President Trump: The Inauguration

:00:17. > :00:23.Welcome to Washington where in the next hour Donald John Trump will be

:00:24. > :00:29.sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. I am Katty Kay,

:00:30. > :00:33.bringing you this extraordinary day of ceremony and celebration on BBC

:00:34. > :00:36.News. Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered on the National

:00:37. > :00:42.Mall, where the ceremony will start very soon. Within the last

:00:43. > :00:47.half-hour, Donald Trump arrived at the Capitol, where he is due to take

:00:48. > :00:51.the presidential oath just before noon Washington time, before

:00:52. > :00:56.delivering his inaugural address. Earlier today, the President-elect

:00:57. > :00:58.and his wife, Melania, met Barack and Michelle Obama at the White

:00:59. > :01:04.House before travelling together to the ceremony. Among the crowds

:01:05. > :01:14.waiting for the inauguration, some of the country's former presidents.

:01:15. > :01:20.On Capitol Hill, the inaugural platform is almost full, but waiting

:01:21. > :01:24.for the arrival of Donald Trump. He will at the 35 words/ goodbye

:01:25. > :01:31.America's founding Fathers, the oath of office, that will make him

:01:32. > :01:35.America's 45th President. Hundreds of thousands of supporters, and

:01:36. > :01:43.protesters, too, in Washington, DC for this event. Dignitaries, members

:01:44. > :01:47.of Congress, military leaders, are already taking their seats on the

:01:48. > :01:56.platform ahead of the ceremony, and we will bring you every moment of

:01:57. > :02:02.it. In less than one hour, Donald Trump

:02:03. > :02:06.will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. The

:02:07. > :02:09.property tycoon won an unexpected victory in November's election after

:02:10. > :02:14.a controversial campaign. Hundreds of thousands of his supporters are

:02:15. > :02:17.here in Washington, but there are protesters as well. They have come

:02:18. > :02:22.for the event that will be viewed around the world. The ceremony is

:02:23. > :02:26.being attended by former presidents and first ladies, including Bill

:02:27. > :02:30.Clinton and his wife, Hillary, Mr Trump's opponent in the recent

:02:31. > :02:35.election. In keeping with the new style of Trump era politics, he

:02:36. > :02:39.posted a Twitter message earlier saying the movement continues, the

:02:40. > :02:43.work begins. Michelle Obama has arrived. She was in the car with

:02:44. > :02:47.Melania Trump in the procession that came from the White House. She left

:02:48. > :02:51.the White House looking very sober and serious. That is heard saying

:02:52. > :02:56.goodbye to her home of the last eight years, where she has raised

:02:57. > :03:01.her two daughters. She has turned up at the Capitol, and will be entering

:03:02. > :03:05.the Capitol Building. She will be called onto the platform behind us,

:03:06. > :03:11.and you can see there, this is the on the east side of the Capitol

:03:12. > :03:15.Building, where the guests file in. They then go through the Capitol and

:03:16. > :03:20.come out on the west side. Ronald Reagan, with a sense of theatre

:03:21. > :03:27.himself, like Donald Trump, moved the ceremony from the east side to

:03:28. > :03:31.the west side. We understand that President-elect Donald Trump, still

:03:32. > :03:41.President-elect, they are going into the Capitol Building alongside

:03:42. > :03:47.President Obama. They will all be... There you go, the call to arms.

:03:48. > :03:53.There is President Obama alongside President-elect Donald Trump.

:03:54. > :03:59.Greeting well-wishers before they make their way out onto the

:04:00. > :04:02.platform. Nancy Pelosi, there, Democratic leader of the house of

:04:03. > :04:06.Representatives. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the house behind them. Donald

:04:07. > :04:14.Trump, with a cheery, hello, everybody. If he is feeling nervous,

:04:15. > :04:19.he is not showing it. Making their way now to the other side of the

:04:20. > :04:23.building. It was Ronald Reagan who moved the ceremony from the east

:04:24. > :04:28.side to the more grand Westside of the Capitol Building, another

:04:29. > :04:32.President who had a sense of theatre and drama, and even television. Joe

:04:33. > :04:36.Biden and his wife, Doctor Jill Biden. And Mike Pence, the Vice

:04:37. > :04:40.President-elect, behind him, also with his wife. They will be making

:04:41. > :04:47.their way onto the platform behind me. Chuck Schumer, the Senator from

:04:48. > :04:51.New York. All of the dignitaries from the Senate. Senate leaders,

:04:52. > :04:54.Republican and Democrat, except for the 50 members of Congress from the

:04:55. > :04:59.Democratic party who have decided to boycott the ceremony. Unusual to

:05:00. > :05:04.have members boycotting the ceremony in this number. There is Ivanka

:05:05. > :05:11.Trump. She will be an important part of this administration. And her

:05:12. > :05:16.brothers, Donald Trump and you can see Eric Trump behind him with the

:05:17. > :05:26.red tie, and Tiffany Trump, and Barron Trump, the five Trump

:05:27. > :05:31.children. Eric and Donald Junior, who will take over the reins of the

:05:32. > :05:37.family business. Ivanka is moving here to Washington with her husband,

:05:38. > :05:40.Jared Kushner. And Barron Trump, the youngest son, who will be staying in

:05:41. > :05:48.New York with his mother until the end of his school year at least, in

:05:49. > :05:52.Trump Tower, in New York. It is quite a first family. Quite a change

:05:53. > :06:03.from the Obama first family. Now we have the Trump first family. OK, I

:06:04. > :06:07.am joined here in our little perch overlooking Capitol Hill. I have our

:06:08. > :06:11.North America editor, Jon Sopel, and Carlos Watson on a Republican who

:06:12. > :06:17.has not particularly been a supporter of Donald Trump. John, you

:06:18. > :06:23.are watching the new first family of the United States. What strikes you,

:06:24. > :06:29.this is a political occasion, ceremonial, but also deeply

:06:30. > :06:32.personal. The human stories that are unfolding. Melania Trump giving

:06:33. > :06:33.Michelle Obama that little Tiffany box outside the White House.

:06:34. > :06:40.Michelle Obama does not have a lady box outside the White House.

:06:41. > :06:46.in waiting that she can hand it to. And then, of course, you have

:06:47. > :06:54.Hillary Clinton arriving and waving to the cameras. You thought, how

:06:55. > :06:56.painful must that have been? And there you see her smiling and

:06:57. > :07:00.laughing now on the steps of the Capitol, waiting for the ceremony to

:07:01. > :07:06.begin, flanked by George W Bush and her husband and thinking, it would

:07:07. > :07:11.be unnatural if she didn't think, I got 3 million more votes than him,

:07:12. > :07:15.and I am not there as the President being sworn in today, swearing on

:07:16. > :07:20.the Lincoln Bible. It is all these human stories, as well as the

:07:21. > :07:24.ceremonial, which follows, as it does every four years. If you had

:07:25. > :07:29.the sound turned down you would think there is nothing unusual about

:07:30. > :07:34.what is unfolding today. And yet it is extraordinary that we are

:07:35. > :07:37.witnessing Donald Trump, with no previous political experience, being

:07:38. > :07:41.sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. And never before

:07:42. > :07:46.has there been such uncertainty about what is going to unfold in his

:07:47. > :07:51.presidency. There is always in Washington when we have these

:07:52. > :07:55.transitions of power between administrations, a change. A change

:07:56. > :08:00.in government, in policies, a change in tone in this city. But I can't

:08:01. > :08:05.remember a time, Carlos Watson, when there has been such a dramatic

:08:06. > :08:09.shift, how two men, so different in almost everything, in their

:08:10. > :08:21.worldview, in their view of America, in their understanding of what it

:08:22. > :08:24.President of this country, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, and we

:08:25. > :08:26.are making this transition at a time when the country is bitterly

:08:27. > :08:28.divided. We have seen the violent protests on inauguration morning.

:08:29. > :08:32.Something else I have never seen. And the backdrop to what is a

:08:33. > :08:39.peaceful transition of power, and smiling faces up on the podium,

:08:40. > :08:43.doesn't tell the whole story. It doesn't, indeed. It would be hard to

:08:44. > :08:48.find the easy comparison. If you wanted to stretch back in modern

:08:49. > :08:53.times, probably 1968-69, Nixon winning in the midst of Vietnam and

:08:54. > :08:59.the midst of racial strife and other things. And again, the level of

:09:00. > :09:02.moral outrage, not just political difference and dissension. And that

:09:03. > :09:07.presidency ended six years later in a very difficult place. That does

:09:08. > :09:10.not necessarily mean that has to happen here but there is no doubt

:09:11. > :09:17.about it, that he does not go forward with the kind of honeymoon

:09:18. > :09:23.that Bush 41 had, or Ronald Reagan had for a bit, or even that Barack

:09:24. > :09:28.Obama had, even in the midst of the financial crisis he found himself

:09:29. > :09:32.in. So clearly there will be greater levels of protest and dissension,

:09:33. > :09:37.and frankly competition. The Democrats will nominate a new head

:09:38. > :09:42.of the DNC in a few weeks, and that will kick off a level of competition

:09:43. > :09:46.and resistance that we have not yet seen. For Donald Trump supporters,

:09:47. > :09:50.cheering therefore the cameras on the national all, it is precisely

:09:51. > :09:55.these differences they are excited about. As we look at that wide shot,

:09:56. > :10:00.I cannot help but reflect on when I was here eight years ago, and trying

:10:01. > :10:04.to broadcast from there, and I missed my first broadcast because

:10:05. > :10:10.the crowds were so dense we couldn't get anywhere near. These crowds are

:10:11. > :10:15.thin. It was 1.8 million who came for Barack Obama, from all over

:10:16. > :10:19.America, they travelled four days to witness a piece of history, the

:10:20. > :10:24.first African-American President. He had the biggest turnout of any

:10:25. > :10:30.President ever. In even colder weather. His crowds were dense,

:10:31. > :10:35.right back to the Washington monument, halfway down the National

:10:36. > :10:40.Mall, at the top of that shot. This is fairly spartan. I don't want to

:10:41. > :10:50.make a trivial point, but these are things that matter to Donald Trump.

:10:51. > :10:54.He loves to be able to say, this was the biggest crowd ever. He will not

:10:55. > :10:55.be able to say that. He will probably say it anyway! That is the

:10:56. > :10:59.other thing we do not know, whether the tweeting, the random attacks on

:11:00. > :11:03.Meryl Streep, a satirical TV programme, a union leader from

:11:04. > :11:07.Pennsylvania, we have no idea whether that is the style he will

:11:08. > :11:10.take into the White House with him. So when we say uncertainty, this is

:11:11. > :11:16.not just about the detail of policy but about behaviour. You made the

:11:17. > :11:20.point earlier about it being hard to think of two people more different

:11:21. > :11:24.than Donald Trump and Barack Obama. When you go to a Barack Obama news

:11:25. > :11:29.conference, or listen to him speak, you feel that every word is being

:11:30. > :11:33.measured for nuance. There will be a slowness of delivery, as he wants to

:11:34. > :11:37.get the tone absolutely right so there can be no misunderstanding of

:11:38. > :11:41.what he said. With Donald Trump, you hear from the heart. There is no

:11:42. > :11:46.lack of authenticity about Donald Trump. You hear it, you feel it, and

:11:47. > :11:51.that is how he has been until now, and we don't know if it will change

:11:52. > :11:55.tomorrow. I was talking to a former Republican governor earlier who said

:11:56. > :11:59.maybe this is what the new era of politics looks like in America,

:12:00. > :12:03.Donald Trump may be the beginning of an era in which it is celebrities,

:12:04. > :12:08.or singers, or nontraditional political figures who manage to

:12:09. > :12:12.capture public attention, who are well-known to the public, who

:12:13. > :12:17.managed to rally their supporters precisely, Carlos, because they talk

:12:18. > :12:20.in a different way. This is what those people on the national more

:12:21. > :12:26.one from Donald Trump. They do not want him to sound like Barack Obama,

:12:27. > :12:31.or even George Bush. No two ways about it. They're not only will be

:12:32. > :12:37.different candidates and different kinds of conversation, but frankly

:12:38. > :12:42.different policy approaches. I mean, you think about the campaign he ran.

:12:43. > :12:47.I'm going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. When you think

:12:48. > :12:52.about the way he went after Jeb Bush, the way he engaged. Even,

:12:53. > :12:57.frankly, in the end, the way that he won, pushing aside the popular vote

:12:58. > :13:00.and clearly and unequivocally holding onto this electoral vote

:13:01. > :13:06.win, which, to his credit, was significant. It was not a narrow

:13:07. > :13:12.George W Bush over Al Gore by five electoral votes. It was a meaningful

:13:13. > :13:15.win. No doubt that Donald Trump has ushered in a new era of politics and

:13:16. > :13:20.it will be interesting to see how the Democrats respond. I think all

:13:21. > :13:25.of us, as we, over the next four-year 's and the next 100 days

:13:26. > :13:28.as he hits the ground running, try to measure the success of this

:13:29. > :13:32.President, we may have to recalibrate the definition of

:13:33. > :13:40.success. Because I'm not sure that for Donald Trump's supporters what

:13:41. > :13:45.matters are the facts and figures of individual policies, as much as the

:13:46. > :13:49.tone and feeling and mood of the country that Donald Trump drives.

:13:50. > :13:56.And I suspect that he will be able to become -- to be cut quite a lot

:13:57. > :14:01.of slack from his supporters by sounding nontraditional. He will

:14:02. > :14:05.need to keep that up. The thing that has struck me is the willingness of

:14:06. > :14:09.people to give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. They know that

:14:10. > :14:13.there are warts. They know there are issues. They know he may lack

:14:14. > :14:17.international experience. All of that. And yet it seems to me that an

:14:18. > :14:23.awful lot of his supporters just don't care. They know what they are

:14:24. > :14:26.getting as part of a package, in a way they couldn't warm to Hillary

:14:27. > :14:30.Clinton. They talked about John F Kennedy as the first President of

:14:31. > :14:35.the ten of -- television age. Donald Trump is the first President of the

:14:36. > :14:39.reality television age. He is going to play communications very

:14:40. > :14:44.differently. Lets go down to the national more all. Almost a million

:14:45. > :14:48.turned out for Barack Obama. It looks thinner this time around. But

:14:49. > :14:51.there are supporters from Donald Trump who have come from all over

:14:52. > :14:57.this country to see their man take the oath of office. Our reporter is

:14:58. > :15:03.down there on the national more all for us. What is the mood like down

:15:04. > :15:04.there. Excited, despite the weather? I imagine the atmosphere is

:15:05. > :15:12.building. If we move the camera down, you can

:15:13. > :15:18.sow that crowds are -- can you see that crowds are streaming in. Closer

:15:19. > :15:22.to the Capitol, the crowds are cramming in. These are the cheap

:15:23. > :15:25.seats, you could say. People here will be watching on big screens. One

:15:26. > :15:30.of the hall marks of this campaign was how divisive it was. I'm joined

:15:31. > :15:36.by two people who've come to the inauguration today. Hello, Gorge.

:15:37. > :15:41.And Jen from Minnesota. Hi there. Hello. Let's start with you, you

:15:42. > :15:45.were a Donald Trump supporter. How are you feeling today? I was, I am

:15:46. > :15:50.feeling great. It's an exciting day. I wanted to be here. I think the

:15:51. > :15:55.next eight years is going to be very, very interesting. How are you

:15:56. > :16:02.feeling? Your badge of course, shows us you voted for Hillary Clinton.

:16:03. > :16:05.It's been a roller coaster of emotions, leading up to the election

:16:06. > :16:11.and since November 8. Why are you here today? I'm here with a group of

:16:12. > :16:15.high school students. We're experiencing Washington DC and we

:16:16. > :16:20.are here to visit the nation's capital and experience the wonderful

:16:21. > :16:24.treasures and witness of peaceful transformation of power from one

:16:25. > :16:27.President to another. How do you think Donald Trump can unite this

:16:28. > :16:31.country and bring people like you on board and have faith in him? I

:16:32. > :16:38.certainly think that's an area of opportunity for him right now. I

:16:39. > :16:41.hope that he goes into it listening and surrounds himself with

:16:42. > :16:45.compassionate and capable people, who are able to speak on behalf of

:16:46. > :16:52.the American public. What do you think to that, how can he bring

:16:53. > :16:56.people like Jen on board? I'm looking for him to govern as our

:16:57. > :17:00.President, the entire United States President, both sides of the aisle.

:17:01. > :17:06.We need that. It's time for that. That was part of why I think this is

:17:07. > :17:10.a change and we have a shot at that. Thank you very much. We'll let you

:17:11. > :17:15.get a spot further down the mall to watch the proceedings. That's it for

:17:16. > :17:21.now. Here the crowds are filling up in the national mall. We're back

:17:22. > :17:25.with more later. Down there on the mall with Donald

:17:26. > :17:33.Trump supporters, I should say, here we go back to the Capitol. There's

:17:34. > :17:37.Michelle Obama and Gill Biden coming out onto the inauguration platform.

:17:38. > :17:44.Michelle Obama who has been through this twice before, of course, in

:17:45. > :17:48.2009 and then again when her husband was re-located four years later,

:17:49. > :17:52.she's sat there watching her husband take the Oath of Office to become

:17:53. > :17:57.President of the United States. It's a very rare club. There are not a

:17:58. > :18:01.lot of people who have been in Michelle Obama's situation. She

:18:02. > :18:03.leaves the position of First Lady incredibly popular with the American

:18:04. > :18:07.public. She has high approval ratings. Many people have wondered

:18:08. > :18:11.whether she might run for politics herself. Her husband says, not on

:18:12. > :18:16.your life, it's not going to happen, dream on. Michelle has no interest

:18:17. > :18:24.in being a politician. But she became a very powerful advocate for

:18:25. > :18:27.Hillary Clinton. She was called the secret weapon during the campaign.

:18:28. > :18:34.She's been a well respected and well liked First Lady in her own right.

:18:35. > :18:38.She hands over to somebody younger and quite different and who does

:18:39. > :18:43.not, it seems, want to embrace the role of First Lady of the United

:18:44. > :18:48.States with quite the vigour with which Michelle Obama has done so. Of

:18:49. > :18:53.course, she was a powerful career woman in her own right as a lawyer

:18:54. > :18:56.in Chicago, working in Chicago hospital systems and had a very

:18:57. > :19:01.successful and important job that she had to give up to join her

:19:02. > :19:04.husband to come down here when he left Chicago and became President of

:19:05. > :19:07.the United States. There have been questions about how happy she was to

:19:08. > :19:12.do that in the way that Hillary Clinton had also had to give up a

:19:13. > :19:20.career as a lawyer to become Bill Clinton's First Lady. But she took

:19:21. > :19:25.on the role with gusto and Barack Obama has been very publicly

:19:26. > :19:28.grateful to her over the last few weeks, several times mentioning how

:19:29. > :19:33.important she has been and talking about how she took on this role that

:19:34. > :19:36.she didn't ask for but that she did so with grace and style. I think

:19:37. > :19:41.most Americans would agree with that. And you look at the way she is

:19:42. > :19:46.able to communicate and the way she communicates and the way she's done

:19:47. > :19:52.it as First Lady, not just doing the odd conventional interview. You know

:19:53. > :20:02.dancing on TV with one of the late night TV hosts, doing James Corden's

:20:03. > :20:07.car pool karaoke. Melania Trump being escorted onto the platform by

:20:08. > :20:11.the military guard there, a woman who will not be taking up residence,

:20:12. > :20:14.initially, in the White House, but will stay in New York with her son

:20:15. > :20:18.until he finishes his school year. Somebody who has made it clear that

:20:19. > :20:25.she does not relish this position. Yes, I felt you could see it

:20:26. > :20:27.yesterday slightly, when she was at the Republican Congressional leaders

:20:28. > :20:32.lunch. Donald Trump asked her to say a few words. There was a look on her

:20:33. > :20:36.face as if to say, that is the last thing in the world that I would like

:20:37. > :20:40.to do right now. In fairness to her, she did and she was fluent and

:20:41. > :20:45.articulate and talked about making America great again and was right on

:20:46. > :20:51.message. But I just think that to look at their faces and maybe you

:20:52. > :20:58.can overinterpret just from facial expression, I've been struck by

:20:59. > :21:01.looking at both her and Donald Trump today that, the Obamas are relaxed.

:21:02. > :21:04.They are leaving office. It's all behind them now. They know how

:21:05. > :21:09.difficult it is. You just get a sense, I think, from her and from

:21:10. > :21:13.him, a sense of oh, my goodness, what is going to happen when the

:21:14. > :21:18.door closes behind us this afternoon in the White House and it is

:21:19. > :21:24.suddenly for real and the decisions are coming at you fast, on all

:21:25. > :21:30.manner of different matters. She looks spectacular, former Slovenian

:21:31. > :21:34.model, tall, graceful, beautiful, fantastically dressed. She's always

:21:35. > :21:39.immaculate looking when she appears in public. But this morning she also

:21:40. > :21:44.looks, as you suggested, like the cares of what is about to happen.

:21:45. > :21:50.She is not skipping lightly. Her feet, I suspect are feeling very

:21:51. > :21:58.heavy with the burden, extraordinary burden that must be on you to be

:21:59. > :22:03.President. We look at these pictures of the people smiling, if you are a

:22:04. > :22:07.spectator today and you've got a ringside view, it's fantastic. If

:22:08. > :22:11.you are one of the participants about to be thrown into the middle

:22:12. > :22:19.of all this - We can hear the applause, from where we are sitting

:22:20. > :22:24.for Melania Trump. Carlos Watson, First Lady, it's not an easy job, is

:22:25. > :22:28.it? The last several first ladies have really made it their own in

:22:29. > :22:32.different ways. Michelle Obama approval ratings that exceed even

:22:33. > :22:39.her husband's, whether it's been on the question of fitness or education

:22:40. > :22:42.really has weighed in. Laura Bush was incredibly popular as well.

:22:43. > :22:47.Needless to say Hillary Clinton - We are seeing Barack Obama and Joe

:22:48. > :22:51.Biden, their final moments as President and Vice President of the

:22:52. > :22:55.United States. That's one that worked out, huh? That was not

:22:56. > :23:02.immediately a match made in heaven. They were two competitors in the

:23:03. > :23:10.2008 primaries. Joe Biden did poorly in the first and dropped out early.

:23:11. > :23:16.Had some inopportune things to say about the future President. One of

:23:17. > :23:21.his last acts in office, President Obama awarded Joe Biden the highest

:23:22. > :23:26.civilian award in America, the presidential medal of freedom. Joe

:23:27. > :23:29.Biden was taken totally by surprise. There was very touching scenes where

:23:30. > :23:34.he cried openly and thanked the President. This has been a very

:23:35. > :23:41.close relationship. I suspect, given the man they are about to hand over

:23:42. > :23:44.power to, these two men, Joe Biden and Barack Obama, will not be

:23:45. > :23:47.disappearing from American political life in the way that they might have

:23:48. > :23:51.thought they were going to, if Hillary Clinton had won. Certainly

:23:52. > :23:55.not Joe Biden. I think Joe Biden, I don't know if you saw that interview

:23:56. > :23:58.recently where he very openly talked about his regrets that he didn't run

:23:59. > :24:02.and talked about the number of worries that he had - And talked

:24:03. > :24:06.about the possibility of leaving open the possibility that he could

:24:07. > :24:11.do it again in 2020. Hard to believe. The Democratic Party is in

:24:12. > :24:18.very bad shape in the United States in the moment. Barack Obama has not

:24:19. > :24:21.left his party in full health. The Republicans have been elected in

:24:22. > :24:27.local offices right across the country. These two men are leaving

:24:28. > :24:32.office today, but they have a mission between them to try and

:24:33. > :24:36.restore the fortunes. One of the very unusual aspects - Of the party.

:24:37. > :24:41.Of what is unfolding today is that Barack Obama isn't going to get on

:24:42. > :24:48.marine one, I mean he's going on holiday - I am going to pause you

:24:49. > :24:54.there... And the Vice President, Joe Biden, escorted by the Senate

:24:55. > :25:05.Democratic leader and the House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.

:25:06. > :25:22.Barack Obama leaving office with a smile on his face. A reporter

:25:23. > :25:26.shouted him a question at him this morning, "Have you got one last

:25:27. > :25:33.word, any last words for the American people, Mr President? He

:25:34. > :25:39.replied, "Thank you." There he is, greeting the Trump family. Barack

:25:40. > :25:42.Obama has been gracious to the Trump family and he's reached out to

:25:43. > :25:47.Donald Trump in phone conversations. But he hasn't stopped himself from

:25:48. > :25:51.being critical either in. His final press conference this week he made a

:25:52. > :25:55.point of saying, "If I feel that American values are under threat,

:25:56. > :25:59.you will hear from me." So this is not a man saying that he is going to

:26:00. > :26:06.disappear in the way that man there, George W Bush, did when Barack Obama

:26:07. > :26:08.became President. The other point, Barack Obama isn't leaving

:26:09. > :26:12.Washington. He's going to be living about two miles from the White

:26:13. > :26:15.House, while his younger daughter finishes high school. He's going to

:26:16. > :26:19.be around and there are going to be a lot of people looking to him when

:26:20. > :26:23.they see something they don't like, they're going to be saying - Look at

:26:24. > :26:25.this scene for a minute, Jimmy Carter, former President of the

:26:26. > :26:30.United States, Barack Obama, former President of the United States, Bill

:26:31. > :26:32.Clinton, former President of the United States, George Bush, former

:26:33. > :26:37.President of the United States, that is some political gathering. That's

:26:38. > :26:49.quite a gathering. And then you obviously have the new heirs to the

:26:50. > :26:53.throne. There's Dan Quail, former Vice President for George HW Bush.

:26:54. > :26:59.You say the Democrats are in a tough place and Obama will speak up. Here

:27:00. > :27:03.we have him. Donald Trump making his way out onto the inaugural platform

:27:04. > :27:11.on the west side of the Capitol, where he will be sworn in. As the

:27:12. > :27:15.45th President of the United States, Donald J Trump, 70 years old. Born

:27:16. > :27:20.in New York City. A real estate billionaire who won an election that

:27:21. > :27:33.nobody ever thought he was going to win, when he first announced his

:27:34. > :27:37.candidacy in June 2015. He wrote a famous book The Art of the Deal, 30

:27:38. > :27:42.years ago, talk about closing the ultimate deal that no-one thinks you

:27:43. > :27:45.can close. That's what he did in convincing more than 60 million

:27:46. > :27:51.Americans and nearly 300 electoral votes to come his way. We talk about

:27:52. > :27:57.the human side of this, he's preceded by Paul Ryan the House

:27:58. > :28:00.leader and Mitch McConn le l, the Senate majority leader. These are

:28:01. > :28:06.people he will have to work with closely if he wants to see his

:28:07. > :28:08.legislative ambitions realised. We can hear the cheers echoing now from

:28:09. > :28:35.Pennsylvania Avenue to where we are. Let's take a moment to watch and

:28:36. > :28:38.listen to this extraordinary moment. Ladies and gentleman, the Vice

:28:39. > :28:40.President-elect, Michael Richard Pence.

:28:41. > :29:20.APPLAUSE Mike Pence, the for the momenter

:29:21. > :29:24.governor of Indiana -- former governor of Indiana. He has been

:29:25. > :29:29.intimately involved in the transition process, selecting

:29:30. > :29:32.candidates for the Cabinet, channelling Donald Trump and

:29:33. > :29:36.somebody who Republicans feel they can work with. He's well known, of

:29:37. > :29:41.course, to Republicans in that building, where he's standing right

:29:42. > :29:46.now. There have been times during the campaign when his relationship

:29:47. > :29:52.with Donald Trump was not easy. Particularly around issues of those

:29:53. > :29:55.tapes and women and sexual abuse allegations and Mike Pence made it

:29:56. > :30:06.very clear he did not like what he was hearing from his boss. But in

:30:07. > :30:11.terms of politics and policy and agenda, he is a supporter of Donald

:30:12. > :30:18.Trump's mission to change the way America works and up end the

:30:19. > :30:18.policies of President Obama, a conservative Republican, Christian

:30:19. > :30:34.conservative Republican. Like Joe Biden, he is likely to have

:30:35. > :30:42.a meaningful hand in policy. The Senate Sergeant at Arms, Frank

:30:43. > :30:46.Larkin, the house Sergeant at arms, rules committee ranking member and

:30:47. > :30:51.Senate Democratic leader, Charles Schumer, Speaker of the house of

:30:52. > :30:54.representatives, Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell,

:30:55. > :30:55.House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and house Democratic leader Nancy

:30:56. > :31:12.Pelosi. The Republican and Democratic

:31:13. > :31:16.leadership coming in before the President-elect. This is not just a

:31:17. > :31:20.new President but a change of power in Washington, very firmly switching

:31:21. > :31:27.from Democrats to Republicans. This is going to be a different America,

:31:28. > :31:30.with a different political bent. This is a conservative, hard right

:31:31. > :31:35.term that America is about to take under this President. And now we are

:31:36. > :31:42.waiting. Donald Trump about to come out onto the platform, the last

:31:43. > :31:45.person to arrive. Ladies and gentlemen, the President-elect of

:31:46. > :31:52.the United States, Donald John Trump.

:31:53. > :33:14.Ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the joint can for inaugural

:33:15. > :33:22.ceremonies, the Honourable Roy Blunt.

:33:23. > :33:31.Thank you, all of you. If you have a seat, you can sit down. Mr

:33:32. > :33:33.President, Mr Vice President, Mr President-elect, Mr Vice

:33:34. > :33:37.President-elect, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the

:33:38. > :33:48.inauguration of the 45th President of the United States of America.

:33:49. > :33:52.Today, the legislative, the executive, the judicial branches of

:33:53. > :33:58.our constitutional government come together for the 58 inauguration of

:33:59. > :34:01.the President of the United States. Millions of people all over the

:34:02. > :34:09.world will watch and will listen to this event. 36 years ago, it was the

:34:10. > :34:15.first inauguration on this side of the Capitol, President Ronald Reagan

:34:16. > :34:23.said that what we do here is both commonplace and miraculous.

:34:24. > :34:26.Commonplace, every four-year 's sense 1789, when President George

:34:27. > :34:36.Washington took this exact same oath. Miraculous, because we have

:34:37. > :34:42.done it every four years since 1789, and the example it sets for

:34:43. > :34:46.democracies everywhere. Washington believed the inauguration of the

:34:47. > :34:52.second President would be more important than the inauguration of

:34:53. > :34:56.the first. Many people had taken control of the government up until

:34:57. > :35:02.then, but few people had ever turned that control willingly over to

:35:03. > :35:06.anyone else. And as important as the transfer, the first transfer of

:35:07. > :35:15.power was, many historians believe that the next election was even more

:35:16. > :35:19.important. In 1801, one group of people, arguably for the first time

:35:20. > :35:23.ever in history, willingly, if not enthusiastically, gave control of

:35:24. > :35:25.the governments to people they believed had a dramatically

:35:26. > :35:32.different view of what the government would, should and could

:35:33. > :35:39.do. After that election that actually discovered a flaw in the

:35:40. > :35:42.Constitution itself, which was remedied by the 12th Amendment,

:35:43. > :35:47.Thomas Jefferson, at that inauguration, beyond the chaos of

:35:48. > :35:53.the election that had just passed, said, we are all Republicans, we are

:35:54. > :35:57.all Federalist. After four years of civil war, Lincoln's second

:35:58. > :36:01.inaugural speech tried to find reason for the continued war when he

:36:02. > :36:07.pointed out that both sides prayed to the same God. He had earlier

:36:08. > :36:15.written about those fervent prayers, that one side must be, and both

:36:16. > :36:19.sides may be wrong, but in 1865, he looked to the future, and the

:36:20. > :36:24.memorable moment in that speech was, with malice toward none, and charity

:36:25. > :36:28.for all. In the middle of depression, the country was told

:36:29. > :36:30.that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. And President

:36:31. > :36:36.Kennedy talked about the obligation in democracy to country. The great

:36:37. > :36:45.question that day was, ask what you can do for your country. So we come

:36:46. > :36:50.to this place again. Commonplace and miraculous. A national moment of

:36:51. > :36:55.celebration. But not a celebration of victory, a celebration of

:36:56. > :37:00.democracy. And as we begin that celebration, I call on His Eminence,

:37:01. > :37:11.Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Reverend Doctor Samuel Rodriguez to

:37:12. > :37:20.provide readings and the indication. -- invocation.

:37:21. > :37:29.The prayer of King Solomon from the book of Wisdom. Let us pray. God of

:37:30. > :37:36.our ancestors and Lord of mercy, you have made all things. And in your

:37:37. > :37:42.providence have charged asked to all the creatures produced by you, to

:37:43. > :37:48.govern the world in holiness and righteousness, and to render

:37:49. > :37:55.judgment with integrity of heart. Give us wisdom, for we are your

:37:56. > :38:02.servants, weak and short lived, lacking incomprehension, of judgment

:38:03. > :38:09.and of laws. Indeed, though one might be perfect among mortals, if

:38:10. > :38:15.wisdom, which comes from you, be lacking, we count for nothing. Now

:38:16. > :38:20.we view is wisdom. Who knows your will and was there when you made the

:38:21. > :38:26.world. Who understands what is pleasing in your eyes, what is

:38:27. > :38:32.conformable with your commands. Send her forth from your holy heavens.

:38:33. > :38:38.From your glorious throne, dispatch her, that she may be with us, and

:38:39. > :38:44.work with us. That we may grasp what is pleasing to you. For she knows

:38:45. > :38:48.and understands all things, and will guide us prudently in our affairs,

:38:49. > :39:00.and safeguard our spy her glory. Amen. -- safeguard us by her glory.

:39:01. > :39:04.From the Gospel of Matthew, the fifth chapter. God blesses those who

:39:05. > :39:09.are poor and realise their need for him, for the Kingdom of heaven is

:39:10. > :39:12.prayers. God blesses those who mourn, because they will be

:39:13. > :39:18.comforted. God blesses those who are humble, for they will inherit the

:39:19. > :39:22.earth. God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they

:39:23. > :39:27.will be satisfied. God lessons those who are merciful, for they will be

:39:28. > :39:33.shown mercy. He blesses those who are pure in heart, for they will see

:39:34. > :39:37.God. God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called

:39:38. > :39:40.children of God. God blesses those who are persecuted for doing right,

:39:41. > :39:46.for the kingdom of heaven is prayers. And God blesses you, when

:39:47. > :39:52.people mock you, and persecute you and lie about you, and say all sorts

:39:53. > :39:57.of evil things against you, because you are my followers. For you are

:39:58. > :40:01.the light of the world. The city on the hilltop that cannot be hidden.

:40:02. > :40:07.No one likes a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is

:40:08. > :40:11.placed on its stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. In

:40:12. > :40:17.the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, and

:40:18. > :40:27.everyone will praise your Heavenly Father, respectfully in Jesus' name.

:40:28. > :40:32.We come to you, Heavenly Father come in the name of Jesus, with grateful

:40:33. > :40:38.hearts. Thanking you for this great country that you have decreed to

:40:39. > :40:43.your people. We act knowledge we are a blesses nation, with a rich

:40:44. > :40:49.history of faith and fortitude, with a future that is filled with promise

:40:50. > :40:55.and purpose. We recognise that every good and every perfect gift comes

:40:56. > :41:00.from you, and the United States of America is your gift, for which we

:41:01. > :41:05.proclaim our gratitude. As a nation, we now pray for our President,

:41:06. > :41:12.Donald John Trump. Vice President Michael Richard Pence. And their

:41:13. > :41:18.families. We ask that you would Biz Stone upon our President the wisdom

:41:19. > :41:24.necessary to lead this great nation, the grace to unify us, and the

:41:25. > :41:30.strength to stand for what is honourable and writing your site. In

:41:31. > :41:36.Proverbs one, you instruct us that our leader's heart is in your hands.

:41:37. > :41:40.Gracious God, revealed to our President the ability to know the

:41:41. > :41:46.will, your will. The confidence to lead us, in justice and

:41:47. > :41:51.righteousness, and the compassion to yield to our better angels. While we

:41:52. > :41:55.know there are many challenges before us, in every generation you

:41:56. > :42:01.have provided the strength and power to become that Lessig nation. Guide

:42:02. > :42:07.us in discernment, Lord, and give us that strength to persevere and

:42:08. > :42:11.thrive. Now bind and heal our wins and divisions, and join our nation

:42:12. > :42:21.to your purpose. Viking dumb come, thy will be done. Let your

:42:22. > :42:25.favourably upon this one nation under God. Let these United States

:42:26. > :42:31.of America be that beacon of hope to all people, and nations under your

:42:32. > :42:38.dominion, a true hope for all humankind. Glory to the Father, the

:42:39. > :42:47.sun and the holy spirit. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ.

:42:48. > :43:49.Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, the Missouri State University Chorale.

:43:50. > :46:37.MUSIC: Now We Belong by Michael Dennis Browne.

:46:38. > :47:07.The Missouri State University choral pram tillses two blocks -- practices

:47:08. > :47:12.two blocks from my home. We're pleased to find them and we're

:47:13. > :47:17.pleased they're here. APPLAUSE

:47:18. > :47:20.Also, a great opportunity for me to introduce my colleague, the senator

:47:21. > :47:32.from New York, chuck Schumer. APPLAUSE

:47:33. > :47:36.My fellow Americans, we live in a challenging and tumultuous time, a

:47:37. > :47:41.quickly evolving, ever more interconnected world, a rapidly

:47:42. > :47:49.changing economy that benefits too few, while leaving too many behind,

:47:50. > :47:55.a fractured media, a politics frequently consumed by rancour. We

:47:56. > :48:02.face threats, foreign and domestic. In such times, faith in our

:48:03. > :48:09.government, our institutions and even our country can erode. Despite

:48:10. > :48:16.these challenges, I stand here today confident in this great country for

:48:17. > :48:20.one reason - you, the American people.

:48:21. > :48:31.APPLAUSE We Americans have always been a

:48:32. > :48:37.forward-looking, problem-solving, optimist being, patriotic and decent

:48:38. > :48:41.people. Whatever our race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity,

:48:42. > :48:47.whether we are immigrant or native born, whether we live with

:48:48. > :48:52.disabilities or do not, in wealth or in poverty, we are all exceptional

:48:53. > :48:58.in our commonly-held yet fierce devotion to our country and in our

:48:59. > :49:05.willingness to sacrifice our time, energy and even our lives to making

:49:06. > :49:12.it a more perfect union. Today we celebrate one of democracy's core

:49:13. > :49:18.attributes, the peaceful transfer of power and every day, we stand up for

:49:19. > :49:24.core democratic principles enshrined in the constitution, the rule of

:49:25. > :49:31.law, equal protection for all under law, the freedom of speech, press,

:49:32. > :49:36.religion, the things that make America America. We can gain

:49:37. > :49:41.strength from reading our history and listening to the voices of

:49:42. > :49:51.average Americans. They always save us in times of strife. One such

:49:52. > :49:56.American was Major Sullivan Balou. On July 14, 1861, when the North and

:49:57. > :50:01.South were lining up for their first battle, a time when our country was

:50:02. > :50:07.bitterly divided and faith in the future of our country was at a

:50:08. > :50:11.nadar, the major, of the second Rhode Island volunteers, penned a

:50:12. > :50:17.letter to his wife, Sarah. It is one of the greatest letters in American

:50:18. > :50:21.history. It shows the strength and courage of the average American,

:50:22. > :50:29.allow me to read some of his words, which echo through the ages. "My

:50:30. > :50:34.very dear Sarah, he wrote, the indications are very strong that we

:50:35. > :50:39.shall move in a few days, perhaps tomorrow. If it is necessary that I

:50:40. > :50:44.should fall on the battlefield for my country, I am ready. I have no

:50:45. > :50:51.misgivings about or lack of confidence in the cause in which I

:50:52. > :50:57.am engaged and my courage does not halt or faulter. I know how strongly

:50:58. > :51:01.American civilisation now leans upon the triumph of the government and

:51:02. > :51:08.how great a debt we owe to those who went before us, through the blood

:51:09. > :51:13.and suffering of the revolution. And I am willing, perfectly willing, to

:51:14. > :51:21.lay down all my joys in this life to help maintain this government and to

:51:22. > :51:28.pay that debt. Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind

:51:29. > :51:36.me to you with the mighty cables but nothing but op nip tense can break

:51:37. > :51:42.-- omnipotence can break. My love for my country comes on me like a

:51:43. > :51:46.strong wind and bears me on with these chains to the battlefield." He

:51:47. > :51:52.gave his life on the battlefield a week later at the first battle of

:51:53. > :51:55.Bull Run. It is because he and countless others believed in

:51:56. > :52:01.something bigger than themselves and were willing to sacrifice for it

:52:02. > :52:06.that we stand today in the full blessings of liberty, in the

:52:07. > :52:11.greatest country on earth. And that spirit lives on in each of us,

:52:12. > :52:17.Americans whose families have been here for generations and those who

:52:18. > :52:25.have just arrived. I know our best days are yet to come. I urge all

:52:26. > :52:37.Americans to read this full letter. His words give me solace, strength.

:52:38. > :52:42.I hope they will give you the same. Now, please stand, while the

:52:43. > :52:45.associate justice of the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, administers

:52:46. > :52:59.the Oath of Office to the Vice President of the United States.

:53:00. > :53:13.Place your right hand on the Bible. Raise your right hand. Mr Vice

:53:14. > :53:19.President-elect, would you raise your right hand and repeat after me.

:53:20. > :53:31.I Michael Richard Pence, do solemnly swear. I Michael Richard Pence, do

:53:32. > :53:33.solemnly swear. That I will support and defend the Constitution of the

:53:34. > :53:36.United States. That I will support and defend the Constitution of the

:53:37. > :53:41.United States Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Against all

:53:42. > :53:46.enemies, foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and

:53:47. > :53:49.allegiance to the same. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to

:53:50. > :53:55.the same That I take this obligation freely. That I take this obligation

:53:56. > :53:59.freely. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.

:54:00. > :54:07.Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And that I will

:54:08. > :54:11.well and faithfully discharge. And that I will well and faithfully

:54:12. > :54:15.discharge. The duties of the office on which I'm about to enter. The

:54:16. > :54:19.duties of the office on which I'm about to enter. So help me God. So

:54:20. > :54:27.help me God. Congratulations.

:54:28. > :54:35.God bless you. STUDIO: Mike Pence there has just

:54:36. > :54:40.been sworn in as the next Vice President of the United States. The

:54:41. > :54:45.transfer of power is partially complete now. Next Donald Trump will

:54:46. > :54:49.take the Oath of Office. This is the beginning of the switch. You can see

:54:50. > :54:52.President Obama smiling in the background. Mike Pence, former

:54:53. > :54:58.governor of Indiana, waving to the crowd. Now officially, the Vice

:54:59. > :55:03.President of the United States. That means Joe Biden is no longer

:55:04. > :55:07.officially the Vice President. He is the former Vice President of the

:55:08. > :55:12.United States. We will have the formen Tabernacle choir in a bit and

:55:13. > :55:21.then the Chief Justice of the United States will issue the Oath of Office

:55:22. > :55:27.to Donald Trump. Mormon Tabernacle choir. Donald Trump's mother was

:55:28. > :55:35.born on the Isle of Lewis, a Scott by birth, in part and his father,

:55:36. > :55:37.Fred Trump, the real estate magnate, surprised the world by winning the

:55:38. > :56:03.election. O beautiful for spacious skies

:56:04. > :56:13.machine for amber waves of grain hr for purple mountained imagine stays

:56:14. > :56:21.# Above the fruited plains # America, America, God shed his

:56:22. > :56:31.grace on thee # And crown thy good with

:56:32. > :57:14.brotherhood from sea to shining sea # Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet who

:57:15. > :57:20.O beautiful for heroes proved # In liberating strife

:57:21. > :57:24.# Who more than self their country loved

:57:25. > :57:36.# And mercy more than life # America, America

:57:37. > :57:53.# May God thy gold refine # Till all success be nobleness

:57:54. > :58:03.# And every gain divine # O beautiful for patriot dream

:58:04. > :58:13.# That sees beyond the years # Thine alabaster cities gleam

:58:14. > :58:20.# Undimmed by human tears # America, America

:58:21. > :58:26.# God shed his grace on thee # And crown thy good with

:58:27. > :58:35.brotherhood # From sea to shining sea.

:58:36. > :58:46.# And crown thy good with brotherhood

:58:47. > :59:00.# From sea to shining sea! # From sea to shining sea! #

:59:01. > :59:06.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE .

:59:07. > :59:14.Here it is, the moment that many thought would never happen, Donald

:59:15. > :59:17.John Trump is about to become President of the United States. He

:59:18. > :59:20.will take the Oath of Office and once he has done so, he is America's

:59:21. > :59:45.45th President. Please raise your right hand and

:59:46. > :59:53.repeat after me. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear. I, Donald

:59:54. > :00:00.John Trump, do solemnly swear. That I will faithfully execute. That I

:00:01. > :00:04.will faithfully execute. The office of President of the United States.

:00:05. > :00:10.The office of President of the United States. And will do the best

:00:11. > :00:16.of my ability. And will do the best of my ability. Preserve, protect and

:00:17. > :00:20.defend the Constitution of the United States. Preserve, protect and

:00:21. > :00:26.defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God. So

:00:27. > :00:43.help me God. Congratulations, Mr President.

:00:44. > :01:06.And there it is. Donald Trump is the President of the

:01:07. > :01:11.United States. The 45th President of America. He has now taken the oath

:01:12. > :01:15.of office. He is the commander-in-chief. He has the

:01:16. > :01:19.nuclear codes. He is the ceremonial head of state, the elected head of

:01:20. > :01:25.state. This is a man with an enormous amount of power. Right now,

:01:26. > :01:29.the 21 gun salute blaring out around this city, to mark a moment that

:01:30. > :01:35.view it here thought would happen and many people around the world did

:01:36. > :01:36.not expect either. A big changes coming to America, and Donald Trump

:01:37. > :02:10.will be at its helm. Chief Justice Roberts, President

:02:11. > :02:17.Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow

:02:18. > :02:30.Americans, and people of the world, thank you.

:02:31. > :02:35.We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to

:02:36. > :02:43.rebuild our country, and restore its promise for all of our people.

:02:44. > :02:52.Together we will determine the course of America and the world for

:02:53. > :02:55.many, many years to come. We will face challenges, we will confront

:02:56. > :03:03.hardships, but we will get the job done. Every four years we gather on

:03:04. > :03:09.these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power. And

:03:10. > :03:16.we are grateful to President Obama and first Lady Michelle Obama, for

:03:17. > :03:21.their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been

:03:22. > :03:29.magnificent. Thank you. APPLAUSE

:03:30. > :03:36.Today's ceremony, however, has very special meaning.

:03:37. > :03:40.Because today we are not merely transferring power from one

:03:41. > :03:44.administration to another, or from one party to another, but we are

:03:45. > :03:48.transferring power from Washington, DC, and giving it back to you, the

:03:49. > :04:04.people. For too long, a small group in our

:04:05. > :04:12.nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government, while the

:04:13. > :04:17.people have born the cost. Washington flourished, but the

:04:18. > :04:27.people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs

:04:28. > :04:33.left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself. But

:04:34. > :04:38.not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your

:04:39. > :04:43.victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they

:04:44. > :04:48.celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for

:04:49. > :04:58.struggling families all across our land.

:04:59. > :05:06.That all changes, starting right here and right now. Because this

:05:07. > :05:16.moment is your moment. It belongs to you.

:05:17. > :05:23.It belongs to everyone gathered here today, and everyone watching, all

:05:24. > :05:29.across America. This is your day, this is your celebration, and this,

:05:30. > :05:38.the United States of America, is your country.

:05:39. > :05:45.What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but

:05:46. > :05:55.whether our government is controlled by the people.

:05:56. > :06:09.January 20, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the

:06:10. > :06:19.rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our

:06:20. > :06:24.country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now.

:06:25. > :06:28.You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement

:06:29. > :06:40.the likes of which the world has never seen before. At the centre of

:06:41. > :06:47.this movement is a crucial conviction, that a nation exists to

:06:48. > :06:50.serve its citizens. Americans want great schools for their children,

:06:51. > :06:59.safe neighbourhoods for their families and good jobs for

:07:00. > :07:06.themselves. These are just and reasonable demands of righteous

:07:07. > :07:12.people and a righteous public. But for too many of our citizens, a

:07:13. > :07:18.different reality exists. Mothers and children trapped in poverty in

:07:19. > :07:24.our inner cities, rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones

:07:25. > :07:28.across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash,

:07:29. > :07:36.but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all

:07:37. > :07:40.knowledge, and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen

:07:41. > :07:48.too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealised

:07:49. > :07:51.potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right

:07:52. > :08:09.now. We are one nation, and their pain is

:08:10. > :08:17.our pain. Their dreams are our dreams. And their success will be

:08:18. > :08:25.our success. We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny. The

:08:26. > :08:37.oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.

:08:38. > :08:42.For many decades, we have enriched foreign industry at the expense of

:08:43. > :08:45.American industry, subsidised the armies of other countries while

:08:46. > :08:52.allowing for the very sad depletion of our military. We have defended

:08:53. > :08:58.other nations' borders, while refusing to defend our own.

:08:59. > :09:09.APPLAUSE And spent trillions and trillions of

:09:10. > :09:14.dollars overseas, while America's infrastructure has fallen into

:09:15. > :09:18.disrepair and decay. We have made other countries rich,

:09:19. > :09:26.while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has this

:09:27. > :09:33.pay to over the horizon. -- dissipated. One by one, the

:09:34. > :09:37.factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought

:09:38. > :09:42.about the millions and millions of American workers that were left

:09:43. > :09:46.behind. The wealth of our middle-class has been ripped from

:09:47. > :09:56.their homes, and then redistributed all across the world. But that is

:09:57. > :10:07.the past, and now we are looking only to the future.

:10:08. > :10:16.We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every

:10:17. > :10:24.city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power. From this

:10:25. > :10:30.day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day

:10:31. > :10:43.forward, it's going to be only America first. America first.

:10:44. > :10:52.Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs,

:10:53. > :10:56.will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We

:10:57. > :11:03.must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making

:11:04. > :11:16.our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs. Protection

:11:17. > :11:22.will lead to great prosperity and strength. I will fight for you with

:11:23. > :11:33.every breath in my body, and I will never, ever, let you down. America

:11:34. > :11:44.will start winning again. Winning like never before. We will bring

:11:45. > :11:49.back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our

:11:50. > :12:04.wealth. And we will bring back our dreams. We will build new roads and

:12:05. > :12:12.highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways, all across

:12:13. > :12:17.our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back

:12:18. > :12:29.to work, rebuilding our country with American hands and American labour.

:12:30. > :12:37.We will follow two simple rules. By American, and higher American. We

:12:38. > :12:43.will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world. But

:12:44. > :12:50.we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to

:12:51. > :12:55.put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life

:12:56. > :13:07.on anyone, but rather to let it shine, as an example. We will shine

:13:08. > :13:12.for everyone to follow. We will reinforce old alliances and form new

:13:13. > :13:17.ones, and unite the civilised world against radical Islamic terrorism,

:13:18. > :13:30.which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth. At the

:13:31. > :13:34.bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United

:13:35. > :13:37.States of America. And through our loyalty to our country, we will

:13:38. > :13:44.rediscover our loyalty to each other. When you open your heart to

:13:45. > :13:57.patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

:13:58. > :14:06.The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people

:14:07. > :14:10.live together in unity. We must speak our minds openly, debate our

:14:11. > :14:17.disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is

:14:18. > :14:31.united, America is totally unstoppable. There should be no

:14:32. > :14:35.fear. We are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be

:14:36. > :14:43.protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement.

:14:44. > :14:54.And most importantly, we will be protected by God.

:14:55. > :15:02.Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we

:15:03. > :15:08.understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. We

:15:09. > :15:13.will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action,

:15:14. > :15:22.constantly complaining, but never doing anything about it.

:15:23. > :15:38.The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action. Do not

:15:39. > :15:44.allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can

:15:45. > :15:49.match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our

:15:50. > :15:58.country will thrive and prosper again. We stand at the birth of a

:15:59. > :16:03.new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the

:16:04. > :16:09.earth from the miseries of disease and to harness the energies,

:16:10. > :16:15.industries and technologies of tomorrow, a new national pride will

:16:16. > :16:25.stir our souls, lift our sights and heal our divisions. It's time to

:16:26. > :16:29.remember old wisdom our soldiers will never forget - whether we are

:16:30. > :16:39.black, brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots.

:16:40. > :16:45.APPLAUSE We all enjoy the same glorious

:16:46. > :16:57.freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag. Whether a child

:16:58. > :17:02.is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the wind-swept plains of

:17:03. > :17:06.Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart

:17:07. > :17:17.with the same dreams and they are infused with the breath of life by

:17:18. > :17:21.the same almighty creator. APPLAUSE

:17:22. > :17:28.So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from

:17:29. > :17:39.mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will

:17:40. > :17:43.never be ignored again. CHEERING

:17:44. > :17:48.Your voice, your hopes and your dreams will define our American

:17:49. > :17:55.destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide

:17:56. > :18:01.us along the way. Together, we will make America strong again. We will

:18:02. > :18:08.make America wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will

:18:09. > :18:14.make America safe again. And yes, together, we will make America great

:18:15. > :18:24.again! Thank you, God bless you and good bless America. Thank you. God

:18:25. > :18:31.Bless America. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

:18:32. > :18:35.STUDIO: Donald Trump there delivering an inaugural address 20

:18:36. > :18:38.minutes long, directed clearly at his supporters and his followers,

:18:39. > :18:43.the people he called the forgotten Americans. He talked about a

:18:44. > :18:48.transfer of power from Washington DC to the rest of the country and

:18:49. > :18:54.giving people back their power, but this was also a strongly Nationalist

:18:55. > :19:06.speech. He talked about making America great again. He said there

:19:07. > :19:10.would be a new decree, a new vision that will govern our land, it will

:19:11. > :19:17.America first. He talked about total allegiance to the United States of

:19:18. > :19:20.America, about having hearts full of patriotism. This was an address to

:19:21. > :19:25.the people who support him, the people who he calls the forgotten

:19:26. > :19:27.Americans and a strong Nationalist call for America's role in the

:19:28. > :19:47.world. Eternal God, bless President Donald

:19:48. > :19:56.J Trump and America, our great nation. Guide us to remember the

:19:57. > :20:03.words, who may dwell on your holy mountain, one who does what is right

:20:04. > :20:11.and speaks the truth. Who knows that when you eat the labour of your

:20:12. > :20:21.hands you are praise worthy, that he who sows in tears shall reap in joy,

:20:22. > :20:27.because the freedoms we enjoy are not granted in perpetuity, but must

:20:28. > :20:33.be reclaimed by each generation. As our ancestors have planted for us,

:20:34. > :20:42.so we must plant for others. While it is not for us to complete the

:20:43. > :20:46.task, neither are we free to desist from them. Dispense justice for the

:20:47. > :20:52.needy and the orphaned, for they have no-one but their fellow

:20:53. > :21:01.citizens and because a nation's wealth is measured by her values and

:21:02. > :21:09.not by her vaults, bless all of our allies around the world who share

:21:10. > :21:17.our beliefs, by the rivers of Babylon we wept as we remembered

:21:18. > :21:24.Zion. If I forget the old Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.

:21:25. > :21:32.The doer of all these shall never faulter. May the days come soon when

:21:33. > :21:40.justice will dwell in the wilderness and righteousness will abide in the

:21:41. > :21:46.fertile fields and the work of righteousness will be peace,

:21:47. > :21:57.quietness and confidence forever. Amen.

:21:58. > :22:05.Mr President, in the Bible rain is a sign of God's blessing and it

:22:06. > :22:15.started to rain Mr President when you came to the platform. It's my

:22:16. > :22:23.prayer that God will bless you, your family, your administration and may

:22:24. > :22:32.he bless America. The passage of scripture comes from first Timothy

:22:33. > :22:36.chapter two. I urge then first of all that petitions, prayers,

:22:37. > :22:43.intercession and thanks giving be made for all people, for kings, for

:22:44. > :22:50.all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all

:22:51. > :22:54.Godliness and holiness. This is good and it pleases God our saviour, who

:22:55. > :23:01.wants all people to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth.

:23:02. > :23:07.For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind,

:23:08. > :23:16.the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.

:23:17. > :23:21.Now to the king eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God be honour

:23:22. > :23:32.and glory forever and ever in Jesus name, amen.

:23:33. > :23:39.We thank you feather for letting -- Father for letting us share this

:23:40. > :23:43.great moment together. Let us not take for granted the air we breathe

:23:44. > :23:48.or the life you've given us. We were all created by you with one blood,

:23:49. > :23:53.all nations to dwell upon this land together. We are not enemies but

:23:54. > :23:57.brothers and sisters. We're not adversaries, but we're allies. We're

:23:58. > :24:02.not foes, but we're friends. Let us be healed bit power of your love and

:24:03. > :24:06.united bit bond of your spirit. Today we pray for our 45th

:24:07. > :24:10.President, the Vice President and their families and give them the

:24:11. > :24:17.wisdom to guide this great nation, the strength to protect it and the

:24:18. > :24:23.hands to heal it. We bless President Donald J Trump, we ask that you give

:24:24. > :24:27.him the wisdom of Solomon, the peakness of Christ. Solomon kept

:24:28. > :24:35.peace among nations. Joseph dreamt better for the people and Christ who

:24:36. > :24:41.accepted us all. Mend our hearts and stitch together the fabric of this

:24:42. > :24:45.great country. In the spirit of the Gospel song writer, O deep many my

:24:46. > :24:51.heart, I do believe, the Lord will see us through, I do believe. We are

:24:52. > :24:55.on our way to victory, I do believe. We will walk hand in hand, I do

:24:56. > :25:01.believe. We shall live in peace, I do believe. O, deep in my heart, I

:25:02. > :25:06.do believe, America we shall overcome." May the Lord bless and

:25:07. > :25:11.keep America and make his face shine upon us and be gracious unto us and

:25:12. > :25:21.give us peace in the mighty name of Jesus, amen.

:25:22. > :25:24.Ladies and gentleman, please welcome Jackie Evanko accompanied by the

:25:25. > :25:27.United States marine band. Please stand for the singing of the

:25:28. > :25:58.national an then. -- anthem.

:25:59. > :26:07.# O, say can you see by the dawn's early light

:26:08. > :26:18.# What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming

:26:19. > :26:24.# Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight

:26:25. > :26:38.# O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming

:26:39. > :26:48.# And the rockets' red glare The bombs bursting in air

:26:49. > :26:59.# Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there

:27:00. > :27:12.# O Say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

:27:13. > :27:35.# O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? #

:27:36. > :27:47.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Ladies and gentleman, please remain

:27:48. > :27:50.standing while the President and official party depart the platform.

:27:51. > :27:57.You will be released by sections shortly.

:27:58. > :28:01.STUDIO: There we have it, the official inauguration ceremony is

:28:02. > :28:05.now over. Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States,

:28:06. > :28:11.leaving the inauguration stand. He goes first. His wife Melania will

:28:12. > :28:17.follow, President Obama follows Donald Trump. Now former President

:28:18. > :28:26.Obama follows behind. There he is, Donald Trump. Property billionaire

:28:27. > :28:31.having just given an inaugural speech, promising to change America,

:28:32. > :28:35.promising to bring back jobs to America, promising that in

:28:36. > :28:39.everything it will be America and American workers first. He talked

:28:40. > :28:46.about American borders being ravaged by other countries. Barack Obama

:28:47. > :28:54.saying goodbye to Bob Dole and Libby Dole. Bob Dole who ran for President

:28:55. > :29:01.himself, unsuccessfully in 1996, against Bill Clinton. Joe Biden also

:29:02. > :29:07.leaving there. You see Donald Trump in the Capitol Building. He will be

:29:08. > :29:12.going off to a celebratory lunch for the new President with his wife.

:29:13. > :29:17.Meanwhile, of course, Barack Obama will be going off to a new life in

:29:18. > :29:25.retirement. Jon, quite a speech. Quite a speech and I think we've

:29:26. > :29:32.heard so often an inaugural address that is very carefully modulated and

:29:33. > :29:37.a conciliatory speech. I don't know why we thought Donald Trump would do

:29:38. > :29:42.a standard political speech. He delivered a more pollish version of

:29:43. > :29:47.the way he has campaigned throughout the country, these past 18 months,

:29:48. > :29:51.and has sought to say, you know what, the way you saw me campaigning

:29:52. > :29:54.is the way I'm going to govern. It was like he kind of had the

:29:55. > :29:58.political elite all around him and said, look at you all, you've all

:29:59. > :30:02.done nothing. I'm going to transfer the power back to the people. I'm

:30:03. > :30:09.going to do the stuff that none of you have ever done. It was as

:30:10. > :30:16.anti-establishment address you could hear. With the establishment next to

:30:17. > :30:21.Muslim. Exactly. Next to him. Exactly, you could imagine them

:30:22. > :30:23.fidgeting like school children in their seats. As though he was

:30:24. > :30:28.telling them off, saying to the people, I am your man, you judge me

:30:29. > :30:32.on how I succeed. Going forward and you know, hear him talking about,

:30:33. > :30:36.it's going to be hire first, buy American first, bringing back

:30:37. > :30:41.manufacturing jobs, bringing back all these things, how easy is that

:30:42. > :30:45.when it's not just cheap labour from the Philippines or Mexico, it's

:30:46. > :30:48.non-passport carrying robots that have taken many American jobs. That

:30:49. > :30:52.is the challenge that he has laid out. This is how he wants to be

:30:53. > :30:57.judged on turning this all around. On infrastructure, yes, he can do

:30:58. > :31:00.that. He can introduce the legislation that will allow a vast

:31:01. > :31:06.increase in spending on infrastructure. That will create

:31:07. > :31:10.jobs, of course. But going forward, does he reboot the US economy, going

:31:11. > :31:14.back to manufacturing, to steel production, to doing all those

:31:15. > :31:16.things, textiles, that have gone away over the past 20, 30 years as a

:31:17. > :31:28.result of globalisation? Carlos Watson, Republican strategist

:31:29. > :31:32.and media consultant, I listened to that speech and I imagine many

:31:33. > :31:37.people around the world and our audience in the UK and in Europe and

:31:38. > :31:41.Asia who were watching, millions of them watching that speech will have

:31:42. > :31:47.her the message from Donald Trump, every single decision we make will

:31:48. > :31:52.now be about America first. He said that definitively, and he said that

:31:53. > :31:56.throughout the campaign, make America great again, America first,

:31:57. > :32:00.and was crisp and clear about that. You and I have both acknowledged

:32:01. > :32:06.that President Obama managed to cut the unemployment rate in half and it

:32:07. > :32:09.is below 5%, but what is hidden in there is that there are 9 million

:32:10. > :32:14.people believed to have dropped out of the workforce who are not counted

:32:15. > :32:18.in that number, so there is a meaningful joblessness problem and

:32:19. > :32:23.certainly a wage issue as well. So there will be opportunities. Will he

:32:24. > :32:27.be challenged by questions of technology, trade and immigration,

:32:28. > :32:31.even a trade war? No doubt about it. But is it clear that he seems

:32:32. > :32:37.determined to do it, and as he said, the talk stops and action begins

:32:38. > :32:41.now? It would seem that is the case. Carlos Watson and Jon Sopel are here

:32:42. > :32:44.with me listening to this as the members, dignitaries and those

:32:45. > :32:48.establishment people who have just been told off by the new President

:32:49. > :32:52.Donald Trump leave the stadium. Let's go down to the National Mall

:32:53. > :32:58.and find out what Donald Trump's supporters made of the inaugural

:32:59. > :33:02.address. Well, as you can see, people are

:33:03. > :33:08.starting to leave the National Mall here. I am halfway up, and where I

:33:09. > :33:12.was it was not too crowded, but up close people were crammed in to

:33:13. > :33:16.watch the address on the screens. I am joined by some Donald Trump

:33:17. > :33:22.supporters. Thank you for joining us on the BBC. You are Rob. You have

:33:23. > :33:31.come from? West Chester, Pennsylvania. Patricia. We will

:33:32. > :33:36.start with you two. What did you think of the presidential address? I

:33:37. > :33:39.thought he gave an amazing message of unity among the people and giving

:33:40. > :33:44.the nation back to the people. It was a strong message and he conveyed

:33:45. > :33:48.it very well. He talked about everyone having the same blood,

:33:49. > :33:52.everyone having red blood, whether you are black or white, trying to

:33:53. > :33:57.unite a divided country. How successful do you think he will be

:33:58. > :34:01.in reality, away from the presidential address? I really hope

:34:02. > :34:04.he is successful. It is a matter of everybody listening, talking and

:34:05. > :34:09.coming together, and that was his message. There were many protesters,

:34:10. > :34:14.but they were peaceful today. That is what I love about our country. It

:34:15. > :34:17.is time to open hearts and minds and move forward and be successful as a

:34:18. > :34:23.country. You have travelled from Atlanta today. Having listened to

:34:24. > :34:28.that address, what kind of President do you think Donald Trump will be? I

:34:29. > :34:31.think he will be great. It is important to remember that it is a

:34:32. > :34:35.democracy and it is nice to hand the power to the people so I look

:34:36. > :34:41.forward to that. What weaknesses do you think he might have in office? I

:34:42. > :34:47.am not quite sure. Every President has some, but I don't know what his

:34:48. > :34:55.might be. I think he has said he wants to repeal Obama care, and that

:34:56. > :34:58.is something he might struggle with. Back to you, Patricia. Donald Trump

:34:59. > :35:02.had a list of policies and pledges, but someone like you was attracted

:35:03. > :35:05.to those during the campaign. What do you think should be the

:35:06. > :35:10.priorities now that he is President Trump and will be in the Oval

:35:11. > :35:14.Office? Certainly addressing some of the economy and spending of

:35:15. > :35:17.government, bringing the government back to the people. Government has

:35:18. > :35:22.become more about politicians and less about the people on both sides,

:35:23. > :35:28.so I am really hoping, and he seems sincere in what he says, that that

:35:29. > :35:34.is what will happen. But he is now a politician. Isn't that amazing?

:35:35. > :35:40.Everyone gave him no credit. Back to the studio. Thank you for joining

:35:41. > :35:45.us. We are going to jump in here back to

:35:46. > :35:54.Capitol Hill, because we are now seeing the pictures of Donald Trump,

:35:55. > :35:57.you just saw him there, and President Obama. President Trump and

:35:58. > :36:01.President Obama walking through the Capitol building. They will now come

:36:02. > :36:06.out onto the East side of the Capitol Building, and you can see

:36:07. > :36:12.the helicopter. That is the helicopter that will take Barack

:36:13. > :36:16.Obama and Michelle Obama away from Washington, whisk them away from

:36:17. > :36:21.this scene. They are now history. They are the past. And the future

:36:22. > :36:26.will carry on inside that building. They will get a ceremonial goodbyes

:36:27. > :36:30.from Donald Trump. They will then be flown to Andrews Air Force Base, and

:36:31. > :36:36.from there they will fly on a plane that will not be Air Force One,

:36:37. > :36:40.although it looks rather like it. It will be a special air mission plane

:36:41. > :36:46.that will fly them to palm springs, California, where they are going to

:36:47. > :36:53.take a vacation. But this is the beginning of the end of President

:36:54. > :36:57.Obama's eight years in office. He is now a former President and we will

:36:58. > :37:04.wait to see him come out, shake hands with those dignitaries, and

:37:05. > :37:05.leave office. Here we go. President Donald Trump, former President

:37:06. > :37:20.Barack Obama. This is a remarkable moment in

:37:21. > :37:24.American history. Two men, very different world views, have tried to

:37:25. > :37:28.work together in this transition programme, won a Republican, one a

:37:29. > :37:32.Democrat, one who has served eight years in office, one who was about

:37:33. > :37:37.to begin his term in office. From now on, it is Donald Trump who

:37:38. > :37:42.carries the weight of office with him. A final chat between these two

:37:43. > :37:45.men. Donald Trump has just given an inaugural address but in many ways

:37:46. > :37:50.it was a repudiation of the politics of Barack Obama. Melania Trump has

:37:51. > :37:58.also come to say goodbye to the Obamas. Barack Obama, taking his

:37:59. > :38:02.wife's hand, a quick kiss on the hand for Michelle. This is not an

:38:03. > :38:07.easy day for this couple. They leave their home, they leave their job,

:38:08. > :38:09.they leave the office of the presidency, and they are handing

:38:10. > :38:16.over to somebody with a very different world view, and in many

:38:17. > :38:20.ways a future that is very unknown. They say goodbye to their vice

:38:21. > :38:28.President. These couples have been close. Jill Biden and Joe Biden also

:38:29. > :38:32.saying goodbye to the trumps. As Jon Sopel said earlier, this is not just

:38:33. > :38:39.politics, it is personal. What are these people thinking? Barack Obama

:38:40. > :38:43.is smiling and looking relaxed because this has been a long and

:38:44. > :38:47.gruelling period. We feel we have watched him age and grey with the

:38:48. > :38:52.burden of office. But he must also feel, listening to that speech, so

:38:53. > :38:58.what will be left of what I have done over the past eight years? And

:38:59. > :39:02.he leaves office with very high approval ratings, but in terms of

:39:03. > :39:06.concrete steps, is Donald Trump going to undo various bits of the

:39:07. > :39:11.policy, the Iran nuclear deal, policy towards the Middle East,

:39:12. > :39:17.policy towards Cuba, climate change. The list goes on and on. Yes, it was

:39:18. > :39:23.a broadbrush speech from Donald Trump. He did not get into the

:39:24. > :39:26.specifics. But did he give us a sense of direction? Absolutely, he

:39:27. > :39:29.did. He knows where he wants to take the country and what he wants to do,

:39:30. > :39:35.and I would imagine Barack Obama feels uneasy about that. Carlos

:39:36. > :39:41.Watson. The one thing we know about Donald Trump is that he does not

:39:42. > :39:45.feel as wedded to his statements as previous politicians. What are you

:39:46. > :39:49.suggesting? One-minute Mexico is going to pay for the war, the next

:39:50. > :39:53.minute he is asking Congress to do so. One minute he has a certain view

:39:54. > :39:58.on abortion and choice, and the next minute he has a different view. I

:39:59. > :40:05.think that in President Donald Trump, I would not be surprised to

:40:06. > :40:09.see him change course. Whether it has been the Secretary of State

:40:10. > :40:14.nominee, the EPA nominee, the Defence Secretary nominee, we have

:40:15. > :40:19.heard them shift from his worldview on questions of torture, questions

:40:20. > :40:22.of Russian hacking, even from questions of climate change as a

:40:23. > :40:28.hoax, you have heard some variability. Here we go, Donald

:40:29. > :40:32.Trump, Melania Trump, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama making their way down

:40:33. > :40:35.the steps of the East side of the Capitol, to the helicopter that will

:40:36. > :40:40.take the outgoing President and his wife. You wonder how much these two

:40:41. > :40:45.men will keep in touch. How much will Donald Trump seek advice from

:40:46. > :40:50.Barack Obama once he has left office? It will be an interesting

:40:51. > :40:52.relationship. Who would have guessed that the relationship that grew

:40:53. > :41:00.between Bill Clinton and George Bush? And the relationship that has

:41:01. > :41:04.clearly built up between Barack Obama and George W Bush. They seem

:41:05. > :41:11.to be completely different types of figures. I think the fact that this

:41:12. > :41:17.relationship in some ways got started with the birth controversy,

:41:18. > :41:22.which many people judged to be at best racially tinged and at worst

:41:23. > :41:25.racist, I think that will jaundice to some extent how deep that

:41:26. > :41:34.relationship could become. In the case of Clinton... Donald Trump says

:41:35. > :41:40.goodbye to Barack Obama. Melania Trump kisses Michelle on the cheeks.

:41:41. > :41:44.Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are on the way out. There will be an

:41:45. > :41:48.outpouring of missing Barack Obama on the part of many Americans. Not

:41:49. > :41:51.just because his approval numbers are high, but when someone has in

:41:52. > :41:57.with you that long and leaves on a high note... There we go. The world

:41:58. > :42:01.says goodbye to Barack Obama, having been in office for eight years,

:42:02. > :42:09.immensely popular around the world. He turns and waves goodbye. And

:42:10. > :42:13.that's it. The last we see of Barack Obama in Washington. He will fly to

:42:14. > :42:20.Andrews Air Force Base, say goodbye to his staff. He is leaving office.

:42:21. > :42:25.The new man is coming back into the Capitol building. That's it. He's

:42:26. > :42:30.alone now. He doesn't have Barack Obama at his side any more. He is

:42:31. > :42:35.the 45th President of the United States and the decisions and cares

:42:36. > :42:38.of office are now on his shoulders. One can imagine the briefing is

:42:39. > :42:41.taking place in a short space of time. Maybe there were military

:42:42. > :42:44.operations planned in far-away countries on which he has to give

:42:45. > :42:49.final approval in the situation room. It starts immediately. It's

:42:50. > :42:55.not like you can suddenly say, we'll have a few days off from governing.

:42:56. > :43:00.The governing is intense. When we watch episodes of the West Wing, or

:43:01. > :43:05.whatever programming happens to be, crises are discreet and follow

:43:06. > :43:09.sequentially. In real life, in government, it isn't like that. They

:43:10. > :43:14.come at you at multiple times and you are fending off umpteen

:43:15. > :43:18.different crises simultaneously. He will have to deal with these crises

:43:19. > :43:23.as he tries to change the country, and he will knock up against the

:43:24. > :43:26.reality of government. He will knock up against it but remember, right

:43:27. > :43:30.now his opponents are back on their heels of it, both on the Republican

:43:31. > :43:34.side, because many of them didn't support him, and even on the

:43:35. > :43:39.Democratic side, surprised by it. So we he will have a little bit of

:43:40. > :43:42.room, and he has the tool visit ashen grey executive orders, which

:43:43. > :43:50.he has said he will use aggressively to unilaterally affect some

:43:51. > :43:55.policies. The blades are turning, the helicopter that will take Barack

:43:56. > :43:59.Obama and Michelle Obama out of Washington. It isn't Marine one

:44:00. > :44:04.because the President is not on board. It is only when the President

:44:05. > :44:08.is travelling. So it is the helicopter that looks like Marine

:44:09. > :44:15.one. It is a bog-standard helicopter. Yes, that is how we get

:44:16. > :44:21.around in Washington, DC. How the mighty have fallen. In the United

:44:22. > :44:25.States system he will always be President Obama but he is no longer

:44:26. > :44:29.commander-in-chief. He is another citizen going about his business and

:44:30. > :44:34.off to Andrews airbase in Maryland for a plane that will take him away.

:44:35. > :44:37.There is a video they have put on Twitter this morning of Michelle

:44:38. > :44:42.Obama and Barack Obama saying, you will not hear much from us for the

:44:43. > :44:47.next two weeks. We are going to be still, reflect and sleep a bit. And

:44:48. > :44:52.then they will come back, maybe recharged and invigorated after

:44:53. > :44:54.that. But how they manage the relationship of being the

:44:55. > :45:00.ex-president, living a couple of miles up the road, will be

:45:01. > :45:08.fascinating to watch unfold. Look at this image. For a moment, look at

:45:09. > :45:11.the image. Extraordinary, isn't it? When people speak of the symbolism

:45:12. > :45:46.of the transfer of power, their UC it. -- UC it.

:45:47. > :45:53.There it is. What a sight. Right behind us. I've got to get a photo

:45:54. > :45:56.of this for posterity. This is extraordinary. This is an

:45:57. > :46:04.extraordinary moment in the life of a democracy. Actually, it's coming

:46:05. > :46:09.right over towards our position now. The helicopter blades will probably

:46:10. > :46:15.start to be very loud. We can almost feel this helicopter, it is right

:46:16. > :46:19.behind us. Barack Obama leaving Washington, heading to Andrews Air

:46:20. > :46:22.Force Base. We're watching it over our shoulders, which is why we're

:46:23. > :46:27.turned away. He's just literally flown behind us. He flies off now.

:46:28. > :46:31.He's taking a holiday in California, in Palm Springs, with his family. He

:46:32. > :46:34.will be coming back to Washington because his daughter has school

:46:35. > :46:40.here. He can't stay away for very long. Trump Tower. The old Post

:46:41. > :46:47.Office building and that is now the new Trump international hotel.

:46:48. > :46:51.Impeccable timing. Just opened. Meanwhile, inside the Capitol

:46:52. > :46:57.Building, the festivities continue for the new President for Donald

:46:58. > :47:00.Trump and his wife. They have an elaborate lunch lined up with

:47:01. > :47:04.members of Congress, those very members of the Washington power

:47:05. > :47:09.establishment who have just been told that the power is about to be

:47:10. > :47:18.taken away from them and handed back to the American people. Senator John

:47:19. > :47:24.McCain there, they will all file into the hall for a lunch of lobster

:47:25. > :47:28.and shrimp, peanut crumble, Angus beef and chocolate souffle. My

:47:29. > :47:32.understanding is that Donald Trump has a fairly limited palate when it

:47:33. > :47:37.comes to food. He doesn't drink, of course. No alcohol for him at this

:47:38. > :47:42.lunch. He is teetotal, has been since his older brother died of

:47:43. > :47:46.alcohol poisoning, who was an alcoholic. He has admonished his

:47:47. > :47:52.children never to drink either. It's a teetotal family. Jimmy Carter had

:47:53. > :47:58.a teetotal White House. We don't know if Donald Trump will carry on

:47:59. > :48:01.that tradition. Jimmy Carter's White House was a very austere place. I

:48:02. > :48:06.think the White House Christmas party would be a rather different

:48:07. > :48:13.affair if it was no alcohol being served, catty! Katty! I think we can

:48:14. > :48:20.trust there will be some alcohol present. Trump, a long time hotelier

:48:21. > :48:27.won't be afraid to serve his guests. Let's talk a bit more about the

:48:28. > :48:31.inaugural address, because you're right, I think often times when we

:48:32. > :48:35.think of somebody standing there in this ceremonial position, they will

:48:36. > :48:39.express a sense of the weight of office and unity of the country. My

:48:40. > :48:44.feeling about that inaugural address was that it was directed very firmly

:48:45. > :48:47.at Donald Trump's supporters, not very much interest in the people who

:48:48. > :48:52.did not vote for him or the fact that he comes into office having

:48:53. > :48:57.lost the popular vote, not much of an attempt at unity in the country.

:48:58. > :49:01.He made the comment that America, when it is united, is unstoppable.

:49:02. > :49:06.But America is not united. That was not a speech that did very much to

:49:07. > :49:13.unite the country. It was a very different tone from the speech he

:49:14. > :49:16.gave in New York in the wee small hours of November 8th after he won

:49:17. > :49:19.the election. He did talk about, I'm here to represent all Americans. He

:49:20. > :49:24.was making the argument that everyone is going to benefit from

:49:25. > :49:29.this and we are all together and he used that old military metaphor, if

:49:30. > :49:32.it doesn't matter whether you're black, brown or white, you all shed

:49:33. > :49:38.the same blood. It's going to be a challenge for him to try and bring

:49:39. > :49:43.people together, to buy into the policies that he is setting out.

:49:44. > :49:46.There will be many people, maybe on the East Coast, maybe on the West

:49:47. > :49:50.Coast, who voted in such big numbers for Hillary Clinton and who voted in

:49:51. > :49:55.greater numbers than they did for Donald Trump in terms of the popular

:49:56. > :49:59.vote, to get them to believe in this vision. But if jobs are coming back,

:50:00. > :50:04.if people are seeing their living standards rise, and if they feel

:50:05. > :50:09.that their neighbourhoods are getting safer, these are the chael

:50:10. > :50:13.engs he's set himself. -- challenges he's set himself. He's set the bar

:50:14. > :50:16.very high about transforming American society in terms of drugs,

:50:17. > :50:21.in terms of crime, in terms of people feeling safe, in terms of

:50:22. > :50:27.people having well paid jobs. As Carlos poirnted out, Donald Trump

:50:28. > :50:29.has proved himself quite capable of setting one standard and operating

:50:30. > :50:32.on a different standard without turning much of a hair about

:50:33. > :50:37.changing the facts on the ground. Correct. To say it in a positive

:50:38. > :50:42.way, he's quite versatile when it comes to his policy pronouncements,

:50:43. > :50:46.quite elastic. That is excellent. Excellent word. It will be

:50:47. > :50:50.interesting to see where he lines up and what kind of success he has.

:50:51. > :50:53.Frankly, in many ways, he comes into this situation better than the one

:50:54. > :50:57.that President Obama got. You remember, he came into the situation

:50:58. > :51:00.where we were losing 800,000 jobs a month, where he was fighting two

:51:01. > :51:04.wars that hadn't been paid for, where the debt and the deficit were

:51:05. > :51:07.ballooning. So to the extent he does want to make meaningful change he

:51:08. > :51:12.clearly comes with a better background and a better scenario

:51:13. > :51:15.immediately than the kind of crisis-like atmosphere that new

:51:16. > :51:21.President Obama stepped into. One of the bits of political genius that we

:51:22. > :51:25.saw about Donald Trump during the campaign was his depiction of the US

:51:26. > :51:28.economy as a basket case. Whereas if you look around the world, the US

:51:29. > :51:33.economy is picking up nicely. Growth rate is up. Unemployment is way

:51:34. > :51:37.down. People are starting to spend again in the shops. There is an

:51:38. > :51:41.economic success story. He is going to inherit that at an early stage

:51:42. > :51:46.and is then able to say look at the transformation I've made. He will

:51:47. > :51:49.turn the narrative. He has been brilliant at creating that shaping

:51:50. > :51:53.of the political narrative. Let's talk about his relationship with the

:51:54. > :51:56.rest of the world and how that might change for everybody watching this

:51:57. > :52:01.from other countries, some of whom are excited about this new era, and

:52:02. > :52:06.some of whom support a more populist agenda, as we heard laid out in that

:52:07. > :52:09.speech, and some of whom watching with trepidation about what might

:52:10. > :52:12.happen between America and the world. You and I were talking,

:52:13. > :52:16.Carlos, earlier about the reality of the government. There is the reality

:52:17. > :52:20.of foreign policy as well. Donald Trump may want to do things and then

:52:21. > :52:24.jam up against the fact that China really does care about Taiwan and

:52:25. > :52:28.the one-China policy. That could come back to haunt him later on. How

:52:29. > :52:34.much is America's relationship with the world about to change starting

:52:35. > :52:38.today? I think there's no two ways that you'll see in a couple of

:52:39. > :52:41.places, certainly Russia. There will be a meaningful change. Obviously,

:52:42. > :52:45.people on different sides of the aisle feel differently about that.

:52:46. > :52:49.There will be change. You're right we're less clear about what's going

:52:50. > :53:02.to happen in China. One of the other place s we have to understand is

:53:03. > :53:06.Iran. We know that prm Netanyahu has been close to Trump. That will be a

:53:07. > :53:11.place to watch too. Lo and behold, if in May, Le Pen, has more success

:53:12. > :53:13.than some people currently expect in that election, certainly Donald

:53:14. > :53:19.Trump could become an even larger figure in Europe. Let's go down now

:53:20. > :53:27.to the national mall and get a sense of what the crowds down there are

:53:28. > :53:32.feeling and thinking about this inaugural address, it's struck us

:53:33. > :53:34.listening to it, as one that was not particularly conciliatory, aimed at

:53:35. > :53:42.Donald Trump supporters and the kind of speech, I imagine, his supporters

:53:43. > :53:47.will have absolutely loved. I am with a group of his supporters, they

:53:48. > :53:51.come from nearby Fredrik in Maryland. I will swing the camera

:53:52. > :53:57.round. I'm going to come over and talk to Mary. Thanks for joining us.

:53:58. > :54:05.You were watching up close, how close were you? We were not too far

:54:06. > :54:07.up. A little while. What due make of that first presidential address from

:54:08. > :54:13.President Trump? I thought it was excellent. He hit the point, he's

:54:14. > :54:16.putting America back to us, give it back to us. Paying attention. I like

:54:17. > :54:20.the fact that he's going to pay attention to the people who are

:54:21. > :54:25.poor, for example, Detroit, places like that. He just is giving the

:54:26. > :54:29.power back to the citizens of the United States. And how much do you

:54:30. > :54:32.think he can build bridges? A lot of his message there talking about

:54:33. > :54:37.bringing power away from Washington, that kind of thing. That's playing

:54:38. > :54:40.to his heart land, supporters like you, how can he reach across? I

:54:41. > :54:45.think he could reach across by listening to us. For example, I know

:54:46. > :54:50.on his campaign trail he went to cities that were, for example he

:54:51. > :54:56.went to Detroit, and I believe as long as he keeps the communication

:54:57. > :55:00.open, that he confronts, that he questions and that he listens. Now,

:55:01. > :55:05.you've got a friend with you who's come to watch this inauguration from

:55:06. > :55:09.Russia, no less. Thanks for joining us on the BBC. Tell us what you

:55:10. > :55:15.thought of President Trump's address and Mary you might help with some of

:55:16. > :55:23.the translation. I think that Trump is the President of United States

:55:24. > :55:28.and Trump election American people. I support American election. You

:55:29. > :55:34.like Mr Trump then? Yes. Let's move down here. Hello. What's your name?

:55:35. > :55:38.Jimmy. What was the one stand-out thing from the address for you? I

:55:39. > :55:42.liked the way he says it is all about us. It's the people, it's

:55:43. > :55:47.finally come back to us. It's nice to know that you've got a person

:55:48. > :55:50.that ran for office one time and he ran for President of the United

:55:51. > :55:55.States and he won it. He didn't work up through the ranks for 30 years.

:55:56. > :55:58.He's one of us. When he's done, he's probably going to go back to work.

:55:59. > :56:02.That's the way it should be in the United States. Let me ask you this,

:56:03. > :56:05.he said he wanted to drain the swamp, he railed against the

:56:06. > :56:08.political class here in Washington, but he's going to be the political

:56:09. > :56:13.class. Tell me quickly what you think of that? Draining the swamp in

:56:14. > :56:18.my opinion is him taking away the people who come in here and buy

:56:19. > :56:23.stuff. You buy votes, you have big corporations that come in and want

:56:24. > :56:27.to spend money to sway political people. That's what I don't like.

:56:28. > :56:31.Thanks very much. There you go. That's the view from a group of

:56:32. > :56:34.Trump supporters here on the national mall, just as President

:56:35. > :56:42.Trump has finished his inaugural address. Thank you very much. After

:56:43. > :56:46.an address that millions will have watched right around the world, here

:56:47. > :56:51.in the United States, but of course, in countries that will now have to

:56:52. > :56:55.get used to a new way of doing business. President Obama has left

:56:56. > :56:58.Washington. He's touching down at Andrews Air Force Base. He is the

:56:59. > :57:03.ex-President, the former President of the United States, a civilian of

:57:04. > :57:08.course now. He heads off to a holiday in California with his wife.

:57:09. > :57:12.He will now say goodbye to the White House staff. This, as we've been

:57:13. > :57:15.hearing through the morning, from people who've worked in the White

:57:16. > :57:18.House and been in this position, it's always an emotional goodbye.

:57:19. > :57:22.President Obama has handed over to a man would could not be more

:57:23. > :57:26.different than himself in style, in policy, in world view. There is

:57:27. > :57:30.always a transition of power from a Republican to a Democrat or vice

:57:31. > :57:34.versa, this really has been an extraordinary transition of power in

:57:35. > :57:39.America, an inauguration many thought would never happen. But

:57:40. > :57:44.Donald J Trump is now the 45th President of the United States.

:57:45. > :57:46.You've been watching this BBC News special on the inauguration of the

:57:47. > :58:17.next President of America. # America, America

:58:18. > :58:21.# God shed his grace on thee # And crown thy good with

:58:22. > :58:31.brotherhood # From sea to shining sea. I Donald

:58:32. > :58:40.John Trump do solemnly swear... # With brotherhood... That I will

:58:41. > :58:43.faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, so

:58:44. > :58:50.help me God. # From sea to shining sea#

:58:51. > :59:01.From this day forward, it's going to be only America first.

:59:02. > :59:04.Einstein replaced Newton's theory of universal gravitation

:59:05. > :59:07.with a more accurate theory - general relativity.

:59:08. > :59:10.So, why's my apple falling? Well, it's not.

:59:11. > :59:14.It is the ground that accelerates up to meet the apple.

:59:15. > :59:17.So that's why the chair that I'm sitting on now