you can tell us why. >> reporter: i saw jon karl. i want to be jon karl when i grow up and ride the inaugural parade. you're talking about the empty stands. i was told by people there's a good chance those are being reserved for vip's and the performers. you're wondering why those stands are empty and that is one of the reasons why. i believe -- is this a presidential motorcade right here? we know four years ago right at the very spot president obama got out and walked up to the reviewing stand. we're waiting to see if donald

trump -- we know he is walking and greeting people right now in the stand. but we're going to -- whether or not he goes into the white house to freshen up as expected remains to be seen. but that's -- >> we are going to follow that. we saw him surrounded by his whole family. children and grandchildren as they got out of the cars. they're all going to spend the whole night together in the white house tonight. president trump says he's going to sleep in the lincoln bedroom. we kind of lost sight of them jon. >> reporter: they're in the area just from front of the treasury building right before lafayette park. seems to be directly engaging with people along the route. we're in the section -- he's right before we get to the empty section, george. plenty of supporters around where he is. >> keeping an eye now on the car. he didn't go back into the car, did he? >> i did not see him get back into the car.

>> we're going to have to double-check that. it seems like he may have gone back in. we'll keep an eye on that right now. as i said, we also saw ivanka, don jr. holding his daughter khloe and john, anything new? >> reporter: george, he's back in the limousinlimousine. my view is a little obstructed but i'm told he's back in the limo. >> a minute or two. >> reporter: yeah. just about to enter the section with the huge empty bleachers. if those are reserved for the performers i got to tell you i've never seen at this stretch of the inaugural route with empty bleacher seats. never seen that. >> those of you in the presidential reviewing stand and further down lafayette park, he's almost here, keep your eyes

peeled. >> inaugural announcer there. doesn't have to tell people twice on that route. that's what they're there for. president trump heading towards the white house now and that reviewing stand. once he sets up the parade. running behind schedule today. started i would say after the reviewing of the military about an hour late. the president set to attend three balls tonight. fairly short order. and then back to work tomorrow. boy, martha raddatz, that last time out was only for a minute or two. >> it was a very quick little journey there. you know, as i was watching melania who got out also very quickly and barron, you talk about the bubble, i think it's much harder on spouses.

michelle obama talked about that as well. melania certainly with the 10-year-old child who she doesn't want to take out of school in new york. cokie can talk to this very well about what that's like for someone like melania trump or michelle obama. >> so tough. the first ladies, unlike the presidents can get out every once in a while in cognito. >> and michelle obama did that a good bit but really started with martha washington. she wrote a letter to her niece saying people call me the highest lady in the land, i feel like i'm the chief state prisoner. >> everywhere you go, someone can report that back. >> the inaugural balls which started with dolly madison who did wear buffed colored velvet, a tradition here, that ball was written about as the most crowded and brilliant that washington had ever seen. now washington had only been

here 15 minutes. so it wasn't surprising that was the case. my mother was chairman of two inaugural balls, both kennedy and johnson. i know the amount of work that goes into them. but woodrow wilson decided not to have one and the businessmen of washington were furious. at that point the ball was the whole inauguration instead of raising millions of corporate dollars. congress felt that the previous inaugural ball, the dances had not been good. the newspapers wrote about the grizley bear gyrations, the turkey trot and all similar forms of convulsive movements should be outlawed. >> you mentioned the money as we see donald trump come out again and wave to the crowds. more than $100 million raised for this inaugural. and tom llamas, as we keep our

eye on the president, they raised more money than they could use. kind of a scaled down inaugural. >> reporter: yeah, somewhat. people have to running back president trump does not drink. so it will be a sober three balls for him and something he doesn't do. it's part of a life experience. he had a very bad experience with his brother who passed away in part because of alcoholism and he's never drank or smoked. he does enjoy a good party though. he loves to entertain people and loves to speak obviously publicly and be surrounded by his friends and family. i think he's going to savor those three moments. he gets up early but it's going to be a very long night for him. >> he likes to preside over parties. >> reporter: exactly. >> he likes to preside at mar-a-lago. >> reporter: there was a great story i was reading about him, one of his buy ol fors said at

mar-a-lago he loves to turn up the music loud and that's to annoy his neighbors. and he was saying he wants to be part of the culture, part of the group but also wants to be a rebel in his own way. i think that's very telling. i think he'll treat d.c. very much in the same way. he's going to want to do things his way. one of the songs he's dancing to with melania is "myway." >> paul anka who wrote it has chose not to come which has irritated the president. a lot of actors, singers chose to boycott this inaugural. i think it's one of the reasons tom, he enjoyed yesterday afternoon so much in the lincoln memorial even though he did say it never had been done before which of course it had. >> reporter: remember when hillary clinton brought out

beyonce and jay z. he really didn't have that star power. eventually he didn't need it. i'll never forget we went to one of his last rallies in florida and the opening act was joe piscopo. nothing to take away from joe who is a comedian and talented but it was joe piscopo versus beyonce and jay z. it worked for him. you're right, her has this problem because he loves celebrity culture. look, we have been at trump tower and seen him trot out kanye west, steve harvey, all these random celebrities but he wants to make it a point that he wants to be seen with these people. yes, it is very important to him. >> it is important to him. but terry moran, he's also turned that necessity into a political virtue at times picking fights with hollywood when necessary. >> it's a great foil for any republican, any conservative.

hollywood doesn't do itself favors sometimes. they're almost unanimously against donald trump it seems. and there was a line where meryl streep gave a moving speech about her opposition to donald trump. but she went out of her way to insult people who liked professional football and mixed martial arts. that's not the kind of thing that will advance their cause and he has an instinct. i'm reminded of a image he talks about. growing up in queens, but he looked across the east river as a young man and said i'm going to conquer manhattan against his father's advice and that kind of sense of being an out cider with a chip on his shoulder is something he brings to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> you mentioned mixed martial arts. undoubtedly the first president of the united states who has

ever more or less competed in a professional wrestling match and his head of small business administration, mcmahon is the head of that as well. and looks like she's going to get confirmed. >> we met her during the convention, ran into her at an ice cream shop at the convention and she's a big donald trump fan. if you look back in the old youtube videos of donald trump and linda mcmahon and her husband in the ring, they're pretty amusing. >> matthew dowd, to the point not only inside his white house staff as you were talking before, but the generals aside, many of picked for the cabinet also washington outsiders. >> almost everybody. some exceptions. his senior staff don't have any washington experience in the government. many of his key officials have

no experience in the government. so he ran on that platform. he ran on the idea we need outsiders and filmed his white house with most of them. >> and he's hoping that the skills that brought him to the white house are ones going to help him succeed in the white house. all presidents, mark, start out that way. saying, listen, i'm the one who won barack obama, how come you didn't get elected. presidents come into office with that pride and confidence. >> it's right. you think about ronald reagan. we talked about donald trump going into the professional wrestling ring but it was reagan who did a movie with a chimp. "time for bonzo." he came into washington, ronald reagan as an out sisider and he understood washington and

conformed in many respects to its traditions and to ensure that he did things to get things done. took all the proper steps in order to make that happen. >> famously spent time after hours with tip o'neill. matthew, on that point, a far different washington, a far different congress, a far different political world. >> we're lightyears away from 1981, 1985. the country has tribalized the way people consume. there's not a common set of facts in the debates that we have. barack obama ran on in 2008 on bringing the country together. more divided in the aftermath. a very difficult place for democrats now. it was very difficult for republicans to come to the aid of barack obama, the same thing, it's going to be very difficult

for democrats to come to the aid of president trump. >> you saw all the red on the election maps, the deep blue pockets in the east and west coast. people get locked into their own views. they even call it the great sorti sorting. people moving to places where they're likely to be surrounded by people who agree with them. >> that's a challenge. one of his buy ol fors said donald trump is a street fighter and is able to adapt and adjust to people. that will serve him well in washington. he has sort of this street level reaction to people and i think that that transcends politics. that's certainly what his supporters are hoping for and what people in the blue states are concerned about. >> cokie roberts, talking about how much things have changed. it is a different washington. president obama would bristle when people said oh, if you

would only have them up for coffee more, go out for drinks with more republicans you might get more done. he scoffed at that and we really don't know yet what the person interaction between president trump and the congress is going to be like. >> it will be interesting to get a report out of just this lunch because it was the first time they were together. it is true, president obama should have done more of it. it couldn't have hurt but he said republicans didn't want to come to the white house, didn't want to have their pictures taken with him because it would get them in trouble at home. i was listening to some pieces i did when the martin luther king holiday was established in 1983 when it passed both houses of congress and it was southern democrats and republicans but white southern democrats and northern republicans like -- well, moderate republicans like bob dole who got it through. george h.w. bush coming through

to show support. those politicians are gone. there are no white southern republicans. i mean white southern democrats. there are no northern moderate republicans. they don't exist anymore. so putting together a coalition to get something done is almost impossible. >> if you look at -- if you examine barack obama's legacy. you can't overstate the fact he was the first african-american president and what that meant to people in the country. one of the failures he had is the democratic party and the aftermath of barack obama is decimated. they lost more congressional races, more u.s. senate races, more governorships. if you look at the country as a political war the republicans won the land war in taking over stretches of the country that even though obama leads at a 60% approval rating the democratic party is at its lowest ebb. >> almost lost 1,000 seats.

i talked to president obama before he left. it was one of the places he says a lot is on me. he said he's going to dedicate sometime in the future to rebuilding that party. but today donald trump's day. cecilia vega, he's getting closer? >> reporter: he is george. this is the moment for donald trump. election day, the last couple of months, all leading up to right now. this is when life changes for this reality tv star, this billionaire businessman turned the most improbable president this country has ever had. now we gins the legacy of donald trump and the questions about how he will govern and it all starts right now as he begins this journey, this new life driving into the grounds of the white house for the very first time, this home that will be his for the next four years. >> we see mike pence, vice president mike pence and his wife karen. donald trump inside the white house. we'll be right back.

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inauguration of the 45th president of the united states, donald j. trump. there you see michael pence, a happy man today surrounded by his wife and members of his family. daughter charlotte and son as well. boy, he's been pointing to this for a long time. member of congress, governor of indiana. he wears his emotions on his sleeve. you see it. it's all over his face rights there. he has a lot of friends in this town. president trump in the white house already. elected to come out to the reviewing stand soon and paula faris you are there? >> reporter: i asked him, can you tell us what these days have been like for your family and donald trump. he said it is impossible to descri describe. he's a man that wears his heart on his sleeve and a lot of people around this country connected with him. i was told regarding this parade from officials expecting a lot

of drums, a lot of bagpipes and horses, george. so we're in for a treat. >> and there's going to be a lot of cleanup on pennsylvania avenue tomorrow. we have been running behind for most of the afternoon. but president trump expected to come out soon on to that reviewing stand. no emergencies have cropped up for him today. his first day in the white house. he's got two key members of the cabinet who have gone through and been confirmed by the senate, general mattis, now the defense secretary, general kelly, the secretary of homeland security and of course homeland security so key right now. i want to check back in with pierre thomas. we saw the secret service kept a pretty tight reign on the president there. >> everyone was smiling. the trump family clearly enjoying themselves. the only people not smiling would be the secret service. they know that the presidents

like to mingle with the people but again, it's a very nervous moment for them whenever that happens george. >> now surrounded by supporters who have been reporting all day long. there have been some protests about several blocks north of the white house. about 100 people arrested in washington d.c. mostly peaceful across the city on the parade route and in the mall. david kerley i don't know if you're still with us. what's happened with the protests a short while ago? we saw the cars burning near mcpherson square. i think we lost david kerley. right now there is mike pence. >> you know, george, he said to me the other day, he dreamed as a little boy of some day representing the people of indiana. did he ever dream he would be walking down pennsylvania avenue as vice president? i don't think his dreams were

even that big. >> tom llamas, it was touch and go there for mike pence. the president as a candidate interviewed several people. it appeared for a time that chris christie had the inside track. he made a last minute plea and even on the final day after it appeared mike pence had been picked, there seemed to be some second thoughts from mr. trump. >> reporter: george, it was almost like an episode of the show "veep." you could not believe it. first we were reporting he had selected mike pence. mike pence was in midtown manhattan. seen him come out the car at the same time trump was still considering chris christie after offering the job to mike pence. i'll never forget when he announced he picked mike pence. we went to the ballroom at the hilton i believe and the song playing was "you can't always get what you want" by the

rolling stones which i could not believe they were playing that song and trump spoke for 20 minutes, for 20 minutes and then said this famous line, let's get back to mike and finally introduced him and governor mike pence came out and mike pence much luike kellyanne conway the deserve awards. they have been able to interpreter what donald trump says and they really have taken some of the brunt of this campaign because they have gone out there and have had to carry that message and stay on message during some very, very difficult times in this campaign. >> maybe the song was you may find sometimes you get what you need and he may have gotten what he needs in mike pence. there was a moment of crisis for mike pence after the "access hollywood" video came out. he went silent for a day and chose not to go up to wisconsin but then came out and doubled down on donald trump. even more loyal over those last several weeks of the campaign

and that martha raddatz, seems to solidify their bound. >> i think it did. mike pence prayed about that. he talked to donald trump about what all that meant. i think he himself forgave donald trump for that "access hollywood" tape and wanted to move on. donald trump saw him you said, extremely loyal. he was the man who could take the heat for him and he still does. during the birther issue when donald trump finally said, yes, the president was born in the united states, mike pence would come out there and talk about it and defend him and defend him and defend him. >> former television broadcaster going out as an explainer for the president even as late as this week after the tweets on john lewis. mike pence coming out and talking about that as well. matthew dowd, what a prize. the vice presidency, terry moran said, comparing it to a warm bucket of spit.

not true anymore. with each passing administration, the vice president has gotten more and more powerful. >> look at the vice presidents that have become over the last 25 years. it's no longer go to the foreign people's futunerals or take you time i'm doing the real thing as the president. now with dick cheney and al gore and joe biden became a partner. it is a powerful position and i think it's uniquely powerful in this white house and in this town where mike pence is the only one with a real connection to the capitol. donald trump is going to have to overly rely on mike pence to have all the relationships with the capitol. >> there might be tension terry, because mike pence, conservative republican, republican leadership in both the house and senate right now. donald trump to the extent he's got an ideology more of a hodge-podge, a little from column a and b. >> this represents a takeover or

a transformation of the republican party. small government? not necessarily. he is promising some very, very big government expenditures and infrastructure and health care he seems to have a different idea than the traditional reagan conservatives that you hear in the congress right now. this is a transformative moment for the party. >> watching this, you get the sense on the one side you have got donald trump playing possom and the leaders thinking he's going to go my way. >> i think they're more likely to go his way. first of all, his success works for them. if he is a successful president, that helps them coming into the next election which has already begun. so i think that he is more likely to have the upper hand. also keep in mind, one of the things we talk about this infrastructure. you know, republicans used to

always be for infrastructure bills. something president obama kept talking about. one of the reasons they didn't vote for it in the past administration is they didn't want to give him that success. so if it's a way to give donald trump an immediate success where not only do people go to work, but everybody can see the results of it in infrastructure improvements, that would be a big plus for him. >> their success could be tied together. the question is how long that will last. a lot will depend how popular donald trump is. >> the first 100 days are key. if he hasn't raised his numbers within that time he's in very serious trouble in the midterm. >> first 100 days have begun. donald trump inaugurated just about five hours ago. we're going to take a break for our local stations. we're going to stay with our coverage all through this parade and stand for at least another

hour. "world news tonight" with david muir coming up but several local there we so the parade right there. donald trump is still in the white house, as we see the parade start to form there on pennsylvania avenue. he's going to come out to the reviewing stand and enjoy that moment. before the inaugural balls tonight. but he is still in the white house right now. it has been a long day for the president. began, of course, at blair house. stayed there overnight with his family. church at st. john's, before coffee with the president, and then to the capitol, where he was sworn in. we've seen the lunch with congressional leaders. the review of the military. and then, the parade. president got out a couple of times over the course of this. an