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Be checking in with you. chief justice john roberts there who swore in president obama officially yesterday who will be affirming the oath with him today just before noon. president obama will deliver his inaugural address just after being sworn in at noon today. and, chris, historically presidents have really set the tone of their time in office with that inaugural speech, whichever term it is. >> thats true. when we think of what the inauguration can accomplish, theres one that demonstrates so...

The swearing in happened on march 4th before 1933 and then the 20th amendment to the constitution was passed to move it to january 20th. they decided it doesnt happen on a sunday, so they-- anytime it happened on a sunday they moved it to the monday. its happened seven times on mondays, seven times on sundays and last time was ronald reagan sworn in privately at the white house. now, the reason the vice-president is sworn in this morning is because, according to the vice-presidents office, there...

In 1933 franklin delano roosevelt was sworn in as president for the first of his four terms, and with these words he delivered an inaugural address thats been called the most important american speech of the 20th century. >> let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. >> that voice rings true. anyway, fdrs first inaugural was the last to be held in march. the 20th amendment ratified in january of 33 moved all subsequent inaugurals to january so it would be co...

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President. welcome all of you. >> thank you. >> i want to start with guns. congressman. do you think -- were you surprised that the president went as big as he did? of course i really wasnt. the president got elected after a long, tough struggle to put forth a vision. i think this is the first part of the vision. i dont think it was planned. i think what happened in the tragedy here kind of spurred him in that direction. and you know, this use of executive order as we have seen since 1933 when f...

And a search underway for italian fashion executive. he was on a plane that disappeared off of the coast of venezuela. the ceo of the fashion house was with his wife and two friends returning to caracus after a vacation on an island resort venezuela. on the same 1933 construction began on a famous american landmark, san franciscos golden gate bridge. there were huge hurdles, including getting financing during the great depression and sceptics said it would be impossible to pull off. it was compl...

Colorado senator, because he is going to be -- he is the new head of the democratic senatorial campaign committee, which means he is tasked with trying to, again, keep a democratic senate majority. going to be difficult. you have 20 democratic seats up. you only have ten republican seats up. >> he wants to be senate majority leader someday. thats why he is doing it. >> they asked him two years ago, and he said no. he said yes this time. >> why pence. >> he spent time in congress. he is now the g...

The head of the committee which means hes tasked with trying to again keep a democratic senate majority, going to be difficult. you have 20 democratic seats up, only 10 republican seats up. >> and he wants to be senate majority leader some day. >> they asked him two years ago. he said no. he said yes this time. >> you also said pence. why pence? >> he spent time in congress. hes now the governor of indiana. i think hes a guy who we underrate in terms of his influence. we have seen in places like...

Spending versus discretionary spending and maybe some peoples eyes glaze over. but entitlement spending, we are taking care of our seniors. we need to take care of our seniors. you talk about discretionary spending, again, a very small part of the budget that is investment. that type of investment you are talking about and these decisions we make today impact generations that will follow in 1933 when fdr launched social security seniors were the poorest segment of society. today theyre the wealt...

In the united states officially came to an end. what you see here before you are people who seem pretty psyched to have a legal drink to celebrate the fact. prohibition was a long time in the making and a long time in the unmaking. and both the path to prohibition and the path out of prohibition were pioneered in the states. states began prohibiting alcohol before the federal government passed the constitutional amendment to do so. and once prohibition was the law of the land, through that const...