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[00:39:48] Speaker 1: Move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck, move the truck Move around the truck. Move around the truck. Move around the the truck. Move around the truck. Move around the the truck. Okay, let's go into the meeting room. Okay. Nice to meet you. Follow the red. If you don't want to cast your departure, you can go inside. Okay. Yeah, you can go in. Travel pool. We're going inside. Travel pool. We're going inside. Travel pool. We're going inside. Travel pool. We're going inside. Travel pool. We're going inside. Travel pool. We're going inside. Travel pool. We're going inside.

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[00:46:35] Speaker 12: Hey, everybody, on CNN.com. We are here in the very cold Washington, D.C. today, and behind this line of police officers, you can see a very, very long line of people trying to get into the Capital One Arena. That is, of course, where the inauguration celebrations are happening after the officials pouring in ceremony. Really probably hard to capture right here, but you can see this going back blocks and blocks and blocks, all throughout Washington, D.C. Not sure if everybody's actually going to be able to make it into the arena itself, but folks here are all very excited, people that we've been speaking to all morning, just delighted to be here in D.C. to see their candidate for president successfully being sworn in. There is also some counter-demonstrators here, and you can probably hear some of them in the background. Actually, just two lone counter-demonstrators in this part of D.C. Let's see if they'll talk to us. You guys chat to us live on CNN.com. So you're one of the few counter-demonstrators here at the moment. Why is it important for you, for your voice to be heard here today?

[00:47:53] Speaker 13: Because I want to make other people know and feel that the resistance isn't dead, that there are people who are disgusted by the fact that Donald Trump tried to overthrow our government on January 6th, 2021, especially as a D.C. resident, especially as somebody who saw with my own eyes the attack on our Capitol on January 6th, because I was protesting the Proud Boys and white supremacist groups who attacked the Capitol. I think that it's very important that there are people who are sick and tired of Donald Trump and that he's a wannabe dictator.

[00:48:31] Speaker 12: Thank you very much for your time. Yeah, thank you. So look, just a small, there was, of course, a People's March here over the weekend, which thousands of people showed up to a much smaller demonstration than what was initially had back in 2017, when Trump was first elected, when there was the Women's March, where there was almost half a million people gathered here in Washington, D.C. What we're expecting to see in the next few hours is hopefully a lot of these folks are hoping they're going to get into the Capitol One arena. We might see some more of these counter demonstrators showing up throughout the day. Obviously, people watching and waiting to see what is happening with the executive orders and then, of course, those very potentially controversial pardons of January 6th, people who are serving time in prison for their actions on January 6th. And a little later on today, we're actually going to be heading over and we'll be live on CNN.com outside the D.C. jail, where people who have been waiting, who have been campaigning for the release and pardoning of people who took part in January 6th, for them to get out of jail. So today could potentially be a very big day.

[00:55:52] Speaker 9: We are here at the White House North Lawn, where just moments ago you saw incoming President Donald Trump's motorcade arriving here at the White House just behind me at the North Portico and waiting outside to greet the Trumps was the Bidens, President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden. They were standing there with literally the red carpet rolled out in front of them to greet the Trumps back to the White House. And we are just getting word from the reporters that were standing at the North Portico. What exactly President Biden said to the incoming president? He said the words, we are told, Welcome home. Once the former president stepped out of the SUV and a few moments prior to that, we are also told that when reporters asked President Biden what his message is for today, his response was a one word response. And that was the word joy. Now, there is obviously irony there. We know from all of our reporting that joy is not exactly the word that President Biden is feeling in this moment. We know that President Biden, of course, based on everything he has said over the years, sees Donald Trump as a grave threat to democracy and this country's health. He very much did not want Donald Trump to be ever returning home to the White House. And as we have reported, he has been in quite a dark headspace about the position he finds himself in, feeling like he was put under a pressure campaign and forced out essentially of the 2024 race by some of his own supporters and his allies. He basically never got over that. And then, of course, since Election Day, when his vice president, Kamala Harris, was defeated by Donald Trump, we are told based on our reporting and talking to our sources that President Biden has grown increasingly embittered by just the torrent of blame that he has gotten from those in his party, those across the country for this idea that he was ultimately responsible for the return of Donald Trump to the White House. So, again, we are waiting for the Bidens and the Trumps to emerge from this tea ceremony. We are told that they are meeting currently in the Blue Room of the White House, where both tea and coffee is being served. And once the two couples emerge, they will be getting back into the motorcade and actually in the same car, we are told, to share that small amount of time together as they ride together to Capitol Hill. And over on Capitol Hill, of course, that swearing in ceremony will take place. We are already seeing a number of dignitaries starting to file in to the room, the rotunda. And of course, this ceremony was supposed to be outdoors. It is now going to be indoors. Everybody is going to be filling in now and waiting for that ceremony to begin momentarily.

[00:59:53] Speaker 11: Welcome back.

[01:00:06] Speaker 4: We are outdoors in Washington, D.C. on this frigid inauguration day, which will go down in the history books as one of the coldest inauguration days in history, not the coldest. We'll talk about that in just one moment, but history right now being made. We've got the Capitol building directly behind me. We've been watching the Bidens welcome the Trumps in the White House, which is directly over my left shoulder here, just obstructed by this building here behind you. And it is just incredible to think what has transpired over the past 72 hours with the drastic change from the ceremony, the inauguration event actually being moved indoors on account of the weather. Now, it's all about the wind chill. So it is bitterly cold right now, but the sun kind of taking the edge off of the extreme temperatures. But every time we get this gust of wind that comes in, it drops the temperatures down significantly. And that was a major factor in the decision process of Donald Trump ordering these events to be taken indoors into the Capitol Rotunda, which will be a swearing in will actually take place here at noon today. So, again, it is bitterly, bitterly cold here in D.C. We are right now on top of the CNN D.C. Bureau. We've got this view of downtown the Capitol building and the White House. But I want to give you, the viewer, a behind the scenes look at what media and journalists and meteorologists contend with on cold weather days and covering such a special event as this. I'm going to turn the camera around and show you our media space. You can see the tent behind me. My photojournalist, Tyler Ryan, behind me as well. And we've got to do our best to stay warm because we often have these extended delays in between our hits, depending on what type of news is happening. So we've actually got a heated blankets. We've got this portable heater here, which has been very, very, very helpful. This tent actually helps protect the wind that I was talking about. That brings the wind chill value down into the single digits. There are several international TV stations that here are on the top of the CNN building with us. There's another CNN Brazil here over my left hand shoulder. They're doing their best to stay warm. You can see dressed appropriately. I've got my bomber hat on and my long pea coat on to keep myself warm. Also, another critical thing that's an important factor when you're covering these cold weather events is a heated vest. So that's what I have on right now underneath this to help keep myself warm. It won't be the coldest inauguration in history. Got to go back four decades when we actually saw President Ronald Reagan's second inauguration, 1985, when the temperature was a balmy seven degrees. Right now, temperatures are in the lower 20s. But again, it's the wind chill that makes it feel like the single digits. And that is why the efforts were taken to move all of the events indoors today. So we're going to monitor the weather. It will get colder. Cold weather emergencies in effect for the city of Washington, D.C., and that is for the potential of frostbite and hypothermia if you spend extended durations outdoors without the proper gear. Hey, thanks for tuning in to this CNN digital special.

[01:03:23] Speaker 11: Take care.

[01:07:31] Speaker 3: Are we going to hurry up?

[01:07:39] Speaker 5: My son called me from the Capitol.

[01:07:53] Speaker 14: For a brief departure today.

[01:08:00] Speaker 1: Are you?

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[01:09:00] Speaker 3: Mr. Chinese.

[01:09:26] Speaker 1: Ah.

[01:10:00] Speaker 6: Ready, post.

[01:10:16] Speaker 15: Ready, post.

[01:10:20] Speaker 16: Ready, post.

[01:10:50] Speaker 1: Ready, post. Ready, post. Ready, post. Ready, post. Ready, post. Ready, post. Ready, post. Ready, post. Ready, post.

[01:11:53] Speaker 4: Ready, post. Ready, post.

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[01:18:09] Speaker 18: Mr. Speaker, good morning. How do you feel this morning?

[01:18:11] Speaker 19: It's exciting. Bright, sunny outside. Bright in our hearts.

[01:18:14] Speaker 18: Sir, what are you expecting on executive orders?

[01:18:16] Speaker 19: A lot.

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[01:19:08] Speaker 18: Mr. Majority Leader, good morning. How do you feel this morning? No interviews.

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[01:19:25] Speaker 18: ♪♪ What is your message today? Thank you. Sir, any comments? Thank you, sir.

[01:19:43] Speaker 5: No.

[01:19:44] Speaker 18: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:19:47] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, don't take it away. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

[01:20:41] Speaker 21: Hi there, I'm Brianna Kehler live from the Capital One Arena, which is really giving kind of a rally feel here. I want to tell you what you can see here. I am actually up by the podium where President-elect, then President Trump, will be speaking. They actually just put the bunting up on this a short time ago, and they just put up the presidential seal because this is something that came together very much at the last minute. And just to give you a sense of the crowd here, these are really the best seats in the house. These are front row seats, and some of the people who got these seats were actually waiting outside in the sub-zero temperatures at 9.40 p.m. last night. You can tell it kind of has a sports, sporting event feel to it. People are cheering as they're watching the events of the day on the Jumbotron. So right now they're watching President Trump, former President Trump, soon to be future President Trump, and President Biden get in the limousine at the White House. So they're watching all of the kind of comings and goings and cheering along with it, breaking out into chants of USA. I do want to give you a look at the room here at the arena. It is getting packed. The upper level is not fully packed at this point, but we're still several hours away from this event beginning. And I'm also going to walk you down now so that you can see the media center. And also, this is kind of funny. Like I said, it has a sporting event feel, of course, because here we are where the Washington Wizards play, the Capitals play. I think this is about where Wolf Blitzer's Wizard Seat tickets would be, something I never thought I would say during an inauguration, I have to tell you. It's kind of surreal that these events have been moved inside. This is the media riser. You can see all of those lights, all of the TV folks here. The print folks are behind. And this is the setup right here for a live band. The other amazing thing, and that a lot of the people in the audience don't seem to know, is that there's actually going to be a parade here. I have learned from sources who are on site and familiar with the plans. There is actually going to be a parade. It's not going to be as big, obviously, as what we were going to be seeing before outside. How are they going to do this? You would say I wondered myself. There's actually quite a lot of floor space. I assume they will clear these chairs. And there's a large thoroughfare on either side of the folded chairs. So we should be seeing marching bands. We should be seeing at least some of the participants who are going to be in the outdoor festivities. We're still waiting to figure out exactly who that is. But it is a very excited crowd here at Capital One Center. We're going to keep an eye on all the comings and goings here. As things get underway, they'll be watching the inauguration. There will be a lot of cheering, no doubt. And we'll bring it to you.

[01:24:29] Speaker 6: Senator, right this way, please.

[01:24:43] Speaker 7: Thank you.

[01:24:44] Speaker 10: Thank you. Thank you.

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[01:25:42] Speaker 24: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:27:15] Speaker 14: Thank you. Thank you.

[01:27:17] Speaker 24: Thank you.

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[01:27:29] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.

[01:27:31] Speaker 14: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:27:34] Speaker 24: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:27:39] Speaker 14: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:27:49] Speaker 24: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:29:13] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:29:24] Speaker 10: Thank you. Thank you.

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[01:29:39] Speaker 15: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:29:46] Speaker 25: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:29:50] Speaker 6: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:29:54] Speaker 3: Thank you.

[01:29:55] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:30:05] Speaker 26: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:30:14] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:30:49] Speaker 15: Thank you. Thank you.

[01:30:51] Speaker 1: Thank you.

[01:30:52] Speaker 15: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:30:55] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:30:58] Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:31:05] Speaker 15: Thank you. Thank you.

[01:31:07] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:32:59] Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you.

[01:33:01] Speaker 1: Thank you.

[01:33:02] Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:33:05] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:33:52] Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you very much.

[01:33:54] Speaker 1: Good morning sir. How are you this morning? Mr. President Trump, how do you feel? President Biden?

[01:33:58] Speaker 18: How are you this morning, Mr. President Trump? How do you feel President Biden? Good morning, Mr. Vice President, how do you feel? Any comments, sir?

[01:35:28] Speaker 22: Good morning, Mr. President, how are you this morning, Mr. Vice President, how do you feel?

[01:35:57] Speaker 25: Good morning, Mr. President, how are you this morning, Mr. Vice President, how do you feel? Ladies and gentlemen, the President-elect's Cabinet and Cabinet-level designees.

[01:36:50] Speaker 27: I'm Jeff Zeleny on the east front of the Capitol, and even though the sun is shining today and perhaps you've seen some people walking in without jackets, I can tell you it is frigid out here this morning, the coldest inaugural that I can certainly recall. That is why it's being held inside. But we are standing out here, we've been watching the arrivals all morning long. And what a, just a chain of history that is unfolding in front of us. We've seen former President Bill Clinton, former President George W. Bush, former President Barack Obama, Mrs. Bush, Mrs. Clinton, a notable absent, Michelle Obama. She has decided to not attend the inaugural. Her aides and office did not explain why, but her view of Donald Trump, of course, is very clear. But as we just watched the arrival of President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump, they rode that limousine, as we've been watching all morning long, from the White House here to Capitol Hill. What a moment of history that is. Joe Biden arrived in the Senate here on Capitol Hill in 1972, the youngest senator from Delaware. He will take his leave now as the oldest American president. Certainly not how he wanted on this very windy morning here, certainly not wanting to hand the reins of power back to Donald Trump. But he wanted to make clear, his advisors told me, that the peaceful transfer of power is so important to American democracy. So he had the Trumps over to the White House this morning, and he had that conversation. We will find out, likely in history books, what they actually talked about. But I'm struck by the fact that the previous presidents here now, this is just the second meeting of the President's Club in 11 days. Of course, they all convened for Jimmy Carter's funeral just 11 days ago. And the summer of 1946 produced three presidents, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, all three of them being inside the rotunda of the Capitol today, watching Donald Trump make history to be sworn in again as a U.S. president. It's a remarkable turn to power. It is a remarkable triumph that he certainly could not have imagined 40 years ago. As we stand here on the east front of the Capitol, as you can see, this is exactly the spot. The windows behind me are the exact spot that were breached on the insurrection on January 6th of 2021. Supporters in Donald Trump's name did that. And one of the first actions he will do is pardon some of the January 6th defendants. So after the inaugural comes, after the inaugural address comes, I am told that President Trump will be signing many executive orders here inside the Capitol before going down to the Capitol One arena to meet his supporters, also signing executive orders there and doing them later today in the Oval Office as well. So a busy first day back to power. Donald Trump is different in so many ways. The question is, will his administration be as he takes power?

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[02:25:23] Speaker 25: Ladies and gentlemen, escorting the President-elect, the Staff Director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, Elizabeth Farah, House Sergeant at Arms, the Honorable William P. McFarland, Senate Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, the Honorable Jennifer A. Hemingway, Senate Majority Leader, the Honorable John Thune, and the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, House Democratic Leader, the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, House Majority Leader, the Honorable Steve Scalise, the Honorable Mike Johnson, Senate Democratic Leader, the Honorable Charles E. Schumer, Ranking Member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Deb Fischer, and Chairwoman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Amy Klobuchar.

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[02:29:05] Speaker 31: applause Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the 60th Presidential Inauguration. Today, President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance will take their oaths of office, and we will witness the peaceful transfer of power at the heart of our democracy.

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[02:29:33] Speaker 31: applause For the past year, I've chaired the Inaugural Ceremony Committee, which includes the leadership of Congress from both parties. It's the committee and Capitol staff and law enforcement who worked so hard over the last year, and especially the last three days. You've done a beautiful job, and you have shown grace under pressure. applause

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[02:30:05] Speaker 31: Our theme this year is our Enduring Democracy. The presence of so many Presidents and Vice Presidents here today is truly a testament to that endurance. We welcome President Biden and Dr. Biden. We welcome Vice President Harris and Doug Emhoff, President Obama, President Clinton and Secretary Clinton, President Bush and Laura Bush, Vice President Pence, Vice President Quayle and Marilyn Quayle. The Justices of the United States Supreme Court are with us, all nine of them, I counted, and of course the Trump and Vance families. This ceremony marks what will soon be 250 years of our democracy. It is the moment when leaders, elevated by the will of the people, promise to be faithful to our Constitution, to cherish and defend it. It is the moment when they become, as we all should be, the guardians of our country. Through war and peace, through adversity and prosperity, we hold this inauguration every four years, and today it falls on Martin Luther King Day, a further reminder that we must strive to uphold the values enshrined in our Constitution, the freedoms, the liberties, and, as is inscribed on the entrance of the United States Supreme Court, equal justice under law.

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[02:31:45] Speaker 31: But what makes this moment more than a passing ceremony is all who are watching it across the country, the people of this nation, the ordinary people doing extraordinary things. President Kennedy, who at one point worked as a Senator in this building, and would often walk through this very rotunda, once said, in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of interest in politics, holds office. Every one of us is in a position of responsibility. With that responsibility of citizenship comes an obligation not to seek out malice, as President Lincoln once reminded us, but to view others with a generosity of spirit, despite our differences. With that responsibility of leadership comes an obligation to stand our ground when we must and find common ground when we can. With everything swirling around us, the hot mess of division, it is on all of us to quote an incredible songwriter who just happened to be born in my state, to ensure that our nation's democracy is our shelter in the storm. There's a reason this ceremony takes place at the Capitol. In other countries it might be in a presidential palace or a gilded executive office building. Here it is traditionally held at the Capitol, the people's house. It is a fitting reminder of the system of checks and balances that is the very foundation of our government, three equal branches of government. That is how for nearly 250 years our great American experiment, grounded in the rule of law, has endured. So, as we inaugurate a new president and vice president, let us remember that the power of those in this room comes from the people. The construction workers who build our country, the teachers and healthcare workers who nurture us, the troops defending our freedoms, and yes, the firefighters in Los Angeles putting themselves on the line for us.

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[02:34:18] Speaker 31: Our democracy's strength and grit must match theirs. May God bless our nation. Thank you.

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[02:34:50] Speaker 32: Good afternoon. Endurance through the years is the ultimate test. To persevere through time is the truest measure of an idea, an institution, and a nation. Our founders wrote the Constitution so that America could withstand all the twists and turns of time. They wrote it to guide us and to preserve forever our right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But as much as the truths and principles enshrined in our Constitution remain the same, our democracy promises the American people the power to change, to chart their own destiny. That's the beauty. That is the importance of democracy. It allows the endurance, the permanence of a nation through change. It allows nations like our United States both to avoid the obstacles and to seize the opportunities God has placed before us, always staying true to our founding principles. Today is our country's 60th Inauguration Ceremony. Like all the others before it, it is a celebration of our right to set our uniquely American course. The past several years have been trying at times for many, many Americans, and also for the nations of the free world that we humbly strive to lead. In November, Americans chose again to steer this nation towards greatness, the secure, safe, and prosperous future that our founders envisioned for all of us. And today, we celebrate not only their decision to do so, but also the simple right and wisdom of a free people to make their own choice so that their nation might endure. And now, allow me to welcome Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Reverend Franklin Graham, who will deliver our invocation. Please rise.

[02:37:38] Speaker 33: Be still, and know that I am God, supreme among the nations, supreme on the earth. Let us pray. Remembering General George Washington on his knees at Valley Forge, recalling Abraham Lincoln at his second inaugural, with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Remembering General George Patton's instructions to his soldiers as they began the Battle of the Bulge eight decades ago. Pray. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night. Pray by day. Observing the birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King, who warned, without God, our efforts turn to ashes. We, blessed citizens of this one nation under God, humbled by our claim that in God we trust, gather indeed this Inauguration Day to pray for our President Donald J. Trump, his family, his advisors, his cabinet, his aspirations, his Vice President, for the Lord's blessings upon Joseph Biden, for our men and women in uniform, for each other, whose hopes are stoked this new year, this Inauguration Day. We cannot err in relying upon that prayer from the Bible, upon which our President will soon place his hand and oath, as we make our own the supplications of King Solomon for wisdom, as he began his governance. God of our fathers, in your wisdom you set man to govern your creatures, to govern in holiness and justice, to render justice with integrity. Give our leader wisdom, for he is your servant, aware of his own weakness and brevity of life. If wisdom which comes not from you be not with him, he shall be held in no esteem. Send wisdom from heavens, that she may be with him, that he may know your designs. Please, God, bless America. Please, mend her every flaw. You are the God in whom we trust, who lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen.

[02:40:18] Speaker 34: Mr. President, the last four years there are times I'm sure you thought it was pretty dark. But look what God has done. We praise Him and we give Him glory. Let us pray. Our Father and our God, thou hast said, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. As the prophet Daniel prayed, blessed be the name of God forever and ever. Our Father today, as President Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office once again, we come to say, thank you, O Lord, our God. Father, when Donald Trump's enemies thought he was down and out, you and you alone said, thank you, O Lord, our God. Thank you, O Lord, our God. You and you alone saved his life and raised him up with strength and power by your mighty hand. We pray for President Trump that you'll watch over, protect, guide, direct him, give him your wisdom from your throne on high. We ask that you would bless him and that our nation would be blessed through him. We also ask that you would protect Melania as First Lady. We thank you for the beauty, the warmth, and grace that she shows not only to this nation, but to the whole world. We thank you for Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and his wife, Usha, and their young family. May he be a strength to President Trump, to stand beside him, to hold up his arms like Aaron held up the arms of Moses in the midst of battle. The Prophet Samuel reminded the people it was you that brought them up from the land of Egypt. And he said, now stand still that I may reason with you before the Lord. So, Father, we take this moment to stand still to remember the great things that you have done for this nation. Thank you for the protection, the bounty, the freedoms that we so enjoy. We pray, Father, to keep our eyes fixed on you. And may our hearts be inclined to your voice. We know that America can never be great again if we turn our backs on you. We ask for your help, and we pray all of this in the name of the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, your Son, my Savior, and our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen.

[02:43:14] Speaker 25: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Associate Justice Kavanaugh to administer the Vice Presidential Oath of Office.

[02:43:48] Speaker 1: Please rise.

[02:44:00] Speaker 8: Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States States, that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, against all enemies foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation, without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion, or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge, and that I will well and faithfully discharge, the duties of the office, the duties of the office, on which I am about to enter, on which I'm about to enter, so help me God, so help me God. Congratulations Mr. Vice President.

[02:45:15] Speaker 25: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Chief Justice Roberts to administer the presidential oath of office.

[02:45:45] Speaker 2: Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear, I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully execute, that I will faithfully execute, the office of President of the United States, the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend, preserve, protect, and defend, the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the United States, so help me God, so help me God. Congratulations Mr. President.

[02:46:45] Speaker 1: Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President.

[02:48:15] Speaker 20: Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President.

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[02:49:18] Speaker 1: Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President.

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[02:49:54] Speaker 1: Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President.

[02:50:12] Speaker 6: Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President.

[02:50:18] Speaker 1: Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President.

[02:50:45] Speaker 20: Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. Congratulations Mr. President. across the sea, with our glory in his bosom, that chants the earth, you and me. As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free while God is marching on.

[02:51:34] Speaker 1: Glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, his truth is marching on.

[02:51:53] Speaker 6: Glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, his truth is marching on.

[02:52:11] Speaker 1: Amen, amen.

[02:52:41] Speaker 32: Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor and pleasure to introduce to you the 45th and the 47th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.

[02:53:40] Speaker 36: Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Well, thank you very, very much. Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, Justices of the United States Supreme Court, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and my fellow citizens. The golden age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end. And our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free. America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before. I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country, sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before. But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face. While they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great momentum that the world is now witnessing in the United States of America. As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust. For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair. We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad. It fails to protect our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens, but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions, that have illegally entered our country from all over the world. We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders, but refuses to defend American borders or, more importantly, its own people. Our country can no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, as recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina, who have been treated so badly, and other states who are still suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago. Or more recently, Los Angeles, where we're watching fires still tragically burn. From weeks ago, without even a token of defense, they're raging through the houses and communities, even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now. They don't have a home any longer. That's interesting, but we can't let this happen. Everyone is unable to do anything about it that's going to change. We have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than any country anywhere in the world. And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases, to hate our country despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them. All of this will change starting today, and it will change very quickly. My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal, and all of these many betrayals that have taken place, and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and indeed, their freedom. From this moment on, America's decline is over. Our liberties and our nation's glorious destiny will no longer be denied, and we will immediately restore the integrity, competency, and loyalty of America's government. Over the past eight years, I have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history. And I've learned a lot along the way. The journey to reclaim our republic has not been an easy one, that I can tell you. Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom, and indeed, to take my life. Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. But I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.

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[03:00:59] Speaker 36: Thank you very much. That is why each day, under our administration of American patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength. We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety, and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. For American citizens, January 20th, 2025, is Liberation Day. It is my hope that our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of our country. As our victory showed, the entire nation is rapidly unifying behind our agenda, with dramatic increases in support from virtually every element of our society, young and old, men and women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, urban, suburban, rural. And very importantly, we had a powerful win in all seven swing states, and the popular vote we won by millions of people. To the black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote. We set records, and I will not forget it. I've heard your voices in the campaign, and I look forward to working with you in the years to come. Today is Martin Luther King Day, and his honor — this will be a great honor — but in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality. We will make his dream come true.

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[03:03:23] Speaker 36: Thank you. National unity is now returning to America, and confidence and pride is soaring like never before. In everything we do, my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success. We will not forget our country. We will not forget our Constitution. And we will not forget our God. Can't do that. Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense. It's all about common sense. First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. We will reinstate my Remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release. And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country. Under the orders I signed today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks, bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our cities and inner cities. As Commander-in-Chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that is exactly what I am going to do. We will do it at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Next, I will direct all members of my Cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices. The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.

[03:07:35] Speaker 1: We will drill, baby, drill.

[03:07:45] Speaker 36: America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have, the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are going to use it. We will use it. We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again right to the top, and export American energy all over the world. We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it. With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal, and we will revoke the Electric Vehicle Mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers. In other words, you'll be able to buy the car of your choice. We will build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago. And thank you to the autoworkers of our nation for your inspiring vote of confidence. We did tremendously with their vote. I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families. Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens. For this purpose, we are establishing the External Revenue Service to collect all tariffs, duties, and revenues. There will be massive amounts of money pouring into our Treasury coming from foreign sources. The American Dream will soon be back and thriving like never before. To restore competence and effectiveness to our federal government, my administration will establish the brand new Department of Government Efficiency. After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America. Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents. Something I know something about. We will not allow that to happen. It will not happen again. Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. And we are going to bring law and order back to our cities. This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based. As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.

[03:12:22] Speaker 1: Thank you.

[03:12:34] Speaker 36: This week, I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate with full back pay. And I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty. It's going to end immediately. Our armed forces will be freed to focus on their sole mission, defeating America's enemies.

[03:13:21] Speaker 1: Thank you. Like in 2017, we will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen. We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that

[03:13:41] Speaker 36: we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. Like in 2017, we will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen. We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.

[03:14:07] Speaker 1: Thank you.

[03:14:22] Speaker 36: My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That's what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier. I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.

[03:14:46] Speaker 1: Thank you.

[03:15:04] Speaker 36: America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world. A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and we will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs. Thank you. President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent. He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after the United States — the United States — I mean, think of this — spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal. We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made, and Panama's promise to us has been broken. The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated. Our relationships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape, or form, and that includes the United States Navy. And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back.

[03:17:02] Speaker 1: Thank you.

[03:17:11] Speaker 36: Above all, my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor, and the vitality of history's greatest civilization. So as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success. We will not be deterred. Together we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy, and disease-free. The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.

[03:18:13] Speaker 1: Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation, and right now our nation is more than just

[03:18:31] Speaker 36: more ambitious than any other. There's no nation like our nation. Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls. Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth. No one comes close. Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens, and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand. If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve. Many people thought it was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback, but as you see today, here I am. The American people have spoken. I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do. In America, the impossible is what we do best. From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington, D.C., our country was forged and built by the generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom. They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steelworkers and coal miners, police officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward, and let no obstacle defeat their spirit or their pride. Together they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that they faced. After all we have been through together, we stand on the verge of the four greatest years in American history. With your help we will restore America's promise, and we will rebuild the nation that we love, and we love it so much. We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God. So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you. We are going to win like never before.

[03:22:05] Speaker 6: Thank you.

[03:22:23] Speaker 36: In recent years our nation has suffered greatly, but we are going to bring it back and make it great again, greater than ever before. We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism. Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable. America will be respected again and admired again, including by people of religion, faith, and goodwill. We will be prosperous. We will be proud. We will be strong, and we will win like never before. We will not be conquered. We will not be intimidated. We will not be broken, and we will not fail. From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and independent nation. We will stand bravely. We will live proudly. We will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans. The future is ours, and our golden age has just begun. Thank you. God bless America. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

[03:23:59] Speaker 37: Thank you.

[03:24:11] Speaker 25: Ladies and gentlemen, performing America the Beautiful, please welcome the Armed Forces Chorus and Carrie Underwood.

[03:24:28] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[03:26:17] Speaker 13: If you know the words, help me out here.

[03:26:20] Speaker 38: Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties

[03:26:41] Speaker 35: above the fruited plain. America, America, God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

[03:27:41] Speaker 25: Ladies and gentlemen, Senator Fischer will now introduce the benediction clergy.

[03:27:52] Speaker 32: I now call on Rabbi Ari Berman, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, and Reverend Frank Mund to provide prayers of benediction.

[03:28:10] Speaker 39: Let us pray. Almighty God, your prophet Jeremiah walked the streets of Jerusalem and blessed its inhabitants with the Hebrew words, blessed is the one who trusts in God. Thousands of years later, this great nation which adopted these words as its motto, in God we trust, stands at a moment of historic opportunity. Americans are searching for meaning. Our merciful father, help us rise to meet this moment. Bless President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance with the strength and courage to choose the right and the good. Unite us around our foundational biblical values of life and liberty, of service and sacrifice, and especially of faith and morality, which George Washington called the indispensable supports of American prosperity. Guide our schools and college campuses, which have been experiencing such unrest, to inspire the next generation to pair progress with purpose, knowledge with wisdom, and truth with virtue. Hear the cry of the hostages, both American and Israeli, whose pain our president so acutely feels. We are so thankful for the three young women who yesterday returned home, and pray that the next four years brings peace to Israel and throughout the Middle East. Almighty God, grant all Americans the opportunity to realize our shared dream of a life filled with peace and plenty, health and happiness, compassion and contribution. Stir within us the confidence to rise to this moment, for while we trust in God, God's trust is in us, the American people. America is called to greatness, to be a beacon of light and a mover of history. May our nation merit the fulfillment of Jeremiah's blessing, that like a tree planted by water, we shall not cease to bear fruit. May all of humanity experience your love and your blessing. May it be thy will. And let us say, amen.

[03:31:26] Speaker 40: Let us pray for our 47th president. Heavenly Father, we're so grateful that you gave our 45th and now our 47th president a millimeter miracle. We are grateful that you are the one that have called him for such a time as this, that America would begin to dream again. We pray that we would fulfill the true meaning of our creed, that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. We pray that you use our president, that we will live in a nation where we will not be judged by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character. Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, we are so grateful today that you will use our 47th president so we would sing with new meaning, my country, tis of thee. Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring. And because America is called to be a great nation, we believe that you will make this come true. So let freedom ring. From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. From the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado, let freedom ring. From the curvaceous hilltops of California, but God, we're asking you not only that, let freedom ring. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain, Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill in Mississippi, from every state, every city, every village, and every hamlet. And when we let freedom ring, we will be able to speed up that day where all of your children, black men and white men, Protestant and Catholic, Jew and Gentile, will be able to sing in the meaning of that old Negro spiritual, free at last, free at last. Thank you, God Almighty. We are free at last. If you believe what the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Come on, put your hands together and give your great God great glory.

[03:34:20] Speaker 1: Amen.

[03:34:41] Speaker 41: Almighty and eternal God, we gather here today in reverence, joined in our shared hopes and dreams for our beloved nation. In this sacred moment of the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance, we turn our hearts to you, seeking your divine assistance and abundant blessings upon this pivotal moment in history. We come before you with profound gratitude for the many gifts you have bestowed upon our land. Thank you for the freedoms we cherish, for the strength of our communities, and for the resilience of our spirit. As our President and Vice President embrace their newly appointed roles, we humbly implore that your everlasting love and wisdom will envelop them. Grant them the clarity of mind to navigate the challenges that lie ahead, and the compassion to serve all citizens with fairness and integrity. May their hearts be filled with a giving spirit and sincere understanding for those whom they represent. May they be beacons of hope in times of uncertainty, and prophetic voices in defending the dignity of all created life. We pray for a spirit of collaboration to flourish in our government and across our nation, fostering an environment where dialogue and heartfelt listening will prevail over division or discord. May each decision made by our President and Vice President reflect the values of justice and peace. As we embark on this new chapter, we also seek your comfort, O God, for those who feel lost or disheartened. In this time of transition, may your light shine upon them, reaffirming their belief in a brighter tomorrow. May we all strive to lift one another, supporting our fellow citizens with kindness and empathy, recognizing that together we can overcome any adversity. Grant us the strength to endure, the courage to face our fears, and the clarity to see the light that remains even when clouds of uncertainty may gather. Inspire our new leaders to be champions for the vulnerable and advocates for those whose voices are often silenced. May they pursue policies that promote the well-being of all, seeking to build bridges that will foster unity and belonging. As we stand witness to this inauguration, we hold fast to our faith in the goodness of each of us and the possibility of change. We trust that with your guidance, O God, our nation can move forward to a future filled with promise, prosperity, and understanding. And finally, we lift our hearts in gratitude for the beloved parents of President Trump. Without Mary and Fred Trump, this day would never be the miracle that has just begun. From their place in heaven, may they shield their son from all harm by their loving protection and give him the strength to guide our nation along the path that will make America great again. Let us go forth now with these words of President Trump's emblazoned on our hearts. As long as we have pride in our beliefs, courage in our convictions, and faith in our God, then we will not fail. We stand tall. We stand proud. Because we are Americans. And Americans kneel to God and to God alone. Amen.

[03:39:03] Speaker 25: Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for our National Anthem.

[03:39:34] Speaker 30: What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

[03:41:08] Speaker 25: Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, please remain at your seats while the President and official party depart the platform.

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[04:08:42] Speaker 36: Trump. It was a beautiful, sunny day. We blew it. We blew it. And then I went outside and we were freezing. You would have been very unhappy. The sun was very deceptive, I will tell you. It is cold out. And I'm sort of saying, you know, that was so beautiful today. Maybe they should do it there every four years. Does that make sense? I don't know. Because, you know, the outdoor thing is really good, but it gets a little cold around this time of the year, as some people have noticed. And a lot of times they suffer through it. There was no suffering in that room. It was 72 degrees. It was perfect. With the best acoustics I think I've ever heard in a room. This is not so bad either. But I just want to say, you're a younger, far more beautiful audience than I just spoke to. And I want to keep it off the record. I want to keep that off the record because I don't want to have all those big shots up there. I don't want to think you're more powerful than them, you look better than them. And I love you. Now, we just had a great time. We just had a great day. This was amazing. You know, when you think we took a journey, I mentioned in the speech, a lot of people said that was not a journey that was possible. And it was indeed possible. I didn't really know too much about what they were saying when they say that, but a lot of people felt it. And we hooked up with JD very early. I watched JD over a period of time. I endorsed him in Ohio. He was a great, a great senator and very, very smart. The only one smarter than him was his wife. That was — I would have chosen her, but somehow the line of — the line of succession didn't work that way. Right? But now she's great and he's great. This is a great, beautiful couple and unbelievable career. I just said to him, you are very upwardly mobile because he hasn't been doing it that long. But he picked it up so quickly. Remember, the first week was a little bit like the fake news was hitting him really hard. And I said, ooh, this may be tough. But after that, it was smooth sailing for him. He took on everybody. He took on the meanest — I don't want to use the word corrupt because we're into a new system, so let's wait till the corruption begins because it will. But he took on some pretty mean people and he handled it well. I want to also congratulate Mike Johnson for the job that he's doing. Steve, we gave him a majority of almost nothing. And then I said, to make it tougher on him, let me take two or three of the people, right? I said, he'll only have to suffer with that for about three months. How are they doing, by the way? Are they — is that moving along? I said, do you mind if I take this one, that one, and a couple of others? He didn't mind. He can handle it. No, he's a man that's liked by everybody. I've never met a man like this. You've got two — how many is it, 219 or 220 or something? Mr. Johnson. The President 220. And of the 220, 219 really like him. I noticed he got one negative vote once about two weeks ago. But I think even 220 like him, if you want to know the truth. And that's very unusual. I know a lot of nice guys in Congress, and they have 35 people that hate him. So if you have 35 people that hate you and you only have one or two or three votes, you'll have five, I think. But that's — that's going to be like — you know, the good news is, when we get to that five number, it's going to feel like a massive majority. We will — you could be really nasty to a couple of them, at least. Yeah? So it's going to feel like hitting your head on the wall and stopping. It feels so good to stop. But he's done a fantastic job. And Steve Scalise is — he's our hero because, you know, I was with him. You talk about being shot. I was with him. He got some bad ones. And his incredible wife — and she really loves him. You know? You never know about that. I've been with other people. They were doing poorly, and the wife is, like, looking at a watch. She can't get out of the hospital fast enough. How's he doing? Oh, yeah, I don't know. He's all right. That woman was a mess. She was crying and crying. No, they're going to take him. They're going to take him. I told Steve when he finally woke up. It was a while, too. The doctor told me it was the most blood they've ever transfused in any patient. They've never done anything like it. And here he is, the picture of strength. Right? And he's been a great friend of mine. Right? With a family — because of a family. And what a job you did. It worked out pretty much — pretty much better than we even thought. Right? And I did have a couple of things, you know, to say that were extremely controversial. And between J.D. and Melania and anybody else that heard, please, sir — it's such a beautiful, unifying speech — please, sir, don't say these things. I said, I'm telling you, it's going to play great. They say, you're right. For this group of people, it's going to play great. You're the only ones I hurt by not — oh, but we had some beauties, didn't we, Melania? She said, sir — calls me sir when she's angry. I said, no, no, I'm only kidding. I better say, I'm only kidding, or the press is going to pick that one up loud and clear. No, but she said, no, I think it's — it would be terrible. It's such a nice speech. I think it's — you know, it all depends on your delivery. How was the delivery? Was it good? You know? But she said, it's such a beautiful — such a beautiful speech. You can't put things in there that you were going to put in. And I was going to talk about the J6 hostages. But you'll be happy because, you know, it's action, not words that count. And you're going to see a lot of action on the J6 hostages. You'll see a lot of action. And I was going to talk about the things that Joe did today with the pardons of people that were very, very guilty of very bad crimes, like the unselect committee of political thugs, where they literally — I mean, what they did is they destroyed and deleted all of the information, all of the hearings. Practically not a thing left. They deleted all the information on Nancy Pelosi having turned down the offer of 10,000 soldiers. You wouldn't have needed 10,000. You could have had 500, and it would have stopped. Because we may have had a million people that day, the people that were there. You don't see any photographs of it, but we have a lot of great photos. But you don't see those photographs. They don't put them in. They show the people at the Capitol. But I was talking about that. I was going to talk about that. They said, Please don't bring that up right now. You can bring it up tomorrow. I said, How about now, in front of the very — I'll bring it up right now. You know, this little time delay is good because we're getting great reviews on the speech. You know what? They'll take the speech and say, I didn't like it because he left there and he talked to people. But we're giving you a little more information than we gave upstairs. But no, they pardoned a lot of people. They pardoned — before we even get to today, they pardoned — what is it? — 33 murderers. Absolute murderers. The worst murderers. You know, when you get the death sentence in the United States, you have to be bad because they don't give it much. And he pardoned almost everybody having a death sentence. And if you went through the crimes that were committed, you wouldn't even believe them — the level of violence, the people that were killed, the innocence of people that were killed, and children killed by these people. And he pardoned them for whatever reason. He spared them and — but they didn't spare the people that they killed. And, you know, who knows what happens in the future. It's one of the worst because a lot of times they let them out early after that. You know, they say you're going to be in for life, but then, all of a sudden, they get let out for good behavior, and then they go on a rampage. You know, it's one of those little things. Right? But I was going to talk about that. But I was really going to talk about the — the level of, you know, what's going on. Why are we doing this? Why are we trying to help a guy like Milley? Why are we doing Milley? He was pardoned. What he said — terrible what he said. Why are we helping some of the people? Why are we helping Liz Cheney? I mean, Liz Cheney is a disaster. She's a crying lunatic and crying — crying Adam Kinzinger. He's a super-crying — I never saw the guy not crying. He's always crying. I looked at him. I remember, years ago, he was actually on my side. And then, one day — you know, when you don't want to kill people in wars, they turn against you. Liz Cheney hated the concept of — of not going to war with everybody. Let's kill everybody. Let's spend a lot of money on military equipment. You know where her father works, right? And — but what she did was incredible. Think of it. They destroyed and deleted all of that information that went on for almost two years against Trump. And the reason they did — because it was all false. Like, the person that said I tried to strangle — a Secret Service agent. That's one of the toughest human beings, I think, I've ever seen. I actually had a friend say, Please don't change that, sir. You are the coolest sucker in history. Remember, she said I put my hands around his neck because he wouldn't go to the Capitol. It was made-up fiction. And I was rebuffed. And the guy on the right is a massive weightlifter, probably stronger than me. Do you think he's stronger than me? Honey, you know who I'm talking — possibly stronger than me. Slightly younger than me. Like, I won't say how many years because I don't want to talk about that, but a lot of years. But I had a friend that said, Why are you disputing that story? That's the coolest story I've ever heard, that I would attack a karate champion, get slightly rebuffed, and then throw my arms around a guy with a neck about this big. Even though there are bars. You know, there are bars. You can't really do that. Anyway, so — so I wanted to talk about that. But all of that stuff got deleted. And the reason it got deleted is they were all caught in lies. You know, Secret Service testified, and they said it didn't happen. Actually, the two guys were very embarrassed. They're suffering because their friends are saying, Did Trump really do that to you? But they gained a whole new respect for me. But it was just make-believe stuff. And there were a lot of make-believe stories made up. So rather than suffer the wrath — like the story with Nancy Pelosi. I offered her 10,000 soldiers. She knows it. She admitted it on tape that her daughter made. She's a videographer, or whatever you call her, which I'm glad she is. Oh, she can't be in good stead with Nancy. But Nancy said, It was my responsibility — as she's leaving the Capitol, she said it was — and it was. She's in charge of security at the Capitol. But I offered them up to 10,000 soldiers, even more. One time, I said, More, as many as you need. But you needed 4, 500. If 4, 500 — you need 10,000, that would be more than the number of people there, by a lot. But we offered her 10,000. Think of it — 10,000 soldiers. In other words, J6 wouldn't be J6. There would have been no J6. But she rebuffed them. She didn't like it. No, she didn't like it. Maybe she wanted that to happen. But she's guilty as hell. And now we would have to go through the process because they destroyed all evidence. They deleted everything. There's virtually nothing left. The other fake story and so many other fake stories. And many people came out on our side, and those people now, we've got to find them. There's nothing left. So that's a criminal offense. If that were a civil case, it would be a criminal offense. If that were — if that happened civilly, where you did that, it would be a criminal offense. So I decided, I'm not going to make this speech complicated. I'm going to make it beautiful. I'm going to make it a unifying speech. And then when they said, we have a group of people that are serious Trump fans, I said, this is the time to tell those stories. You know, that's how I do it. But seriously, I'd like to — I think it was a tremendous success. I think we're very lucky we put it inside because it is really cold. We just went to the helicopter out of respect for something that's taken place for a long time. I guess it's as old as helicopters. You used to get into a stagecoach. Now you get into a helicopter. Times change. But it's pretty — pretty old custom. And it's a beautiful custom, actually. It's a beautiful custom. I wish we could have had a better relationship. I wish we could have had a better relationship between Republicans and Democrats. I was with Senator Schumer. I said, Chuck, I think it's time we all start getting along a little bit because it doesn't make sense. I mean, we literally never get a Democrat vote. They never get a Republican vote, almost. And although there is a bill coming up very shortly that we have a lot of Democrat votes, right? That's going to be a very beautiful bill. We're going to have a deciding, I would say, within a week or so, I think. And it's going to be a very good bill. You all know what I'm talking about. So I just want to thank you all for being here. You have been our fans from day one. All of you — look at all these people all over. You've been our fans. Thank you all. This has been — this has been a — there's never been anything like it. There's never been anything like it. This has been a movement like no movement ever in history for probably any country, let alone this country. You know, if somebody is running for President and if they go out and they announce they're going to Arizona, they're going to Nevada, they're going to someplace. If you have 200 or 300 people, that would be standard. Ronald Reagan would go out. I mean, outside of the last couple of days where people get a little excited. But even then, you have a couple of thousand people. But if you're going to go someplace — any place, any one of the swing states, any one of the other states. I mean, the — how about the non-swing states? We won Alabama by 48 points. We won Tennessee by massive numbers. Wyoming, we've won by numbers that are — nobody has ever seen numbers like that. And, you know, places like California, we did great. But when they send out like 38 million ballots, nobody knows where the hell they're sending them. And then they come pouring back the whole thing. You know, they passed a law in California that if you work in an election bureau and if you so much as ask for a voter ID, if you say, Sir, ma'am, could I please look at your voter ID? They have the right to put you in jail. You're a criminal. Can you believe that? There's only one reason that happens. They want to cheat. So they had it where voter ID wasn't accepted. But now, if you even ask for it — this is seriously a bill that was just signed. It passed in their legislature, and it was signed. And I think when we get things cleaned up and we get back to a little bit of normalcy, I'm going to ask the Speaker to really get involved because I think we would have won the state of California because — you know, if you look at my numbers with Hispanic, we're at 56 percent, and we were winning. We won the Texas border that had never been won, as the governor said. He's doing a good job, the governor, by the way, of Texas. But as the governor said, it hasn't — oh, did I get lucky. Did I get lucky. Supposing I said — you know, he's not here, but the governor of Texas has done a terrible job. Wow, look at you. You mean we couldn't get you up in the front row? I'll tell you. Supposing I said, J.D., the governor of Texas, he's not doing his job. You heard what I said. See, I didn't know you were there. I said, he's doing — he's doing a great job. He's doing a phenomenal job. But now you're going to have a partner that's going to work with you because you didn't have. Not only didn't he have a partner, he had people selling the wall. Right? We have a fence structure that we worked on, the governor worked on with me. And I didn't love it, to be honest with you. I wanted a nice precast concrete, you know, 40, 50 feet high, like a — beautiful. Could have been a T-shape, Y-shape. I love construction. I wanted that sucker to go up maybe 50, 60 feet. It would have looked beautiful. A nice Y-shape. And they said, the problem is, sir, they climbed that like a rabbit. I said, what do you mean? No way. And they brought some of these guys out. They climbed it like — and the other thing is, you hit it with acid and the thing will disintegrate. You know, they have things for concrete. So they needed very hardened steel, very special steel. And then they needed 7,000-pound concrete inside that steel. You know, inside that steel. And then they have a rebar. That's the toughest steel made. Very hard to cut. So this is why very little is cut. I mean, it's right. And then they put a anti-climb panel on top. I hated it. I said, it's so unattractive. And I said, why would that work? I don't believe it works. And I went to watch the Border Patrol. Gave a display. We had, actually, two sets of climbers. The guys that climb up walls with drugs on their back — I mean, they got like 60, 70 pounds of drug, and they go as fast as you can walk. They go, bup, bup, bup. Or we have Mount Everest-type climbers. And, honestly, the drug guys were much better. I couldn't believe it. The drug guys blew them away, right? But it's true. The anti-climb panel, they couldn't get around it. They just couldn't. When it — you didn't have it. So sometimes you sacrifice beauty for efficiency. And we did. So we built this wall, and we had — we built over 500 miles of wall. That's why we had such good numbers. The famous chart that came down, very thankfully. The chart that came down on my right, Governor, had I not looked over there — I'm not speaking right now. You might be speaking here. You want to know the truth. You, J.D., have got a lot of great people in this party. But it was — I got very lucky. But we had the best numbers we've ever had. But I bought — you know, what happens is, when you fill it up, it's like water. You fill it up. Now we have 571 miles of wall. And they would always say, you know, when we renovated a wall, so there'd be like a piece of plywood sitting there for 60 years, or a two-by-four sitting for 60 years on the ground and rotting. Because, you know — and they'll say, you didn't build a new wall. Here we're building 50 feet up in the air, and 30 feet sections, 50-foot sections, all steel, all concrete, all everything. And, oh, by the way, they don't even want me to say this, but what the hell? It doesn't take that long time. They were all wired for all of the equipment. We put wires in everything so they can easily wire for all the different types of equipments. And if there's a doubt, we have to wire whenever we just look. You just find the wires all over the place up top. So we could just hook it up. We don't have to have wires on the outside, which wouldn't do too well. Right? So, anyway, so we built an extra 200 miles of wall. And the governor wanted to buy it. He tried to buy it, and they wouldn't sell it to him. He wanted to put it up himself. Could have been done in three to four weeks, 200 more miles. Because when you do it, now they just keep going further out, further out, further out, getting around. So we did an extra 200 miles, and it's — it was all bought. And they announced that they're not going to put it up. And that's when I realized they wanted open borders. And that's when I realized that people are going to come pouring through the wall like nobody has ever seen before. But you've seen it. A lot of you are here because of that. I made it my number-one issue. They all said inflation was the number-one issue. I said, I disagree. I think people coming into our country from prisons and from mental institutions is a bigger issue for the people that I know. And I made it my number one. I talked about inflation, too. But, you know, how many times can you say that an apple has doubled in cost? I'd say it, and I'd hit it hard, but then I'd go back to the fact that we don't want criminals coming into our country. We don't want the jails of every country in the world virtually being deposited into the United States. And that man had to suffer with it. And he did an unbelievable job. I'll tell you, he was a very popular governor, but now he's, like, an unbeatable governor because of your border policies. He was fantastic. And he really was. Governor Abbott, who's a great — he's a great man, great leader. And — but it did make him very more — did you do it? You didn't do that for politics. You did it because you wanted to do the right thing. But I'll tell you, it sure as hell worked for politics, too. It's self-preservation. That's right. But — no, because the people are demanding it. The people of Texas are demanding it. The people are demanding it all over. So, anyway. So, we built it, and they wouldn't let us use it. They wouldn't let the governor use it. And other governors, they wouldn't let him use it. But he was the leader of the PAC and did a great job. And then we heard about a month ago that not only wouldn't they let us use it, they were selling it — they were going to sell it for 5 cents on the dollar. Now, 5 cents on the dollar then, but today it would cost more than twice as much to build, because we bought it, like, six years ago. And it was just sitting on the ground. And that does not do well for the whole thing. But it was just sitting on the ground. And I heard about it, and I called the governor and I called a lot of people — your Attorney General. And here's the story. They were going to buy it — and these are great business people — they were going to buy it for 5 cents on the dollar or less. And they were calling us up, we'll sell it to you for 200 cents on the dollar. In other words, it will cost you twice as much. So it's 200 cents on the dollar. I said, can somebody explain that to a judge? I mean, how corrupt is that? You'd think they'd say, maybe we'll sell it to you for 20 cents, 30 cents, but not 200 cents. So they were going to buy something for 5 cents, and they were going to sell it to us for a fortune. They were going to make — it would be — they'd have it down at — in Fortune magazine, they'd put it of the deal of the year, okay? You buy something like that. But it was so corrupt and so horrible. And when we told that to the administration, they didn't care. They just kept going forward. They couldn't care less. And they kept going forward. They knew that they were trying to sell it back to us. They would have sold it back to us. You would have ended up buying it. You would have paid probably 50, 60 cents. Who knows? But they were going to use it for scrap metal, but then they made a much better deal. They could just buy it and sell it to us for 15, 20 times what they paid. Twenty times. Think of it. Like, 20 times what they paid. And we wouldn't let it happen. And the governor, with his attorney general, Ken Paxson, they made a fantastic — a good lawyer. He's pretty — he's pushing around pretty good by people, right? I said, you got the — you got a great attorney general. They should leave him alone. He was with me. And — but Ken and the governor went to court, and a judge actually became incensed and actually called for an investigation. How could a thing like this happen? So he stopped it. So we're waiting to put that wall up. And now that you have a new president, that wall will go up so fast. The governor will complain, sir. This is Greg Abbott, sir. Please, the wall is going up too fast. Please don't do that. You know the story about winning. No, no, we're going to win too much. We're winning too much. Please, let's stop. People always love that one. We'll do this with the wall. Governor Abbott calls, sir, the wall is going up too fast. We can't take it. We just can't take it. No. I think you'll be very happy if the wall goes up too fast, right? But we'll get that dude, and we'll work with you on that. But it was a great decision by a great Texas judge, right? And it was beautiful. Beautiful to watch. We see he stopped them right in their track. I mean, they were literally loading the stuff onto their trucks. It was terrible. Honestly, it was terrible. And he wouldn't take it. So I'm so glad I mentioned that. They have a really good governor in Texas. Not. And I swear, I didn't know he was here. I swear to you. It sounds like a setup. I didn't know you would end up. Did I get lucky? I said the right thing because there have been moments when I wasn't so happy with him, you know. But not too many. I can tell you that. So anyway, it's good to see you too, Governor. Great. But I just want to thank everybody. You've been incredible. I recognize so many of you. It's so crazy. But this has been a long journey. This was a journey that started in 2015, probably started 20 years before that. People used to say, You're going to run for president. You're going to run, run, run. And I always said, No, no, no, I don't want. And then one day I said, Let's give it a shot. And what I talked about then was the border, too. I think it probably was the number one issue for me. Back in 2015, 2016, I talked about the border. And now I talked about the border. But this border is much worse. We fixed the border. It was totally fixed. There was nothing to talk about. In 2020, by the way, that election was totally rigged. But these are the that's OK. It was a rigged election. You know, the only thing good about it, it showed how bad they are, showed how incompetent and frankly, historically, this is a much bigger event. That would have gone like it should have. The only the bad thing about it is some bad things happened, like a lot of people in our country that wouldn't be in our country right now. So, you know, that's the that's the bad part. But I will say that it started in 2015. And right from the beginning, we went to the top that day one. They announced Trump and Trump went to number one and stayed there for the whole primary. And then we took on Hillary. She didn't look too happy today. We took a very nice person, but we took on Hillary and we defeated Hillary. And then we did much better the second time in 2020. You know, we got millions more votes. We got millions, like 10, 12 million more votes than we did the first time. No president has ever gotten that many more votes. I got like 9 million more than anybody else had ever gotten. And they said we lost. And because of that, I said to Melania, what do you think? And she said, you want to do this again? And and had I had we lost and had I felt we lost, I wouldn't do it again because that's like the ultimate poll. Right. But I knew how well we did. And this time we made it too big to rig. It was so big. They tried. They tried. They tried like hell in the butt. They tried. They tried to do it. And around 902, they gave up last time. They did bad things at this time. They just said, you know, I don't know if you saw Mr. Speaker in Washington. They had placards. They were all set to March. They thought it would be closer. A gentleman asked me, a very respected gentleman asked me yesterday, how come the polls were so wrong? They showed you winning, but not in a landslide. I said, because people that are true Trumpers are so angry at the whole polling system and about and at the writers, the fake news that they don't want to talk to anybody. So when you call somebody from Trump, who are you voting for? They say, it's none of your business. I'm not telling you. And that was probably 40 percent of the people they called. So they would discard that one, and they didn't show that. And then when the election happened, you know, the vote came and it was much different, much higher than we're going to win. But they thought they really thought they couldn't believe the one man said, I mean, it was so much higher. We won all seven swing states. We won the popular vote by millions of votes, which is hard for a Republican. I'll tell you who came through. The unions came through. The autoworkers were great. The teamsters were great. The firemen were great. I think every almost every union was great. The only one that weren't great, although Sean was great and and the teamsters, the head of the Sean O'Brien, the head of the teamsters, was fantastic. But generally speaking, the head of the union was against Trump. But the union would be with us for like 80, 85 percent. Look what we did with the autoworkers in Michigan. Look what we did with the teamsters. The teamsters were unbelievable. They were a solid Democrat vote and they voted for Trump. So we had a great experience. This has been now we have to go to work and get it done because we have to do something that's going to be great. We're going to turn our country around and we're going to turn it around fast. And I think this was a better speech than the one I made upstairs. Okay. I think this was better, J.D. I think this was much better. And I got to see my friend. So, Governor, take care of yourself. You call me. We'll start working. You know what that means with him. He's going to be calling me tomorrow morning at about six. And I said, how about next week? You call me and we're going to get it started real fast. We'll really help you a lot. You've done a fantastic job protecting something which is it's not supposed to be for the states. And amazing job you've done. Thank you very much. And I want to thank everybody. And I have a First Lady who's been incredible. That was just too great for me. I shouldn't say this. I'm going to get hell when I say this, but her feet are absolutely aching. You know, those heels. And we thought we were leaving. We were going home. Sir, would you be able to go down and say hello to some of your other fans that are here? I said, oh, I didn't know that. Well, did you get to see pretty clearly the picture, I hope? Good. That's good. But because you wouldn't want to make the same speech again, right? But she said, darling, I love you so much, but my feet are killing me. I said, honey, let me just see how far it is. I asked the person. Oh, not that long. Maybe four or five hundred yards. That's five football fields. I said, can you make it? She said, we're going to make it no matter what. We're going to make it because we have to go. Right?

[04:40:09] Speaker 1: Right?

[04:40:09] Speaker 11: And then we went out to the helicopter, though,

[04:40:17] Speaker 36: just prior to this, and said goodbye. And it's a custom. And the wind is blowing like crazy. And with the hat that she's wearing, she almost blew away. We almost lost off. She was being elevated off the ground. She almost blew away. No. So we all appreciate it because you've been a great First Lady. A beautiful and a great First Lady. And they love our First Lady. You know, J.D., whenever I make a speech, I see hundreds of signs, we love our First Lady. We love her. And they do. And they should. She's great. So I just want to thank you. Thank you very much. I just want to thank everybody. And I felt that I said to J.D., should we give him the A treatment, the B treatment, the C, the D, or the F? You know what the F is? Hello, everybody. Thank you for being here. Bye-bye. I gave you the A-plus treatment. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you, Governor. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. Thank you all very much.

[04:41:47] Speaker 1: Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. Thank you all very much.

[04:44:37] Speaker 12: Hey everybody, we are here live outside the DC Detention Facility. It's about a mile or so from the capital, it's better known as the DC Jail. It's where some of the people who've been serving time or awaiting trial or awaiting sentencing for taking part in the attack on the capital on January 6, 2021. Some of them have been serving time here. It's also been the place where for more than the past 900 nights, more than 900 nights, activists like these ones have been gathering to call for the release of these people who are behind bars here. And today's obviously a very big day because they are expecting pardons to come anytime in the next little while. And I want to try to speak to one of the activists here. I want to find Sherry. This is one of the activists who's been... Sherry's one of the J6 activists who has been here for more than 900 nights outside the DC Jail. And gonna see. Hey, Sherry. Do you mind? How are you doing? You're staying warm.

[04:46:03] Speaker 43: Well, we're getting ready to heat more water for coffee.

[04:46:06] Speaker 12: And Sherry, I was just telling the CNN audience that you've been out here for more than 900 nights.

[04:46:11] Speaker 43: Yes.

[04:46:12] Speaker 12: Can you tell us why?

[04:46:14] Speaker 43: Well, I have been out here for over 900 nights because, you know, our country with the last administration, I'm happy to say today, has prosecuted American patriots, some of the strongest patriots that America has to offer. They have prosecuted them and tried to silence their voices and put them in prison for crimes they didn't commit. Most of them have no criminal history whatsoever. We have given them in 900 days, we have given them a voice in which the government tried to take away from them. And that's what we're out here to do. We're here to make sure that these men and women are set free and that their voices aren't silenced, that their stories will be heard. And we want our J6ers home.

[04:46:58] Speaker 12: And now, of course, the Department of Justice and others will say, look, all of all of the people who are serving time here are going through a fair process or have gone through a fair process. But even within the Republican Party, there is a debate, an argument as to say, who should everybody be pardoned or should folks who, for instance, people who attacked police officers or Proud Boys or members of the Oat Keepers militia. There's even someone in the Republican Party who say those folks should not be pardoned. Do you think everybody should be pardoned?

[04:47:34] Speaker 43: I absolutely think everyone should be pardoned because, you know, you say that there were violent crimes that happened that day.

[04:47:41] Speaker 1: Yes, there were.

[04:47:42] Speaker 43: But 90 percent of what the government considered violent crimes were patriots simply trying to protect other Americans. And as far as a fair process, absolutely not. None of these J6ers have gone through a fair judicial process in this country. They have been stonewalled. They have not been allowed to present evidence so that they could prove their innocence. Everything they've tried to do has absolutely been held against them. Exculpatory evidence has been stricken from court, prosecuting attorneys, public defenders that absolutely did not fight for their rights. And it has not been a fair process. Everyone that did commit crimes that day, they have served their sentences and did not get a fair trial. Did not get a fair trial. And they do need to be let out of prison.

[04:48:40] Speaker 12: And look, obviously, we'll say that from the perspective of some of the prosecutors you mentioned, of course, the Department of Justice. Again, they will say this was a fair process that probably pointed that, you know, people who have also gone through the criminal justice system might feel the same way that they were hard done by. But they will, of course, say that justice was served here. And Sherry, just talk to me a little bit about what you expect to happen today. Last time I checked, Trump finished speaking a few minutes ago. He alluded to there being some good news coming for J6ers. Are you hoping that some of the people who were behind bars here for January 6 may even walk out of the doors of the D.C. jail here today?

[04:49:20] Speaker 43: I absolutely think that everyone here in this prison is going to walk out free today. And my hope is that everyone across the country that is in jail illegally up for January 6 will be walking out of prison today. I believe that with my whole heart. President Trump has not let us down yet. And from his words today, our men and women are going to be set free.

[04:49:44] Speaker 12: OK, thank you very much, Sherry. That they should. All right. Thank you for tuning in on CNN dot com. We'll see you guys later.

[04:57:00] Speaker 44: We're in downtown Washington, not far from Capitol One Arena, where President Donald Trump is slated to appear at an indoor parade a short time from now and do some other ceremonial things inside the arena. This is in place, of course, of an outdoor parade. Now, here's a look at it. There are a lot of security barriers behind me. And you can see Capitol One Arena over there with the Jumbotron. Sorry, I'm going to try to position the camera a little bit better here. You can see the Jumbotron over there. That's where a lot of people are going to be watching President Trump as he addresses the crowd inside Capitol One Arena later, because a lot of these people who you could see over by the arena could not get in earlier. The arena holds about 20,000 people. There were tens of thousands more people crowding down here, trying to get past the security megs and into the arena. But they ran out of room and a lot of people were turned away. Thousands of people we saw coming back from the arena earlier. I'm going to talk to these two folks here. This is Darren and Sephora. They are from Gresham, Oregon. They came all the way here from Gresham, Oregon to attend the inauguration. Darren, I guess, first of all, you were at the rally last night at Capitol One Arena. Let me just kind of hold the camera back over here. Are you disappointed that you couldn't get onto the mall today? You did have tickets there.

[04:58:37] Speaker 45: That's correct. Yeah, we had congressional tickets, as well as we applied to volunteer with the committee and got accepted for that. So, yeah, it was kind of disappointing, really. Just because, you know, we waited in the cold yesterday for eight hours. So, you know, we packed a bunch of ski clothes, basically. You know, we had to wait out here versus wait, you know, out there by the Capitol.

[04:59:07] Speaker 44: Okay. And Sephora, how do you feel about this? Is this your first inauguration? Yes, it is. And how do you feel? You came a long way, but you're still, you've got the energy of the city. How do you feel about it?

[04:59:18] Speaker 18: Excited. I mean, the energy is very strong here. We're having a great time, even though we did miss, you know, today, yesterday. We wish that we would have not done yesterday and done today instead. But overall, we're having a great time, and that's what matters. All right.

[04:59:34] Speaker 44: Thanks for talking to us, guys. Good luck. Have fun tonight. Thank you. All right. So there you have it, guys. You see a lot of people who are disappointed, but they're not embittered, like these folks I just talked to. There are a lot of people who are just kind of caught up in the energy. I've talked to people from Arizona, California, Oregon, Florida, who have been here, and a lot of them are disappointed that they couldn't get onto the mall, but they're here and enjoying the energy of the city. You're watching on CNN Digital.

[05:00:17] Speaker 16: Next one will be 47 subcabinet level appointments, sir.

[05:00:22] Speaker 17: But you don't have to sign 47.

[05:00:43] Speaker 16: Thank you, sir. Now 31 acting designations and appointments to effectively take control of the government. Let's do that.

[05:00:51] Speaker 4: That's important.

[05:00:53] Speaker 36: That's important. Thank you.

[05:00:57] Speaker 16: We have 15 commissioned chairman and acting chairman appointments. Thank you. Good commission chairman and acting chairman.

[05:01:21] Speaker 36: He was number one at Harvard. You know that? Good counsel. Thank you, sir.

[05:01:29] Speaker 16: Lastly, we have a proclamation ordering all future inauguration days, including this inauguration day, that flags shall be flown at full mast. Very important.

[05:01:49] Speaker 36: I thought it was a beautiful place to have an inauguration tonight. The sound was so good. The temperature was 72 degrees. But the sound was so good. Maybe something to think about.

[05:02:03] Speaker 23: Thank you, sir. Good acoustics. Yes.

[05:02:09] Speaker 6: Thank you.

[05:02:11] Speaker 23: Great. Thank you very much. There you go.

[05:02:17] Speaker 1: Take that.

[05:02:19] Speaker 19: Thank you, Mr. President.

[05:02:21] Speaker 36: Thank you, sir. Mr. President, did you have a good meeting with former President Biden? Very nice. Very nice. Beautiful custom. He goes back as long as hell comes. Before that, I was a stage coach. But I thought it was beautiful. Thank you. Great job.

[05:02:42] Speaker 46: Mr. President, do you have any reaction to the pardons President Biden did at the last minute?

[05:02:46] Speaker 36: Well, I'm not going to discuss it now. I think it was unfortunate that he did that. We won't discuss it now. There's plenty of time to discuss it. Thank you very much, guys.

[05:02:56] Speaker 12: Should we go to lunch? Thank you very much.

[05:03:00] Speaker 3: Okay.

[05:03:02] Speaker 46: Ready for lunch?

[05:03:04] Speaker 5: Ready for lunch. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[05:03:14] Speaker 16: Thank you. That was three times the number of appointments you did in 2017, sir. I'm going to give you one more. One more.

[05:03:22] Speaker 19: Just get it started. A lot of good work. So we're going to stop. She tried to work it out.

[05:03:30] Speaker 10: Thank you. Thank you.

[05:03:42] Speaker 19: That was great. That was great. Stand in ovation.

[05:04:00] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[05:08:56] Speaker 25: Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the introduction of the official part of the program. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated.

[05:09:50] Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated.

[05:11:50] Speaker 25: Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, please rise for the introduction of the official party. Please welcome members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. The Speaker of the House, the Honorable Mike Johnson, accompanied by Mrs. Johnson. Senate Democratic Leader, the Honorable Charles Schumer, accompanied by Mrs. Weinshall Schumer. House Majority Leader, the Honorable Steve Scalise, accompanied by Mrs. Scalise. And House Democratic Leader, the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries. Please remain standing for the honors and the invocation. Ladies and gentlemen, escorting the Vice President of the United States, ranking member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Deb Fischer and Mr. Fischer. Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States, the Honorable J.D. Vance, accompanied by Mrs. Vance.

[05:13:57] Speaker 27: When a mom can dream about her children.

[05:14:12] Speaker 21: I'm Brianna Keillor at the Capital One Center. And as this luncheon is going on on Capitol Hill, President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance are enjoying and celebrating with those around them. With about 20,000 supporters, this is really where they have been gathered now for hours, several hours. In fact, they waited for several hours to get in. And right now they're having a bit of a speaking program that began maybe a half hour ago. This is Congressman Byron Donaldson who is speaking. But it has now this really thrown together convention feel. And maybe that's because it is in sort of a venue that is more appropriate for a convention because of how cold it is outside. And it is thrown together. This came together in about 48 hours. But we just heard the congressman say that Trump is going to keep his promises at the desk. There's a desk on the stage. You can't miss it once he signs some executive orders on the Hill. But they were kind of perfunctory and not really controversial. The expectation would be perhaps these are going to be the ones that are more controversial, at least by what the congressman is hinting at here. This crowd has been really enthusiastic. They've been a little bit more subdued. They're getting a little bit more riled up now. But they were incredibly enthusiastic during President Trump's inaugural address as they were watching the happenings leading up to that as well. We did notice there's lots of cheers, of course, for Trump and for those close to him. But a lot of boos for Joe Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, even the liberal female justices on the Supreme Court. And this group even, you heard them break into Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye, that song. Nothing you know, I may have misheard the title there. As Joe and Joe Biden were leaving the Capitol, they have been very animated. They are not being shy about who they like and who they don't like and what they like. The biggest applause line of Trump's inaugural address was the one where he said that the foreign policy of the U.S. government is going to be that there are only two generals. That was very clearly the one that got the most applause here. But there were a number of other ones, big ones, especially about America asserting itself, taking back the Panama Canal, drill, baby, drill, changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and putting the stars and stripes on ours. Those were some of the things, along with, of course, that declaration of emergency along the border, that really animated this crowd. They have been here for hours. As I said, no longer to do, but certainly as they move towards the main event, I think things are going to get pretty wild. I can say that without a doubt.

[05:17:12] Speaker 31: As we are hearing this. Speaking of art, the painting right here before you, I chose this painting for this lunch this summer, and it's titled American Horizon. It's by Jane Wilson, who grew up on her family farm in Seymour, Iowa. Coming from the middle of our country, Senator Fischer and I both liked the painting because the artist is from America's heartland, but the horizon could easily be Florida, Mr. President. I will also note that this is the first time in history we are featuring the work of a woman artist at this lunch, and we thank the Art Institute of Chicago for their assistance. Looking at the vast open landscape of this painting, we're drawn to the bottom of the frame where the land or the water, depending on where you're from, meets the sky, and the horizon endures. The enduring horizon is especially meaningful for us today as we mark our enduring democracy.

[05:18:39] Speaker 47: Hi guys, I'm here standing in one of the office buildings right outside where the Capitol is. We're trying to catch lawmakers getting reaction to what they've seen today. Both Trump's address in the rotunda as well as his remarks at the lunch, and a lot of the response we're getting is actually preemptive response to some of the executive orders that we expect he could sign later today. Some of the concerns that we're hearing, especially from Democrats, all sort of revolve around some of those immigration executive orders. Ruben Gallego, who represents the state of Arizona, he's a border state member of Congress and he's newly elected to the United States Senate. He said that he has some really deep concerns about ending birthright citizenship for people who are born to people who are not legally in the United States at the time of their birth. He said, you know, he just has constitutional questions about that. And his concerns were echoed by yet another border state senator, Senator Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, who was arguing the same thing, that essentially if Donald Trump expects that he's going to be able to, you know, end birthright citizenship with a swipe of a pen, he better read the Constitution more closely. We're also getting some response to an anticipated change on TikTok. There was so much anticipation yesterday that the app might disappear for users in the United States. Obviously, that's not exactly what happened. And now Donald Trump is promising that he is going to allow ByteDance, the parent company that owns TikTok, a little more time to divest. And you're getting some mixed reaction from Republican senators on the Hill. You saw Tom Cotton yesterday issue a statement saying that he did not think that that was the right tact because of security concerns. But you also have some senators who are questioning sort of the legality because they did pass a law giving ByteDance just a specific amount of time to find another buyer in order to continue for American users to continue using TikTok. So we saw earlier today that Shelley Moore Capito was asking. She's not sure how that's legally going to be structured. But there's just so much that's flying around today as we anticipate a slew of executive orders later. And a lot of lawmakers who are on Capitol Hill, whose jobs it is to create the laws in the country, they're watching really closely at what Donald Trump is going to do later today.

[05:21:20] Speaker 1: All right.

[05:21:51] Speaker 48: All right. There's a heater in there.

[05:22:24] Speaker 8: We're in that lunch hour now.

[05:22:45] Speaker 1: All right.

[05:22:50] Speaker 48: Only a 30 minute.

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[05:28:29] Speaker 11: Please share this everywhere.

[05:28:31] Speaker 26: Please let everybody know.

[05:28:32] Speaker 12: Hey guys, we're back here at the D.C. jail, where some emotional January 6th activists are speaking at the moment. They're celebrating, expecting at least some J6 convicts to be released, even as soon as tonight. I'll just let you listen here for a second.

[05:28:53] Speaker 26: The reason I started working on the pardon project is David for about five months nagged me about the J6 pardon of innocence. He's like, Suzanne, J6 pardon of innocence. And I'm like, OK, David, OK, OK. And finally, the person who is speaking there is named

[05:29:06] Speaker 12: Suzanne Monk. What she's been doing over the past few years, actually, has been compiling a list of people who have been sent to prison or in jail for what they did on January 6th. A whole community really has built up around this movement. About 1500 people were either convicted or charged with taking part in the attack on the Capitol or having some role at the Capitol that day. And what we are hearing through CNN reporting, our colleagues back in the D.C. Bureau here, is that it sounds like Trump is going to pardon nonviolent folks, people who did not commit acts of direct acts of violence that day, but may also pardon folks who pardon or commute the sentences of people who also took part in violence. That news has been greeted very warmly here by these activists. And you can see in the background there, that is actually the D.C. jail. We're about two miles from Capitol Hill,

[05:30:18] Speaker 26: from the U.S. Capitol, where all of that happened that day.

[05:30:27] Speaker 12: There's people who are serving time for January 6th, who are serving time in prisons all across the country, in Oklahoma and Texas, everywhere. Folks who are in here are some people who are awaiting trial, but also folks who are here awaiting resentencing or have different hearings. One person that we've interviewed before she went into prison that's spoken with her family a lot since has been Rachel Powell. You can find her stories on the CNN website. Rachel Powell was a mom and a grandma who showed up January 6th, believed the lies about the election being stolen and actually was caught on video with a pickaxe breaking a window at the Capitol that day. She was sentenced to several years in prison. She's been in prison now for more than a year at a facility in West Virginia, but she's actually here in D.C. this week because she was having a hearing in D.C. So there's a potential, potentially, that if she is released, if there are these kind of broad pardons, that she will be coming out of these gates tonight, as long as many others. A lot of the people who have gathered here, some are activists, some are big, obviously big MAGA fans. I'm going to keep going. I pressed something. All right, I'm going to hand it back to you guys because I'm running into some technical difficulties here, but we'll talk to you guys in a little while.

[05:33:43] Speaker 11: Hey, guys.

[05:34:13] Speaker 46: Down from Capitol Hill to the Capitol Arena, it's about, you know, a mile or so. Thousands of Trump supporters were lining the way along Pennsylvania Avenue. That is the normal, traditional parade route. The parade, of course, was canceled because of the weather.

[05:34:29] Speaker 27: I can attest to the fact that, yes, it was cold outside. I can only now start feeling

[05:36:34] Speaker 48: again. It is time for America to be strong again, and it is time for America to be great again. I hail from the great Commonwealth of Virginia, and we know a few great Americans in our history, from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson to James Madison to Patrick Henry, who echoed, give me liberty or give me death. My friends, those words that Thomas Jefferson penned...

[05:37:17] Speaker 44: Some really colorful moments and a lot of energy here in downtown D.C. We are just outside of Capitol One Arena downtown. It's just over my shoulder. I'm going to kind of shoot it down the street here. You can see that banner. It says Capitol One Arena down there. The story of this moment and this area here, a lot of people are down here waiting for Donald Trump to come in and attend the indoor parade at Capitol One Arena down here. As you can see behind me, a big part of the story here in D.C. is the endless security and fencing and just kind of cordoning people off. It's very hard to walk around. It's nearly impossible to drive around. What also has struck my team and I, as we kind of move around the city here, is how many vendors are out. There seem to be hundreds of them, and they're lining block by block by block. I'm going to talk to one of them. He's kind of wrangling with some...

[05:38:22] Speaker 49: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage Mr. Elon Musk.

[05:38:53] Speaker 1: Yes. This is what victory feels like. Yeah. Yeah. And this was no ordinary victory. This was a fork in the road of human civilization. You know, there are elections that come and go. Some elections are important, some are not. But this one really mattered. And I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you. My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured. Thanks to you, we're going to have safe cities. Finally, safe cities, secure borders, sensible spending, basic stuff. And we're going to take Doge to Mars. I mean, can you imagine how awesome it will be to have American astronauts plant the flag on another planet for the first time? Yeah. How inspiring would that be? You know, there's always problems in life. You know, this problem, solve that problem, solve that problem. But you know, there need to be things that inspire you. There need to be things that make you glad to wake up in the morning and say, I'm looking forward to the future. Yeah. And I love you guys. So. And let me tell you, I'm going to work my ass off for you guys. So. I really will. I really will. So. And yeah. But I'm super fired up for the future. It's going to be very exciting. As the president said, we're going to have a golden age. It's going to be fantastic. And one of the fundamental things, one of the most American values that I love is optimism and this feeling like we're going to make the future good. We're going to make it good. So. Man, I can't wait. This is going to be fantastic. So thanks. Thank you. Thank you again. And yeah, I'm just so excited about the future. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you.

[05:42:53] Speaker 49: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage Cash Patel.

[05:43:04] Speaker 1: So. So.

[05:43:31] Speaker 50: My, oh, my, how do you follow Elon Musk when he tells you you're going to take you to Mars? I'll tell you how he and I share something deeply. We love the American dream. And we have been given a gift by God today to usher in a new dynasty because we just inaugurated Donald J. Trump as our 47th president. And we just inaugurated J.D. Vance as our vice president of the United States. And we did that because the American dream is alive and well, because you chose that our dream can be the dream for our children and the dream for our world. And we are at a crossroads here in America, but our future is bright because you had the courage to stand for your convictions. So I'm humbled here to talk to you about why I love the American dream. My story is pretty simple. It's unique. And some of you share in it. My parents were born and raised in East Africa. My father in the 1970s fled a genocidal dictatorship in Uganda where he saw 300,000 of his countrymen murdered, where he saw what lawlessness would do if it was allowed to break through the system of constitutional justice. He fled like so many others. He married my mother. They moved here. They waited in line. They stood in line because the American dream was worth standing in line for. That dream is woven into the fabric of this nation. And our immigration policy is the greatest policy in the world. And now that we have Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance, it will become the greatest policy in the world again. But dreams and hopes aren't enough, my friends. We got to get to work. And we got to accept the realities that too many of you know from your communities. President Trump launched in his first term priorities of national security, law enforcement, economy, and global diplomacy. But now we have to retread some of that. And I'd just like to go over a few of the things that our community has been living under these last few years. In the last calendar year alone, we had 100,000 drug overdoses. In the last calendar year alone, we had over 100,000 rapes. In the last calendar year alone, we had 17,000 homicides. That is unacceptable in 2025 in the United States of America. That is why we need constitutional law and order. When I read the statistic that for the age group of 18 to 45, the number one cause of death is CCP fentanyl. We are not prioritized to go after the threats that face this country, and most of all, that face our future generations. But thank God, we will be starting right now. President Trump and J.D. Vance's leadership and administration will usher in the priorities that I cherished during my 16 years in government service. That we will always, always honor the men and women who wear the cloth of our nation and stand on that wall and tell you nothing's getting by them tonight. And so to them, thank you. To our teachers and our frontline workers and our first responders, y'all choose to show up every single day for our children, for our communities, and we will now show up for you. Thank you for keeping us safe. To the men and women in law enforcement, and maybe I'm biased on this one. Our police officers, our sheriffs, our federal agents are some of the greatest warriors that God has ever created, and we will put them first because they have our backs, and now we will have your backs. I am standing here because of the American dream. I am not standing here because of the color of my skin. I'm standing here because I earned my right on this stage, and you earned your right to be here with me. And I promise you this, with every fiber of my being, that our law enforcement, that our teachers, that our first responders, that our veterans, that our men and women in uniform who dare to serve this country and put themselves below the rest of our needs will be reprioritized to the top of the heap because they are standing on that wall, and we will not let that light go dark on them. Whether I was a National Security Prosecutor, a public defender, President Trump's Deputy Director of National Intelligence, his Chief of Staff at the Department of Defense, or so many other roles that I was humbled and privileged to serve when I swore an oath to that Constitution, which I hope to do so again one day soon, you have my word that you have ushered in a dynasty of change. You have ushered in a dynasty that will allow our children to live this American dream. My American dream, I am living the world's American dream. I am the son of lawful immigrants. We worked our tails off just like you all do, and I'm going to make you a deal. I promise you I will never quit on your children. I will never quit on their children because this American dream does not belong to us. I will never quit on their children because this American dream does not belong to me. It does not belong to them. This American dream belongs to the world. So in closing, I just want to tell you this. It's pretty cool to be speaking in Capital One Arena right before the boss. You've inspired me beyond words. Your love, your devotion, your commitment to our country everywhere I go shows us that we are not only the beacon of hope, but we are the land of constitutional justice. We are the land under Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance where we are going to end the two-tier system of justice. We are going to remove the weaponization of the intelligence community for political purposes, and we are going to put the men and women of America first. So listen, there's just one thing left to do. We all got work to do. We've got the greatest president and the greatest vice president in the history of the world, and so I just need you all to do a little bit more. Every time you see a law enforcement officer, every time you see a veteran, every time you see a teacher, shake their hand. Give them a little bit of your time, because they're giving us all of our time. And don't forget to enjoy the ride, ladies and gentlemen. God bless America. God bless these United States of America. God bless every one of you. I'm living the American dream. My name is Kash Patel, and I ain't going anywhere. Let's go to work.

[05:51:25] Speaker 49: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage Dan Scavito.

[05:51:55] Speaker 29: Let's go. Let's go.

[05:52:25] Speaker 51: Hello, patriots. How's everybody doing this evening? We're back.

[05:52:43] Speaker 52: USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA.

[05:52:56] Speaker 51: The 45th and the 47th president of the United States of America will be here shortly. He's down at the Capitol. He'll be in a little while. He'll be here. They asked me to come out and say a few words and say hello to you great American patriots that came from all over the country. Thank you for being here today. One thing I just noticed when we were leaving the Capitol after the swearing in that really hit me hard after the journey we have been on over the last nine years, especially over the last four years. It really hit me when they took the presidential seal right here and put it on front of the podium for when the president gets here. President Trump often says to us on Team Trump over the years, you're so lucky that I took you on this journey. In the good times and the bad times, no matter what would be happening, we'd be sitting on Trump Force One, Air Force One, in the Oval Office, at Mar-a-Lago, no matter where it may be. Good times, bad times. You are so lucky I took you on this journey. And you know what, Mr. President? You are damn right. You took all of us on this journey. There's been a lot of stops along the way from 2016 when we started back in 2015 with a small campaign team flying around the country doing rallies. Small team, six, seven, maybe eight people. Then it continued to grow before you knew it. The GOP nomination was going to Donald J. Trump in Cleveland in 2016. Fast forward, he became the 45th president of the United States of America. He had a great four-year term. And you know what's been great? The last four years have not been great in many senses, but he's now going to be—he's back in office right now. And I'm just absolutely so pumped up for what this president is going to do. He loves each and every one of you in this arena. The guy cares. He has a fighting spirit, as you saw in Butler, Pennsylvania, with the assassination attempt that came a few months ago. You could say that again. Fight, fight, fight. It's a moment that I will never forget being there and in the hospital with him. I want to just give you a behind-the-scenes moment with the president and the heart that he has. We were in the hospital with the—he had blood coming down his ear. He wanted to know how his staff was. Myself and Susie were with him, and Stephen Chung and Walt, and even the Secret Service. How are you guys doing? The guy just got shot in the damn head, and he's worried about us. Are you guys okay? He's on the phone with his family, showed him a picture, the iconic photo of his fist raised in the air, told him it was from Doug Mills from the New York Times, a great photographer. He looked at the picture. He's staring at the picture. One of the most historical photos of all time. There'll never be anything like it. He said, call Doug and see if he's doing okay. That's the attitude he had in that hospital. Our president has been resilient through a lot, a lot, and I don't need to get into all of it because you're all familiar with it, and I'm convinced much of what went on over the last four years is why he won the election in an electoral landslide. In Butler, Pennsylvania, when he got up and he raised that fist and he shouted, fight, fight, fight, he will do that for every one of you, for the United States of America. He will always put America first, without question. He loves what he does. He's got a great administration and a great team behind him. What a journey. McDonald's, drive-thru window, garbage trucks showing up at a rally, and him on the plane putting on his orange vest. Sir, are you going to take that off? I'm going to the rally in my orange vest. The guy is one in a trillion. There will never be anybody like this man again. Enjoy this moment. Enjoy this movement. And together, we will continue to fight, fight, fight, put America first, and make America great again. God bless everybody here. We love you. Thank you.

[05:58:31] Speaker 15: I just want to use your love tonight.

[05:59:02] Speaker 44: So we're in downtown DC, right outside Capitol One Arena. This is where Donald Trump is going to come for his indoor parade that they had to rearrange to put inside. When everything got moved inside, the indoor parade is going to be there at Capitol One Arena behind me, just about a block down the road. And you can see, there's just tons of security here. People cannot walk near the arena now because of all the security here. And it's just very, it's constricting all over the place. One thing we have noticed, though, in addition to the energy and the crowds wanting to catch a glimpse of Donald Trump, is there are just tons of vendors here lining almost every street. I've got one of them with me now, Manny. We had a little bit of a technical problem in our last hit when Manny was talking to me. Manny, tell me how business has been. Now, we've seen a lot of people out here, but it hasn't been going great for you, you said.

[05:59:51] Speaker 28: Yeah, it's a lot of vendors this year. It's a lot of competition. But usually, not as many people out. Usually, we can make a sale every two to three minutes. But this year, with all the vendors, the competition, and not as much Trump support going along, the sales have slowed up to probably three times as much, probably every 15, 20 minutes I did a sale.

[06:00:10] Speaker 44: So you say you've gone around the country selling merchandise at Trump events and other things. Did you expect this to be better than it was?

[06:00:19] Speaker 28: Way better, money-wise.

[06:00:20] Speaker 44: I expected too many people to order traffic, but I expected the business to be a little bit better. Maybe the weather and the competition. And what about the security? Does that have something to do with it?

[06:00:30] Speaker 53: Yeah, the security is totally with all the traffic, so they're trying to regulate from there. They're making it a little harder to get their products off, a little harder to communicate with the whole. Yeah, and we're- People coming around and stuff. We're showing the security, as Manny is seeing it. You can see, look at all that fencing over there, and all the- It's kind of unnecessary. A lot of people do feel it's unnecessary, and it's too much.

[06:00:40] Speaker 44: All right, Manny, thanks for talking to us, man. Appreciate it. Appreciate it, guys. So listen, yeah, this is a big part of the story here. The security is really off the charts. In many, many places, the security is off the charts.

[06:00:46] Speaker 3: The security is really off the charts.

[06:00:47] Speaker 44: in addition to the unscalable fencing, the eight to 10 foot high fencing, and it's literally all over the place. It's very hard to walk. You can't drive anywhere. And as you heard Manny say, this has just been very difficult for them to do business, but I can say that part of the reason for that is, take a look at behind us, and behind Manny's stand here, you've got another stand here with all this other merchandise, and this is block after block after block in Washington, D.C. I've been here a long time. I have never seen this many vendors for a major event, not for a protest, not for an inauguration. It is kind of insane with the vendors. So if Manny says that his business has not been as good as he thought, a lot of that is due to the competition, plus the weather, and it has been brutal out here. You can kind of see that maybe it was a pretty wise decision to move a lot of these events inside into Capital One Arena, and again, here, I can give you another look at Capital One behind me as I kind of tilt my camera here. Sorry. There you go. You can see it down there. Look, you can't, people can't even get within about a block of it. That's how restrictive it is. So there you go, guys. It's been a very interesting scene, tons of energy down here in downtown D.C., all over the place. People who cannot get in. Again, you know, I said it before, people are disappointed that they can't get into these events, but they're not embittered. A lot of people are still pretty happy just to be down here. You're watching on CNN Digital.

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[06:06:29] Speaker 27: Hey, it's Jeff Zelany at Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, where a crowd is eagerly anticipating and awaiting President Trump and J.D. Banks to make their way here from Capitol Hill. Of course, President Trump has already started some official acts. He's been talking about the executive orders. He's expected to sign many of those executive orders right here in front of this crowd. So you can imagine the response that that will get. This is a campaign rally in every respect. This is the one place where average supporters who are not big donors can come and see their beloved Donald Trump. That is exactly why thousands of people have done that. The arena holds about 20,000, and certainly there were more people who could not get in. But on the way over here, President Trump has already started doing some of his official acts. And one thing, he has already named an acting Attorney General, we've just learned. James McHenry, who was in the first Trump administration, heading the nation's immigration court system, is going to be the acting Attorney General until Pam Bondi, the former Florida Attorney General, can be confirmed as Attorney General. But here at the Capital One Arena, there's no question, if you're gonna look around me, I'll pivot here a little bit. People have been waiting here for hours and hours and hours. It's good because it's warm inside here. It's not cold like it is outside. There were thousands of supporters lining Pennsylvania Avenue for the parade. That parade route did not happen because of the cold temperatures. So it will be done in this arena. So effectively, President Trump and his team are turning the weather into what could have been a liability, into a bit of an asset, trying to sign those executive orders in front of a live crowd. We've already heard a variety of speakers. Elon Musk was talking here just a short time ago, talking about Mars and how he wants to put people on Mars. That has long been one of his goals. This is a space exploration company, of course, would stand to benefit handsomely from that. That's something that President Trump mentioned in his inaugural address. Several other speakers also have been on this stage. It's basically some of the greatest hits, some of the biggest names from the first Trump administration. Peter Navarro, who was one of the first Trump officials to go to jail for a contempt of Congress charge. He spoke, as did Kellyanne Conway, his campaign manager from eight years ago. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, of course, a very familiar face for White House press secretary. So a variety of speakers here warming up the crowd, but the crowd is waiting for President Trump. It really only became animated when Elon Musk was on the stage. And boy, did they rise up and applaud him. But so for President Trump, it's kind of a halftime of his day. He had a swearing in this morning. He'll be doing an event here. Then he'll go to the White House, which is about a mile or so away, sign more executive orders. And then he has inaugural balls tonight. So a very long day for President Trump. There's no doubt about it. His supporters certainly are with him all along the way. Democrats, the resistance, it simply is not out in force. Like I remember eight years ago, the streets not filled with protesters, they're filled with supporters of Donald Trump.

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[06:24:19] Speaker 10: Mr. President, Madam First Lady, Mr. Vice President, Madam Second Lady, what a wonderful occasion. We all come here to celebrate what is a great tradition in the United States, and that is the peaceful transfer of power. And when President Trump spoke over in the beautiful rotunda, wonderful that it was indoors, Mr. President, because I don't think the crowd would have wanted to be in the 20s or below. But one of the things President Trump said that I thought was the most touching, he said, in America...

[06:24:57] Speaker 47: Hi guys, I'm standing in Emancipation Hall and we are waiting for the first honor ceremony to begin. This is going to be a moment for Donald Trump, the incoming and new president, to inspect the troops here in the U.S. Capitol. This is a moment that happens every time, but obviously happening indoors today. And what's happening behind me, if you can see it, is representatives from the six branches of the military are already lining up in formation. Everyone from the Army, to the Marine Corps, to the Navy, to the Space Force, as well as the Coast Guard, they're all lined up in between all of them. You can see the Honor Guard also represented by the six different branches of the military. And once the President and the First Lady arrive on stage, then the ceremony will begin. You can expect that the Army Band is going to play Hail to the Chief. At that point, the President will walk off the stage and he will be informed that it's time for the inspection of the troops. At that point, we expect that he will walk through this hallway at the end and conclusion of the ceremony. It's only expected to take a couple of minutes. Then he will return back on the stage and the ceremony will be over. But I just want to point out something that's really striking because we were standing here about four years ago. Obviously, this isn't where the ceremony was taking place. But what was happening in this very hall is we were just weeks after January 6th. And for several days after January 6th, National Guard troops were actually sleeping on the floor of this very room. And that just speaks to sort of how different the feel is today versus four years ago. But I think that's just important to point out. We're getting ready to have this first honor ceremony and the President inspecting the troops in just a couple of minutes. But obviously, just a very different tone and tenor that then was in this room four years ago.

[06:26:58] Speaker 54: White in a blue field, representing a new constellation out of many, one. Some 250 years later, from Appalachia to Anacostia, Middletown to Mar-a-Lago, the Bayou to Brooklyn, we remain one nation under God. To Vice President Vance, Usha, and family, may God bless and watch over you as you begin this journey. On behalf of the Congress, we present one of the flags that flew above the Capitol today to the 50th Vice President of the United States of America, James David Vance, and wish you Godspeed.

[06:27:52] Speaker 1: applause

[06:28:00] Speaker 31: Thank you, Leaders Scalise and Jeffries. I now ask my friend, Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska, as in the beef you had for the entree, who has been an excellent partner in planning today's events, to come up and present the inaugural photographs.

[06:28:20] Speaker 32: Well, my thanks to Chair Klobuchar for putting together, and putting together again in the last two days, the 60th inaugural ceremony here at the United States Capitol. Amy did a wonderful job along with all of the committee, all of our staffs, in order for this to come together and be a very memorable experience. It is a tradition that the committee give our new President and First Lady, our Vice President and Mrs. Vance, the official photographs taken at the swearing-in ceremony. And so it is such an honor to be able to have those presented to you. I hope you will display them with pride, with honor, and with a humbleness that I know you will carry with you every single day that you serve the people of this country. May God bless you all.

[06:29:21] Speaker 1: applause

[06:29:29] Speaker 31: Thank you, Senator Fischer. Now on behalf of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, I'd like to present the President and Mrs. Trump and the Vice President and Mrs. Vance with these crystal Lenox vases. See them over here? For the 10th consecutive inauguration, Lenox has provided the official inaugural gift. The hand-cut etched vases display the White House for the President and the U.S. Capitol for the Vice President because I know that he is going to enjoy not only being the Vice President but also, as Senator Thune and Schumer know, the President of the United States Senate, and there's no better job than that. These gifts symbolize our equal branches of government as well as our enduring democracy. There they are. applause I will now invite Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, to give the toast to the Vice President.

[06:30:39] Speaker 1: applause

[06:30:43] Speaker 19: Thank you so much. It is my great honor to offer a toast to our new Vice President, Mr. J.D. Vance. J.D., you wrote something very poignant in your memoir, actually many things very poignant, but let me quote you here. What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations they had for their own lives. That's really meaningful. That expectation is a powerful thing. We remember the people in our lives who provided that to us. We all need that. Everybody needs hope and encouragement. They need a greater expectation. We need people in our lives who will make us look further and reach higher. J.D.'s written a lot about the people in his life that have done that. He's written about, we know the great story of your grandparents and what they did in your life. He's written about his professors and mentors that he met in law school. He writes a lot about, speaks a lot about his gracious, beautiful wife, our new second lady, Usha. She's a great inspiration as well. J.D., you yourself have been inspiring people. Your story really has. It's one of the reasons that I believe God has raised your platform as he has because you've been so faithful to tell that story and to inspire so many others. And so our hope and our prayer is, as you continue to do this, that as you go to help us execute on the America First agenda, that you also do what you've been doing so well all along, and that is providing a model for what is possible in America. What a great story. What an inspiring story you've had, and it's just getting started. I pray specifically that you inspire a lot of the young men in America. Some of them feel hopeless and stagnant sometimes, and you're a great example to all of them and to all of us, that if you work hard and you play by the rules and you do the right thing, you can make a better life. You're now the Vice President of the United States, my friend. So everyone, will you please join me in raising a glass to our own mentors, the people who inspired all of us, to the possibilities of our own future, to these great new horizons. What a perfect choice this was for the painting, the artwork today, and to the great example of our new Vice President, Mr. J.D. Vance. You're here.

[06:33:00] Speaker 31: Thank you, Speaker Johnson and Vice President Vance. I will now invite my senator next door in the state of South Dakota, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to give the toast for the President.

[06:33:25] Speaker 55: Well, Mr. President, Madam First Lady, congratulations. It is an honor for all of us to be able to be here today with you on this historic day as we celebrate your inauguration. Mr. President, one of the most important influences in my life when I was getting started in politics was Ronald Reagan. His philosophy of limited government, his belief in peace through strength, the strength of his convictions, were all things that appealed to me, but I was also drawn by his optimism and by his belief in America. And, Mr. President, those are qualities that I see in you. One of the things that resonated throughout your campaign was the unshakable belief in our country and in her citizens. You remind us of everything that's possible in America. I'm looking forward to working with you over the next four years to build up our great country. It says in the scriptures that if you ask for wisdom, it will be given to you and given to you generously. And so I pray and our prayer is that God will richly bless you in the years ahead and grant you not only strength, but wisdom. Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you to join me in raising a glass to the President of the United States, President Donald Trump. Here, here.

[06:34:49] Speaker 1: Cheers.

[06:35:03] Speaker 31: So, this has been a long day with many other things ahead for so many of you, but I want to thank you for attending the 60th Inaugural Ceremonies. And as we close, we ask that you pick up a gift. All of our guests are going to get a set of commemorative glasses in embossed leather featuring the Great Seal of the United States, which Senator Fischer and I selected together, and maybe Senator McConnell added some bourbon from Kentucky. Just saying. It is now my privilege to conclude this luncheon by asking Margaret Kivin, a chaplain for the House of Representatives, to deliver the benediction. Thank you. And we know we love this eagle podium. It's pretty good, Mr. President.

[06:35:57] Speaker 25: Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the benediction.

[06:36:09] Speaker 56: Would you pray with me? Holy and merciful God, having witnessed another successful moment in the experiment that you have entrusted into the hands of the American people, we pray your blessing on our 47th president of these United States, Donald J. Trump, and Vice President James D. Vance. Ensure that this mantle of singular responsibility that you have laid upon our president's shoulders remains secure in your will and safeguarded in your keeping. Uphold him as he preserves, protects, and defends the Constitution to the best of his abilities, relying on your divine help. God of power and might, grace and mercy, grant that your spirit of counsel has access to the president's heart to search it, to his mind to examine it, to his will to test it, that his faithfulness would bear witness to your truth. Surround him with angels and advisors who will serve as your agents to guide and guard him. Caution and encourage him to remain upright and blameless in your sight. Buckle the belt of truth around his waist. Place the breastplate of righteousness over his heart. Fit his feet with readiness that your gospel of wisdom and justice will shine forth throughout President Trump's administration. We offer this prayer to the one whose voice we follow to guide all that we do and all that we hope for. Amen.

[06:37:44] Speaker 25: Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Please remain at your seats as President Trump, Vice President Vance, the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, and the official party depart National Statuary Hall.

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[09:03:28] Speaker 17: Thank you. Thank you, Donald.

[09:03:30] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Take care.

[09:03:37] Speaker 57: And now, I get to introduce my dear friend and the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

[09:04:21] Speaker 36: Thank you very much, everybody. Appreciate it. Thank you. So now the work begins. We won, we won, but now the work begins. We have to bring them home. And you know, tonight, I'm going to be signing on the J6 hostages' pardons. To get them out. And as soon as I leave, I'm going to the Oval Office and we'll be signing pardons for a lot of people. A lot of people. And thank you to Steve Whitkoff. He's a great guy. He's a friend of mine. He's been a very successful man. He's a great negotiator. He's a wonderful guy. People love him. And he's got a tremendous power of persuasion. And that's what we need. We don't need stiffs. We don't need stiffs. We got a lot of stiffs. You just had a whole load of them. And to the former hostages with us today, welcome. Welcome home. Some of the folks are former hostages. Not a good situation. The three young ladies that came home yesterday, you saw that. They're coming home every day now. They're coming home. But they were hurt. One had her head blown off. Fingers on her hand. And her hand, indeed, was blown off. She was trying to defend herself from a bullet being fired. Do you believe this? A bullet knocked off her hand. I don't know. You look at it, it's a disgrace. We never stopped praying for you, and we're so glad that you're reunited with your friends and families. And God bless you all. And some of them are just saying, no, my son is gone, but please just bring home his body. Right, Steve? Many of you have told me that, that your son is gone, but bring home his body. It should have never happened. Three years is ridiculous. It should have never happened. Wouldn't have happened. I also want to express my tremendous gratitude to the hundreds of thousands of proud American patriots who came from all across the country to join us in this celebration. It's a celebration of a big win. And you're witnessing the dawn of the golden age of America. That's what it's going to be. We're bringing it back. We're going to bring it back fast. We're going to bring it back fast. Let us also thank the incredible service members, National Guardsmen, Police, Secret Service, and law enforcement personnel are keeping us all safe, even though they are great people. New York's finest. I grew up with New York's finest, and we got to give them their authority back. You won't have any crime. There'll be no crime. You give them little authority back. The whole way they run things in this country now, it's disgraceful, but it's going to change rapidly. We're going to make our city safe again, too. Even though we're indoors, we've had a magnificent inaugural parade. And let's give a big round of applause. They were great to all of the incredible performers and hardworking men and women who made it possible. Those people, really talented, amazing people. I also want to thank my wonderful family for being here, especially my beautiful wife, our First Lady, Melania. They love our First Lady. And also, J.D. How good has J.D. been? And his beautiful wife, Usha. How good has J.D. been? J.D. has been great. He's another good negotiator, Steve. He's a great negotiator, too. We need negotiators in this country. But so many of the people on this stage, we had not only family members, as an example, Lara Trump, the wife of Eric. She was the head of the Republican Party, along with my friend Michael. Stand up, the two of you. What a job. What a job they did. They worked so hard. They knew they'd be rigging, but they said we're going to make it too big to rig. And we did. We made it too big to rig. We won every swing state by a lot. We won the popular vote by millions and millions of votes. We won the whole ball of wax. And now we're going to go and drill, baby, drill and do all the things that we've wanted to do and bring your costs down, your prices down, and make our country safe. So thank you very much, Michael. Thank you very much. What a job you've done, Michael. I'm never moving you, you know. He was thinking about getting a nice job in the administration. I said, no, I'm leaving you right where you are. You've done a very good job. We're not moving you, Michael. I'm sorry. Anyway, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Appreciate it very much. Right here with us also in the arena, I'm about to sign some very important executive orders of our new administration. Hey, Don, will you stand up, please? Don is another one. How about Don? This guy. He's a popular one. He goes out and speaks. He gets that big crowd. He's a little on the rough side sometimes, but that's what you want. He's done a fantastic job and he loves our country. Thanks, Don. Great job. You've done a great job. And Ivanka. And, you know, Jared negotiated the Abraham Accords, which are the biggest deals. It's the biggest deal made in the Middle East in many, many years. And it's really something. Jared, stand up, Jared. The Abraham Accords. And Tiffany is going to have a little baby. And Michael. And then I have a very tall son named Barron. Has anyone Thank you. He knew the youth vote. You know, we won the youth vote by 36 points. And he was saying, Dad, I got to go out and do this one of that one. And we did a lot of them. And he respects them all. He understood him very well. And he said, Dad, you got to go out to Joe Rogan, do all these guys that we did. We did. And Joe Rogan was great. They were all great. Right there. And they were all good. He understood the market. Another famous one. How about Kai? Stand up, Kai. Is that Byron Donalds back there? I stand up, Byron. What a future this one has. What a future. That's great, Byron. Thank you very much. And how about let Nick, Secretary of Commerce? He's gonna take in more money than any country has ever even thought about. He's gonna take in some money, and we have many others. Look, I'm not gonna go through it, but we're gonna sign some orders right now, and that's really what I want to do. So we're gonna sign executive orders. First, I'll revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration, one of the worst administrations in history. Maybe not the one of them, the worst. Anybody that would allow millions of people to pour through our borders from jails, prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums, gang members to be taken off the streets of Venezuela and deposit in our country, and many, not just Venezuela. You know, crime in Venezuela is down 74% because they took their criminals and gave them to us through an open border policy of the previous administration. All over the world, they're emptying their prisons into our country. They're emptying their mental institutions into our country. It stops as of one o'clock this afternoon, okay? So I'm revoking nearly 80 destructive, radical executive actions of the previous administration. They'll all be null and void within about, what, five minutes? Is that them over there? Five minutes? And next to gain immediate control of the vast federal out-of-control bureaucracy, I will implement an immediate regulation freeze which will stop Biden bureaucrats from continuing to regulate. Most of those bureaucrats are being fired. They're gone. Should be all of them, but some sneak through, but we have to live with a couple, I guess. I'll also issue a temporary hiring freeze to ensure that we're only hiring competent people who are faithful to the American public, and we will pause the hiring of any new IRS agents. We will also require that federal workers must return to the office in person. I'm going to take the 88,000 people that they hired to go after you with guns, by the way, they're allowed to use guns, and harass you like they were so many other people. Remember this? Okay, remember? Do you remember a little statement about tips? Does anybody remember that little statement? I think we won Nevada because of that statement, but they went out and harassed you over the tips. In other words, we are restoring control of our government to the people. We're going to take those 88,000. Let's see if they'd like to work on the border, because that's what we want. I'm really, I'm really. So we're going to have no tax on tips, right? No tax on tips. We may have, like the Speaker of the House. Is he here? He's done such a good job. Is Mike here? He's around here someplace. I saw him just a little while ago. Hello, fellas. Look at you guys. Yeah, he's, I know it. He's great. He's doing great. They're all doing good. The Republican Party has never been unified like it is right now. They want to save our country, and we're going to more than save it. We're going to make it greater than it's ever been before by a lot. Next, I'm going to sign a presidential memorandum directory directing every member of my cabinet to marshal every power at their disposal to defeat inflation and rapidly bring down the cost of daily life, because your costs have gone through the roof in the last four years. Perhaps you didn't notice. Does anyone notice their costs are like double, triple, quadruple? You can't buy bacon. Apples have doubled in price. You want an apple, anybody? Pay twice what you did two years ago. We'll put more money in your pocket, and we'll bring back the American dream and to reduce energy costs and liberate our economy. So we have more oil and gas than any country in the world, and we're going to use it. We're not going to do the wind thing. Wind. Big, ugly windmills. They ruin your neighborhood. They ruin you. If you have a house that's near a windmill, guess what? Your house is worth less than half. And did you see up in New England with the whales? You see what's happening? So they had two whales killed in about 14 years. Last year and the year before, total, they had 28. So if you're into whales, you don't want windmills either. And they're the most expensive form of energy that you can have by far. And they're all made in China, by the way, practically all of them. And they kill your birds and they ruin your beautiful landscapes. But other than that, I think they're quite good, right? Now, remember when we used to joke and kid when we were kidding, but we don't kid anymore. They want to watch the debates on television. They want to watch your favorite president on television. But the wind isn't blowing, so we can't watch television that night. Gladys member Gladys. I'm sorry. The wind is just not blowing. We're not watching Trump tonight. But I'm immediately withdrawing from the unfair one sided Paris Climate Accord ripoff. The United States will not sabotage your own industries while China pollutes with impunity. You know, China, look, they use a lot of dirty energy, but they produce a lot of energy. And when that stuff goes up in the air, you know, doesn't stay there. It's not like you got a wall. We love walls, don't we? Not like you have a wall around and it just it doesn't. It floats into the United States of America after three and a half to five and a half days. It floats across the oceans, and it comes right over your neighborhood, and it falls into your neighborhood. So they all say we have to fight for cleaner air. But the other dirty air is dropping all over us. So what the hell are they talking about? Unless everybody does it, it just doesn't work. You know, we had the cleanest air and the cleanest water that this country's ever had under the Trump administration, and we didn't do anything to stop jobs and stop production. Believe me, you're gonna see a lot of companies come pouring back because tariffs. I always say tariffs is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary. Then I was reprimanded by the fake news. They said, What about love, religion and God? I said, I agree. Let's put God number one. Let's put religion number two. Love. I don't know. We gotta put that number three, I guess, right? And then it's tariff because tariffs are gonna make us rich as hell. It's gonna bring our country's businesses back that left us. And I'll also sign an executive order to immediately end federal government censorship of the American people in America. We believe in free speech, and we're bringing it back starting today to stop the weaponization. No, do I know about that? These creeps. Deranged Jack Smith. You ever hear of him? Deranged. He's a deranged prosecutor. He's sick. They suck him on me. He's now been reduced to getting on an airplane, going back to the Hague or wherever the hell he came from. We gotta get rid of that guy. Hey, was he one of the many people that got a pardon today? Did they pardon Jack Smith? You know, did you know that Biden, while I was making my speech, pardoned his whole family? The brother, the whole deal was pardoned. Can you imagine that? While I was making my speech, did everybody hear my speech? Did you like my speech? Thank you. I mean, the only thing wrong with it is I had a lot of tough things to say, and I have some great people that work for me, sir. This is such a great speech. It's so unifying. Don't talk about Biden with his pardons of his family. We want a unified country. They said, Don't talk about the J6 hostages that you're going to be releasing today. Sir, don't put that in your speech, please. I said, But I really I want to put it in my speech. I said, Sir, it won't be unified like it is. It's so beautiful the way it is, and it is getting great reviews. You know, if I put things like that in, I'll get terrible reviews. One little paragraph that's a little bit wrong. The fake news goes crazy, right? So I said, All right, I won't put it in my speech. But you know what? I'm speaking in front of a hell of a lot of people at a place called Capital One Arena, and I'll talk about it there. So we're going to. We're gonna be going over the beautiful Oval Office, one of the great offices in history, even if it wasn't beautiful. It's the Oval Office, but it is beautiful, and we love the Oval Office. It all starts with the every the wars start and end there. Everything starts and ends at the Oval Office. We love it, but we're gonna go to the Oval Office. We're gonna sign. We're gonna release our great hostages that didn't do for the most part. They didn't do stuff wrong. You see, take a look at what went on and look what happens in other parts of the country. In Portland, where they kill people, they destroy the city. Nothing happens to them. In Seattle, where they took over a big chunk of the city, nothing happened. Minneapolis, where they burned down the city, nothing happened. Essentially, nothing happened. All they want to do is go after the J6 hostages. A 76-year-old grandmother was arrested the other day because she was looking. I think because she was looking at the Capitol or something like that. No, we're not gonna put up with that crap anymore. And to stop the weaponization of law enforcement, I've been investigated more than any human being in the world. I believe I have the all-time record. Every day, a subpoena, subpoena. Every single day, we'd get subpoenas. I was more than any person. Alphonse Capone, remember? I used to talk about him. You know, Alphonse Capone, Scarface, he was a pretty rough guy. He was investigated about 1-100th what Trump was investigating. My father's looking down at me, my mother. How the hell did this happen? You know what it is? They investigated their political opponent, the opponent of Biden, and then, ultimately, Kamala. Has anyone ever heard of Kamala? We had to beat two opponents, you know? We had to beat Biden, then we beat him. Now he goes on top. The guy was like 39 points down. I think I could have beaten Trump. They should have left me in. I would have beaten him. Now, his debate performance wasn't the best, right? That's what killed him. And then they had to change, and they — it's like you get into a fight. The great Dana White spoke last night. We love Dana White, right? UFC. That's like he puts in two fighters. One of them is getting creamed, getting really beaten, and they say, all right, take him out and let's put somebody else in to finish up the fight. That's what they did to us. They gave us somebody new, but we took care of both of them. So we beat actually two — we beat actually two opponents. But to stop the weaponization of law enforcement and our government, I will also sign an order directing every federal agency to preserve all records pertaining to political persecutions under the last administration, of which there were many, and beginning the process of exposing any and all abuses of power, even though he's pardoned many of these people. Can you believe it? He's pardoned them. You know why he did it while I was speaking? Because that way I couldn't speak about it. I was speaking. I didn't know he did it. I finished my speech, and they said, sir, he pardoned his whole family. I said, ooh, can I go back out there and talk about it? Somehow that wouldn't be very elegant. Our First Lady would say, please don't do that. But we have plenty of time to talk about it, and we will. We're doing all of this on our very first day in office. You know, don't forget, we've been in this position, really, where we won the primaries in record time. We were the fastest win of a primary ever in political history, which is a very nice thing. It's nice to know. Well, the second election was rigged, so we knew we were doing well. And if it wasn't, you know what? If it wasn't, I would have never run. I would have never run. But the third one was just a monster. Boy, was that a big one, huh? That was a big one. On the second one, we got like 10 or 12 million votes more than the first one. How about that? We did great on the first one. We did much better on the second one. But bad did we do well on the third one. So we're going to have some fun. It's very simple. We're going to make our country great. We're going to make our country great again. We're going to make America great again. How good a name is MAGA, though, right? You know? I was going to say keep America great, but unfortunately, it wasn't great. Can't say keep it great. It will be great again. But CAG, keep America great. CAG, I don't think it's ever going to replace MAGA. Does anybody like CAG? I don't think so. It's never replacing MAGA. Nothing will ever replace MAGA. MAGA was the most successful political operation, political movement in the history of our country, maybe in the history of the world. Let's see what happens. Because we're not finished yet. We're not finished yet. We got a long way to go. But we're doing this on the very first day in office. And in just a few moments, I'm not only signing the release of the J6 hostages, I'm signing other things that you're going to love. Oh, you're going to be happy reading newspapers tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day. So I just want to thank — I mean, look at this place. It's full to the rafters. You don't have any — look at those people up there. You don't have any empty seats. And, by the way, the Capital One owners, they are so good. We've got to root for their teams because they have been so great to MAGA, to us. And I just want to thank Ted and everybody. You guys have been fantastic. And they're — the ice hockey team is doing great. Ovechkin. Ovechkin is pretty good, right? They're doing great. So I want to thank them. And I want to thank you, too. I want to thank you. I want to thank you. They're doing great. So I want to thank them, Capital One arena owners. They have been absolutely fantastic. And thank you once again to everyone. And I can only tell you, you're going to be very happy. You're going to watch a lot of good things happen. We've got to stop some wars that are happening and going on. Some stupid things are happening. The war with Ukraine would have never happened, and it has. As you know, Israel would have never been hit on October 7th. And you would — none of you would be up here. None of you would even know anything about this tragedy that you're going through right now. But Iran was broke. Anybody that bought oil from Iran, they couldn't do any business with us. You're not going to do business with America. China passed. Everybody passed. They were broke. They didn't have money for Hamas. They didn't have money for Hezbollah. And your sons would be alive, and they certainly wouldn't be incarcerated like they are. It's such a shame. But we're getting a lot of people out in a short period of time. So I'm going to go right over to here, and I'm going to sign in front of you. Is that okay? Good.

[09:31:58] Speaker 16: Do you want me to, sir? Why don't you say what I'm signing? Sure. The first item that President Trump is signing is the rescission of 78 Biden-era executive actions, executive orders, presidential memoranda, and others. Thank you, sir. Thank you. The second item, President Trump, is a regulatory freeze, as you announced in your speech, preventing bureaucrats from issuing any more regulations until we have full control of the government and this administration. Thank you, sir. The next item, sir, is a freeze on all federal hiring, accepting the military and a number of other excluded categories, again, until full control of the government is achieved, and we understand the objectives of government going forward.

[09:33:53] Speaker 36: Could you imagine Biden doing this? I don't think so.

[09:33:56] Speaker 1: I don't think so.

[09:34:03] Speaker 16: Sir, the next item, as you announced in your speech, is a requirement that federal workers return to full-time in-person work immediately. Thank you, sir. Next, we have a directive to every department and agency in the federal government to address the cost-of-living crisis that has cost Americans so dearly. Thank you, sir. The next item here is the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Treaty. Yes, sir. We're going to save over a trillion dollars by withdrawing from that treaty. And the next item, sir, is a letter that will be transmitted to the United Nations explaining that we are withdrawing from the Paris Climate Treaty. Thank you, sir. This next item is a directive to the federal government ordering the restoration of freedom of speech and preventing government censorship of free speech going forward. And lastly, sir, before we go back to the Oval Office to sign a large number of other items, is a directive to the federal government ending the weaponization of government against the political adversaries of the previous administration, as we've seen. Thank you very much, sir. Appreciate it.

[09:37:26] Speaker 1: I'm going to hike you over to the lower deck. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[09:39:57] Speaker 15: Thank you. Thank you.