:00:11. > :00:12.Donald Trump has been saying that he will run
:00:13. > :00:14.for President as a Republican, which is surprising
:00:15. > :00:19.since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
:00:20. > :00:21.Donald Trump, just last week, he confirmed to the National
:00:22. > :00:25.Review that he is again considering a run in 2016.
:00:26. > :00:34.I will personally write you a campaign cheque now,
:00:35. > :00:36.on behalf of this country, which does not want
:00:37. > :00:40.you to be President but which badly wants you to run.
:00:41. > :00:43.And which Republican candidate has the best chance of winning
:00:44. > :00:59.I Donald John Trump do solemnly swear...
:01:00. > :01:02.There's not going to be a President Donald Trump.
:01:03. > :01:05.That I will faithfully execute the office of President
:01:06. > :01:11.He's not going to be President of the United States.
:01:12. > :01:14.And will to the best of my ability...
:01:15. > :01:18.Donald Trump will never be elected President of the United States.
:01:19. > :01:19.Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution
:01:20. > :01:43.The election that brought him to power was ten long weeks ago.
:01:44. > :01:47.Yet the moment - when it finally came - still felt unreal.
:01:48. > :01:49.It was perhaps the boldest act of democracy this
:01:50. > :01:56.A man who professes to hate politics and Washington became
:01:57. > :02:02.And his inaugural address was entirely consistent with his brand.
:02:03. > :02:04.This was not an appeal to the better angels of our nature,
:02:05. > :02:12.nor less a reassurance on fearing fear itself.
:02:13. > :02:15.This was a stump speech carried past the winning post -
:02:16. > :02:17.a speech for those who helped him to victory, not those
:02:18. > :02:21.In place of unity, there was talk of nationalism.
:02:22. > :02:23.In place of hope, there was talk of pride.
:02:24. > :02:26.In place of the rest of the world, a pledge to put America first,
:02:27. > :02:31.with all the connotations that history bestows upon it.
:02:32. > :02:34.Tonight, we explore the new reality of President Trump's America
:02:35. > :02:44.and speak to his core advisor on foreign affairs.
:02:45. > :02:49.But we start with a flavour from the streets of America's capital -
:02:50. > :02:51.those who abhor him and those who adore him.
:02:52. > :02:52.Inauguration Day dawns in Washington, DC,
:02:53. > :02:57.Next time those suckers take over a crosswalk, let's lay down!
:02:58. > :03:02.He's here to interrupt the cavalcade of Bikers For Trump,
:03:03. > :03:04.the flag-wavers on two wheels who've come to celebrate
:03:05. > :03:11.What do you think Trump is going to do to Washington?
:03:12. > :03:15.What's he going to do Washington, or for Washington?
:03:16. > :03:23.Round the corner, on a genteel street they call Embassy Row,
:03:24. > :03:27.they're handing out free marijuana to anyone who's of age.
:03:28. > :03:31.We're here to give a message to President-elect Trump,
:03:32. > :03:35.that we want to legalise marijuana for the entire country,
:03:36. > :03:40.and that we hope that he'll make that happen.
:03:41. > :03:43.I'd heard about the euphoria of Inauguration Day celebrations,
:03:44. > :03:48.but never before put it down to something quite this simple.
:03:49. > :03:51.And to greet the flashlights of foreign media, protesters
:03:52. > :03:56.All the pussy-grabbing comments really got to me,
:03:57. > :04:00.and so I felt like we really needed to take a stand and say that we're
:04:01. > :04:04.That's quite a scary pussy you've got there.
:04:05. > :04:07.Yeah, I was trying to make it fierce!
:04:08. > :04:09.These are, of course, the fringe elements of a day that
:04:10. > :04:16.Along Constitution Avenue we meet the crowds.
:04:17. > :04:19.Not as record as the President-elect forecast, but steady nonetheless.
:04:20. > :04:24.Why have you come, why does it mean so much today?
:04:25. > :04:31.He'll bring a change of jobs and prosperity and a feeling
:04:32. > :04:36.First time I ever went to something like this.
:04:37. > :04:41.My friend asked me to come, so I'm here.
:04:42. > :04:44.Now, every four years since the age of Thomas Jefferson,
:04:45. > :04:47.this town has embraced the pomp and the pageantry, the history
:04:48. > :04:55.Donald Trump brings to it his own brand of political anarchy that
:04:56. > :04:58.worked so successfully on the campaign trail.
:04:59. > :05:01.He appealed to people, don't forget, who hate Washington
:05:02. > :05:08.That's what makes today slightly more complicated.
:05:09. > :05:14.Is the hood not having any jobs not an issue?
:05:15. > :05:16.Which is why I didn't vote for Trump.
:05:17. > :05:24.And then, at noon, the shouting stops and the rousing chorus begins.
:05:25. > :05:35.Then it's time for Donald Trump to address the nation,
:05:36. > :05:38.not in characters, but in words, and words that will go down
:05:39. > :05:43.in history as his very first spoken to the nation as president.
:05:44. > :05:47.We are transferring power from Washington DC, and giving it
:05:48. > :05:57.It was the speech of someone who's won, but still feels
:05:58. > :06:02.It echoed the isolationist rhetoric of the 1930s.
:06:03. > :06:06.It dismissed the global stage on which America precariously sets.
:06:07. > :06:12.From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.
:06:13. > :06:18.From this day forward, it's going to be only America
:06:19. > :06:27.It was a speech that told the people who had voted for him,
:06:28. > :06:35.He promised today to determine the course of America
:06:36. > :06:38.and the world for many, many years to come.
:06:39. > :06:48.Now everyone's suddenly wondering, what that might mean.
:06:49. > :06:57.Joining me now, Michelle Malkin, a post Danielle Allen, professor of
:06:58. > :07:03.political theory who has campaigned with Obama. Michelle, I will start
:07:04. > :07:08.with you. This was familiar Trump territory. He appealed to the people
:07:09. > :07:13.who had voted for him and put him in power. I wonder if you were
:07:14. > :07:18.expecting more from an inaugural address? No, he has been transparent
:07:19. > :07:25.all along. One of his things is this idea that he expressed about
:07:26. > :07:30.patriotism being a unifying factor, that leaves no room for prejudice,
:07:31. > :07:35.and I think one of the most exciting things, as somebody who is perceived
:07:36. > :07:40.as, quote unquote, a person of colour, is that he gave space that
:07:41. > :07:49.was very liberating to people of colour who don't feel inflamed by
:07:50. > :07:54.liberal ideology. And I think that a lot of people in the left-wing media
:07:55. > :08:00.could not get their heads around the idea that people like me exist.
:08:01. > :08:04.Enslaved by liberal ideology? I would respectfully disagree with
:08:05. > :08:08.what he did in the speech, he began talking about how we are all
:08:09. > :08:12.Americans, but then he went to describe this America as everybody
:08:13. > :08:17.who voted for him, which is a limited subset of America, not even
:08:18. > :08:21.a majority. So there is a tension between the circus of acclaim,
:08:22. > :08:24.speaking to every American, and an invocation of the people supported
:08:25. > :08:33.him. You have to recognise it was a minority. This was a strong speech,
:08:34. > :08:35.wasn't it? You inhabit the ideological saves space of identity
:08:36. > :08:40.politics and you listen to a man who you disagree with when it comes to
:08:41. > :08:45.the fundamental idea that one can embrace American sovereignty and not
:08:46. > :08:49.be xenophobic, racist or discriminatory. You are going to
:08:50. > :08:55.hear what you want to hear. The fact is that there were so many
:08:56. > :09:02.independents that voted for Donald Trump that were black, white,
:09:03. > :09:06.yellow, brown... Hillary won popular vote, the Democrats didn't get a
:09:07. > :09:10.shout out at all. This was the time to bring on board the people who
:09:11. > :09:15.lost. He didn't just talk to Republicans or Conservatives. He
:09:16. > :09:20.talked to people who identified themselves as citizens of America.
:09:21. > :09:25.There is a way to talk about all Americans. Liberty and justice for
:09:26. > :09:30.all. Patrick isn't is a good thing, Democrats get behind that as well.
:09:31. > :09:39.-- patriotism. But he didn't reach out and open up the everybody. Let's
:09:40. > :09:50.talk about the policy. We all know he is trying to value arise that...
:09:51. > :09:55.I find that to be. Using it to provoke. It is a transcendent idea
:09:56. > :09:58.that all Americans should put Americans first, Americans first,
:09:59. > :10:05.and the problem with the progressive left is they do not accept the idea
:10:06. > :10:08.that America is exceptional. There is a special place because we are
:10:09. > :10:14.indivisible. He is coming with rhetoric. When he invokes a slogan
:10:15. > :10:17.like America first, he is stirring up his face, like you, and provoking
:10:18. > :10:24.his adversarial survey will overreact. You think it is stirring
:10:25. > :10:27.up the -based talk about the idea of Law and order and sovereignty? To
:10:28. > :10:33.talk about putting America first in trade? It was used first in the
:10:34. > :10:38.1930s for the kind of American isolationism in the face of Nazi
:10:39. > :10:45.Germany. You accept that as rhetoric that your president is using? So you
:10:46. > :10:50.are calling him a Nazi? She is not. Yes, she is. There is clinging to
:10:51. > :10:57.the idea that, since people in the 1930s used it, but using that phrase
:10:58. > :11:02.now in 2017 to establish American exceptionalism... He's cunning with
:11:03. > :11:05.his rhetoric, because we know that he will hold his face together and
:11:06. > :11:10.provoke his adversarial. When he provokes his adversarial, they will
:11:11. > :11:16.overreact. People should recognise how cunning he is. Could I ask you
:11:17. > :11:22.to step back for one second? He has been called a bad winner. He has the
:11:23. > :11:27.victory, he has the presidency. Wasn't this a time to talk about
:11:28. > :11:32.unity? Why don't you hold Chuck Schumer to that standard? He was a
:11:33. > :11:37.sore loser. He took nasty passive aggressive barbs. If you are going
:11:38. > :11:43.to preach Ealing, practice it. I will give credit today for having
:11:44. > :11:48.expressed a message of unity to both sides of the aisle. He set a model
:11:49. > :11:53.that I wish other people that followed. Democrats would have
:11:54. > :11:56.condemned all of the criminal behaviour and anarchy on the
:11:57. > :11:58.streets, because they can't tolerate that they lost.
:11:59. > :12:01.Donald Trump was bold in his promises - yes, even on day one -
:12:02. > :12:03.pledging to eradicate Islamic terror.
:12:04. > :12:06.He took the threat to Isis so familiar on the campaign trail
:12:07. > :12:14.We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world,
:12:15. > :12:18.but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations
:12:19. > :12:28.We do not seek to impose our way of life upon anyone, but rather,
:12:29. > :12:35.We will shine for everyone to follow.
:12:36. > :12:46.We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones, and unite
:12:47. > :12:51.the civilised world against radical Islamic terrorism,
:12:52. > :12:54.which we will eradicate completely from the face
:12:55. > :13:15.Mark Urban, our diplomatic editor, joins me. Essentially, this was his
:13:16. > :13:18.foreign policy that he laid out. Absolutely, in five statements.
:13:19. > :13:22.National interest first, protectionism and all of it, not
:13:23. > :13:26.seeking to impose our system on others, rejection of the George W
:13:27. > :13:32.Bush doctrine in Iraq and elsewhere, but also comforting words for Russia
:13:33. > :13:35.and China potentially. Then you have got him saying, reinforce old
:13:36. > :13:40.alliances, little words of comfort for Nato, I think, and work to
:13:41. > :13:46.establish new ones, who knows, maybe with Russia. And then the strong
:13:47. > :13:49.statement about eradicating militant Islamic terrorism around the world.
:13:50. > :13:57.And we have learned more about what he is doing in office. Yes, some
:13:58. > :14:00.changes on the US president website, mentions of climate change removed,
:14:01. > :14:03.mentions of the US department of defence, the penchant of the pipe on
:14:04. > :14:07.their money being removed, which was put there by Republicans to hamper
:14:08. > :14:11.President Obama. A lot more money going into defence. New missile
:14:12. > :14:16.defence plans also announced tonight. Just before we came on air,
:14:17. > :14:24.general Mac is confirmed, as secretary defence, one down, 659
:14:25. > :14:28.Trump officials requiring Senate confirmation to go. They really
:14:29. > :14:32.aren't ready. They may have the ideas and the big, bold Steve Bannon
:14:33. > :14:37.policy platform that we heard on the day, but they don't yet have people
:14:38. > :14:43.in place to deliver it. ... We can hear the marching bands behind us
:14:44. > :14:50.and the helicopters the silence. You have been on the streets this
:14:51. > :14:56.evening. Is the mood is to mark -- give us a sense of the mood. One of
:14:57. > :15:00.the Trump supporters yelled, we did it, but not that infused by the
:15:01. > :15:05.content of the speech. There are lots of people on the streets who
:15:06. > :15:07.are also opposed, black bloc anarchists, people like that who
:15:08. > :15:13.have been damaging property during the day. The police say around 100
:15:14. > :15:17.people were arrested, so the scale of it is limited, but it has caused
:15:18. > :15:21.a sharp change in the apathy of the city. From tomorrow, the question
:15:22. > :15:25.will be, what is this new administration going to look like,
:15:26. > :15:34.what shape will it take and how will it govern?
:15:35. > :15:39.Out of capitalism's cauldron of success and excess comes a man
:15:40. > :15:49.who, his backers say, embodies New York.
:15:50. > :15:55.Brash, outspoken, self-proclaimed Master of the Deal, the president
:15:56. > :15:59.America has chosen to send from this mecca of can-do to the political
:16:00. > :16:11.And what might we expect from this administration
:16:12. > :16:18.Well, central to the answers in all those cases is the business
:16:19. > :16:22.culture of this place and Trump's projection of his image,
:16:23. > :16:26.that he is the man who can get the best deal for America
:16:27. > :16:32.To deliver success, Trump has turned to people like Texas
:16:33. > :16:41.On the shortlist for a Cabinet job, his contact with the transition team
:16:42. > :16:44.convinced him they were more interested in delivery
:16:45. > :16:50.They are really interested in looking outside the box
:16:51. > :16:53.and getting business people in there, people that might
:16:54. > :17:00.It's not so much about being a conservative as being pragmatic.
:17:01. > :17:04.They want people that can identify the problem and fix it.
:17:05. > :17:09.The process of auditioning Cabinet picks went on for weeks.
:17:10. > :17:13.Even some who'd been bitterly critical rode the golden lift up
:17:14. > :17:22.Not exactly, thinks one "never-Trump Republican" on an alleged
:17:23. > :17:32.One theory is that he actually doesn't care if you oppose him
:17:33. > :17:37.Second theory is that he enjoys humiliating people, and of course
:17:38. > :17:39.most of those visits were done very publicly.
:17:40. > :17:43.Third possibility is that he was actually casting for a reality
:17:44. > :17:55.television show called The American Presidency.
:17:56. > :18:00.As for Trump's business reputation, is it overblown?
:18:01. > :18:03.In Atlantic City, the Taj Mahal casino was launched
:18:04. > :18:09.with a characteristic jackpot of Trump hyperbole.
:18:10. > :18:11.He called it the eighth wonder of the world, and focused
:18:12. > :18:18.You see a tale of two cities, in a lot of ways.
:18:19. > :18:21.You see glamour on the Boardwalk in certain sections of town but,
:18:22. > :18:23.if you go to other parts of the city, you see
:18:24. > :18:31.The Taj Mahal closed down a few months ago
:18:32. > :18:43.He'll draw the line of where he cares and doesn't care...
:18:44. > :18:48.In 2005, as part of an attempt to turn things round,
:18:49. > :18:51.he sent Randal Pinkett, the winner of his reality show
:18:52. > :18:58.I believe he left Atlantic City worse than he found it,
:18:59. > :19:01.and that to me is another pattern we see with Donald.
:19:02. > :19:06.Look at other properties in Mexico, in Florida, where he's made
:19:07. > :19:10.promises to others that were not delivered upon.
:19:11. > :19:15.There is a long line of individuals who followed Donald's name
:19:16. > :19:18.and followed Donald's word and never got what they bargained
:19:19. > :19:26.So what's happened now Trump's chosen cabinet
:19:27. > :19:34.The questions have come thick and fast in Senate
:19:35. > :19:39.Billionaire Betsy DeVos, chosen as Education Secretary,
:19:40. > :19:44.was quizzed about tax returns, ethics committee filings,
:19:45. > :19:47.holdings in companies providing education services,
:19:48. > :19:51.and her basic suitability for the job.
:19:52. > :19:55.You can't say definitively today that guns shouldn't be in schools?
:19:56. > :19:59.Well, I will refer back to Senator Enzi and the school
:20:00. > :20:01.that he was talking about in Wapiti, Wyoming.
:20:02. > :20:04.I think probably there, I would imagine that there's
:20:05. > :20:11.probably a gun in the school to protect from potential grizzlies.
:20:12. > :20:15.But, because Trump has so far sent forward only a fraction
:20:16. > :20:20.of the people required to face scrutiny, Republican senators
:20:21. > :20:25.we spoke to want to push on, in this case, with a nominee who's
:20:26. > :20:32.made substantial campaign donations to 20 of them.
:20:33. > :20:39.I can say that it certainly is not troubling to me either way.
:20:40. > :20:42.There have been Obama administration officials who have been large
:20:43. > :20:48.donors to Democratic causes, so I certainly don't see that
:20:49. > :20:54.A lot of the Democrats are very wealthy, too.
:20:55. > :20:57.The fact is, are we going to foreclose opportunities to serve
:20:58. > :20:59.in this government because a person has been successful in life?
:21:00. > :21:05.We ought to be helping a lot more of them come out of the woodwork
:21:06. > :21:10.and help us to get this country out of the mess it's in.
:21:11. > :21:13.No sooner have Trump's doer and disruptor nominees stepped
:21:14. > :21:17.in to the Washington swamp, than the political bindweed has
:21:18. > :21:20.begun to wrap itself around their ankles,
:21:21. > :21:24.with questions multiplying about tax returns, shareholdings,
:21:25. > :21:29.possible conflicts of interest, and questions also about just how
:21:30. > :21:33.quickly key Trump policies, like the repeal of Obamacare,
:21:34. > :21:44.All tough challenges, when Trump voters expect results.
:21:45. > :21:47.In the corridors of Senate buildings, people have come to lobby
:21:48. > :21:54.Obviously, he's a different candidate than we've ever seen
:21:55. > :21:58.before, so I think he's going to use that to his advantage.
:21:59. > :22:01.He's going to make America great again.
:22:02. > :22:06.This is Washington politics as usual, with its checks and balances.
:22:07. > :22:09.How, then, with a trickle of nominees and their hearings
:22:10. > :22:13.slowing down, will Team Trump maintain momentum?
:22:14. > :22:17.The transition is going to be a little rough.
:22:18. > :22:20.We're going to have to do some things that's going to be a little
:22:21. > :22:23.displeasing to get our foothold back on the global stage,
:22:24. > :22:26.especially when it comes to trade, but in the long term I am really
:22:27. > :22:32.I think this is the most exciting time in my lifetime.
:22:33. > :22:35.This president has the potential to be the best
:22:36. > :22:42.Some nominees, in defence and foreign policy, have
:22:43. > :22:47.differed significantly with the new president, but real
:22:48. > :22:51.power resides in the White House, and the way Trump himself behaves
:22:52. > :22:57.I believe, on the things he cares about - his image,
:22:58. > :23:00.his brand, his celebrity - he cares about them passionately
:23:01. > :23:06.and will call, e-mail, tweet, defend himself until 3am.
:23:07. > :23:09.On the things he doesn't care about, say, the inner details
:23:10. > :23:12.of running the country, he may delegate that or assign
:23:13. > :23:15.He will not change his behaviour patterns.
:23:16. > :23:22.And so I think there's a good chance we'll get kind of wilful, dangerous
:23:23. > :23:28.Now, I think the institutions will help contain it.
:23:29. > :23:31.His immediate staff, I believe, will not.
:23:32. > :23:34.I think they'll feed it and foster it,
:23:35. > :23:44.Few expect the coming weeks to be easy.
:23:45. > :23:49.Trump has sold himself as a disruptor who will shake this
:23:50. > :23:56.But he's not the first president to promise radical change.
:23:57. > :24:05.And Washington ground the others down.
:24:06. > :24:09.Walid Phares, President Trump's advisor on the Middle East,
:24:10. > :24:21.Nice to have you here. Help us make sense of what Donald Trump's policy
:24:22. > :24:24.is now. The talk today about wiping out Islamic terrorism from the face
:24:25. > :24:30.of the year. What does that mean in terms of his policy for the Middle
:24:31. > :24:37.East. Does he want to join Putin? It doesn't mean he will join Putin in
:24:38. > :24:41.Yalta and dividing the world. What it means is that he will think
:24:42. > :24:45.deeper and more strategically, to have the right coalition with Arab
:24:46. > :24:50.moderates to go after Isis, to make sure that it is not replaced by a
:24:51. > :24:56.second version of Isis or Al-Qaeda version three. So whoever comes into
:24:57. > :25:00.power is managed by moderates. There will be interaction with President
:25:01. > :25:06.Putin. Because if there is an area of coordination over terrorism with
:25:07. > :25:11.America and Russia, that will work. Does he want to take American values
:25:12. > :25:15.to the Middle East? He said today in his speech and previous speeches, we
:25:16. > :25:20.will show our values, show by example. If these societies want to
:25:21. > :25:23.follow, we will be happy. He showed example of millions of immigrants
:25:24. > :25:28.wanting to come here. He knows that our values are theirs. He talked of
:25:29. > :25:33.America having protected for too long the borders of others and not
:25:34. > :25:38.its own. If there was the kind of invasion we saw in Kuwait, for
:25:39. > :25:41.example, would America ride to the rescue under Donald Trump? He also
:25:42. > :25:47.said we would not abandon our allies. He doesn't just mean Israel,
:25:48. > :25:50.he means the Arab Gulf, maybe countries in Eastern Europe if there
:25:51. > :25:54.is a problem. He will stick with these alliances. He said we will
:25:55. > :25:58.stick with our alliances and build new alliances based on common values
:25:59. > :26:02.and common ground is. Do you think he's fundamentally a businessman in
:26:03. > :26:07.the role of president? Is he essentially trying to get whatever
:26:08. > :26:12.the pragmatic business interests are for America first and foreign policy
:26:13. > :26:15.fits into that? He is formed out of two components. I have my own
:26:16. > :26:19.experience of meeting with him when he started his career as a
:26:20. > :26:24.candidate, a politician. But he was a brilliant CEO of a major
:26:25. > :26:30.corporation. I think he will go between being a brilliant CEO with a
:26:31. > :26:36.new kind of presidency in the United States. What does that mean in the
:26:37. > :26:44.old rules of diplomacy. He spoke to tie one first. He actually accepted
:26:45. > :26:48.the call of Taiwan. They rang him. At the same time, while this was
:26:49. > :26:53.happening, he had and visors in China talking to the Chinese. What
:26:54. > :26:58.was he trying to do, send a message to China, or was that a mistake? He
:26:59. > :27:02.has many cards in his hand. He was saying, why should I do what China
:27:03. > :27:06.once before negotiating with the Taiwanese what we want. Should
:27:07. > :27:10.America's allies be worried about the new America that is surfacing?
:27:11. > :27:13.They have seen what he has said about Nato in the past. He has said
:27:14. > :27:18.he will not run to the rescue if Russia invades one of the former
:27:19. > :27:23.Soviet satellite states. What can they expect from America? I spent a
:27:24. > :27:29.whole year as one of his foreign policy advisers in the campaign.
:27:30. > :27:32.Mostly I was talking to diplomats, governments, international media,
:27:33. > :27:36.very concerned about a Trump presidency. We explained to them he
:27:37. > :27:42.doesn't want to dismantle Nato, he wants to reorganise it. Many
:27:43. > :27:46.Europeans, especially in East Europe, are worried by the democracy
:27:47. > :27:49.in Brussels. And Europe has been hit by jihadists. We need to have some
:27:50. > :27:54.resources in the Middle East and bring in moderates. There is a
:27:55. > :27:58.difference between getting rid of bureaucracy. Everybody talks about
:27:59. > :28:02.getting rid of bureaucracy and saying, if you get invaded by Putin,
:28:03. > :28:07.sorry, this isn't our problem any more. That's where the difference
:28:08. > :28:11.lies. Where is he? He made statements also about shutting down
:28:12. > :28:14.immigration from Muslim countries. He made many statements during the
:28:15. > :28:18.campaign but spent many months after that mould the statements into
:28:19. > :28:22.political and foreign policy documents that are very important.
:28:23. > :28:28.He doesn't want to abandon allies, he wants to sit down with them and
:28:29. > :28:31.make sure this alliance is working. That sounds like what you are
:28:32. > :28:34.explaining to us, he says one thing in the campaign and then understands
:28:35. > :28:40.it better and says something else. Is that how it works? His
:28:41. > :28:43.predecessor Obama said so meetings on the campaign trail and said a few
:28:44. > :28:49.days ago before he left, we couldn't do so much. We have been very much
:28:50. > :28:53.educated by being in government. That's the experience trouble also
:28:54. > :28:56.have. When he says he will eradicate Islamic terrorism from the face of
:28:57. > :29:02.the earth, do you believe him when he says that? I believe he has the
:29:03. > :29:06.intention of going after jihadists. Everyone would have the intention.
:29:07. > :29:13.Do you think he has the capability town wisdom and understanding to go
:29:14. > :29:18.about the foreign policy in a way that will make sense? Why not? He
:29:19. > :29:25.has shown in his foreign policy that he could launch a strategic foreign
:29:26. > :29:28.policy flat -- platform. Will the Europeans come together with him?
:29:29. > :29:32.The bigger challenge, could we have an Arab alliance working with us? On
:29:33. > :29:41.the ground in the Middle East, they will be the ones to help us. What do
:29:42. > :29:45.you think we will come to understand by Trumpism in foreign policy terms?
:29:46. > :29:50.He has been criticised as either an isolationist or interventionist. I
:29:51. > :29:53.think he's neither of them. He's a functionalist. It's in the function
:29:54. > :29:54.of the American interest and the interest of our allies. Thank you
:29:55. > :29:57.for joining us. In his speech, Donald Trump talked
:29:58. > :29:59.about American carnage, And the crime, and the gangs,
:30:00. > :30:05.and the drugs, that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country
:30:06. > :30:13.of so much unrealised potential. This American carnage stops right
:30:14. > :30:31.here, and stops right now. To all Americans, in every city near
:30:32. > :30:38.and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from Ocean to
:30:39. > :30:49.Ocean, hear these words. You will never be ignored again. Your voice,
:30:50. > :30:55.your hopes and your dreams will define our American destiny, and
:30:56. > :31:02.your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.
:31:03. > :31:08.Together, we will make America stronger again we will make America
:31:09. > :31:17.wealthy again, we will make America proud again, we will make America
:31:18. > :31:22.safe again and, yes, together, we will make America great again. Thank
:31:23. > :31:29.you, God bless you and God bless America. Thank you.
:31:30. > :31:41.That was the end of the speech. Joining us now, Ben Smith, editor in
:31:42. > :31:43.chief of Buzzfeed, Politico's Susan Glasser and Michael Wolff. Many
:31:44. > :31:49.people thought they heard echoes of Steve Bannon through this speech.
:31:50. > :31:53.Did it have is an print on him? I think I'm looking for a word more
:31:54. > :32:00.than a thumb print. It was Bannon all in. This was what Steve Bannon
:32:01. > :32:06.has been doing during the campaign. He joined it from August on and this
:32:07. > :32:09.is the point of view he has been expressing to me, to anyone that's
:32:10. > :32:17.talk to him, and also to Trump again and again. This is all Steve Bannon.
:32:18. > :32:21.How much of the heavy lifting do you think that Trump himself will be
:32:22. > :32:27.doing? How would you divide the work that is going on? Lely, Steve
:32:28. > :32:34.Bannon's paw prints are all over this, but it echoed his convention
:32:35. > :32:39.speech, which wasn't quite as tight but which was dark, combative, about
:32:40. > :32:44.the carnage in America and a nationalist vision. I think it's
:32:45. > :32:48.also Donald Trump, and I think he is going to be president of the United
:32:49. > :32:52.States and he is going to be making the key decisions, and there is a
:32:53. > :32:57.lot of uncertainty about those. When John Kasich was originally asked to
:32:58. > :33:00.be the vice president, and Trump's son was reported to have said to
:33:01. > :33:07.him, you will have domestic policy, you will have home policy, and John
:33:08. > :33:11.Kasich said, what will Donald Trump do? And the sunset, he's going to
:33:12. > :33:20.make America great again. Do you think he will start metering it out,
:33:21. > :33:23.some two Ivanka, Sumter Jared? The American government is very complex.
:33:24. > :33:28.But Donald Trump will be president, he will be the one making the
:33:29. > :33:34.important decisions. I don't think anybody knows what they are going to
:33:35. > :33:37.be yet. Worthy Democrats right to stay awake today? We understand up
:33:38. > :33:41.to a third of them didn't show up to the house, and the lone figure of
:33:42. > :33:46.Hillary Clinton Rob Lee could have used their support. I think the
:33:47. > :33:51.Democrats who counted, the ones who mattered, the leadership, even
:33:52. > :33:54.people who really disagreed, not only with Hillary Clinton but also
:33:55. > :33:59.Donald Trump, did show up, and I think that was an important
:34:00. > :34:02.statement. We Americans are very good at forcing our politicians when
:34:03. > :34:08.they lose in two forms of ritual humiliation. Al Gore, as president
:34:09. > :34:13.of the Senate, had to sit there and oversee the disputed counting of the
:34:14. > :34:16.electoral votes. This is not unprecedented, but certainly I think
:34:17. > :34:20.it was a colourful spectacle to many Americans today to see Hillary
:34:21. > :34:24.Clinton in her white suit that one expected she would wear in a
:34:25. > :34:29.different context showing up today, in her capacity not as the defeated
:34:30. > :34:35.presidential candidate but as the former First Lady. So many questions
:34:36. > :34:39.now for all of us about how to interpret the narrative about what
:34:40. > :34:42.happened over the next four years. Bob Woodward, the investigative
:34:43. > :34:46.journalist, told me yesterday, you've got to be so neutral you
:34:47. > :34:52.can't stand it. I wonder how you approach it now. It sounds like he's
:34:53. > :34:58.not liberal. Because what? Lee because you say you have to be so
:34:59. > :35:04.neutral you can't stand it. The point neutrality is that is where
:35:05. > :35:08.you should be. Did you think about being neutral when Buzzfeed
:35:09. > :35:12.published the dossier that everybody had chosen not to? We were certainly
:35:13. > :35:16.been neutral. There was no question that we wouldn't have published it
:35:17. > :35:24.if it was about the Democrats. The question of new territory is going
:35:25. > :35:28.to be -- the question of neutrality. I don't think they would have
:35:29. > :35:34.published it. You say that with no evidence. It will be interesting to
:35:35. > :35:37.see who angles for access. Weekend to get into these stale debates
:35:38. > :35:45.about the meaning of objectivity, who is in... The thing as
:35:46. > :35:50.journalists that should concern everyone, of your personal
:35:51. > :35:53.preferences, is, where is the role of journalism and independent
:35:54. > :35:59.reporting any more in our society? What concerns me, as somebody who
:36:00. > :36:00.has spent the last two and a half decades as an independent
:36:01. > :36:05.journalist, that doesn't mean I don't have opinions but I try hard
:36:06. > :36:11.to cover both parties. In this campaign, the role of facts seemed
:36:12. > :36:13.to be overwhelmed by a my asthma of misinformation, disregard for the
:36:14. > :36:18.kind of reporting that up until now... Is there anyway that Donald
:36:19. > :36:24.Trump will act in terms of how the reporting goes about? I think one of
:36:25. > :36:29.the things that Donald Trump does is he plays to the media, or he plays
:36:30. > :36:34.the media in a way that the media falls into this trap every time.
:36:35. > :36:40.Effectively, and I have never seen this in all my long years, in this
:36:41. > :36:46.business, the media is the opposition, the media is the
:36:47. > :36:51.political resistance. Because the Democrats aren't? Democrats are
:36:52. > :36:58.famous for their internal divisions. Republicans have a lot of them, too.
:36:59. > :37:02.Many people have said, Michael among them, that it's like there is a
:37:03. > :37:08.third party in Washington today, the Trump party, then the Republicans
:37:09. > :37:12.and Democrats. It isn't the political partisan resistance. He
:37:13. > :37:16.media afflicts those in power. There is even more pressure to now get
:37:17. > :37:22.things right and not just publish things that could be completely...
:37:23. > :37:25.The media has always been under pressure to get things right.
:37:26. > :37:29.Questions like, how long should you sit on a secret document that is
:37:30. > :37:36.being fought over? We can disagree about those. But you'd do it again?
:37:37. > :37:45.Yes, and the notion that the media... Did you have regrets? Yes,
:37:46. > :37:50.I would. But the notion that the media, as you seem to adopt as the
:37:51. > :37:54.political resistance, that's obviously how Donald Trump was
:37:55. > :37:59.trying to position it, that was the aim of this press conference. His
:38:00. > :38:01.main conflict with the media was when he said something false and the
:38:02. > :38:06.media reported it was false. That doesn't strike me as opposition but
:38:07. > :38:13.doing our job. He has weaponised this term fake news, right? I think
:38:14. > :38:18.it's a phoney term and it came in at the term against him, and then it
:38:19. > :38:26.was turned around, because he's very good at this. Again, that's another
:38:27. > :38:31.example of where, I think, right where the fight is going to be. It's
:38:32. > :38:34.going to be between Donald Trump and the media, partly because the media
:38:35. > :38:41.is so unpopular, and it's going to work for him. That's not the issue.
:38:42. > :38:42.We will come back to our panel in a short while.
:38:43. > :38:44.In 2008, Barack Obama called slavery America's original sin.
:38:45. > :38:48.But how much of a difference did his presidency make to the lives
:38:49. > :38:51.And what does Donald Trump's election say about attitudes
:38:52. > :39:16.Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Louisiana.
:39:17. > :39:29.The Westmont rebels hold their final rehearsal. I'm really excited and
:39:30. > :39:35.jumpy and really ready. I can barely sleep. They are one of ten high
:39:36. > :39:39.school bands chosen to play at the inauguration to mark the transition
:39:40. > :39:48.from Barack Obama to Donald Trump. We don't see colour, race, gender or
:39:49. > :39:53.ethnicity. We see potential. I think there's been a lot of talk about how
:39:54. > :39:59.we need healing, and sometimes we have to quit picking at it. Morgan
:40:00. > :40:06.Freeman on time was quoted as saying, if you don't like racism,
:40:07. > :40:13.stop talking about it. If there is anyone out there who still doubts
:40:14. > :40:16.that America is a place where all things are possible, tonight is your
:40:17. > :40:30.answer. That was the era of yes, we can,
:40:31. > :40:35.when black America seemed poised to claim a confident, a Powell, a
:40:36. > :40:49.parity long denied it. # In so reckless when I wear my
:40:50. > :40:56.Jumanji dress # In sofas acid...
:40:57. > :41:05.But America wasn't ready. For me, this is a race war will stop you
:41:06. > :41:14.have black against white, white against black.
:41:15. > :41:29.From the swamps of Washington to the south, beneath the surface of the
:41:30. > :41:35.post-racial society, fear, anger. And the deep roots of a history
:41:36. > :41:43.still unresolved. Get him out of there! Get out! Get him out of here!
:41:44. > :41:47.If they think that we are going to go back to the old days, they've got
:41:48. > :41:59.something else coming to them. We're not having that no more.
:42:00. > :42:04.The final week of the Obama presidency began with the annual
:42:05. > :42:09.commemoration for a man who gave his life for the civil rights struggle.
:42:10. > :42:15.America has come a long way since then. In New Orleans, a mark doctor
:42:16. > :42:22.King's memory with a show of sartorial pride. Our self-esteem has
:42:23. > :42:25.grown from us knowing about each other, so black males see each other
:42:26. > :42:28.is a greater image than those portrayed in media and music, those
:42:29. > :42:36.negative images we've been told about. In this respect, the Obamas
:42:37. > :42:42.scandal free tenure at the White House that has huge symbolic value.
:42:43. > :42:51.How old are you? Do you know about the president is? Barack Obama. Do
:42:52. > :42:55.you know who it was before him? See? All you've ever known was Obama. So
:42:56. > :43:02.his life, this is normal. It is normal for him to see a black man as
:43:03. > :43:08.the head of the free nation. Yes. A symbol is a powerful thing. The very
:43:09. > :43:12.fact of Obama's unlikely presidency is expanded the concept of what is
:43:13. > :43:18.possible for millions of Americans, both black and white. But, when it
:43:19. > :43:23.comes to cold, hard statistics, the truth is that, if you are black in
:43:24. > :43:31.America, the odds are still stacked against you. In 2013, the median net
:43:32. > :43:37.worth of a white American household was over $140,000. For black
:43:38. > :43:45.households, that figure was 11,000. That's 13 times less. Under Obama,
:43:46. > :43:49.the wealth gap has widened. Travel up the Mississippi from New Orleans
:43:50. > :43:53.and you come to Baton Rouge, one of the most divided cities in the
:43:54. > :43:57.United States. To some kids at inner-city high schools, the
:43:58. > :44:04.education they get on the street can seem more important than on offer in
:44:05. > :44:09.the classroom. You can go out there tomorrow, have your pistol, should
:44:10. > :44:17.somebody, then you end up in prison for the rest of your life. ... After
:44:18. > :44:22."Silky Slim" read is a former gang member turned activist whose mission
:44:23. > :44:30.is to stop young black men following in his footsteps. It 2017 and you
:44:31. > :44:37.are still walking around, looking and acting exactly like slaves. And
:44:38. > :44:47.the world is looking at you as animals. Why was to mark -- why?
:44:48. > :44:50.Barack Obama often told black Americans they had to take
:44:51. > :44:57.responsibility for the problems in their own community. Silky agrees up
:44:58. > :45:02.to a point. Black lives after to black people before they matter to
:45:03. > :45:05.the rest of the world. But there are also inequalities that are systemic
:45:06. > :45:10.and ingrained. And you are black, you are more likely to be arrested,
:45:11. > :45:14.likely to get a longer jail sentence and more likely to be shot dead by
:45:15. > :45:20.police. Obama only engaged with this late in his presidency, with limited
:45:21. > :45:24.results. Black quarterbacks on the team of white supremacy hasn't
:45:25. > :45:29.helped us, so a black quarterback that can't help us if the law is the
:45:30. > :45:37.law. The same for a black president. Black folks come on the whole,
:45:38. > :45:42.politically, didn't gain anything because, at the end of the day, we
:45:43. > :45:46.didn't ask for anything, we didn't want to put that burden on the black
:45:47. > :45:50.man who made it the White House. If you don't ask for nothing, you don't
:45:51. > :45:54.get nothing, so you can't be disappointed, which is why there is
:45:55. > :45:57.no disappointment. Witch the black community gave Obama a free pass?
:45:58. > :46:07.Absolutely, he is one of us. Looking at a demographic map of
:46:08. > :46:11.Baton Rouge, you will see this road, Florida Street, is a stark dividing
:46:12. > :46:17.line. Everything to the north is overwhelmingly black. Everything to
:46:18. > :46:23.the south is mostly white. I spent time in divided cities, places like
:46:24. > :46:28.Baghdad and Beirut, places that have had a war. There hasn't been a war
:46:29. > :46:32.here since the 1860s when the North fought the Confederacy over the
:46:33. > :46:37.issue of slavery. But last summer, it felt like war wasn't far off. The
:46:38. > :46:41.killing of a Alton Sterling, the latest in a string of fatal police
:46:42. > :46:46.shooting is caught on camera. They are shooting right now. There's an
:46:47. > :46:50.officer down. Two days later at a black lives matter protest in
:46:51. > :46:55.Dallas, a black gunmen opened fire on police, killing five. Not long
:46:56. > :47:00.after that, more officers were shot dead in Baton Rouge. To me, this is
:47:01. > :47:05.a race war. You have black against white, white against black. There
:47:06. > :47:12.wouldn't be so many black people against white people, I think, if it
:47:13. > :47:16.wasn't for police brutality. This woman knew Alton Sterling. She's
:47:17. > :47:19.part of a growing movement of radical black activists. She says
:47:20. > :47:24.tensions between the black community and the police have brought an old
:47:25. > :47:29.enemy back out into the open. Last year the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan
:47:30. > :47:34.nation put out flyers recruiting members. This was right after Alton
:47:35. > :47:37.Sterling was killed. They had it on the news where they were putting
:47:38. > :47:44.notes on people's doors and going through the neighbourhood. They rang
:47:45. > :47:47.the number on the leaflet and it went through to a pre-recorded
:47:48. > :47:51.message that has clearly been updated in the last couple of days.
:47:52. > :48:04.You have reached the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
:48:05. > :48:13.Hail Trump! Hail our people. Hail our victory! Not long after the
:48:14. > :48:18.election, a group of white nationalists gathered to discuss the
:48:19. > :48:25.new political landscape. The final speaker was Richard Spencer, who
:48:26. > :48:28.coined the term alt-right, a move associated with Donald Trump's
:48:29. > :48:31.former campaign CEO, Steve Bannon, not President, but now one of the
:48:32. > :48:37.most powerful men in the White House. The miracle was that until
:48:38. > :48:38.the last generation, a white country designed for ourselves and our
:48:39. > :48:52.posterity. This then is the context in which
:48:53. > :48:54.Donald Trump takes office. Yes, America's new president has publicly
:48:55. > :49:03.disavowed support from over at racists. But still, the shadow of
:49:04. > :49:08.the plantations, the memory of Jim Crow, the legacy of America's
:49:09. > :49:12.original sin, all seemed to loom large over this new presidency. I
:49:13. > :49:17.look at it like the master has reclaimed his house. It's the
:49:18. > :49:21.master's place, and I know my place come out in the field. I stay in a
:49:22. > :49:25.field, not try to get up to the house. Even though the master allows
:49:26. > :49:29.one of the slaves to look out for the house when he is on vacation,
:49:30. > :49:36.it's still the same fight we've had... In all seriousness, obviously
:49:37. > :49:41.there's a huge legacy of slavery, but you can't say that things
:49:42. > :49:49.haven't changed since... Since the 1860s. Definitely. And since the
:49:50. > :49:56.1960s. There is no forced free labour here with slaves. And what
:49:57. > :50:02.America has been successful in doing is creating slums and ghettos,
:50:03. > :50:03.putting you in these areas and making the police still oversee you
:50:04. > :50:21.like we are still on a plantation. AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM PLAYS. So
:50:22. > :50:26.America begins a new chapter in its long book on race. Weaving in the
:50:27. > :50:34.history of slavery, segregation, with that of Martin Luther King and
:50:35. > :50:37.the Obama era. This 11-year-old has known no other president. For many
:50:38. > :50:43.children, Trump was at first a frightening prospect. We were all
:50:44. > :50:49.thinking, would he send us back to Africa? That was your first thought?
:50:50. > :50:58.That you might not be allowed to be an American any more? Yes Sir. That
:50:59. > :51:01.sounds like a scary thought. Yes, at first we went through withdrawal and
:51:02. > :51:05.we thought it was going to happen, it's going to happen. But we were
:51:06. > :51:13.talking about it one day at school and we thought, it can't happen
:51:14. > :51:16.unless everybody said yes to it. She's ambitious, after Harvard Law
:51:17. > :51:21.School she wants to go on to be America's first black female
:51:22. > :51:26.president. I feel like he's going to try to make everything harder for
:51:27. > :51:30.blacks to get into it. Everything harder for Hispanics to get into it.
:51:31. > :51:36.Anything harder for people of colour to try to be or do something. She
:51:37. > :51:39.has one of those teachers you remember for the rest of your life,
:51:40. > :51:47.somebody who helps you make sense of a bewildering world. I think people
:51:48. > :51:53.were sick of talking about race. White people or black people or
:51:54. > :51:57.everyone? I would say... From my experience, mostly white people.
:51:58. > :52:01.It's overwhelming, I can understand that. From a perspective when you've
:52:02. > :52:06.never had to deal with it, you can't understand why we keep bringing it
:52:07. > :52:11.up over and over again. I think especially, with a heightened sense
:52:12. > :52:18.of awareness of police shootings and police brutality and the injustices
:52:19. > :52:22.being so blatantly put in your face because of social media, white
:52:23. > :52:26.people started to have a backlash. They started to feel like, nobody is
:52:27. > :52:30.representing me. Everybody keeps going on about black people and it's
:52:31. > :52:37.not about me. How can I make it somewhat about me?
:52:38. > :52:46.And so the age of Trump began, as all presidency is usually do, with a
:52:47. > :52:54.promise of inclusivity. To rebuild our country, and restore its promise
:52:55. > :52:58.for all of our people. But Donald Trump's opponents fear quite the
:52:59. > :53:03.opposite. There are those who fear that the new president is a man with
:53:04. > :53:07.a vindictive streak who may use the power of his office to lash out at
:53:08. > :53:14.those who oppose him. I'd like to punch him in the face, I tell you.
:53:15. > :53:20.Many liberals, especially white liberals, see Trump is an
:53:21. > :53:25.existential threat to the founding principles of America. But from the
:53:26. > :53:30.black perspective, things can look a little different. He don't scare me.
:53:31. > :53:33.I'd didn't have any issue before and with Trump, and whatever he do.
:53:34. > :53:43.Because all of them, when they get in there, they do the same thing.
:53:44. > :53:47.When black America contemplates the prospect of a hostile, perhaps even
:53:48. > :53:55.oppressive state, it shrugs and asks, what else is new?
:53:56. > :54:03.That report from Louisiana. It's still early evening here in
:54:04. > :54:07.Washington and the Inauguration Day celebrations have a long way to go.
:54:08. > :54:11.Behind us on Pennsylvania Avenue, just in front of the White House,
:54:12. > :54:17.the marching bands and some of the military bands are taking to those
:54:18. > :54:25.streets, blocked off of traffic. Donald Trump has been reviewing the
:54:26. > :54:28.inauguration parade. We are hearing Sennett confirmations of more of
:54:29. > :54:39.those roles, still a very long way to go. Melania Trump, and Donald
:54:40. > :54:49.Trump, who have spent the day watching the celebration say. We are
:54:50. > :54:53.joined once more by our panel. Going back to some of those points we saw
:54:54. > :55:00.in that video and that we have heard today. Danielle, did it strike you
:55:01. > :55:05.how white the crowd was for Donald Trump today Busted it's hard not to
:55:06. > :55:17.notice, to be honest. You listen to the speech and you hear about...
:55:18. > :55:20.African American men being incarcerated at different rates to
:55:21. > :55:26.white Americans for the same crimes. There were forgotten people in
:55:27. > :55:30.trouble's speech today. Michael, you heard a woman say people are sick of
:55:31. > :55:37.talking about race. I think America is a divided country. And one of the
:55:38. > :55:43.ways it's divided, I think, is by race. Although, having said that,
:55:44. > :55:48.one of the things that the Trump people say, and not inaccurately, is
:55:49. > :55:54.that they did much better with the African-American vote than anyone
:55:55. > :55:58.thought they would do. Not to represent them, but just because
:55:59. > :56:00.I've been involved in this discussion, and since nobody else is
:56:01. > :56:07.going to represent them on this panel... Jump on in. I would say one
:56:08. > :56:16.of the things that they say is that this is about jobs and African
:56:17. > :56:21.Americans need jobs as much as any other Americans. It could be that
:56:22. > :56:27.the Liberals have got a identity politics a bit wrong now. People
:56:28. > :56:31.aren't interested in being identified by their race or their
:56:32. > :56:36.parents origin. Or their gender. They want a job. African-Americans
:56:37. > :56:41.didn't turn out against Trump in the way Democrats hoped they would. They
:56:42. > :56:46.went as energised against him as they were for Obama. There has been
:56:47. > :56:49.a history of American policies of people trying to put together class
:56:50. > :56:57.-based coalitions, on the left and right at various times. There has
:56:58. > :57:01.always been deep racial divisions. Every presidential candidate thinks
:57:02. > :57:04.he will be the one to overcome it. What is the answer for Democrats
:57:05. > :57:09.trying to rebuild? They haven't done it along the lines of race that they
:57:10. > :57:12.thought they would. I think Democrats should embrace the idea of
:57:13. > :57:20.an America indivisible. Pursue the idea of eight collective society
:57:21. > :57:24.and. There is some truth that identity politics, as we have known
:57:25. > :57:30.it over the last few decades isn't the right paradigms to use now. They
:57:31. > :57:41.have sort of learned from Trump. I wouldn't say that. Not whatsoever.
:57:42. > :57:43.From the point of view of beating -- people fighting for civil rights,
:57:44. > :57:48.that's a huge issue. There are people from all sorts of backgrounds
:57:49. > :57:51.fighting for equality. Can Donald Trump should unite America by
:57:52. > :58:02.leaving aside these issues? That realistic? I think if Donald Trump
:58:03. > :58:06.pause, as he says he will, a trillion, 2 trillion, $3 trillion
:58:07. > :58:11.into the country, I would say that unites the country. The thing that
:58:12. > :58:16.unite the country is... And the President... This is CEO as
:58:17. > :58:21.president, somebody saying I will improve your wages and the country
:58:22. > :58:24.will get happier. There is a huge missing piece and that's mass
:58:25. > :58:29.incarceration and the criminal justice system. The Department of
:58:30. > :58:34.Justice under Obama did great work in reducing disparities. It
:58:35. > :58:38.continues to be a huge issue, and the war on drugs needs to be
:58:39. > :58:41.dismantled. Donald Trump promises to double down on that war on drugs and
:58:42. > :58:43.it will continue to divide the country on racial lines. We have run
:58:44. > :58:47.out of time. Thank you so much. That brings us to the end of this
:58:48. > :58:50.Newsnight Special from Washington. It was Abraham Lincoln,
:58:51. > :58:53.a man who had the job of reuniting the country in the midst of civil
:58:54. > :58:56.war, who offers a thought "Nearly all men can stand adversity"
:58:57. > :59:00.he said, "but if you want to test We have four years, perhaps more,
:59:01. > :59:05.to see how that power is used. We'll leave you with a man who,
:59:06. > :59:08.today, had to set that power aside. OBAMA: Mr President-elect,
:59:09. > :59:28.how are you? # That you found a girl
:59:29. > :59:37.and you're married now. # I heard that your
:59:38. > :59:43.dreams came true. # Guess she gave you things
:59:44. > :59:51.I didn't give to you. # Ain't like you to hold back
:59:52. > :00:04.or hide from the light. # I hate to turn up out
:00:05. > :00:08.of the blue uninvited # But I couldn't stay away,
:00:09. > :00:12.I couldn't fight it. # I had hoped you'd see my face
:00:13. > :00:17.and that you'd be reminded