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Welcome to Washington where in the next hour Donald John Trump will be | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. I am Katty Kay, | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
bringing you this extraordinary day of ceremony and celebration on BBC | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
News. Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered on the National | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Mall, where the ceremony will start very soon. Within the last | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
half-hour, Donald Trump arrived at the Capitol, where he is due to take | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
the presidential oath just before noon Washington time, before | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
delivering his inaugural address. Earlier today, the President-elect | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
and his wife, Melania, met Barack and Michelle Obama at the White | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
House before travelling together to the ceremony. Among the crowds | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
waiting for the inauguration, some of the country's former presidents. | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
On Capitol Hill, the inaugural platform is almost full, but waiting | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
for the arrival of Donald Trump. He will at the 35 words/ goodbye | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
America's founding Fathers, the oath of office, that will make him | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
America's 45th President. Hundreds of thousands of supporters, and | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
protesters, too, in Washington, DC for this event. Dignitaries, members | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
of Congress, military leaders, are already taking their seats on the | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
platform ahead of the ceremony, and we will bring you every moment of | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
it. In less than one hour, Donald Trump | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. The | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
property tycoon won an unexpected victory in November's election after | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
a controversial campaign. Hundreds of thousands of his supporters are | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
here in Washington, but there are protesters as well. They have come | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
for the event that will be viewed around the world. The ceremony is | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
being attended by former presidents and first ladies, including Bill | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Clinton and his wife, Hillary, Mr Trump's opponent in the recent | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
election. In keeping with the new style of Trump era politics, he | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
posted a Twitter message earlier saying the movement continues, the | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
work begins. Michelle Obama has arrived. She was in the car with | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Melania Trump in the procession that came from the White House. She left | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
the White House looking very sober and serious. That is heard saying | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
goodbye to her home of the last eight years, where she has raised | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
her two daughters. She has turned up at the Capitol, and will be entering | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
the Capitol Building. She will be called onto the platform behind us, | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
and you can see there, this is the on the east side of the Capitol | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Building, where the guests file in. They then go through the Capitol and | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
come out on the west side. Ronald Reagan, with a sense of theatre | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
himself, like Donald Trump, moved the ceremony from the east side to | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
the west side. We understand that President-elect Donald Trump, still | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
President-elect, they are going into the Capitol Building alongside | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
President Obama. They will all be... There you go, the call to arms. | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
There is President Obama alongside President-elect Donald Trump. | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
Greeting well-wishers before they make their way out onto the | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
platform. Nancy Pelosi, there, Democratic leader of the house of | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
Representatives. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the house behind them. Donald | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Trump, with a cheery, hello, everybody. If he is feeling nervous, | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
he is not showing it. Making their way now to the other side of the | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
building. It was Ronald Reagan who moved the ceremony from the east | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
side to the more grand Westside of the Capitol Building, another | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
President who had a sense of theatre and drama, and even television. Joe | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Biden and his wife, Doctor Jill Biden. And Mike Pence, the Vice | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
President-elect, behind him, also with his wife. They will be making | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
their way onto the platform behind me. Chuck Schumer, the Senator from | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
New York. All of the dignitaries from the Senate. Senate leaders, | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Republican and Democrat, except for the 50 members of Congress from the | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
Democratic party who have decided to boycott the ceremony. Unusual to | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
have members boycotting the ceremony in this number. There is Ivanka | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
Trump. She will be an important part of this administration. And her | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
brothers, Donald Trump and you can see Eric Trump behind him with the | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
red tie, and Tiffany Trump, and Barron Trump, the five Trump | :05:17. | :05:26. | |
children. Eric and Donald Junior, who will take over the reins of the | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
family business. Ivanka is moving here to Washington with her husband, | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
Jared Kushner. And Barron Trump, the youngest son, who will be staying in | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
New York with his mother until the end of his school year at least, in | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
Trump Tower, in New York. It is quite a first family. Quite a change | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
from the Obama first family. Now we have the Trump first family. OK, I | :05:53. | :06:03. | |
am joined here in our little perch overlooking Capitol Hill. I have our | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
North America editor, Jon Sopel, and Carlos Watson on a Republican who | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
has not particularly been a supporter of Donald Trump. John, you | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
are watching the new first family of the United States. What strikes you, | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
this is a political occasion, ceremonial, but also deeply | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
personal. The human stories that are unfolding. Melania Trump giving | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Michelle Obama that little Tiffany box outside the White House. | :06:33. | :06:33. | |
Michelle Obama does not have a lady box outside the White House. | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
in waiting that she can hand it to. And then, of course, you have | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
Hillary Clinton arriving and waving to the cameras. You thought, how | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
painful must that have been? And there you see her smiling and | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
laughing now on the steps of the Capitol, waiting for the ceremony to | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
begin, flanked by George W Bush and her husband and thinking, it would | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
be unnatural if she didn't think, I got 3 million more votes than him, | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
and I am not there as the President being sworn in today, swearing on | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
the Lincoln Bible. It is all these human stories, as well as the | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
ceremonial, which follows, as it does every four years. If you had | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
the sound turned down you would think there is nothing unusual about | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
what is unfolding today. And yet it is extraordinary that we are | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
witnessing Donald Trump, with no previous political experience, being | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. And never before | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
has there been such uncertainty about what is going to unfold in his | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
presidency. There is always in Washington when we have these | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
transitions of power between administrations, a change. A change | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
in government, in policies, a change in tone in this city. But I can't | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
remember a time, Carlos Watson, when there has been such a dramatic | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
shift, how two men, so different in almost everything, in their | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
worldview, in their view of America, in their understanding of what it | :08:10. | :08:21. | |
President of this country, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, and we | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
are making this transition at a time when the country is bitterly | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
divided. We have seen the violent protests on inauguration morning. | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
Something else I have never seen. And the backdrop to what is a | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
peaceful transition of power, and smiling faces up on the podium, | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
doesn't tell the whole story. It doesn't, indeed. It would be hard to | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
find the easy comparison. If you wanted to stretch back in modern | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
times, probably 1968-69, Nixon winning in the midst of Vietnam and | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
the midst of racial strife and other things. And again, the level of | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
moral outrage, not just political difference and dissension. And that | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
presidency ended six years later in a very difficult place. That does | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
not necessarily mean that has to happen here but there is no doubt | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
about it, that he does not go forward with the kind of honeymoon | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
that Bush 41 had, or Ronald Reagan had for a bit, or even that Barack | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
Obama had, even in the midst of the financial crisis he found himself | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
in. So clearly there will be greater levels of protest and dissension, | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
and frankly competition. The Democrats will nominate a new head | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
of the DNC in a few weeks, and that will kick off a level of competition | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
and resistance that we have not yet seen. For Donald Trump supporters, | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
cheering therefore the cameras on the national all, it is precisely | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
these differences they are excited about. As we look at that wide shot, | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
I cannot help but reflect on when I was here eight years ago, and trying | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
to broadcast from there, and I missed my first broadcast because | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
the crowds were so dense we couldn't get anywhere near. These crowds are | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
thin. It was 1.8 million who came for Barack Obama, from all over | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
America, they travelled four days to witness a piece of history, the | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
first African-American President. He had the biggest turnout of any | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
President ever. In even colder weather. His crowds were dense, | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
right back to the Washington monument, halfway down the National | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
Mall, at the top of that shot. This is fairly spartan. I don't want to | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
make a trivial point, but these are things that matter to Donald Trump. | :10:41. | :10:50. | |
He loves to be able to say, this was the biggest crowd ever. He will not | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
be able to say that. He will probably say it anyway! That is the | :10:55. | :10:55. | |
other thing we do not know, whether the tweeting, the random attacks on | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Meryl Streep, a satirical TV programme, a union leader from | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
Pennsylvania, we have no idea whether that is the style he will | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
take into the White House with him. So when we say uncertainty, this is | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
not just about the detail of policy but about behaviour. You made the | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
point earlier about it being hard to think of two people more different | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
than Donald Trump and Barack Obama. When you go to a Barack Obama news | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
conference, or listen to him speak, you feel that every word is being | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
measured for nuance. There will be a slowness of delivery, as he wants to | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
get the tone absolutely right so there can be no misunderstanding of | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
what he said. With Donald Trump, you hear from the heart. There is no | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
lack of authenticity about Donald Trump. You hear it, you feel it, and | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
that is how he has been until now, and we don't know if it will change | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
tomorrow. I was talking to a former Republican governor earlier who said | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
maybe this is what the new era of politics looks like in America, | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
Donald Trump may be the beginning of an era in which it is celebrities, | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
or singers, or nontraditional political figures who manage to | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
capture public attention, who are well-known to the public, who | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
managed to rally their supporters precisely, Carlos, because they talk | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
in a different way. This is what those people on the national more | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
one from Donald Trump. They do not want him to sound like Barack Obama, | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
or even George Bush. No two ways about it. They're not only will be | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
different candidates and different kinds of conversation, but frankly | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
different policy approaches. I mean, you think about the campaign he ran. | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
I'm going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. When you think | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
about the way he went after Jeb Bush, the way he engaged. Even, | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
frankly, in the end, the way that he won, pushing aside the popular vote | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
and clearly and unequivocally holding onto this electoral vote | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
win, which, to his credit, was significant. It was not a narrow | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
George W Bush over Al Gore by five electoral votes. It was a meaningful | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
win. No doubt that Donald Trump has ushered in a new era of politics and | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
it will be interesting to see how the Democrats respond. I think all | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
of us, as we, over the next four-year 's and the next 100 days | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
as he hits the ground running, try to measure the success of this | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
President, we may have to recalibrate the definition of | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
success. Because I'm not sure that for Donald Trump's supporters what | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
matters are the facts and figures of individual policies, as much as the | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
tone and feeling and mood of the country that Donald Trump drives. | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
And I suspect that he will be able to become -- to be cut quite a lot | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
of slack from his supporters by sounding nontraditional. He will | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
need to keep that up. The thing that has struck me is the willingness of | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
people to give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. They know that | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
there are warts. They know there are issues. They know he may lack | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
international experience. All of that. And yet it seems to me that an | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
awful lot of his supporters just don't care. They know what they are | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
getting as part of a package, in a way they couldn't warm to Hillary | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
Clinton. They talked about John F Kennedy as the first President of | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
the ten of -- television age. Donald Trump is the first President of the | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
reality television age. He is going to play communications very | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
differently. Lets go down to the national more all. Almost a million | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
turned out for Barack Obama. It looks thinner this time around. But | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
there are supporters from Donald Trump who have come from all over | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
this country to see their man take the oath of office. Our reporter is | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
down there on the national more all for us. What is the mood like down | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
there. Excited, despite the weather? I imagine the atmosphere is | :15:04. | :15:04. | |
building. If we move the camera down, you can | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
sow that crowds are -- can you see that crowds are streaming in. Closer | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
to the Capitol, the crowds are cramming in. These are the cheap | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
seats, you could say. People here will be watching on big screens. One | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
of the hall marks of this campaign was how divisive it was. I'm joined | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
by two people who've come to the inauguration today. Hello, Gorge. | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
And Jen from Minnesota. Hi there. Hello. Let's start with you, you | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
were a Donald Trump supporter. How are you feeling today? I was, I am | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
feeling great. It's an exciting day. I wanted to be here. I think the | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
next eight years is going to be very, very interesting. How are you | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
feeling? Your badge of course, shows us you voted for Hillary Clinton. | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
It's been a roller coaster of emotions, leading up to the election | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
and since November 8. Why are you here today? I'm here with a group of | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
high school students. We're experiencing Washington DC and we | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
are here to visit the nation's capital and experience the wonderful | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
treasures and witness of peaceful transformation of power from one | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
President to another. How do you think Donald Trump can unite this | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
country and bring people like you on board and have faith in him? I | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
certainly think that's an area of opportunity for him right now. I | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
hope that he goes into it listening and surrounds himself with | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
compassionate and capable people, who are able to speak on behalf of | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
the American public. What do you think to that, how can he bring | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
people like Jen on board? I'm looking for him to govern as our | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
President, the entire United States President, both sides of the aisle. | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
We need that. It's time for that. That was part of why I think this is | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
a change and we have a shot at that. Thank you very much. We'll let you | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
get a spot further down the mall to watch the proceedings. That's it for | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
now. Here the crowds are filling up in the national mall. We're back | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
with more later. Down there on the mall with Donald | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Trump supporters, I should say, here we go back to the Capitol. There's | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
Michelle Obama and Gill Biden coming out onto the inauguration platform. | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Michelle Obama who has been through this twice before, of course, in | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
2009 and then again when her husband was re-located four years later, | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
she's sat there watching her husband take the Oath of Office to become | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
President of the United States. It's a very rare club. There are not a | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
lot of people who have been in Michelle Obama's situation. She | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
leaves the position of First Lady incredibly popular with the American | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
public. She has high approval ratings. Many people have wondered | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
whether she might run for politics herself. Her husband says, not on | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
your life, it's not going to happen, dream on. Michelle has no interest | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
in being a politician. But she became a very powerful advocate for | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
Hillary Clinton. She was called the secret weapon during the campaign. | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
She's been a well respected and well liked First Lady in her own right. | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
She hands over to somebody younger and quite different and who does | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
not, it seems, want to embrace the role of First Lady of the United | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
States with quite the vigour with which Michelle Obama has done so. Of | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
course, she was a powerful career woman in her own right as a lawyer | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
in Chicago, working in Chicago hospital systems and had a very | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
successful and important job that she had to give up to join her | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
husband to come down here when he left Chicago and became President of | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
the United States. There have been questions about how happy she was to | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
do that in the way that Hillary Clinton had also had to give up a | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
career as a lawyer to become Bill Clinton's First Lady. But she took | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
on the role with gusto and Barack Obama has been very publicly | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
grateful to her over the last few weeks, several times mentioning how | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
important she has been and talking about how she took on this role that | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
she didn't ask for but that she did so with grace and style. I think | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
most Americans would agree with that. And you look at the way she is | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
able to communicate and the way she communicates and the way she's done | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
it as First Lady, not just doing the odd conventional interview. You know | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
dancing on TV with one of the late night TV hosts, doing James Corden's | :19:53. | :20:02. | |
car pool karaoke. Melania Trump being escorted onto the platform by | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
the military guard there, a woman who will not be taking up residence, | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
initially, in the White House, but will stay in New York with her son | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
until he finishes his school year. Somebody who has made it clear that | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
she does not relish this position. Yes, I felt you could see it | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
yesterday slightly, when she was at the Republican Congressional leaders | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
lunch. Donald Trump asked her to say a few words. There was a look on her | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
face as if to say, that is the last thing in the world that I would like | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
to do right now. In fairness to her, she did and she was fluent and | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
articulate and talked about making America great again and was right on | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
message. But I just think that to look at their faces and maybe you | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
can overinterpret just from facial expression, I've been struck by | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
looking at both her and Donald Trump today that, the Obamas are relaxed. | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
They are leaving office. It's all behind them now. They know how | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
difficult it is. You just get a sense, I think, from her and from | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
him, a sense of oh, my goodness, what is going to happen when the | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
door closes behind us this afternoon in the White House and it is | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
suddenly for real and the decisions are coming at you fast, on all | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
manner of different matters. She looks spectacular, former Slovenian | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
model, tall, graceful, beautiful, fantastically dressed. She's always | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
immaculate looking when she appears in public. But this morning she also | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
looks, as you suggested, like the cares of what is about to happen. | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
She is not skipping lightly. Her feet, I suspect are feeling very | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
heavy with the burden, extraordinary burden that must be on you to be | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
President. We look at these pictures of the people smiling, if you are a | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
spectator today and you've got a ringside view, it's fantastic. If | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
you are one of the participants about to be thrown into the middle | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
of all this - We can hear the applause, from where we are sitting | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
for Melania Trump. Carlos Watson, First Lady, it's not an easy job, is | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
it? The last several first ladies have really made it their own in | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
different ways. Michelle Obama approval ratings that exceed even | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
her husband's, whether it's been on the question of fitness or education | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
really has weighed in. Laura Bush was incredibly popular as well. | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
Needless to say Hillary Clinton - We are seeing Barack Obama and Joe | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Biden, their final moments as President and Vice President of the | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
United States. That's one that worked out, huh? That was not | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
immediately a match made in heaven. They were two competitors in the | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
2008 primaries. Joe Biden did poorly in the first and dropped out early. | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
Had some inopportune things to say about the future President. One of | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
his last acts in office, President Obama awarded Joe Biden the highest | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
civilian award in America, the presidential medal of freedom. Joe | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Biden was taken totally by surprise. There was very touching scenes where | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
he cried openly and thanked the President. This has been a very | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
close relationship. I suspect, given the man they are about to hand over | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
power to, these two men, Joe Biden and Barack Obama, will not be | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
disappearing from American political life in the way that they might have | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
thought they were going to, if Hillary Clinton had won. Certainly | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
not Joe Biden. I think Joe Biden, I don't know if you saw that interview | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
recently where he very openly talked about his regrets that he didn't run | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
and talked about the number of worries that he had - And talked | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
about the possibility of leaving open the possibility that he could | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
do it again in 2020. Hard to believe. The Democratic Party is in | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
very bad shape in the United States in the moment. Barack Obama has not | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
left his party in full health. The Republicans have been elected in | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
local offices right across the country. These two men are leaving | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
office today, but they have a mission between them to try and | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
restore the fortunes. One of the very unusual aspects - Of the party. | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
Of what is unfolding today is that Barack Obama isn't going to get on | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
marine one, I mean he's going on holiday - I am going to pause you | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
there... And the Vice President, Joe Biden, escorted by the Senate | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
Democratic leader and the House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. | :24:55. | :25:05. | |
Barack Obama leaving office with a smile on his face. A reporter | :25:06. | :25:22. | |
shouted him a question at him this morning, "Have you got one last | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
word, any last words for the American people, Mr President? He | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
replied, "Thank you." There he is, greeting the Trump family. Barack | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
Obama has been gracious to the Trump family and he's reached out to | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
Donald Trump in phone conversations. But he hasn't stopped himself from | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
being critical either in. His final press conference this week he made a | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
point of saying, "If I feel that American values are under threat, | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
you will hear from me." So this is not a man saying that he is going to | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
disappear in the way that man there, George W Bush, did when Barack Obama | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
became President. The other point, Barack Obama isn't leaving | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
Washington. He's going to be living about two miles from the White | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
House, while his younger daughter finishes high school. He's going to | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
be around and there are going to be a lot of people looking to him when | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
they see something they don't like, they're going to be saying - Look at | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
this scene for a minute, Jimmy Carter, former President of the | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
United States, Barack Obama, former President of the United States, Bill | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
Clinton, former President of the United States, George Bush, former | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
President of the United States, that is some political gathering. That's | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
quite a gathering. And then you obviously have the new heirs to the | :26:38. | :26:49. | |
throne. There's Dan Quail, former Vice President for George HW Bush. | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
You say the Democrats are in a tough place and Obama will speak up. Here | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
we have him. Donald Trump making his way out onto the inaugural platform | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
on the west side of the Capitol, where he will be sworn in. As the | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
45th President of the United States, Donald J Trump, 70 years old. Born | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
in New York City. A real estate billionaire who won an election that | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
nobody ever thought he was going to win, when he first announced his | :27:21. | :27:33. | |
candidacy in June 2015. He wrote a famous book The Art of the Deal, 30 | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
years ago, talk about closing the ultimate deal that no-one thinks you | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
can close. That's what he did in convincing more than 60 million | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
Americans and nearly 300 electoral votes to come his way. We talk about | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
the human side of this, he's preceded by Paul Ryan the House | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
leader and Mitch McConn le l, the Senate majority leader. These are | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
people he will have to work with closely if he wants to see his | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
legislative ambitions realised. We can hear the cheers echoing now from | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
Pennsylvania Avenue to where we are. Let's take a moment to watch and | :28:09. | :28:35. | |
listen to this extraordinary moment. Ladies and gentleman, the Vice | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
President-elect, Michael Richard Pence. | :28:39. | :28:40. | |
APPLAUSE Mike Pence, the for the momenter | :28:41. | :29:20. | |
governor of Indiana -- former governor of Indiana. He has been | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
intimately involved in the transition process, selecting | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
candidates for the Cabinet, channelling Donald Trump and | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
somebody who Republicans feel they can work with. He's well known, of | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
course, to Republicans in that building, where he's standing right | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
now. There have been times during the campaign when his relationship | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
with Donald Trump was not easy. Particularly around issues of those | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
tapes and women and sexual abuse allegations and Mike Pence made it | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
very clear he did not like what he was hearing from his boss. But in | :29:56. | :30:06. | |
terms of politics and policy and agenda, he is a supporter of Donald | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
Trump's mission to change the way America works and up end the | :30:12. | :30:18. | |
policies of President Obama, a conservative Republican, Christian | :30:19. | :30:18. | |
conservative Republican. Like Joe Biden, he is likely to have | :30:19. | :30:34. | |
a meaningful hand in policy. The Senate Sergeant at Arms, Frank | :30:35. | :30:42. | |
Larkin, the house Sergeant at arms, rules committee ranking member and | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
Senate Democratic leader, Charles Schumer, Speaker of the house of | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
representatives, Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and house Democratic leader Nancy | :30:55. | :30:55. | |
Pelosi. The Republican and Democratic | :30:56. | :31:12. | |
leadership coming in before the President-elect. This is not just a | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
new President but a change of power in Washington, very firmly switching | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
from Democrats to Republicans. This is going to be a different America, | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
with a different political bent. This is a conservative, hard right | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
term that America is about to take under this President. And now we are | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
waiting. Donald Trump about to come out onto the platform, the last | :31:36. | :31:42. | |
person to arrive. Ladies and gentlemen, the President-elect of | :31:43. | :31:45. | |
the United States, Donald John Trump. | :31:46. | :31:52. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the joint can for inaugural | :31:53. | :33:14. | |
ceremonies, the Honourable Roy Blunt. | :33:15. | :33:22. | |
Thank you, all of you. If you have a seat, you can sit down. Mr | :33:23. | :33:31. | |
President, Mr Vice President, Mr President-elect, Mr Vice | :33:32. | :33:33. | |
President-elect, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
inauguration of the 45th President of the United States of America. | :33:38. | :33:48. | |
Today, the legislative, the executive, the judicial branches of | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
our constitutional government come together for the 58 inauguration of | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
the President of the United States. Millions of people all over the | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
world will watch and will listen to this event. 36 years ago, it was the | :34:02. | :34:09. | |
first inauguration on this side of the Capitol, President Ronald Reagan | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
said that what we do here is both commonplace and miraculous. | :34:16. | :34:23. | |
Commonplace, every four-year 's sense 1789, when President George | :34:24. | :34:26. | |
Washington took this exact same oath. Miraculous, because we have | :34:27. | :34:36. | |
done it every four years since 1789, and the example it sets for | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
democracies everywhere. Washington believed the inauguration of the | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
second President would be more important than the inauguration of | :34:47. | :34:52. | |
the first. Many people had taken control of the government up until | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
then, but few people had ever turned that control willingly over to | :34:57. | :35:02. | |
anyone else. And as important as the transfer, the first transfer of | :35:03. | :35:06. | |
power was, many historians believe that the next election was even more | :35:07. | :35:15. | |
important. In 1801, one group of people, arguably for the first time | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
ever in history, willingly, if not enthusiastically, gave control of | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
the governments to people they believed had a dramatically | :35:24. | :35:25. | |
different view of what the government would, should and could | :35:26. | :35:32. | |
do. After that election that actually discovered a flaw in the | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
Constitution itself, which was remedied by the 12th Amendment, | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
Thomas Jefferson, at that inauguration, beyond the chaos of | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
the election that had just passed, said, we are all Republicans, we are | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
all Federalist. After four years of civil war, Lincoln's second | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
inaugural speech tried to find reason for the continued war when he | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
pointed out that both sides prayed to the same God. He had earlier | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
written about those fervent prayers, that one side must be, and both | :36:08. | :36:15. | |
sides may be wrong, but in 1865, he looked to the future, and the | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
memorable moment in that speech was, with malice toward none, and charity | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
for all. In the middle of depression, the country was told | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. And President | :36:29. | :36:30. | |
Kennedy talked about the obligation in democracy to country. The great | :36:31. | :36:36. | |
question that day was, ask what you can do for your country. So we come | :36:37. | :36:45. | |
to this place again. Commonplace and miraculous. A national moment of | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
celebration. But not a celebration of victory, a celebration of | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
democracy. And as we begin that celebration, I call on His Eminence, | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Reverend Doctor Samuel Rodriguez to | :37:01. | :37:11. | |
provide readings and the indication. -- invocation. | :37:12. | :37:20. | |
The prayer of King Solomon from the book of Wisdom. Let us pray. God of | :37:21. | :37:29. | |
our ancestors and Lord of mercy, you have made all things. And in your | :37:30. | :37:36. | |
providence have charged asked to all the creatures produced by you, to | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
govern the world in holiness and righteousness, and to render | :37:43. | :37:48. | |
judgment with integrity of heart. Give us wisdom, for we are your | :37:49. | :37:55. | |
servants, weak and short lived, lacking incomprehension, of judgment | :37:56. | :38:02. | |
and of laws. Indeed, though one might be perfect among mortals, if | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
wisdom, which comes from you, be lacking, we count for nothing. Now | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
we view is wisdom. Who knows your will and was there when you made the | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
world. Who understands what is pleasing in your eyes, what is | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
conformable with your commands. Send her forth from your holy heavens. | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
From your glorious throne, dispatch her, that she may be with us, and | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
work with us. That we may grasp what is pleasing to you. For she knows | :38:39. | :38:44. | |
and understands all things, and will guide us prudently in our affairs, | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
and safeguard our spy her glory. Amen. -- safeguard us by her glory. | :38:49. | :39:00. | |
From the Gospel of Matthew, the fifth chapter. God blesses those who | :39:01. | :39:04. | |
are poor and realise their need for him, for the Kingdom of heaven is | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
prayers. God blesses those who mourn, because they will be | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
comforted. God blesses those who are humble, for they will inherit the | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
earth. God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
will be satisfied. God lessons those who are merciful, for they will be | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
shown mercy. He blesses those who are pure in heart, for they will see | :39:28. | :39:33. | |
God. God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
children of God. God blesses those who are persecuted for doing right, | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
for the kingdom of heaven is prayers. And God blesses you, when | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
people mock you, and persecute you and lie about you, and say all sorts | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
of evil things against you, because you are my followers. For you are | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
the light of the world. The city on the hilltop that cannot be hidden. | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
No one likes a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is | :40:02. | :40:07. | |
placed on its stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. In | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, and | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
everyone will praise your Heavenly Father, respectfully in Jesus' name. | :40:18. | :40:27. | |
We come to you, Heavenly Father come in the name of Jesus, with grateful | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
hearts. Thanking you for this great country that you have decreed to | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
your people. We act knowledge we are a blesses nation, with a rich | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
history of faith and fortitude, with a future that is filled with promise | :40:44. | :40:49. | |
and purpose. We recognise that every good and every perfect gift comes | :40:50. | :40:55. | |
from you, and the United States of America is your gift, for which we | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
proclaim our gratitude. As a nation, we now pray for our President, | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
Donald John Trump. Vice President Michael Richard Pence. And their | :41:06. | :41:12. | |
families. We ask that you would Biz Stone upon our President the wisdom | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
necessary to lead this great nation, the grace to unify us, and the | :41:19. | :41:24. | |
strength to stand for what is honourable and writing your site. In | :41:25. | :41:30. | |
Proverbs one, you instruct us that our leader's heart is in your hands. | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
Gracious God, revealed to our President the ability to know the | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
will, your will. The confidence to lead us, in justice and | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
righteousness, and the compassion to yield to our better angels. While we | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
know there are many challenges before us, in every generation you | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
have provided the strength and power to become that Lessig nation. Guide | :41:56. | :42:01. | |
us in discernment, Lord, and give us that strength to persevere and | :42:02. | :42:07. | |
thrive. Now bind and heal our wins and divisions, and join our nation | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
to your purpose. Viking dumb come, thy will be done. Let your | :42:12. | :42:21. | |
favourably upon this one nation under God. Let these United States | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
of America be that beacon of hope to all people, and nations under your | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
dominion, a true hope for all humankind. Glory to the Father, the | :42:32. | :42:38. | |
sun and the holy spirit. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ. | :42:39. | :42:47. | |
Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, the Missouri State University Chorale. | :42:48. | :43:49. | |
MUSIC: Now We Belong by Michael Dennis Browne. | :43:50. | :46:37. | |
The Missouri State University choral pram tillses two blocks -- practices | :46:38. | :47:07. | |
two blocks from my home. We're pleased to find them and we're | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
pleased they're here. APPLAUSE | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
Also, a great opportunity for me to introduce my colleague, the senator | :47:18. | :47:20. | |
from New York, chuck Schumer. APPLAUSE | :47:21. | :47:32. | |
My fellow Americans, we live in a challenging and tumultuous time, a | :47:33. | :47:36. | |
quickly evolving, ever more interconnected world, a rapidly | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
changing economy that benefits too few, while leaving too many behind, | :47:42. | :47:49. | |
a fractured media, a politics frequently consumed by rancour. We | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
face threats, foreign and domestic. In such times, faith in our | :47:56. | :48:02. | |
government, our institutions and even our country can erode. Despite | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
these challenges, I stand here today confident in this great country for | :48:10. | :48:16. | |
one reason - you, the American people. | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
APPLAUSE We Americans have always been a | :48:21. | :48:31. | |
forward-looking, problem-solving, optimist being, patriotic and decent | :48:32. | :48:37. | |
people. Whatever our race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
whether we are immigrant or native born, whether we live with | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
disabilities or do not, in wealth or in poverty, we are all exceptional | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
in our commonly-held yet fierce devotion to our country and in our | :48:53. | :48:58. | |
willingness to sacrifice our time, energy and even our lives to making | :48:59. | :49:05. | |
it a more perfect union. Today we celebrate one of democracy's core | :49:06. | :49:12. | |
attributes, the peaceful transfer of power and every day, we stand up for | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
core democratic principles enshrined in the constitution, the rule of | :49:19. | :49:24. | |
law, equal protection for all under law, the freedom of speech, press, | :49:25. | :49:31. | |
religion, the things that make America America. We can gain | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
strength from reading our history and listening to the voices of | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
average Americans. They always save us in times of strife. One such | :49:42. | :49:51. | |
American was Major Sullivan Balou. On July 14, 1861, when the North and | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
South were lining up for their first battle, a time when our country was | :49:57. | :50:01. | |
bitterly divided and faith in the future of our country was at a | :50:02. | :50:07. | |
nadar, the major, of the second Rhode Island volunteers, penned a | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
letter to his wife, Sarah. It is one of the greatest letters in American | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
history. It shows the strength and courage of the average American, | :50:18. | :50:21. | |
allow me to read some of his words, which echo through the ages. "My | :50:22. | :50:29. | |
very dear Sarah, he wrote, the indications are very strong that we | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
shall move in a few days, perhaps tomorrow. If it is necessary that I | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
should fall on the battlefield for my country, I am ready. I have no | :50:40. | :50:44. | |
misgivings about or lack of confidence in the cause in which I | :50:45. | :50:51. | |
am engaged and my courage does not halt or faulter. I know how strongly | :50:52. | :50:57. | |
American civilisation now leans upon the triumph of the government and | :50:58. | :51:01. | |
how great a debt we owe to those who went before us, through the blood | :51:02. | :51:08. | |
and suffering of the revolution. And I am willing, perfectly willing, to | :51:09. | :51:13. | |
lay down all my joys in this life to help maintain this government and to | :51:14. | :51:21. | |
pay that debt. Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind | :51:22. | :51:28. | |
me to you with the mighty cables but nothing but op nip tense can break | :51:29. | :51:36. | |
-- omnipotence can break. My love for my country comes on me like a | :51:37. | :51:42. | |
strong wind and bears me on with these chains to the battlefield." He | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
gave his life on the battlefield a week later at the first battle of | :51:47. | :51:52. | |
Bull Run. It is because he and countless others believed in | :51:53. | :51:55. | |
something bigger than themselves and were willing to sacrifice for it | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
that we stand today in the full blessings of liberty, in the | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
greatest country on earth. And that spirit lives on in each of us, | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
Americans whose families have been here for generations and those who | :52:12. | :52:17. | |
have just arrived. I know our best days are yet to come. I urge all | :52:18. | :52:25. | |
Americans to read this full letter. His words give me solace, strength. | :52:26. | :52:37. | |
I hope they will give you the same. Now, please stand, while the | :52:38. | :52:42. | |
associate justice of the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, administers | :52:43. | :52:45. | |
the Oath of Office to the Vice President of the United States. | :52:46. | :52:59. | |
Place your right hand on the Bible. Raise your right hand. Mr Vice | :53:00. | :53:13. | |
President-elect, would you raise your right hand and repeat after me. | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
I Michael Richard Pence, do solemnly swear. I Michael Richard Pence, do | :53:20. | :53:31. | |
solemnly swear. That I will support and defend the Constitution of the | :53:32. | :53:33. | |
United States. That I will support and defend the Constitution of the | :53:34. | :53:36. | |
United States Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Against all | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
enemies, foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and | :53:42. | :53:46. | |
allegiance to the same. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to | :53:47. | :53:49. | |
the same That I take this obligation freely. That I take this obligation | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
freely. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And that I will | :54:00. | :54:07. | |
well and faithfully discharge. And that I will well and faithfully | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
discharge. The duties of the office on which I'm about to enter. The | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
duties of the office on which I'm about to enter. So help me God. So | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
help me God. Congratulations. | :54:20. | :54:27. | |
God bless you. STUDIO: Mike Pence there has just | :54:28. | :54:35. | |
been sworn in as the next Vice President of the United States. The | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
transfer of power is partially complete now. Next Donald Trump will | :54:41. | :54:45. | |
take the Oath of Office. This is the beginning of the switch. You can see | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
President Obama smiling in the background. Mike Pence, former | :54:50. | :54:52. | |
governor of Indiana, waving to the crowd. Now officially, the Vice | :54:53. | :54:58. | |
President of the United States. That means Joe Biden is no longer | :54:59. | :55:03. | |
officially the Vice President. He is the former Vice President of the | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
United States. We will have the formen Tabernacle choir in a bit and | :55:08. | :55:12. | |
then the Chief Justice of the United States will issue the Oath of Office | :55:13. | :55:21. | |
to Donald Trump. Mormon Tabernacle choir. Donald Trump's mother was | :55:22. | :55:27. | |
born on the Isle of Lewis, a Scott by birth, in part and his father, | :55:28. | :55:35. | |
Fred Trump, the real estate magnate, surprised the world by winning the | :55:36. | :55:37. | |
election. O beautiful for spacious skies | :55:38. | :56:03. | |
machine for amber waves of grain hr for purple mountained imagine stays | :56:04. | :56:13. | |
# Above the fruited plains # America, America, God shed his | :56:14. | :56:21. | |
grace on thee # And crown thy good with | :56:22. | :56:31. | |
brotherhood from sea to shining sea # Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet who | :56:32. | :57:14. | |
O beautiful for heroes proved # In liberating strife | :57:15. | :57:20. | |
# Who more than self their country loved | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
# And mercy more than life # America, America | :57:25. | :57:36. | |
# May God thy gold refine # Till all success be nobleness | :57:37. | :57:53. | |
# And every gain divine # O beautiful for patriot dream | :57:54. | :58:03. | |
# That sees beyond the years # Thine alabaster cities gleam | :58:04. | :58:13. | |
# Undimmed by human tears # America, America | :58:14. | :58:20. | |
# God shed his grace on thee # And crown thy good with | :58:21. | :58:26. | |
brotherhood # From sea to shining sea. | :58:27. | :58:35. | |
# And crown thy good with brotherhood | :58:36. | :58:46. | |
# From sea to shining sea! # From sea to shining sea! # | :58:47. | :59:00. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE . | :59:01. | :59:06. | |
Here it is, the moment that many thought would never happen, Donald | :59:07. | :59:14. | |
John Trump is about to become President of the United States. He | :59:15. | :59:17. | |
will take the Oath of Office and once he has done so, he is America's | :59:18. | :59:20. | |
45th President. Please raise your right hand and | :59:21. | :59:45. | |
repeat after me. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear. I, Donald | :59:46. | :59:53. | |
John Trump, do solemnly swear. That I will faithfully execute. That I | :59:54. | :00:00. | |
will faithfully execute. The office of President of the United States. | :00:01. | :00:04. | |
The office of President of the United States. And will do the best | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
of my ability. And will do the best of my ability. Preserve, protect and | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
defend the Constitution of the United States. Preserve, protect and | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God. So | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
help me God. Congratulations, Mr President. | :00:27. | :00:43. | |
And there it is. Donald Trump is the President of the | :00:44. | :01:06. | |
United States. The 45th President of America. He has now taken the oath | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
of office. He is the commander-in-chief. He has the | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
nuclear codes. He is the ceremonial head of state, the elected head of | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
state. This is a man with an enormous amount of power. Right now, | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
the 21 gun salute blaring out around this city, to mark a moment that | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
view it here thought would happen and many people around the world did | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
not expect either. A big changes coming to America, and Donald Trump | :01:36. | :01:36. | |
will be at its helm. Chief Justice Roberts, President | :01:37. | :02:10. | |
Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
Americans, and people of the world, thank you. | :02:18. | :02:30. | |
We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
rebuild our country, and restore its promise for all of our people. | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
Together we will determine the course of America and the world for | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
many, many years to come. We will face challenges, we will confront | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
hardships, but we will get the job done. Every four years we gather on | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power. And | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
we are grateful to President Obama and first Lady Michelle Obama, for | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
magnificent. Thank you. APPLAUSE | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
Today's ceremony, however, has very special meaning. | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
Because today we are not merely transferring power from one | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
administration to another, or from one party to another, but we are | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
transferring power from Washington, DC, and giving it back to you, the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
people. For too long, a small group in our | :03:49. | :04:04. | |
nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government, while the | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
people have born the cost. Washington flourished, but the | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs | :04:18. | :04:27. | |
left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself. But | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
struggling families all across our land. | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
That all changes, starting right here and right now. Because this | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
moment is your moment. It belongs to you. | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
It belongs to everyone gathered here today, and everyone watching, all | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
across America. This is your day, this is your celebration, and this, | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
the United States of America, is your country. | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
whether our government is controlled by the people. | :05:46. | :05:55. | |
January 20, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the | :05:56. | :06:09. | |
rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
the likes of which the world has never seen before. At the centre of | :06:29. | :06:40. | |
this movement is a crucial conviction, that a nation exists to | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
serve its citizens. Americans want great schools for their children, | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
safe neighbourhoods for their families and good jobs for | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
themselves. These are just and reasonable demands of righteous | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
people and a righteous public. But for too many of our citizens, a | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
different reality exists. Mothers and children trapped in poverty in | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
our inner cities, rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash, | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
knowledge, and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealised | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
now. We are one nation, and their pain is | :07:52. | :08:09. | |
our pain. Their dreams are our dreams. And their success will be | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
our success. We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny. The | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans. | :08:26. | :08:37. | |
For many decades, we have enriched foreign industry at the expense of | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
American industry, subsidised the armies of other countries while | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
allowing for the very sad depletion of our military. We have defended | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
other nations' borders, while refusing to defend our own. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
APPLAUSE And spent trillions and trillions of | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
dollars overseas, while America's infrastructure has fallen into | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
disrepair and decay. We have made other countries rich, | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has this | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
pay to over the horizon. -- dissipated. One by one, the | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
about the millions and millions of American workers that were left | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
behind. The wealth of our middle-class has been ripped from | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
their homes, and then redistributed all across the world. But that is | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
the past, and now we are looking only to the future. | :09:57. | :10:07. | |
We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power. From this | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
forward, it's going to be only America first. America first. | :10:31. | :10:43. | |
Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs. Protection | :11:04. | :11:16. | |
will lead to great prosperity and strength. I will fight for you with | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
every breath in my body, and I will never, ever, let you down. America | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
will start winning again. Winning like never before. We will bring | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
wealth. And we will bring back our dreams. We will build new roads and | :11:50. | :12:04. | |
highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways, all across | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
to work, rebuilding our country with American hands and American labour. | :12:18. | :12:29. | |
We will follow two simple rules. By American, and higher American. We | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world. But | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
on anyone, but rather to let it shine, as an example. We will shine | :12:56. | :13:07. | |
for everyone to follow. We will reinforce old alliances and form new | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
ones, and unite the civilised world against radical Islamic terrorism, | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth. At the | :13:18. | :13:30. | |
bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
States of America. And through our loyalty to our country, we will | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
rediscover our loyalty to each other. When you open your heart to | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. | :13:45. | :13:57. | |
The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
live together in unity. We must speak our minds openly, debate our | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
united, America is totally unstoppable. There should be no | :14:18. | :14:31. | |
fear. We are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
And most importantly, we will be protected by God. | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. We | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
constantly complaining, but never doing anything about it. | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action. Do not | :15:23. | :15:38. | |
allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
country will thrive and prosper again. We stand at the birth of a | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
earth from the miseries of disease and to harness the energies, | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
industries and technologies of tomorrow, a new national pride will | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
stir our souls, lift our sights and heal our divisions. It's time to | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
remember old wisdom our soldiers will never forget - whether we are | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
black, brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots. | :16:30. | :16:39. | |
APPLAUSE We all enjoy the same glorious | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag. Whether a child | :16:46. | :16:57. | |
is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the wind-swept plains of | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
with the same dreams and they are infused with the breath of life by | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
the same almighty creator. APPLAUSE | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
never be ignored again. CHEERING | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Your voice, your hopes and your dreams will define our American | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
us along the way. Together, we will make America strong again. We will | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
make America wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
make America safe again. And yes, together, we will make America great | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
again! Thank you, God bless you and good bless America. Thank you. God | :18:15. | :18:24. | |
Bless America. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
STUDIO: Donald Trump there delivering an inaugural address 20 | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
minutes long, directed clearly at his supporters and his followers, | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
the people he called the forgotten Americans. He talked about a | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
transfer of power from Washington DC to the rest of the country and | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
giving people back their power, but this was also a strongly Nationalist | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
speech. He talked about making America great again. He said there | :18:55. | :19:06. | |
would be a new decree, a new vision that will govern our land, it will | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
America first. He talked about total allegiance to the United States of | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
America, about having hearts full of patriotism. This was an address to | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
the people who support him, the people who he calls the forgotten | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
Americans and a strong Nationalist call for America's role in the | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
world. Eternal God, bless President Donald | :19:28. | :19:47. | |
J Trump and America, our great nation. Guide us to remember the | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
words, who may dwell on your holy mountain, one who does what is right | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
and speaks the truth. Who knows that when you eat the labour of your | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
hands you are praise worthy, that he who sows in tears shall reap in joy, | :20:12. | :20:21. | |
because the freedoms we enjoy are not granted in perpetuity, but must | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
be reclaimed by each generation. As our ancestors have planted for us, | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
so we must plant for others. While it is not for us to complete the | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
task, neither are we free to desist from them. Dispense justice for the | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
needy and the orphaned, for they have no-one but their fellow | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
citizens and because a nation's wealth is measured by her values and | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
not by her vaults, bless all of our allies around the world who share | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
our beliefs, by the rivers of Babylon we wept as we remembered | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
Zion. If I forget the old Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
The doer of all these shall never faulter. May the days come soon when | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
justice will dwell in the wilderness and righteousness will abide in the | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
fertile fields and the work of righteousness will be peace, | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
quietness and confidence forever. Amen. | :21:47. | :21:57. | |
Mr President, in the Bible rain is a sign of God's blessing and it | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
started to rain Mr President when you came to the platform. It's my | :22:06. | :22:15. | |
prayer that God will bless you, your family, your administration and may | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
he bless America. The passage of scripture comes from first Timothy | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
chapter two. I urge then first of all that petitions, prayers, | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
intercession and thanks giving be made for all people, for kings, for | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Godliness and holiness. This is good and it pleases God our saviour, who | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
wants all people to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
Now to the king eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God be honour | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
and glory forever and ever in Jesus name, amen. | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
We thank you feather for letting -- Father for letting us share this | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
great moment together. Let us not take for granted the air we breathe | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
or the life you've given us. We were all created by you with one blood, | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
all nations to dwell upon this land together. We are not enemies but | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
brothers and sisters. We're not adversaries, but we're allies. We're | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
not foes, but we're friends. Let us be healed bit power of your love and | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
united bit bond of your spirit. Today we pray for our 45th | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
President, the Vice President and their families and give them the | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
wisdom to guide this great nation, the strength to protect it and the | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
hands to heal it. We bless President Donald J Trump, we ask that you give | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
him the wisdom of Solomon, the peakness of Christ. Solomon kept | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
peace among nations. Joseph dreamt better for the people and Christ who | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
accepted us all. Mend our hearts and stitch together the fabric of this | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
great country. In the spirit of the Gospel song writer, O deep many my | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
heart, I do believe, the Lord will see us through, I do believe. We are | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
on our way to victory, I do believe. We will walk hand in hand, I do | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
believe. We shall live in peace, I do believe. O, deep in my heart, I | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
do believe, America we shall overcome." May the Lord bless and | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
keep America and make his face shine upon us and be gracious unto us and | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
give us peace in the mighty name of Jesus, amen. | :25:12. | :25:21. | |
Ladies and gentleman, please welcome Jackie Evanko accompanied by the | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
United States marine band. Please stand for the singing of the | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
national an then. -- anthem. | :25:28. | :25:58. | |
# O, say can you see by the dawn's early light | :25:59. | :26:07. | |
# What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming | :26:08. | :26:18. | |
# Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
# O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming | :26:25. | :26:38. | |
# And the rockets' red glare The bombs bursting in air | :26:39. | :26:48. | |
# Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
# O Say does that star-spangled banner yet wave | :27:00. | :27:12. | |
# O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? # | :27:13. | :27:35. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Ladies and gentleman, please remain | :27:36. | :27:47. | |
standing while the President and official party depart the platform. | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
You will be released by sections shortly. | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
STUDIO: There we have it, the official inauguration ceremony is | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
now over. Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
leaving the inauguration stand. He goes first. His wife Melania will | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
follow, President Obama follows Donald Trump. Now former President | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
Obama follows behind. There he is, Donald Trump. Property billionaire | :28:18. | :28:26. | |
having just given an inaugural speech, promising to change America, | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
promising to bring back jobs to America, promising that in | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
everything it will be America and American workers first. He talked | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
about American borders being ravaged by other countries. Barack Obama | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
saying goodbye to Bob Dole and Libby Dole. Bob Dole who ran for President | :28:47. | :28:54. | |
himself, unsuccessfully in 1996, against Bill Clinton. Joe Biden also | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
leaving there. You see Donald Trump in the Capitol Building. He will be | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
going off to a celebratory lunch for the new President with his wife. | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
Meanwhile, of course, Barack Obama will be going off to a new life in | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
retirement. Jon, quite a speech. Quite a speech and I think we've | :29:18. | :29:25. | |
heard so often an inaugural address that is very carefully modulated and | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
a conciliatory speech. I don't know why we thought Donald Trump would do | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
a standard political speech. He delivered a more pollish version of | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
the way he has campaigned throughout the country, these past 18 months, | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
and has sought to say, you know what, the way you saw me campaigning | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
is the way I'm going to govern. It was like he kind of had the | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
political elite all around him and said, look at you all, you've all | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
done nothing. I'm going to transfer the power back to the people. I'm | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
going to do the stuff that none of you have ever done. It was as | :30:03. | :30:09. | |
anti-establishment address you could hear. With the establishment next to | :30:10. | :30:16. | |
Muslim. Exactly. Next to him. Exactly, you could imagine them | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
fidgeting like school children in their seats. As though he was | :30:22. | :30:23. | |
telling them off, saying to the people, I am your man, you judge me | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
on how I succeed. Going forward and you know, hear him talking about, | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
it's going to be hire first, buy American first, bringing back | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
manufacturing jobs, bringing back all these things, how easy is that | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
when it's not just cheap labour from the Philippines or Mexico, it's | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
non-passport carrying robots that have taken many American jobs. That | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
is the challenge that he has laid out. This is how he wants to be | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
judged on turning this all around. On infrastructure, yes, he can do | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
that. He can introduce the legislation that will allow a vast | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
increase in spending on infrastructure. That will create | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
jobs, of course. But going forward, does he reboot the US economy, going | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
back to manufacturing, to steel production, to doing all those | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
things, textiles, that have gone away over the past 20, 30 years as a | :31:15. | :31:16. | |
result of globalisation? Carlos Watson, Republican strategist | :31:17. | :31:28. | |
and media consultant, I listened to that speech and I imagine many | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
people around the world and our audience in the UK and in Europe and | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
Asia who were watching, millions of them watching that speech will have | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
her the message from Donald Trump, every single decision we make will | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
now be about America first. He said that definitively, and he said that | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
throughout the campaign, make America great again, America first, | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
and was crisp and clear about that. You and I have both acknowledged | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
that President Obama managed to cut the unemployment rate in half and it | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
is below 5%, but what is hidden in there is that there are 9 million | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
people believed to have dropped out of the workforce who are not counted | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
in that number, so there is a meaningful joblessness problem and | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
certainly a wage issue as well. So there will be opportunities. Will he | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
be challenged by questions of technology, trade and immigration, | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
even a trade war? No doubt about it. But is it clear that he seems | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
determined to do it, and as he said, the talk stops and action begins | :32:32. | :32:37. | |
now? It would seem that is the case. Carlos Watson and Jon Sopel are here | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
with me listening to this as the members, dignitaries and those | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
establishment people who have just been told off by the new President | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
Donald Trump leave the stadium. Let's go down to the National Mall | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
and find out what Donald Trump's supporters made of the inaugural | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
address. Well, as you can see, people are | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
starting to leave the National Mall here. I am halfway up, and where I | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
was it was not too crowded, but up close people were crammed in to | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
watch the address on the screens. I am joined by some Donald Trump | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
supporters. Thank you for joining us on the BBC. You are Rob. You have | :33:17. | :33:22. | |
come from? West Chester, Pennsylvania. Patricia. We will | :33:23. | :33:31. | |
start with you two. What did you think of the presidential address? I | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
thought he gave an amazing message of unity among the people and giving | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
the nation back to the people. It was a strong message and he conveyed | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
it very well. He talked about everyone having the same blood, | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
everyone having red blood, whether you are black or white, trying to | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
unite a divided country. How successful do you think he will be | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
in reality, away from the presidential address? I really hope | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
he is successful. It is a matter of everybody listening, talking and | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
coming together, and that was his message. There were many protesters, | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
but they were peaceful today. That is what I love about our country. It | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
is time to open hearts and minds and move forward and be successful as a | :34:15. | :34:17. | |
country. You have travelled from Atlanta today. Having listened to | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
that address, what kind of President do you think Donald Trump will be? I | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
think he will be great. It is important to remember that it is a | :34:29. | :34:31. | |
democracy and it is nice to hand the power to the people so I look | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
forward to that. What weaknesses do you think he might have in office? I | :34:36. | :34:41. | |
am not quite sure. Every President has some, but I don't know what his | :34:42. | :34:47. | |
might be. I think he has said he wants to repeal Obama care, and that | :34:48. | :34:55. | |
is something he might struggle with. Back to you, Patricia. Donald Trump | :34:56. | :34:58. | |
had a list of policies and pledges, but someone like you was attracted | :34:59. | :35:02. | |
to those during the campaign. What do you think should be the | :35:03. | :35:05. | |
priorities now that he is President Trump and will be in the Oval | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
Office? Certainly addressing some of the economy and spending of | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
government, bringing the government back to the people. Government has | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
become more about politicians and less about the people on both sides, | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
so I am really hoping, and he seems sincere in what he says, that that | :35:23. | :35:28. | |
is what will happen. But he is now a politician. Isn't that amazing? | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
Everyone gave him no credit. Back to the studio. Thank you for joining | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
us. We are going to jump in here back to | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
Capitol Hill, because we are now seeing the pictures of Donald Trump, | :35:46. | :35:54. | |
you just saw him there, and President Obama. President Trump and | :35:55. | :35:57. | |
President Obama walking through the Capitol building. They will now come | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
out onto the East side of the Capitol Building, and you can see | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
the helicopter. That is the helicopter that will take Barack | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
Obama and Michelle Obama away from Washington, whisk them away from | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
this scene. They are now history. They are the past. And the future | :36:17. | :36:21. | |
will carry on inside that building. They will get a ceremonial goodbyes | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
from Donald Trump. They will then be flown to Andrews Air Force Base, and | :36:27. | :36:30. | |
from there they will fly on a plane that will not be Air Force One, | :36:31. | :36:36. | |
although it looks rather like it. It will be a special air mission plane | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
that will fly them to palm springs, California, where they are going to | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
take a vacation. But this is the beginning of the end of President | :36:47. | :36:53. | |
Obama's eight years in office. He is now a former President and we will | :36:54. | :36:57. | |
wait to see him come out, shake hands with those dignitaries, and | :36:58. | :37:04. | |
leave office. Here we go. President Donald Trump, former President | :37:05. | :37:05. | |
Barack Obama. This is a remarkable moment in | :37:06. | :37:20. | |
American history. Two men, very different world views, have tried to | :37:21. | :37:24. | |
work together in this transition programme, won a Republican, one a | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
Democrat, one who has served eight years in office, one who was about | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
to begin his term in office. From now on, it is Donald Trump who | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
carries the weight of office with him. A final chat between these two | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
men. Donald Trump has just given an inaugural address but in many ways | :37:43. | :37:45. | |
it was a repudiation of the politics of Barack Obama. Melania Trump has | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
also come to say goodbye to the Obamas. Barack Obama, taking his | :37:51. | :37:58. | |
wife's hand, a quick kiss on the hand for Michelle. This is not an | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
easy day for this couple. They leave their home, they leave their job, | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
they leave the office of the presidency, and they are handing | :38:08. | :38:09. | |
over to somebody with a very different world view, and in many | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
ways a future that is very unknown. They say goodbye to their vice | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
President. These couples have been close. Jill Biden and Joe Biden also | :38:21. | :38:28. | |
saying goodbye to the trumps. As Jon Sopel said earlier, this is not just | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
politics, it is personal. What are these people thinking? Barack Obama | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
is smiling and looking relaxed because this has been a long and | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
gruelling period. We feel we have watched him age and grey with the | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
burden of office. But he must also feel, listening to that speech, so | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
what will be left of what I have done over the past eight years? And | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
he leaves office with very high approval ratings, but in terms of | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
concrete steps, is Donald Trump going to undo various bits of the | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
policy, the Iran nuclear deal, policy towards the Middle East, | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
policy towards Cuba, climate change. The list goes on and on. Yes, it was | :39:12. | :39:17. | |
a broadbrush speech from Donald Trump. He did not get into the | :39:18. | :39:23. | |
specifics. But did he give us a sense of direction? Absolutely, he | :39:24. | :39:26. | |
did. He knows where he wants to take the country and what he wants to do, | :39:27. | :39:29. | |
and I would imagine Barack Obama feels uneasy about that. Carlos | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
Watson. The one thing we know about Donald Trump is that he does not | :39:36. | :39:41. | |
feel as wedded to his statements as previous politicians. What are you | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
suggesting? One-minute Mexico is going to pay for the war, the next | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
minute he is asking Congress to do so. One minute he has a certain view | :39:50. | :39:53. | |
on abortion and choice, and the next minute he has a different view. I | :39:54. | :39:58. | |
think that in President Donald Trump, I would not be surprised to | :39:59. | :40:05. | |
see him change course. Whether it has been the Secretary of State | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
nominee, the EPA nominee, the Defence Secretary nominee, we have | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
heard them shift from his worldview on questions of torture, questions | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
of Russian hacking, even from questions of climate change as a | :40:20. | :40:22. | |
hoax, you have heard some variability. Here we go, Donald | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
Trump, Melania Trump, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama making their way down | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
the steps of the East side of the Capitol, to the helicopter that will | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
take the outgoing President and his wife. You wonder how much these two | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
men will keep in touch. How much will Donald Trump seek advice from | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
Barack Obama once he has left office? It will be an interesting | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
relationship. Who would have guessed that the relationship that grew | :40:51. | :40:52. | |
between Bill Clinton and George Bush? And the relationship that has | :40:53. | :41:00. | |
clearly built up between Barack Obama and George W Bush. They seem | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
to be completely different types of figures. I think the fact that this | :41:05. | :41:11. | |
relationship in some ways got started with the birth controversy, | :41:12. | :41:17. | |
which many people judged to be at best racially tinged and at worst | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
racist, I think that will jaundice to some extent how deep that | :41:23. | :41:25. | |
relationship could become. In the case of Clinton... Donald Trump says | :41:26. | :41:34. | |
goodbye to Barack Obama. Melania Trump kisses Michelle on the cheeks. | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are on the way out. There will be an | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
outpouring of missing Barack Obama on the part of many Americans. Not | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
just because his approval numbers are high, but when someone has in | :41:49. | :41:51. | |
with you that long and leaves on a high note... There we go. The world | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
says goodbye to Barack Obama, having been in office for eight years, | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
immensely popular around the world. He turns and waves goodbye. And | :42:02. | :42:09. | |
that's it. The last we see of Barack Obama in Washington. He will fly to | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
Andrews Air Force Base, say goodbye to his staff. He is leaving office. | :42:14. | :42:20. | |
The new man is coming back into the Capitol building. That's it. He's | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
alone now. He doesn't have Barack Obama at his side any more. He is | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
the 45th President of the United States and the decisions and cares | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
of office are now on his shoulders. One can imagine the briefing is | :42:36. | :42:38. | |
taking place in a short space of time. Maybe there were military | :42:39. | :42:41. | |
operations planned in far-away countries on which he has to give | :42:42. | :42:44. | |
final approval in the situation room. It starts immediately. It's | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
not like you can suddenly say, we'll have a few days off from governing. | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
The governing is intense. When we watch episodes of the West Wing, or | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
whatever programming happens to be, crises are discreet and follow | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
sequentially. In real life, in government, it isn't like that. They | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
come at you at multiple times and you are fending off umpteen | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
different crises simultaneously. He will have to deal with these crises | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
as he tries to change the country, and he will knock up against the | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
reality of government. He will knock up against it but remember, right | :43:24. | :43:26. | |
now his opponents are back on their heels of it, both on the Republican | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
side, because many of them didn't support him, and even on the | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
Democratic side, surprised by it. So we he will have a little bit of | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
room, and he has the tool visit ashen grey executive orders, which | :43:40. | :43:42. | |
he has said he will use aggressively to unilaterally affect some | :43:43. | :43:50. | |
policies. The blades are turning, the helicopter that will take Barack | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
Obama and Michelle Obama out of Washington. It isn't Marine one | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
because the President is not on board. It is only when the President | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
is travelling. So it is the helicopter that looks like Marine | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
one. It is a bog-standard helicopter. Yes, that is how we get | :44:09. | :44:15. | |
around in Washington, DC. How the mighty have fallen. In the United | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
States system he will always be President Obama but he is no longer | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
commander-in-chief. He is another citizen going about his business and | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
off to Andrews airbase in Maryland for a plane that will take him away. | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
There is a video they have put on Twitter this morning of Michelle | :44:35. | :44:37. | |
Obama and Barack Obama saying, you will not hear much from us for the | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
next two weeks. We are going to be still, reflect and sleep a bit. And | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
then they will come back, maybe recharged and invigorated after | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
that. But how they manage the relationship of being the | :44:53. | :44:54. | |
ex-president, living a couple of miles up the road, will be | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
fascinating to watch unfold. Look at this image. For a moment, look at | :45:01. | :45:08. | |
the image. Extraordinary, isn't it? When people speak of the symbolism | :45:09. | :45:11. | |
of the transfer of power, their UC it. -- UC it. | :45:12. | :45:46. | |
There it is. What a sight. Right behind us. I've got to get a photo | :45:47. | :45:53. | |
of this for posterity. This is extraordinary. This is an | :45:54. | :45:56. | |
extraordinary moment in the life of a democracy. Actually, it's coming | :45:57. | :46:04. | |
right over towards our position now. The helicopter blades will probably | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
start to be very loud. We can almost feel this helicopter, it is right | :46:10. | :46:15. | |
behind us. Barack Obama leaving Washington, heading to Andrews Air | :46:16. | :46:19. | |
Force Base. We're watching it over our shoulders, which is why we're | :46:20. | :46:22. | |
turned away. He's just literally flown behind us. He flies off now. | :46:23. | :46:27. | |
He's taking a holiday in California, in Palm Springs, with his family. He | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
will be coming back to Washington because his daughter has school | :46:32. | :46:34. | |
here. He can't stay away for very long. Trump Tower. The old Post | :46:35. | :46:40. | |
Office building and that is now the new Trump international hotel. | :46:41. | :46:47. | |
Impeccable timing. Just opened. Meanwhile, inside the Capitol | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
Building, the festivities continue for the new President for Donald | :46:52. | :46:57. | |
Trump and his wife. They have an elaborate lunch lined up with | :46:58. | :47:00. | |
members of Congress, those very members of the Washington power | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
establishment who have just been told that the power is about to be | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
taken away from them and handed back to the American people. Senator John | :47:10. | :47:18. | |
McCain there, they will all file into the hall for a lunch of lobster | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
and shrimp, peanut crumble, Angus beef and chocolate souffle. My | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
understanding is that Donald Trump has a fairly limited palate when it | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
comes to food. He doesn't drink, of course. No alcohol for him at this | :47:33. | :47:37. | |
lunch. He is teetotal, has been since his older brother died of | :47:38. | :47:42. | |
alcohol poisoning, who was an alcoholic. He has admonished his | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
children never to drink either. It's a teetotal family. Jimmy Carter had | :47:47. | :47:52. | |
a teetotal White House. We don't know if Donald Trump will carry on | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
that tradition. Jimmy Carter's White House was a very austere place. I | :47:59. | :48:01. | |
think the White House Christmas party would be a rather different | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
affair if it was no alcohol being served, catty! Katty! I think we can | :48:07. | :48:13. | |
trust there will be some alcohol present. Trump, a long time hotelier | :48:14. | :48:20. | |
won't be afraid to serve his guests. Let's talk a bit more about the | :48:21. | :48:27. | |
inaugural address, because you're right, I think often times when we | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
think of somebody standing there in this ceremonial position, they will | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
express a sense of the weight of office and unity of the country. My | :48:36. | :48:39. | |
feeling about that inaugural address was that it was directed very firmly | :48:40. | :48:44. | |
at Donald Trump's supporters, not very much interest in the people who | :48:45. | :48:47. | |
did not vote for him or the fact that he comes into office having | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
lost the popular vote, not much of an attempt at unity in the country. | :48:53. | :48:57. | |
He made the comment that America, when it is united, is unstoppable. | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
But America is not united. That was not a speech that did very much to | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
unite the country. It was a very different tone from the speech he | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
gave in New York in the wee small hours of November 8th after he won | :49:14. | :49:16. | |
the election. He did talk about, I'm here to represent all Americans. He | :49:17. | :49:19. | |
was making the argument that everyone is going to benefit from | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
this and we are all together and he used that old military metaphor, if | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
it doesn't matter whether you're black, brown or white, you all shed | :49:30. | :49:32. | |
the same blood. It's going to be a challenge for him to try and bring | :49:33. | :49:38. | |
people together, to buy into the policies that he is setting out. | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
There will be many people, maybe on the East Coast, maybe on the West | :49:44. | :49:46. | |
Coast, who voted in such big numbers for Hillary Clinton and who voted in | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
greater numbers than they did for Donald Trump in terms of the popular | :49:51. | :49:55. | |
vote, to get them to believe in this vision. But if jobs are coming back, | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
if people are seeing their living standards rise, and if they feel | :50:00. | :50:04. | |
that their neighbourhoods are getting safer, these are the chael | :50:05. | :50:09. | |
engs he's set himself. -- challenges he's set himself. He's set the bar | :50:10. | :50:13. | |
very high about transforming American society in terms of drugs, | :50:14. | :50:16. | |
in terms of crime, in terms of people feeling safe, in terms of | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
people having well paid jobs. As Carlos poirnted out, Donald Trump | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
has proved himself quite capable of setting one standard and operating | :50:28. | :50:29. | |
on a different standard without turning much of a hair about | :50:30. | :50:32. | |
changing the facts on the ground. Correct. To say it in a positive | :50:33. | :50:37. | |
way, he's quite versatile when it comes to his policy pronouncements, | :50:38. | :50:42. | |
quite elastic. That is excellent. Excellent word. It will be | :50:43. | :50:46. | |
interesting to see where he lines up and what kind of success he has. | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
Frankly, in many ways, he comes into this situation better than the one | :50:51. | :50:53. | |
that President Obama got. You remember, he came into the situation | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
where we were losing 800,000 jobs a month, where he was fighting two | :50:58. | :51:00. | |
wars that hadn't been paid for, where the debt and the deficit were | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
ballooning. So to the extent he does want to make meaningful change he | :51:05. | :51:07. | |
clearly comes with a better background and a better scenario | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
immediately than the kind of crisis-like atmosphere that new | :51:13. | :51:15. | |
President Obama stepped into. One of the bits of political genius that we | :51:16. | :51:21. | |
saw about Donald Trump during the campaign was his depiction of the US | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
economy as a basket case. Whereas if you look around the world, the US | :51:26. | :51:28. | |
economy is picking up nicely. Growth rate is up. Unemployment is way | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
down. People are starting to spend again in the shops. There is an | :51:34. | :51:37. | |
economic success story. He is going to inherit that at an early stage | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
and is then able to say look at the transformation I've made. He will | :51:42. | :51:46. | |
turn the narrative. He has been brilliant at creating that shaping | :51:47. | :51:49. | |
of the political narrative. Let's talk about his relationship with the | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
rest of the world and how that might change for everybody watching this | :51:54. | :51:56. | |
from other countries, some of whom are excited about this new era, and | :51:57. | :52:01. | |
some of whom support a more populist agenda, as we heard laid out in that | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
speech, and some of whom watching with trepidation about what might | :52:07. | :52:09. | |
happen between America and the world. You and I were talking, | :52:10. | :52:12. | |
Carlos, earlier about the reality of the government. There is the reality | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
of foreign policy as well. Donald Trump may want to do things and then | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
jam up against the fact that China really does care about Taiwan and | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
the one-China policy. That could come back to haunt him later on. How | :52:25. | :52:28. | |
much is America's relationship with the world about to change starting | :52:29. | :52:34. | |
today? I think there's no two ways that you'll see in a couple of | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
places, certainly Russia. There will be a meaningful change. Obviously, | :52:39. | :52:41. | |
people on different sides of the aisle feel differently about that. | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
There will be change. You're right we're less clear about what's going | :52:46. | :52:49. | |
to happen in China. One of the other place s we have to understand is | :52:50. | :53:02. | |
Iran. We know that prm Netanyahu has been close to Trump. That will be a | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
place to watch too. Lo and behold, if in May, Le Pen, has more success | :53:07. | :53:11. | |
than some people currently expect in that election, certainly Donald | :53:12. | :53:13. | |
Trump could become an even larger figure in Europe. Let's go down now | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
to the national mall and get a sense of what the crowds down there are | :53:20. | :53:27. | |
feeling and thinking about this inaugural address, it's struck us | :53:28. | :53:32. | |
listening to it, as one that was not particularly conciliatory, aimed at | :53:33. | :53:34. | |
Donald Trump supporters and the kind of speech, I imagine, his supporters | :53:35. | :53:42. | |
will have absolutely loved. I am with a group of his supporters, they | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
come from nearby Fredrik in Maryland. I will swing the camera | :53:48. | :53:51. | |
round. I'm going to come over and talk to Mary. Thanks for joining us. | :53:52. | :53:57. | |
You were watching up close, how close were you? We were not too far | :53:58. | :54:05. | |
up. A little while. What due make of that first presidential address from | :54:06. | :54:07. | |
President Trump? I thought it was excellent. He hit the point, he's | :54:08. | :54:13. | |
putting America back to us, give it back to us. Paying attention. I like | :54:14. | :54:16. | |
the fact that he's going to pay attention to the people who are | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
poor, for example, Detroit, places like that. He just is giving the | :54:21. | :54:25. | |
power back to the citizens of the United States. And how much do you | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
think he can build bridges? A lot of his message there talking about | :54:30. | :54:32. | |
bringing power away from Washington, that kind of thing. That's playing | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
to his heart land, supporters like you, how can he reach across? I | :54:38. | :54:40. | |
think he could reach across by listening to us. For example, I know | :54:41. | :54:45. | |
on his campaign trail he went to cities that were, for example he | :54:46. | :54:50. | |
went to Detroit, and I believe as long as he keeps the communication | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
open, that he confronts, that he questions and that he listens. Now, | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
you've got a friend with you who's come to watch this inauguration from | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
Russia, no less. Thanks for joining us on the BBC. Tell us what you | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
thought of President Trump's address and Mary you might help with some of | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
the translation. I think that Trump is the President of United States | :55:16. | :55:23. | |
and Trump election American people. I support American election. You | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
like Mr Trump then? Yes. Let's move down here. Hello. What's your name? | :55:29. | :55:34. | |
Jimmy. What was the one stand-out thing from the address for you? I | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
liked the way he says it is all about us. It's the people, it's | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
finally come back to us. It's nice to know that you've got a person | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
that ran for office one time and he ran for President of the United | :55:48. | :55:50. | |
States and he won it. He didn't work up through the ranks for 30 years. | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
He's one of us. When he's done, he's probably going to go back to work. | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
That's the way it should be in the United States. Let me ask you this, | :55:59. | :56:02. | |
he said he wanted to drain the swamp, he railed against the | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
political class here in Washington, but he's going to be the political | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
class. Tell me quickly what you think of that? Draining the swamp in | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
my opinion is him taking away the people who come in here and buy | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
stuff. You buy votes, you have big corporations that come in and want | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
to spend money to sway political people. That's what I don't like. | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
Thanks very much. There you go. That's the view from a group of | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
Trump supporters here on the national mall, just as President | :56:32. | :56:34. | |
Trump has finished his inaugural address. Thank you very much. After | :56:35. | :56:42. | |
an address that millions will have watched right around the world, here | :56:43. | :56:46. | |
in the United States, but of course, in countries that will now have to | :56:47. | :56:51. | |
get used to a new way of doing business. President Obama has left | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
Washington. He's touching down at Andrews Air Force Base. He is the | :56:56. | :56:58. | |
ex-President, the former President of the United States, a civilian of | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
course now. He heads off to a holiday in California with his wife. | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
He will now say goodbye to the White House staff. This, as we've been | :57:09. | :57:12. | |
hearing through the morning, from people who've worked in the White | :57:13. | :57:15. | |
House and been in this position, it's always an emotional goodbye. | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
President Obama has handed over to a man would could not be more | :57:19. | :57:22. | |
different than himself in style, in policy, in world view. There is | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
always a transition of power from a Republican to a Democrat or vice | :57:27. | :57:30. | |
versa, this really has been an extraordinary transition of power in | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
America, an inauguration many thought would never happen. But | :57:35. | :57:39. | |
Donald J Trump is now the 45th President of the United States. | :57:40. | :57:44. | |
You've been watching this BBC News special on the inauguration of the | :57:45. | :57:46. | |
next President of America. # America, America | :57:47. | :58:17. | |
# God shed his grace on thee # And crown thy good with | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
brotherhood # From sea to shining sea. I Donald | :58:22. | :58:31. | |
John Trump do solemnly swear... # With brotherhood... That I will | :58:32. | :58:40. | |
faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, so | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
help me God. # From sea to shining sea# | :58:44. | :58:50. | |
From this day forward, it's going to be only America first. | :58:51. | :59:01. | |
Einstein replaced Newton's theory of universal gravitation | :59:02. | :59:04. | |
with a more accurate theory - general relativity. | :59:05. | :59:07. | |
So, why's my apple falling? Well, it's not. | :59:08. | :59:10. | |
It is the ground that accelerates up to meet the apple. | :59:11. | :59:14. | |
So that's why the chair that I'm sitting on now | :59:15. | :59:17. |