20/01/2017 World News Today

Welcome Back To Washington, Where Donald Trump Has Been Sworn In As

The 45th President Of The United States. I'm Katty Kay, Bringing

Extraordinary Day Of It Ceremony And Celebration In Washington. Donald

Trump Looked Relaxed Ahead Of The Ceremony, Showing No Sign Of Nerves

Before He Took The Oath Of Office. Preserve, Protect And Defend.

The Constitution Of The United States.

The Constitution Of The United States.

So Help Me God. So Help Me God.

President Trump Then Promised The Assembled Crowd That America Should

Unite And He Will Make America A Great Again.

From This Day Forward, A New Vision Will Govern Our Land. From This Day

Forward, it's going to be only America first. America first.

And this marks the end of an era. Barack Obama and his wife Michelle

flew out of Washington for the last time. And tonight, in his first act

as president, Donald Trump signed executive order is around his

cabinet members. Donald Trump has promised to put

America first now that he's been sworn in as the 45th president of

the United States. In an unconventional inaugural speech, he

promised to reside over the transfer of power from Washington back to the

people. He said a new vision with Governor this land. He also said

that protection would lead to prosperity and strength, and he

promised to bring back jobs and Borders, wealth and dreams. He was

cheered by the crowd here, which had earlier booed the Democratic senator

Chuck Schumer. In the last hour he has started signing a series of

orders at Capitol Hill, it he is now with his family at Statuary Hall

having a ceremonial lunch with members of Congress as well. All

part of the inauguration facilities. I'm joined here on our perch

overlooking the Capitol by a New York City councilman and long-time

supporter of Donald Trump. I give adjoining me. Congratulations, happy

inauguration day. Thank you, it was a hard-fought and

well-deserved victory. What did you think of the

President's inaugural address? I think it was similar to the

speeches we have heard all along in the campaign. It felt like the

campaign. This is someone who is not willing to change. Sometimes, to the

joy of critics, who said he should change his way when he becomes

president. I didn't think he is a lot of metaphors or illiterate tills

to describe his vision as president of America. Instead he described

very tangible things, people on welfare, crime, drugs, things

American people face and want to see eradicated.

What do you make of the fact he comes into office with the lowest

approval ratings ever? That is something that has to worry

him politically going forward. He has four years to try and make that

better, if he wants to stand a chance of running a real action.

This is the first day of basically a four-year relationship with the

American people, I think it's off to a good start, but he has to address

and reach out to new groups. Here someone who likes to be

popular, so imagine this will also spur him on to get moving very fast,

to try and change those numbers? I imagine so. I imagine we'll see a

very ambitious agenda within his first 100 days, including repealing

Obamacare, building a wall, and some of the points he has made in his

beaches. He has no choice other than to be affected. I think everybody in

Trump's inner circle knows the microscope is going to be on him

from the media. In that inaugural address, as the

members of the Washington establishment sat behind it, he

almost gave them a ticking off. He made no parting distinction, --

party distinction, he said this has not worked for the American people.

But does the members of his own party in Congress to work with ten?

He certainly does. He does have a mandate with Republicans having both

houses of Congress. The other thing is that he was speaking to the

people in the back rows of the audience, not those in the expensive

seats. If you want to move the people in those expensive, elite

seats, you want to get the people behind you, that is what he's trying

to do. Members of Congress will watch those

approval ratings, and are more likely to go along with policies

they don't love it is about ten if he is doing well in the polls.

We have seen Democrats not turn up here. But if you want to miss the

American political spear in either direction, you need to get the

people behind you. Donald Trump was a populist candidate, he will be a

populist residence, and was very populist inaugural address today.

He doesn't have everybody behind term, only some people, that's just

the divided country we're in? If you want to talk to the members

of Congress, he needs to ignore them. This was a petty protest, a

very meaningless protest, really, when you think about how Jon Lewis

did this in 2001, and nobody remembered four days after he

announced it. I think today's protest by the Democrats will go

down as a minor footnote in history, no one will remember what happened.

Idiot think America, in four years' time, after Donald Trump has been

president for four years, will be more divided country, and does it

matter? Voice that was Barack Obama's vision, and it didn't pan

out. I think we are worse off as a

divided country now than we were eight years ago. I have Donald Trump

can motivate and people to get behind him and his message to adopt

his vision of America. Like it or not, whether you voted for him are

not, you are stuck with him as your present for four years, and I hope

people give him the respect that a lot of people gave Barack Obama in

his first term as president give us the line up for the first 100 days,

I think you'll seam of modes on Obamacare.

We've already started seeing that. Obamacare was the issue that drove

partners -- voters away from the Democratic party. If you look a

piece of literature from 2010 from a Republican congressman's district,

it's probably the same in 2016, that is how unpopular Obamacare has

become. But the Republicans now having both houses of Congress, if

they don't act on Obamacare, I think they'll be seen as failures.

We're now looking around Washington, DC, the crowds are dispersing, but

we're seeing protest around the city. These are live shots, some

from before the inauguration as well. We've seen protesters smashing

windows of shops, smashing windows of cars. It looks like the

protesters are back. I can't really tell you from these shots how many

there are. Really only seem to be a few dozen, perhaps 100 this morning,

although they were making a lot of noise and causing some damage. It is

unusual for violent protests to happen on inauguration day. I've

seen protesters on creation date, but not have these type of violent

protests we have seen. It looks to me like there are almost as many

rights police as there are protesters. Is this going to be a

function of American life of the next four years? Because we are in

this very divided country? We always believe there will be

protesters at every Republican in origin. Recall from 2004-2000 date,

there was a lot of protest against President Bush, perhaps even just

against his personality. But I don't recall protest like

this? This is deplorable. We saw people

get attacked with boundaries that were hard at them from afar. These

are people who are breaking into stories. Really, what are they

accomplishing? There are not accomplishing the goal they think

they are. They're turning people off. There is a value in having a

vibrant democratic party serve as an opposition party in Government.

These people, if they're trying to help them, they're not at all.

Thank you very much. We go to Capitol Hill, I imagine the

dignitaries have left the stand, but you're still there, Nick? Those

protesters, they don't do much good for the Democratic party, and the

Democratic party needs a hand, doesn't it?

Yeah, progressive politics is in trouble at the moment. The irony is,

about 18 months ago, everybody thought progressive politics was the

dominant force. You remember, after that awful trust and shooting,

Barack Obama going down there, on that day gay marriage became legal

around the country because of the Supreme Court decision. Obamacare

was passed. Everybody thought that progressive politics for trying

thing. -- were trying thing. But also around them, Donald Trump

announced his candidacy for president. It was not the triumph of

progressivism, but the Conservative come back. Donald Trump road that

wave, with the message we heard again today, what sounded more like

a campaign speech than inaugural address, that his first message, the

make America a great again message. And the Republicans dominate in the

White House and the house. What does that mean, make America

first again, in terms of policies and changes were America's allies

around the world, for example? What it means specifically I think,

remains to be seen. I think we're going to find out what America first

means were allies. I think he's going to want all allies to do more

than they are at the moment, whether that means supporting America

militarily or helping them out in other ways. What it means that home

is his going to try and keep a lot of Manufacturing jobs in America by

cajoling and putting pressure and sometimes bullying corporate cheese

not outsourced jobs abroad. To not relocate their plants in places like

Mexico. I think that's what he means first by a America first in domestic

terms. He says we're going to buy American and higher American. That's

very significant. It was also a case nationalistic speech, Robert the

most nationalistic speech we have heard an inaugural address in modern

times. -- probably the most. Let's listen to what Donald Trump

said, you heard Nick Bryant describing some of the address, it

lasted 18 minutes and focused on American jobs and patriotism.

January the 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people

became the rulers of this nation again.

APPLAUSE The forgotten men and women of our

country will be forgotten no longer. APPLAUSE

Everyone is listening to you now. You came by the tens of millions to

become part of a historic movements, the likes of which the world has

never seen before. APPLAUSE

At the centre of this movement is a crucial conviction, that a nation

exists to serve its citizens. Americans want great schools for

their children, safe neighbourhoods for their families, and good jobs

for themselves. These are just and reasonable demands of righteous

people and a righteous public. But for too many of our citizens, a

different reality exists. Mothers and children, trapped in poverty in

our inner cities. Rusted-out factories, scattered like tombstones

across the landscape of our nation. An education system flush with cash,

but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all

knowledge. And the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have

stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much under realised

potential. This American courage stops right here and stops right

now. APPLAUSE

We are one nation. And their pain is our pain. Their

dreams are our dreams. And their success will be our success. We

share one heart, one home, and one laureate destiny. The oath of office

I take today is and owes of allegiance to all Americans.

APPLAUSE For many decades, we'd enriched

foreign industry at expense of American industry.

Subsidised the armies of other countries, while allowing for the

very sad depletion of our military. We've defended other nations'

borders while refusing to defend our own.

APPLAUSE And spent trillions and trillions of

dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into

disrepair and decay. We've made other countries rich

while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has

dissipated over the horizon. One by one, the factories shattered and

left our shores. With not even a thought about the millions and

millions of American workers that were left behind. The wealth of our

middle-class has been ripped from their homes and redistributed all

across the world. But that is the past. And now, we're looking only to

the future. APPLAUSE

We, assembled here today, are issuing a new decree to be heard in

every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hole of power.

From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day

forward, it's going to be only America first. America first.

APPLAUSE Every decision, on taxes, on

immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American

workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the

ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies

and destroying our jobs. President Trump giving his inaugural

address just a couple of hours ago. Wild applause from his supporters

here who have, from all over the country to listen to the president

give that address. They very much like what they heard, the idea that

parrot is being taken away from Washington and handed back to the

American people, and this will result in changes to the American

economy, that will help American workers. Nick Bryant, I want to ask

you about the protests, these are happening around Washington, DC, I

don't remember seeing violent protests at previous inaugurations.

Alan usual is this time in terms of the divisiveness of the country, and

is something we're going to have to get used to for next four years?

Like you, I've not seen scenes like this in a modern inauguration, and I

can even think of any end they history of the last hundred 40

years. We saw protests in the end of the contestants election, the

Florida recount for President Bush's first-term. We didn't see scenes

like this, however. We didn't see the kind of violence and attacks on

property. People wearing balaclavas, things like that. This is new. It

does speak of this polarised nation. The United States of America at the

moment sounds like an oxymoron. It's is like a geographic expression, not

a functioning nation that has a real sense of unity. That's just absent

at the moment. It's been absent for a long time, we'd seen decades of

this type of polarisation on Capitol Hill. There was a toxic atmosphere

in the 90s when a Republican Congress sought to impeach President

Pointon. We saw urging the Bush years, during the barmy is, what

Donald Trump led that birth amendment, questioning whether and

not he was even a American citizens. I cannot remember a time in other

times, the 60s, early 70s, I can remember a time in modern politics,

modern American politics, that has been quite so like this. Quite so

polarised. I think one difference between now

and when Barack Obama was president, he came in promising a purple

America, Norma red or blue states, it is good to be a country that came

together. It's been set for a while that America and Brad Obama became

ungovernable, nothing to get done. The difference now is that a lot can

be done, because Donald Trump has united, not divided governments, and

he has a lot of power in tying to promote his agenda.

It is worth roaming that for six of the eight years of the Obama

presidency he was dealing with a hostile Congress. They try to thwart

him at every turn. In the Senate, in the house, to really block his

agenda, and stopping doing much. What we're sing at the moment, is

that the level of hyper partisanship, is really

unprecedented. Senators in Capitol Hill and house lawmakers used to get

on with each other despite the parts and differences, but we don't get

that to the same extent any more. Negative state draft is the way this

place operates, and it's led to this terrible dysfunction. The

beneficiary of that is the political outsider. Donald Trump, who scalded

Washington in the opening sections of his administration, think that is

at the transfer of power from one administrator into the next, it's

the transfer of power from Washington to you.

I imagine there were a lot of awkward faces on that podium behind

you. Thank you very much. Let's go down to the parade routes, there is

some news coming out of the trap at the restriction -

actor, he's in the BBC Newsroom Live -

the trap administration saying it's going to lose no time in terms of

repealing Barack Obama's policies? We have to some extent been trying

to read TVs in terms of what the trap administration is doing, what

pages they had been taking down. They took down something on climate

accord, they took something down on LGBT writes. The Labor Department,

we're also guessing words, they want to fund a new muscle defends system

to defend the US against possible Iranian or North Korean muscles.

There is talk about funding the wall. There have been funding

appropriations for funding the wall to bypass Congress, to use that to

pay for the wall. I think what the Trump administration appears to be

trying to do is to find ways to take action that don't require direct the

long, grinding process of legislation, finding ways to do

things very quickly. Environmental regulations, another big one, if

they start rolling back some of Barack Obama's executive orders

regulating coal-fired power plants, one that would allow more drilling

on US Government land. These are all things the Trump administration

things it can take care of very quickly. It is they are hitting the

ground running. How unusual is it, minutes after an

inauguration, for a new president to already be changing, literally, the

infrastructure in terms of website infrastructure of the American

Government and acting like this? It's not particularly unusual. Every

time there's change in power in the White House, the new president wants

to be seen as getting things done very early on. One thing you see a

lot from new president is as changing some language on abortion.

Each new president that comes in, Democrat or Republican, will change

whether organisations abroad that received grants from the federal

Government can talk about abortion as part of family planning. Donald

Trump has audit said, someone as administration has reset, that they

are going to change that, reinstate the Mexico City gag rule on Sunday.

It's not unusual to see these things take place. Although there was that

dramatic moment earlier today when Donald Trump sat inside the Capitol

and was signing papers, showing that he was taking action.

Yeah, I haven't seen that before. Donald Trump has always said right

along that he wanted to make sure things got done quickly, and he is

moving fast on that promise already. Thank you very much. Quick update

there are, already on the White House website, you are ready sea

changes on certain US Government departments. You will already see

changes on some pages, they had taken down others, they're committed

themselves to repealing some president Obama's actions on climate

change. It's going to be a very, very busy few months, and clearly

Donald Trump is also better make it a busy few days. He's starting very

early on. Quick news update from the, to say that from this time on

Monday, I will be here with a new programme covering Donald Trump's

first acts as president. You'll also be looking at the Brexit effect and

much more. It's going to be called 100 cataract days, it's bling to be

a very busy time on both sides of the Atlantic, and we will be here to

cover it. Without this new era desert a new programme because

there's so much going on about size of the Atlantic, it is an

extraordinary moment in geopolitics with the Brexit process becoming

formal, and as we saw here in Washington, with President Trump

taking office and prompting a very different way of doing business here

in Washington. You've been watching the inauguration of

It is looking fine unsettled and light winds and