US Inauguration BBC News Special

Welcome to Washington, where Donald John Trump is soon

to be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.

Hello, I'm Katty Kay - with you on BBC News

for this momentous day of ceremony and celebration.

The crowds are gathering and we are now little more

than an hour away from the formal ceremony.

Donald Trump will take the presidential oath just before

noon, Washington time - before delivering his

That will signal the end of President Obama's term of office -

the two men are now holding a final meeting ahead of the ceremony.

The inaugural platform is ready and waiting for Donald Trump to utter

the 35 words written by America's founding Fathers, the Oath of Office

which will make him the 45th president of the United States.

Here on the National Mall, excitement is mounting.

Hundreds of thousands from across the United States gather here on the

National Mall to witness history. Dignatories, senate leaders,

military leaders are already taking their seats on the platform -

ahead of the ceremony - In less than two hours,

Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President

of the United States. The property tycoon won

an unexpected victory in November's election

after a controversial campaign. Hundreds of thousands

of supporters - and protesters - are in Washington DC for the event -

an event that will also be The ceremony is being attended

by former presidents and first ladies, including Bill Clinton

and his wife Hillary, Mr Trump's In keeping with the new style

of politics in the Trump era, he posted a message on Twitter

earlier today - saying "the movement continues -

the work begins!" Let's go over to Capitol Hill and my

colleague Nick Bryant who is where the president will be taking his

oath of office. What is the scene at the moment? It was very wet until

recently, the weather forecasters have proved themselves to be more

accurate than the political forecasters who did not expect

Donald Trump to be taking the oath of office today, they thought it

would be Hillary Clinton but the weather forecasters have predicted

rain and it has been raining. People have been coming in their ponchos

and in the scarlet red Make America Great Again hats which were a

feature of Donald Trump's campaign. There is the beta of the military

band behind me, it is an extravaganza here as they go through

the repertoire that is familiar on these national pageants. They have

taken off the cellophane which was covering the inaugural lectin from

which Donald Trump will deliver his long-awaited speech, it is said that

he has written his speech himself. -- inaugural

lectin. They are sat in the White House as part of the tradition, they

have had their church service, it is the last time that Michelle and

Barack Obama will be in their home of the last eight years before

accompanying Donald Trump to the Battle, where you are now, for the

services. -- to the Capitol building. What do you think Barack

Obama is passing on to his successor now? Wouldn't you love to know! ?

Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall in that conversation... Never

before has an incoming president had such a different personality and

political agenda than an outgoing president. You will remember Barack

Obama thrust himself into the midst of this campaign, so too did

Michelle Obama in an emotionally powerful way. Both said that Donald

Trump was tempering -- temperamentally. This is not how

Barack Obama wanted to end his presidency, handed over to somebody

who has vowed to dismantle and demolish his signature achievements,

like health care. But it has been a peaceful transition, Americans pride

themselves on this and one suspects it will be a civil conversation as

they have a chat and a coffee at the White House. It was a nice moment

when Melania Trump arrived at the White House, and the couples were

met. We can bring in these pictures from moments ago, of Melania Trump

and Donald Trump meeting Barack Obama and Michelle Obama on the

steps of the White House, and Melania Trump offering Michelle

Obama a nicely wrapped gift, it looked suspiciously like Tiffany box

to me! A nice gesture, the crowds are gathering and there were tears

of invitation to inauguration cheap seats and the less cheap seats!

These are people who have come from all over the country, who have long

been supporters of Donald Trump, handing him victory and who believed

in him early on. They are here in Washington, DC, and are here ready

for the inauguration services. I am joined here up on the podium on our

perch over Capitol Hill... Carlos Watson is

Founder of OZY Media. former speech writer

for President George W Bush. Carlos Cuellar you predicted that

Donald Trump would become the President of the United States. You

can see him now on Inauguration Day, is he now

President Trump? We have been surprised by President-elect Trump

and President Trump regularly but in the transition of the last 60 days,

the candidate you saw for the last 15 months is

likely to be the president you will get. Some of these early fights,

most significantly a supreme court battle, and fights over immigration,

in some way, will that temper his approach? I doubt it but we will

see. And you are a former speech writer, he will be on the podium,

George W Bush, his father is in hospital sick with pneumonia, but

George W Bush will be there. How much pressure is there on the

President-elect, on this day, to say the right thing to the American

people? This is the most pressure that he has faced to date in his

speech, for the longest time he was not taken seriously and I think that

the pressure was not as high profile but now the eyes of the world and

the nation are on him. This is his first address to a country, half of

whom did not support him and he has to explain to them why he is

everybody's president and how he will work to make America a nation

everyone is proud of. We know that the country is divided, a recent

poll showed that more than 80% of Americans think that the country is

more divided than it used to be and they do not feel very optimistic

that it will get less divided over the next four years. This is

something that George W Bush thought about in his presidency, and he did

reach out after a very contentious election in 2000, when he gave his

inaugural address to those people who have lost the election campaign.

Do you think that it matters to Donald Trump, to be seen as a

president who tries to unite the country, or not the ticket Lily?

Absolutely, in many of his speeches he spoke about it being a divided

nation, this is something that has been on his mind and he will be

looking to draw on the common themes of what makes Americans a common

people, what resonates with them, and how they can appreciate

unifying, even around something as amazing as a peaceful transition of

power. The average American, myself included, you feel overwhelmed by

the patriotism from these traditions that we observe today, regardless of

who was sworn into office, that remains true, and he will draw on

that. He will have, Carlos Watson, behind his sales, if you like, the

wind of the whole Republican party. He has the Senate and the House of

Representatives, and the Supreme Court, and of course he has the

White House. It gives Donald Trump an awful lot of power? It does, and

the power is strengthened further by the fact that many of them did not

support him. You will remember the House Speaker, Paul Ryan, famously

said would one month to go committee all but walked away from the Dem

candidate Donald Trump. -- he all but walked away. In states like

Wisconsin and Ohio, where they were not supporting him, it will give him

a lot of sway and a bit of power. Reince Priebus, the former National

committee chair, coming in as chief of staff, will be very valuable. And

Kellyanne Conway has distinguished herself as a thoughtful counsellor,

and a spin master for him. Let's pause and we will talk about what we

are seeing in these pictures from Capitol Hill. There is the former

Republican Speaker of the house John Baena. What is happening on Capitol

Hill, the members of Congress, Donald Trump supporters, former

presidents, Republicans and Democrats, are making their way to

the platform on the west side, just behind where we are seated, of

Capitol Hill itself. They are making their way down and awaiting the

arrival of President-elect Trump and President Obama, John Baena on his

way out. The top dignitaries, you President-elect, Vice

President-elect, President Obama, Michelle Obama, they will all be

announced by a Herald who will call them individually onto the platform.

At the moment, the seats are filling up with the political and military

dignitary, Newt Gingrich and his wife, a long-time supporter of

Donald Trump, part of the campaign as well, making their way to the

podium. It's not a very cold day, I have covered much colder in

operations for right have won what I would have wanted goalie skiing

holiday! This is damp but not that cold? -- I would have worn on a

skiing holiday! It was frightful the last time! The campaign chairman for

Donald Trump, will be a special adviser. It is fair to say, Anita

Green, one of the more controversial figures entering the White House? He

was the CEO of Breitbart News, who has published very far right things.

It was the third shift in the campaign that Rob had undergone, and

he had been doing poorly at that point. -- Donald Trump. He and

Kellyanne Conway were seen as resurrecting a campaign that was

flagging and ultimately went on to victory. Newt Gingrich and his wife,

making their way through the Capitol Building, you go through on the red

carpets, and get onto the viewing platform. And Steve Bannon, he has

been a strong supporter of nationalist movements in Europe,

this is an interesting moment in history that we are at, not just

here in the USA, but we've seen this populist wave, which you could argue

started with the Brexit movement in the UK and came to the election with

Donald Trump, and people watching other countries in Europe now to see

if they will be the next dominoes to fall in the populist wave, or if you

are a supporter of populism, the rising movement, which Steve Bannon

has specifically said that he hoped it would be? As you know, in May,

the French will vote, and that could be quite a significant... Steve

Bannon has reached out to Marine Le Pen, they have been in contact with

one another? And Nigel Farage has been over, I saw him in DC not long

ago, no doubt about it, much like we saw in some ways with the Tony Blair

and Bill Clinton movement, the third wave movement some 20 years ago,

there is clearly a uniting across the Atlantic among various European

efforts and various US efforts as well. He will need to get off to a

good start that is credible enough, others will follow and mimic him,

and his candidates and in his policy, that is not clear, but Steve

Bannon, it is incredible. Katty comes you been here long enough to

show that -- to know that he covered the things that Breitbart News did,

and consistently, we clean it up and call it the alt-right, it is a

factual viewing of it, the fact that that person is literally just down

the hall is typical, the other thing that Steve Bannon symbolises is a

return of Goldman Sachs to power. There was a time when Goldman Sachs

could not participate in senior levels of government, along with

Gary Cullen and several others, they are now back. You've worked with

President George W Bush's White House committee came in on an ethos

of compassionate conservatism. He had high ratings with Hispanic

groups can he did well in the 2004 election with Hispanic groups, how

different is the philosophy and tone and political style of the Trump

administration, compared to the Bush administration? It's been very

direct, in ways that the Bush administration did not embrace.

There was that emphasis, like you said, on compassionate conservatism,

they had to figure out a way forward, we all did, with the

attacks of 9/11, President Bush came in with a domestic agenda and then

became a wartime president, he was not looking for that. It was

different, President Trump, in one hour, will be President Trump, not

President-elect Trump, he has been himself, he shoots from the hip, you

can see that from his Twitter feed and his own advisers don't know at

times what he will say which is very different from the Bush

administration. What about what Carlos was touching on? Some of the

things that Donald Trump said about women and allegations about

Breitbart News gritter muck that it was anti-Semitic and wrote

anti-Semitic headlines at time? There were accusations of racism

about Breitbart News as well? What would George Bush have made about

that if it was in his White House? When he sits there in one hour's

time and watches Donald Trump become president, as a former speech writer

to his, what will be going through his mind? He is there to support the

next president and the process, he was very supportive of Barack Obama

and President Obama has mentioned it several times, how he appreciated

it. I know that one of President Bush's worst moments in his

presidency was when can you West says George Bush hates black people,

which could not be further from the truth -- Kanye West. He took it

seriously, and Donald Trump, if that kind of charge was levelled at him,

he would have thought that it was the media being hyper partisan and

would not have taken it to heart in the same way... Let's run through

what we will see... There are the members... You are looking at the

platform filling up where Donald Trump will give

his inaugural address. That is the young lady who will sing the

national anthem, it looks like? We will see her, she was the winner of

America's Got Talent, and she will sing the national anthem.

President-elect Trump and Barack Obama are in the White House having

a cup of coffee and a final meeting between the two of them. They will

make their way in a brand-new version of the Beast, the

presidential limousine, which has been refitted for Donald Trump. The

President-elect and the president will drive together to Capitol Hill,

in the Beast, and they will make their way onto the podium,

President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect pence, President

Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, they will come into the Capitol

complex, taking their seats, and the official services will begin at

midday local time, that's 5pm London time. President Trump will become

President Trump when he takes the oath of office, and will give his in

your -- give his inaugural address, we do

not know how long it will be, some presidents before have given very

short addresses previously, having given that, the Vice

President-elect, Vice President, president and President Obama will

depart, the Obama family will head to Andrews Air Force Base, where he

will depart the scene, he will then be ex-president, and President Trump

will go back to Capitol Hill for lunch with supporters. We will look

out for that in the next couple of hours in Washington as the services

begin. We are currently waiting for President Trump and President-elect

Trump to leave the White House and head down towards the Capitol. It's

a very formulaic day? Yes, Ronald Reagan encountered bad weather in

1981 which calls for a variation in plans, and other kinds of things

have happened in the past. Other than that, it's largely formulaic.

At one point, we expected that... Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton are

going in to the Capitol Building, the building where she used to work

as a senator for the New York State. This is an extraordinary moment,

seeing Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, when George Bush took over,

it's not unusual for your rifle to be sitting there, Al Gore would have

been sitting on that platform as Bill Clinton's vice president as

well? -- it is not unusual for your rival. I'm sure that John McCain

will be there, it is unusual, historically speaking, to have so

many political rival pull for power,. What will it be like for

Henry Clinton sitting and watching Donald Trump take the oath of office

gritter muck it will -- what will it be like for Hillary

Clinton sitting and watching Donald Trump take the oath of office? No

matter what, when you are on the losing side, it cannot feel good...

But they had to be there, Bill Clinton is a former president, he

has two B there and there will be some tight handholding between the

two of them? It sends a terrible message, if she was not to be there,

her whole question was, will you do the presidential dignified thing,

when you lose, and attend my inauguration? One thing that you can

say is that she is incredibly disciplined? She is, she's been seen

around town in New York recently, any kind of loss, whether you are Al

Gore, or Hillary Clinton, it hurts, but people saw her in bakeries and

in restaurants around New York. She has got a lot of love, and that

discipline is taking place. President Obama has tweeted, from

his Twitter account @POTUS, I do not know how long he will have that

for... "It has been the honour of my life to serve you, you have made me

a better leader and a better man". We should spend a moment talking

about President Obama, he is president for another hour and 40

minutes? Incredible in so many ways, it's an unusual time in American

history, when you think about the people elected to the highest office

in the last few years, you've had Bill Clinton, the son of a single

mother, who grew up in working-class Arkansas, not immediately the kind

of guy like his predecessor, there was controversy with the Supreme

Court, you get the first African-American elected, and very

few people expected a 70-year-old reality star... He will be the

oldest president to take office? Yes, Barack Obama goes out on a wave

of enthusiasm, with very high approval ratings, as does the first

Lady. When you think back on his record, even if you disagree with

him, a lot got done. If you think about what happened with health care

and immigration, and the movement between the two wars... Thing about

the economy? Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, and

Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager, wearing a very patriotic coat, she

will be senior adviser to President Bush, she is the first woman to have

run a presidential election campaign and the first woman to have led a

winning presidential election campaign.

A very important figure in this transition process. Kellyanne, she

told me on election morning very confidently that Donald Trump at

seven different parts to the White House. Few people believed her on

that election morning. And the poll suggested that this would be a

victory for Hillary Clinton but, I have to say, that morning Kellyanne

Conway sounded confident and she was absolutely right? She certainly will

be remembered as one of the most valuable players, as you pointed out

earlier, she was part of the third set of changes which is unusual in a

general election... It was quite a choppy campaign? Yes, and yet again

someone who started something called The Apprentice, and was regularly

firing people, it's not that surprising... But Kellyanne Conway

is clearly an important person internally and externally. It's not

unprecedented to change your campaign manager. Hillary Clinton

didn't, I wonder she regrets that, given the strategy that was pursued

to neglect entire states at times, like Wisconsin? Whenever someone

loses, you hear the recriminations and now you are hearing them about

the campaign manager, and incredibly young campaign manager in his early

30s, and former President Bill Clinton who argues he repeatedly

went to the campaign manager and encourage them to go after the

states that he used to call "But -- Bubbas". That looks like

the Beast. We did not see pictures of President Obama and

President-elect Trump leaving the White House but this cavalcade looks

very presidential... They may well be on their way to the White

House... A little earlier than we may have thought. I'm not going to

swear by that! I have not seen evidence with my own eyes, what do

you think? I'm trying to figure out... No, I understand that they

have not left the White House yet, they were random pictures, maybe

that was the Beast going to pick them up? It could be President

George W Bush? It could be. Let's go down to the national more now, where

of course the supporters are already beginning to gather. Mike colleague

Rajini Vaidyanathan is down there. -- my colleague. When I saw you

there earlier, it was not looking very packed. It is a wet day but

what is it like there now? I am in the middle of the national more

because we are near the broadcast position. But, much further down it

is filling up -- National Mall. From the Capitol onwards, I do not know

if you can see that, but it is filling up. Even in the area that we

are, their people streaming past in greater numbers, they are estimating

some 900,000 people will be on the National Mall for the inauguration

of Donald Trump. I'm joined by two Trump supporters who have come here.

I'm joined by John and Charles. Let's start with you, John. You are

a trump supporter from the liberal state of Massachusetts? Yes. How

does it feel to be here today? You supported Donald Trump from the

start? Yes, I supported him from the start, and I decided two days ago to

fly here, and I feel ecstatic that he has been sworn in as the

president. And I'm quite excited. Massachusetts went for Hillary

Clinton, do you think that there were more people who actually, even

in liberal areas, voted for Donald Trump than people may have expected?

Yes, I do. A lot of the people I grow up with voted for him. I quite

frankly, despite the polls, thought Massachusetts would have voted a bit

more for Donald Trump, they did not. But we did not need their votes

anyway! Charles, you are from the state of Maryland? Let's have a look

at your heart. You have a badge on it saying" President Trump, get used

to it!". How can Donald Trump unite the country for everyone? He has

made a good start, he has got... What's his name, Brown and Ray

Lewis, to help him out with the inner cities and Ben Carson as his

secretary, if the Democrats let him get approved. He has made some good

starts. What is the biggest priority that you personally have four

President Trump? Was the first thing that you want him to do? I think

jobs and tax reform. It would be nice not to face so much taxes, and

get some jobs back in the country. There have been jobs coming back,

corporations have seen the writing on the wall. We have companies

making plans to expand in the US, he is making inroads into the economy.

John, what do you think Donald Trump's weaknesses are? What

concerns do you have for him, if any? As for concerns, the only

concern that I have, I do not know if it is so much his weakness as it

is the desire to not work with him from the left, I think that he is

willing to work and his biggest weakness, from his opponent side, is

that he may need a bit of a filter! Instead of coming out as hard as he

is, even though I enjoy it, in order to get it all to work together, I

think he needs to filter a bit but he is the king of the deal. I think

that he will get it done. Thank you to both of you for joining us and

enjoy the inauguration. The point that John made there, I have spoken

to several Trump supporters since he won the election, some have concerns

about his tweeting and think perhaps that he should bring back on that a

bit but certainly, there is definitely a celebration spirit here

on the National Mall from the many people who voted for him, people

have travelled from across America to make it here today to be part of

Donald Trump's inauguration. OK, Rajini Vaidyanathan on the Mall for

us, it's always extraordinary how many people come from all over the

country, they turn out to vote and months later they get on buses, get

into cars, get on planes and trains and come here for this extraordinary

day where there is this peaceful transfer of power. It is a

fundamental tenant of American democracy. Something Americans are

incredibly proud of, especially when they watch other countries around

the world. We can see it happening in the Gambia today, that transition

of power is not happening peacefully. Whether it is a change

of administration or the successful second term of an existing

president, inauguration sorry big day for celebration. That is the

White House where Donald Trump, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama and

Melania Trump will be wrapping up their coffee morning and getting

into their cars to come to Capitol Hill -- inauguration day. You cannot

have an inauguration ceremony without a fairly strict schedule!

People do not show up late to these events, Donald Trump will be heading

down to the Capitol very shortly... In the Beast, which has been read

version for his successor, that will be the last time the Obamas, I do

not know if they will take a moment before stepping out, saying goodbye

to the home of the last eight years, it is where they have raised their

two daughters here in Washington. It has been a family home and Michelle

Obama's mother has lived with them as well. They had to say goodbye to

their family home, moving a couple of miles down the road to a rented

house here in Washington, DC. Anna Kerr, tell us about the White

House and what it will be like for the Obama is to be leaving it as

George Bush did in 2009 himself? It is a bitter ex-variants, to be

short. I didn't live there but I worked there. I slept on the couch

in the West Wing, that happened! It is incredible to be there. You slept

on the house ash on the couch in the West Wing, let's pause for a moment!

We are expecting the president and the president elect. They dry

together in the Beast and the First Lady will dry separately and the

vice president and the vice president elect. That is not

Michelle Obama, that is somebody coming out to check everything is

ready. This is a day that has two work very well. Anna Carr, you were

telling us about sleeping in the White House. -- Anneke. When I left

the White House, I took a pic of everything. George Bush's little dog

was a Scottie dog. I walked around, Leo -- realising I was leaving, and

you cannot just walk back in again. The Obama daughters, a significant

portion of their lives was spent growing up there. A playground that

was donated to them, they have given that away to an organisation. Each

first family makes it their own and the staff that go in there with them

really see themselves as a part of it. Talk to us about what happens to

the staff? They hand in their passes and that is it? There are a few

people who stay through to the very end and the chief of staff is one of

them. Many have already left, they have packed up their offices. I

would be surprised if anyone was still there, saving file, or

printing documents. Everyone has patched their things and are just

waiting. When the Obama is leave, they will film that. There will be

staff there, in the corner, crying, and watching that happened, and

saying thank you. That is true, regardless of what your politics

are. A friend from Barack Obama's Chicago days we could picture of

herself taking a final walk the White House grounds with a it'll

message saying, after tomorrow, I will be a citizen and watching from

the outside in. You literally lose your privileges. You cannot go back

in. As Anneke said before, so many have people have given so much. They

are looking forward to it all down time and for the most part, that is

the feeling. We have had in recent years a few presidents in

particular... We have pictures of what seemed to be President Obama in

the Oval Office, wow, leaving. Perhaps there is a custom, the

president leaves a note for his successor. George W Bush and Bob

Barack Obama and Barack Obama is doing it. Mr Obama, leaving the Oval

Office. His time as a resident almost at an end. He leaves that

node in the draw of the desk that was made from the timber of the ship

that was donated by the British. Not when we but it down. No! This is a

remarkable moment. This is the transfer of power. President Obama

in the Oval Office. Walking out of the Oval Office. He has been

resolutely... You have to wonder what he and his wife are going

through in these final moments. There has rarely been a transition

web people with such different worldviews and a lot of it between

these two men, during the course of the last two years. But he has

during the last few weeks been resolutely positive and up beat

about his time and the state of America. Indeed. And for several

each reasons. One is the reference for office love of democracy. I

remember his campaign manager telling me that the loss that the

Obama campaign had in 2008 in New Hampshire was critical because from

that point forward, he never had to remind his team again not to take

anything for granted. I am sure part of what President Obama is saying to

lots of young people and particularly young progressive women

is that after this campaign, you will never listen to polls and you

will never listen -- take things for granted again. The end of the world

only happens when it is the end of the world and everything so

something you learn and grow from. He has spent a lot of time on the

phone with president-elect Trump. They have worked closely with

Kellyanne Conway. She has said that a number of times. All of that

point. Carlos Watson and Anneke point. Carlos Watson and Anneke

Green, thank you for joining us. That's go to Nick Bryant. You do

know a lot about American politics. How does this rank in historic

terms? This will be memorable for the

surreal nature of it. Nobody really expected this moment to happen. We

are seeing gathering behind me senators and congressmen from both

parties. On both sides here in Washington, very few people gave him

any chance of winning. He set out for the presidency back in June 2015

and even on the morning of the election itself, some people, senior

Republicans saying, it would take a miracle for him to winds but he has

John just that. And what seemed to be the physically impossible is

about to come true. I'm going to interrupt you. We can see pictures

of the protesters. We have been speaking a lot... They seem to have

frozen. We are getting rather grainy pictures of protests in the city. We

have been talking a lot about the supporters. There are hundreds of

thousands of Trump supporters in the city as well. Let's not forget that

this is a very divided country. Donald Trump has the lowest approval

rating is on record of any president-elect. A lot of people in

the country are very angry at the moment, who do not feel that Donald

Trump represents American values and who are fearful about what the Trump

presidency will mean for this country. There are people who feel

that he ran a very divisive and negative campaign, minorities who

say they feel threatened by the this Administration's tone, and Muslim

Americans who feel they are in some jeopardy, of course, now what we are

seeing is that some of these protesters, it is hard to know

exactly how many there are, I can hear them from where I am, some of

these protesters. Apparently, we are hearing that shop windows have been

smashed. This seems to be a fairly violent protest that has taken

place, which is unusual on inauguration day. I have not seen

violent protests take place on inauguration day since I have been

reporting. People in balaclavas. They are running away, perhaps, from

the police. This is a couple of blocks from where I am, so very

close to the parade route and capital help stop it looks like

there are several dozen protesters there are several dozen protesters

running away from the scene. It looks like people have come prepared

looks like an organised and looks like an organised and

potentially violent protest. We are potentially violent protest. We are

getting reports of shop windows getting reports of shop windows

being looted. OK, let's bring in Ron Christie, a Republican strategist

who is here with me, up on our perch above the parade route. We spent

election night together. It was a long night. And an unexpected

result. And we made it through. I think it is an amazing day for

America. Whether you support or oppose Donald Trump, one of the

things that makes us a hallmark is our beacon of democracy. I'm going

to get you to talk about these pictures. This is fairly dramatic.

It looks organised and liberty violent. Looks like they know what

they are doing. Look at that, people smashing windows of a McDonald's

downtown. This is very unusual. We can hear this from where we are. We

can hear the yelling going on. This is unprecedented. None of us

expected this today. There is a lot of security in town. We have been

hearing. It looks like the police are responding as well. Using water

to try and disperse the protest is, getting them out of the area. I

think this is very close to where we are sitting at the moment. I know

that Macdonald is very well. It is a couple of blocks away from here.

During the day, if there wasn't an inauguration going on, there would

be a lot of people there. Wow. Look at that picture. Carlos. As you have

said, your people have -- fewer people have turned up in support of

this resident. We may see as many of the couple of hundred hours and

protesters. There was a sense on the part of the number of the protesters

from the access Hollywood remarks to the disagreement with the con family

and the arguments in terms of the Muslim registry that Donald Trump

talked about, and I think that has caused a greater level of agitation

and protest than you might normally have seen in 2000 and one or in

2009. We were having a party switch but there is more than a party

switch going on here. These are clearly organised protests, they had

come prepared with their bases covered, there are all night

security measures which is why we are seeing these protesters running

away from the scene. We saw some of them smashing shop windows. Also on

the streets of Washington, DC today, they will work hard to dispel these

protests as quickly as possible. I think you will see a fair number of

protests over the next year. We often focus on the first 100 days,

in terms of what the president will do but I think one of the hallmarks

of this next year, and for some, they will feel it is unfortunate, I

think you will see very strong, very frustrated, very angry protests. I

don't think they will be small and I don't think they will be limited to

Washington DC. The level of frustration, I think, that you see

in some of the polling going on, is significant. The last 60 days of

transition, it is normally a time when the president-elect bills more

support, and unfortunately in the case of resident elect Trump, you

see fewer people supporting him so he hasn't gone from 46% to 60%

support, is dead he went from 46% of the vote to 40%. I think we are

going to see a fair amount of protest. I think it unfortunate. The

way we have the electoral college system, it is not the popular vote

that winds. You have seen this several times over the last hundred

years. We are coming away from the protests now. Jimmy Carter, Alderley

and recovering from cancer. That is a beautiful shot of. Chief Justice

John Roberts who would live the oath of office and there are the Supreme

Court justices following him in. There are only eight of them at the

moment since the death of one of them last year. This is a very

moment fought President Trump as well because he has the chance to

put in place a Supreme Court justice and tilt the Supreme Court in favour

of conservatives. He hasn't named who that will be but we expect that

to be one of the first things that he does, Ron, in the next couple of

weeks. We should point out these are unelected people at, my goodness,

are they powerful, in the way they affect American life and possibly

one of the most important things out of the selection will be that they

will be more conservative for the next generation. And once you are a

federal judge, you are appointed for life. It is not a term, you are

there for life. There is a lot of speculation that the new president

will select someone who is very young, could be on the court for 40

years that could have a rheumatic impact on jurisprudence. --

dramatic. He could get as many as four. The reality is some -- several

of them are elderly and have had public struggles with health issues.

We know that in the case of Justice Ginsburg. Some of them are 80 or

close to 80 and they will step down. This is something which point out. I

think we are going to start getting the pig just when the White House as

well. -- the pictures. President Jo Biden's wife has already left. Vice

President Jo Biden's wife, they are starting to get ready, all of them,

to get -- make their way down. You will hear the helicopters, down

Pennsylvania Avenue, you will hear protests from others. A remarkable

sight. And the former president Jimmy Carter, the oldest living

former president. She flew up yesterday from Atlanta on a

commercial ELT airlines. He made a point on his flight of saying hello

to every single person on the -- every single person's hand. 40 years

ago, he was a surprise winner. Or one term governor from Georgia. And

there we have Melania Trump and Michelle Obama leaving the White

House. This will be the last time Michelle Obama is in the White House

as First Lady. This is an emotional moment for her. This has been her

home for eight years. She gets into the car, without a look back she

gets into the limousine and she and Melania together will drive down

Pennsylvania Avenue. Donald John Trump and Barack Obama, two very

different men and two very different agendas, leaving the White House

together, as is part of the custom. Here they go. No. Jo Biden and Mike

Pence come out first. Full start! The vice president and the vice

president elect. Getting into their limousine. Jo Biden, one of the more

consequential Bice presidents. A very close duration ship with Barack

Obama and he himself thought of running for the presidency and there

was a lot of speculation between Democrats. If it had been Mr Biden,

would be Mr Biden taking office now? I think he would have. The support

he had. He is very popular amongst them American people and sadly with

the passing of his son, I think he would have had a groundswell of

popular support. It might have been him in the limousine. And what a

different moment, what a different day that would have been in American

history. An even older president than Donald Trump. And here we go.

Donald John Trump and Barack and saying Obama coming out of the White

House. That is the last time they will come out. Too sombre looking

men. This is an important sombre looking -- sombre day. A moment of

advice there, perhaps, from Barack Obama to his successor. And in they

get, into the Beast. 90 days ago, very few people thought we would be

seeing that scene. You have to wonder what is going on in the mind

of those two men. A sense of relief... The expectation is now on

him, he is going to be our president and he has to lead us forward. He

will spend the next four years at least travelling in this limousine.

This is his life now. He is about to become the president with all the

trappings of office and all the seriousness of office and as you

said earlier, Carlos, he has not necessarily made the progression yet

from candidate Trump in his behaviour to President Trumper.

Today is the day he has to do that. He becomes the 45th President of the

United States. -- President Trumper. -- President

Trump. They are leaving the White House. A mile down the road. They

head down Pennsylvania Avenue, they come down to, and the honour guard

is all out, there are no press to -- no protesters anywhere near this

route, they have been moved swiftly along, I don't know whether Donald

Trump will be aware that there were violent scuffles on the morning of

his inauguration. He is talking firmly to his supporters are the

moment. There you can see Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Of

course, all of the former president apart from George HW Bush who is

sick in hospital. There is George W Bush and Laura Bush as well. George

Bush has made it even though his father and his mother are both in

hospital. George H Bush sent a nice note. He said his doctor said if he

sat outside, he would be six speed under. His sense of humour still in

evidence there! A true gent. And George Bush himself who went through

this recess in 2001 after a very contested election. He too lost the

popular vote but by much less than Donald Trump has lost the popular

vote, and his wife Laura. They have had eight years out of the public

eye by and large, and I've actually had a very good relationship with

the Obama is. George Bush has had a very good relationship with ill

Clinton working on things like Haiti and international aid efforts. I was

there on the last day, eight years ago, and when you go through this,

it is so emotional from the sense of the president is going through a lot

of emotions and he will fly out on a helicopter to Andrews Air Force Base

and the staff is there to wish the president well but I have to say, it

is a remarkable feeling, Katty, to be there with them when they

transition from resident to private citizen. -- President. It will be...

Former president Bush Dr sell-off in the sunset, several thousand miles

away to Texas but Obama is staying in DC, in part because one daughter

is still in school. I wonder whether that will be making the transition

easier or more difficult. And that has never happened before. You have

never had a former president decamping a couple of drops down the

road from the president. This is the cavalcade, it is heading along

Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. At some point, I ink, on

their route, they will pass Donald Trump's new hotel, which is also

quite a thing, the fact that Donald Trump has this big, swanky hotel,

which is a couple of hundred yards from the White House. The new

residence for Trump will be in Pennsylvania Avenue. I have a

feeling we will see him a little bit there over the next fool years. The

helicopters. -- the next four years. Here they are, the cavalcade,

carrying the 44th President of the United States and the 45th President

of the United States, two very different men, with two very

different world views sharing a car together in this important process

of the transfer of power here in America. There is a new government

on its way, a new way of doing business coming into town, and there

you go, the Trump Hotel, they just drove straight past it. Maybe Mr

Obama will stay there one day when he is a private citizen. Some of the

tape I saw when LBJ was in office and you hear him talking about

former come editors and Eisenhower and Truman and you know it is a rare

fraternity and you know that President Trumper will be talking to

former resident of Obama and seeking advice. They have both said that

conversation had been cordial. The Obama team has left stacks of

national security documents, who knows whether the Trump team has

read them. Everything from North Korea to Iran. To the state of the

rest of the world. China, relations with China. Russia, I imagine. And

those documents sitting on the desk now are heading on their way. I can

look over my shoulder, I can start to see the motorcade. There are the

outriders on the motorbikes and police cars. They are all starting

to head our way. Coming to Capitol Hill. It is worth pointing out that

Donald Trump comes into office in quite a storm of controversy is.

This is not a smooth, calm, quiet, necessarily dignified transition.

You can lift them from Russia to his taking on civil rights leaders, this

is quite... It is a troubled transition, would you say? I big you

would. I think you would look at everything that Donald Trump ran on,

I think are Kabbalah who is leaving will say is this man going to and do

this legacy. Will this man this legacy. Will this man

transformed the artist Steve and harm my legacy -- there is

investigation of the Russian involvement. It is a relatively

small number of people who have been nominated head. More important

people have denominated and will move through the process. Not only

is there significant dissension and their buck he won't have a full team

as soon as he might want it. It will be interesting to see what kind of

support he gets from Paul lying and Mitch O'Connell, the two leaders of

the House of Representatives. -- Paul Ryan. Will they be supportive

as Trump takes on if a cult policies and takes a different approach. One

of the things that will be difficult for Donald Trump is what will his

relations be with those two leaders, can he govern with them or will they

try to support his Administration's plans, along with the Democrats?

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton there, the woman who wanted to be

the first female President of the United States. There is the beast.

The president and the President elect inside the car, making their

weight to the capital.