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you be most proud of having achieved? >> he tried to do his best. >> ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming pete hegseth and david goodwin. [applause] >> welcome both. >> thank you very much. >> thank you all for being here, we appreciate it. quick biographical stuff. you were in the armed services about scuba player in high school, year career as a commentator and a news guy how did you and fox news? >> my first television appearance ever was on msnbc with chris matthews, i've never done tv before in my life in either marine buddy who had done tv twice, he was an expert. he told me he said leaned forward that was his first tip. it makes you look better stature, better posture, leaned forward and don't let the host cut you off. 46 times chris matthews cut me off. i was a newbie i did never anticipate i would go into tv, i ran a couple of that organizations when i came back from iraq and afghanistan one supporting the battlefield and the other fighting for reform. through that i did appearance at different places and a lot of it ended up being fox and a lot into the beam fox and friends and i'll never forget one day they said have you ever thought about asking questions instead of answering them, i said i'm happy to try one time the first thing i could do is make a fool of myself and it must've gone okay, that was in 2015 early 2016 and then tucker carlson was a fox and friends ween can host took the primetime gig and thank goodness because he is amazing and then i took tucker's slot on fox and friends weekend. >> the rest is history. >> i'm not sure who wrote these words but the fact that the two of you got together was like indiana jones and his father and hears important, my first question to you which is you sean connery. >> leave that to the imagination. but i'm older than he. >> even looks like sean connery, doesn't he. >> i can pull off accent. >> how did the two of you get together for this book. >> i won't monopolize i promise i was out of fox and feinstein every in north carolina and a beautiful young family in the corner who have their two young daughters there in uniform. as i do with every daughter i diner i walk around and they ta thislking about wonderful christian school in north carolina that they sent their kids to, i had known about classical christian schools but my interest had peaked around that point i want to learn more the school system is broken, what we do, you they said you have to meet this guy david goodwin he loves the association of classical christian school so i shot him an e-mail and i said i wanted to learn more, whatdo u guys do and he shot me tons of information he had already done a lot of writing and research on thisan topic and i kept reading and reading i'm calling them too much i think, on a regular basis avid question about this, can this really be true, is this true and at one point i looked at my wife and i was sitting in my office and i said babe, runs a lot of the live stuff on fox nation and i said we have to make a movie outno of this, peoe need to know what is going on from john dewey to the original pledge of allegiance we can get into that to the ability salute and the progressives, the whole story and what david had done in the research he had done is a no-brainer so we got to work on the film and that eventually the book but none of this happens without david goodwin and the research and the expertise he brings. [applause] >> i would bet just about everyone in this audience has now some familiarity with the whole critical race theory, it had been taught and are nation schools today but what i found fascinating in this book is right up front the two of you make a point that that's just the very recent tip of the iceberg, this problem is really as much as 100 1 years old, will one of you please explain that. >> it is, what's really an amazing part of the story in the development of the book, we started in march of 2020 which if you remember that is before crt went friend center in the riots in before covid, the interest early on nine need to do be told what was in the story. as we went along history was unfolding in front of us in the schools were deeply involved and he kept coming back with what about this i have this person on tv today, they said this, pretty soon it was a truly collaborative project where pete was writing and he wrote most of the part of the books about our day and what we found out we fit together like hand in glove, john dewey no sooner gets through with his work that i researched and columbia university than the frankfurt school shows up, pete had a lot better grasp on that side of things than i did so as a whole i think the work is really providential and something had enough in the time and the place in the partnership. >> the progressives had the targeting of our youngest mines on their mind on the very beginning they knew they had to remove the one removable object inside american civic life in western civilization if they were to evervi catch on. in the understood the removal object was gone, was faith enough the centerpiece of the american classrooms since the founding, they had to replace it the way we describe it to keep the indiana jones analogy going. it's like when you're trying to grab a precious artifact but it's on a pressure point and if you take the artifact off the pressure plate the alarm bells go off, if they had removed god immediately 100 years ago the parent culture, churches would've revolted but ultimately wrote in the publications this is the research that david did, how do we remove god from the classrooms that is a removable object, they ultimately landed on a forgery which the culture at the time was willing to accept which effectively with allegiance toe the state it was the flag that was a new pledge of pledge of allegiance written by a socialist, it did not say under god when it was originally written, i lovee the flag i woud probably say the pledge of allegiance at the beginning, i reviewed it.t. for them it was a new idea which they could get society cohere and more malleable and nationalism being more malleable than biblical truth because when you biblical truth and b objecte truth you can't move people off ofou that. what you'll find when you read the story from the characters is almost to a man into a woman, they are atheist, luminous, socialist and eventually marxist who reject biblical truth who reject the idea of human nature in a fallen nature, simple nature. once you can change and reject that, then you create a laboratory for societal change inside classrooms. one of the other things that david discovered through his research and we write about in progressives started prohibition, woman named margit willard, frances willard. frances willard who is a suffragette socialist said if we can put this into the curriculum of third-graders maybe we start to have a chance. on the 1870s, there were a curriculum into alcohol was put in and it wasas sold ad hoc system, this is before john deweyy, loose public associatio, but a third grade curriculum was put in by 1919 what you have in america prohibition of the sale and assumption of alcohol, the progressives said if you can do that with their grade curriculum what else can you do with thirde grade curriculum and theycu discovered a word called by deyo, they knew it sorted our founders i learned it from david we talked about in the book which is how you educate and train up the youngest if you can ship the youngest of mines to have a different understanding of the value of a good life you change the entire way of society and a civilization what they value. >> as we said the pledge one nation under god, indivisible, would you go so far to say when socialist and those who created the pledge were after what you describe to them, undergone, god is officially the state. >> yes, originally but the original pledge written by francis melody did not include under god. under god was added by eisenhower when we were fighting the godless communists. the original has no mention of god. to oversimplify, basically what the progressives did, they said it was always under the vocational training for a new academy, what they did they replace the cross and a bible in the classroom with a flag and pledge. over time a gradually speaking while saying working to start a different type of school over here where god is not allowed inside but we have a pullout. where you can go to instruction outside of the school, not on school grounds, we still respect you have faith in god. it was always incremental. when they moved into new york they took a a different approac, you should explain the idea of the gary plan, that's what of the things that blew my mind they started a school in indiana that potentially try to change the way school worked altogether, k-12. >> intentionality was visible because they created the model schools in several places around the country but gary became the center point of it. the thing about gary anybody who knows it from the musical, it was formed in 1905, it was a very new city and they could take the education wherever they wanted to take it, one of dewey's disciples was the superintendent of the area and they built gary's plan there in indiana and its features were something that you probably all thought were always in school, like bells that ring over 55 minute. , seven. day, the idea of subjects broken up in the social sciences being inserted into it. he talks about about the social sciences, this was all packaged up and they remove religion, christianity from the classroom by simply putting it in a pullout. period where i first encountered the story when i was reading the back-and-forth in the editorial pages of the new republic in 1915 and 1918 where they are arguing about how to get god out of the classroom for good. the ones that they put in a pullout. we can eventually just drop it. the other side was saying we should have a pullout. especially when you imported back into new york which happened when the gary plan wase successful so they put it back in new york. the whole modern american experience especially in high school was designed without god. it was the first design of that type. >> in the book you describe to some links this whole woke movement and part of being woke, those words are harmful and all the rest of that, i read this and i cannot believe it when i read in your book, that is the united states the national archives and regular administration and agency of the nation's attic keeps all of our turecord and takes care of the constitution of the united states of the declaration of independence. when you access the archives website, it suggests that the top right-hand corner, there are harmful words in these documents, how can this possibly be. >> it's true you go to the website of our national archives for the declaration of independence and the constitution of the united states of america and there is a trigger warning of potential violent content, inappropriate content. that's a logical extent of the view of the left, they want to reject they have rejected the idea of our founding inner theories were dedicated to that from the beginning of when they landed ong our shores, david talked about the early progressives, john dewey another name shall be introduced to, then you have the critical theorist of the franklin school who flee germany, they're all marxist, they landed new york and their welcome at columbia university where john dewey had been a professor, what is columbia at that time and what is columbia teachers college still today, the preeminent teachers college in the united states of america and the marxist arrived with a new theory called critical theory, sound familiar? it is the precursor to critical race theory and critical gender theory and they began to teach it and they began to teach in the teachers colleges which means most teachers go out and become head of their department and other places so their teaching critical theory, what is critical theory to your point critical theory is to deconstruct effectively christian paideia or western civilization, to criticize all things that lead to the patriarchy capitalist system that must be torn down if we were to advance marxism, they saw an economic sense but it soon became a cultural sense because they knew the class warfare wasn't going to fly in the united states of america, instead are terrible past of racial justice was more belowground the critical theorist landed on critical race theory as the way in which they can indict america from the very beginning, we call the first chapter the covid 1619 moment. covid-19 happens, the zoom classroom comes into all of our holmes and you open up the laptop of the american history are teaching 1619 and the founding days they have rejected 1776 and the printable arab, that type of logic is the academic level made its way pervasively into the k-12, that was the premise from the very beginningon, they use only teach in higher education, all the teachers that invented the teachers colleges and handled accreditation that are in bed with the unions, i see rebeccaat friedrichs here a great friend of ours, she was standing up to goliath she took on the teachers union in california for 30 years as a teacher, an amazing individual. , we've drawn on a lot of wisdom from a lot of people who have been on the front lines. frankly we were yelling about it before people were paying attention to now they areno payg attention, those theories have been embedded into our institutions and that's how you get to the point how something like that appears on a website. >> well explained, this is what you have to read this book, really well-known all pull a quote from your book and i'd like you to explain it for us. the white has held the right principles but the left controls the pollutions, what you mean by that? >> a political question, you can. >> what we mean by that, look at local school boards, look at union representation, look at our universities. we stand on principles that we know are timeless and believe that they should be timeless and they do stand on their own whether the brilliance of our founding or the biblical wisdom and then the left goes ahead and runs for all the positions and takes over all the institutions and then pushes out all the stuff that we thought was timeless and will be there no matter what if there is one thing you can fault the founders for assuming this type of education would continue, that is how kids will be educated at some level with an understanding of greek and latin and great books in her biblical western civilization narrative and kind of assume that would be the waters that west swim in and thy hadn't anticipated the critical theorist and others who came about and tried to deconstruct everything that they did. that's why were not try to be pessimistic in this book but you guys remember the stuff that we covered on fox appearance rising up at school boards, lauding county virginia, glenn youngkin gets elected it is amazing stuff and it's wonderful to see it and it's heartening. i mean that sincerely. those types of actions in today's government schools of thought what we should call them, government schools, public schools or government schools. those types of actions as we say book is charging a fortified machine gun with nerf guns. we salute your effort, but were going to. while because those school boards, what did they do to those parens 95% of the time? , my mom protested a pta meeting in the school board in the 1980s and 90s when i was in elementary, god bless her she took me out of those courses whether it was a ed course or the new self-esteem thing that is quite benign by today's standard, nothing, 99% of the other kids still went through the education and still got those programs in an hour in a 95th iteration of forest lake high school in conservativeig minnesota. they control the pipeline of every aspect of the educational industrial complex. the unions be the most powerful arm of that but the teachers colleges, the textbooks, the curriculum, the certification, the accreditation all hard leftists, so we want to disavow people the idea that you can move to a nice zip code or i'm going to move to his conservative community and everything's going to be okay the problem is the pipeline spin federalized and they control those additions. protesting is getting doing something tog the could and its utterly insufficient at this point. if i can add one thing the money involved is icing on the cake, the biggest industrial complex coeven rivaling the military compex in this country, dollar for dollar not only for the infrastructure unit to the progressive but the money is two. and for the university, your quest was to find not an elite education but rather a best education what is the difference between the elite education in the best education. >> by today's standards and elite education would be princeton where i went as an undergraduate or harvard w wheri went for program i don't abuse on fox and friends recently. i did send it back to them live on tv. , the most elite institutions are poisoning the minds of not just her kids but our country and we hold them up of standardbearers of excellence a gatekeeper of credibility we discontinue the cycle perpetuation is not just my so-called elite background and it's all your maters to, take your pick. unless she went to hillsdale or liberty or college of the ozarks, yale, university is probably beautifully pumping out hard leftists and marxist on a rapid pace. reader alumni newsletter go back and take some coursework, by default we like the sports teams or the nostalgia of drinkingju beer in college we pumped checks to these institutions and we might as well send it straight to theck democratic party any pt of perpetuating that is part of the cycle is hurting our country in the best institutions are david school i'm talking about classical christian schools at the k-12 level because my mentor at princeton robbie george is an amazing professor that are not 25 conservatives all because of one man who started an institution has built a phenomenal but he has a book and he is ais liberal professors tht lick their chops and they showed upr at college, it is the conservative professors among them who licker their chops undoing the indoctrination in the case that you alreadyop show up, the problem is not higher education, higher education is already gone the problem is k-12 that is the focus of our book and they are consolidating that there k-12 when i talk about a great education not an elite education the kids david pumps out as elite performers there elite students, criticalrm thinkers, debaters and the ready to go into the culture and engage and win by that definition of elite they are elite if you mean elite pays $50000 can be woke, they're not elite that's what the elite high schools are middle schools look like when their pipelines to the ivy league, these are pipelines to wisdom your letter, i didn't get the education, every time i talked to david, the first thing i would say to him why can i go back to whatever schools, i learned almost nothing, as i look back at the social studies that i learned, all disciplines made up by marxist used to be geography, philosophy, civics and politics, they deconstructed it to dumb it down to make it all the scientific method that can be explained because there is no more objective truth, we all got in education and we didn't know it. what david is doing iss unearthing a hidden form of education that the progressives almost completely buried by the 1970s and giving a generation to get educated, my seventh grader who has been in a class for six years understands ancient greece rome more than i ever will he's engaging in the ideas of the founders engaged with as he goes into a culture that was washed and avoided, that's what i would i call elite and that's how i would like to try to redefine it. [applause] >> perhaps the two of you, what you note it's not what's being taught in our schools but what's not being taught in our schools, give some examples of a classical christian education that you think will in fact develop. >> one of the things to take for tegranted that history gave us o long ago, seven liberal arts which are the basis of christian education, they date back to the ancient greece, the principal was if you were going to form some type of public democracyre you had to prepare your children to think for themselves. if they just listen to whatever doctorate the summit he gave them they would vote for the tyrant, your going to go back and deteriorating, that was a fear of the greeks and the romans and it was the basis of this country when they built the country, that's whatun we had legals honor stanchions and many other roman artifacts because they were harkening back to this idea that thehe republic requirs freethinking people to the seven liberal arts the first three logic and rhetoric to use language and how to use logic into think well formal and informal practice and as we practice thinking we don't tell kids what to think wee practice them in the art of good thinking, very different kind of education not one teacher standing with 25 kids in in the third subject is rhetoric, which is now a dirty word because politics shuffled out, it was originally the art of understanding the whole of the topic and being able to communicate that other people and persuade them to follow you and to have this course and will receive right now been shut down from every angle because we can't stand hearing things we don't like to hear. , where should i send my childhi to school the solution at public schools or the government schools that you talked about which are thech real problem the solution is not necessarily all spent $50000 and send my kid to a private or independent prep school correct? >> correct in fact i would argue most of the private schools are even worse and more woke. in fact a lot of the christian schools and catholic schools are maybe not as bad on the surface and bill on the progressivess model of education that's what shook me so much at the beginning and working with david once you start to dig in and realize you like into a capsize ship if you been living for 100 years you feel like the wall is a four and that's what you lived in. when you tip it back up and you realize you been living sideways for 100 years everything looks completely different and with the 1970s when there was no such thing as classical christian, they were very close to doing so, they tried to outlaw the schooling as well in oregon and before that, they'd still like to iff they could in the supreme court ruling that we got last week in maine amongst other rulings. , it's been a good week for our founders. [applause] many other leaders in this country including ronald reagan who have been fighters for life for generations and here we are, you know what i'm saying, i would just say you have to break down the assumptions that you have about what education means especially in a christian context and that's why think classical christian is so different, what we've tried to do is break down the preconceived notion that classical means outdated, dusty, old how people have looked to homeschooling and homeschoolingg means weird or not socialized which is not the case and if you look at how it's done today and done so well it is amazing what they're doing andg homeschooli. including pods and co-ops an online curriculum and classical christian homeschooling, there are more options today than there have ever been for a great education for your kids and grandkids which is one of the stories out of this david has almost 500 brick-and-mortar classical schools across the country in 46 states there is a bunch in california there is a bunch across the country. we argue for parents and grandparents taken a radical reorientation of your life and say next to your family in next year faith, the next step you can take is where you educate your kids, where they spent 16000 hours between the age of can garden in 12 grade 16000 hours that is the original title of the book 16000 our work, that's what it is do you really want to send your kid to 16000 hour of democrat camp? because that's basically what were doing right now when we send our kids to 90% of the k-12 schools that exist in america today. i would argue you don't want that. even in some of the articles that david uncovered the progressives wrote about that and you would know the quote better than me what chance does one hour of training on sunday morning have against 40 hours of secular training during the week, who said that, i can't remember. >> charles potter, they knew from the beginning in the christian church we did it to ourselves as f a movement when e church advocated responsibilityt on education david write so beautifully, the social justice and the fundamental arm ultimately the social justice joins the progressives and the fundamentalist say were just here to save souls which is wonderful but it basically said were not in the school business anymore, what got created at that moment, sunday school, instead of sending our kids to school monday through friday that has god in it we take the out of the school and send them to school one hour on sunday and then you see what happens as a result, i would look very closely at any elite school, any private school many christian school and look at the baseline prerogative to what they teach and compare against the liberal arts the david has and i think there will be a stark difference. >> at grasp on the really quick, exhibit a and what were talking about with the deep educational state where they can control accreditation, teacher certification, it doesn't matter if you go to a christian high schoolol or an independent prep school, they're all trained in that system, that's the point were trying to make, the reason there woke they get the same training aske everybody else, te prescription we have in the book is get out and a go in totallyio different direction. >> tactical retreat is what we call w it. sometimes when you're surrounded in this immediate moment the first movement is retreat and then we argue for an educational insurgency, the warfare the week against the strong, the smalluc against the big, david started the insurgency throughbi his schools and we are seeing arizona having a universal credit program, it's a beautiful thing, there is movement there. >> will turn it to the audience are questions in just a minute, i have twoa trigger words that you said, remind us first the foundation and the institute that you were able to give a million dollars in college scholarships each and every year with 20 students and what were finding more and more of those that have risen to the top and become finalist competitors are homeschooled, it's really been a fascinating thing to watch, the second thing before we go to questions from the audience i want to read a quote from michael's father president reagan in his speech to the nation in january of 1989 the president said patriotism is what we want are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what america is and what she represents in the long history of the world and what it means to be an american we've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important, if we forget whatat e did we won't know who we are, i'm warning of an eradication of the american memory that could result ultimately in erosion of the vacant spirit. >> that is the end of the beginning of reagan's term he commission on educational assessment of america. i can't get this quote right but he concluded that if a foreign country would've done this we would've called an act of war. lookul it up it is the report coming out. >> we would likely turn to you the audience for questions, just a quick printer, if you have a question, raise your hand but please wait until we get a microphone put in your hand so that we can hear your questions. we have one right here in the front. >> thank you very much, he question for you because of your occupation in the circle that you traveling do you encounter media from the left and you have discussions with them on their positions, can you go back and forth or do you pretty much stay two people on the right, how does it work in your profession? >> just when i talked to run williams. [laughter] , i would love to, first of all i get a chance to work with the best conservators in the business, rachel campos-duffy, we talk from fox and i'm grateful for that. i will say this the left-wing media is not the most tolerant bunch these days, not only would they not want to have a conversation with me i would talk my self discovery has gone to left-wingy universities and i'm happy to have a conversation knowing that we disagree another were probably going to come to i different conclusion at the end of the conversation. the problem these days you talk to most members of the media on the left side of ohio and the only way that conversation is going to go there going to end by saying you are a racist. really an absolute mischaracterization strongly in characterization of the opponent as less than human. the private conversations i have with people left of center at fox are wonderful. because they are at a place to actually tolerate, i have a bunch of friends that work at cnn and every single one of them has gone running for the exit because eventually there cornered andev ran out and told what horrible human beings are especially if they supported trump, find the door or you going to sit him on a shelf and never be on tv. i've never met a liberal that works at fox they didn't say this is the most wonderful place a worked. we do tolerate we have discussions on the air and we have it out but at the end of the day i askedfe him about the kids in their lives and what do you think about this in the compliment me on the book i saw this, it can exist when he foster the environment that exist in that environment at fox is the shared value that america is a good country and god is worth celebrating. when you can agree on the basics you configure the other stuff. >> thank you so much i'm so excited to read your book is overwhelming to listen i have three millennial kids that have a high kid yet but you have a suggestion as to how we can communicate besides just giving them the book. it's a two-part question. that, i like to communicate that to two of t the couple of my kis were trying to have kids to look at this but the other side what can we do in the audience to help this movement. >> i talked to gal last week they had the same question she wasn't sure she was going to get them to read a book but they did watch the miseducation series and is very influential for millennial kids. they had never heard f that befe i would commend the on fox. >> i agree miseducation of america's a six part series we tell the abbreviated version of the book and film form and we work with a great producer john casey who put it together. after knocking want to read it, after watching it the probably want to read it even more and i think ultimately coming up the topic of humility with your kids is exactly what i'm going to do to mind when they're old enough to understand why we made the choices remain i have no idea, you're going to want the best for your kids and maybe i didn't know that when i was going there because it wasn't laid bare in frontnt of me but now i know and you're going to want to know because i know you're going to want the best for your kids, do yourself a favor before you're five years old and read this book. also covid reallyy did this beig more intentional and i say this to californians as somebody who lived a lot iny minnesota. a very hopelessly blue state being more and more intentional about where you live meaning the city in the county that you live in covid showed us how much more impact that local control can have. david's website classical christian.org has a map every school is on a pin on a map and i would move to a school that's what my wife and i are doing moving to a school. i think it's that important that you can't say here's the biggest problem we all pay property taxes and we probably moved to a place that is nice because of the schools we pay the property taxes, i think that's a hard thing to get past for some people but ultimately is that sacrifice worth the future of your kids and their souls in the way that they view the world. tom the watch a movie. >> there's another benefit to this movement i'm an association member we help these independent schools outside of us other schools doing classical conversations in the homeschool if you kids can afford seven or 8 thousand dollars homeschooling is an option there are many other options classical christian education is 2000 years old nobody owns it. it is oliver's we just have to recover. i >> i went through the whole catholic homeschool and i started my kid with that, he is in college now graduating. i had a big problem about what you said about progressives plan it was coree curriculum even though we homeschooled catholic school in napa they still had core curriculum that we had to do, i stopped going there and we did other things for his schooling and groups but when we wanted to go back to high school for sports and they would not accept him he had to go to an alternative school i was so glad i was able to homeschool because it meant so much wendy turned out great and he's an eagle scout and all the other stuff we did but that was a big block for me why do we had to cater to the core curriculum one other thing lbj he decided he did not want to have school buses for christians andis catholics so en though they publicly pay to get the kids to the public schools he eliminated taking kids to christian schools and i like to turn that around also in turnaround the core curriculum. >> the school buses is a great challenge to the supreme court these days, i'm serious the core curriculum is how they consolidate the control how you navigate that classical christian. >> they don't. >> when you don't take the kings gold at some level not that you were, you're right when the testing of high school level requires the core curriculum that sally box most parents and that's a lot of extra effort to do it on your own that's what the next step also we talk about this in the book the sat recently stopped testing for reasoning because it's racist in the same guy that took over the sat wrote common core which is the federalization standard under the obama administration so the classical learning test sat for classical christian pipeline of curriculum, there's accreditation teachers colleges need to be created it's an entire ecosystem that's going to have to live parallel to a progressive pipeline that controls every single aspect at this point. >> that's great when he ran for president of the united states a first time one of the main things inn his campaign was to get rid of the department of education therefore by jimmy carter and he was fully upset with after 8 years of being president of the united states he was never able to get rid of the department of education. i remember one of his great quote we received one nation under god for a nation gone under and i quote that all the time where can we get a list of schools, my parents sent me to a military academy i went to st. john's alcatraz i was taught by the sisters of mercy and then i went to the judge was. god was having fun with med frm the very beginning, where you give a list. >> i have to give credit to my wife son she's a webmaster she developed a great tool that you can sort by date, city there's pins on a map anything that you want, classical christian.org school finder she built that and it'll get you there fast every school has its own. page that yu end up back where an association of like-minded independent schools. >> to your point, the reason your dad i will believe is so adamant in getting rid of it is because he knew how andnd why it was created we break that down in the book as well. a lot of the work that rebecca has done focuses on that to. unions used to be conservative teacher association which were unionization the union, that union turned around and endorsed the first ever presidential candidate in 1976 the teachers unions had half the delegates at the 76 convention when they endorsed jimmy carter. when jimmy carter was elected wapresident he turned around and gave a gift tour the teachers union which was the department thof education in the naa and at openly bragged that there would be no department of education without thend teachers union but from the very beginning the department of education has been a creation of the teachers unions and politically they try to make it impossible for people to understand that to get ridenf it because in your anti-education which was a problem among weak kneed republican senators in congress of that era who would not be willing to make that move. hope were at a point because of how corrupt the unions are especially after covid being against something like the department of education can be decoupled for being against education they corrected it they created an opportunity to expose it. >> we have time for one last question. >> thank you i was homeschooled and i learned a lot about it my granddaughter is a sophomore at hillstone and he gets a lot of stuff after he provides courses for kids through high school and has online courses you can take, no charge it's absolutely wonderful it's amazing and that college is hard to get into and they have a tremendous student body in the court of honor like the military academies, if you break the code youe, kicked out, she still in high school, get the phone call and she said talk to embry, she lied to me about not doing homework so, granddaughter, lying about your homework is simply a problem, if you have a problem we fix it, lying to mother is a character flaw you've lost your confidence never do that again. so they interviewed her with the code and they said are you missing anything that you think she said there and yes, don't lie to yourself my grandson is making eagle scout this month. >> congratulationsns. >> i was just talking to jason chaffetz about the book and he was talking about his friend trey gaudi he said in all my years of prosecuted. there was a questionable education and he said i never had to prosecute homeschooled kids or eagle scout and we got two of them here, that's a testament to parents ahead of the curve and willing to do something for the kids now there's brick-and-mortar options are more online options to the point that we can get too critical mass for republic out three, four, 6% of graduates in this country that can be part of a leadership change for the future of the nation. >> each of you will have an opportunity to say hi to pete and david at the book h signing were heading into now. >> author and journalist appeared on book tv monthly in-depth or graham, to talk about his books and the deadly impact of synthetic drugs, he also weighed in on the question of marijuana legalization. >> i would like to see personally as legal lies one drug well in right now we are mandolin the job with marijuana in my opinion. think about it what is one of the great lessons of opioid epidemic? i believe this is one be careful what drugs you make legal and widely available with outlandish claims of the risk-free nature that the whole story of opioids in our country, you can say maybe we should make all the drug legal but the opioid epidemic starts with legal drugs is not the illegal druggist or the stuff is doctors and pharmaceutical promoting the hell out of this and this brings me to another part of this topic and i wrote about a little bit that is to say that i'm not sure i don't believe in fax that we have the kind of culture in america that will tolerate and have as much appetite for the kind of government regulation that would be required to successfully legalize a drug in america, other countries may be able to do it, i don't know that we are there is a culture i think we bridled too much against government intrusion and regulation and all that kind of stuff. were in the middle of climate change this is an exponential threat to this planet and yet were in california and other places we made it literally illegal to sell marijuana that's been grown indoors this is weed that grows outdoors perfectly but were growing indoors with enormous carbon footprint, why economic interest pushing because it benefits them it doesn't benefit anybody else. my feeling, we don't have in this country and appetite for the kind of serious regulation that would be necessary to legalize drugs successfully. marijuana is a disaster it seems it loses track of all the lessons and prohibition, after prohibition was over we do not legalize all of this bathtub hooch and all the stuff that made people blind and all that kind of stuff, the pot world is filled with versions of marijuana 30 or 40% thc and vape that are 90% in thc the active ingredient in marijuana it seems like we need to step back, go very slowly, very cautiously, take our time and be aware that we are really, really bad at this we don't know what were doing instead were just opening up the doors, to me it feels right now in some states it feels very much or generally alcohol pre-prohibition which is like anything kind of goes. >> watches interview in its entirety by clicking on in-depth tab on the book tv homepage. >> the 2022 national book awards was recently announced the annual awards were established in 1950 to celebrate the bested american writing since 1989 they have been overseen by the nonprofit national book foundation. in the nonfiction category this year finalist include making a work for the invisible kingdom reimagining chronic illness and money. for soft america journey below the mason-dixon to understand the soul of the nation, david wolman for breathless the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus ingrid for the man who can move clouds, memoir and robert samuels and tony for his name is george floyd one man's life and the struggles for racial justice, the winners of this year's awards will be announced in new york city on november 16 in book tv will be covering the award ceremony. >> you are watching book tv with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. book tv television for serious readers. . . . don't burn this country. i know that a few years ago. you wrote a book. don't burn this book and so i can see that you know, this is kind of building upon and you know kind of evolving on that book and i was hoping that to get us started today you could talk about what prompted you to writ i was hoping to get a story today you could talk about what prompted you to write this book. >> guest: sure. it's good to be with you, emily. the first book i'll start with the first one first. the first book i wrote just laid out my

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we believe every citizen deserves a measure of dignity. we must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care. we reject the belief that america must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and invested in the generation that will build its future. we remember the lessons of our past. twilight years were spent in poverty. a tablet disability had nowhere to turn. we do not believe that freedom is reserved for the lucky or happiness for the few. we recognize that men matter how responsibly we live our lives any one of us at any of our times may face a job loss or a home slipped away in a terrible storm. the commitments we make to each other do not zap our nation, they strengthen us. they do not make us a nation of takers, and a free as to take the risk that make this country great. redo the free us to take the risks that make this country great. we the people still believe our obligations of americans are not just to ourselves but to all posterity f. we will respond to the threat of climate change in knowing failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. some may still deny the judgment of silent but no one can ignore drought and powerful storms. a path toward sustainable energy sources will be long and difficult. america cannot resist this transition. we must lead it. we cannot see the technology that will power new jobs and industries. we must claim it promises. that is how we will claim our vitality peart our forests and waterways, are snowcapped peaks. that is how we will change our planet. that is what will end to our creed. we the people still believe that in during security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war. our brave men and women in uniform, it tempered by the flames of battle are unmatched in skills and courage. our citizens, feared by the memory of those who have lost know too well the price that is paid for liberty. this will keep a vigilant against those that would do us harm. we are heirs to those who won the people. we must carry those lessons into this time as well. we will defend our people and uphold our values through strengths of arms and rule of law. we will show courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peaceably not because we are 90 but because engagements can lift suspicion and fear. america " remain at the anger of a strong alliance. we will extend our capacity to manage a crisis and fraud. we will support democracy from asia to africa to the americans to the middle east. our interest and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. we must be a source of hope for the port, sick, marginalized, victims of prejudice. peace requires the advance of those principles. tolerance and opportunity. human dignity. justice. we the people declare the most evidence of sure that all of us are declared equal. just as they guided all those men and women we can not walk alone. our individual freedom is inexplicably bound for the freedom. it is our generation's path to carry on what those pioneers began. our journey is not complete until our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. our journey is not complete until our brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. if we are treated equal, at the law must be equal as well. our journey is not complete until they can exercise the rights of both. our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the hopeful immigrants that still see america as an opportunity. our journey is not complete until all of our children from the streets of detroit to the white plains of newtown know they're cared for and always safe from harm. that is our generation's task, to make these rights and values of life and liberty in the pursuit of happiness. the make real for every american. been shoes to our founding documents is not require us to agree -- been true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every libbers see the same way. or followed the same precise path to happiness. congress is not compel us to settle the debate about the role of government for all time. it does require us to act in our time. for now decisions are upon us. we cannot afford delays. we can not mistake absolutism for principle. we cannot treat blame -- name- calling as a reason for debate. we must act knowing that our work will be on perfect. it will be up to those who stand near in 400 years to good chance the timeless this bear philadelphia hall. my fellow americans, at the oath i have sworn before you today, like the one recited by others who have served in this cabinet, was an oath to god and country, not parties. we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration. the words i spoke today are not so different from the oath that has taken each time a soldier has signed up for duty born in ghent realizes her dreams. my oath is not different from the plans we make to the flags above and bills are heart with pride. they represent our greatest hope. uni have the power to -- you the obligation to shape our times with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient of values and an adoring ideas. with common efforts in common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry that precious blight. thank you. god bless you. he ever bless the united states of america. [applause] >> the united states marine band. my country tis of thee sweet land of liberty if thee i sing land where my fathers died lad of the pilgrim's pride from every mountain side let freedom ring ♪ let music sweel the beach and ring from all the trees sweet freedom songs let silence break the sound prolonged ♪ our father guide to thee father of liberty to thee we sing ♪ long may our land be bright with freedom's holy light protect us by the might great god, our king ♪ >> pwow. our next distinguished guest is the appellate issue will share with us where -- poet who will share with us words he has composed for this location. occasion. >> one today. one sun rose on us today kindles over our shores greeting the facves of the great lakes acrossng a simple truth the greatplains rooftops, aking upf under each one a story told by oiur silten gestures my face, your face millions of faces each one yawning to life crescendoing to our day the pencil yellow school buses, for it stands, oranges betting our praise. sobered trucks and heavy with oil and paper, teeming over highways alongside us our way to clean tables read ledgers or save lives to teach geometry or ring up groceries as my mother did for 20 years so i could write this poem for all of us today. all of us, as vital as the one light we all move through, equations to solve, history to question, we all keep dreaming a or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that will not explain the empty deaths of 20 children marked absent today and forever many prayers one light life into the faces of a bronze statue is warmth into the steps of our museums and park benches as mothers watched children slide into the day one grounds our ground routine as to every stalk of corn every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands hands planting windmills that keep us warm hands digging trenches, routing pipes in cable ands as worn as my father's cutting sugar cane so my brother and i could have a books and shoes the dust of farms and desserts, mingled byplaneines, one half wind, our breath breathe the it throught the go symphony of screeching subways, of the unexpected sunbird on your clothes line squeaky playground swings hear the doors we open each day for each other same "hello, shalom, bonjourno, howdy, namaste or buenos dias" in the language my mother taught me in every language carrying our lives without prejudice as these words a break from my lips one sky since the mississippi were to their way to the scene thank the work of our hands, weaving steel into bridges finishing one more report for the boss on time. did the first brush stroke on a portrait or a last floor on the freedom tower injecting into the sky that yield to our resilience. 01 sky we sometimes lift our eyes tired from work. some days giving thanks for a love that loved you back. some time praising a mother who knew how to give or for giving a father who cannot give what you wanted. we had a home through the loss of rain our way to snow or the palm blush of desk but always a home, always under one sky, our sky, and always one moon like the silent jump tapping on every wolf -- roof top of one country, all of us facing the stars. hope, a new constellation, which in for us to map its. waiting for us to name it together. [applause] >> that is my pleasure to introduce this doctor to deliver the benediction. >> let us pray. gracious and eternal god, as we conclude the second inauguration of president obama we ask for your blessings as we seek to become "citizens of a beloved community, loving you and loving our neighbors as ourselves." y you will bless us with your presence. with out bus patrons will in fact our hearts. with your blessing we know we can bay region break down the walls that separate us. we pray for your blessings. without it, mistrust will rule our hearts. with the blessing of your presence, we know we can renew the ties and mutual regard that can best for our civic life. we pray for your blessing because without it despair of those different from us will be our role of light. with your blessing we can see each other created in your image, a unit of god's grace, unprecedented, a repeatable and irreplaceable. we play -- pray for your blessing. with out it we will see only what the eye can see. createdsee that we're in your image, whether brown, black, or white, male or female, first-generation immigrant american or daughter of the american revolution, gay or straight, rich or poor. we pray for your blessing. without it we will only see scarcity in the midst of abundance. with your blessing we will recognize the abundance of the gifts of this good land with which you have and out of this nation. we pray for your blessing. bless all of us. privilege to be a resident of this nation with a. of gratitude in humility that we may be a blessing. we pray that you will shower with your life giving. that will be leaders of this land, especially barack our president and joe our vice- president. fill them with righteousness that they may serve this nation ably and be glad to do your will. endow their hearts with wisdom and forbearance so that peace may prevail with righteousness, and justice with order, some men and women can find the fulfillment of our humanity. we pray that the president and all and political authority will remember the words of the profit micah "what does the lord require of thee but to do justice, to love kindness, and always walk humbly with god?" [speaking spanish] mr. president, mr. vice president, may god bless you all your days. all this we pray in your most holy name. amen. in singingjoin us forcing nam the national anthem. please remit main at your place while the party exes the platform. o say can you see by the dawn's early light, 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 rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; o say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? ♪ ♪ >> all set? alright i am proclaiming goodwill toward men. >> amen. >> here wo go. i am setting up a few nominations which i know will be viewed with grace. charles hagal for defense. of virginia. there you go. thank you very much everybody. i can get you one. this is a nice one. that is yours . >> you are watching the live coverage of the 2013 inauguration coverage. it in a few minutes, the traditional inaugural luncheon. later on, live coverage of the inaugural parade. many times their of the day our phone lines open for you to react for what you're saying throughout the country. we welcome our viewers on c- span and on our sister public affairs station in canada and around the globe. our phone lines are open. here is one on twitter. he writes to us together is definitely the thing together -- today of the poem and the speec h. he was the youngest poet to ever speak at an inauguration, at the first immigrant, hispanic, and gay poet. let's take some phone calls. we will take a call from barbara. you are on. your reaction. caller: can hear me ok? host: we can. caller: first if you let me come at a personal experience. until today my favorite inauguration was the one at jfk for two reasons, his astronauts statements and for the fact that it was the first time i was able to vote. i turned 21 on election day. as able to vote for kennedy that day. since then they changed the age to 18. since i started voting, i have plusssed 14 inauguration's the swearing in of lbj in dallas. it is something i would not miss for anything. one thing that impressed me so much was all the flag-waving in the crowd. i thought it was just beautiful. the music by james taylor. he was always one of my favorite. and the choir this thing be back on him. today the line about trampling out the grapes of wrath stuck with me. we have so much hatred today. i hope we can make some progress. host: i know you waited a long time. brandon is tweeting us. this is a beautiful day for our country. i'm going to find something good to do today. inauguration day is filled with many traditions. you just witnessed a signing ceremony. this happens in the presence room in the capital. you saw the president what the plans that are distributed to the leaders of congress. he also confirmed the nominations of john brennan it to be defense secretary appeared next is a call to is watching us. caller: i just wanted to call and get my comments on today's ceremony. it is very moving. i did not vote for mr. obama. i hope he surrounds himself with people that we give him counsel. he was hoping we would come together, works for the next four years. the most moving part was beyonce's singing of the national anthem. i hope we can go forward as one nation. >> she writes the benediction is lovely but what about separation of church and state? next is a call from santiago. i thought president obama's speech was really good. agree with james taylor and beyonce. their performances were great. he did not talk about bipartisanship and he should have. host: the speech was clocked in at just over 18 minutes. next is a call from gary. caller: thank you for letting me call. i was very impressed with its. it is a good day for us all to come together. it is a very special shout out you were finishing the national anthem. they started ripping the president's, his agenda, his speech. this is fairly biased news. >> your seen pictures from inside the capitol. but macsharry this beautiful shot. the congressional luncheon was established in 1953. 50 guests gathered at that point in the old senate chamber. several luncheons were held around the capital. none were able to do all the guests. the tradition began of holding this. it is hosted by members of the joint committee. there will be about 200 families. next is a call from bill. you are on. >> i believe in the simplicity of the elegance. it was absolutely beautiful. it reminded me of robert frost. the words were simple. it was absolutely a beautiful poem. >> thank you. you are an independent. what did you think about the ceremonies today? >> i would like to get kudos to c-span for always having excellent coverage. thank you for taking my call. i thought it was excellent. i have no complaints about anything. isn't that wonderful? host: it is nice to hear. thanks for the comments. jimmy carter had 80 years old greeting supporters. l.l., everyone -- hello, everyone. this is my first time taking my day off to see the whole thing from the beginning to the end. i've never had a chance to see. i have this chance to see president obama in 2009. that time the republican president was there but this time i do not see him. host: president george h. of the bush is recovering from hospitalization. they took the day off because of the illness of the elder george bush today. next up is a call from michael who is watching as a in queens, new york. caller: hello. i am calling from jersey city. i want to remind people that the remind us about is up to us to work together and change the policies. we need to make sure we got to change what we're going to do. i will be calling harry reid's office tomorrow to ask and to change the filibuster rule. we have to make the move. i agree. i understand ipoem. -- the poem. it was beautiful. >> you are on. welcome. caller: i just want to comment that i find it very revealing that secretary clinton is trying to avoid the benghazi scandal and had on new glasses but not answered one question about how many americans were killed in benghazi. host: i am so incredibly happy right now and so grateful for all that obama has laid out for his second term. we are following tweets. you are welcome to join the conversation. >> i really was and pressed by the whole inauguration. i was able to watch the first one. probably early this morning. i thought it was really professional. the politicians, i wish they would get together like that when it is time to change lolls and improve the stability of this country. i was impressed overall, especially with kelly clarkson and the beyonce. they were impressive with their music. i listened to them sparingly no when they have a couple of hits. i wish to put up more patriotic songs. -- i wish they put out more patriotic songs. it is gentle to the years. it really made an impact. far as their song. host: think you very much. there is the republican leader of the united states senator. prior to that we saw senator john kerry, likely next secretary of state. a comment on twitter the rights i think the inauguration should be a national holiday every four years, regardless of affiliation everyone should watch it. there is justice scalia of the supreme court. watching as an arlington, texas. an independent there. caller: i am here. i just wanted to call and say that i do appreciate c-span. i appreciate the statements obama made. it was very important. also, it was good to see president carter again. also good to see president bill clinton. i just want to say we're praying for you, god bless you and we do appreciate you. >> bipartisan moment with justice scalia talking to patrick leahy of vermont. you wonder what you get to eat. here is what the menu is like. the first course is steamed lobster. the second hickory-grow by sen, and wild huckleberry reduction. the third course is hudson valley apple pie with sour cream ice cream, aged cheese, and honey. the wind will be from new york state from chuck schumer the represents the united states senate. next is a call from nelson. caller: i have a question with the ceremonies being whipped on the 21st. i notice reagan's inauguration in 1985 that it was moved to the 21st. if there is a change of presidents and falls on a sunday, are the ceremonies moved to the 21st there as well? thank you. host: yesterday recovered the official swearing in of the president and vice president. those ceremonies held separately. those were to affirm the constitutional requirements. today is really the public ceremony, and they follow the constitution. today all about the big public events. today the first public event. the next call is from robin. she is watching us in tennessee. caller: i am so glad i voted for obama. he really shines when he makes his speech. you can tell he is sincere in trying to do what the majority of the people want. and i am really proud of him and proud to be an american because of him. and my son was in the choir. i would have liked to see more of them. they are a great college. i just hope the people that do not agree will be ok with those of us who do. it feels great right not to be an american. host: robyn is referring to lee university singers who hail from the eu -- lee university in tennessee. next is a call from john. john is a naperville, illinois. an independent there. caller: i really enjoyed the inaugural program. in particular, president obama saying we need not choose between those who brought us where we are today and those who stand for where we will be in the future. then i have a question. what is the history behind the flags displayed in front of the white house? host: the white house or the capital? caller: the capital. host: there is information about the flags, which i can get for you, but not immediately. let's listen to a call from iran in georgia. you are on. republican. welcome. caller: i watched the first inauguration and thought it was wonderful. host: today the ceremonies? 2008? caller: the first inauguration he had. my main comments i wanted to make is being a republican, i am almost ashamed to say that. i did vote democratic, and i voted for president obama. the reason i did vote for him is because we need change and things to go on and start getting these people together. i am talking about the congress and senate. they need to get together. this is absolutely really disgraceful. other people around the world are watching this. we need to make sure we set the standard instead of having these guys bicker and fight over this. we need to stop it. that is one of the reasons why i will no longer vote republican. host: for john, about the flags, here is the information. framed against the backdrop of red white and blue, the west front of the capital features five flags. two earlier flags, the flag known as the bet to ross. this appeared in the early 70 '90s. the next two flags in the center are the flags the u.s. adopted when the president-elect on state become part of the united states. president obama's home state of illinois entered the union 1818, of making it the 21st day to join the union. therefore the sides and -- the flags displayed 21 stars. next, a call from rebecca from santa barbara. caller: i wanted to say i am watching the inauguration with my 10-year-old son. we were really proud of how majestic and beautiful everything looked and how the band, the marine of barging band was so famous -- the marine marching band was so famous. you really get to enjoy all of those scenes. watching all of the senators march in. we really enjoyed it. we really took to heart when president obama said we need to take care of the generation that built the country, but also paved the road for the generation of the future. host: thank you and thank you for sharing your experience with your 10-year-old. one of the other traditions at the luncheon is for the congress on behalf of the american people to present the president and vice president with bases created by the lenox corporation. this is the seventh consecutive inauguration that the lenox corp. has made the official death from the american people. next up is a call from jesse. caller: good afternoon. i am on the 18-years-old, so this is my first inauguration to watch live. i wanted to say it is pretty interesting and will probably look forward to watching future of inaugurations. i think we could do very well without paul of the perk. my other comment is i got a good laugh when i got bill clinton's face when the choir girls were singing. host: gorgeous diversity and the inauguration had something for everyone. looking at beautiful pictures inside the capitol and statuary hall where the congress is packed. it is famed for its whispering spot. talk in one spot and the whispering voice, and you can be heard all the way across the hall. next sue from orlando, florida. sue is a republican there. caller: first off, i am not a republican. i am a citizen of the united states. host: we are about to go live to the luncheon. apologies. sorry we did not get to hear what you have to say. we will now take you inside for the official inaugural luncheon presented by the joint inaugural committee. you will see the introduction. we will be back after the luncheon with more of your phone calls. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of united states, joseph biden jr. and dr. biden, accompanied by senator alexander and mrs. alexander. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, mrs.ck obama and mission michelle obama, accompanied by senator schumer. [applause] >> please be seated. mr. president. ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. mr. president, mr. vice president, honored guests, my colleagues on the joint congressional committee on the inaugural ceremonies and i are pleased to welcome you to today's inaugural luncheon. in this historic room we look around at the 35 statues representing men and women, well, one woman. thank you illinois and senator durbin for the statue of frances willard, though i feel obligated to say she was born in rochester, new york. thankfully, she will soon have a company when rosa parks completes her journey from the back of the bus to the front of statuary hall later this year. [applause] now we look around and remember the men and women who helped to define our nation. they like us worked hard to move this country forward. here in this hall, four presidents took the oath of office. here abraham lincoln served his single term in congress, and john quincy adams, the only former president to return to serve in the house spoke out against slavery. today we also remember in event that took place outside the building but reverberated within. this year marks the 50th anniversary of the reverend r. luther king junior's march on washington, which spurred passage of the historic civil rights laws. we are honored to have with us a colleague, congressman john lewis, a speaker at that historic march. [applause] ongressman lewis' life exemplifies the courage and sacrifice that has made our nation great. please stand and take about what so we can all recognize you. [applause] -- take a bow so that we can all srecognize you. behind us, the painting we have chosen for this luncheon is at niagara falls. 6.is was painted in 1850 sike for me, niagara falls never fails to inspire a tremendous all of the natural beauty of our country. then and now, the mighty falls symbolize the grandeur, power, and possibility of america. i want to thank my former senate partner, hillary clinton for allowing us to borrow this beautiful painting from the state department collection. [applause] but frankly, we are not here for the paintings, we are here for the food. while the theme of today's ceremony is based in america's future, today's menu could be labeled face in america's food. from the new england lobster, to the south dakota bison, to the wonderful new york winds, each element was carefully chosen and expertly prepared. it was chosen by the tasting committee, which consisted of debbie bohener, diana cantor, honey alexander, and my wife, alice. they did a great effort, -- great job and the upper was truly bipartisan. and if you do not like the food, you cannot blame it on one party or the other. i know that will not happen. before we begin, it is my privilege to ask the reverend to deliver the invocation after which the lunch will be served. please rise. >> let us join together in prayer. dear god, in this room stands men and women of different beliefs, different understandings of how you reveal yourself. how you repeal your will and desire to us. yet at this moment our nation joins with us in prayer that despite political differences with in these chambers, and despite the fact that at times we may take for granted things that are unique to our american democracy, that we be united in hope and aspiration for the future of our nation. we pray for continued freedom, freedom to pursue happiness, freedom to create goodness, freedom to preserve the common good. we pray for continued liberty, liberty to preserve our rights, liberty to defend our understanding of good, liberty to develop ourselves fully as you would have us. our nation prayers -- praise with us as we ask that our leaders be endowed with wisdom, that they may know which passed to move our nation, which occur ridge they may go against their own when necessary for the common good of our beloved america. with results that they not tire but moved unrelenting towards that common good. we pray a blessing on the house of representatives, on our senate and judicial and executive branches. bestowed on every member spiritual protection and good health. we uphold president barack obama and his family in the same manner. we're thankful for the religious freedom of this nation, for our family and friends, and for this meal which we will now share. remembering there are still those but suffer hunger in our nation. we have all joined in this prayer, and i in the name of jesus christ my savior, amen and amen. thank you mr. president. >> please be seated and enjoy lunch. >> as the president, vice president and 200 guests dining with congressional leaders organized by chuck schumer, the co-chaired lamar alexander, they will dine on the steamed lobster and new england clam chowder, hickory grilled bison and top things off with apple pie. as we look at the scene here in washington as luncheon gets under way with the music performed by the university of rochester's eastman school of music, we will talk about the relationship between this president and congress. joining us at the table, we sick of dollars who covers politics at -- lisa gonzales who covers politics. he said the last congress was dysfunctional and unpopular. this promises to be much more of this impossibly. what can we expect? >> unfortunately when you look at what happened in the last elections, the partisan divisions have only become deeper. look at the house for example. the blue dog members of the house, fiscally-conservative went from four years ago of a population of about 51 to now about 15. in the senate, a lot of the long-time senators on both sides of the aisle known for compromising like olympia snowe or kent conrad have been replaced by folks that are hard- liners. in so we are facing the same issues. essentially in the last congress all they did was push them off for another day. you have the same actors, except arguably with more partisan division try to solve the same issues. unfortunately i am not terribly optimistic we will see anything more than a piecemeal approach to a lot of these issues. that runs the gamut from debt issues to immigration to gun control that the cost -- that the last congress show they are really incapable of doing big legislation, the grand bargain. host: as the president wrapped up his speech, mitch mcconnell issued a statement. he said a divided government provides the perfect opportunity for us to deal with some of the issues of the day. will we see a different republican in this congress, and will the present approach it differently? >> guest: i think heidi is right that all dynamics point -- all things point to the same dynamics last time around. the issues there went to face right now are the same ones they have dealt with all throughout the 112 congress. the debt fight is coming up again. they're just coming out of the fiscal cliff bite. rather than ending and having time in between four gathering before the new year, it went from one day to the next issue. piecemeal is exactly the right word to describe the congress you are going to see on debt ceiling. the republicans in the house are talking about a short-term view of that. it certainly would avoid disaster coming up for the end of march. you will still have the issue of raising it for the long term. on the republican side there is no real appetite to do that without the reforms. same for gun-control. a lot of the agenda items that the president announced last week, the 23 executive actions you will see taken piece by piece. the easiest one to accomplish will be those that come forward the fastest, and the same for immigration reform. there is a lot that could be done and a comprehensive approach, but i think you will see that come down to the very bare minimum that both sides are able to agree on. >> let me follow up with a vote that will happen on wednesday. that will give another three months and the extension of the debt limit. weird is that position? why delay that for three months? where does that put them in march and april? >> this is an acknowledgement that they have lost the debt ceiling essentially as a leveraged tool they have been using it as as the past couple of years. this was the main lever to pressure president obama to get spending cuts. when we saw congress' approval ratings plummet was at the time republicans were successful in doing this back in 2011 and they had a hard time recovering since then. i think this is an acknowledgement essentially they will no longer be able to use this. maybe they can use the sequestered and spending bills it also gives the republican party some time to recuperate from the election, and from the bloody fiscal cliff battle where they will acknowledge they came out the losers on that deal, and to try and just picked off some small fights on spending cuts such that they can rebuild the credibility and brand with the american people. i might mention they just came out of a retreat where they were presented with some unsettling members from their pollster that showed 64 percent of the american public disapproves of republicans in congress. i think they realize they have to do rebuilding on their image and brand. take of the signing ceremony with salt, a tradition that dates back to ronald reagan. the nomination of john kerry officially to serve as secretary of state. his confirmation hearing will take place this thursday. we're told a vote will take place next tuesday. he will be sworn in as secretary of state next wednesday. chuck hagel to head up the funds and j-- head up defense and jack lew as secretary of state. >> i think chuck this is the steepest climb to his nomination. even before it was officially announced, a lot of members on both sides coming out. there were so many republican members, and he is a former senator republican member from nebraska. even members of his own party coming out in opposition. i think he will face a tough time. jack lew i think will also be of the cross hairs. he was sort of the president's point man when it came to the fiscal issues on capitol hill. we have seen through the spending fights that jack lew was the guy to rankle the different positions and bring everyone to some type of agreement and avert disaster. what is funny is the same goodwill he was able to build up through a lot of the past spending fight seems to be gone and a lot of his defenders on the other side of the aisle are coming out against him. yes, there is a lot of talk of a fresh start, but both sides are very much in campaign mode. that was something i thought was striking about what the president said, he deftly struck a very combative tone in his inaugural address. >> at this hour the vice president and president, to former presidents and members of the congressional leadership dining inside statuary hall. they will have remarks following the luncheon. in the meantime, comments and calls as we talk about this president and the congress. our line for democrats -- our has tag in 3inagu2013. this president of does not have one-on-one meeting sort intimate gatherings with members of congress. is this an inside washington story or resonate with members of congress that may or may not result in legislative successes? guest: it definitely designates with individual members and has been a problem that is acknowledged by many, including democrats, the previous presidents like president clinton were successful because they specifically courted republicans and continually invited them over to the white house. so i think it is a relevant point, but i would not necessarily expect there to be a lot more of our rage going on in the new administration just because it seems the president is striking a more combative tone, that he is using potentially as a template the way that he navigated the fiscal cliff deal, which was by using public opinion to bring pressure to bear on republicans versus trying to reach out to them and look as if he is compromising, that he will potentially try to apply that same tactic to issues like immigration and guns. i think it is very unclear whether that will necessarily be successful. i figure out a very special sort from stance with the fiscal cliff for the polls were showing overwhelming public support for expiring tax cuts, showing republicans were unpopular. so i am a little skeptical that will necessarily work, but they are marshaling, organizing for america and a grass-roots base to try and essentially use the same model. guest: take a look at who the president had on stage with him last week. he did not have any congressional leaders on this issue. he had young children who had written him letters urging him to take action against gun violence. that is pretty much perfect example of the way he is trying to reach out more to the public and that direct way, rather than trying to build better relations with congress. >host: auriana joins us from ann arbor, michigan. go ahead, please. good afternoon. caller: basically my comment is i feel like the model for congress this next four years should be compromise, because i feel like if you are going to go to combat with the president, let it be for something relevant instead of your personal feelings for him. i feel like this has been everyone sat in the corner and pouted. you will not listen to what i want to do so i will completely shut down. this is not a republican issue, a democratic issue, this is an american issue. this is people's lives at stake. instead of having your own personal agenda, you need to look at the american people as whole and we need to come together and compromise, and basically get stuff done. there is no reason we should have things like the debt ceiling as leverage to get used to do what i want to do. i just do not think the way that congress has been handling basic policies. you know what you learned on the school yard, sharing is caring. compromise. i am sorry. sometimes i get lost for words. i get so frustrated. host: we will get a response. thank you for the call. guest: it is funny, i was out braving the crowds. it was cold, but the plan not as bad as four years ago. talking with some of the people that had come very far away, that was the number one thing that attendees on inauguration day mentioned, they would like to see some kind of cooperation, something they have not seen for the past two or three years. one woman said she a taken the train all the way from california to washington. it took her three days because she is not able to fly. the number one thing is she said she wants to see them cooperate, particularly on the issue of guns. the process does not look too good at the moment. guest: i think that is the good news from some of the posturing we have seen by republicans on the debt ceiling. they may be more willing to compromise on small things. so therefore that is where the piece meal package comes into play. i think the danger is most likely, even if we seek compromise, i do not think it will be on the really important issues to the american public like how do we create jobs, get the economy running again? very importantly, how rain in the long-term debt? that would require a lot of concessions by democrats on entitlement programs. i think the president coming off of the fiscal cliff debate, the republicans, that was their golden moment to extract concessions from the democrats, specifically on social security. i think he would agree with me the end of the negotiations, the trade between the republicans and democrats was to do an increase in the debt ceiling, in exchange for cutbacks in so security cost-of-living adjustments. john boehner and republicans decided they want to have an argument over the debt ceiling, because of the new year we will be better positioned. they quickly have realized that is not going to be the lever they thought it would be. host: you have covered three presidents, clinton, bush, and now president obama. people say the political divide between these branches is stronger now than it has been in years. you agree or disagree? guest: i absolutely agree. host: why/ guest: i think it is a building that has been taking place frankly since the past couple administrations. it was the war in iraq. for the republicans, the government spending. it is also the election system and the way we run our primaries. we have a more ideological- purified house of representatives than we have had in a very long time. that is because some people would argue redistricting, as well, which in the past election both parties to it. in the states where democrats are not in control they redraw the districts to make the majority democrats. the republican side as well. this is the first time republicans have controlled this many statehouses since 1926. they really shored up -- the goal was to not pick up extra seats, but to shore up their base. you also have the rising up of the tea party, which is new. that was a response to george bush and some of the policies that his base felt took the united states into the fiscal abyss with the medicare part b and the war and what not. so you have this very activated based on spending issues, which has been successful in electing hard-liners who read the polls and see the compromise is not the important thing. the important thing is standing on principle. if you dive into that, you will see that a lot of republicans believe standing under principles is more important than compromise. host: joe in cincinnati. republican line. caller: i would like to comment on how i really think this election and term of service barack obama will have, he will really focus on the bipartisanship. i would also like to ask, what are they eating for lunch? host: for lunch they are dining steamed lobster, new england clam chowder, and sour vanilla ice cream from upstate new york over apple pie. the issue of bipartisanship, he thinks it will be different. guest: people look at washington and think that this is the center of all political dysfunction, but this is something that is happening just as much of the state level as it is on the federal level. states that areeer in a split party controlled than any time over the past 50 years. you have states like michigan where the republican governor and the republican state legislature realrecently passedd the governor signed up measures that the labor community was up in arms about during the lame duck session last month. these are things national observers were surprised about. when you look a thing on the national level, it mirrors things you're seeing in d.c. there is a polarization where each party is being pulled in a very different direction. you see that all across the country. host: it is sour cream ice cream. so we get the correct. charlie joining us from big spring, texas. independent line. go ahead, please. caller: young ladies have some very good insight, and i was very impressed with mr. obama's speech. i particularly liked when he said for the next 400 years -- for me, i was a democrat all my life and then turned independent, basically because of the divide that you are talking about. hopefully because of the speech, i can see mr. obama a little more mellow now, although he promised immigration and a first term and did not bring it. now he is promising it again. some of us independents are concerned he might bring some immigrants. there is talk -- several thousand islamic muslims. it is a concern for us. although it was a very encouraging speech, this set the tone he was talking about he comes from spain or cuba or whatever. it really is a concern to some of us independents, and specifically in the southwest united states or texas. i wanted to say i do agree with heidi because she has the essence of the divide of the congress. hopefully they can work together. hopefully he can be more cooperative and set a more combative. host: we look at the scene from the rotunda of the u.s. capitol. did you want to respond? guest: i believe obama is serious this time, to his first point about immigration. i believe the reason why something is likely to happen is the republicans are, too. the republicans just got creamed in terms of the hispanic vote. i think he will have a willing coalition. business is on board. as are the labor unions, so i think it is possible they get something done. that said, they have to be viewed through the piece mill prism reestablished at the beginning, and i a lot skeptical they will do a broad reform. maybe they will bring in highly skilled workers. the trade essentially has written about this and much more detail, but to establish a pathway to citizenship. at the same time, strengthening our border security. that is the way you bring in both sides of the debates and trying to help the economy, while keeping out additional illegal immigration. i might note since 2007 our government has been pretty successful. immigration is down by something like a million. people have this impression we still have this really porous problem, but the government has been very successful in cracking down on that. that the if you wrote white house thinks it could leave the framework later this year. guest: he has been slow walking his ideas on emigration since last summer when it was thought he might be on mitt romney short list for vice presidential spot. as we all know, that did not turn out. what happened back then, june of last year, he came out -- he had not come out with legislation%, but a series of principles of openness to immigration reform. no sooner had he signaled that, then the white house through an executive action preempted him on that issue and said they would like to stop the deportation of young people who were brought to the country illegally. this is legislation known as the dream act. that has not gone anywhere on capitol hill. this relationship between president obama and marco rubio goes back at least that far. he spoke to "the wall street journal" earlier this month. when they're asked about this last week, the press secretary said the sound a lot like what we have in mind as well. a reporter as the press secretary. from that you can tell this is still a politically-charged issue and both sides are trying to the upper hand. it is going to go anywhere, they need to communicate on this. viewers outsidees viewer the united states. we have heidi priscilla. frazier joins us from marshall, texas. on the line for democrats. good afternoon. caller: good afternoon. i think president obama is doing a good job. >host: think you for the call. let me go back to the earlier point of today being a cease- fire. it is back to work tomorrow. we will see the budget debate on wednesday. with a 16.4, of all 16.5 trillion dollar debt, what can the president do in terms of new programs and new spending in light of what congress may or may not provide. >guest: there will be a piecemeal approach in the next congress, but the fact is there so consumed with the budget debates that there is not likely to be any room for them to tackle other issues. the trio climate change, immigration and gun control -- those are at the top of his agenda. it is not necessarily what he is able to control. when the of the debt debate happening, funding, all of these issues are focused on spending and tax reform. there is not likely to be a whole lot of room when it comes to the floor action in both changers. host: on the issue of gun control, pretty harsh words from the senator from texas. he said he was basically using tragedy for his own agenda? >> i think this can be summed up in one word, it is very emotional on both sides. you can see a lot of the responses and the immediate aftermath, a lot of democrats rushed to the doors to put out proposals. now that shifting to the republican side and the side of the pro-ton of lobby, which is very concerned and activated in a way that we have not seen in decades, second among their rights. gun sales have gone through the roof. i think you see that reflected the rhetoric coming out. this is the first thing as well that we will see with democrats saying they will put out legislation. i think the democrats feel if they do not move quickly on this, history has shown up congress will not move at all, no matter what a travesty this was. then you have a small window in which to act. i think the democrats believe they can move on two fronts, one is limiting the high-capacity magazines, and the second is a background check. you will see a division here as well in the democratic party who want to go bigger than that. they want to reinstate the 1994 assault weapons ban and brought in it. the reason it did not work in the past is because it was not broadened enough because the president compromise too much. we need to move fast, we need to take what we can get. >host: the chair of the committee, senator patrick leahy, joined as yesterday. dave on the phone from georgia. go ahead, please. caller: during this term i believe president obama and congress really do need to work together. we have so many issues facing this country right now from gun- control to the economy, and we need to tackle those immediately or our children and grandchildren will have some of the consequences because of our action. that is why i believe congress needs to unite and come together to tackle these issues. host: we have heard that now from two or three viewers coming together. why is it so hard? guest: i think one great place to look to that is the speech john vader gave last year. it did not get a lot of fanfare in the press, but he said republicans should really focus on finding common ground with democrats. i think that pretty much sums up for both parties stand right now. these issues were so little that people want to see them come together on. instead of getting a big debt deal, comprehensive gun control plan they will just focus on those very small areas of agreement. i think one thing we will all have to watch is when the president gives his state of the union address next month will be the next century reaching its -- is the next up of the country reaching its debt limit. being combative and aggressive on this issue, or does he try to frame it in a way where he is blaming it all on the other side? host: the principles remain at the capitol for the luncheon. the west part of the u.s. capital has pretty much empty out. the crowd is continuing to grow. security remains tight. just your thoughts about what it is like for people who are outside watching this historic moment, 57 the inauguration. guest: i was out there for the last inauguration when it was 2 million people. it was a little more toned down that it was in the past in terms of obama as inauguration because we're in a different time were the president himself has set the tone by cutting back the number of the inaugural balls from something like 10 to 2. and signaling a bit more of a somber tone going forward. at the same time, i think there was a lot of excitement up there. i think these are a lot of people that come out for the first time to experience something historic. of the same time that energy is very high. this is an exciting moment where it is something you remember with your kids. something you always have to refer and reflect back on. host: four years ago was the largest single event in washington. we did not have the exact count at this hour, but the crowd seemed to be bigger than earlier expectations. the weather cooperated today. guest: that is true. four years ago i was and the freezing cold. you are always amazed the distance and when people travel. the obstacles they overcome in order to be here for this historic event. then asking people what it means to them. the two young girls in their 20s who grew up in little rock, arkansas. they were best friends from childhood. the last time there were in the capital was 1992 for bill clinton on election night when he gave his address to supporters back then. they both reflected on that and said both of them were first- generation americans. they are saying now to be here with their parents here of the capital for another swearing in was a big deal to them. those are the stories you get from walking around and talking to people. it makes you realize how special this date is, regardless of political affiliation. host: you can read the work of felicia sonmez online who covers political events at "washington post." next is becky from new hampshire. caller: i actually just got married in august and wanted to urge congress to pass same-sex marriage. i have been trying to get her on my health insurance plan at work. unfortunately i am unable to put her on the health insurance. i am married to a woman, i am not able to put my own wife on my health insurance, which really saddens me about this country. host: thank you for your call. the president made reference to this, and also about the tragedy in connecticut and framed that as the issues he wants to continue to focus on. >> that took me by surprise that he came out so overtly and men should get writes in his inaugural speech. i think that was an issue where he took quite a different approach to things that we've seen him take in the past are how much he will move on that issue is an open question. remains pretty far down the agenda item list. definitely when it comes to his base and when he is looking at the legacy that he would like to have for himself down the line it remains an area where maybe there could be a couple of surprises down the line. host: democrats line. good afternoon. caller: a lot of people always say something that bothers the president. i do not think any president has been so compromising with the congress than this president. let me take your mind back. if you can remember this day back in 2009 of budget republican leaders meant -- met secretly somewhere in decided they would be real the president's agenda -- derail president agenda. with this president back the political agenda, the opposing counsel simply said no. their own agenda is to make him a one-term president. mitch mcconnell said that and one of his speeches. so he actually -- they actually are the one to work with this president. even they refuse to attend the steak dinners. they do not want to be seen them -- seen with him, because -- i believe the press is trying to report this and they're biased way. to be on a few, he has worked with them. i would say he played a more hawkish role this time. otherwise a lot of friends that would put this country for work will not happen. host: think you for the call. guest: i think there is certainly among the president's base that in his first term the president compromised too much, even though his key legislative victories went on party-line votes. in the end there were products that looked different because he attempted to compromise, like the stimulus was certainly not as big as democrats have wanted it to be. the dog-franc regulations have so many loopholes that apparently they #300 pages. -- dodd-frank. health care, the president agreed to delegate this out to the states. a lot of that is now going to come into force in 2014. it is out of the president's hands. as well on the tax cuts. the president agreed to extend the tax cuts, and even republicans privately said they were surprised they got a clean extension from him. there certainly is the impression the president compromise too much in his first term. that is why you see this different approach that we've been talking about since the beginning of a more aggressive, combat of obama, but also on obama that reaches out to the public to try to bring public pressure to bear on republicans, and who did that. president reagan did that. it is more of a model that reagan used. you will see him apply that to all of the issues in the pipeline. host: let me go back to something the president said in his address today. he talked about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. in terms of the tactics of moving ahead on the guns agenda, we also heard the president last week talking about the inalienable rights of the average american, and that includes protecting our children. you can see a different twist on the constitutional argument, not the second amendment, but other words from the founding document. guest: guest: that was an approach i had not heard him take until last week. keeping children the spotlight on the issue and making an appeal to parents, that this was a matter of their children's city, and at the same time making the constitutional argument that, yes, you have at second amendment rights, but you have the issue of gun violence so prevalent these days. i think what that is something we are going to continue seeing . at vice-president biden, who is the point man on the gun-control issue, spoke for almost an hour and devoted his entire remarks at a conference to gun control, which was pretty remarkable, given that he could have spoken on any issue he wanted. that is a sign that the white house wants to, as heidi mentioned, wants to move quickly on this. also, they no what the areas of possibility are here, something like an assault weapons ban is a bit too much because politically for them to achieve that, so things like universal background checks and mental-health provisions in there seem to have a better chance of getting support on the hill. host: the president spent a paragraph talking about climate change. did that surprise you? guest: it did, because -- well, yes and no. the president talked about climate change it virtually for the first time in his acceptance speech. he did not talk about it much on the campaign trail at all for his election. now he is bringing it up again. the problem is that if you look at the republican agenda in the house, it is to go to war on the epa. of all the issues, this may have the most limited prospects of moving on a bipartisan basis. what the president can do on this issue is through executive order. this is what the republicans are screaming bloody murder about, because he already has done this through executive order, limiting emissions for new vehicles, also limiting the coal-fired plants, although very few companies are actively planning to build new coal-fired plants, because they find that natural gas is a lot cheaper. one thing he could do is move through executive action on limiting emissions from current facilities, current coal plants that are operating. this is why you hear the republicans digging up this whole "war on coal" argument, and this could become if the president doesn't handle this the right way, a major thing in the election, because you have so many democrats from coal- rich states who might not be there with him. who announced his retirement this past week or so but senator jay rockefeller? that would be a prime opportunity for republicans to pick up. host: tweet from one of our viewers. i remind you that the campaign is already underway for 2016. this president has a short window to get something done. guest: absolutely, and you already see this contenders jockeying for positions on both sides. we were chatting with her about vice-president biden, the much more prominent role he has been taking the past few weeks, and whether or not he is leaving the door open for a future bid. on the democratic side, you have a lot of movement there. the gun issue in particular could be a big one for these future contenders did a lot of the democrat governors in these states are coming forward with their own very aggressive gun agendas, possibly in the hopes of a 2016 bid. on the republican side, you have rubio on immigration reform, and santorum seems to be trying to keep his spot in the political spotlight. we here are focusing on the policy and what can be accomplished, which doesn't seem to be a whole lot right now. i think waiting in the wings are these contenders ready to go for the next election. host: the president's state of the union address will be in three weeks. live coverage here on c-span. chandler, arizona, republican line. but after an. -- good afternoon. caller: good afternoon. i'm a lawyer, are to republican, a gun under, and a conservative. this general view that gun owners are against regulations or gun-control -- and lived in arizona, one of the mustaf -- i live in arizona, which is one of the most flexible done at state street we own our guns and love our guns, but we are willing to make compromises for the good of the country, i would like to make that known. i listened to a lot of conversations on the television, this into a lot of political debate. listen a lot of political debate is so political that our voices are drowned out. that is the point i wanted to make about gun ownership. host: thank you for the call. heidi przybyla, and want to go back to your note -- "gun- control laws often end with a thud in congress." guest: i want to go back to her point. you are absolutely right that nra members are not necessarily in sync with the impression that nothing could happen on guns. about a year ago, republican pollster frank luntz conducted a poll of nra members and found overwhelming support for common sense regulations like universal background checks. 40% of guns are sold at gun shows or through the internet. there is an overwhelming number of nra members, gun owners, and just the general public who support these provisions. as well, the high capacity magazines to over 60% of americans, including gun owners, support limiting those high capacity magazines. it is a question of just some lore that has built up since 1994, when, after bill clinton got the assault weapons ban through, he lost his majority in the house, and the democrats have been essentially scared of the issue since then. but i think, you know, as part of this new strategy of winning public pressure to bear things done, it is possible that if the democrats and some moderate republicans continue to highlight these numbers, many americans, including gun owners, support these types of reforms and maybe something can happen. host: robert has this tweet. guest: i was reading something in "the post" this morning on that very topic of how does the president and chief a legacy to one of the points was that it takes some kind of mortal danger for the country to be in it for the president to react in a way that becomes remembered for generations. the author of that piece was arguing that the country is not facing such a mortal danger right now it is a matter of perception. if you look at something like the debt issue, republicans would argue that that is a matter for the country that is a real great issue -- grave issue. if you look at the first term, that was not at the top of his agenda. does he try to seize the initiative on this issue, and can he turn it into something that will really put the country on a better fiscal path? i think that is an open question right now. if they are going to do that, if the white house does want to seize the upper hand on that issue, i think they ought to be aggressive on the hill, rather than letting the gop set the terms of the argument. host: we are talking about the crowd and the size of the audience. according to twitter.com, this inauguration setting a record in terms of tweets. there were about 82,000 tweets in 2010 during the inauguration ceremony. this year, 1.1 million tweets, an average of 28 per minute. they were said that using the hashtag we're using, #inaug2013. caller: can you hear me? hello? host: you are on the air. caller: it seems like his relationship with congress will be better this term. it seems like his first term was about being reelected. it was quite obvious that the republican party was largely being obstructionist and treating his first term as if he was a lame duck president because of race. i think he can now focus on the real issues without the way of not being reelected. you can see that change of attitude even in the first lady's. stock, which is not very conservative. hairstyle, which is not very conservative. host: we knew the pair would come at some point. it can sometimes be a curse. guest: it is infamous in that it can sometimes be overreach. there have been a lot of the most significant scandals in the second t erm of a president. you look at reagan, iran-contra was in the second term. president clinton had the monolith alinsk -- monic a lewinsky scandal, although i don't think president obama allowed a similar scammell there. -- will have a similar scandal there. don't know what the issue will be for their present other than a sputtering economy that is not improving at the rate that he promised. a lot of republicans i talked to say that the good thing is that if president obama wins, he will completely on this economy. whatever happens with the economy, he can take the credit or the blame. host: sarah from boise, idaho. caller: i wanted to say how wonderful the festivities were today. it just touched my heart. just seeing all the hope on the people's faces out there, all, my goodness. even talking about it now i am getting teary-eyed again. and the love, it was wonderful. so much coal. i just know that the next four years is going to be wonderful. yesterday was my birthday. i am 63. so every four years i get a president, and i'm very happy about that. host: well, sarah, happy birthday. felicia sonmez, thoughts? guest: politics often playset by press release and statements from one side or the other, that we only see electronically or delivered from floor speeches, but what is interesting about a day like today and the state of the need is that you get to see the reaction real time. the president's supporters were definitely thrilled about everything onstage today. was also interesting was the republican members of congress up there and out they were responding. i was underneath to the podium on the side where a lot of senators were seated and was watching john mccain in particular, and the lines he applauded for, the lines he did not, you can look at that as portending what is possible on capitol hill. he applauded on a lot of the lines of the deficit and the mention of newtown and other issues, but notably on immigration reform, he just sort of sat there while other members did applaud. whether or not you can read something into that, i am not sure, but it is definitely an opportunity for reaction on the other side. host: to all of these issues we have been addressing the last hour, i want to look at something your colleague wrote in "the washington post." "if the president can reach a broad deal that settles some of the disputes over entitlement spending and tax code and govgiving the government borrowing authority to last through much of the term, he can use that energy to forge a bipartisan, rise on these other big issues to." guest: that is a huge point. one point that ms. mcconnell, republican leader in the senate, has made over and over again is the reason they are using to get them as leverage is they feel the urgency of the issue, and one of the things he said in the past few weeks was that if obama does come to the table and helps to craft a big deal, both sides can agree to, he will be able to move on to the other agenda items that he would like to pursue. if he does not do that and congress is not able to come to some kind of agreement, the capitol hill agenda is going to stay focused on this and stay paralyzed. it could end up being one that plays in their favor in the end. guest: what he's talking about is another bite at the grand bargain. in order for that to happen, you ought to have a significant cut and entitlement programs. this was not supposed to be a speech that outlined any particular policy, but he mentioned entitlements and social security and making sure that we don't compromise care for the people who built this country in order to pay down our debt, even though he acknowledged that is an important problem. i think you will have to wait and see just how willing the president is going to be to make those big compromises. but the main incentive that democrats had been given to make the compromises was some kind of deal and taxes. now, you can argue that the president did not exactly what he wanted on taxes. asked for $250,000 threshold for households and he got $450,000 paid but he essentially got a pretty good deal. what is left? on the democrat side, in terms of what they want in order to make those difficult entitlement changes, some close and of some loopholes for oil and gas companies, or wealthy people eliminating the second mortgages on their deductions, i don't know if that is the making of a grand bargain. i agree with the promise that if they were able to do that, that would leave an enormous amount of energy pushing for these other issues. host: our conversation with heidi przybyla of bloomberg news and felicia sonmez of "the washington post." ted, portland, oregon, good afternoon. caller: i want to say what a great, glorious celebration that was in washington, d.c. i want to celebrate the presidents of our great country. i did want to ask a question i have not heard addressed anywhere -- watching other news channels and your channel -- and that is absented george w. bush, and why he was not present at the inauguration. i know his father was ill, but i have not heard that addressed somewhere. i am very curious about that. host: thank you for the culprit we have heard that he is with his father -- thank you for the call. we have heard that he is with his father, 41 and 43 they are called. guest: well past presidents to come, it is their prerogative if they choose not to bid it is little surprise given how little we saw him on a campaign -- he was not present at the republican national convention, he stayed out of the limelight, and most members of the party acknowledged it and were grateful -- acknowledged they were grateful for that because he is still so caustic with his political rating and how his party is viewed. it does not bode too well for the political future of jeb bush, someone touted as a white house hopeful, if only -- definitely one appealing to the teen as would have the best chance of those republican contenders -- appealing to latinos would have the best chance of those republican contenders. they don't think that the bush name has recovered enough for him to make a run. host: many people are saying that this president could use george w. bush on the issue of immigration because he is that as a key domestic agenda item on for his second term and he felt pretty good president bush help him on immigration with republicans? pick it'm sure he could is a question of whether he wants to play that role. there are plenty of other surrogates who could play this role, and the most important one is marco rubio, who was not only of hispanic origin, but also younger and can appeal to this whole dreamers movement, and he is right here in washington serving in congress and drafting legislation and working on a bipartisan basis. there is also a large number of democrats and republicans who, while we don't hear about it, are working behind the scenes, like lindsey graham and charles schumer, on putting some kind of legislation out there. certainly bush, he decided to step forward, could play a constructive role. it is not like he is going to let democrats just because he decided to put himself out there on the issue. it would only help in terms of bringing republicans on board. host: we are awaiting the luncheon, which will be wrapping up shortly, and we will hear from the speaker of the house, as well as the president, and at truck schumer, lamar alexander comedy cochairs of the joint congressional committee -- and chuck schumer, lamar alexander, the cochairs of the joint congressional committee on the inauguration. there was a sense of bipartisanship, at least today, felicia sonmez. guest: i guess we will see in the remarks after this. the president last week was asked about this and was asked pointedly about what his relationship has been like with republicans on the hill, including boehner, and obama seem to be more defensive on that question then on pretty much any other issue. when it comes to their personal relationship, throughout this debt talks, 2011, 2012, heading into this congress, the personal relationship between the two of them seems to not quite be, i guess, just not working together well enough in order to hammer out a big deal between the two of them. i guess we will see a little bit more in a few minutes. host: darlene in silver spring, maryland. caller: thank you. i am a registered independent. i happen to be african-american. i want to guests at to point out the language and the speech -- i think they characterized it as "combative" and "aggressive." i wonder if they would use that same type of language for a president was not black. the president is being firm, and many people think that is a good thing. many people think he did not do a good job of negotiating in his first term, and for and had to say this is what i want, this is how i will approach it, why with that be called combative and aggressive, but to compared to what we saw from john boehner? host: ok, we will get a response. heidi przybyla. guest: i don't think i used the word "combative," but i don't think that has a negative connotation in this sense, because as you pointed out, a lot of the president's supporters believe he was not combative enough in his first term. i don't necessarily think that is aas bad thing. host: heidi przybyla of bloomberg news and felicia sonmez of "the washington post," thank you for being with us. we appreciate your time and perspective t. the luncheon is wrapping up, and you see the president talking to the chair of the senate judiciary committee and the president pro tem of the senate. live coverage here on c-span. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. i hope everyone has enjoyed lunch. i think we really deserve a round of applause -- [applause] to our chef and our caterer, all the people who serve the meals so expertly. they have done a great job. it is now my honor to invite the speaker of the house, john boehner, to the podium to present the official flags. [applause] >> senator, thank you. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the old hall of the house. the people's representatives met in this chamber over five decades prior to the civil war, and it is, under they made it here that long. you see, the acoustics were terrible. you just couldn't hear anything. or in some spots, you could hear everything that was being said in the room. ess.as a mas and of course, it was also at a time when our leaders were not hearing each other that well to begin with. but here is a century and a half, and many architectural improvements later, we gather in the old hall to better hear one another and to renew the appeal to better angels. we do so at amid the rituals and symbols of unity, none more important than our flag. this year old glory will mark a milestone of her own hit it was the spring of 1813 that the new commander of fort mchenry ordered a flag to be flown over the entrance to baltimore harbor. "it should be so large," he said, "that the british will have no difficulty seeing it from a distance." for such an enormous banner, a mother and daughter team had to stick together overlapping strips of will to make the products whole. from many, one. so i ran flat was born and not long after that, an anthem to go with -- a grand flag was born and not long after that, and had to go along wit -- anthe tom go along with it. a symbol of faithfulness to which we all play a part. in the spirit of harmony, i am proud to present the flag that flew over this battalion of democracy today to president barack obama and vice president joe biden, and to you, john ulman, i say congratulation and godspeed -- and to you, gentlemen, i say congratulations and godspeed. [applause] >> i am now pleased to introduce my friend and colleague and partner in his inaugural endeavor, senator lamar alexander, to the podium to present the official for gr photographs. >> thanks, chuck. mr. president and michelle, mr. vice president and jill, president and mrs. clinton, chief justice, when president was not here today -- we were sitting next to him, george h.w. bush and barbara -- he said, "barbara, what i speak about?" she said, "about five minutes, george." [laughter] i will speak one minute. it will be a time when your children are trying to explain to their grandchildren that this day actually happened, and that those great-grandchildren don't believe it, we have pictures. [laughter] and these pictures are for you, and we wish you the best as you work for that common good mr. cortez spoke about in the invocation and as you so eloquently talked about in your description of the american character today. [applause] >> ok, i would now like to introduce the distinguished majority leader of the house of representatives, eric cantor, to present the inaugural gift. >> good afternoon. on behalf of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, it is my honor to present the president and mrs. obama, vice president and dr. biden, with these beautiful crystal vases, of the finest quality crystal. the images of the united states capitol and the white house are hand cut and etched into the crystal. the crystal basis on which the vases said are inscribed with the name of the recipient and today's date. president and mrs. obama will receive the vase taking the white house, vice president and dr. biden will receive the vase depicting the capitol bid at this time, my wife, diana, and i invite the president and mrs. obama and the vice president and dr. biden join us in looking at these beautiful vases. [applause] [laughter] >> ok, i am now pleased to invite my colleague house democratic leader nancy pelosi to the podium to present a mementos you will all receive as you leave the statuary hall . >> thank you very much, mr. chairman schumer, and cochair alexander wonderful inauguration. mr. vice-president, mr. president, first lady, first lady, first lady -- [laughter] dr. biden, all of our distinguished guests. i will tell you about a gift for you. freedom now stands on the dome of the capitol of the united states. may she stand there forever not only in form, but in spirit. those were the words expressed 150 years ago by the commissioner of public buildings as the statue of freedom was placed atop the capitol during the presidency of president lincoln. that expression of the spirit of freedom is what we want you to take with you today, and it is contained in this portfolio that you will receive from the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, along with a frame depiction of the capitol as it appeared at the start of the civil war. you heard it well described by chairman schumer in his remarks. today the statue of freedom and the spirit of freedom marches over the capital as another prison from illinois has taken the oath of office. -- another president from illinois has taken the oath of office. despite the challenges at home and abroad, we heard in president obama's eighth inaugural address im a message of hope, a vision of peace, progress, prosperity, and the promise of freedom for all. may god bless you, president obama, vice-president biden, and your families. congratulations, with wishes for much success for you, for that is the success of our nation. may god bless you all, may god bless america. [applause] >> mr. president and dr. biden and your whole wonderful famil ies, i rise now to toast the vice president of the united states and my former colleague and my friend, joe biden. mr. vice president, you have been an extraordinary leader of this nation and a true partner to our president these passed for years. you play many roles -- advisor, at the cat, implement your, persuader -- advisor, advocate, implementer, persuader, strategist, and most important of all, friend. we are confident that is unique partnership between you and our great president will grow stronger and more productive over the next four years. mr. vice president, on the surface, we don't share a common ancestry, but on a deeper level, we do share a common story. an american story, of achieving our dreams thanks to the sacrifice of our immigrant for ebears. as you embark on europe will deserve a second term, in the spirit of those who came before us -- your well-deserved the interim, in the spirit of those seeking before us and all americans, we offer our support and warmest wishes, and we say salud, andhaim, cheers to our great vice president. and all thoseent, at a in and assembled, i always enjoyed this lunch more than anything we did in the capitol, for the 36 years i served and the senate i had a great honor of being included in this lunch for former presidents and vice presidents. it really is the place where we get together in a way unlike any other time when we gather. it is always a new beginning every time we are in this room, and there is a sense of possibilities an opportunity and a sense that sometimes is leading but that maybe we can really begin to work together. chuck, we may come from different ancestors, but is all our colleagues know over the years, we are cut from the same cloth, that we share that same common absolute conviction that was expressed by harry truman when he said, "america was not built on fear. america was built on courage come on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to did the job at hand at." that is what you have done throughout your career, and that is what everyone in this room has done. at the end of the day, it is absolute confidence, absolute confidence. there is not a thing, a single thing, this country cannot do. i spent too much time with all of you not to know that you feel with every fiber of your being that there is nothing, nothing, this country is incapable of. i must say, the president kids me occasionally did i know harry reid always calls me a senate man. i am proud to have been a senate man. i am proud to be president of the senate but that is only exceeded by the pride in being vice president of the united states with barack obama as president. [applause] one of the great privileges of my life. if the president will forgive me, as we were walking out, and as he said, savoring the moment, looking out on the crowd and all the americans assembled, it surprised me even, i turned to him and said, "and you. thanks for the chance. thanks for the chance to continue to serve." folks, i raise my glass to a man who never, never, never operates out of fear, only operates out of confidence, and i'm toasting you, chuck. [laughter] a guy i plan on working with it. you cannot get rid of me, man. remember, i'm still part of the senate. god bless you chuck. you have done a great job, and lamar, you have as well pretty good to see you, pal. >> the best parts of these events are unscripted. i would now like to introduce our senate majority leader, my good friend and fox will bud -- foxhole buddy, harry reid, to offer the official toast to the president. [applause] >> americans today are wishing the president got speed for the next four years. people all over the world are looking at us and our exemplary democracy and wishing the president the best in the years to come. i have had the good fortune in the last many years to work on a very close personal basis with president obama. i have watched him -- the most difficult challenges that a person could face. i've watched him do this with brilliance, with patience, with courage, wisdom, and ki ndness, from which i have learned a great deal. so, mr. president, i toast and great for you -- and pray for you, your wonderful family, and our great country. four more years, barack obama. >> michelle and the speaker of the house came to a meeting of the minds that i may be delaying the proceedings to much. and so i'm just going to be extraordinarily brief and say thank you. to my a vice president, who was not only been an extraordinary partner, but an extraordinary friend, and to dr. jill biden, who has partnered with my wife with an extraordinary generosity on behalf of our men and women in uniform. to the entire cabinet that is here, i am grateful to you. some of you are staying, some of you are leaving, but i know the extraordinary sacrifices that you and my team have made it to advance the progress of this country, and i will always be grateful to you for that. to the speaker of the house and nancy pelosi, to democratic leader harry reid, as well as republican leader mitch mcconnell, all the congressional leaders and all the members of congress who are here, i recognize that democracy is not always easy, and i recognize there are profound differences in this room. but i just want to say thank you for your service and i want to thank your families for their service, because regardless of our political persuasions and perspectives, i know all of us serve because we believe we can make america for future generations. and i am confident that we can act at this moment in a way that makes a difference for our children and our children's children. i know that former president carter, president clinton, they understand the irony of the presidential office, which is the longer you are there, the more humble you become, and the more mindful you are that it is beyond your power is individually to move this great country. you can only do it because you have extraordinary partners and a spirit of goodwill and, most of all, because of the strength and resilience and fundamental goodness of the american people. and so i would like to join all of you not only in toasting the extraordinary work that chuck schumer and lamar alexander and others have done to create this special day for us, but i also want to thank each and everyone of you for not only your service in the past, but hopefully your service in the future as well. i would like to offer one last toast, and that is to my extraordinary wife, michelle. there is controversy about the quality of the president. no controversy about the quality of our current first lady. [applause] thank you, everybody. god bless you, and god bless america. >> ok, now that everyone is standing, you can remain standing, because it is my privilege to introduce his eminence to deliver the benediction. >> thank you for the extraordinary and unique honor bestowed upon me to deliver it the benediction. it is the greatest honor in my life. let us pray as we prepare to go forth in peace, confident in america's bright future, in the name of the father, the sun, and the holy spirit. oh god of all, we give thanks to you and praise you on this day, as did our first president on the day of his inauguration, for we, too, resolve once more to the benign parent of the human race in humble supplication, in the words of president washington. we bless and praisner holy name -- praise your holy name, and ask blessing upon these united states of america, our president, barack obama, and vice president joseph biden, as they and commence the second term of their sacred responsibilities in the highest office of our country. bless, preserve, and keep them and their families safe and healthy. together with who serve our nation, especially in the congress, the two tishri, and armed forces -- judiciary, and armed forces, here and everywhere who defend our pursuits of life, liberty, and happiness. heavenly father, may we ever abide in this land of opportunity and freedom in perfect etranquillity, faithful to our foundations and ever building a more prosperous, just, equitable, and a decent society for all of our citizens. and may we always share our faith and hope for the future with the whole world with your divine and gracious love. amen. >> amen. >> thank you, archbishop. thank you. >> great to see you. ok, please be seated for a moment. my pleasure, archbishop. thank you. well, i think everyone will agree that this has been a wonderful inaugural ceremony, a delicious lunch, but it is now time to head to our next happy stop, presidential parade. [laughter] like many of you, i marched in hundreds, but as we optimistically stepped into the next page of american history, under the leadership of president obama, i have a feeling this one is going to be something truly special. so thank you for being here, god bless you all, god bless america. [applause] >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> again, ladies and gentlemen, please remain in place, as president obama, vice president biden, and members of the joint committee on inaugural ceremonies depart statuary hall. >> you are watching c-span's live coverage of the inauguration, and a live view of the rotunda as we wait for president barack obama to depart the capitol following the congressional lunch. he will take the route every president since thomas jefferson has used, the inaugural parade route. 1.5 miles between capitol hill to the white house, and every president since 1800, john adams, has lived in the white house. he departs the capitol, joined by vice president biden. 57thheme for this year's inauguration is "our people, our future." the parade will continue straight down pennsylvania avenue until its this is a live view of the route the president will be taking, the same route taken by previous presidents and a route that was first ordered by thomas jefferson in the first inaugural parade would than two centuries ago. you can see the walkway that has been set up, a temporary walkway to allow the president to get to and from the white house and the reviewing stand that will include the vice-president and first family members. what happened next is the presidential review of the troops, tradition and protocol on this inauguration day. we will see that from the u.s. capitol and the u.s. motorcade. since jimmy carter, every president has watched a portion of the route along pennsylvania avenue, president carter walking the entire 1.5 miles. we are told the president will likely do so right before 15th and pennsylvania avenue, that -- or around a corner and a short distance to the white house. the inaugural ball will take place tonight at the inaugural center. >> a live view of the west front of the u.s. capitol where the ceremonies took place earlier today. we are getting your calls and comments. the president will stay inside the capital for about 10-15 minutes before departing and taking the parade route, so we will use this topic in -- we will use this opportunity to get your thoughts. the president delivering his second inaugural address. congress gets down to business as early as tomorrow. we have a tweet from leo who says i am is the inaugural. we will replay the inaugural ceremonies today and tonight here on the c-span networks. we will stay like this afternoon with the inaugural parade. we will hear from richard, joining us from pennsylvania on the democrats' line. good afternoon. >> in watching the proceedings on c-span, and notice that speaker boehner seemed to be going through the motions. he did not seem to have a lot of gusto or smile. this would have been a great opportunity to maybe extend an olive branch and start anew. that is really my comment. >> thanks to the call. next is colleen joining us from inverness, florida on the democrats' line. your thoughts about this inaugural ceremony today. >> my thought is congratulations to president obama and vice president biden. i watch the coverage by c-span. it was absolutely great. the oath administered by justice roberts was purposely done quickly so he could trip up, almost, president obama, and it spoke poorly of a chief justice of the supreme court. i love president obama is quick recovery and his beautiful speech. >> thank you for the call. we welcome our listeners on c- span radio. again, the president is inside the u.s. capitol. remarks by the cochairs of the inaugural committee, senator chuck schumer and lamar alexander of tennessee. the president thanking the organizers of the inaugural luncheon and the ceremony itself from the west front of the u.s. capitol. the parade will include 58 different groups and run about 2.5 hours, shorter than the parade from four years ago. mike is homophone from wisconsin on the republican line. -- mike is on the phone from wisconsin. >> it sounded more like a political speech i did not vote for him. i do not support him. >> memphis, tenn., is our next caller, john on the independent line. good afternoon. >> i am a vietnam era veteran and a former teacher, and i was very interested to hear the indication -- invocation. in closing, she used the name of jesus, which is more than the chaplains in the military were able to do. i do hope that america can come closer together with israel in its defense against the people who are trying to blow her off the planet. >> joining us from richmond, virginia, is george. >> i have two comments i would like to make. first, the president had an excellent inaugural address. the one thing i hope he would do in order to get congress to work with him is what he said at the end. the people need to voice their opinions. they need to act. i remember one time i think it was president kennedy, getting public feeling on issues, i think that helped. help him to get this country moving forward. >> thanks for the call. words from the president from today's inaugural address, he said "each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our constitution, we affirm the promise of our democracy, it is not the color burst again of the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names that makes us exceptional, what makes us americans is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration that was made more than two centuries ago." the words of the president in his second inaugural address. from michigan on the republican line, good afternoon. >> my comment deals with the reference to president abraham lincoln. it was referred to numerous times today and throughout the past year or two. my concern or, at is, i do not think that president lincoln would have made such a haphazard, and calculated statement as what was said a couple of years ago by nancy pelosi, and backed by the democrats, when she said about the health care bill. she said let's pass it, then we will see what is in it. that had to be the most an awful comment -- unthoughtful comment that i have heard. >> the president will be coming momentarily to review the troops. in.'s listen an >> present arms. >> forward march. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> present arms. [cheering] [chanting "obama!"] [cheering] >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack obama, and the first lady, michelle obama. the vice president of the united states, joe biden and dr. jill biden. >> first lady, michelle obama. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states joe biden and dr. jill biden. continuing with the united states secret service uniformed division and the united states service color guard. we also have the joint congressional committee on the inauguration ceremonies. senator leader harry reid. lamar alexander. leader of the house, john maynarboehner. eric cantor and nancy pelosi. followed by members of the united states supreme court. [inaudible] unfair --and seveengine, gentlemen -- ♪ with democratic leader in anti paulo state. -- nancy pelosi. >> welcome the united states park police escort. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [indiscernible] >> and concluding the escort, united states park police escort. [indiscernible] information, escorts the president, vice president, and other dignitaries from the capitol to the white house. [indiscernible] to be sworn in as first president of the united states. [indiscernible] ladies and gentleman, a pershing -- approaching the presidential reviewing stand, the president of the united states. the vice-president of the united states, joe biden, and dr. jill biden. the president of the united states, barack obama, and michelle obama. the vice president of the united states, joe biden, and dr. jill biden. they are at the reviewing stand. a beautiful couple. [indiscernible] the president of the united states and first lady, followed by the vice-president of the united states, joe biden, and dr. jill biden. united states secret service -- [indiscernible] chairman senator charles schumer, senator lamar alexander, representative john boehner, house democratic leader nancy pelosi. [indiscernible] concluding the presidential press corps, the united states park police. [indiscernible] ladies and gentlemen, the parade continues to 17th street. [indiscernible] this is your chance to show your appreciation to the president of the united states, barack obama, and the first lady, michelle obama, as well as the vice president of the united states, and joe biden, and dr. jill biden, on their way to 17th street. ladies and gentlemen, making their way to the reviewing stand, the vice president of the united states, joe biden, and dr. jill biden. every town seems to have its main street. here in washington, d.c., pennsylvania avenue is our main street. [indiscernible] the presidential reviewing stand, the vice president of the united states, joe biden, and dr. joe biden. they are just steps away from the presidential reviewing stand, the vice president of the united states, joe biden, and dr. jill biden. [indiscernible] the vice-president of the united states, joe biden, and dr. jill biden. [indiscernible] speaker of the house, john boehner, majority leader eric cantor, and house minority leader nancy pelosi. [indiscernible] making their way toward the presidential reviewing stand -- [indiscernible] [indiscernible] the joint congressional committee making its way to the presidential inaugural. ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure and honor to introduce the mayor of the district of ay.umbia, vincent grea passing the reviewing stand, the mayor of d.c., vincent gray. than a year it will continue his walked toward 17th street. he will be with you down there in just a moment. latest and gentlemen, concluding this presidential escort, the u.s. park police theresa led by chief poli chambers. now approaching at the reviewing stand is the park police chief, theresa chambers. how about a hand for the mounted a u.s. park police/ by tradition, the presidential escort is a civilian and military formation that troubles ahead of the inaugural parade. it escorts the dignitaries from the the whip -- to the white house. the escort traces its roots back to the first inauguration of george washington, who moved from new york's federal all to be sworn in as the first president of the united states. the inaugural parade will continue in a few moments. we will keep you updated. thank you for coming. [cheering] the parade is marching towards the disbursement area on 17th cahow. there will be a pause of approximately -- 17th street. there will be a pause of approximately 15 minutes. have you enjoyed this so far? much more to go. thank you. >> for those folks in the 17th street area, the parade is coming your way. [indiscernible] ♪ ♪ >> as we continue to wait for the start of the parade which is running behind schedule, we will use this opportunity to get your thoughts on this 57th presidential inauguration. our phone lines are open. the first lady and the president are inside the white house, along with the vice president and dr. joe biden, headed to the reviewing stand to watch the parade in lafayette square. later tonight they will attend the inaugural ball, all of it taking place at the same location tonight. an estimated 35,000 people to 40,000 people are expected to attend. gregory? >> i am so proud of my president. fox news was the only station on and it seemed like they were wishing for sell -- for someone to shoot at him, that is all they would talk about. all of the other stations are showing love except for fox news. i think they drink blood like other stations drink kool-aid. it is a sad day in america when they preach about the president getting killed. i am a proud black man and i am proud of obama. >> we will go to mark, next in the morning, iowa. >> thank you very much, c-span. thank you for doing what you do. first,, the, than questions, the suggestion. comedy, the peace and goodwill toward men that obama just signed into law? the macaroni and cheese luncheon back in the cheap seats? on the suggestion from the poem, he mentioned consolation hope, i think that would be cool. the question i have is -- when is the last time there was an inauguration when there has been no president from the other party? you can probably look that up and let me know. but i was just wondering. when was the last time it was only old residence from the same party? >> there was a statement issued by president george herbert walker bush extending his best wishes to the obama children and mrs. obama. he is of course recovering in houston. we are told that george w. bush is also spending the day with his father. of course, two other former presidents also in attendance. joanne is joining us from detroit. good afternoon. >> i just want to thank obama and michelle for the beautiful job they have done. >> next is oscar from silver spring, maryland. go ahead. >> thank you for taking my call. today is a special day. this is a day for everyone to get together and join in with the democracy and everything, americans and elsewhere. >> ok, thank you for the call. by the way, one of the voice is your hearing this charlie, the official announcer of the parade, situated directly across from the viewing stand. he participated in his first in 1949, the inauguration of harry truman, the first inauguration to ever be televised. he has been doing? since 1957, when dwight eisenhower was sworn in to a second term. 85 years old, still doing it today. leonard joins us from corona, california. good afternoon, leonard. >> i wanted to thank c-span for allowing us to view the wonderful process that we have for the most peaceful transfer power in the world. the obama speech was wonderful today. hopefully he will be able to get congress to move in a direction where they can work together over the next four years. i know that it will be difficult for him. as and in the code -- an independent voter i hope that he can unite this country together, as it has been a very difficult past four years. >> thank you. we will listen in as the vice president and dr. joe biden -- jill biden make their way to the presidential viewing stand. >> just a reminder, the official theme today is our people, our future, reflecting the idea that this -- [cheering] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states and the doctor jill biden. 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but nonetheless, it rededicates this country to big ideas. and the person who has to do it in his speech, walking up to the podium, is the president. we saw the first family walking in to st. john's church earlier this morning. >> they're at that worship service right now. there they are, right there, just before they walked into st. john's episcopal church, across the street from the white house. there's the first lady, and the president, sasha and malia, and the first lady's mom. luis leon is preaching on the theme of unity, which is also the president's theme. we'll see the president and first lady when they come out of that service, in just a little bit. first, let's talk to david muir. he's on the shadow of the steps of the capitol. and a lot of people gathering already. >> gathering here since the darkdar darkened hours before the sun came up. you talked about the choir of p.s. 22. you can see the capitol behind me, for those of you watching at home. the archway that the president will emerge from, about midway, at 11:30 this morning. his hand on the two bibles that george mentioned. applause for the children who traveled here all the way from new york. my producer, christine has the temperature on her weather app. for the second inaugural, everyone wanted to know, is it going to be the 29 degrees they witnessed four years ago and those winds. it's 39 degrees right now. it's going to be heading up to 45 degrees here. and look at the sky over washington this morning. a beautiful, beautiful blue sky. they're expecting a front to move through later today. but that's not until after the parade. and they say the warmest point during this entire day of festivities will be during the parade, george and diane. look over here. i couldn't help but notice this gentleman. he has his blanket on his lap, his paper. this guy has the best seat in washington right now. you knew what to bring. >> thank you. we tried it out four years ago. and it was much rougher then. this year, we came prepared. >> the only thing you left was starbucks. i asked you for one earlier. one thing i wanted to show you, diane and george, was over here. this family was all gathered. you had your ipads and your i d ipods out earlier. you were on your electronics. and one thing i want to mention for the folks at home, there's security everywhere. but one thing they did this year, was to put extra towers all along the national mall here because they are determined not to have communications crash. obviously, you need that, if something were to, god forbid, to go wrong. with new technology, so many trying to capture and record the moment. and we'll be right here, in the shadow of that president, as he steps out to usher in his second term. >> and in this modern age, the president has issued his first tweet. i'm honored and grateful we have a chance to finish what we started. our work begins today. let's go. >> what's he doing tweeting in church? >> well, he has said that in so many ways, this is an important, new beginning for him because the first time around, he was elected based on what he promised to do. and this time around, he feels he was elected on what he has done and what he can do in the years to come. and there, you're looking, again, at the president's church. and, george, i wonder what you were thinking this morning when you woke up, about this day because it is a day that gives a president we know a chance to start again, for the country. >> everything stops. everything is new for at least a moment. and he has that clear shot to speak to the entire country. and it feels like the one day where the entire country has ears to hear what the president has to say, as well. >> and one we can show the world also listening. we can show the world that after a hard-fought election, a bruising time in congress, that we are still together in this country. and i believe we have jon karl, white house correspondent, with us. he is also there on the west side of the capitol. jon? >> reporter: diane, i'm here. the divisions, the president will be surrounded, of course, by family and friends. and also, by his political enemies, right off to the right over here, to the president's left, is where you'll see speaker of the house john boehner, the republican majority leader, eric cantor. the people that he will be doing battle with, just after this is done. but this is the moment for unity. and talking to the president's aides about what he hopes to convey in this speech, he will acknowledge the deep divisions, the deep political divisions, that dominated so much of his first term. he'll talk about, despite those divisions, we have to come together to do what we can. >> i'm looking at the scene now, we all are together, as the president comes out of church. we see sasha with him, who yesterday told him, he didn't mess up. at the other -- malia will be coming in soon. i think we're all struck at the difference in four years, as we look at them. and remembering that four years ago, at this moment, the president had just been released the nuclear codes. in the white house, they were scrambling to put toys on the beds for the girls, organizing a scavenger hunt to find their ways around. >> today, after the ceremony, they'll just be going home. it's been their home for the last four years. the president's family getting into the limousines. i want to go to pierre thomas. on the big, national days, we're also concerned. we have to have all of our thoughts, also, on the issue of security. pierre? >> reporter: george, as the big crowd makes its way to the mall, these are the most stressful moments for the authorities. as a result, we have more than 13,000 military and law enforcement personnel, ready for this event. we have snipers on the roofs. we have biological and chemical units prepared to deal with whatever comes up. we have a high degree of surveillance. satellites zooming in on the mall, as well as hundreds of surveillance cameras, to watch potential suspects. as one official told me last night, we have no specific threat. but we have to be ready for anything, george. >> and i know they've been preparing for this for a year. they've been locking the buildings on the parade route. they've been locking the garbage cans on the parade route. repaved the road. they are taking no chances. we have an incredible team of presidential savvy with us this morning. i want a quick word from two of them sitting with us here. let's start with matthew dowd, contributor to abc news. you have contributed to a combine, as well. both sides of the aisle. what does it take for a president to take a second inauguration and make it soaring? >> well, it's a much different situation when you go from the first to the second. the first one, everybody's filled with hope. we can make change. the second one, you're much more seasoned and you know there's hard work ahead. the way the weather was described, it seemed fitting. we're going to have a great, sunny day. everybody's going to pause. and a storm's coming in this evening. i think the president will have a great day today. he's going to be faced with a lot of things i think his speech needs to speak to. >> we have a reminder of how tough that is going to be. cokie roberts, karl rove, he sent out his first tweet. he says, prepare for another long, nasty, four years. >> unfortunately, that's probably true. but today is the day not to think about that for a little bit. and to say, this is a special day for the country. people bring their children from all over the country, to witness this history. so, this is america's day. and we do stop for a minute. and of course, the next four years are going to be tough. deep, deep divisions in the country. we certainly saw that in this election. and we certainly see it in the congress. but not today. >> you see the first family, heading back to the white house. congressional delegation awaiting them there for the trip up to the capitol. we're going to take a short break. when we come back, we'll show you people already arriving on the inaugural platform. and general colin powell will be joining us here, when we return. jenna shared her recipe with sharon, who emailed it to emily, who sent it to cindy, who wondered why her soup wasn't quite the same. the recipe's not the recipe... ohhh. 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[ female announcer ] the secret is swanson. begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. welcome back. you're looking at the first family arriving back at the white house. i'm struck by the fact that malia is almost as tall as her mother, who is 5'11". we were just commenting here. what a difference four years makes, in the lives of these children. of course, the first grandmother, walking in, as well. >> on the third floor of the white house, all four years. we've watched that whole family grow up. what a powerful representation for the nation. and the president also meeting the congressional delegation that will take them down to the capitol inside, as they walk through those doors. >> and we invite you to gather your family around, with the great family of america, for this historic day. and as promised, we are joined right now by former secretary of state, former chairman of the joint chiefs, general colin powell. it's good to see you on this inauguration day. >> good to be with all of you. thank you. >> it's a confound convergence, and the two bibles the president will be swearing on will say it all. they are abraham lincoln's bible, martin luther king's bible. when you woke up this morning, what were you thinking? >> i was thinking what a great country this is, that we can see this kind of transition. this inauguration day, we have the opportunity not to scream and argue with one another, but to come together. to witness this 57th renewal of what our founding fathers put in place. i often say, when you look at lincoln, who saved the union and had to fight a war, but 100 years later, it was dr. martin luther king, who had to fight another war, a war of ideas and a war of values, look how we have progressed just from the 50 years of martin luther king. i became secretary of state. i became a chairman. as a kid in the south bronx section, unthinkable. and barack obama became president of the united states. >> you had stinging things to say about the republican party. an identity problem, you said. and that there are some people who seem to have a theme of intolerance. >> that's a broader definition of what i meant by intolerance. i think intolerance is when you try to keep people from voting. the republican party ought to be out there, not by restricting voting by requiring i.d., but wanting everybody to vote. you need new messages. new policies. the country is becoming more minority. >> have you heard a lot from that? a lot of people pushing back on you? >> most of the people i've heard from in the last week or so have been very, very supportive. but there are those who consider this the worst thing imaginable. and why are you still a republican? i grew up under ronald reagan, and george schultz, and george herbert walker bush, and that's the republican party i knew. i think we've drifted from that. there's nothing wrong starting to drift a little bit back. not because it's good to be moderate. but that's where the american people are. they lost an election. two. >> five out of the last six. and the president will try to, you know, tie everyone together today. one speech can't do that. but what does he need to do, in your view? >> in the speech, i think he needs to appeal to our better angels. raise -- don't just tell me about the policy statements. save that for the state of the union. inspire america today. and i hope that's what he will try to do. but he needs to get to work. and the number one problem is the economy. he's got to fix the economy. the fiscal situation has been fixed, to a large extent. the stock market's doubled. that's pretty good. but he has to get everybody working again. it means fix the economy. it means fix the education. so we're bringing kids along that have the skills for 21st century america. his focus has to be on the economy. on the need to reduce unemployment. and frankly, i hope he can, through his own example, restore a sense of civility in the country. >> every president learns a lot. is scarred by the office. also made more wise by the office. what is the one thing you hope president obama has learned over the last four years? >> i hope he's learned that you know, no one part of the government, really, gets it all done. and so, he's got to do a better job of reaching out to members of congress, across both -- across the aisle, to the republicans. and the republicans have to stop buying into things that demonize the president. why aren't republican leaders shouting out about all this birther nonsense and these other things? they're silent. they need to speak out. this is the kind of intolerance i've been talking about, where these idiot presentations continue to be made. and you don't see the senior leadership of the party say, no, that's wrong. sometimes, by not speaking out, they're encouraging it. and the base keeps buying this stuff. and it's killing the base and party. 26% favorability rate for the party right now. that ought to be telling them something. you know? instead of attacking, whoever speaks, look in the mirror and say, how are we going to win the next election? >> and looking overseas, we know governments over the world will be pouring over this speech for every nuance, at this time, more than 60,000 troops in afghanistan. a time of peril. what's the single sentence you hope he says? >> i think he has to say that america's coming back from afghanistan. we're back from iraq. but we're not back from the world. we're still going to be an important nation on the face of the earth. we have responsibilities in europe, in asia, in our own hemisphere, in the middle east. and we will meet those responsibilities. we're not pulling back. we're not becoming isolationist. but we have to be far more careful as to the areas in which we get ourselves involved, where we send our young men and women into combat. i think it's proper for the president to be careful. he's been in charge of leading from behind. that's one of the slogans that don't mean anything. >> we are told he's studying eisenhower's second term as he thinks about this. >> eisenhower, there's a couple of very good books out. i've been reading them, also. no collaboration. i never collaborate with the white house. i'm a free agent. but eisenhower was very careful. he worried about spending. he worried about the military industrial complex. he worried about the enemies out there and dealing with them without going broke doing it. and it was successful. i'm glad that the president is reading about eisenhower. >> thank you so much, general powell. i want to go back to the platform. we're listening to the lee university festival choir. they're located in tennessee, the foothills of appalachia. a wonderful reminder, all of the people who practiced, all the people who care, on this inauguration morning. we'll return in a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ good morning, turtle. ♪ my friends are all around me ♪ my friends, they do surround me ♪ ♪ i hope this never ends ♪ and we'll be the best of friends ♪ ♪ all set? 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[ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. go, go, go, go! bye sweetie. honey what are you doing? we gotta go! it's dress-like-a-president day, i'm supposed to be martin van buren. who? martin van buren! google? martin van buren. ♪ and welcome back to the second inauguration of the 44th president of the united states. we're going to go, now, to bill weir, who is out in the center of the mall. and i heard you say earlier, bill, people are counting on history to keep them warm. >> absolutely. and community, a sense of national pride, on days like this. do you ever get the feeling that there's people behind you, watching you? watch this. look at the power. look at the power. happy mlk day, people. look at this. we got alabama, mississippi represented, california, texas, oklahoma, good to see you. good morning. how are you? it's warming up, right? it feels pretty good. here's the view. we are just on the capitol side of seventh street. about the halfway point. it's starting to get dense. we were saying earlier, four years ago, i was back, way back by the washington monument. that was 1.8 million people. at least half that year. you get a good sense -- part the sea for me. let me see. hello, cutie. how are you? do you get a sense in the capitol down there. we have the big monitors. a couple hours to kill. and people are still getting together. next time you come to me, i have to tell you the greatest story about, i met a living republican in this crowd, wearing shorts and a t-shirt, if you can believe that. >> a day when republicans and democrats are coming together, today for the ceremony. and the parade coming up, which you see that lovely choir again. ♪ and crowd that good with brotherhood ♪ ♪ from sea to shining sea >> a look at the national monument. we'll be right back. >> now, from abc7 news. . good morning, i i am eric thomas. here is the forecast. >> sunny and mild today. last frosty night is tonight with wet weather for wednesday. as we look at the seven-day outlook, we have another chance saturday and sunday. the best chance for rain is tomorrow, rather, wednesday, is the not bay. notice the temperatures today in the middle 60's and lower to middle 60's on tuesday, and upper 60's to -- by wednesday. the warm weather is just about over. the commute? >> very bad traveling 156 with a jackknifed big rig to highway 101 in the westbound direction, one lane traffic control. early accident at 238 at 880 is now gone. we have a new accident southbound 880 on the shoulder. bart and muni and caltrain on time with regular service for this is an abc news special. >> the time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit. >> inauguration day, an extraordinary american event. four years ago, history was made. >> starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking america. >> then, it happens again. and as all the world watches, americans from all walks of life, all across our great nation, come together to celebrate a grand tradition, that's connected us, generation to generation to generation. and on this uniquely american day, america turns to the team that knows this president best, abc news, taking you everywhere, all access, behind the scenes, at our nation's capital. out with the crowds, every step along the parade route. it's a front-row seat to history in the making. and it all starts now. the second inauguration of president barack obama. now reporting live from the newseum in washington, d.c., diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos. >> and there you see the washington monument. it has been gleaming in the sunshine all morning. and at the time it was built, it was the tallest manmade structure in the world, reminding the world of america's enormous, vital energy, that a new country was on the rise. >> no building in washington, d.c. can be higher than the washington monument. we see the dome of the capitol, as well. all of america coming together, today, for this celebration of our enduring democracy. the president, that is the scene he will see when he looks out across the mall. some 800,000 people expected on the mall today. not quite as big as four years ago. we've seen, a happy, smiling crowd. >> and nonetheless, it would be the biggest crowd for a second inauguration ever by multiples. >> and the day has begun for president obama and his family. they went to church earlier this morning at st. john's episcopal church. we see them, the first lady sasha and malia, as well as mrs. robinson, the first lady's mom. they walk in. about an hour later, they go back to the white house. as they were going back, first leaving the church. the first daughter had some fun with the president. >> that's right. apparently, they stood behind a door and went, boo, to surprise him. it's the hallmark of this family. remember four years ago, i believe it was malia who said to her father, first african-american president, you better be good. >> that's right. and i think it was sasha, after he took the oath of office, formally, said you didn't mess up, dad. you see the white house there. meeting with leaders of the con vacation. and we go to cecilia vega, where the parade performers are getting ready. >> they're going to play us a song as we get ready here. this is where the party starts. i'm here with the palm view high school mariachi. are you at the inauguration for the first time? >> it's the first time. never been here before. >> and how excited are you to be here? >> we're excited to have our opportunity. like competitions inside texas. we're excited for this. >> are you staying warm in these beautiful outfits? >> kind of. >> kind of. the tricks of staying warm is hand warmers and to keep dancing. these guys look absolutely beautiful. we're going to see groups like this all along the parade route today. the theme today, our people, our future. i don't know what represents that more than this group right here, guys. back to you. >> thank you, cecilia. wonderful to find you behind the sombreros. and we want to listen for a moment because this is the u.s. marine band. the president's own. for every president since 1789, they have performed. and now, i want to turn to the director of the national museum of african-american history. it is wonderful to have lonnie bunch back today. we've talked a lot about the bibles. the two bibles the president will be putting his hand on to be sworn in. abraham lincoln's bible, martin luther king's traveling bible, his family said. we've seen it earlier. it has frayed edges. we're told he had it back when -- that's the lincoln bible. and we're told that martin luther king had this bible when he started preaching. it was well-worn. he made markings in it. >> what is so wonderful to me, is the president recognizes the importance of history. and king's bible really speaks volumes about the possibility of america. about the sense that change is possible, with vision and courage. marrying that with the lincoln bible. obviously, president obama feels so strongly about the role that abraham lincoln meant. and the president understands that history shapes not just him. but what he loves about the past, how much it shapes who we are as a country today. >> and we're looking at, of course, the martin luther king memorial, which is off to the left, as the president looks out from that platform. >> author of the president obama, "the bridge," talks about how he grew out of the civil rights movement, led by martin luther king. you write in the book, david, that race has been at the core of president obama's story. but it's not been in the foreground of his presidency. >> that's true. he's gotten some criticism for that from some bloack leaders. he views his presence in the white house is essential. and everything he can do, whether it's improving the economy or keeping the united states safe, improves the lives of all americans. he's very wary of being the president of black america. he's insistent on being the president of the united states. and sometimes, that's caused him difficulty with certain black leaders. cornell west is one. there's others. >> and you said the president blames his americanism. what did you mean by that? >> president obama is very clear, he has the opportunity to represent all of america. he realizes that that history helps him lead the entire country. and so, he's claimed his america is not simply as black america. >> i was just going to say. this is also the 150th anniversary here for the emancipation proclamation. >> what's so moving this year is the confluence of events. it is the 150th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation. the document that began the process of ending slavery. it's also the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. in many ways, this is the year where the black history profoundly changed america's course. and i think the president recognized how important that is. >> the president will celebrate. he will celebrate with all african-americans and all americans. there had been some grumbling about african-american leaders over the last four years that did not stop. african-americans have been coming out in huge numbers since november. >> there's been a small but important voice, that wants the president to do more to fight poverty in this country, to talk about the crisis of black unemployment, especially among young african-american males. their goal was not simply to be part of a chorus that simply wanted to talk about president obama not being american enough. but they really wanted him to step up, to deal with the challenges of inequality and injustice in our society. they're important voices. and i don't think we'll see them muted anytime soon. >> back to david rimnick, for a moment. you wrote "the bridge" that documented the president so closely. what change did you see him in these four years? >> he was not the leader of a movement. martin luther king was the leader of a movement. barack obama is a politician. and he encountered politics his first day in office. he encountered things unimaginable. you mentioned the security issue. we've now forgotten on the first day of office, on his inaugural day last time, he came out on stage under the threat of a possible al qaeda attack from somali insurgents. it is long forgotten. but inaugural day was proceeded by this. and then, he began in a near-depression, an economic depression. and he's faced some highly radicalized republican party. he's encountered politics. and george knows, from being in the white house, being president of the united states, is also a series of -- not just catastrophes and crises all the time. like drinking from a fire hydrant that's been loose. he's encountered that as a politician. and taken unpredictable courses. >> you can see that. let's put that up. let's show the pictures of president obama, as he's aged over the last four years. it will prove the point that david was just making right there. a big smile on his face. but a lot of gray hair there, as well. probably a few more gray hairs thinking about the second inaugural address, as well. every one that's given in the shadow of lincoln's masterpiece. >> that's true. as we talked on our sunday morning show yesterday, george, he has a choice, in a sense, to make. does he want to give the roosevelt speech of 1937? or more like lincoln's second inaugural or eisenhower's second inaugural, which was not. an interesting fact about roosevelt, he came out. he gave this -- i got it right here. he spoke about blindly selfish men. talked about driving from the temple of their ancient faith, those who have profamed it. he with self-interest, the elements of decencies of life and private autocratic powers. he came out with a clenched fist. and that was 1937, the first time presidents were inaugurated on january 20th, rather than the 4th of march. and on the 5th of february, just two weeks later, he announced what was to become the judicial reorganization bill of 1937. his plan to pack the supreme court with up to 15 members as they aged, in order to remove the new deal. it was a historic blunder. in the 1938 elections, he and his party were soundly refudiated. and there was no liberal legislating majority in congress between 1938 and 1964, when the third transformative president, lyndon johnson, was in power. this president has made no secret of his ambition to be the fourth transformative president. and the question is, will he, in his speech today, show a kind of combative nature that led to franklin roosevelt's overreaching and historic change of the politics of the country? >> you see the congressional leaders for the country. steny hoyer, and we just saw them go to the capitol. >> we saw janet napolitano, and security making their way in. you were talking about lincoln in the course of this presidency. i want to pick up the pictures of him because they are among the most startling. he lost 50 pounds. he was about 150 pounds weighing in, at 6'4". >> the picture on the right side, abraham lincoln, only 56 years old. look at those eyes. of course, the lincoln memorial there. martin luther king in the shadow, gave that speech 50 years ago. and there, we see, as you see more -- i think that's katy perry there. >> i believe it is. >> on the steps of the capitol. along with john mayer. we're going to come back. she performed at the kids' concert saturday night. we're going to hear from beyonce, and kelly clarkson, and james taylor, at this ceremony. they're having fun. probably tweeting that out. >> tweeting immediately. >> we'll be right back with much more of our inaugural coverage, including the inaugural fashion. 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was she cold? did her husband step on the train of her dress at the inaugural ball? it is a reflection of the women. and it takes us back into the human history of this country. >> and i'm talking about the clothes that we wear send a message of how the world perceives us. and that's a very profound statement. one that every woman, and frankly, every man, has to have responsibility for. >> i'll accept some responsibility right now, tim gunn. one of the messages, the first lady and the whole first family has sent, maybe the hat tips to diane, j. crew, real shoutout by the first daughters. >> absolutely. and a very wonderful one. and also, the first family, especially the first lady, she wears clothes that are relatable, that are accessible. she's not a rare hothouse flower under a bell jar. she's someone you feel you can run up to and embrace. that's a wonderful quality. >> she has set the trend. before michelle obama arrived in washington, you did not see every anchor on television, especially local television, in sleeveless dresses. this is something that she did. we've seen that with past first ladies. we saw it with jackie kennedy and pill box hats. this is something that michelle obama will be remembered as someone who changed fashion in america. and i think a lot of people are lifting weights so they could wear the sleeveless dresses. >> getting up at 4:30 to 5:00 in the morning to workout. i want to turn to matt dowd because he can have an opinion on this because he has passion. you've been talking so much about the way family is now central to american politics in a way it never was. >> it's become much more of a choice about the couple than just the person. up until now, the man, running for office. it's now becoming -- american takes a prism of what they want to see and want in a president, not only from him, but also from the couple and from the family. and that's become very important. >> we saw president bill clinton walk into the capitol right there. what a relationship, what a ride that has been, between him and president obama, started out four years ago. difficult relationship. the president, of course, his wife, hillary clinton. they have grown so close over the last four years. perhaps, one of the most significant political moments in the last campaign, when bill clinton gave that speech at the democratic convention. >> we're told that the president called. >> first phone call. >> right after the election, knew what he had done. as we watch the procession into the platform, i want to bring in nicolle wallace, of course preside republican presidencies and the campaign. before we leave the topic of the clothes the first lady has to wear, sometimes at her peril, how much stress does that create in their lives? >> well, i think presidents usually defer to their wives, the smart presidents do, for the selection of the inaugural tie and what not. i think on a day like this, there's so much buildup that the white house staff and the president in that theater and rehearsing the inaugural address on the staff that's so weary from the campaign they just waged. today, is the way we take pause and lap up this majestic moment, that white house staff is running around with their hair on fire, getting ready for the day that comes tomorrow. this isn't friday. tomorrow is a work day. tomorrow is another school day, if you will. they have to hit the ground running tomorrow. it's a day about what you're going to wear, it seems silly when you get down to the business that will come so quickly, it will make our head spin. >> it never stopped for this president. the president in office, also on january 1st. the first time congress had been in session since the korean war, as we watch the joint chiefs gather on the capitol steps. matthew dowd, going back to that point that nicolle just started. this white house knows that the clock is running. and they're going to push hard on their agenda from the very beginning of this term. >> every day that goes forward is a loss of oxygen for his political capital to get done what he wants on capitol hill. it's not going to be long. and one of the parts of this day related to that, is the president experiences this is just a celebration. but there's a bit of melancholy. he knows he will never have this moment again. he is precluded from the constitution for this moment. his political staff knows, if they don't get stuff done in the next three or four months, they won't get it done in the rest of the presidency. >> this is the every day. but isn't the fifth year a golden opportunity, as well? you don't have to think about the tracking polls? you can think about purpose? >> you do have to think about the tracking polls that you have to have support of the country to get done what you want. but one of the things that happens we noticed in the last five presidents in their second term, is some crisis or scandal develops. and basically, their presidency is focused on what happens. that's why he has to get it done. >> this white house, determined to keep their campaign going. you see the president's campaign apparatus has been reconstituted as a super pac. it will be organizing for america, with cokie roberts, to back up the agenda to get the ideas through. >> and right away, he's focusing on guns. it's interesting. it's a huge organization. he can use it for legislation, for party-building. the congress is looking forward to their next election. and he has got it going right now on gun violence, which is not something that was on the agenda until the horrific tragedy at newtown. but he is pushing on that now. i think we'll see him pushing right away on immigration. and of course, the debt is always something. >> and there's the mayor of chicago. >> rahm emanuel, mayor of chicago right now. >> as we watch the procession, i believe that's the president's sister from hawaii. and of course, conrad, her husband. they're both educators. they're professioners. and she has two daughters. i'm looking for them, as well. as we take a break, i want to point out to everyone, we're missing barbara walters, who, with some explaining, was going to be here. she took a fall, as you may have heard. she is doing well. we expect to be hearing our reviews from her. >> we better check our e-mails right now. >> we should. we'll take a brief break. and just ahead, president obama's motorcade heading for the capitol. we'll have that for you. 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>> an injury accident with six cars involved in an overturn on the shoulder. that is the only good news, southbound 880, so take extra caution this morning. a stall in the san mateo bridge high ride a truck is blocking the right lane. traffic is getting busy in the westbound direction. to the south bay, we have a jackknifed big rig just now cleared. the app sh and you see the capitol right there, as our coverage of inauguration day 2013 continues. the president about to get in the motorcade in a few moments and head towards the capitol. as he's getting ready for that, let's go back out to the mall. bill weir is there. he was there four years ago. he's back there today, with a lot of people having fun. bill, are you there? >> sometimes, it's hard to hear in the middle of that. he can't hear us right now. again, you're looking, a bird's-eye view from the platform, as we watch them file in. bill, are you within hearing distance now? >> reporter: yeah. i'm sorry, diane. i was talking to my old friend, mabel, who we met four years ago. >> my goodness. >> talking to diane sawyer. >> hi, diane. i didn't know i was lost. >> we met mabel from south carolina, four years ago. and we were struck by what she brought inside her coat. these are your aunts? >> this is my great, great aunt. she's an ancestor. my uncle bill. that's me in 1955. >> these women, they were born right outside of slavery. sharecroppers. >> sharecroppers, right here. sharecropper. brought the marriage license. >> brought the family bible. and the marriage license of your grandparents, both sharecroppers. what would they make of a day like this? >> they wouldn't know what to say because there aren't any words. we never thought we would see this day. and to be part of history twice. >> what are your thoughts today, as compared to four years ago? the president, that was a very historic moment. then, comes politics. then, comes the reality of governing. then, comes a polarized country. a lot of people out there not big fans of this president and not sure what to expect in the next four years. what are your thoughts comparing the two inaugurations? >> i think the first inauguration, for us, for us, it was a learning process. this time, he's brought everyone together. all races, creed, colors. i think he's going to be a fantastic job. the leadership has changed a bit. and i think his focus has gotten larger. >> is there anything he did that disappointed you? >> not a thing. >> he could do no wrong for you? >> i voted for the man. i believe he stood for what we were wanting. and what this country needed. i did not vote because he was an african-american. i voted because i believed he was the best person for the job. i would have voted for a female. i would have voted for whomever to do the best job for this country, america. >> and what do you want to hear today? is there anything in particular he could say to those that maybe aren't as convinced as you? >> i want him, this time, with this speech, i want him to be sincere. we want him to be sincere. we want him to focus. keep your focus. don't lose your focus. we know this country has problems, has issues. but don't lose your focus. >> as we speak, the president has just made an appearance up there. good to see you, mabel. >> good to see you guys. >> we'll go back to diane and george now. >> and, mabel, for someone who didn't know she was live, that was great. we thank her. and there, we see the family emerge. the president, getting ready to head up to the capitol with congressional delegation. >> the joint congressional committee. every four years they gather. chuck schumer of new york. the president doesn't often have off the record social time with members of congress. but they're having coffee this morning, as they're preparing to come down to the capitol. you don't have that coffee between the outgoing president and the new one coming in. >> you do not. and senator mccain was there for the inauguration of the man who defeated him. john kerry was there for the inauguration of the man who defeated him. we know that the romneys will not be here today. as we watch, we're looking at the presidential car. and i've read they call it the beast because it is such a fortified machine, the president rides in. and here, he is ready to emerge for his second inauguration. >> and you talk about the day going so quickly again. talking to pierre thomas. this is a day of high anxiety for law enforcement officials. >> the trip to the capitol, many law enforcement officials call it the longest ride or so. we have law enforcement officials at command centers, are manning the surveillance cameras, talking to agents in the field. one source just told me, the only thing going on right now is a man in a tree at garfield circle. and they're trying to talk him down. he's trying to make some kind of political statement. >> that is wonderful to hear. and again, we're watching, we're looking straight through the foyer there, the marble foyer in the white house. and we can see straight through. i believe that's the blue room, george, looking right out on the majestic south lawn. >> that, of course, where the president was formally sworn in yesterday by chief justice john roberts. we saw chief justice john roberts with the oath in his hand. he was sworn in for the third time yesterday. he will be sworn in for a fourth time in about an hour. >> it's one of the human details. we'll see if he holds it again when he appears on the platform. it was about his prodigious memory four years ago. >> but the moments going in for the supreme court justices can be tough ones. it shows the division of government and the court having tremendous power in this system. and this president and this chief justice are not on the same page. we've seen that throughout our history, starting with thomas jefferson, who hated john marshall, his cousin. and we saw it again with abraham lincoln and roger tony. and you have that division of government and tension on this platform today. >> i think one of the things you note is the two marine guards, how much security has changed in the white house over the last few years. >> there's dr. joe biden, the vice president's wife, who we know, very active in helping the military families coming back. >> also an educator. vice president biden, sworn in yesterday, as well. 8:15 yesterday morning at the naval observatory. sworn in by supreme court justice sonia sotomayer. we go back to the capitol right now. guests continue to file into the steps. >> can we do a split screen? i'm going to ask our director if we can do that. i want to see the crowd four years ago, as the president looked out. and i want to see the crowd today and compare them. it looks as if it stretched the entire 2.2 miles. >> there's 2009. >> pretty big. >> it does look pretty packed. of course, it will be a smaller crowd than four years ago. that was a moment in history that cannot be replicated. the flag is waving on the mall, as president obama prepares to come down to the capitol. >> let's talk a little about the president's speech because we do know he has been working on it since december. as they emerge. the first lady. the president will be coming soon. he is ready, they say. he knew what he wanted to say. and he is ready. >> the president's speech will also be short. his white house staff says there will not be any all-nighters. he's ready. maybe a little tinkering in the final moments. the president does work on a yellow legal pad, putting his thoughts together. likely to be under 20 minutes long. as you said, four years ago, the president's first inaugural, 18 minutes. the signature phrase, let us put away childish things. >> and as we imagine this moment, when he heads towards the capitol, the last time he will be heading, with the entire eyes of the world on him for the inauguration. there's the vice president, with lamar alexander of tennessee. >> when looking through that door, we're looking through and seeing the jefferson memorial. and was talked a great deal about president lincoln. president jefferson, when you have the declaration of independence and many other achievements. he was also a slave-holding president. and i think it really is a moment of symbolism to have this president emerge, with that memorial behind him. it's also, you know, such a beautiful city. and that's one of the things that we see on this inauguration day. and looking at all of these wonderful monuments and seeing what a really glorious place this is. that people can still -- here is the president. >> with new york senator chuck schumer. again, very different affair from four years ago. >> get's go to mark now, historian, author of "second act." the conversation we were having with matthew dowd earlier. as the president prepares to give this speech and speak to the country and the world, he also has to be conscious of the fact that most second terms, in recent history, at least, have not gone all that well. >> that's right. many second terms are rife with scandal and adversity. nixon in watergate. you saw president clinton, with monica lewinsky. there's also times when you see opportunities to do something really big. you saw that with ronald reagan. ronald reagan did not meet with mikhail gorbachev until the first year in his second term in office. this is two years after calling the soviet union an evil empire. he struck up a famously productive relationship with mikhail gorbachev that led to a softening in relations between our countries, and the easing of tensions as the berlin wall fell. >> as we watch this procession, i want to see if reena ninan can hear us now. she is right there from the white house. >> hi, diane. good to see you guys. this is where the party is supposed to end, at lafayette park. the president taking off right now. i'm told the motorcade is moving slowly behind us. there are multiple parts of the motorcade, as you can imagine. the president, at one point, will be walking the streets, when he comes to make his way to this viewer station. wherever you are, you are probably at the best possible spot to watch it. to get to where we are, you can't just walk up. you have to have multiple passes here. stick around where you are. we are approved the scent of pepperoni pizza. we want to know what pizza place has hard passes to make it to where the president is right now. >> the president is heading to the capitol. he'll be there all day long. we're closer than ever to the two big moments of the day. the president will take the oath, from chief justice john roberts. and his inaugural address, and songs and swearing in of the vice president. much more of abc news' coverage of the presidential inauguration 2013, continues. at a dry cleaner, we replaced people with a machine. what? 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>> that's right, diane. the president making his way past as we speak. again, you can see this motorcade, traveling past. they have now -- the crowd's pushed against the rails. it is not unlike the finish to a horse race. the rail birds cheers him home. and president obama cannot help but perhaps feeling that way. the sun going behind the clouds. but there is no gloom, now, on the streets. you can see, as he passed us right here, the motorcade about 20 vehicles long, as he makes his way the last half-mile or so, down pennsylvania avenue, heading east, towards the capitol. you can see the finish in sight, diane. again, as the crowds have suddenly swelled here along the parade route. >> and all those american flags flanking pennsylvania avenue, as the president heads to the capitol. we'll take a quick break. the swearing in and the speeches coming up. 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elena kagan. see justice breyer, justice thomas. >> justice alito. >> and justice ruth bader ginsburg. and there's the basement of the capitol, right there. >> tell us about the basement of the capitol. >> there's the vice president coming. the crypt is the room under the rotunda. and it has the structure for the rotunda. it was originally designed as burial place for george washington. and underneath it, is the place where people lie in state in the rotunda, as recently happened to senator daniel inouye. it is kept down there. the congress and president adams wanted president washington to be buried there. martha washington did not. but she said she'd do it. but in the end, he was buried at mt. vernon. so, the crypt is just a crypt in name. there is no body. >> there's president obama, accompanied by the chair of the ceremony, chuck schumer of new york. eric cantor, and democratic leader, nancy pelosi. look at that big screen out on the mall. >> i believe we heard the president say, this is great. >> speaker john boehner, and harry reid, as well, accompanies the president. and then, we see eva longoria, one of the honorary co-chairs of the president's inaugural committee. host of the latino inaugural ball last night. 71% of latinos helped him win the election. >> and they were 10% of the vote. >> president clinton and the secretary of state. >> i believe she said, stand next to me, just in case. and we all know, she was recently hospitalized because of a concussion after a fall. >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand, as the color guard, represented by each of our armed forces, presents our national colors. >> lady rosalynn carter. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the 39th president of the united states, jimmy carter and mrs. rosalynn carter. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we are looking at the 88-year-old former american president. and, matt, a historian said he reinvented the postpresidency. however you felt about the conflicting times in his presidency, he reinvented the postpresidency. >> well, president carter, he left under a bad economy. he left under a country divided. when he left office, his approval rating was down. but he re-established himself in atlanta. and habitat of humanity. >> and he also forged the important coalition with president ford, the man he defeated. and the two of them became, not only very close friends, but they really did a lot of work together, for world peace and in this country. and it set an example for future presidents. president bush and former president clinton, working together on the haiti and other important -- katrina. >> william jefferson clinton and secretary of state hillary rodham clinton. >> it set the example to follow from there on out. >> and secretary clinton. and former president clinton, his global foundation, around the world. and expect that the secretary of state, when she leaves the office soon, will be right there, reinventing what she plans to do. >> and so many democrats waiting to find out what she does plan to do, not only immediately after she leaves the secretary's office. but perhaps in four years. you saw them hugging leon panetta. and also, jack ruby, the incoming treasure secretary. both parts of the administration. president obama facing a bit of a fight for his next secretary of defense, chuck hagel, on capitol hill. >> the president, with a big smile. same, big, gregarious charm on the platform. >> as you were talking about the clinton foundation, president carter's work, as well, president obama will have to start thinking what he will do in his postpresidency. matthew dowd, talk about president george w. bush. he also has set up a foundation in texas. >> one of the things that immediately happened afterwards, was the decision where the presidential library is. what initiative do you want to be in, postpresidency. and how do you want to conduct yourself in the aftermath of your presidency? and that's a huge part of what goes into the next four years. >> crowd gathering on the mall right there. >> again, we urge all of you to bring your families in to watch because an inauguration speech is not just another speech. i want to go to mark updegrove right now. as you watch, as a historian. mark? >> the inauguration speech is an opportunity to address the nation and to give your vision. not only to the nation, but to the world, about what you want to accomplish. it's and overture for your administration, diane. and i think that, most often, the most memorable speeches are made during times of great crisis. we have nothing to fear but fear itself, from franklin roosevelt about the great depression. the most famous speech from abraham lincoln. malice to none, reward to all. and there's promises that the president is extended. and they echo in history because the promises were fulfilled. >> and nicolle wallace? >> i think we were just talking about what presidents go on to do in their postpresidency. the foundation, and the blueprint, if you will, is laid in the second inaugural address. i reread george w. bush's second inaugural address last night, one that i worked on. and it was a speech about creating and enabling freedom around the world. what has he been able to create at smu? the center for freedom and democracy. you have to listen for a little of an echo for inaugural address for president obama. and you will hear what he envisions his work for the presidency. >> his theme is values of a changing world. >> the president's most memorable speeches of the first term. not necessarily the debt speeches. but the speeches that came after newtown, after tucson. >> those are heavy charged, emotional speeches. looking at the scene, it's so striking after seeing the "lincoln" movie. you realize there was no microphone, nobody after 50 yards could hear what he was saying. you're in a sea of mud in washington. and the only way people ever heard about those inaugural speeches in those days was through the newspaper. the first time that we had a microphone up there was in the '20s. and the first time it was broadcast on television, is harry truman. now, you're in high-definition television. and everybody is looking at the color of your tie and your children. and it's instantaneous and incredibly dramatic. but i think that what's wanted here, if i can say so, is this kind of schematic, emotional resonance. at the state of the union address, you have a laundry list of policies for the coming months. >> george will, what is the hallmark of a great inaugural speech. >> the most famous, the most successful one is the one that is carved in stone in the lincoln memorial. that's his second inaugural. many memorable phrases. with malice towards none, charity towards all. but perhaps the most forceful line in that forceful inaugural address is four words long. after giving a sort of theory of how the war came to by, one side said this, the other side said that, lincoln said, end the war game. no reaching for eloquence. no one could hear him say it. but there is one person, we're satisfied that we have a picture of the second inaugural. that john wilkes booth was nearby when he said that. >> that seems to be the lincoln bible coming in. we know it is housed in a water-proof, fire-proof environment. that's the biden bible. >> the biden family bible. being brought in by the attorney general of delaware. that's the next big event, coming up. the swearing in of the vice president. >> it had a celtic cross on the front of it. >> we can't help but remember the 70-year-old vice president's mother was there. that's the family bible. >> yes. >> dating back to the 19th century. >> the vice president had a bigger ceremony for his official swearing in yesterday, than president obama. about 120 people were there. we see more members of the senate delegation there. orrin hatch, dianne feinstein, senator thune of south carolina. >> donna brazile, last year, you were wearing your fleece. everyone looks a lot happier this year. >> it's a lot warmer this year. i thought of miss bing up there. i had a nice seat. yesterday, i was honored to be with the vice president and dr. jill biden, at the naval observatory. we had an incredible morning. sonia sotomayer, justice, gave the oath of office. and it was beautiful. my voice is rather hoarse because i have been out with friends and family. this has been a great weekend of celebration and service. >> there's justice sotomayer right there, as the first daughters walk into the capitol, with their grandmother. >> and we have to stop, again, and talk about their grandmother because she wasn't sure she wanted to be in the white house. but we know, she has been a center of stability for this family in these four years. >> she lives on the third floor. they all live on the second. she is a constant presence, as you say. has become something of a presence in washington, as well. developed a social life. often seen at the kennedy center. i guess she kind of liked, diane. >> yes, after living in the same house for 50 years, she decided the three months she gave it would be extended. she has not traveled before this. and she loved the travel. she loves meeting people. she does not like public events. >> look at that crowd gathering now. that's morgan freeman, i think. right there on the capitol steps. i'm sorry. thank you, david remnick. >> can we bring in david mueller because he's up on the platform. i want to see what we can see from his vantage point. >> i have to tell you, diane, everyone here on the west end of the capitol, on their feet. when they saw the motorcade go to the capitol, and they've had their eyes trained, not only on that doorway. you're going to hear the crowd erupting in cheers of seeing malia and sasha in that violet and purple coat, as they walk down the stairs. the crowd going wild for the children that we've watched grow up before our eyes. this has been a huge applause here for president clinton and secretary of state hillary clinton, when she emerged. >> as well. people on their feet. of course, now, they're waiting for the president and the first lady. the president, who was seen here on giant screens here, walking into the capitol building. now, they're waiting to see him in the flesh, as he walks out through that curtain, diane. >> we saw the girls four years ago, taking pictures. now, they're turning. we're about to hear the announcement. mrs. obama, and president obama. >> dr. jill biden. >> they've been married for more than 30 years. they have three children, five grandchildren. and they'll be there today. >> that bible we were showing you from the biden family, just a short while ago. vice president biden has used it every time he was sworn in as senator and vice president in 2009. used by his son, bo, we showed, when he was sworn in as attorney general. >> his son, beau, an iraq war veteran. the able since 1893. >> donna brazile, i want to go back to you. you see dr. jill biden. joe biden, not exactly a lame duck. he hasn't ruled out that he will run in four years. >> he had, in addition to members of cabinet and the governors, he had the president of the afl-cio and a number of other people. i guess 2016 is not so far away. but really, the focus yesterday, was on joe biden and his incredible career in politics. and all of the amazing things he's accomplished, in the united states senate, as well as the work he's done for this president, as well. >> looking, again. secretary of state. if joe biden would run, he would be the oldest at an inauguration. the average age is about 55. again, dr. jill biden. >> as dr. biden takes her seat, she said all of the cabinet is in attendance. except for the secretary delegated not to attend the ceremony today. >> we can tell you, by the way, we now know what the president said when he walked into the capitol. he said, i missed this place. it looks great. a quick word from jonathan karl, white house correspondent, as you look out from the platform. >> reporter: that line is a good one from the president. i missed this place. i think some of the people who are surrounding him here wish that he were up here a little bit more. this is a day for unity, diane. but he is surrounded by the people that he will soon be doing battle with. but what a moment. what an incredible moment. >> first lady, getting the walk down those capitol steps, as well. let's go to martha raddatz, who is also inside the capitol right now. what are you seeing, martha? >> it's mostly what we're hearing, george and diane. we can hear the roar of the crowd, even from here inside the rotunda. every time, especially, as mrs. obama came into the building. and a big roar from the crowd. but as you know what happens here a little later, after the swearing in, it's all about food. it's a very exclusive surf and turf. lobster, bison, about 3,000 calories a meal. >> whoa. >> yes. 15 chefs are working some place. >> it's only once every four years. that's okay. >> eric cantor has tweeted. thinking bipartisanship on this day. and he said this, is a great day for all americans to celebrate and to remember that the capitol belongs to all of us. >> ladies and gentlemen, the first lady of the united states, mrs. michelle obama. and with secretary nancy erickson. ♪ >> the vice president up next. followed by the democratic leader of the senate, harry reid and nancy pelosi, as well. you look out on the mall. it's really starting to fill up there. >> to give you a sense of what's ahead because we want to join in the ceremony with you. and we won't be talking a lot after the course of this. after senator schumer makes remarks, he'll be introducing myrlie evers-williams. she is the widow of. she will be giving the invocation. >> and you've written about the generation. >> the at last time this played out at the inauguration, is joseph lowery, martin king's, gave a benediction at the end. he recited from james weldon johnson, who used to be known as the negro national anthem in the old days. it was an incredibly resonant moment. and i think we're going to see the same thing here with the widow of medgar evers. in her own life, has done such amazing things with race, and children and the poor. amazing woman. >> waiting for the announcement of vice president biden. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states, joseph r. biden, accompanied by inaugural coordinator for the joint cessional committee, kelly fedo, sergeant at arms, martina brad ford, senate majority leader, harry reid, and house democratic leader, nancy pelosi. >> his opponent, the last campaign, congressman paul ryan. i congratulate president obama on his inauguration. and i join the country in this celebration. ♪ the president has the same look in his eye as he did four years ago. remember that moment as he looked out over the capitol, and he took it all in. about to be sworn in as the first african-american president of the united states. >> let's listen. i just want to let you know that the first lady has issued a tweet. here it is. honored and blessed to be joining so many of my fellow americans gathered to watch the inauguration. the president, walking towards the door where he looks out and sees the crowd waiting for a second time. >> has to be a little more relaxed the second time around. >> in their memoirs, the presidents have said so. a very small club, those re-elected. a smaller club, though, those re-elected with less than 50%. >> and the flags waving on the national mall, as we prepare for the introduction of the president of the united states. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack h. obama. senate sergeant at arms, paris w. denner. the house sergeant at arms, paul irving. senator charles schumer. senator lamar alexander. the speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner. senate majority leader, harry reid. and house majority leader, eric cantor. and house minority leader, nancy pelosi. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> justice sotomayer greeting everyone on the podium. there he is with chief justice roberts. and justice kennedy, as well. in a few minutes, we'll be hearing from the chairman of the inaugural committee, senator charles schumer of new york. he will introduced myrlies ev evers-williams. >> of course, he's 51 years old now. let's look at the big screen one more time. >> the honorable charles e. schumer. >> we will have that in a moment. the ceremony has begun. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, members of congress, all who are present, and to all who are watching, welcome to the capitol and to this celebration of our great democracy. now, this -- this is the 57th inauguration of an american president. and no matter how many times one witnesses this event, it's implicity, its innate majesty, and most of all, its meaning, that sacred and cautious trusting of power, from we, the people, to our chosen leader, never fails to make one's heart beat faster, as it will today with the inauguration of president barack h. obama. [ cheers and applause ] now, we know that we would not be here today were it not for those who stand guard around the world, to preserve our freedom. to those in our armed forces, we offer our infinite thanks, for your bravery, your honor, your sacrifice. this democracy of ours was forged by intellect and argument, by activism and blood. and above all, from john adams to elizabeth katie staten, to martin luther king, by a stubborn adherence to the notion that we are all created equal. and that we deserve nothing less than a great republic worthy of our consent. the theme of this year's inaugural is faith in america's future. the perfect embodiment of this unshakable confidence in the ongoing success of our collective journey is an event from our past. i speak of the improbable completion of the capitol dome. and capping it with the statue of freedom, which occurred 150 years ago, in 1863, when abraham lincoln took office two years earlier, the dome above us was a half-built eyesore. conventional wisdom was that it should be left unfinished until the war ended, given the travails and financial needs of the times. but to president lincoln, the half-finished dome symbolized the half-divided nation. lincoln said, "if people see the capitol going on, it's a sign we intend the union shall go on." and so, despite the conflict which engulfed the nation and surrounded the city, the dome continued to rise. on december 2nd, 1863, the statue of freedom, a woman, was placed atop the dome, where she still stands today. in a sublime irony, it was a former slave, now free american, phillip reid, who helped to cast the bronze statue. now, our present times are not as perilous or despairing as they were in 1863. but in 2013, far too many doubt the future of this great nation. and our ability to tackle our own era's half-finished dome. the times are complex. the differences in the country and the world so deep, we will never overcome them. when thoughts like these produce anxiety, fear, and even despair, we'd do well to remember that americans have always been and still are a practical, optimistic, problem-solving people. and that, as our history shows, no matter how steep the climb, how difficult the problems, how half-finished the task, america always rises to the occasion. america prevails. and america prospers. [ cheers and applause ] and those who bet against this country, have inevitably been on the wrong side of history. so, it is a good moment to gaze upward and behold the statue of freedom at the top of the capitol dome. it is a good moment to gain strength and courage, and humility from those who were determined to complete the half-finished dome. it is a good moment to rejoice today at this 57th presidential inaugural ceremony. and it is the perfect moment to renew our collective faith in the future of america. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. and god bless these united states. in that spirit of faith, i would now like to introduce civil rights leader myrlie evers, who has committed her life to extending our nation's founding principles to all americans. mrs. evers will lead us in the invocation. [ applause ] >> america, we are here. our nation's capitol, on this day, january 21st, 2013. the inauguration of our 45th president, barack obama. we come at this time to ask blessings upon our leaders. the president, vice president, members of congress, all elected and appointed officials, of the united states of america. we are here to ask blessings upon our armed forces. blessings upon all who contribute to the essence of the american spirit, the american dream. the opportunity to become whatever our mankind, womankind, allows us to be. this is the promise of america. as we sing the words of belief, this is my country, let us act upon the meaning that everyone is included. may they inherit dignity and inalienable rights of every man, woman, boy and girl be honored. may all your people, especially the least of these, flourish in our blessed nation. 150 years after the emancipation proclamation, and 50 years after the march on washington, we celebrate the spirit of our ancestors, which has allowed us to move from a nation of unborn hopes and a history of disenfranchise votes, to today's expression of a more perfect union. we ask, too, almighty, that where our path seemed mired by oppression, and riddled by pangs of despair, we asked for your guidance toward the light of deliverance. and that the vision of those who came before us and dreamed of this day, that we recognize that their visions still inspire us. they are a great cloud of witnesses, unseen by the naked eye. but all around us, thankful that their living was not in vain. for every mountain, you gave us the strength to climb, your grace is fleeted to continue that climb for america and for the world. we now stand beneath the shadow of the nation's capitol, whose golden dome reflects the beautiful of one nation with liberty and justice for all. approximately four miles from where we are assembled, the hallowed remains of men and women rest in arlington cemetery. they who believed, fought and died for this country. may their spirit infuse our being, to work together with the respect, enabling us to continue to build this nation. and in so doing, we send a message to the world that we are strong, fierce in our strength. and ever vigilant in our pursuit of freedom. we ask that you grant our president the will to act courageously, but cautiously, when confronted with danger. but to act prudently but deliberately, when challenged by adversity. please, best this effort. to lead by example, in consideration and favor of the diversity of our people. bless our families all across this nation. we thank you for this opportunity of prayer, to strengthen us, for the journey through the days that lie ahead. we invoke the prayers of our grandmothers, who taught us to pray. god, make me a blessing. let their spirit guide us, as we claim the spirit of old. there's something within me that holds the reins. there's something within me that banishes pain. there's something within me i cannot explain. all i know, america, there is something within. there is something within. in jesus' name, and the name of all who are holy and right, we pray. amen. [ applause ] >> myrlie evers-williams, widow of medgar evers. >> i am pleased to introduce the award-winning tabernacle choir, the brooklyn tabernacle choir, to sing "battle hymn of the republic." ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ mine eyes have seen the glory ♪ ♪ of the coming of the lord ♪ ♪ he is trampling out the vintage ♪ ♪ where the grapes of wrath are stored ♪ ♪ he hath loosed the fateful lightning ♪ ♪ of his terrible swift sword ♪ ♪ his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ in the beauty of the lilies ♪ ♪ christ was born across the sea ♪ ♪ with the glory in his bosom ♪ ♪ that transfigured you and me ♪ ♪ as he died to make men whole ♪ ♪ let us live to make men free ♪ ♪ our god is marching on ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ marching on glory, glory hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory hallelujah glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ marching on his truth is marching on ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> sometimes, you just say wow. a powerful and stirring version of "the battle hymn of the republic," from the largest church in downtown brooklyn. 280-voice choir. nondenominational, by the way. >> the president wiping away a tear halfway through. and we can say the national mall is completely filled. it has been closed. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, ladies and gentlemen. the late alex haily, the author of "roots," lived his life by these six words. find the good and praise it. today, we pray the american tradition of transferring or reaffirming immense power in the inauguration of the president of the united states. we do this in a peaceful, orderly way. there is no mob, no coup, no insurrection. a moment that all of us will remember. it is a moment of the enduring symbol of american democracy. how remarkable this has survived for so long, in such a complex country, when so much power is at stake. this freedom to vote for our leaders and the restraint to respect the results. last year, at mt. vernon, a tour guide told me that our first president, george washington, once posed this question -- what is most important, washington asked, of this grand experiment, the united states? and then, washington answered his own question in this way -- not the election of the first president, but the election of its second president. the peaceful transfer of power is what will separate our country from every other country in the world. today, we celebrate, the 57th inauguration of the american president. find the good and praise him. now, it is my honor -- it is my honor to introduce the associate justice of the supreme court, sonia sotomayer, for the purpose of administering the oath of office to the vice president. will everyone please stand? >> thank you. mr. vice president, please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, joseph r. biden jr., do solemnly swear. >> i, joseph r. biden jr., do solemnly swear. >> that i will support and defend the constitution of the united 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 and allegiance to the same. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. >> without any mental reservation 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 of which i am about to enter. >> the duties of the office of which i am about to enter. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> it is my pleasure to introduce renowned musical artist, james taylor. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ oh beautiful for spacious skies ♪ ♪ for amber waves of grain ♪ ♪ for purple mountains' majesty above the fruited plain ♪ ♪ america america ♪ ♪ god shed his grace on thee ♪ ♪ and crown thy good with brotherhood ♪ ♪ from sea to shining sea ♪ ♪ from sea to shining sea ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> it is my honor to present the chief justice of the united states, john g. roberts jr., who will administer the presidential oath of office. everyone, please rise. [ cheers and applause ] >> please raise your right hand and repeat of me. i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> i, barack hussein obama, 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 you god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> the 21-gun salute for the president, as he finishes the oath for the fourth time. the president of the united states, he will be saying to himself over and over. something about these two guys, they're just star-crossed. >> we return to the ceremony. >> ladies and gentlemen, it is my great privilege and distinct honor to introduce the 44th president of the united states of america, barack h. obama. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. [ cheers ] >> thank you. thank you so much. vice president biden, mr. chief justice, members of the united states congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens, each time we gather to inaugurate a president, bear witness to the enduring strength of our constitution. we affirm our promise to democracy. we learn that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin, or the tenets of our faith, or the origins of our names. what makes us exceptional, what makes us american, is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. that they are endowd by their creator, with certain enailible rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. today, we continue a never-ending journey, to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time. for history tells us, that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. while freedom is a gift from god, it must be secured by his people here on earth. the patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. they gave to us a republic, a government of and by and for the people. and trusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed. in 4 more than 200 years, we have. blood drawn by flash and by sword, we know no union on principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free. we made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward together. together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways, schools, economists to train our workers. together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there's rules to ensure fair competition and fair play. together, we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune. through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumb to the fiction that all society's ills can be cured through government alone. our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility. these are constant in our character. we have always understood that when times change, so must we. that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. the american people can no more meet the demands of today's world acting alone, as soldiers could have met commonism or fascism, with muskets or militias. no single science teacher can teach all of the math or science our children need for the future. or build the roads and network and research labs that will bring the jobs and businesses to our shores. now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation and one people. [ applause ] this generation of americans has been tested by crises that steel our resolve and proved our resilience. a decade of war is now ending. [ cheers and applause ] an economic recovery has begun. america's possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands. youth and drive, diversity and openness. an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. my fellow americans, we are made for this moment. and we will see that so long as we seize it together. [ applause ] for we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. we believe that america's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. we know that america thrives whenev every person can pride i their work. when wages of an honest labor can leverage families from the brink of hardship. we're true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else because she is an american, she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of god, but also in our own. [ cheers and applause ] we understand that our programs are inadequate for the needs of our time, so we must harness new ideas and technology to remake our government, revamp our tax code, reform our schools and empower our citizens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, reach higher. but while the means will change, our purpose endures. a nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single american. that is what this moment requires. that is what will give real meaning to our creed. we, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. we must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. but we reject the belief that america must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future. [ cheers ] for we remember the lessons of our past when twilight years were spent in poverty and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn. we do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky or happiness for the few. we rec noise that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us at any time may face a job loss or a sudden illness or a home swept away in a terrible storm. the commitments we make to each other through medicare and medicaid and social security, these do not staff our initiative, they strengthen us. they do not make us a nation of takers. they free us to take the risks that make this country great. [ cheers and applause ] we, the people, still believe that our obligations as americans are not just to ourselves but to all posterity. we will respond to the threat of climate change knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. [ cheers and applause ] some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impacts of raging fires and crippling droughts and more powerful storms. the path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult, but america cannot resist this transition. we must lead it. we cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industry. we must claim its promise. that's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure. our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snowcapped peaks, that is how we will preserve our planet, command it to our care by god. that's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared. we, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war. our brave men and women in uniform tempered by the flames of battle are unmatched in skill and courage. our citizens feared by the memory of those we have lost know too well the price that is paid for liberty. the knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant against those who would do us harm. but we are also heirs to those would won the peace and not just the war, who turn sworn enemies into the surest of friends, and we must carry those lessons into this time, as well. we will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of arms and the rule of law. we will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully, not because we are naive about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift suspicion and fear. america will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of the globe, and we will renew those institutions that extend our capacity to manage crisis fraud for no one has a greater take in a peaceful world than its most powerful notion and support democracy from asia to africa to the middle east because our interest and conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom and must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice, not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes, tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice. we, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths, that all of us are created equal is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our forbearers through seneca falls and stonewall and salem, all those women sung and unsung who left footprints along this great mall to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone to hear a king pro-climb that our freedom is bound to every soul honored. [ cheers and applause ] it is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers beg began, for our journey is not complete until our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. [ cheers and applause ] our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. [ cheers and applause ] for if we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal, as well. [ cheers and applause ] our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. [ cheers and applause ] our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see america as a land of opportunity. until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. [ cheers and applause ] our journey is not complete until all our children on the trees of detroit to the hills of apartment lay cha to the lanes of newtone know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm. that is our generation's task, to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every americ american. being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life. it does not mean we define liberty in exactly the same way or follow the same precise path to happiness. progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time. [ cheers and applause ] for now decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. we cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. we must act. we must act knowing that our work will be imperfect. we must act knowing that today's victories will be only partial and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years and 40 years and 400 years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare philadelphia hall. my fellow americans, the oath i have sworn before you today like the one recited by others who serve in this capitol was an oath to god and country, not party or faction, and we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration of our service. but the words i spoke today are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty or an immigrant realizes her dream, my oath is not so different from the pledge we all make to the flag that waves above and that fills our hearts with pride. they are the words of citizens, and they represent our greatest hope you and i as citizens have the power to set this country's course. you and i as citizens have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast but with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideals. let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what is our lasting birthrig right with common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom. thank you. god bless you and may he forever bless these united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] >> in 19 minutes the president talking of an energetic care about possibilities being limitless now for the united states of america saying we have a gift for reinvention, but we must do it together, george, counted seven times he said "together," "together," "together." >> the president doing a meditation on the declaration of independence saying that the self-evidents truths declared are not self-executing. it is our task in these times to make the ideals of freedom and equality true for every american. >> at this time, please join me in welcoming award-winning artist kelly clarkson, accompanied by the united states marine band. ♪ ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ let music celebrate and ring from all the trees these freedoms song ♪ ♪ land that comes awake ♪ let silence break ♪ the sound prolong ♪ our fathers guide to fhee ♪ of liberty to thee we sing ♪ long may our land be bright with freedom's holy light ♪ ♪ protect us by thy might great god, our king ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> another wow moment there, diane, kelly clarkson. >> our next distinguished guest is the poet, richard blanco, who will share with us words he has composed for this occasion. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, america, one today, one sun rose on us today, kindles over our shores, peeking over the smoky, greeting the faces of the great lakes, spreading a simple truth across the great plains and charging across the rockies. one light waking up rooftops, under each one a story told by our silent gestures moving across windows, my faith, your face, millions of faces in morning's mirrors, each one yawning to life crescendoing into our day, the pencilled yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights, fruit stand, apples, limes and oranges arranged like rainbows begging our praise, silver trucks heavy with oil or paper, bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us in our way to clean tables, read ledgers or save lives, to teach geometry or ring up groceries as my mother did for 20 years so i could write this poem for all of us today. all of us, as vital as the one light we move through, the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day, equations to solve, history to question or atoms imagined the "i have a dream" we all keep dreaming or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain the empty desks of 20 children marked absent today and forever. many prayers but one light breathing color into stained glass windows, life into the faces of bronze statues, warmth onto the steps of our museums and park benches as mothers watch children glide into the day, one ground, our ground rooting us to every stock of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands, hands gleaming cold or planting windmills in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands as worn as my father's cutting sugar cane so my brother and i could have books and shoes. the dust of farms and deserts, cities and plains mingled by one wind, our breath. breathe. hear it through the day's gorgeous din of honking cab, buses launching down avenues, the symphony of footsteps, guitars and screeching subways, the unexpected song bird on your clothesline. hear squeaky playground swings, trains whistling or whispers across cafe tables. hear the doors we open each day for each other saying, hello, shalom, bon giorno, howdy, namiste or buenos di yost in the language my mother taught me in every language spoken into one wind carrying our lives without prejudice as these words break from my lips. one sky since the appalachians claimed their imaginety and the mississippi and colorado worked their way to the sea, thank the work of our hand, weaving steel and bridges, finishing one more report for the boss on time, stitching another wound or uniform, the first brush stroke on a portrait or the last floor on the freedom tower jutting into the sky that yields to our resilience. one sky toward which we sometimes lift our eyes tired from work, some days guessing at the weather of our lives, some days giving thanks for a love that loves you back. sometimes praising a mother who knew how to give or forgiving a father who couldn't give what you wanted. we head home through the gloss of rain or weight of snow or the plum blush of dusk but always, always home, always under one sky, our sky and always one moon like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop and every window of one country, all of us facing the stars, hope, a new constellation waiting for us to map it, waiting for us to name it together. [ cheers and applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, it is now my privilege to introduce reverend doctor luis leon to deliver the benediction. >> let us pray. gracious and eternal god, as we conclude the second inauguration of president obama, we ask for your blessings as we seek to become in the words of martin luther king, citizens of a beloved community loving you and our neighbors as ourselves. we pray that you will bless us with your continued presence because without it, hatred and arrogance will infect our hearts, but with your blessing, we know that we can break down the walls that separate us. we pray for your blessing today because without it, mistrust, prejudice and rancor will rule our hearts, but with the blessing of your presence, we know that we can renew the ties of mutual regard which can best form our civic life. we pray for your blessing because without it suspicion, despair and fear of those different from us will be our rule of life, but with your blessing, we can see each other created in your image, a unit of god's grace unprecedented, irrepeatable and irreplaceable. we pray for your blessing because without it, we will see only what the eye can see, but with the blessing of your blessing, we will see that we are created in your image, whether brown, black or white, male or female, first generation immigrant american or daughter of the american revolution, gay or straight, rich or poor. we pray for your blessing because without it we will only see scarcity in the midst of abundance, but with your blessing, we will recognize the abundance of the gifts of this good land with which you have endowed this nation. we pray for your blessing, bless all of us. privileged to be citizens and residents of this nation with a spirit of gratitude and humility that we may become a blessing among the nations of this world. we pray that you will shower with your life-giving spirit the elected leaders of this land especially barack, our president and joe, our vice president. fill them with the love of truth and righteousness that they will serve the nation ably and be able to do your will and vow their souls with forbearance so peace may previal with write courthouseness and so that men and women throughout the nation can find with one another the fulfillment of our humanity, we pray that the president, vice president and all in political authority will remember the words of the prophet micah, what does the lord rerequire of you but to do justice, to love kindness and always walk humbly with god. [ speaking spanish ] mr. president, mr. vice president, may god bless you all your days. all this we pray in your most holy name, amen. [ cheers and applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the singing of our national anthem by award-winning artist, beyonce accompanied by the u.s. marine band. following the national anthem, please remain at your place while the presidential party exits the platform. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ 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 rockets' 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? ♪ ♪ the brave [ cheers and applause ] >> we are all astounded by the quality of the music at this inaugural but this inauguration, the second of this president of the united states, 44th president is now officially over. the president will be making his way back into the capitol. >> i think you're right, the music of the morning so far, the president also giving a very different speech from four years ago. four years ago he had a stern, somewhat dark speech for a dark time. this morning, much more optimistic, much more hopeful as i said earlier, a meditation on the declaration of independence and you could feel the president almost letting loose in his speech. the first explicit mention ever, i believe, in an inaugural of gay americans. >> talking about a modern american family saying gay and straight, rich and poor, everyone together encapsulated in a way in the poet, the cuban immigrant poet who talked about the mother who rang up the cash register, the father who actually harvested sugar cane. hispanic, black, white, and he said, over and over again, our time, our time. >> the president perhaps making -- he said americans are made for this moment and we will seize it. you could almost hear him talking to himself in that moment. let me bring in matthew dowd, as well. you also heard again and again from the president the word "together." >> yeah, we heard "we." we heard "our." we heard "shared values" and tried to capture the unity of this. i think it was a great speech for today. i don't think this is a speech that's going to last the ages and if there's ever an obama memorial, but how much he leaned into things, didn't say gay marriage but leaned into it, didn't say immigration reform but leaned into it and didn't say equal pay for women but certainly leaned way into it and i think he's prepared himself with this speech to say, listen, we're all a country, in this together but we'll have fights among some important things. >> yes, the "national journal" tweeted gop, game on, our friends there. what do we think about that, george will. >> well, he did lay down a few markers particularly with immigration, but that may be the one place where the gop is ready to actually play ball with him. i agree it was quite striking the reference to stonewall as one of the stations of the cross where the american liberation movements represented a new advance in the presidential and national endorsement, i guess, of gay rights. there was a reprise i could have done without some of the campaign rhetoric about the rich and few and a nation of takers but beyond that it seems to me he was consciously echoing some of the great rhetoric of american history with his reference to blood drawn by the lash and blood drawn by the sword and clearly a reference to lincoln's second inaugural and the use of the word "tempered" was interesting. it came from jack kennedy's 1961 address when he talked about a nation tempered by a hard and bitter peace and perhaps most striking thing about this is the comparison with the speech jack kennedy gave 52 years ago. in that it was almost entirely about foreign policy. we would go anywhere, bear any price, pay any price, bear any burden to ensure the survival of liberty. this time, the president's foreign policy really was disspilled into seven words, a decade of war is now ending, the contrast of the last half century is striking. >> and jonathan karl who covers the white house for us, jon, i know you're in the capitol steps, the president saying we can't succumb to the fiction that all society's ills can be cured through government alone yet the bulk of the speech really praised and support and encouragement for all the things we do together through our government. >> george, i felt during much of that speech like i was listening to a democratic ronald reagan where reagan was unapologetically conservative. this was unapologetically progressive saying we must act collectively. and this was also bound with optimism saying america's possibilities are limitless. this was an effort, i believe, at that kind of optimistic progressivism whereas a reagan was your optimistic conservatism. also, i was very struck by one line in particular in this speech when he said, we must act knowing that today's victories will only be partial. and that was the message to those liberals who have been disappointed in president obama who thought he has been too quick to compromise knowing that he is going forward now in a time when there's going to be extremely difficult to get anything through a republican house of representatives facing an opposition like that, his victories are almost certain to be partial victories and one other thing, george, was the message of climate change. i was struck by that. it it wasn't much of anything specific in the speech. it was soaring rhetoric like you expect at an inaugural and went into some detail on climate change which i think was clearly signaling that will be atop his agenda for a second term. >> democratic strategist, i kept seeing the president's face, something different. can you name it? >> well, i think it's joy. i think the president understood on this day when we remember dr. king, his dream and vision, that the day he echoed some of the same values of freedom and justice. he set our journey is not complete. the question is, will he help to lead the next stage of this journey? he also called upon us to answer the call of history together again that word together. i thought it was a very powerful speech. there was so many references to the journey that we've been through, but also i guess the road ahead and so in many ways i thought it was a better speech than he gave four years ago. it was clearly in my judgment more passionate than the speech he gave four years ago. >> no question about that, donna brazile and you worked for george w. bush, the president used the word "together" as i said but as you go through the speech, what did he give republicans that they can grab on to in the speech? >> well, listen, i didn't see the joy that done p donna talked about but the fire. this is a president fired up and that happens after re-election, you feel that you have a mandate that you've not just been chosen over your competitor but there's a mandate for your ideal. i heard a full-throated defense of his brand of liberalism. i heard a lengthy defense of entitlement perhaps as they are. i heard him really i think laying out what his battle lines will be with republicans in terms of defending entitlement programs in terms of climate change as jon karl described and i think that republicans will be well served to try to match this president in their fire and their enthusiasm and their full-throated defense of their different philosophical posts on those issues. >> let's take a moment and go outside to the people that only see him as distant but came anyway to be there. bill weir, if you can hear me now, tell me what was going on around you during the speech. >> it was really interesting, diane. i talked to a few volunteers who actually expressed disappointment that they had shut the mall prematurely. it was markedly different in terms of the density of the crowd. much more space, a lot of open space. park services estimating between 500,000 and 800,000 compared to 1.8 million a year ago, so this was a smaller more intimate and subdued reaction, i have to say, you know, but four years ago i still remember the moment when george w. bush left in a helicopter to the cheers of all the democrats here or there, and just the seismic history they had witnessed to see the first african-american president. a lot of people say this is a re-election of an african-american president is equally historic, but a rather subdued reaction, at least here on the mall. >> that is interesting. martha raddatz, the president just walked by he's in the capitol. >> he certainly did. vice president biden and president obama just walked through here. the president is going to sign a proclamation about hope and resolve. that's what he signs, he also signs his nomination for new cabinet positions, you know, george, i actually thought there was a bit of sternness in president obama's speech. he talked about coming together, but he was very forceful. it wasn't a plea to come together, it seemed like a demand to come together. so i did, indeed, think there was some sternness mixed with all that optimism. >> and cokie roberts, the president coming up to this inaugural address today has been something of a confrontational mode since the election. >> and much more willing to say i'm going to do it my way than he was before the election and we certainly did see when he talked about the few doing well and the am not and all that. that's just an echo of the whole campaign speeches and but i do think as donna said, that there was a sense of optimism here that we have not seen from this president, that he has been much more serious and often too pessimistic i think and his speech talking about what we as citizens can do. that whole calling the citizenry into action at the end there, you know, that we can lift and defend our most ancient values & during ideals as citizens and i think it is a call to action that we have not heard from him as an american people. he's now in the president's room, a room set aside for the president when they constructed this part of the capitol. he's going to sign those nominations we've heard about, john brennan to be director of the cia, hagel to be secretary of defense, jack lew to be secretary of the treasury. >> senator hagel and vice president biden all served with the president. he knows all of them well. senator hagel in for the toughest fight in the senate. the president sounded by the joint inaugural committee there. >> there we go. and i'm setting a few nominations up which i know will be dealt with with grace. >> ah. >> it's still there. >> yes. >> of course, he's probably referring to senator hagel, his nomination right there. >> yi, the wish of triumph over possible reality here. i want to go to david in a minute. stand by, david. >> secretary of state and mr. john brennan of virginia. there you go. >> so thank you very much, everybody. i look forward to it. [ applause ] >> so, david, you've written so much about the personal private barack obama. what did you see during that speech? >> barack obama unleashed. barack obama, these two inaugural addresses to me they reflect roosevelt in '33 coming in dark time, perilous times and in '37 roosevelt gives basically a blueprint for the liberal states as george said earlier before, this approvingly may mean more approvingly but this is the most blatantly clearly liberal inaugural address and the clearest terms possible since then. where nothing exceeds it and when you have a situation where if you judge by length of paragraph, the biggest paragraph in the speech has to do with climate change. something that he would not really touch in a serious way in the first term and the second term is clearly going to be a priority so very, very difficult complex issues and problems and can't be solved by one nation. but to see this in an inaugural address has to give real hope to environmentalists enmany others all over the globe. >> david, let me press that. i agree. i was surprised by the length of time he spent on it, by the forcefulness of the words and wonder how you match that up with what can be achieved in the next four years. >> a real difficulty. obviously you can't solve all environmental problems by one nation, even one so powerful as the united states or great a polluter as the united states. international treaties have done very, very little so far and we've seen that nations that are in different stages of development are not eager at all to join in this effort in any way. nevertheless, george, as you know, as somebody who's involved in speeches, people go over and over and over these just one mention of something, a sentence is an event to have a long paragraph on climate change or to mention something like stonewall in the same breath as selma are things that speech writers and policymakers and the president himself has gone over thoroughly and consciously. >> i think the president clearly looking to history, looking at how people will look back at the speech in 50 years and saying perhaps he will lead if he can't get legislation, lead rhetorically. >> i absolutely agree and the president knows he's not the leader of a movement. he's a politician, he's a president, but nevertheless, he seems much more intent now on using his bully pulpit than maybe ever before. >> as we know he's marshaling the forces that went and campaigned for him and went door to door for him to make sure he has some muscle behind these issues and the gridlock of washington. to david muir still up on the platform. >> the faces in the crowd actually struck me when you talk about the address of the president just gave, he really appealing to the broad coalition, so many talked about it after the campaign that he actually was able to turn out his base in ways that many were not expecting and you've all mentioned that he talked about mothers and daughters earning equal pay though didn't go that far in the language he used and about gays and straights, about immigrants in this country, why don't we include them in our workforce instead of sending them away from the country and have to tell you the faces in the crowd listening intently to that speech and a couple of observations i made here just how varied this crowd was. when justice sotomayor was called upon, the crowd went wild and cheered for a supreme court justice approaching the podium. i looked beside and general colin powell after speaking with you stood right next to me listening with everyone down on the ground. jesse tyler ferguson of "modern family" on abc told me this is the first inauguration he attended and we often talk in the newsroom about how "modern family" even though a television show seems to be a reflection of the country, a more celebrated fabric of the american family and when you look out into this crowd, you see people of all walks of faith, you see white, black, gay, straight. you see a lot of the groups that president obama addressed and a lot of the people that he was able to reach in that campaign, obviously they are the ones who turned 0 out to listen to this inaugural address, but make no mistake he was appealing to those people who handed him this second term, diane. >> no question about. to mark, presidential historian focused on second terms of presidents and wonder if you can put this in the context of others in recent history. perhaps overstating it but makes me think of the mirror image of president bush's second inaugural spreading freedom and democracy abroad. president obama talking about how guarantee those rights at home. >> i think, george, presidents are measured by how they deal with the adversity of their time and you mentioned earlier that barack obama's first speech was a little darker because our times were a little darker there. we faced the potential of an economic freefall. now the big challenge that barack obama faces is unifying the country, bringing it together. he mentioned the word "together" seven times during the course of the speech. it was really all about unity. and bringing us together as a nation in a time where we are truly divided. how can you get congress to engage when compromise has become a dirty word on capitol hill? those are the challenges that barack obama faces, just as you mentioned george bush faced deep challenges internationally in his second term in office. >> but, mark, i was struck, he also said we made ourselves anew when he was talking about infrastructure, schools, free market, competition. he really, if it's not morning in america, it's a different kind of morning in america. >> it's a different time, indeed. and i think that he has a limited period of time, diane, to expend political capital in order to bring us into a new era. one of the things that lyndon johnson said famously is that when a president is elected, he's for six months he's a giraffe and thereafter a worm, so his great challenge is going to be how he figures out how to make the most of this time as a giraffe. >> let's go back outside to so sole ya vega. >> i'm here. hey, good afternoon. we made our way over from the pentagon where we were at the staging area and came over on a bus full of teenager matching band from tennessee. they were really excited and we walked our way through the mall here and made our way close to the capitol. you can see a lot of the crowd is dissipating. a lot are headed over to that paid we'll see later this afternoon. we heard all of our friends, david muir and bill weir talking about the excitement and the level of excitement you can feel just walking through this crowd. it's so palpable. one woman i just met while making my way over stopped me in my tracks during the invocation, she literally had tears streaming down her face and i said why are you so emotional? she said my grandfather could not vote. she says my family was beaten, we were slaves. we were literally slaves. she said today i feel free. i said, is it any different this time around from four years ago? she said it's even tweeter today because we have victory twice, so, yes, this is a crowd of believers and, yes, this is a crowd of the president's supporters but george and diane, the excitement and hope and pride that was expressed here four years ago is back out here again today and equal in some cases if not more. >> on that point let's go to deborah roberts at freedom plaza. ch what's happening there. >> we're half a mile from the capitol steps, so people here are a little removed from everything happening. huge loud speakers playing music you can probably hear but no less captivated by the speeches and songs. we met one family from new york and new jersey. i asked if they were maybe a little disappointed it wasn't as exciting as the last time around. they cut me off and said no way. this is our first inauguration. this is thrilling to us. so here even though they had no big jumbotrons, they couldn't see what was happening but they listened intently during myrlie evers' prayer and erupted into cheers during beyonce's national anthem and a lot of excite as they line the parade route waiting for the parade that will begin in a couple of hours. everybody thrilled in spite of they're cold and wearing hand warmers to stay warm but a lot of excitement out here even this far away from the capitol. >> love hearing that excitement, deborah roberts. we'll take a quick breakment more of your voice, what are you expecting from president obama in his second term? we'll have that and the first lady and the president will walk right through in the capitol, the parade all the way to the white house as inauguration day continues. 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[ laughter ] let me just focus on ronald reagan as i was quite fond was inordinately fond of a statement by thomas payne we have the power to begin the world over and the least conservative sentiment anyone ever uttered but reagan was very fond of it and along comes the 44th president who says, our future is limitless. anyone who has been paying attention to american politics for the last two years knows it's all about grinding and inexorable imposing limits we're up against, promises we made we can't keep, taxes that are insufficient for our appetites, et cetera. limit, limit, limit. now i guess the job of president is to ignore this but they ignore at their peril because when jack kennedy said we will go anywhere, bear any price, bear any burden, et cetera, et cetera, we wound up in vietnam. it was a kind of incontinent optimism but is dangerous. >> the king of the cautionary tale, george will. let's go to martha raddatz who is inside the capitol and she's with then secretary leon panetta. >> thanks, diane. i am with secretary panetta and i know, of course, you were keeping tabs on the terrible situation in algeria and the hostage crisis there, which is clearly over now. but i was struck in the speech by president obama saying lasting peace does not require perpetual war. right at the same time we've got u.s. planes leading in mali to help french troops, what do you think it means what he said and what do you see in the next four years? >> i think it means, you know, we've been through ten years of war and it doesn't mean there respect any threats in the world, but i think it does mean that we're going to have to work with other countries to develop the kind of alliances and partnerships that bring other countries into this challenge of how we preserve peace. can't just be the united states. >> so exactly what's going on in mali now is the model for the future. >> exactly right. our willingness and ability to help other countries like france be able to go after aqim. >> al qaeda and i imagine in the future too we'll see more drone strikes because you have troops coming in afghanistan. how do you see using drones in the future? >> i believe that you've got to use what operational skills we have to go after those that would attack our country. i think that's a reality and have done that in pakistan and yemen and elsewhere and i think the reality is it's going to be a continuing tool of national defense in the future. >> do you think chuck hagel is going to get confirmed? >> i think so without question. >> probably a rough time on the hill, however. >> you know, feels -- these guys will throw some tough questions at him but he's been here, knows the senate, and i'm confident he'll get through. >> you've been in government most of your life, it seems, and this is it. you go back to monterey to the walnut farm. must be somewhat emotional for you. >> it is. it is an emotional experience, i have my youngest son with me to be able to enjoy this and it's a thrill every time you go through this, but, you know, i'm proud of having been a public servant for most of my life and i hope that other young people who watch this event will commit themselves to public service because that's what our democracy needs. >> thank you very much for joining us. enjoy that 3,000-calorie meal but be careful with it. >> thanks very much. >> diane? >> thank you, martha. good to see secretary panetta. as you said he spent a lifetime his entire adult life in public service. to lonnie bunch. your thoughts on the speech. >> well, i think what was so amazing was first of all it was warmer than four years ago so happy about that but what was interesting is watching the crowd respond. there was a real sense of let me believe once again in the possibility of america. it wasn't downplaying the challenges, the evils, the dangers, but as i watch peoplerespond, they really kept nodding to say, i want to believe that it is possible, that we can be the place we think we want to be and i think what struck me was how often it was so strong when the president sort of married today and tomorrow with yesterday. and i found people as i talked to them as i was walking back talking about, well, the declaration of independence still has meaning for us and the president really made this notion of we, the people, and people came away saying we have to find a way to be one. now, there are a lot of challenges but in some ways what i thought the speech did was prepare the public for the next four years. >> and, you know, lonnie, i know one of those standing next to martin luther king on that platform 50 years ago said to the president, sent him a message and at some point save yourself. this one is for you, martin, and know after the lunch he's about to begin he will stop by there for a private moment. >> i think we're awfully lucky to have a president who recognizes the sustenance that comes from reaching back into our history. >> i want to let you know because we have microphones that pick up ultra high frequency comments by the president and this one is very moving. we are told that as president obama was leaving the platform after the speech he stopped, he turned around and said "i want to look out one more time because i'll never see this again." ♪ >> another over his shoulder as he looked out one more time. boy, that was beautiful. chris cuomo, i know you've been out across the country speaking to people of what they expected to hear, what they wanted to hear from this president. >> it wound up being good timing. the president was very emphatic of the use of "we" and idea of citizenry, not just speaking with their votes but by raising their voices. at the same time we were combing the country asking people to get involved and going and finding them to see what they expect from the president to make this term a success. on the major issues of immigration, the economy, guns which was very big partisan issue for us so we've gone and collected and if you like we can start with one of the first offerings but that's what we've been doing trying to get the best sense of the great divide. it's always different to figure out if this is a moment or if can be momentum. so much good feeling at occasions like this but no question that the president was right to hit on the note of the frustration of the collective. people do believe it's become too much. it is a flash point for them and you will hear it in their stances on these issues so we began with one that is supposed to be a big deal for compromise, immigration. here is what regular people had to say about what they expect from the president, what they want to see for this term to be a success on immigration. >> i want to tell the president about immigration that the borders of mexico should be open, quite frankly, the people from mexico are doing jobs that the americans just won't do. >> i want to stop illegal immigrants from coming into our country. set up controls where we have control over who can come in. >> we need to protect our borders and then we also need to allow those individuals who properly register to become u.s. citizens the swiftest route to that. >> i want to tell president obama to regulate a better guest worker program to allow people into the united states. >> i want to tell the president that americans need jobs. >> i want to tell the president that immigrants respect just a demographic, they're people too. >> now, this is setting up to be a very difficult issue for compromise because this is what we saw with thousands of responses from around the country, latino people who responded said essentially we put you in office. we are now expecting you to deliver for us, which comes across as somewhat of a more sympathetic posture but 75% of all responses, george and diane, were negative on immigration, limiting it. >> the vice president of the united states, joseph r. biden jr. and dr. biden accompanied by lamar alexander and mrs. alexander. [ applause ] ♪ >> the vice president, maybe we should tell you this is the traditional luncheon. it is held with members of congress and as martha has said it's somewhat sumptuous affair this year. 200 guests. ♪ >> four years ago some drama in this lunch. senator ted kennedy and robert byrd had to be taken away, illness. >> another kennedy, seizures after his chemotherapy for the brain tumor. >> still waiting for the vice president. he should be coming any second. family members coming in. >> why am i betting he's out in the hall talking? >> maybe cutting another deal. of course, he was called in by the president to negotiate with senator mitch mcconnell over that fiscal deal that was reached on new year's day. he's become the president's chief liaison to the senate where he used to serve. >> cokie, where are we? >> we are in the statuary hall which was the old house of representatives room through the 19th century and considered the most beautiful room in the country, although the acoustics are so odd that people could overhear the conversations of their enemies. ♪ >> every state is allowed to send two statues to the capitol of their prominent citizens and there are -- you're seeing the overflow. senator orrin hatch walking through the rotunda which has the enormous paintings of our history, the one you see over there with the woman in the white dress is the baptism of pocahontas who took the baptismal name rebecca and that, of course, is a moment in our history that allowed the english to stay in jamestown, so this -- this room through the early part of the 19th century is where many inaugurations were held, so it is appropriate for this to be the place of the luncheon because it is historic for inauguration. as a point of personal pride here, off of that room if you look up around the -- here comes the president and vice president. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states, joseph r. biden jr. and dr. biden accompanied by senator lamar alexander and mrs. alexander. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ >> president now walking through the rotunda accompanied by senator schumer, of course, the first lady and senator schumer's wife. more to follow. >> beautiful shot, ruffles, of course, and by the bugles. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack h. obama and mrs. obama accompanied by senator charles schumer and mrs. schumer. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> it will be interesting to see the president greet members across the aisle. there's john boehner looking up. >> did have a hug for president clinton on the way in. >> again, senator charles schumer of new york about to speak. >> wasn't on the script but i picked it up. >> mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. >> so -- >> ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. mr. president, mr. vice president, honored guests, my colleagues on the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies and i are pleased to welcome you to today's inaugural luncheon. in this historic room we look around at the 35 statues representing men and women. well, one woman. thank you, illinois and senator durbin for the statue of frances willard, though i feel obligated to note that she was born in rochester, new york. [ laughter ] thankfully she will soon have company when rosa parks completes her journey from the back of the bus to the front of statuary hall later this year. [ applause ] now, we look around and remember the men and women who helped define our nation. they like us, they face obstacles and they like us worked hard to move in country forward. here in this hall four presidents took the oath of office. here abraham lincoln served his single term in congress and john quincy adams, the only former president to return to serve in the house spoke out against slavery. today we also remember an event that took place outside this building, but reverberated from within. this year marks the 50th anniversary of the reverend martin luther king jr.'s march on washington which spurred passage of the historic civil rights law. we're honored to have with us a colleague, congressman john lewis who was a speaker at that historic march. [ applause ] congressman lewis' life exemplifies the courage and sacrifice that have made our nation great, john, please stand and take a bow so we can all recognize you. [ applause ] behind us the painting we have chosen for this luncheon is niagara falls painted in 1856 by ferd nant richard. for me as a new yorker, niagara falls never fails to inspire a tremendous awe for the natural beauty of our great country, then and now, the mighty falls symbolize the grandeur, power and possibility of america. and i want to thank my former senate partner, our great secretary of state, hillary rodham clinton, for allowing us to borrow this beautiful painting from the state department collection. [ applause ] but, frankly, we weren't here for the paintings, we're here for the food and while the theme of today's ceremony is based in america's future, today's menu could be labeled faith in america's food from the new england lobster to the heirloom vegetables to the south dakota bison to the wonderful new york wine, each element was carefully chosen and expertly prepared. it was actually chosen by the tasting committee, which consisted of debbie boehner, landrieu reed, diana kantor, paul pelosi, honey alexander and my wife, iris. they did a great effort, they did a great job and the effort was truly bipartisan so if you don't like the food you can't blame it on one barth or the other but i know that won't happen. i know you'll enjoy it. before we begin, it is my privilege to ask the reverend luis cortez jr. to deliver the invocation after which lunch will be served. >> please rise. >> let us join together in prayer. dear god, in this room stands women and men of differing beliefs, different understandings of how you reveal yourself, how you reveal your will and your desire to us. yet, at this moment, our nation joins with us in prayer and supplication that despite political differences within these chambers and despite the fact that at times we may take for granted things that are unique to our american democracy, that we be united in hope and aspiration for the future of our nation. we pray for continued freedom, freedom to pursue happiness, freedom to create goodness, freedom to preserve the common good. we pray for continued liberty, liberty to preserve our right, liberty to defend our understanding of good, liberty to develop ourselves fully as you would have us. our nation prays with us as we ask that our leaders be endowed with wisdom that they may know on which path they should move our nation, with courage that they may go against their own when necessary for the common good of our beloved america, with resolve that they not tire but move unrelenting towards that common good. we pray a blessing on our house of representatives, on our senate and our judicial and executive branches. bestow on every member spiritual protection and good health. we uphold president barack obama and his family and we are thankful for the religious freedom of this nation, for our family and friends and for this meal which we will now share, remembering that there are still those who suffer hunger in our nation. we have all joined in this prayer and in the name of jesus christ my lord and savor, amen and amen. >> that is the reverend luis cortez one of the speakers of the inauguration today, longing, he says, for hope and unity. >> be seated and enjoy lunch. >> as they proceed to the lunch we've been booted out of the room essentially i want to go to matthew dowd our resident expert on all things texan lives in austin. go back to what chris was saying as immigration as one of the president's things on the agenda. chance of passing. >> he wants it to become a unifying issue though you don't get from his speech he wants to unify the country but he has to fear -- one thing i have to fear about him is what george w. bush did wrong when he won by 51% of the vote in 2004 which is he took on social security immediately and in the aftermath of getting beaten badly on that his presidency was just about over at that point and his fear if he can't reach resolution on this issue which many of his constituents want and even republicans would like to get it behind them if he can't do it and it's divisive he'll be in a w0r8d of hurt the rest of his presidency. >> that's the danger, matthew dowd, on the other hand you already have prominent senators like marco rubio of florida coming out with proposals very similar to what president obama has called for and a lot of national republicans now saying that they know this is an issue they need to make progress on, as well. to nicolle wallace on this, as well. you also used the word for governor jeb bush of florida, one of those republicans, also saying this is the key to the republican party's future. >> right, and as a republican, marco maybe try to have them topple the power structures here in washington because they understand at a philosophical level, at a policy level and political level that our very survival as a party depends on getting this right and last republican or last president to have really put the power of the oval office behind this push for immigration reform was george w. bush. in hindsight it was a precious moment we let slip through our fingers. then he had senator ten kennedy and senator mccain and george w. bush and those three at the time were giants in washington could get -- couldn't get it done i think illustrates how high that mountain is to climb. >> standing by the capitol is the national correspondent for univision. i hope i said that right because i want to bring you in. as you see this issue of immigration, what must the president do? >> well, of course, 71% of the hispanic voters who supported him in this election see the issue of immigration reform as vital and they were disappointed that the promise was not fulfilled in the first four years but one of the topics of the themes of the president today was to finish the job that was not done in the first four years, immigration reform is at the top of his agenda and as he pointed out, the president is going to work on it. i was speaking to senator schumer this weekend. he told us he confirmed that, in fact, he is meeting with a group of six -- five other senators, three republicans, three democrats and that they expect to have ready legislation in the next few weeks. the principles they are going to look for comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship and they want to have it done not in piecemeal but to have full reform that would include the path to citizenship so it's very difficult to negotiate but as you were pointing out, republicans have realized they have to change if they want to attract a part of these hispanic votes and that it's essential to their survival for them to survive as a party. so, yes, i believe that there is a strong effort. many of the people who are negotiating now are veterans of these battles and they wear their scars on the republican side, senator graham is going to be fighting for this. senator dick durbin, also the author of the grown map and authored it like more than a decade ago enbob hernandez from new jersey. these people are also joined by groups in the house that are also in for the same goal. so i believe that there is going to be a strong push for immigration reform. >> all right, thanks so much. lourdes. i want to point out to everyone abc news and univision have a joint venture, incredibly exciting for all of us and you will be hearing about this great table enterprise soon. >> of course, this is one of the big issues we cover on that joint venture so bring in cokie roberts on this. right now speed will matter, cokie, when i was talking to senator rubio last week he said if you don't get this done early in the year through the senate completely done by august or september, the window is going to close. >> i agree with that but think they will have a very, very difficult time getting it done in the house of representatives because even though there are many in the republican party who agree with what niccole said and the future of the party depends on it a lot of others particularly in the house who have districts that say not on your life as we saw from some of the voters that chris interviewed and i think that this is going to be very difficult for them too and, frankly, i think it might already be too late for the republican party among hispanic voters. not because of what's happening in washington as much as what's happening in the states. you have got these very harsh immigration laws that have been passed in many states where the message is, you are not welcome. you're not welcome in this country. you're not welcome in this party and whether that's the intention or not, that's the way hispanic voters are hearing it and i think that this could be a tremendous problem for the republican party for decades. >> the statistics bear it out and what we're getting from people in response on social media. not even a close call. to find compromise on issue where you have latinos who say we put you in, take care of us which is a policy of acceptance you heard from the univision correspondent, a road to citizenship but you have 75% of the responses coming in from people overall saying get them out. they are illegal. there should be no services because that only encourages enill immigration so difficult issue to find a "we" in this issue. >> i'm more optimistic about the prospect of getting something done this year. you talked to senior republicans in the congress, as well and they know this is something they have to work on and starting to educate their members on the issue. >> also, events, in fact, some on the ground are changing. we know how to control immigration. had a whopping deep recession. people stopped coming, in fact, there has been net out migration of hispanic from this country for two year. >> deportations are way up. >> exactly. >> but basically that -- our economic troubles and the success relative success of the mexican economy which is growing better than ours is growing is helping to solve this problem. the worst campaign blunder in american history probably was when in 1884, i believe it was, a protestant minister very prominent supporting the republican candidate, the antecedents of the democrat party are ruminism and rebellion and catholics heard that and said they don't like us very much and it was 100 years reagan's second election to 1984 before the republicans carried the catholic vote. more alarming than the 71% of hispanics voting against the republicans less time was the fact that 73% of asian-americans did which suggests that it's a general sense of inhospital -- a sense of not being hospitable to these people. >> let's go back to nicolle wallace because nicolle, what is the first thing, very first thing you think republicans could do whether it be substantive or symbolic? >> i think on immigration it would be to go back to the policy, the party that used to be proud of being the ideal party of making an intellectual argument about immigration reform. if you think about it you really can't do immigration piecemeal and anyone suggesting that that's the way to go forward on the right is, i think, wrong-minded about this. i think if republicans could at least -- you can't get ahead of the president. he now laid it out in his inauguration address with the eyes of many americans watching but i think republicans now need to match the moment with immigration reform. they need to have at the intellectual argument for a conservative, a fair, a competent immigration policy that can harness and try to win back -- you know, it weepts so long ago that republicans voted in much bigger numbers for republic republicans. bush got over 40% -- i think 40% of the hispanic vote and john mccain did better than mitt romney so republicans in very recent history were doing a lot better with it and pay a lot of attention to the policies so i think they're still listening. >> you're nodding your head, math dowd. >> they have to see at the the way the country looks today. the night after election, the problem is they're a mad men party in a modern family world and hispanic think republicans right now don't want to look at the country as 21st century but 1950s. let's go back to the 1950s. the problem the republicans have though many want to compromise and many want to do on this issue, there's a very loud shrill part of their base, huge part of their base that says no, no, no, and if they compromise on guns, if they compromise on taxes and then they compromise on immigration, it leaves them in a bad place with that base. >> that's the issue on the republican side. let me go back to david. you praised the president as the promise unleashed. climate change and you have immigration reform and guns which he also says now is at the top of his list. how does he prioritize these and, you know, he's not going to be able to satisfy everyone. >> well, with a great sense of -- i think also a sense of modesty in the speech when he talks about the imperfection of the solutions that are going to come about talking not to people on his left but everyone aware of politics and this was a deeply political speech and i also to go back to immigration and the demographic change in the united states, i think we should remember that it was james baldwin who said many, many years before barack obama was elected that america is white no longer. and this is something that was illustrated in spectacular terms when the 47% tape came out there in the campaign. this to me was the death knell not only for the mitt romney campaign but really for the party for awhile and it hasn't recovered. it hasn't found a vocabulary. maybe it will change if jeb bush runs for president who may have a better very cocabulary for ta to different constituencies in the united states but right now it seems to me that the republican party is dead in the water when it comes to very broad political problems. >> demography is destiny as george will said. 2012, 72% is white and 2016 it will be 70% or below. >> going to take a break. want all of you to come back and weigh in on jobs. it is still the seething issue in this country and what the president will tackle first. >> announcer: when was the first inaugural ball? the answer when we come back. 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[ female announcer ] if you're still struggling with depression talk to your doctor to see if the option of adding abilify is right for you. and be sure to ask about the free trial offer. if the option of adding abilify is right for you. madison, wife of the fourth president james madison hosted the first inaugural ball in 1809, price of admission, $4. from the newseum in washington, d.c. you're watching live abc news coverage of inauguration 2013. hear again, diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos. >> and you are looking at pennsylvania avenue, the route of the presidential motorcade after the lunch with members of congress, the president, of course, will make the procession, that 1.6 miles back to the white house designed to be a direct artery between the capitol and the white house and we've been talking, george, about the fact we miss barbara walters here so much. so much a part of all our inaugural coverage over the years and she was once part of the motorcade >> that's right, back in president clinton's second inaugural she was the guest of senator john warner escorting the president. also part of that lunch and gave an insider's view back then so we do miss that today and we wish her well as she, we know, will get well real soon and the white house, the president will go back after the parade to the white house and two big balls tonight, dolley madison, not all that bad. $4 200 years ago and back the discussion about the president's agenda, what his speech said about it. matthew dowd, i got to put you on the spot. we've all been relative politic talking about the speech. do you think the president was raefing red flags in the face of republicans. >> i think when you look at that speech and aftermath of that speech as people digest it i think progressives are going to love that speech because he basically stood up and said this is who i am. this is what i stand for and this is what i want to do and conservatives are going to hate that speech and even though that 47% video was the death knell probably for mitt romney and hurt the republicans the country wants somebody that speaks to more than 51% of the country but speaks to 67% of the country. i think republicans are going to get entrenched after that speech as they swallow their high calorie meal and move on and i'm always -- i think they'll think they'll count on something with this president. teddy roosevelt always said walk softly -- i mean talk softly and carry a big stick. i think republicans think this president talks loudly and carries a small stick and so they're hoping that, okay, you had your words and time and we'll go back and compromise but this will entrench both sides. >> just to challenge you, the president says that gridlock is the destination when you're counting on conservative republicans in his experience, so he's just going to try to mobilize the people that change american opinion. is that possible? >> it's possible if you're only going to win at those margins and possible if your goal isn't to have a unified country that comes together and reaches compromise. if your goal is i'm going to win these policy points on the various tiniest of margins because he knows 47%, 48% of this country disdisapprove of him as president and did not vote for him so if his goal is to win at all costs he could be successful but that is not what the majority of the country wants. >> the biggest issues coming so quickly are going to be the big economic issues we know that congress is going to have to deal with, taxes and spending coming up on march 1st when all government cuts take effect and the government can close at the end of march 27th and debt limit, chris cuomo, and comes back to the issue of jobs. the president said today in his speech the economic recovery has begun. the question is going to be how do you make sure it continues? >> and you're coming into it with bad feelings because the spending cuts and the debt ceiling, spending was pushed out of this big compromise that scared us with the word "cliff" that was somehow created by the media. where we stand today, the president hitting the note of we, the people, we have to work together seems to be somewhat of an effective flash point because people are there and see it nowhere more than on economic questions. so when we were asking people around the country what do you want to see? going together, almost like a couple were two ideas, one, you have to stop the left/right game. it's too much. we know that is your game but you must stop it and he seemed to respond to that. where they want to see that stop the most is on the creation of jobs. they condemn the stock market. that 'not where the country is. we're hurting and you'll see it. here's what people had to say about what they want the president to do, what he must do to succeed when it comes to the economy. ♪ >> i want to tell the president about the economy to stop spending money that we don't have. it's nice to want to fix all of our problems but when we don't have the money to do it we shouldn't be spending it. >> please help small business. we're truly the engine of the economy and need your help. >> we want a strong and healthy economy. i think the way to do that is invest in innovation. i think we have an incredible future ahead of us. please create more opportunities for young people in this country. >> i'm concerned about my retirement, the way the economy is going now. >> i want to tell the president we need to keep the jobs in the u.s. we need to stop shipping the jobs overseas. >> i want to tell the president i'm tired of being in a recession or whatever we're in. i would just like to be in an economy that we're proud of. >> there's the debate right there and come back to that because right now we have valerie jarrett with us right now, one of the president's closest friends, one of the president's closest aides and helped introduce michelle obama to barack obama so many years ago, that marriage has flourished. senior adviser to the president in the white house. your feelings as you heard that inaugural address. >> oh, george, i was just so deeply moved and i found it uplifting and inspiring. it captured a lot of what we talk about all the time in the sense of his quote where he said progress doesn't doesn't solve century long issues about the role of government. it just tells us to act now and we have so much opportunity and we saw how quickly four years went by and we move this country forward tremendously under the president's leadership but now we sta;í seems like he was a lot happier. >> well, you know, he's been office for four years. his confidence has grown. he has a clear sense of what our challenges are. great opportunity -- he wants to make sure every single day that it counts and his focus is on the people all around our country who are struggling to get by and just want that fair shake and that fair shot and he's going to be fighting for them. he is energized in a sense no more political campaigns. his complete focus is going to be on moving our country forward and he's going to hope that we get the kind of cooperation that we need to do big things because we're still quite capable in this great country of doing big things. >> in personal term, valerie, what is the main thing you expect the president to do differently? >> well, he has said, diane, that he's very committed to getting outside of washington more, engaging the american people in the process, making sure that their voices are heard, the progress that we have made over the last four years has been at a price when the american people rolled up their sleeves and worked with us. he's also going to continue to work with members of congress on both sides of the aisle and look for that common ground and beginning to see signs of hope on immigration reform and hearing more people talk about that and so he's going to keep pushing because that's what he does. he'll engage, push, whatever he thinks to make the kind of progress that we need to address our challenges because that's more -- that's what the american people expect. they're out there. they're doing their job. they're working hard. they want to know that washington will work for them and with the energy we saw today which is what i have seen each and every day and it's as strong if not stronger than ever than we're going to have a great time today. he's celebrating having lunch with members of congress and his family and friends right now and tomorrow we get right back to work. >> have you seen him? did he say anything to you afterwards? >> he smiled as he just walked into the luncheon where i was -- just before i came out to see you and gave me that smile which means, okay, let's get going. we got a lot of hard work ahead but, my goodness, what an affirmation to have the american people re-elect him for a second term and get back to the point with the american people behind him and their voices lifted high, there's just no limit to what we can accomplish. >> no limit but of all the issues he laid out today what is the one issue there that's going to determine whether or not the second term is a success or a failure? >> i think the one issue is going to be are we able to do more than one thing at a time here? we have got to be able to tackle more than one issue at a time. that's what everybody else does. nobody has jobs where you just do one thing and in a sense in all seriousness, george, they're interrelated. when we want to grow the economy, well, that means we have to invest in infrastructure, we have to invest in education. we have to invest in immigration reform. if we want to keep ourselves safe and reduce our dependence on foreign oil so we need to think about clean energy so i think you have to look at it as very holistically and in order to continue to grow our economy as we have, i don't have to remind you what an incredible economic crisis the president inherited but in order to drive it forward, you have to have long-range goals, as well as short, medium-term goals and that's what he's committed to doing is saying, let's take a comprehensive approach and let's focus on the big picture. let's see where true north is and do everything necessary to get us there. let's not just do one thing. he has the complete implementation of the affordable care act, a signature piece of legislation from his first term. he can't take his eye off that now. he has to continue to do that and i think we want a president who can multitask and hope that congress can multitask right along with him. >> note before we leave you. you watched the movie "lincoln" with him? >> i did. i did. >> and afterwards, what did he say to you and what did you say to him, 150th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation. >> it was amazing and congressman john lewis was sitting next to hill during the movie. steven spielberg and many of the actors were in the room. it was a deeply emotional moment for him. i think what it proved to me is that hard things are really hard to quote david axelrod and, you know, obviously you can't compare the civil war to what we are going through now but we're going through a challenging time and it's never been easy for our country. and but that's what we are weigh so good 59. we are resilient and we are determined and i am convinced more than ever that we can do those big things. >> well, valerie, we can see the excitement in your face and hear it in your voice today. thank you for joining us. i know it's back to work tomorrow. >> my pleasure. it is but we're looking forward to it. thank you, george. thanks, diane. >> when we come back freedom riders on the mall as america's first african-american begins his second term 50 years after the march on washington as diane said 150 years after the emancipation proclamation. we'll talk to swung who just finished up on the inauguration platform. james taylor. that's all coming up. >> announcer: you're watching live coverage of the second inauguration of president barack obama, on abc. 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[ applause ] >> and someday we'll hear what flickered across the president's mind when he was saying president of the united states, a great pageant of the oath of office. again, affirming that we are at a fundamental level, one nation under god indivisible, welcome back. >> we are back covering our inauguration 2013 all day long. the president and congressional leaders now in their lunch in the capitol here discussing before the break discussing the economy with chris cuomo. i was struck, david remnick, by listening to the voices. everyone wants the economy to get better and more jobs, big difference on how to do it. hear citizens saying cut spending, a lot of citizens saying let's invest. >> what i heard in the speech too a desire to win rather than to compromise. barack obama buy graphically came into office -- a lot of his self-confidence and a lot of his self-definition was about his ability to bring people together as a unifier whether in law school or as a politician. this was the speech today of somebody who has decided i have won, compromise has not worked anywhere to the degree i hoped it would in congress and elsewhere and now these are the things that i want and i'm going to work on come hell what may and i think you're going to see at the very least a very exciting political dynamic and a lot of conflict. >> the president hopes it works, cokie roberts but maybe he also believes he wins by losing and wins by simply having the fight. >> some issues i think that would be the case immigration being one of them. i mean if he puts up a good fight for immigration reform and loses, he still will have convinced the hispanics that he's for them and on their team. but you know, this divide is so deep and our last abc poll, the gap between democratic and republican approval of the president was 73 points. so that, you know, you just don't have anybody agreeing with each other on any of these issues and i just -- i think the president is correct to think the compromise -- >> i want to turn to matt and mark updegrove because what does history show about a president spending time with members of the opposite party making any difference at all. he has promised that in this next term he has said the girls have grown. they don't want to spend time with him that he will actually do more whether it's socializing or proselytizing with members of the opposite party. will it make any difference at all? >> well, we don't know with this president because he's never really done it. he's never really done it. the only time he calls congress or meets and has dinner with them if he needs something transactional or a vote on something and wants something. not just i want to build relationships for the sake of building relationships and once those are done and solidified now we can come together. if this president wants to be one of the great presidents he just can't win 51% or 52% issues. the biggest thing he ran on that he has not accomplished was bringing the country together in a unified way. they didn't vote for him to win. they vote for him to change the nature of washington and it's only worse. he has to try. the presidents that succeeded built relationships apart from votes and then when they needed votes they had the relationship. >> but am i right that every president elected to a second term has had at least one period in which one house was against him and what is history show about what works? >> that's right, diane. and i think the one thing that lawmakers of yesteryear will tell you is that you -- that lawmakers knew each other. their kids went to the same ballet class or were on little league teams together. they invited their families to backyard barbecues, their wives played bridge together. it's difficult to vilify and demonize your opponent if you know them personally and i think it's very important for barack obama to broker those personal relationships. one thing -- so much of civil rights invoked today in the speech, martin luther king, but we forget that lyndon johnson got civil rights passed not because he had the support of his own party, in fact, the southerners in his party were intractable on civil rights but because he reached out effectively to the northern republicans in order to get meaningful civil rights passed. >> but the country has changed so much since then. after president johnson signed that into law democrats pretty much abandoned the south for the next generation and northern republicans evaporated over those last 40 years or so. to nicolle wallace on this question, as well. as you look at the president going forward on these big, big economic issues, we do have some examples in recent history, ronald reagan, tax reform in 1986, bill clinton worked with newt gingrich and able to get something done even with congressional leader a real enemy of his. >> president bush passed the now famous tax cuts with democratic votes, more than just one. well, they were ten-year tax cuts that added to the deficit and why they became such a political football. but i think that if you look at the way that obama talks and the things that he does, his actions, they're completely discordant. we spent a lot of time talking about his use of the word together and unity but wasn't anything in the speech that draws the support. forget about just congress of all americans. house republicans, easy to vilify them but they represent people would voted for them who share their beliefs. we may thick they're whack-a-doodles in washington but may have ideas different than ours. it's the lack of understanding come to washington and fighting with house republicans is really just a cover game and a slogan for disagreeing with the values of a big swath of america. >> but, david remnick, i notice the president at least exercised one measure of real caution, abraham lincoln, i believe, only mentioned the word "i" twice in his second inaugural. so did barack obama. >> barack obama might have other vanities but i think in terms of rhetoric he's an extremely well modulated rhetoritian and presenter of himself. i don't think it's in his vocabulary in a strong way. on the other hand he's possessed of an ego, there's no question. no question. >> i don't think he could be president otherwise. >> that's a pretty safe assumption. back to chris cuomo. as we see everyone gathering for the parade that's going to happen as the president and congressional leaders leave lunch, coming up probably in the next half hour or so, chris, it did seem even though you got a wide range of views right there, at least from the ones you showed that some of those citizens may be more willing to compromise than the legislators and the president they elected. >> i think you're spot-on. yes, it's just social media. who knows what it reflects but so universal it adds to the strength of the notion. one thing you hear no matter what part of the country or stripe or color the person is politically, they say, we don't feel represented. we sent you there to compromise. the idea that you would just fight the fight for the sake of it, we do not see you as the man in the arena. we see you as the person we sent you to get things doesn't. there's not enough belief in the country about political conviction at this time. i'm going to fight for what i believe in even if i don't get anything done because i'm head strong in my belief. they don't buy it and think the division between government and politics is no more. we heard represent nolan who came back into the congress after all these years from minnesota saying he gets asked to fund raise 30 hours a week while in session in congress. people went crazy. that's a job in and of itself raising money full time. i think the people were at a flash point moment. we say it a lot and feel it a lot in grand mopes like this, but there is a resonance to it, and i think whether it's the president or a member of congress who believes they're going to go in there and fight for the margins, making a big mistake. i think the assumption that a wide part of the country agrees with this extremism whether it's left or right is a mistake. and i think you'll see it in coming elections and i think you're going to see it in coming days of what people say how they feel. >> you're nodding. >> i totally agree with chris. >> but i'm squeezing his leg. >> just gave me $5 earlier. no, i think it's totally right. i think what's happened, though, we have a system and a society and media structure that needs both the left and right and gives a voice to that and our redistricting doesn't create an opportunity for that to be represented. the vast majority is much like a mutt. they believe in certain progressive things and economic conservative things on fiscal issues and they don't feel represented at all in washington and the more it goes on the more it says let's fight the fight fight the fight fight the fight. the more you use fight language the more disjountsed you are from the country. >> that's why you see the independent vote rise. >> people identify themselves as let or right and feel left of the game and kept saying left versus right is wrong and game a mantra. if i wanted to make money i would put it on a bumper sticker. >> chris cuomo, when you were blaming the media earlier, you are the media. >> i'm still taking -- new label. >> it is martin luther king day as we've been reminding people all day long. the people taking the oath with his hand on martin luther king's bible as well as abraham lincoln's bible and back out to bill weir in the mall and i know four years ago you met with some freedom riders on the mall and saw them again today. >> that's right, george. it was 50 years ago this summer dr. martin luther king led the march on washington and gave the "i have a dream" speech and two young idealistic kids were joan mulholland and jej that would green, freedom riders, the brave civil rights workers who went down into the deep segregated south to test those jim crow w laws in the face of progress. much at the risk of not only being jailed but beaten by mobs or in the case of medgar evers, death. really emotional. joan and reginald give their thoughts right here after the inauguration of barack obama. >> what are your thoughts, you were both here. you watched dr. king speak in front of this monument so many years ago and barack obama just inaugurated. >> the magnitude of this event is, in fact, a culmination of a lot of sacrifice, struggle, commitment and devotion to human dignity and worth and to be able to see in my lifetime particularly as an african-american, to see a young man become the 44th president of the united states of america is itself a statement of a miracle or perhaps a dream of so many gone on before who showed us where he stands has a better vision of america that martin luther king talked about as a blessed community. >> well, this picture was taken actually a couple months before barack obama was born and i just can't -- i just can't get over the comparison then and now. reverend reg 23458d green, good to see you again, hello, joan. every four years we're making it a tradition. >> you promise? >> so what are your thoughts four years later? how goes your fight that you committed yourselves to back in those days? what is the state you think on martin luther king day of racial relations in america, joan? >> it's an ongoing struggle but the fact that obama could be elected again shows that the zone of hope, came out of the mountain of despair that king spoke of and there is hope. it's moving on. >> reverend green, assess the first term, if you can. is there anything you wish he had done differently? >> well, i'm sure there are many things many of us wish he could have done differently but understood what he came into, all that he to deal with, the economy, the housing crisis, the wars we were dealing with, but when you think about the four years in total perspective, you got to give some great credit to what he's been able to do in spite of all that he's had to deal with. what i like to see, understand what's happened is i see this as kind of unfolding drama, continuing with barack obama, the president obama legacy and work to say that this country is at least moving toward that beloved community that martin talked about but at the same time still having much work to be done so i give him great credit for what he's been able to achieve. >> joan, you reacted strongly to the line in the speech talking about the lines at the polling places that is yet another chapter in this struggle for that equality. >> yes, and my state of virginia was the longest lines, i believe, and so the right to vote doesn't -- has to be more than a theory. it has to be a practical reality and we're getting there and -- >> was it as emotional today for both of you? >> for me, the emotional part was to see mrs. evers delivering the invocation. i mean we look back at '63, 50 years ago, as this great "i have a dream" speech and moment of joy, but it was truly a mountain of despair with the assassination of medgar and the police dogs and fire hoses in birmingham and then just two weeks after the march on washington, those four girls who died in the church bombing in birmingham and two months after that, the president was assassinated. we needed that zone of hope to carry us forward, but we must not forget the others, what it took to get us here. >> to the young people, these are stories from history books so you are living proof of the sacrifices made. it was great to revisit this with you both again. >> one thing i would like to add as we're here talking is i'm hoping at least during this next four years, this last term of the president, some focus can be given to the district of columbia in terms of understanding that we still don't have total autonomy as residents of the district. we still don't have control over not having approval to deal with our budget and i'm hoping the president will have some opportunity to deal with that issue. >> he used the taxation without representation plate on the parade route today, so always a cause to fight for. reverend green, joan, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> see you in four years. >> but bet. >> george, diane. >> it was so moving to hear them talk about the unfolding drama and we saw martin luther king's statue dedicated in 2011. >> to deborah roberts on freedom plaza. hey, deborah. >> yes. >> this moment, the reaction to the freedom riders right there. >> i don't -- i couldn't exactly hear you because you probably hear the music blaring here behind me. i should say, diane and george, welcome to the party on pennsylvania avenue. the crowd has come alive suddenly, the sun is out. people are standing at attention. they are expecting this parade that is about to happen now. i spoke with people in the crowd just now, one woman who came over from virginia with her aunt who came in from portland, oregon, the second inauguration they've attended and they are so excited. you see children dancing and people swaying. all getting ready for the excitement. we're about a half a mile from the capitol and, of course, they weren't privy to all of those festivities, but they will see this motorcade pass by here in just a few minutes and the parade that will happen after that. a lot of excitement. the crowd is not quite as full as it was a few years ago, everybody acknowledges that, but the enthusiasm they say is no less than it was that time, a lot of excitement building as everybody stands at attention here on pennsylvania avenue. back to you. >> with the band playing, deborah. let's go to steve osunsami in atlanta at the martin luther king day parade there. steve. >> reporter: diane, this parade is taking place right,000s of people, children, the teamster, sanitation workers who just left downtown in atlanta are now heading towards the king center where dr. king and coretta scott king are buried. this parade is taking on a special significance for two reasons, one is the 50th anniversary of the "i have a dream" speech as bill just mentioned and also the inauguration, one woman i talked with said that she was listening to the inauguration on her headphones out in here in the fold and said as an african-american that she felt validated that what's happened in 2008 and 2009 wasn't a fluke. another woman told me that the president had lots of work to get done especially in the black community where some of the ills that face this country are greater. i talked with dr. bernice king who is the ceo and head of the king center who told me she was going to take special pride in watching the president be sworn in using as she put it her daddy's bible. that meant a lot to the king family, she told me. diane. >> thank you very much, steve. i was watching you, lonni, director of the african-american history of the smithsonian, the museum and what were you thinking as you watched those freedom riders. >> what i realized is that there is so much that we learn from people like that and the challenge in america is that often we are historical and so for me part of what president obama's speech does, part of what quite candidly museums like mine do is ensure that americans remember because when they remember the work of freedom riders like that, they remember that change is possible. they remember that whatever your age you can make america better and they remember that the challenge is to make america always be america. >> what's the single most important exhibit or thing, artifact that you have in the museum? what's the one that evokes the most emotional response? >> well, it's interesting, joan mulholland who you just interviewed actually donated to us shards of glass from the stained glass windows that were blown out when the girls were killed at the birmingham church bombing in 1963. so whenever i look at those, the shards of broken glass, big volumes about broken bodies but volumes about people not being stopped no matter what the obstacles thrown in front of them. >> see the faces of so many that speak to that history, as well, david remnick, not only freedom riders there but thought of you as i saw john lieu wisconsin, now a congressman. he gave you the title of your book in which he said barack obama is what comes at the end of that bridge in selma which president obama referred to today. >> absolutely and in all due respect to my friends here talking about the need for compromise, sometimes politics is a battle of ideas. we shouldn't sentimentalize martin luther king too much. he was a fighter. he was a battler for principle. as were many other people in the black freedom struggle, white and black and while compromise has a great role in all these issues we're talking about, principle and the battle for ideas is also extremely important and we shouldn't be embarrassed about it. when we look at the "lincoln" movie what was going on, politics was going on absolutely but at the same time lincoln was trying to do two huge things at once. get a 13th amendment through and end the civil war and he achieved it by politics, but ferocious battle so we shouldn't get too dewee about the nature of political compromise and what it is. >> i want to bring in pierre thomas because he's our senior justice correspondent but wants to weigh in on this issue. pierre. >> reporter: diane, i was thinking as bill was talking to that couple in the '60s and '70s many african-american families have pictures of dr. martin luther king and president kennedy in their homes and it strikes me that among all their african-americans, president obama has reached that status. there's a personal connection with him and i was talking to some people right after the election and they felt one person said they were sick after his first debate and i remember thinking, that's a very personal feeling to have after someone's debate. [ laughter ] so i think it's again a moment where people have very striking connection with this president in part because of the legacy of the past, my parents were an example talked about being afraid when schools were integrated in virginia where i grew up so, again, this president having been re-elected for many people particularly the older americans, african-americans, has true meaning to them. >> but, you know, it's not just african-americans who benefited from this clause. as a result of martin luther king and the freedom riders and all of the activity around civil rights, the 1964 civil rights bill was passed, and before that, you had even in -- i mean, i grew up in the deep south where everything was segregated but you had here in washington and around the country help wanted ads that were white colored male/female and what changed that was the law. the 1964 civil rights bill outlawed discrimination in employment on the basis of race, national origin, creed and sex. and women around america have as much to be grateful-for-this movement as do african-americans and people of minorities, because without that word "sex" being in the 1964 civil rights bill, you could still be having ads that are male/female and very different jobs available to the two sexes. >> thanks, cokie. i want it take a moment for anyone tuning in to bring you up to date where things stand. we are running a little bit late, i believe, on the planned schedule but we're still looking at pennsylvania avenue, gathering for the motorcade. the president still in the lunch with congressional leaders and we will rejoin it at the end of it to make sure we hear the toast for the president and he is, of course, getting ready to make a response at that moment but we left you sometime ago, cokie, saying that you wanted to point out something you had done. >> not that i had done. in that room up around the edging is etched into the walls over a door the words the lind di room. my mother and only room in the united states capitol named for a woman. and it is the gathering place for the female members of congress. the congresswoman's reading room and office statuary hall. >> and there we -- there we see that magnificent capitol dome right there. the president and congressional leaders finishing up their lunch right now and, of course, they're going to go from that, the toast and then to the parade up answer avenue from the capitol to the white house. >> i feel on behalf of the 15 chefs standing in the hallway with makeshift bunson burners preparing the meal keep talking about the calories in fact, it is lobster, bison, apple pie, sounds good to me. sounds better than what the eisenhower administration pretty much launched us with potato puffs and chicken, so we have to have a tip of the hat to them. they're doing something incredible. >> and there are privileges that come with being the chairman of the inauguration and chairman of the lunch, the wines come from new york state. thank you, senator chuck schumer, senator from new york. >> that is true. let's go to david muir, still at the capitol. david. >> reporter: hey, diane, i think i might be the only one that didn't get an invitation for lobster and bison. look at the national mall. it is completely empty. it shows how much they focus their attention on the next part, the parade back from the capitol once lunch is finished in statuary hall. down on the ground with the camera down here, if we could show the capitol behind me, this is something that we couldn't kind of point out earlier, one of the things they're commemorating on this inauguration is the very top of the dome if you come to washington what a glorious city it is with its blue sky behind the dome that is the statue of freedom put atop the dome 150 years ago. there was an american sculptor who sculpted this beauty 16 feet high over in italy and passed away and they had to ship the statue in pieces in crates back to america and once it got here, sort of fascinating about how they had to -- in washington, d.c. it stalled because were in the middle of a civil war and fipp reed continued to work on it and that's why they were able to finish this beautiful piece of work and put it on the dome 150 years ago and brought it down in '93 to refurbish it. the commemoration to mark the 150 years there. the flags up there, one in the center is the flag we know. one on each side, that marks when illinois, president obama's home state entered the union, 21 stars there and on each side at the far ends, the betsy ross flag as we know it. they hang those every year part of the tradition there. if you look up where the president was standing and took the oath a short time ago people certainly they have some sort of path to get there but taking photographs looking down on the mall but they're starting to take down this side of the capitol as you know as they all moved into lunch. quickly become a bit of a ghost town though. i will let you know if anything changes here but the sun is out. the temperature at last check, 40 degrees and the parade i'm told is going to be the warmest point in the day. so back to you. >> david, lonely report. >> it sure is. i can't remember inauguration where it all broke down so quickly. that is amazing, david muir. where excitement where you are, cecieliilia vega. >> reporter: it's nice out here. the weather, the sun shining, crowds dissipated. what you can't see from my vantage point but a sneak preview of what's to come, the parade is about to start. i see a glimmer now that it's so sunny outside of the sun shining on some pretty big tubas making their way to the parade route. it's going to be a lot of fun. we spent the morning with these kids from all over the country, eight different floats, you're going to see everything out there from 9,000 marchers to 50 -- eight different floats, 200 different kinds -- to animals from pets to dogs and horses and just a lot of fun. you guys are going to enjoy it. they're getting under way pretty soon. diane and george? >> and now we're looking at the president as he's going table to table inside the lunch. our cameras have been turned back on. >> talking to pat leahy, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. the agenda there shepherding that and should also say right behind the president is mr. and mrs. nicholson and the president's number one golf part nev partner over the last four years. >> i know that one the president marks most is all the sports activities are slower than they were. the basketball games are going slower. >> he will be toasting the leaders of the senate and house in just a couple of minutes as he goes from table to table right there. that is justice ginsburg right there. of course. >> yes, from kenya and i believe a number of family members were there four years ago. >> when he made his first trip to kenya as a young man that was the relative that was closest to him and showed him around kenya the area his family is from. that side of the family is from. >> we know they are giving him a gift which has an etching and looks like senator schumer is going to begin again. they will have official photographs coming up. there will be toasts and we will join them as they do. >> please take your seats. and i hope everyone has enjoyed the lunch. i think -- i think we really deserve a round of applause. [ applause ] to our chef and caterer. all the people that served the meal so expertly they've done a great job. so it is now my honor to invite the speaker of the house, the -- john boehner to the podium to present the official flag. >> senator, thank you. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the old hall of the house. the people's representatives met in this chamber over five decades prior to the civil war. and it's a wonder it made it here that long. see the acoustics were terrible. you just couldn't hear anything. or in some spots you could hear everything that was being said in the room. to make it -- it was a mess. and of course it was also at a time when our leaders weren't hearing each other all that well to begin with. but here a century and a half and many architectural improvements later and gather in the old hall to better hear one another and to renew the appeal to better it. we do see amid the rituals of unity none more important than our flag. this year old glory will mark a milestone of her own. it was the spring of 1813 that the new commander at ft. mchenry ordered a flag to be flown over the entrance to baltimore harbor. it should be so large, he said that the british will have no difficulty in seeing it from a distance. for such an enormous banner, mother and daughter team had to stitch together overlapping strips of wool to make the product whole. from many, one. so a grand flag was born and not long after that an anthem to go with it. today, whenever we put out the flag, whenever we hear it snapping in the wind, it gives us proof of the blessing that we call democracy. the symphony of service and faithfulness in which we will all play a part. so in the spirit of harmony, i'm proud to present the flags that flew over this battalion of democracy today to president barack obama and vice president joe biden and to you, gentlemen, i say congratulations and godspeed. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> i am now pleased to introduce my friend and colleague and partner in this inaugural endeavor, senator lamar alexander to the podium to present the official photograph. >> thanks, chuck. mr. president and michelle mr. vice president and jill, president and mrs. clinton, president and mrs. carter, mr. chief justice, one former president who is not here today, honey and i were sitting next to him george h.w. bush and barbara and before he got up to speak he said to barbara, barbara, what should i speak about and she said, in a very loud whisper, about five minutes, george. i'll take about one minute. there will probably come a time, mr. president and mrs. obama and to the bidens when your children are trying to explain to their grandchildren that this day actually happened. and if those great grandchildren don't believe it, we have pictures. [ laughter ] and these pictures are for you and we wish you the best as you work for that common good, mr. cortez spoke about in the invocation, and as you so eloquently talked about in your description of the american character today. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> okay. i would now like to introduce the distinguished majority leader of the house of representatives eric cantor to present the lenox inaugural gift. >> good afternoon. on behalf of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, it's my honor to present the president and mrs. obama, vice president and dr. biden with these beautiful crystal vases. the vases are the finest quality full lead crystal from lenox china and crystal. the images of the united states capitol and the white house are hand cut and etched into the crystal. the crystal bases on which the vases sit on inscribed with the name of the recipient and today's date. president obama, mrs. obama will receive the vase depicting the white house. vice president and dr. biden will receive the vase depicting the united states capitol. the vases were designed by timothy carter and hand cut by master glass cutter peter o'rourke. at this time, my wife and i invite president and mrs. obama and vice president dr. biden to join us in looking at the beautiful vases. [ applause ] >> okay, i am now pleased invite my colleague house democratic leader nancy pelosi to the podium to present the mementos you all will receive as you leave statuary hall. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman schumer and co-chair vice chair alexander for a wonderful, wonderful inauguration. mr. president, mr. president, mr. president, first lady, first lady, first lady, dr. biden, to all of our distinguished guests, so far you've heard of gifts to our -- to the president and the vice president. i'll tell you about the gifts for you. freedom now stands on the dome of the capitol of the united states. may she stand there forever not only in form but in spirit, those were the words that were expressed when 150 years ago by the commissioner of public buildings as the statue of freedom was placed atop the capitol during the presidency of president lincoln. that expression of the spirit of freedom is what we want you to take with you today and is contained in this portfolio of essays you will receive from the joint congressional committee on the inaugural ceremony along with a framed depiction of the capitol as it appeared at the start of the civil war. you heard it well described by chairman schumer during his remarks. today the statue of freedom in that spirit of freedom watches over the capitol as another president from illinois take -- has taken the oath of office. despite the challenges of our time at home and abroad, we heard in president obama's inaugural address a message of hope, a vision of peace, progress and prosperity and a promise of freedom for all. may god bless you, president obama, vice president biden and your family. congratulations with much -- with wishes for much success for you for that is the success of our nation. may god bless you all. may god bless america. enjoy your memento of the occasion. [ applause ] >> mr. president and dr. biden and your whole wonderful family and family, i now rise to toast the vice president of the united states and my former colleague and my friend, joe biden. mr. vice president, you have been an extraordinary leader of this nation and a true partner to our president these past four years. you play many roles. adviser, advocate, implement tore, persuader, strategist and most important of all, friend. we're confident this unique partnership between you and our great president will only grow stronger and more productive over the next four years. mr. vice president, on the surface we don't share a common ancestry, but on a deeper level we do share a common story, an american story of achieving our dream, thanks to the sacrifice of our immigrant forbearers. as you embark on your well-deserved second term in the spirit of those who came before us and on behalf of all americans, we offer you all our support and warmest wishes and we say to you, slacnha -- [ speaking a foreign language ] >> and cheers to our great vice president. >> mr. president, and all the presidents assembled, i always enjoyed this lunch more than anything we did in the capitol for the 36 years i served in the senate, i had the great honor of being included in this lunch, former presidents and vice presidents and because it really is -- it really is the place where we get together in a way unlike any other time when we gather. it's always a new beginning every time we're in this room and there's a sense of possibilities, there's a sense of opportunity and a sense sometimes fleeting but a sense that maybe we can really begin to work together, and, chuck, we may come from different ancestors but as all our colleagues know over the years we're cut from the same cloth, that we share that same common absolute conviction that was expressed by harry truman when he said "america was not built on fear. america was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." that's what you've done throughout your career and that's what almost everyone in this room has done. at the end of the day, it's an absolute confidence there's not a thing, a single thing this country can't do. i spent too much time with all of you not to know you feel it with every fiber in your being that there's nothing, nothing this country is incapable of. i must say the president kids me occasionally, i know harry reid always calls me a senate man. i am proud to have been a senate man. i am proud to be president of the senate. but that pride is exceeded only by the fact i'm proud to be vice president of the united states serving as barack obama's vice president. it's one of the great privileges. [ applause ] one of the great privileges of my life. as a matter of fact, if the president will forgive me as we're walking out and he was -- as he said savoring the moment looking out at the crowd and all those americans assembled, i found myself surprised even and turning to him and saying thank you, thanks, thanks for the chance, thanks for the chance to continue to serve. and so, folks, i raise my glass to a man who never, never, never operates out of fear, only operates out of confidence and the guy i'm toasting is you, chuck. [ laughter ] and a guy, a guy who i plan on working with. you can't get rid of me, man. remember, i'm still part of the senate. god bless you, chuck. you've done a great job and lamar, you, as well, chuck schumer, good to see you, pal. >> the best part to these events are unscripted. i would now like to introduce our senate majority leader, my good friend and really foxhole buddy, a great man, harry reid to offer the official toast to the president. [ applause ] >> americans today are wishing the president godspeed for the next four years. people all over the world are looking at us and our democracy and wishing the president the best in the years to come. i've had the good fortune of the last many years to work on very close, personal basis with president obama. i've watched him with the most difficult challenges a person could face. i've watched him do this with brilliance, with patience, with coura courage, wisdom and kindness for which i have learned a great deal. so, mr. president, i toast and pray for you, your wonderful family and our great country, four more successful years, barack obama. >> hear, hear. >> hear, hear. >> michelle and the speaker of the house came to a meeting of the minds that i may be delaying the proceedings too much and so i'm just going to be extraordinarily brief and say thank you. to my vice president who has not only been an extraordinary partner, but an extraordinary friend and to dr. jill biden, who as partnered with my wife with an extraordinary generosity on behalf of our men and women in uniform. to the entire cabinet that is here, i'm grateful to you, some of you are staying and some of are you leaving but i know the extraordinary sacrifices that you and my team have made to try to advance the cause of progress in this country, and i'm always going to be grateful to you for that. to the speaker of the house and nancy pelosi, to democratic leader harry reid, as well as republican leader mitch mcconnell and to all the congressional leaders and all the members of congress who are here, i recognize that democracy is not always easy and i recognize there are profound differences in this room. but i just want to say thank you for your service and i want to thank your families for their service, because regardless of our political persuasions and perspectives, i know all of us serve because we believe we can make america for future generations. and i'm confident that we can act at this moment in a way that makes a difference for our children and our children's children. you know, i know that former president carter, president clint clinton, they understand the irony of the presidential office, which is the longer you're there, the more humble you become and the more mindful you are that it is beyond your powers individually to move this great country. you can only do it because you have extraordinary partners and a spirit of goodwill and most of all because of the strength and resilience and fundamental goodness of the american people. and i would like to join all of you, not only in toasting the extraordinary work that chuck schumer and lamar alexander and others have done to create this special day for us, but i also want to thank each and every one of you for not only your service in the past, but hopefully your service in the future, as well, and i would like to offer one last toast and that is to my extraordinary wife, michelle. there is controversy about the quality of the president, no controversy about the quality of our current first lady. [ applause ] cheers. thank you, everybody. god bless you. and god bless america. >> hear, hear. >> the president closing out the congressional lunch with a toast to his wife, a thank you to the members of congress, democrat and republican for their service to the country reminding everyone that democracy is not easy, reminding everyone of the profound differences in the room and what he called the irony of presidential services, he said, the longer you serve there, the more humble you become. i want to go to george will with that, a much more modest note than we saw in the inaugural and already the reviews of the president's address coming in from several top republican members of congress as we see archbishop dimitrious giving the benediction. orrin hatch, excellent. senator mccain and senator susan collins and senator ron johnson saying they saw divisive and did not see the president reaching out. >> we'll see what happens tomorrow morning. for now, this is lunch is one of the quadrennial moments that show our differences lead to hostility. that said on a day like this, we have kind of lot of rhetorical cotton candy that's mostly air and sugary and obscures a fact, and the fact is we have two parties for a reason. and the reason is that we have different political sensibilities and different opinions about the nature of the american regime, how the citizen ought to be related to the central government, how important politics ought to be and the allocation of wealth and opportunity. because barack obama is a serious man in a serious political tradition, the american progressive tradition going back a hundred years to woodrow wilson's first year in 1913 in the white house, because he has driven a serious agenda, he has driven people into a serious opposition and it's not unhealthy and neither, by the way, is gridlock. gridlock is an american achievement. most people in the world live under governments they wish were capable of gridlock and, inning father, the american system presupposes a lot of concurrent majorities in the house with its own constituencies, a majority in the senate with different electoral rita ships and constituents and a presidential majority and if challenged in its constitutionality a majority of five in the supreme court. lots of majorities in play. it's slow, it's difficult and it's supposed to be. >> all right, george, we thank you and i want to ask you, david remnick, now about the toasts that were given to the president. i was struck by joe biden talking about the president not being afraid and i know you wrote about that too. when he came in, he's just not scared and that he said basically at least he'd be the least erratic and said to everybody coming in, i don't have big highs, i don't have big lows but will be straight down the middle. >> he's a pretty cool customer and the job of joe biden throughout the administration to advertise those qualities of character. if you remember after the killing of osama bin laden, it was joe biden who to anyone who would listen kept saying that not only did biden oppose the mission, but that he watched the president take in all the advice and cooley make sense of it and then make the decision that he needed to make. this has been very much his role or one of them. >> okay, please be seated for a moment. my pleasure, archbishop. well, i think everyone will agree this has been a wonderful inaugural ceremony, a delicious lunch, but it's now time to head to our next happy stop, the presidential parade. like many of you, i've marched in hundreds, but as we optimistically step into the next page of american history under the leadership of president obama, i've a feeling this one is going to be something truly special so thank you for being here, god bless you all, god bless america. [ applause ] >> and so the luncheon is over and they will proceed out. we are expecting the president to head towards the east steps as we have been told he makes it out of statuary hall and stop at the statue of martin luther king on his way out. >> then he'll head on to the parade, work his way up pennsylvania avenue, about 9,000 participants as they head up for that and certain we'll see president obama and mrs. obama get out and walk at least part of that way. it's such a beautiful day. >> plus they love the motorcade. so, cokie, as the president walks out, what does he see around him as he heads towards this one more time. >> so he's seeing in the room that he's in now, he's seeing the statues of the dignitaries of various states, actually the two best are from hawaii, his own state king kamehameha and father damion who was someone who ministered to the lepers and they're just fabulous statues. king has gold all over it and father damion is square and interesting but most of these are your basic boring bronze statues. >> don't say that about henry clay from kentucky. >> but the weight of them is that the room was very -- ready to collapse so they're spread all around the capitol and in the capitol visitors center is now what's called emancipation hall and it has jeannette rankin who was of course the first woman in congress and it has another king statue, so they are all around the capitol. now he's going to walk -- this is the rotunda that he will walk through which has presidential statues and then as you saw that wonderful shot up into the dome, that is the pathiosis of george washington or george washington in heaven and it's a combination of mythical and real figures so it has, for instance, robert moros, the great financier of the revolution delivering the money to george washington but with mercury helping him, so it is quite a combination. it was done by constant steen bermidi, the great artist of the capitol, who there it is, it's really quite -- george washington is in the purple dress over there and bermidi was an italian who was very much in love with american democracy and he signed his work constantine, american citizen. that's the appropriate word for the day because that was his great pride was being an american citizen. painting that mural he fell and never really recovered. a lot he didn't die there but he didn't recover. a lot of the work of the artistry of the capitol since then was taken up by an artist named alan cox so they are corridors of the capitol. >> let's hear it for the best tour i have had. >> i did grow up there. in the rotunda, by the way, is a statue that we call the three ladies in the bathtub because it's a funny -- this rising out of rock and it's susan b. anthony and it took a long time to move them up from that crypt down below to the rotunda and a lot of private fund-raising to do that because we thought the ladies in the tub should definitely be in the rotunda, not in the basement. >> and when the president goes out to review the troops, again, this places back to washington because the militias joined up with him going up to mt. vernon up to his first inaugural. >> and arrived in new york and came across on a barge across the hudson river and wore his plain broad cloth suit, took the oath in federal hall and a week later martha washington arrived on that same barge with all kinds of fanfare. >> and president obama about to come into that hall and pay homage to the stature of martin luther king and in the streets of washington our parade we'll be right back with that abc news coverage of the inauguration 2013 continues. 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for presidents on inauguration day. joining me now in our cbs coverage is bob schieffer, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of ""face the nation."" bob, what are you expecting to see? >> well, it's going to be an important day for the nation, but i must say, you know, the fiscal cliff negotiations, the slaughter of those children in connecticut made it difficult for washington to be festive this time around. it's also a very unusual atmosphere because of this gridlock. i mean, you're not hearing people talk about hope and renewal this time around, but is the government broken? the whole system. and what can we do to fix it? people want washington and its politicians to work together. the politicians as yet have not been a i believe to figure out how to do that. but, you know, inaugural speeches can sometimes change the mood. you heard fdr, the only thing we have to fear. i remember when gerald ford said our long national nightmare is over. jack kennedy, ask not what you can do for your country. difference in how the nation feels about itself and about what's going on. i would say this. if there was a time when this country needed to hear a good speech and wanted to hear a good one, i think this would be the time. so let's hope we get a good one. >> of course, there was lincoln's second inaugural where he talked about the wounds of the nation. we know that the president has been working on this president for weeks and major garrett, our chief white house correspondent, is at the white house this morning with a little bit of insight on what we might hear today. >> well, good morning, scott. those closest to the president tell us this speech is in the moment and it's going to talk, they hope, credibly, believably about responsibilities ahead. and the prospect for not only bipartisan compromise, and things that didn't seem achievable four years ago. it might be worth reminding us ourselves how the president ended first inaugural address four years ago. scott, the president talked about america being in the midst of a winter of our hardship and he urged the nation to brave icy currents and to endure whatever storms may come. there was a sense of forboding then, a sense of crisis, both economic and otherwise, that white house advisers that he feels is no longer as present now as it was then. so that's part of the optimistic note he'll say, we have achieved things. we have more work to do, but it can be done together. that will be the central core and theme of this speech i'm told. and the president believes that president which could not have been delivered four years ago has a chance to resonate today. >> major, it bears noting that when the president delivered the winter of our hardship speech, the unemployment was 7.8%. the unemployment rate is 7.8%. so it's still a great deal of work to be done on the economy and a great many other things. nora o'donnell, the co-anchor of "cbs this morning" is down on the national mall and she has insight on what the president is looking to in a second term. >> that's right. on a day like this when most americans have expressed their frustration with washington, political leaders, this is day that we see hundreds of thousands of americans turn out to witness this piece of history. every second-term president since dwight eisenhower has had to deal with an opposition party in congress. that's nothing new that president obama is facing in this second term. but he's going to try and capture i think some of the magic of bipartisanship on a day like today. trying to put it in a bottle. because he really has a very ambitious agenda for his second term. we have heard him talk about it. gun safety, immigration reform. deficit reduction and those looming spending cuts that are a part of the sequestration. so that's lot before the president. but as major has noted this is a speech today that's not about specifics, but setting the tone and trying in some ways to push the reset button. >> thank you very much. the president and the first family are back at the white house this morning, but they started their day right across the street from the white house at st. john's episcopal church where our wyatt andrews is standing by this morning. >> scott, good morning. every president since franklin roosevelt, that's 80 years, has begun inauguration day here at st. john's church. the president arrived early this morning with the first lady, daughters malia and sasha, and the family of vice president biden. they came to a 50-minute prayer service. attended also by about 600 members of the parish and congregation. they also got some news when they heard that their reverend will be giving the benediction. the previous one had withdrawn after he gave an anti-gay sermon 20 years ago. he began today worshipping at the church known as the church of presidents. >> wyatt, thank you very much. also at the white house today, david axelrod is joining us this morning. the former city hall bureau chief of "the chicago tribune," but perhaps better known to everyone these days as the chief strategist and architect of the president's victory in 2008 and his most recent re-election as well. david, thank you very much for joining us this morning. >> great to be with you, scott. >> as we noted earlier, the unemployment rate on inauguration day in 2009 was 7.8 and it's 7.8% today. the president has a lot of work cut out for him. what do you think we will see from the president with regard to the economy going forward in the second term? >> well, first of all, i think it's worth noting it was 7.8% on the day he took office and it went up to 10.2% when the full brunt of the recession hit. and we have to build on it, not just to get the unemployment rate down, scott, but to make sure that people who work hard can get ahead. that they have a sense that their kids can do better. we have to not only take care of our fiscal problems but also make some investments in education and research and development, innovation. to get control of the energy future. all of that will be a part of the president's vision for the next four years. >> you know, bob schieffer mentioned earlier this morning the tragedy in newtown, connecticut, the president is proposing a number of changes to the gun laws in this country. how much a part of the president's resolve will that be in the months coming? >> well, the thing -- the president always said that, you know, you have to do many things at once when you're president, and that's a very important thing. we can't keep replicating these tragedies and it's not just the big tragedies, but the small, smaller strategy dtragedies than the streets every day. so he's determined to move forward on this package of laws. they're not the only things we need to do. some of the things have less to do with government and more to do with what we -- what we do in our home. what our children play and in terms of video games and what they watch. but certainly we need to do something about guns. we are hopeful that we're at a moment when we can pass the impasse that we have seen in the past and really move forward on it. >> hey, david, bob schieffer here. >> hey, bob. >> in normal times, probably we wouldn't report this, but in these fractured times this just in as they say. i'm told that speaker boehner, eric cantor, the number two republican in the house, and mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate, are at the white house right now having coffee with the president. do you think that there really is a chance that there can be some sort of a get together, bipartisan effort, something we haven't seen thus far? >> you know, not on everything, bob, but on some things for sure. not just because people are becoming enlightened, but because of their self-interest. if you look at your own polling and the polling that we have seen in the last few days, the republican party is trading at record lows. the congress at almost record lows. the strategy of obstruction has not been worked well for the republican party. that's why i think you saw them retreat from the plan to push this debt ceiling issue immediately upon returning to work. so i think that there's a prospect for getting some things done. certainly on issues like immigration reform. there's a powerful impetus for there to be progress. i think we can make some. >> david, thank you very much. you're going to be leaving the president's side and starting an institute of politics at the university of chicago and we wish you all the luck in the world. >> you guys, i need you out there. >> nancy cordis is there as a number of the dignitaries begin to take their seats. what are you seeing? >> scott, there are 1,600 seats that have been set up on the west front terrace of the capitol. people who will be surrounding the president as he takes the oath of office. we are still awaiting the announcement of the dignitaries who will come out in groups. first, the nation's diplomatic core, the governor, then the cabinet, the joint chief of staff, and supreme court. and two former presidents, bill clinton and president carter who will both be in attendance today. we won't see the other two living presidents george h.w. bush who was just released from the hospital and is who is now recovering, and george w. bush who sends his regrets. >> so as it happens because of the illness of the elder mr. bush, there will be only democratic presidents in attendance today. very, very unusual circumstance. the headline of the hour, the news broke moments ago by bob schieffer is that the republican leadership at this moment is in the white house having coffee with the president. perhaps a hopeful sign that agreements might come with the new year. here's what's coming up the rest of this inauguration day. at 10:40, the president and mrs. obama leave the white house for the capital. the inaugural ceremonies begin at 11:30 and include the ceremonial swearing-in of vice president biden. then at 11:55, president obama will be sworn in by chief justice john roberts. and at noon, the president will deliver his inaugural address. that will be followed by lunch at the capital. then around 2:30, the president leads a procession back to the white house where he and the first lady will watch the inaugural parade along pennsylvania avenue. down there among the people on the national mall is our national correspondent byron pitts. what do you see? >> good morning. 400,000 people were lucky enough to get tickets. they were members of the white house or the congress. about 30,000 people will sit closest to the podium. here in the same area four years ago. back then there was a great deal talk of race and the historical importance of the moment. i remember watching it, men and women wept as then president-elect obama took the oath of office. today, far less talk about race, mostly about the nation's business. but scott, there is a sense of joy in the air today, on 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ask your doctor about once-a-day xarelto®. for more information including cost support options, call 1-888-xarelto or visit goxarelto.com. welcome back to inauguration day 2013. i'm scott pelley. cbs news joined in our anchor booth by bob schieffer and now douglas brinkley. one of this nation's foremost presidential historians, a professor of history at rice university and the author of a recent biography of walter cronkite. thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> you got a call from the white house. the president wanted to see you to talk about his second inaugural address. you and some of your colleagues in the world of history. you can't tell us exactly what happened in that meeting because of course it was off the record. you wanted to give private advice to the president, but give us a sense of what it was like in the room and the things that the president might have been interested in. >> well, early on in his first term, he had a cabal of presidential historians, doris kearns goodwin and myself and others and this last one where he was very relaxed. you hear people talk about the gridlock in washington. this is a president that's also relieved. i mean, 2012 was a tough election. he pulled -- even after the denver debate problem, so he seemed very relaxed, very interested in abraham lincoln. no big surprise. any time he gets presidential historians together he loves to talk about lincoln. he is a scholar of lincoln. he reads everything he can on him and he think the second inaugural of lincoln is one of the great documents over time. it's been quoted over time, with malice towards none speech. the fact that we'll have a lincoln bible there today and it's the 150th of the emancipation proclamation is something he's interested in. >> we heard he's frustrated over washington right now. we hear that republicans say he doesn't like us. and did you find him frustrated? did you find him eager? how would you find his state of mind? >> very eager to move forward and not fall into this second curse, you know, of a second term. i mean, he's got to -- recognizes in history, in second terms he recognizes people did great thing. bill clinton would not be a great bill clinton if he hadn't done the budget surplus at that term. and diplomacy for reagan's term. and maybe he'll do something in a climate change. something you could not have touched in the first term. he tried a few times. but i think that's something that will come up in the second term, how do we grapple with the climate problem? >> doug brinkley, thank you very much. you'll give us historical context and perspective on this remarkable day in history. we'll look forward to talking to you in a little bit. chip reid is down there on the national mall. what are you seeing down there? >> well, scott, you can see behind me the crowd stretches from 9th street to the u.s. capitol. this is a third of the size of the crowd of four years ago. that crowd 1.8 million people was by far the biggest crowd in the history of presidential inaugurations. in fact, it was the biggest crowd for anything on the mall in american history. this crowd is actually probably going to be the fourth largest in history for inaugurations. but compared to that one, it's quite small. one thing we have seen among this crowd quite a bit is families with young children. we talked to one family from georgia. four years ago they brought their 2-year-old son here to see president obama's first inauguration. this time, they brought that son who is now 6 and their two twins who are 6 months old to book end the obama inaugurations. they want their children to see for the rest of their lives that they were here. scott? >> chip, thank you very much. we are looking at various washington dignitaries coming in to the capitol and taking their seats, waiting for the inauguration of the president, which will be coming up at about 11:55 eastern time. cbs news coverage of the inauguration of president barack obama will continue in a moment. this is a cbs 5 eyewitness news morning update. good morning it's 7:28 i'm michelle griego. >> and i'm frank mallicoat with a check of your headlines from cbs 5. the 49ers are going to the super bowl. >> y they are but it wasn't easy. tough start but a nice finish for the 9ers. they get their first super bowl berth in 18 years after a come from behind victory yesterday over the atlanta falcons. caltrains annual freedom train honoring dr. martin luther king junior leaves san jose two hours from now. the trip commemorates the march from selma to montgomery in 1965. tickets are $10 per person. and a local surfer is this year's winner at mavericks, peter mel beat out two dozen of the world's best. about 30,000 people on hand to watch. >> you completing yesterday. >> no, but i was watching. it's a lot safer from the shore. great weather not only this weekend, but today it's looking good. you begin to see the clouds encroaching closer to the coastline and will push on shore in the middle of the week. clear over the bay. temperatures on the cold side, 20s and 30s inland. by the afternoon we'll be enjoying hazy sunshine all the way to the coastline in the 60s. rain to the mildest week. and a -- middle of the week. and northbound 880 approaching mallory, we have an accident there just cleared to the right shoulder. and still a little slow there. the san mateo bridge where everything is moving fine in both directions and the bay bridge, no metering lights this morning because of the holiday. that's traffic back to you guys. happy martin luther king everyone. >> and we return you now to special cbs inauguration coverage. our next newscast is at 5:00 p.m. cbs coverage of the presidential inauguration continues. here again is scott pelley. >> welcome back to washington on this glorious inauguration day. i'm joined by bob schieffer and former secretary of state colin powell, from the bush administration. also former chairman of the joint chief of staff. and perhaps a man who has the busiest retirement i have seen. you put out another new book "it worked for me, lessons in leadership." congratulations on that. >> thank you very much. it's a book i'm proud of. 44 anecdotes of what worked for me. may work for you, may not. take a look. >> now, few people have as much experience as you have. how is a second term different than a first? >> well, you're building on a record and i think the president has a good record to build on. he has fixed the financial system or stabilized it. the economy is starting to improve. housing is up. automobile production is up. stock market has doubled. but there's a lot more to be done. gun control, climate control, immigration policy, and so i'm glad he was re-elected so he can continue that work and we don't sort of start from zero again. i hope today in his inauguration address he will speak to the americans and give us a vision. and i think he'll do that. i think he understands the importance of a second inaugural address. >> second terms are ones in which everyone in the administration is in a hurry. it's not really four more years. >> it's two more years. two more years and then the campaign starts again. and everyone will reposition themselves. i think the president understands this. >> so in your book you talk about what worked for you. what would you advise the president to do from a practical standpoint? what would you pick out as the most important thing he needs to do now and how would you advise him to go about it? >> the economy and the fiscal situation. the economy is something that will improve over time, i think, and continue to improve. but i'm deeply troubled about the difficulty we're having in the national debt negotiations. the fiscal cliff. the sequestration, continuing resolution. these people can't really plan until they have a better understanding. congress and members of the business community can't plan until these issues are behind us. i was kind of pleased to see that the republicans offered a new idea with the debt ceiling a few days ago. that's good. in the last week or so we have seen some changes on the republican side on immigration. a more -- more of an understanding for the need for an immigration policy. the country is becoming more and more diverse and minority. this is good. only in the united states could we handle this kind of diversity and we should be proud of it and we should educate the young people and give those who are not here under legal status an opportunity to gain some kind of legal status. that's what the legal immigration should be all about. and also, climate and gun control and all the other things that are before him. >> how did he get washington off the dime here? what's the first thing? >> one of the things that has gotten so much attention, he doesn't get along with come, doesn't spend enough time with them. i know he's thinking about that. i hope he does reach out more than he has in the first four years and i hope congress is ready to reciprocate. they can't defeat him in the election anymore. today is the day we come together as a nation and dedicate ourselves to doing the things that people want. what i have been saying to everybody, our founding fathers used to argue like the devil. i mean, they were really at each other. but at the end, they compromised to create a nation, to create a constitution. and in the spirit of arguing, feeling strongly to find a consensus that has to be the spirit of the second administration. second term. >> foreign policy is your expertise. three weeks ago we would not have thought of africa being a threat to americans. what concerns you about that situation? what can the president do about going forward? >> i think if we're talking about mali and places around mali, the president should support those who are going to lead the french. the french have a unique relationship and interest in mali. i think we should support them to the extent we can. they're one of our nato allies and they have been a friend of ours. but we have to keep our eye on the places. i don't think it will require american soldiers on the ground, but we have to realize that al qaeda has been badly diminished. let's not overlook the success we have had. but it doesn't mean it's gone away. and it doesn't mean that every al qaeda cell is getting ready to attack the united states of america. they're doing other things in the region as well. so be vigilant. help our friends. i don't think there's a need for a commitment of american troops. >> mr. secretary, thank you so much for being with us. as we watch this live shot of the entrance to the west wing of the white house where we're expecting the president and the first lady to come out any moment now to go to the limousine and take the trip of 1.6 miles to the capital for his second inauguration. mr. secretary, thank you for your time. >> thank you. john dickerson, our cbs 23450us -- news political director is down there on the national mall. and john, what are you expecting as we await the president's departure from the white house? sgll well, scott, in talking to someone close to president obama about this speech, they started -- their description of it is well, he won't say that he won, but when you start a description that way, although it will be about coming together and what a divided washington can do on these big problems, inside this speech there will be an argument for the values he fought for during the campaign. this is not a speech that's specific, paired with the save the union. the specifics will be in that. this is about themes. but in it, the president will be making a case for what he won. this is part of his new ton in the second part of his -- his second administration which is a more aggressive tone. and in dealing with congress one final note. it's not so much that he doesn't think schmoozing will work because they're not nice people. he just thinks that a deal made with republicans in congress in the house specifically will not get through the house. and that he has to be more aggressive because only aggression will get deals made. >> john, thank you very much. this is a live shot of the entrance to the west wing of the white house where we're expecting to see the president and the first lady very shortly. major garrett is just steps away on the north lawn of the white house. major? >> scott, moments like this are full of solemnity, precision and grandeur. it's built around the inauguration, and i can tell you that senior staff of the president and those who work most closely with him on the campaign have been waiting for the president to step out. he's going to begin the capital variation of the inaugural festivities. before he comes out, the president spent time enjoying a ceremonial and practical confrontation if you will or a session with the realities of divided government. all the congressional leadership, republican and democrat, were here for coffee before the president heads to the capitol. he talked about ending recriminations, and worn out dogmas and republicans believed when they gained back control of the house of representatives, not every grievance they said was petty. they said the representation of the republican constituents ought to matter. some of the grievances that occurred afterwards were long and bitter and full of recriminations. the inaugural address i'm told is meant to reflect on that, talk about possibilities in the future. bipartisan and otherwise. but before coming out, he spent some time with the congressional leadership over coffee. we were told that it was a calm, happy and joyous affair. because on a day like today, lawmakers come together to support their re-elected president and await his arrival. >> thank you very much. of course, very often when we are watching this scene in american history, the president and the first lady walk out of this door with the president-elect and the first lady to be, those times when there's a transition from one president to the next. but today, of course, it will just be president obama and first lady michelle obama as they head to the presidential limousine. bob schieffer, there have been a number of times in american history when the defeated president or the departing president and the president-elect have ridden together in a car or a carriage to the capitol. and sometimes that hasn't gone so well. >> one of the most awkward and worst moments. truman and eisenhower, they didn't like each other at all. they hardly spoke in the car. but you can just imagine having to get into the car with the guy who just beat you. and there's nobody that could find that very pleasant. it mean, it brings new meaning to the childhood phrase, are we there yet? here they come. >> and of course, mrs. obama stepping into the limousine. since we leave no stone unturned here at cbs she was wearing a thom browne coat and dress we are told. fabric was based on the style of a man's silk tie. we'll be seeing a lot more of that. i have people who hand me cards, bob. we have very, very smart people here at cbs news whose job is it to make me look smart. that's how we know that. we'll be expecting the president here shortly. i don't believe we have seen the vice president yet either. of course the marine guard standing there at the door as always. nora o'donnell our colleague and host of "cbs this morning" is down there at the mall. >> you described her clothing choices and sasha and malia, wearing purple. not red or blue, but purple. now we see the vice president, joe biden, as he joins the president there in the limousine to take this ride up to capitol hill. >> and the president's limousine standing by. this is the driveway right there in front of the west wing. the entrance to the west wing. if you go through this door and make a right, you'll find your way to the president's office and the press room and the offices of the national security council and all the other offices of the west wing. as bob schieffer first reported earlier this morning, the president has been meeting with the congressional leadership. the republican leadership in particular. he's been having coffee with them after the prayer service the president attended earlier this morning. quite a gesture as he approaches the beginning of his second term. in hopes of more cooperation. and here is the president now with charles schumer, the senior senator of new york. >> mr. schumer i believe is in charge of the congressional committee that puts the inauguration on. he'll be speaking before the president takes the oath this morning. of course, there will be no lack of conversation on this trip to the capitol. of course you'll have the vice president there. he can always be counted on to -- if there's a gap in the conversation, he'll fill it. >> it will be something to see whether between the vice president and senator schumer the president can get a word in edgewise on this short trip up. it's about 1.6 miles. i'm reminded that abraham lincoln once said about this trip, he said i have always been told that i'm going to hell, but i didn't realize it was two miles up the road with a dome on top of it. i'm sure all presidents feel that way from time to time. the president's armored limousine now moving past the entrance to the west wing and will soon be on its way out of the white house grounds and up pennsylvania avenue. senator schumer who is riding with the president will be essentially the master of ceremonies today at the inauguration event on the west front of the capitol. senat senator schumer is the chairman of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies so he'll be giving the very speech, a very brief speech today, and then as i said the master of ceremonies for all of the rest. there you saw the press van in front of the president's limousine which is sending us this beautiful live picture of the limousine. major garrett just saw the president drive by his location. major? >> yes, scott, i don't know if you can pick it up on the microphones but there's a huge roar from those in the bleachers just outside the fence. on the north side of the white house, as the presidential limousine began to emerge on to pennsylvania avenue for that very short drive up to capitol hill. i think we had a picture briefly of the new license plates on the presidential limousine. they have what is here referred to as the taxation without representation license plates. that's about home rule and eventually statehood here in the district of columbia. those are brand new on the president's limousine. he did not have them for if first -- for the first four years of his presidency, but in solidarity with the residents of district of columbia, he had them put on. this a new thing for the president on this inauguration day. they're making their public debut as the president makes his way up pennsylvania avenue to the capitol. scott? >> and just ahead on this motorcade route is cbs news correspondent and our state department correspondent margaret brennan. what do you see from your vantage point? >> well, the president is passing by at any moment, scott. this is freedom plaza. this is where martin luther king penned his i have a dream speech. a bit of poetic resonance today. you can see the police escort is starting to drive by right now. along this route, behind the police, you will see u.s. marines lining the parade route. they are facing away from the crowd. they're not carrying any arms. they're not here for law enforcement. they are purely here to salute the commander in chief as he passes by. there are more than 1,000 members of the military here today. all four sectors and the coast guard here to salute the president because this is considered a ceremonial change of command for the commander in chief coming in. and as you can see the motorcade just now passing by here at freedom plaza. and the crowd is erupting, they are waving to the president as he passes by. you can see some of the bleachers are still somewhat empty. getting filled up. people really want to be here and see the president walk out of that car on his return after the swearing-in. this is one of the few places along the parade route where you can see a straight shot through to the u.s. capitol building here. >> margaret, thank you very much. as you can see no problem with the traffic for the president. he seems to be getting up pennsylvania avenue with no concern of traffic. we want to be sure to catch the president as he arrives at the capitol which will be in a couple of minutes. so we will break away for just a moment as our cbs news coverage of the inauguration of barack obama continues in just a moment. this portion of cbs news inauguration coverage is sponsored by citi. supporting progress for 200 years. in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our anniversary matter to you? 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[ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus liquid gels speeds relief to your worst cold symptoms plus has a decongestant for your stuffy nose. thanks. that's the cold truth! cbs news coverage of the inauguration of the president continues live. this is the president's motorcade making its way up pennsylvania avenue. a short trip of about 1.6 miles and the president's motorcade is approaching the capitol now. there we see the outgoing treasury secretary tim geithner, as a number of dignitaries are now arriving at the capitol. there is the president's limousine now. the president left the white house with the first lady just a few moments ago. the vice president is in the car with him. and the senior senator of new york, charles schumer, who is also essentially the master of ceremonies at today's inaugural events at the capitol. here's the car now approaching the capitol. our jan crawford is inside the capitol now, as a number of people are beginning to arrive. jan, what do you see there? >> well, scott, a few moments ago almost all of it seemed like the united states senate just walked by here to file outside and take their seats. they're on the west front to await the ceremonies that of course will be coming up. then after the president gives his inaugural address he will come in here, he'll come through the rotunda, walk by that bust of dr. martin luther king, jr., and then into statuary hall for a tradition that's the most exclusive lunch you can imagine. all of the nation's leaders, the president, the vice president, congressional leaders, supreme court justices, their spouses, they will all gather for a lunch to put politics aside for at least a brief moment. >> thank you very much, jan. as we watch the president's motorcade approaching the capitol, let me give you a little bit of an advanced look on what you're seeing as the inauguration ceremonies proceed. as we mentioned, senator charles schumer of new york will be the master of ceremonies. he will have a short speech and then he will be introducing myrlie evers-williams, a former chair of the naacp and the widow of medgar evers. the naacp field secretary who was gunned down in 1963. one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement. myrlie evers-williams will be giving the invocation at the beginning of the ceremonies and then we will see justice sonia sotomayor who is one of the newer associate justices on the supreme court. she will be delivering the oath of office to the vice president. this is beyonce coming in now and we will be hearing from her. there are several musical performances today. after the vice president is sworn in, james taylor will be singing "america the beautiful." then following that, john roberts, jr., the chief justice of the united states will administer the oath of office to the president. we just saw 88-year-old jimmy carter arriving on the scene. former presidents are almost always in attendance at these events, but today, george herbert walker bush and his son, george w. bush are not in attendance. the elder mr. bush has recently been released from a month-long stay in the hospital due to a respiratory ailment and so both bush families announced that they would not be able to attend because of the poor health of the elder george bush. the president after taking the oath of office will deliver his second inaugural address. following that, kelly clarkson will be singing "my country 'tis of thee." and these are the supreme court justices being led in, led by chief justice of the united states john roberts jr. who delivered the oath in 2009. here is the first lady as she is coming in to the capitol. as we mentioned earlier, she's wearig a dress and a coat by the american designer thom browne. navy blue we are told. there's justice sotomayor. nominated to the supreme court by president obama. she will deliver the oath of office to the vice president. justice elena kagan following her. the nine justices of the supreme court, filing in to take their seats. jan, you are inside the capitol, as we see the vice president coming in. tell us what we're seeing now. >> well, scott, right now we are getting this -- the supreme court justices walking out. i want to make the point that one of the things that -- and we talk about the president's term and what he can accomplish in his next term in office. the supreme court is something that could have an enormous impact on this country because of course that can be a president's most lasting legacy. those justices will remain on that court long after the president has left town. he's already had a few pointed out two nomination, justices sotomayor and kagan. most believe he'll get one more. maybe two. if a conservative judge retires that court so closely 5-4 with conservatives in the balance, he could change the direction to a more liberal direction. >> there are four justices who are in their 70's. and ruth baden ginsburg will be 80 in a few weeks. here is the president now as he enters the capitol. let's watch for just a moment. >> thank you. >> greeting the leadership of the house and the senate as he came in. nancy cordes is on the west front of the capitol. which you see before you now. how are things looking now that everyone is arriving? >> well, people are in a pretty good mood, scott. that may have something to to with the weather. anywhere who was here four years ago remembers how frigid it was, 28-plus degrees windchill and there was a lot of talk about the number of republicans who would be sitting this inauguration out, but i'm seeing plenty of republicans on the front terrace. including senate leaders, a number of senate republicans who are often at odds with the president, like rand paul of kentucky, or chuck grassley of iowa. and the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich who himself was a candidate for president. it's always interesting to see who gets the choice seats next to the president today. on this martin luther king day, we are seeing a number of african-american leaders. the president of the naacp, ben jealous, reverend al sharpton. we are seeing two of the president's former chiefs of staff, william daley and rahm emanuel. >> nancy, thank you. as we see mr. and mrs. clinton. former president oba former president clinton and secretary of state clinton. there will be two nobel peace prize winners on the dias today. that would be president carter who won the prize in 2002 and of course president obama who has won the prize. as we watch more dignitaries coming on to the west front of the capitol, let's go to our co-anchor of "cbs this morning." >> we saw mr. clinton and secretary of state clinton. one of the few sightings we saw of her, after she was out for a few weeks with the concussion and then the blood clot that was discovered there. bill clinton who is here today as you mentioned scott. the two president bushs will not be there today. we see -- it's a big week too for hillary clinton as she's going to testify in one of her last acts on what happened in benghazi, libya. that's on wednesday when she testifies before congress. >> thank you very much. ♪ listening to the u.s. army dr trumpeteer. >> ladies and gentlemen, president carter and mrs. rosalyn carter. >> the music that you're hearing in the background is, of course, the u.s. marine band, which will celebrate its 215th anniversary this year. the u.s. marine band, the longest running musical organization in the united states of america. thomas jefferson described it as the president's own band, and they have adopted that as their motto ever since, the president's own. ♪ >> former president carter having one of the most successful careers ever as a former president, starting the carter center, which has been working to promote human rights and peace around the world ever since. and as we mentioned, winning the nobel peace prize in 2002. >> you know, scott, in africa, for example, jimmy carter is one of our most well-known officials because of the work he's done to eliminate disease there, different things like that. it's remarkable what he has managed to achieve since he left the white house. >> and if we're listening to the army trumpets, that means somebody else of note is about to appear. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the 42nd president of the united states, william jefferson clinton, and secretary of state hillary rodham clinton. >> hello! hey, how are you all? hi! [ cheers and applause ] >> god bless you! >> former president clinton, now 66 years old, has made a post-presidential career out of world peace himself with the clinton global initiative, which seeks to address issues of poverty, intolerance and conflict around the world. >> mrs. clinton is wearing low heels, by the way, scott, after that, you know, very terrible spill she had when she slipped, you know, and had that concussion. and people were very worried about her after the blood clot developed, but she looks pretty good! i mean, she looks as if she feels pretty good today, and i think a lot of people wondered if she would be here today, but here she is. the president, of course, he always enjoys himself. >> secretary clinton, of course, bob, as you know, came back to work as secretary of state several days ago but is in her last few days as secretary of state, as the president has announced that senator john kerry will be his nominee to be the new secretary of state. as we take this beautiful look at the crowd on the national mall, let us tell you that our cbs news coverage of the inauguration of the president will continue in just a moment. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you turn an entrepreneur's dream... ♪ into a scooter that talks to the cloud? 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>> i can't quite tell. >> it's either orrin hatch or the lone ranger. >> you know, some of you may be curious about the flags that are hanging on the front of the u.s. capitol. but before we talk about that, here they are, malia and sasha, the president's daughters. malia now 14 years old and about as tall as the first lady, and sasha now 11 years old. that's their grandmother walking behind them, the first lady's mother, marian robinson. let's listen as they're announced. >> a little bit of a walk from where they were being held in the capitol out to the west front of the u.s. capitol. >> but as they go through that door, scott, it is truly the most spectacular sight in all of washington, because the mall opens up right in front of you. you can see all the way down to the lincoln memorial, even past the washington monument. you can see it all there. ronald reagan was the one who decided that they ought to have the inaugurations on the west front. up until his time, they held it on the other side of the capitol. but you know, the old movie actor knew the value of a good picture and he walked out and said we need to be having this here, so that's how it got started on the west side. >> and they've been there ever since. norah o'donnell is down there on the mall with the people of the united states. norah? >> and bob's right, there are hundreds of thousands of people here on the mall. they are saying that it would be between 600,000 and 800,000, but this is still expected to be the second largest inaugural in history. >> malia obama and sasha obama. also, miss marian robinson. >> and of course, scott, there you see the first daughters announced. malia 14 and sasha 11. we heard the president joke recently that they don't want to spend any time with him now that they're teenagers. and so, he would have more time to spend with members of congress, as people are urging him to reach across the aisle. and of course, just like their mother, they are accomplished young women, but there is attention on their fashion, and they both are wearing purple. and malia, who's the taller there, is wearing j. crew, and sasha is wearing a kate spade coat and dress. of course, people pay close attention to that, scott, and as many young women look up to them as role models. >> very shortly we'll expect to see mrs. biden, dr. jill biden, the wife of the vice president, announced and seated as well, as the last few dignitaries take their places at the west front of the capitol. i mentioned the flags hanging in front of the capitol earlier. some of you may have noticed those and wondered what those flags are all about. well, we can show you a picture of the flags hanging above the group now. there they are. the flags on the outside edges, those are the original betsy ross flags or the betsy ross design. the next flags in are the flags of the incoming president's home state as the united states was constituted at that time. for these purposes, they are considering the president's home state to be illinois, so that is what the u.s. flag looked like when the state of illinois was admitted. and of course, the flag in the middle is old glory as she is constituted today. we'll be expecting to hear the vice president's wife, jill biden, announced very shortly. and then following that, we will have the first lady and the president. ♪ >> there are malia and sasha. malia 14, sasha 11, standing there with their grandmother, marian robinson, the first lady's mother who lives at the white house and has lived at the white house these last four years. >> i think that is such a wonderful thing and such a really good thing, because she's there to be with the grandkids. and you know, what grandma -- i say this as a grandfather -- doesn't want to be with the grandkids? and she's there and she is kind of the core of stability for that family when the family's traveling. grandma's always there. i think it's just terrific. >> here's dr. biden in the gray outfit with the white pants. the vice president's wife right there in the middle. we should be seeing the first lady announced next. bob, as the dignitaries are passing through the capitol, they're passing under the dome in an area that's called the crypt. now, nobody's buried there. >> no. >> why is it called the crypt? >> well, they had planned for george washington to be buried there, and the capitol was designed, that was the idea. and washington's family wanted no part of that. they decided he'd be buried out at mt. vernon, at his home. but it has continued to this day to be called the crypt. and you know, when you're covering the capitol like i did for so many years, you know, it's always kind of fun when somebody says there's going to be a news conference at the crypt. [ laughter ] but that's just what they call it. >> here is the first lady now, as she has crossed through the crypt and is on her way down the stairs to the west front of the capitol, sporting her new hairstyle, which we saw for the first time just a few days ago. mrs. obama was standing there with her daughters as the president took the official oath of office which was yesterday at the white house in the white house blue room. >> i hope she's going to be warm enough out there. it's a beautiful coat, but maybe it's fur-lined or something, scott. it gets cold out there on that podium. i have stood out there doing inaugurals. they used to let the reporters get very close to the podium. and it can get very uncomfortable after you've been out there for a while. some of these people that are out in the crowd have been out there, i think they started seating them around 8:30 this morning, which is -- so, they're probably a little chilly by now. >> well, it's around about 39 degrees out there, which is much better than 2009 when it was about 28 degrees when the president took the oath. but bob, there have been some brutal inauguration days, snowstorms, terrible weather. >> well, ronald reagan, the second time around, remember they had to move it inside the capitol. >> mrs. michelle obama, accompanied by secretary of the senate, clerk of the house of representatives. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> mrs. obama making her way to the rest of her family, her daughters and her mother. the president will be seated next to them shortly. next, we should be hearing the announcer present the vice president of the united states. norah, as we watch the vice president making his way to the west front of the capitol, let's switch to you for a moment. >> that's right. and you know, the vice president last night was at an inaugural reception, and he was singing the praises of his boss, barack obama, and saying he's just getting started, he's just getting started. and he promised supporters at this reception last night that in the weeks and months ahead, that they would reduce gun violence in america, that they would pass comprehensive immigration reform, and he said, "we're going to put this nation's economy on a sustainable path." so, vice president biden has been an integral part, certainly, of this administration. and scott, there was a funny moment, too, this weekend during some of the festivities when the vice president was addressing supporters from iowa and said how proud he was to be the president of the united states. his son had to tap him on the shoulder and let him know that he misspoke. >> let's listen in as they announce the vice president. ♪ >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states, joseph r. biden, accompanied by inaugural coordinator for the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, kelly fado, senate deputy sergeant at arms martina bradford, house deputy sergeant at arms kerry hanley, senate majority leader harry reid and house democratic leader nancy pelosi. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> and, of course, here's the president being led by the house sergeant at arms, paul irving, and followed by the senior senator from new york, charles schumer, who will be master of ceremonies leading up to the president's inauguration. the president passing through the part of the capitol known as the crypt and preparing to be announced at the west front of the capitol. >> members of the republican leadership behind the president as he is being led to the entrance to the west front. john boehner, the speaker of the house, four years ago in 2009 was merely the house minority leader, now the leader of republicans in the house of representatives. there is the crowd on the national mall, the vice president. in the foreground, members of the supreme court. >> i guess there's no standard hat for the supreme court members. justice scalia has that kind of large beret kind of thing, and then justice breyer right beside him, something like a bellhop's hat, isn't it? i mean, how do you -- >> many descriptions out there. >> style it, kind of come up with a new hat. >> there's the chief justice, john roberts jr. and here are the ruffles and flourishes from the army trumpeteers announcing the president of the united states. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack h. obama, escorted by jean hard win bore vits, terrance w. gainer, house sergeant at arms paul irving, chairman of the congressional committee on ceremonies, senator charles schumer, senator lamar alexander, the speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner, senate majority leader harry reid, house majority leader eric cantor and house minority leader nancy pelosi. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the president gazing out on the crowd and on one of the most beautiful views of america, down the national mall, past the washington monument, all the way to the lincoln memorial. we know that president lincoln has been on the president's mind, as he has written, rewritten and rewritten his inaugural address for today. the president speaking to charles schumer there, the senior senator from new york. and when the official program begins in just a couple of minutes, senator schumer will be the master of ceremonies, introducing those who will be coming both before and after the president. the invocation will be delivered by myrlie evers-williams, the former chair of the naacp, and of course, the widow of medgar evers, one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement, who was assassinated in 1963. then justice sonia sotomayor will administer the oath of office to the vice president. chief justice john roberts jr. will administer the oath to the president. james taylor will be singing "america the beautiful." immediately after the president's oath, the president will deliver his second inaugural address. then we'll hear from kelly clarkson, as she sings "my country 'tis of thee." the poet who will speak today is richard blanco. he's a poet who was trained as a civil engineer because his parents insisted that writing would never take him anywhere, but he will be delivering his poetry today at the president's inauguration. and then the benediction will be delivered by luis leon, who is the rector of st. john's church, the little church right across the street from the white house. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the chairman for the inaugurational ceremonies, the honorable charles e. schumer. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, members of congress, all who are present and to all who are watching, welcome to the capitol and to this celebration of our great democracy. now, this is the 57th inauguration of an american president, and no matter how many times one witnesses this event, its simplicity, its innate majesty, and most of all, its meaning, that sacred and yet cautious entrusting of power from we, the people, to our chosen leader never fails to make one's heart beat faster, as it will today with the inauguration of president barack h. obama! now, we know that we would not be here today were it not for those who stand guard around the world to preserve our freedom. to those in our armed forces, we offer our infinite thanks for your bravery, your honor, your sacrifice. [ applause ] >> this democracy of ours was forged by intellect in argument, by activism and blood, and above all, from john adams to elizabeth cady stanton to martin luther king, by a stubborn adherence to the notion that we are all created equal and that we deserve nothing less than a great republic worthy of our consent. the theme of this year's inaugural is "faith in america's future." the perfect embodiment of this unshakeable confidence in the ongoing success of our collective journey is an event from our past. i speak of the improbable completion of the capitol dome and capping it with the statue of freedom, which occurred 150 years ago in 1863. when abraham lincoln took office two years earlier, the dome above us was a half-built eyesore. conventional wisdom was that it should be left unfinished until the war ended, given the travails and financial needs of the times. but to president lincoln, the half-finished dome symbolized a half-divided nation. lincoln said, "if people see the capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the union shall go on." and so, despite the conflict which engulfed the nation and surrounded the city, the dome continued to rise. on december 2nd, 1863, the statue of freedom, a woman, was placed atop the dome where she still stands today. in a sublime irony, it was a former slave, now free american philip reid, who helped to cast the bronze statue. now, our present times are not as perilous or as despairing as they were in 1863, but in 2013, far too many doubt the future of this great nation and our ability to tackle our own year's half-finished domes. today's problems are intractable, they say, the times are so complex, the differences in the country and the world so deep, we will never overcome them. when thoughts like these produce anxiety, fear and even despair, we do well to remember that americans have always been and still are a practical, optimistic, problem-solving people, and that as our history shows, no matter how steep the climb, how difficult the problems, how half-finished the task, america always rises to the occasion. america prevails and america prospers. [ cheers and applause ] and those who bet against this country have inevitably been on the wrong side of history. so, it is a good moment to gaze upward and behold the statue of freedom at the top of the capitol dome. it is a good moment to gain strength and courage and humility from those who were determined to complete the half-finished dome. it is a good moment to rejoice today at this 57th presidential inaugural ceremony, and it is the perfect moment to renew our collective faiths in the future of america. thank you and god bless these united states. in that spirit of faith, i would now like to introduce civil rights leader myrlie evers, who has committed her life to extending the promise of our nation's founding principles to all americans. mrs. evers will lead us in the invocation. >> america, we are here, our nation's capitol, on this day, january the 21st, 2013, the inauguration of our 45th president, barack obama. we come at this time to ask blessings upon our leaders, the president, vice president, members of congress, all elected and appointed officials of the united states of america. we are here to ask blessings upon our armed forces, blessings upon all who contribute to the essence of the american spirit, the american dream. the opportunity to become whatever our mankind, womankind allows us to be. this is the promise of america. as we sing the words of belief, this is my country, let us act upon the meaning that everyone is included. may the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of every woman, man, boy and girl be honored. may all your people, especially the least of these, flourish in our blessed nation. 150 years after the emancipation proclamation and 50 years after the march on washington, we celebrate the spirit of our ancestors, which has allowed us to move from a nation of unborn hopes and a history of disenfranchised folks to today's expression of a more perfect union. with ask, too, almighty, that where our paths seem blanketed by throngs of oppression and riddled by pangs of despair, we ask for your guidance toward the light of deliverance and that the vision of those who came before us and dreamed of this day, that we recognize that their visions still inspire us. they are a great cloud of witnesses unseen by the naked eye, but all around us, thankful that their living was not in vain. for every mountain you gave us the strength to climb, your grace is pleaded to continue that climb for america and the world. we now stand beneath the shadow of the nation's capitol, whose golden dome reflects the unity and democracy of one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. approximately four miles from where we are assembled, the hallowed remains of men and women rest in arlington cemet y cemetery, they who believed, fought and died for this country. may their spirit infuse our being to work together with respect, enabling us to continue to build this nation. and in so doing, we send a message to the world that we are strong, fierce in our strength and ever vigilant in our pursuit of freedom. we ask that you grant our president the will to act courageously but cautiously when confronted with danger and to act prudently but deliberately when challenged by adversity. please continue to best his efforts to lead by example in consideration and favor of the diversity of our people. bless our families all across this nation. we thank you for this opportunity of prayer to strengthen us, for the journey through the days that lie ahead. we invoke the prayers of our grandmothers who taught us to pr pray, god, make me a blessing. let their spirit guide us as we claim the spirit of old. there's something within me that holds the reins. there's something within me that banishes pain. there's something within me i cannot explain. but all i know, america, there is something within, there is something within. in jesus' name and the name of all who are holy and right, we pray. amen. >> i am pleased to introduce the award-winning tabernacle choir, the brooklyn tabernacle choir, to sing "battle hymn of the republic." ♪ ♪ glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord ♪ ♪ he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ♪ ♪ he hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword ♪ ♪ his truth is marching on ♪ glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ his truth is marching on ♪ in the beauty of the lilies christ was born across the sea ♪ ♪ with the glory in his bosom that transfigured you and me ♪ ♪ as he died to make men whole, let us live to make men free ♪ ♪ our god is marching on ♪ glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ marching on ♪ glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ ♪ his truth is march iing on ♪ ♪ marching on, his truth is marching on ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> please join me in welcoming my colleague and my friend, the senator from tennessee, the honorable lamar alexander. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, ladies and gentlemen, the late alex haley, the author of "roots," lived his life by these six words -- find the good and praise it. today we praise the american tradition of transferring or reaffirming immense power in the inauguration of the president of the united states. we do this in a peaceful, orderly way. there is no mob, no coup, no insurrection. this is a moment when millions stop and watch, a moment most of us always will remember. it is a moment that is our most conspicuous and enduring symbol of the american democracy. how remarkable that this has survived for so long in such a complex country when so much power is at stake. this freedom to vote for our leaders and the restraint to respect the results. last year at mt. vernon, a tour guide told me that our first president, george washington, once posed this question -- what is most important, washington asked, of this grand experiment, the united states? and then washington answered his own question in this way -- not the election of the first president, but the election of its second president, the peaceful transfer of power is what will separate our country from every other country in the world. so, today we celebrate the 57th inauguration of the american preside president. find the good and praise it. now, it is my honor -- [ applause ] it is my honor to introduce the associate justice of the supreme court, sonia sotomayor, for the purpose of administering the oath of office to the vice president. will everyone please stand? >> thanks for doing this. >> thank you. mr. vice president, please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, joseph r. biden jr., do solemnly swear. >> i, joseph r. biden jr., do solemnly swear. >> that i will support and defend the constitution of the united 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 and allegiance to the same. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. >> without any mental reservation 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 of which i am about to enter. >> the duties of the office of which i am about to enter. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. ♪ >> it is my pleasure to introduce renowned musical artist james taylor. ♪ oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain ♪ ♪ for purple mountains' majesties above the fruited plain ♪ ♪ america, america, god shed his grace on thee ♪ ♪ and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea ♪ ♪ from sea to shining sea [ applause ] >> it is my honor to present the chief justice of the united states, john g. roberts jr., who will administer the presidential oath of office. everyone, please rise. >> please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> the office of the president of the united states. >> the office of the 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 the constitution of the united states. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, it is my great privilege and distinct honor to introduce the 44th president of the united states of america, barack h. obama! [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. thank you. thank you so much. vice president biden, mr. chief justice, members of the united states congress, distinguished guests and fellow citizens, each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our constituti constituti constitution, we affirm the promise of our democracy, we recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the penance of our faith or the origins of our names. what makes us exceptional, what makes us american is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." that being endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. today we continue a never-ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time. for history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing, that while freedom is a gift from god, it must be secured by his people here on earth. the patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. they gave to us a republic, a government of and by and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed. and for more than 200 years, we ha ha have, through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half slave and half free. we made ourselves anew and vowed to move forward together. together we determined that a modern economy that creates railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce, schools and colleges to train our workers. together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play. together, we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune. through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumb to the fiction that all society's ills can be cured through government alone. our celebration of initiatives and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, these are constants in our character. we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. for the american people can no more meet the demands of today's world by acting alone than american soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias. no single person can train all the math and science teachers we'll need to equip our children for the future or build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores. now more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation and one people. this generation of americans has been tested by crises that sealed our resolve and proved our resilience. a decade of war is now ending. an economic recovery has begun. america's possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands -- youth and drive, diversity and openness, an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. my fellow americans, we are made for this moment and we will seize it so long as we seize it together. for we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. we believe that america's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. we know that america thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work, when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. we are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed she is free. and she is equal not just in the eyes of god, but also in our own. we understand that our programs are inadequate to the needs of our time, but we must harness new ideas and technology to remake our government, revamp our tax code, reform our schools, and empower our citizens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, reach higher. but while the means will change, our purpose in doing, a nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single american. that is what this moment requires. that is what will give real meaning to our creed. we, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. we must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. but we reject the belief that america must choose between caring for the generation that built this country, and investing in the generation that will build its future. for we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn. we do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few. we recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any time, may face a job loss, or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terrible storm. the commitments we make to each other, through medicare and medicaid and social security, these things do not sap our nation, they strengthen us. they do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risks that make this country great. we, the people, still believe that our obligations as americans are not just to ourselves, but to all prosperity. we will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. the path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. but america cannot resist this transition. we must lead it. we cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industry, we must claim its promise. that's how we will maintain our economic vitality, and our national treasure. our forests and waterways, our croplands and snow-capped peaks. that is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by god. that's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared. we, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war. our brave men and women in uniform, tempered by the flames of battle, are unmatched in skill and courage. our citizens, feared by the memory of those we have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty. the knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant against those who would do us harm. but we are also heirs to those who won the peace and not just the war. who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends, and we must carry those lessons into this time, as well. we will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of arms, and the rule of law. we will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully, not because we are naive about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durbly lift suspicion and fear. america will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of the globe, and we will renew those institutions that extend our capacity to manage crises abroad. for no one has a greater stake in a peaceful world than its most powerful nation. we will support democracy from asia to africa, from the americas to the middle east, because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom, and we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice, not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes, tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice. we, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths that all of us are created equal, is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our forbears through seneca falls and selma and stonewall, just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone. to hear a king proclaim, that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on earth. it is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. for our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal, as well. our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see america as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce, rather than expelled from our country. our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of detroit to the hills of appalachia to the quiet lanes of newtown know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm. that is our generation's task. to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every american. being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life. it does not mean we all define liberty in exactly the same way. or follow the same, precise path to happiness. progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time. for now, decisions are upon us, and we cannot afford delay. we cannot mistake absoluteism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name calling as reasoned debate. we must act. we must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect. we must act, knowing that today's victories will be only partial, and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years, and 40 years, and 400 years hence, to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare, philadelphia hall. my fellow americans, the oath i have sworn before you today, like the one recited by others who serve in this capitol, was an oath to god and country, not party or faction. and we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration of our service. but the words i spoke today are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty. or an immigrant realizes her dream. my oath is not so different from the pledge we all make to the flag that waves above and that fills our hearts with pride. they are the words of citizens, and they represent our greatest hope. you and i, as citizens, have the power to set this country's courses. you and i, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas. let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what is our lasting birth right. with common effort, and common purpose, with passion, and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom. thank you, god bless you. and may he forever bless these united states of america. >> at this time, please join in welcoming award winning artist, kelly clarkson, accompanied by the united states marine band. ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ let music swell the breeze and ring from all the trees sweet freedom's song ♪ ♪ let mortal tongues awake let all that breathe partake ♪ ♪ let rocks their silence break ♪ ♪ our father's god to thee author of liberty to thee we sing ♪ ♪ long may our land be bright with freedom's holy light ♪ ♪ protect us by thy might great god our king ♪ >> wow. our next distinguished guest is the poet richard blanco who will share with us words he has composed for this occasion. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, america, one today. one sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the smokies, greeting the faces of the great lakes, spreading a simple truth across the great plains and charging across the rockies. one light, waking up rooftops, under each one a story, told by our silent gestures, moving across windows. my face, your face, millions of faces in morning's mirrors, each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day. the pencilled yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights, fruit stands, apples, limes and oranges, arrayed like rainbows, begging our praise. silver trucks, heavy with oil or paper, bricks or milk, teeming over highways, alongside us, on our way, to clean tables, read ledgers, or save lives. to teach geometry, or ring up groceries, as my mother did, for 20 years, so i could write this poem for all of us today. all of us. as vital as the one light we move through, the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day, equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined. the i have a dream we all keep dreaming. or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain the empty desks of 20 children marked absent today, and forever. many prayers, but one life, breathing color into stained glass windows, life into the faces of bronze statues, warmth onto the steps of our museums and park benches, as mothers watch children slide into the day. one ground. our ground. rooting us to every stalk of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands. hands gleaning coal or planting windmills in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm. hands digging trenches, routing pipes and cables. hands as worn as my father's, cutting sugarcane so my brother and i could have books and shoes. the dust of farms and deserts, cities and plains, mingled by one wind, our breath. breathe. hear it through the day's gorgeous din of honking cabs, buses launching down avenues, the symphony of footsteps, guitars and screeching subways. the unexpected song bird on your clothesline. hear squeaky playground swings, trains whistling, or whispers acrokrocross cafe tables. hear the doors we open each day for each other, saying, hello, shall up, bon giorno, howdy, namaste, or buenos dias. in the language my mother taught me. in every language, spoken into one wind, carrying our lives without prejudice, as these words break from my lips. one sky, since the appalachians and sierras claimed their majesty, and the mississippi and colorado worked their way to the sea. thank the work of our hands, weaving steel into bridges, finishing one more report for the boss on time, stitching another wound or uniform. the first brush stroke on a portrait, or the last floor on the freedom tower, jutting into the sky, that yields to our resilience. one sky. toward which we sometimes lift our eyes, tired from work. some days guessing at the weather of our lives. some days giving thanks for a love that loves you back. sometimes praising a mother who knew how to give, or forgiving a father who couldn't give what you wanted. we head home through the gloss of rain or weight of snow, or the plum blush of dusk. but always, always home. always under one sky. our sky. and always one moon, like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop and every window of one country. all of us, facing the stars. hope, a new constellation. waiting for us to map it. waiting for us to name it, together. >> ladies and gentlemen, it is now my privilege to introduce reverend dr. luis leon to deliver the benediction. >> let us pray. gracious and eternal god, as we conclude the second inauguration of president obama, we ask for your blessings as we seek to become, in the words of martin luther king, citizens of a beloved community, loving you and loving our neighbors as ourselves. we pray that you will douse us with your continued presence, because without it, hatred and arrogance will infect our hearts. but with your blessing, we know that we can break down the walls that separate us. we pray for your blessing today, because without it, mistrust, prejudice, and rancor will rule our hearts. but with the blessing of your presence, we know that we can renew the ties of mutual regard which can best form our civic life. we pray for your blessing, because without it, suspicion, despair, and fear of those different from us will be our rule of life. but with your blessing, we can see each other created in your image. a unit of god's grace, unprecedented, irrepeatable, and irreplaceable. repray for your blessing, because without it, we will see only what the eye can see. but with the blessing of your blessing we will see that we are created in your image, whether brown, black, or white, male or female, first generation immigrant american, or daughter of the american revolution, gay or straight, rich or poor. we pray for your blessing, because without it, we will only see scarcity in the midst of abundance. but with your blessing, we will recognize the abundance of the gifts of this good land with which you have endowed this nation. we pray for your blessing. bless all of us. privileged to be citizens and residents of this nation, with a spirit of gratitude and humility that we may become a blessing among the nations of this world. we pray that you will shower with your life-giving spirit the elected leaders of this land, especially barack our president and joe our vice president. fill them with the love of truth and righteousness, that they may serve this nation ably and be glad to do your will. endow their hearts with wisdom and forbearance so that peace may prevail with righteousness, justice with order, so that men and women throughout this nation can find with one another the fulfillment of our humanity. we pray that the president, vice president, and all in political authority will remember the words of the prophet micah, what doth the lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and always walk humbly with god. [ speaking spanish ] mr. president, mr. vice president, may god bless you all your days. all this, we pray in your most holy name. amen. >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the singing of our national anthem by award-winning artist, beyonce, accompanied by the u.s. marine band. following the national anthem, please remain at your place while the presidential party exits the platform. ♪ ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ 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 rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ and the home of the brave? ♪ ♪ the brave >> not at all sure that beyonce needed the microphone. i'm sure they probably could have heard her all the way down to the lincoln memorial without it. a beautiful rendition of the national anthem as we hear the marine band strike up the tune and we watch the president and the rest of the dignitaries proceed to lunch in the capitol. the president's second inaugural address might be considered, when you strip everything away, might be considered on this martin luther king day to have been a civil rights speech. right in the middle of the speech, the president said, we declare today the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal, it is the star that guides us, just as it guided our forbears through seneca falls and selma and stonewall. three touchstones of the american civil rights movement. seneca falls. the first major women's rights convention in seneca falls, new york, in 1948. stonewall, the stonewall inn in new york city, 1969, a gay bar that the new york city police raided, touching off the gay rights movement. and selma, of course, selma, alabama, 1965, where the police cracked down on the freedom marchers. the president used the preamble of the constitution, those first three words, we, the people. over and over again. in a speech that sought to stitch together the very tapestry of the american people. we're joined up here by bob schieffer, our chief washington correspondent, and anchor of "face the nation," and note the presidential historian doug brinkley. bob, what did you hear in the speech? >> well, i'll tell you what i did not hear. i didn't hear a line that kind of sums it up. there was no, the only thing we have to fear, there was no, with malice toward none, with charity for all. i kept looking in the speech at some point for that line. this was not that kind of a speech. in a funny kind of way, this was almost more like a state of the union speech where the president lays out his programs, and so forth. i'll tell you something else i did not hear. i did not hear him ask the american people for anything. there was no call to sacrifice, no ask not what you -- what your country can do for, but what you can do for your country. i suppose the -- i guess, if i understood what the president was saying today, it was that, on martin luther king's birthday, the next step for the march toward full equality has to deal with gay people. i would expect that would be the deadline. >> and richard blouanco the poe we heard after the president's address is a gay american and luis leon, the president of st. john's church who delivered the benediction, leads a church that performs same-sex marriages, as well. so a subtle statement there with the choosing of those gentlemen. doug brinkley, what did you hear in the speech? >> i thought it was a brave and visionary speech, written and delivered in a martin luther king style. i think it will be seen as a great civil rights speech. it's not, you know, and remember, also, in this, he brought in climate change. do you realize in all the presidential debates climate never came up. so it's not necessarily on everybody's mind. and he devoted a paragraph towards the climate issue saying we've got to do something about it, then went on talking about our natural resources. presidents you don't often hear talk about conservation. and the gay rights part of it. you could hear the cheering in the french quarter and castro street in greenwich village. this is a liberation speech for gay americans and it builds on the president's accomplishment of getting gay marriage, you know, institutionalized for america in the process of that. and finally, when he supports social security, medicaid and medicare, that's straight lyndon johnson, great society talk. this is a speech in the progressive tradition. at some points it's like the second inaugural of franklin roosevelt where fdr in 1937 said be proud you're an individual but there's also a collective. and you guys mentioned the word people, how often he said, we, the people. but this is, we, the people almost in a howard zimm people of america kind of way. this was about ordinary people fighting for ordinary rights, stonewall has replaced normandy. you know, selma has replaced iwo jima. there wasn't a marshal tone, this was about inclusion. >> he used the term we, and he used the term common creed over and over again throughout the speech. norah o'donnell was listening to the speech down there on the national mall. nor norah? >> and, scott, on that theme the president used the word together some seven times. a word he used just once in 2009. and i think you're right, this was in some ways a civil rights speech. because the president said, our journey is not complete. that's the message on this martin luther king day. and he said when times change, so must we. so i think all of those things are right. and he said, you know, it's not what binds this nation together is not the color of our skin, or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names, it's the values. the values and the declaration of independence. so this is his second inaugural. but this, i think, speech, is also in tune with the message that barack obama has had since 2004 when we were first introduced to him at the democratic convention in a way. when he gave that speech about kind of trying to be a unifying president. it continues the tradition of obama trying to bring people together. that's not been his record in office as president. but it's still the message that he adhered to in big speeches like this. >> and there's john kerry, who the president has nominated to be secretary of state. and behind john kerry was jack lew, who the president has nominated to be treasury secretary. the president has a new team that he's trying to get approved by the senate. this will be some of the first business that will be before the congress. the new treasury secretary, the new secretary of state. and, of course, confirming chuck hagel as the new secretary of defense. there's beyonce, who did such a magnificent job with the national anthem just a few moments ago. john dickerson is our cbs news political director, and he is down there with, we, the people, on the national mall. john? >> scott, normally presidents in these speeches, they take history and they bring it onstage so they can attach their agenda to it. as we've talked about, in his first speech barack obama mentioned concord, gettysburg, normandy. that history has been replaced with the civil rights history and the agenda is more in keeping with that. he talked about immigration, climate change, gun control, these are all items that when republicans i've been e-mailing with hear this, they hear the return of big government, and also they heard in his speech when the president said support for those new deal programs, make us -- they do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risk that make this country great. that is code language from the campaign in which republicans talked about makers versus takers. there are echoes here that republicans here, and they get their back up. >> talk about unity. in one shot you have jay-z and paul ryan. i don't know under what circumstances you would ever have those men in the same frame. but jay-z with beyonce, of course, and paul ryan the republican nominee for vice president. this is a live picture of the president proceeding through the capitol. he's headed to a lunch, the traditional lunch proceeding under the great dome of the capitol. the 150th anniversary of the completion of the dome is this year. a dome built during the civil war. a symbol of the unity of the nation. the president's proceeding in to that lunch now. there was a moment that occurred on the west front, just after all of this was wrapped up, after the national anthem was sung, and the president had something to say. and we wanted to show that to you. >> the president taking one last look at this view. he wanted to stop and linger and see it, record it so that he would never forget his last opportunity to look down the national mall toward the washington monument and the lincoln memorial, to see the crowd who came to hear him deliver his inaugural speech. byron pitts is down in that crowd right now. byron? >> well, scott, i'll tell you the mood is very different this year from four years ago. for one, president obama's speech was much shorter this time. in 2009 he spoke for over 19 minutes. we clocked him today at 18 minutes and 17 seconds. four years ago it was much colder, scott, as you'll remember, so people huddled close and leaned into the president's speech. this time people so the camp for thebly in their chairs and seemed to nod in approval as he spoke. four years ago we watched as people wept openly. didn't see a single tear this time. i spoke to one gentleman from pennsylvania, a white man, who said he cried four years ago. i said what happened this time? he said, well, the novelty has passed. we're over now. now it's about the nuts and bolts of government, not the novelty of an african-american president. now scott, finally, on this martin luther king day, we spoke to mrs. edwina moses, the wife of president otis moses of cleveland, ohio. they were married by dr. king 50 years ago. she said today is a joyous day for her and her husband. scott? >> now, this is a live picture of the president and the vice president. you see there, in the capitol. they will be signing official documents that are related to the inauguration. speaker of the house, john boehner, standing behind him. eric cantor, majority leader of the house and nancy pelosi, the minority leader. president obama at the age of 51 beginning his second term. >> -- which i know will be -- with great disabandon. >> he is now talking about the cabinet nominations. as we mentioned there are several key nominations, the president naming john kerry to be secretary of state. chuck hagel to be defense secretary. and jack lew to be secretary of the treasury. key positions in the government that the president will certainly want to see the senate act on right away. >> well thank you very much, everybody. look forward to it. >> we're told that on the way to lunch, the president and his party will stop by a bust of martin luther king jr., which stands in the capitol, and stand there for a moment of reflection as this inauguration day coincides with martin luther king day in this country. the president handing out pens, as he often does after signing bills. as they proceed to the elaborate formal luncheon in statuary hall of the capitol, let's go back outside to chip reid, who is with one family that traveled a good distance to reach washington, and watch this moment in history. chip? >> yeah, well, scott, you would think they were one family. it's actually two families. they're very good friend. the collins family who brought their three children and the roth family who brought their two children. and they felt that it was very important to be here for this. shannon collins, tell me why. >> we just think it's an awesome experience and awesome time for the kids to see our first african-american president, in his second term. we think it shows them that they can be what they want to be and anything that they work hard to be. >> how about you? michelle roth. i got it right? >> yes, you did. i share her sentiments exactly. it's very important for our children to see that they can be anything they want to be. and it's more importantly for us, as small business owners of a small hospice company we think what he has to say about health care and small business was very important. >> is it also important to you to be able to, for your children to be able to say for the rest of their lives that they were here at this moment? >> exactly. they'll have stories for their children, our grandchildren to say where were you at that time? and we can say, we were right there. >> david, you were saying you didn't know what an inauguration was before you came here today. what do you think about it now? >> well, actually, i think it's pretty cool now. >> it changed your mind about what you want to do with your life? >> yeah, i sort of want to be a president now. >> now, i knew that was coming, scott. he told us earlier he felt that way. but i thought i would share that with the world. scott, back to you. >> hey, chip, who is that in the pink parka there? did that little guy sleep through the inauguration? who do we have there in the pink parka? >> this is -- this is trinity here. trinity is 2, and she slept through quite a bit of it. but she also did some wandering around in the crowd and attracted a lot of attention. back here you have carter, and over here you have zero, aoe, ay are twins. they actually listened to quite a bit of the speech. they are four years old and the entire family was, i can say, i watched them, very much engaged in the entire inauguration and especially when the president spoke. scott? >> well, i know their parents will be reminding them of this day as they grow older. cbs news live coverage of the inauguration of president obama will continue. in just a moment. george washington had help writing his first inaugural address from a future president, james madison. washington's second inaugural address in 1793 was the shortest in history, at a minute and a half. or 135 words. maybe you can be there; maybe you can't. when you have migraines with fifteen or more headache days a month, you miss out on your life. you may have chronic migraine. go to mychronicmigraine.com to find a headache specialist. and don't live a maybe life. the weather has played a significant role in presidential inaugurations. but never more so than in 1841. william henry harrison was sworn in as the ninth u.s. president on a cold and windy day, with 8,445 word speech lasted an hour and 40 minutes. the longest inaugural address ever. he then rode a horse from the capitol back to the white house with no hat or overcoat, and he came down with pneumonia. william henry harrison died one month later. the shortest presidency in the nation's history. >> well, the weather did not take nearly such a toll on the crowd here on the national mall today. it's 41 degrees outside. it was only 28 degrees when the president took his first oath in 2009. it's a cloudy day in washington. but the weather has not been nearly the terrible kind of situation that it has been in previous -- previous times when presidents have been inaugurated. there have been some fierce snowstorms and deeply cold temperatures. but today was a beautiful day for an inauguration. let's have a look now. we want to replay for you the president taking the oath of office from the chief justice of the united states, john roberts jr. >> please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> i barack hussein obama 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 you god? >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. >> so you could see the first lady there, just beaming at her husband, as he took the oath for the second time. in 2009 she had a look on her face like she couldn't believe she was there. this time, a look on her face of absolute love and admiration for her husband as he is sworn in. the oath is just 35 words. and it is written in our original constitution. the 1787 constitution. doug brinkley, where do those words come from? >> from the constitution, section number 2, from it, and washington delivered the first one, our founding fathers, the creators of our country, they had to make an oath, they had to create the great seal of the united states, they had to pick the eagle symbol. this was all work going on and what's controversy is you hear so help me god. it's unclear whether washington actually said that. that's not in the official oath. it's been improvised over the years but it's really franklin d. roosevelt who started putting that in and every president since franklin roosevelt has just said it but it's not constitutionally mandated. >> you know, scott, barack obama is the first president since franklin roosevelt to now have taken the oath four times. because he took it twice in 2009, because the chief justice sort of misstated part of it. and they were afraid for legal reasons, he came back the next day and took it. and then, of course, he took it yesterday, because january 20th is the day that the constitution says you have to take it. and then repeated it again today. only fdr has taken it that many times. >> so president obama has made history again, fdr, of course, was elected four times and had to take the oath four times but the president has taken it four times for the reasons you just stated. the 20th amendment of the constitution sets january 20th as the day that the president must take the oath. must take the oath by noon on january 20th. but because it fell on sunday, they decided to put off all of the official ceremonies to today. but the president was sworn in yesterday, at the white house, in the blue room, with just his family and the chief justice present. sworn in before noon. for the beginning of his second term. these are live pictures now of the national mall, as the crowd begins to thin out after beyonce rocked the mall, singing the national anthem just a short while ago. the president, and other dignitaries, are heading soon to statuary hall inside the capitol for the big formal luncheon that always comes after this. and then following that, we will see the president in the procession back to the white house about 1.6 miles away. there is jack lew, who is the president's nominee for secretary of the treasury, awaiting confirmation by the senate. nancy cordes has been on the west front of the capitol building for us all morning this morning. nancy, you're beginning to look a little lonely out there. >> i am, scott. i'm looking at all the activity here on the west front that remains, and it is a bunch of people taking pictures beyonce as she poses at that west front door, with her husband jay-z in front of all that red swag around the door front. it may be, scott, the fact that i cover capitol hill, but i read a lot of the president's speech today as a message to congress. almost pleading with them to work with him to get something done. he said these truths may be self-evident, but they're not self-executing. in other words, don't let the purpose be the enemy of the good, let's just get something done. he said, absoluteism can't be a replacement for principle. and that name calling isn't the same thing as debate. he knows that his legacy in large part is going to depend on congress working with him to enact legislation. republicans, of course, many of whom were sitting here today, will argue that it is the president that needs to meet them halfway and needs to get far more engaged with republicans on capitol hill, if he wants to work on some of these major issues that he's outlined for a second term like immigration and tax reform. >> the president has long agenda for the second term, and major garrett, our chief white house correspondent has been watching allful this from the other end of pennsylvania avenue there on the north lawn of the white house. major? >> well, scott, many senior administration officials tell us that this speech reflects, in large measure, what the president thought the entire campaign for his re-election was all about. settling some arguments, advancing others. let's talk for a moment about the arguments the president believes, and white house believes this speech reflects, which settled in this campaign, that was just concluded. one, an end to endless war. the president's winding down the war in afghanistan. ended the war in iraq as he pledged to as a candidate for the democratic nomination. but the middle class is the center of all economic kelps as far as his presidency is concerned. he said one time in the speech that we are liberated -- rather wages for honest work can liberate people from hardship. also the president believes civil rights issues, particularly gay rights, were settled during his first term, when at the pentagon and throughout all military service, "don't ask, don't tell" was ended under his watch and he embraced formally for the first time gay marriage across the country. what arguments are to be settled for fought for in the future? climate change, immigration and tax reform among others. the president did at one point in his speech say there are some parts of government that need to be reformed, but our usefulness of one small olive branch to republicans. but we are not a nation of takers and the fundamental foundations of the great society, medicare, medicaid and social security will be preserved under his watch and the encroachments republicans would like to make on those programs from the president's perspective in the name of deficit reduction will be, if not repelled, at least resisted. scott? >> major, thank you very much. this is the crowd in washington, d.c., live, as they begin to wander away from the national mall, after witnessing american history firsthand. during the president's first inauguration, in 2009, a historic event for the nation, of course, there were 1.8 million people in the national mall. it was the largest gathering this city has ever seen. today, we don't have the estimates, but fair to say, something perhaps just under a million people. second inaugurations always lack the thrill of the first. but, still, a very large crowd has come to see the president today. the president will proceed with the rest of the dignitaries in to a luncheon at statuary hall. and then will go back down to the white house and we will see the inaugural parade as it proceeds to the afternoon. there is, of course, 66-year-old former president bill clinton. because of the illness of george herbert walker bush, only democratic presidents were in attendance today. that is a very rare occurrence, but because the elder mr. bush has been ill, the younger mr. bush decided to stay back with him, and so both sent their regrets, and were unable to come. there you see secretary of state hillary clinton in the lower right. cbs news live coverage of the inauguration of the president will continue from washington, d.c. in just a moment. ,,,,,,,, cbs news coverage of the presidential inauguration continues. here again is scott pelley. >> pelley: we're back live joined by bob schieffer, our chief washington correspondent and douglas brinkley, the noted presidential historian back in washington today for the president's inauguration. we saw the president take the oath of office and deliver his second inaugural address and the president and other dignitaries are now heading into the traditional lunch in statuary hall in the u.s. capitol. also in the capitol today we have u.s. representative john lewis. he's a representative from the state of georgia and one of the great leaders of the civil rights movement. this, of course, being martin luther king day in addition to inauguration day. and we wanted to speak with congressman lewis now if we can switch to him. congressman lewis, can you hear us? >> yes, i can hear you very well. >> pelley: you know, congressman lewis, to bob schieffer and i it sounded very much-- this speech the president just delivered-- sounded very much as a civil rights speech but including not just the struggle that you fought, sir, but also the struggle of women and of gay americans. >> it was all all-inclusive speech. the president was very clear that we're one america, that we're one people. he was saying in effect it doesn't matter whether we're black or white, latino, asian american, a native american, it doesn't matter whether we are straight or gay, democrat or republican or independent, that we're one people, we're one family, we're one house. it was fitting. it was like a speech that martin luther king, jr. would have made on this day. he was standing on the foundation of what martin luther king, jr. said 50 years ago. >> schieffer: do you think congressman this will have the kind of impact on the country that martin luther king's had? do you think -- do you see this as one of those inaugural speeches that causes the nation to rethink where we are right now? like john kennedy's speech, like the inaugural speech of lyndon johnson. how would you sum this one up? >> well, i think it was a powerful, all-inclusive speech. it was saying in effect that in spite of our differences that we must continue to work together for the common good and that we must look out for each other. it was almost like the "we shall overcome" speech that listen don johnson delivered on march 15, 1965 and i think it was fitting to do it on martin luther king day, the same year that we observed a 50 anniversary of the march on washington and the "i have a dream speech." >> congressman lewis, you were one of the speakers on the national mall in 1963. in fact, i believe you're the last survivaling speaker from that remarkable moment in american history so think back to your younger self and visualize what it would have been like to stand on the mall and watch an african american president be grated on the west front of the capitol. could you have imagined that in 1963? >> well, i stood on the steps of the lincoln memorial almost 50 years ago, august 28, 1963. if someone had told me then one day i would be a member of congress, that i will see an african american not guilty to rated as president of the united states i would have said "you're crazy, you're out of your mind, you don't know what you're talking about." my own folks, my own mother and father and grandparents could not register to vote 50 years ago. in a speech that i delivered on that day i mentioned the fact that people could not register to vote. i said something like "one man one vote is our cry." and it's a different world. and i feel like saying to people who said nothing has changed, come and walk in my shoes. >> pelley: congressman lewis, you knew dr. king quite well. help us imagine what he would think of this day? >> well, dr. martin luther king, jr. would be very proud of the progress we've made. he would be very excited about this day. it's like a dream being fulfilled. he would be saying hallelujah, hallelujah, we're moving closer and closer to the beloved community, to the promised land. >> schieffer: do you think, congressman, that we'll see many of these things that the president sort of mentioned? he sort of ran through a list of them very eloquently but it was a list. what do you think is most likely to happen in this coming session of congress? what do you think he might be able to get done here? >> well, we have a lot of work to do. i think one thing this president is going to do with many members of congress, both democrats and republican,s, we're going to work very, very hard to bring hundreds and thousands and millions of people out of the shadows, out of the darkness into the light and set them on a path to citizenship. it's a shame and a disgrace that hundreds and thousands and millions of people live in constant fear in our country and we're going to do something about immigration. we're going to pass immigration reform and we will do it on the watch of this president. >> pelley: john lewis, one of the great voices of the civil rights movement and now the senior member of the georgia congressional delegation, we're grateful to you. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> pelley: we've been watching live pictures of the dignitaries who are flowing into the luncheon. there's eric cantor, republican leader. there is nancy pelosi and now we're hearing "ruffles and flourishes." the presidenttor vice president must be next. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states joseph r. biden, jr., and dr. biden accompanied by senator lamar alexander and mrs. alexander. (applause) >> pelley: this is statuary hall where they are holding this luncheon. it's a favorite of people when they come to visit the capitol. every state in the union is invited to contribute two statues to statuary hall. two of the great citizens of each state. this is actually where the congress met. this was the third place that was corrected for the house of representatives. this was the house of representatives chamber after the british burned down the capitol in 1814 this is the new place where they would be congregating after the war of 1812. bob schieffer, they finally ran out of room and had to move yet again. >> schieffer: but it's still one of the most impressive places and you can stand -- there's a certain place where you can stand when you're there, when there are not a lot of people. and saying? a whisper and it bounces off the ceiling in such a way that you can hear it on the other side of the capitol. when i used to cover the capitol i'd always take visitors there because it's one of the most fun things you can do in the capitol the each state nominates two people to be represented there and it's just a really wonderful place if you're visiting washington you want to see this particular room. >> pelley: one of my favorite statue is the statue of jack swigert who was placed there by the state of colorado. he was one of the "apollo 13" astronauts and it's striking because he's wearing his "apollo 13" spacesuit and, of course, very different than a lot of the 19th century and 1th century characters that you see. >> pelley: sam houston was dressed slightly differently. we'll be expecting to see the president and the first lady enter the luncheon soon. doug brinkley, how long have they been doing this and how did it begin? >> well, it's sometimes very informal. often times people will -- since the great depression years, since franklin roosevelt it's become more institutionalized. we now have a pro forma march of orders that we do so they've become very similar. >> pelley: orrin hatch has removed that large white cowboy hat that we saw on the platform. >> pelley: norah o'donnell is down on the national match with us this morning. norah? >> >> scott, this is an opportunity for these members of congress, both republican and democrat, to break bread together but they're also dining on steamed lobster and bison and wine from new york as chuck schumer instructed today. this is a tradition on the hill as you noted in statuary hall, one of the most beautiful areas on capitol hill. but i think the question that comes to my mind on this occasion is these types of social gatherings are so rare here in washington where helps of both parties are celebrating the -- this historic day and whether this kind of comedy can go on before -- later after, they can get something done, because there's just -- >> pelley: and, norah, here comes the president. oh, i'm sorry, it's the vice president. he was announced earlier but missed his cue. (laughs) so here comes the vice president and the president will be next. norah, as we wait to hear "ruffles and flourishes" and "hail to the chief" signaling the entrance of the president, please continue. tell us more >> well, you see the vice president who has been so instrumental who served in the senate for more than three decades who really helped put this last fight with congress to bed by being able to reach across the aisle and talk about the republican leader mitch mcconnell so he's instrumental in terms of dealing with congress. now we see the first lady and the president along with the capital police chief terence gaynor there walking in for this luncheon. it's a quick break before we still have the parade ahead of us, scott, which is, of course, always one of the highlights of an inaugural to see the president and first lady down pennsylvania avenue make their way back to the white house. >> schieffer:. >> pelley: as we look at that shot from the top of the capitol dome, let's listen as they announce the president into statuary hall. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack h. obama and mrs. obama accompanied by senator charles e. schumer and mrs. schumer." (cheers and applause) >> please be seated. it wasn't on the script but i picked it up. (laughter) mr. president -- ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. mr. president, mr. vice president, honored guests, my colleagues on the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies and i are pleased to welcome you to today's inaugural luncheon. in this historic room, we look around at the 35 statues representing men and women -- well, one woman. thank you, illinois, and senator durbin for the statue of frances willard. though i feel obligated to note that she was born in rochester, new york. (laughter) 4 thankfully, she will soon have company when rosa parks completes her journey from the back of the bus to the front of statuary hall later this year. (applause) now, we look around and remember the men and women who helped define our nation. they, like us, faced obstacles and they, like us, worked hard to move this country forward. here in this hall, four presidents took the oath of office. here abraham lincoln served his single term in congress. and john quincy adams, the only former president to return to serve in the house, spoke out against slavery. today we also remember an event that took place outside this building but reverberated within. this year marks the 50th anniversary of the reverend martin luther king, jr.'s march on washington which spurred passage of the historic civil rights laws. we're honored to have with us a colleague-- congressman john lewis-- who was a speaker at that historic march. (applause) congressman lewis' life exemplifies the courage and sacrifice that have made our nation great. john, please stand and take a bow so we all can recognize you. (cheers and applause) behind us, the painting we have chosen for this luncheon is niagra falls. painted in 1856 by ferdinand ricaard. for me as a new yorker, niagra falls never fails to inspire a tremendous awe for the natural beauty of our great country. then and now the mighty falls symbolize the grandeur, power, and possibility of america. and i want to thank my former senate partner, our great secretary of state hillary rodham clinton, for allowing us to borrow this beautiful painting from the state department collection. (applause) but, frankly, we aren't here for the paintings, we're here for the food. and while the theme of today's ceremony is based in america's future. today's menu could be labeled based in america's food. from the new england lobster to the heirloom vegetables to the south dakota vegetables to the wonderful new york wines each element was carefully chosen and expertly prepared it was chosen by the tasting committee which consisted of debbie boehner (diana cantor, paul pelosi, honey alexander and my wife iris. they did a great job and the effort was truly bipartisan so if you don't like the food, you can't blame it on one party or the other. but i know that won't happen. i know you'll enjoy it. before we begin, it is my privilege to ask the reverend luis cortez, jr., president of esperanz, to deliver the innovation after which lunch will be served. >> let us join together in prayer. god, in the room stands men and women of differing beliefs, differing understandings of how you reveal your will and your desire to us. yet at this moment our nation joins with us in prayer and supplication that despite political differences within these chambers and despite the fact that at times we may take for granted things that are unique to our american democracy that we be united in hope and aspiration for the future of our nation. we pray for continued freedom. freedom to pursue happiness. freedom to create goodness. freedom to preserve the common good. we pray for continued liberty. liberty to preserve our rights. liberty to defend our ourselfing of good. liberty to develop ourselves fully as you would have us. our nation prays with us as we ask that our leaders be endowed with wisdom. that they may know on which path they should move our nation. with courage that they may go against their own when necessary for the common good of our beloved america. with resolve that they not tire but move unrelating towards that common good. we pray a blessing on our house of representatives, on our senate and our judicial and executive branches. bestow on every member spiritual protection and good health. we uphold president barack obama and his family in the same main manner. we thankful for the religious freedom of this nation, for our family and friends, and for this meal which we will now share, remembering that there are still those who suffer hunger in our nation. we have all joined in this pray and i, in the name of jesus christ, my lord and savior. amen and amen. thank you, mr. president. >> please be seated and enjoy lunch. >> pelley: and the rest of the luncheon is private so we will have our cameras turned away from the luncheon for the next 45 minutes or so as we look at some other aspects of inauguration day and martin luther king day. as president obama begins his second term we've done a new cbs news/"new york times" poll and it finds that just over half of americans-- 51%-- approve of the job that he's doing. 59% told us that they're feeling optimistic about the next four years. 58% said so at the start of the george w. bush second term. 66% of americans said they were feeling optimistic at the start of bill clinton's term. bob schieffer, if you look at the popular vote as it was taken in november, the president won reelection by about four percentage points. you look at that polling information, 51% approval rating, this country is deeply divided. >> schieffer: it was at election time, it remains so today, scott and the same issues they were talking about then they're still talking about. we do have a little news here on one of the things that was dividing washington and that is what are we going to do about raising the debt ceiling. the republicans decided earlier today that they will do that and they're going to introduce legislation to do it on wednesday. we got a few more details now. they will extend the debt ceiling to may 19, to go to may 19. but if congress does not get a budget done by april 15, i believe it is, then congress' salary will be held in abeyance. in other words, they won't get paid unless they can agree on a budget. so there's a lot of politics in this but i think this would be seen as a good sign that maybe they are going to at least get past this which would have been just a destructive and largely a waste of time when they should be getting on to other things and make the arguments about what we're going to spend the money on, not whether we pay the bills for things we've already purchased. so i think this is probably the best news we've heard today. >> pelley: the president met with the republican leadership at the white house today before he came up there. looks like there's a lot of effort going on by the president now to reach out to the republican leadership. >> schieffer: there's some heavy lifting ahead and this is at least an indication that maybe they're ready to start trying to deal with that rather than put it off while they debated what really is a meaningless argument. they have to do this and they all know they have to do it. and to try to make argue t argument about this was really not a very good idea, i think. >> pelley: that sound you hear outside is the sound of people saying "amen" to this idea of people not paying congressmen until they deliver a budget. >> schieffer: (laughs) i think that has some cache to it. >> pelley: john dickerson is our cbs news political director and john has been watching all of this from down there on the mall. going forward now, inauguration day is a very fine thing, but now they have to get things done. how do they do it? >> that's right. watching this slow progress of the day i'm mindful of a conversation i had with a white house advisor who is saying the inauguration is nice but it's coming in the middle of a busy time with the budget and also with these efforts on gun control the president has supported so it's still very much the business at hand is in everyone's head and there is a little warming. the president met with republican leaders but in this speech i was reminded last time, in 2009 president obama we had a lot of the same images of comedy and kind of universal love of the american experience. but a lot of republicans heard in his first inaugural address when obama listed all of -- president obama listed all of the troubles in america, they heard that as a kind of blaming of george bush, things that might to a non-partisan ear have seemed just kind of like facts of the case, they heard that as an attack on the previous president. here today when the president talks about collective action, well some conservatives hear big government. when he talks about investment, they hear taxes and so the way in which this speech is being heard and processd is as divided as it was before it started. >> pelley: john, thank you. byron pitts has been on the mall all morning long talking to folks that have come from all corners of the country to see the president's inauguration. here's byron now. byron? >> hi, scott. we're with a family from nebraska, omaha, nebraska, this is rex most. who's here with you? >> this is my wife diane, daughter ariel 16; son jonathan, 14; daughter madeline, 11; and daughter jasmine, 8. >> you drove from omaha, overnighted and took the train here, yes? >> it's correct. >> why? >> i think it's important that our children is not about "d" and "r" but about "a" and that's being an american and celebrating whatever government is in power. >> this is not your first inauguration. >> no but the first one we've brought the children along. we're going to take in the sights now, catch a little of the parade. >> did you sense a difference time than four years ago? >> i did. four years ago was a really neat experience to see people -- elderly african american women that never thought i think they would see the day crying in their seats and it was amazing to see. >> reporter: thank you, safe travels back to omaha. scott, back to you. >> pelley: byron, thank you. if you haven't brought your school age children to washington, do so, i highly recommend it. cbs news live coverage of the inauguration of president obama will continue in just a moment. ,, [ crickets chirping ] [ traffic passing ] ♪ [ music box: lullaby ] [ man on tv, indistinct ] ♪ [ lullaby continues ] [ baby coos ] [ man announcing ] millions are still exposed to the dangers... of secondhand smoke... and some of them can't do anything about it. ♪ [ continues ] [ gasping ] >> i barack hussein obama do solemnly swear -- today we continue a never-ending journey. america will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of the globe. we must act knowing our work will be imperfect. our journey is not complete until all our children know that they are cared for. common purpose with passion and dedication but answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom. cbs news coverage of the presidential inauguration continues. here again is scott pelley. >> pelley: you were just hearing the words from the president's second inaugural address delivered here in washington not long ago. if you are just joining us, president obama was sworn in for a second term about 90 minutes ago on the west front of the capital then he delivered his inaugural address, some of which you just heard. right now he's having lunch with members of congress in statuary hall. bob schieffer and i are joined here in washington by the governor of the state of massachusetts, dapt. governor since 2007. thank you for being with us. >> it's a pleasure to be with you, thank you for having me. the. >> pelley: what can president obama do for the states in a second administration? >> i think the smooth imlimit station of the affordable care act, so-called obamacare, which is off to a very good start and it's quite familiar to us in massachusetts because it's modeled on what we've had since 2006 but i think it's a big list for a lot of states and i think the partnership that h.h.s. has shown already with the states and the flexibility has been enormously important. beyond that, i think a growth agenda which is about investing in our future is enormously important to everything and every citizen. >> schieffer: governor, if you were to put a headline on the president's speech today, what would be the headline? what's the hook? >> i think i'd say "new resolve." i think what we'll see in the second term is a fresh resolve from this president. a dorplgs continue to try to pull us together. to ask people to turn to each other rather than on each other. to be very, very specific about the big lifts we have to do in gun safety, in immigration reform and, above all, in what we have to do to invest to grow our economy and grow opportunity. >> pelley: you know, i don't think gun safety would have been at the top of the president's agenda two months ago but after newtown, of course, it has become -- >> it's impossible to turn away from it now. it's impossible. >> pelley: which leads to the question: what do you expect to see from the president in terms of resolve on this as we get farther from the tragedy itself? >> well, i think you saw in the president's announcement, i think it was last week after the vice president's series of recommendations, what the contours of his proposal will be in terms of an assault weapons ban, a limitation on access to military style clips with multiple rounds in them. i think he's shown consistently a willingness to reach out to gun owners, sports men and women and hunters to make sure their interests are respected, consistent not just with the second amendment but consistent with their reasonable interests. but i think the idea of insisting that we do what we can as a federal and as state governments to protect our citizens is primary. >> schieffer: you're going to have a pretty important job coming up here shortly once john kerry is confirmed as secretary of state. every indication is that he will be. you're going to have to appoint somebody to replace him. >> i've heard that, (laughs) >> pelley: give us a clue. >> no clues today other than it will be somebody who is aligned with the president's ageneral the, will be a good partner to the president and the majority leader, which is important. i always remind our citizens back theme the main event is not the interim appointee, it's the election of a new senator in the special election. that's what we need to focus on. >> schieffer: i take it will be a democrat? >> it will be a democrat. the. >> pelley: governor patrick, thank you for joining us. we have in the capitol rotunda a very special guest today, valerie jarrett, senior advisor to the president and i day air is the person in washington who has known the president and first lady longest, being a long-time friend of both in chicago. ms. jarrett, great of you to be with us, thank you so much. >> it's a pleasure. it's a pleasure to be here. it's a terrific day for america. is. >> pelley: i have to believe that you were involved in the president's speech today. he must have run it by you. he runs nearly everything by you. >> (laughs) >> pelley: and i wonder. >> what do you any the president wanted us to take from that speech? one thing that was the take-home message? >> well, i think part of what he wanted to do today is to lay out the vision of our founding fathers as basic values of principals that guide us and so what i heard when he said we do not have to -- is he in the background? it feels like he's talking over me, i don't want to compete with the president, i'm listening to his speech not ours. >> pelley: well we are running a little bit of the speech there, ms. jarrett. >> okay, because i can hear him. >> pelley: you were talking, we were watching. >> all right, what i think, scott, is he wanted to say, look we don't have to be compelled to solve the century old debate over the role of government. what we have to do is find our common ground and act now. the people who elected the president, the people of our country expect us to still be able to do big things. creating jobs, tackling climate change, immigration reform. and thinking about those fundamental principles of equality and fairness and opportunity and the pursuit of life, liberty, and justice. so when you think about -- it is a message that should resonate with everyone and should touch the hearts of everyone. i found it very uplifting. the crowd responded and people from all over the country all walks of life coming to washington to participate in our democracy. so i think it's an opportunity for a new day. i know he is as energized as i have ever seen him and we'll celebrate today and tomorrow back to work. >> pelley: one of the messages, ms. jarrett, that was throughout the speech and the celebration today was that of gay rights. the president went out of his way in the speech to mention the stonewall riots of the 1960s, which really touched off the gay rights movement in this country. the poet that followed the president is a gay american. the minister who gave the benediction is a minister who performs same-sex marriages. i wonder, what is the president trying to tell us there? >> he's trying to say that equality means equality for everybody. he also talked about the civil rights movement. i think the idea behind this of s of basic equality and opportunity. our country is founded on those principles. when he talked about immigration today, again, it was opportunity and equality and he's going to fight for that just as he had his entire career he's going to do that for the next four years. his hope-- as we had the national day of service yesterday sds that ordinary americans get involved. get engaged with their country whether through volunteerism, whether through letting their voices be heard as we try to pursue legislation in washington it's a spirit of for engagement and that was a big part of what the president was saying today. we don't have to solve all of our problems but let's not put the short-term political interests ahead of the american people. >> schieffer: ms. jarrett, it's bob schieffer here. i wanted to ask you, because you do know the president so well. republicans i keep hearing say, well, they think the president doesn't like them. they say he doesn't like politics. that he doesn't like to get in there and me gauche@. you know him. is that a true characterization? >> i don't think so at all. i think it's an excuse for not wanting to come and work things out. as you said, i've known him for over 20 years. his reputation in the state senate in illinois was one as a junior senator who could go across the aisle and find common ground. he's always interested in find the common ground but he has to have a partner on the other side. so after today people say you know what? this is a great country, we have so much opportunity. yes we have challenges but, bob, those challenges are solveable if people come together. he is always going to reach across the aisle. but the other thing he's going to do and he said he's going to do it more aggressively in his second term is make sure the american people are engaged because their voices can compel congress to act as well. and this is a partnership with them. he's here representing them and he wants to make sure that they are involved in the process. >> pelley: valerie jarrett, senior advisor to the president and the person who probably know it is president and the first lady better than anyone. thank you so much for being with us today. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> pelley: thank you very much. the president and other dignitaries are inside statuary hall in the capitol. they're having their luncheon there. it is a private luncheon at this point and we will be rejoining the president, the first lady as they leave the capitol here in a while and head back down to the white house in a long parade down pennsylvania which is always one of the highlights of inauguration day. we listened to the president delivering his second inaugural address and as we did so i was thinking about president's past. fortunately for all of us we have doug brinkley here with us today, a noted u.s. presidential historian and professor of history at rice university. doug, how have other presidents used this moment? sglfrpt >> well, there are times when our country in graver crisis. we talked about abraham lincoln's second inaugural while the civil war was still going on. we talk about f.d.r.'s "we have nothing to fear." the great depression was on and unemployment with such staggeringly high numbers so this is a time where people have felt improvement since president obama came? we have to remember the crash of the economy stock market in such terrible shape. it's been a progressive incrementalism. but i have to say this speech is part of a progressive tradition of a theodore roosevelt speech in kansas where barack obama in 1911 when -- in 2011 he went and if you read the t.r. speech "the new nationalism" you'll find hit in the speech he gave today. you'll find it at f.d.r.'s second inaugural and in many of martin luther king's speeches. people talk about kennedy's inaugural about swords and switchbacks. it's a technique that worked brilliantly for john f. kennedy but i think the president had caught the aura of dr. king today quite well. >> pelley: and this day being inauguration day and martin luther king day all at the same time. doug, thanks very much. cbs news live coverage of the inauguration of president obama will continue from washington in just a moment. 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(cheers and applause) >> pelley: we people, the first three words of the pre-amble of the constitution, the president repeated it again and again throughout the speech, a speech about national unity and unity of person. norah o'donnell and john dickerson are down there on the national mall. they've been watching these events unfold all day. john, the president has quite a task ahead of im. how does he proceed politically? >> well, he proceeds the next big moment is the state of the union and that's where he will get even more detailed. as bob mentioned, this did have a state of the union like feel to it as he ticked off those agenda items. but he'll get more specific about agenda items, he'll put pressure on congress and the big thing, though, is while we think about his agenda for the future, he's still dealing with the business of the past and one of the things the president has to kind of unshackle himself from is these constant fights over the budget. they're going to try to get -- to protect those portions of the budget he thinks are important but get the budget process on some kind of track that so that washington is even in a position or has the opportunity to do something bigger on immigration or climate change or any other issue. >> pelley: ora o'donnell, the first day of the second term, how do you see things proceeding? >> i see this second inaugural address by president obama, too, as highlighting some of the scenes from the campaign. the campaign that he just won. and setting up in that soundbite that you just played, scott, where the president says "we reject the belief that you can't invest in our seniors and at the same time invest in the future." that's the idea that makes conservatives and republicans cringe which is that you can't continue to keep medicare and social security entitlements the same and we can't continue spending and investments and the president says i reject the idea you can't do both. that's at the heart of this philosophical divide between president obama and the republicans. how do you keep your commitment to seniors and invest in children? so that's really the fight that is really going to continue between both sides as this budget battle continues. yes, we're going to get an extension as bob reported on the debt ceiling maybe for a couple of months but notice how the republicans have placed a lot of contingencies on. that well unless you pass the budget by april we'll cut everybody's pay so we're going to have a series of cascading fiscal cliff-esque budget deadlines over the next several months and that really is the biggest threat to president obama's agenda. the things he talked about today whether it was on climate change immigration reform, gun safety. it's hard to do those things when you have as john pointed out leftovers from the first term. >> pelley: unity on monday, real politics on tuesday. norah and john, thank you very much. cbs news live coverage of the second inauguration of president obama will continue after these words. sometimes life can be well, a little uncomfortable. but when it's hard or hurts to go to the bathroom, there's dulcolax stool softener. dulcolax stool softener doesn't make you go, it just makes it easier to go. dulcolax stool softener. make yourself comfortable. ♪ i dare you to dare me this winter? 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how much comedy can there be among these people who fight each every day. >> when of you have a formal ceremony they will enjoy themselves and enjoy the moment, this is a breathtaking moment in the history of the country. what's different, though, scott, than say when i first came to washington back in 1968, is in those days, for many years after that he was not just at these formal occasions that democrats and republicans came together, they also met together informally after work, their families new one another. they all lived here in washington. now they all go home every weekend, most of their family stay in washington, they don't really know one another. as they did back in those days. and i think washington is worse for it. because that's when you had these great across the aisle relationships, like lyndon johnson and everett dirkson. when lyndon johnson, joe calipano pointed out on "face the nation" he was one of the key aides for johnson when he passed the civil rights bill. when they signed that '64 civil rights bill, martin luther king was pivotal in doing that. you had all the members of congress, you know what johnson gave the first pen to? to everett dirkson the republican leader in the senate. because he said, he couldn't have done it without him. and he wanted to make sure that dirkson got full credit for that. you don't see that much any more. and that's the kind of thing that we've got to find just a little of that now if we are going to get anything done. starting off these people got to find out about each other and who they are and get to know one another again. because right now they really don't. they don't like to go to the same parties, they don't like to be seen with people from the other party, for fear that they will get in trouble with the folks back home. unless they can get past that, it's going to be very difficult to get anything done. >> maybe lunch will be a start. there will be a lot of new faces in this second term of president obama and bill plant, our long long-time without correspondent has preview of some of these changes that are coming up. >> scott, you know, there's nothing quite ascertain in washington as staff changes. when a president hits his second term. cabinet members and white house staff aides leave because of exhaustion or because there is a prospect of better jobs in the private sector. of course the highest profile depature from this cab set that of secretary of state hillary rodham clinton. four years of travel, 112 countries and nearly amyl i don't know miles she's ready to leave. nominated to replace her, massachusetts senator john kerry. the chairman of the foreign relations committee who is expected to be easily confirmed by his senate colleagues because he's always gotten along with them. now, we have defense sectly i don't know panetta retiring after decades of public service in congress, white house cabinet , the president has nominated senator, former seven for chuck hagel of nebraskaa vietnam combat veteran now to replace him. but hagel has been outspoken in the criticism of his party and he may have some difficulty with his confirmation. the other major depature from the cap net, secretary of the treasury tim geithner who over saw the bail out of the auto industry and recovery of the financial system. the president now nominated jack lew to the job, he was a behind the scenes guy, director of the office of management and budget, both in this administration and that of president clinton. that nomination is expected to go smoothly, but there is one high profile and sometimes controversial cabinet member who is staying on. that is attorney general eric holder. he's come under fire from republicans and some of the democrats in congress, some of the justice department policies, particularly a plan to send guns in to mexico. but holder wants to stay and the president clearly intends to allow him to do that. of course, there will somebody other cabinet and senior staff changes soon, but many of the same close aides on whom the president has relied for the last four years are going to stay with him, that's something for which the president has been criticized by democrats who wish that he had a wider range of voices. scott? >> bill, thank you very much. it's a tall order for the president replacing hillary clinton as secretary of state who has been widely regarded a very effective secretary of state. andly i don't know panetta as the defense sect, back when he was o&b director in the clinton administration managed to balance the federal budget, if you can imagine then later head of the cia he headed the efforts that killed osama bin laden. so obviously a very capable and long-time public servant now going off to his retirement in california. we have another moment from the president's speech earlier today, the president has signalled that he intends to make comprehensive immigration reform, one of his signature achievements in his second term. it's a tall order, other presidents before him have not been able to accomplish it but he keyed that up in his speech today. [ applause ] >> our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see america as a land of opportunity. until bright young students and engineers are listed in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. >> john dickerson is on the national mall with us, our political director and john, george w. bush sought comprehensive immigration reform, was not able to get it through the congress, i wonder how the president intends to try. >> that's right, john mccain tried, too, then had to back away when he ran for the republican nomination. the president in talking to his aides, his advisors this morning thinks on immigration he has an opportunity here in part because of his electoral victory. republicans looked at that said, we can no longer continue as a party that has such dismal showing with minorities and young voters. we have to improve our position on the yes of immigration. former florida governor jeb bush said that during the last republican campaign during the last presidential campaign. so the president thinks that by that outside pressure will create a condition where republicans will be willing to work with him. so he's putting pressure from the outside but then saying and thinking according to this advisor, that he really can make common cause with some republicans in the senate and in particular to do something big on immigration. >> john, thank you. bill whitaker, our correspondent in los angeles has been watching today's events along with a group of latinos who voted for mr. obama. bill, what are they telling you? >> scott, i'm here at a major immigrant rights organization here in los angeles, people gathered here this morning to watch the inauguration. they say there has been a political sea change. 71% of latino voters voted for president obama. they say they were there for him when he seed needed them. now he expects them. i'm here with the director, who met twice with president obama on immigration issues. what is it that you want, that you expect of president obama this time? >> we want leadership. leadership from president obama that his wonderful rhetoric and his discourse match action. and so what we expect from him is that he is every ounce of his political capital to convince members of both parties, republicans and democrats to get an immigration reform law passed that he is able to sign. we are -- what we're fighting for is a passive citizenship, unity of our families and -- added up to 1.5 million individuals. and millions of families impacted by that. we're going to work hard, we listened to him in terms of our activism. we're going to roll up our sleeves and help him do it but we want him top the leadership, the fortitude to get it over that finish line. and we were there for him. we have been there for him for a long time. what we want him to understand is that families are counting on him. there is a mandate from the voters, from latino voters, from asian voters they want their families together. they want an end to the exclusion and, yes, liberty and the fight for equality this time is a fight for immigration reform. >> scott? >> people who say they have the political power and the momentum and determination to see comprehensive immigration reform get through this time. >> bill, thank you very much. here in washington as the clouds lift and the sun breaks out across the front of the capitol, we will have more on the president's inauguration live from the nation's capital in just a moment. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> welcome back. too live cbs news coverage of the presidential inauguration, a beautiful day breaking out on the national mall. temperature around 40 degrees. the sun out again after a cloudy morning, you can see the mall has largely cleared out there. but we're looking down the mall, this was the president's view as he delivered his inaugural address looking down the mall at the crowds with the washington monument and the lincoln memorial down there anchoring the end of the mall. scott pelley reporting live from washington. we want to take another look at that cbs poll that we showed you earlier today to give you some idea of where the country stands with regard to whether the folks in this country believe that we're headed in the right direction or not. this is the poll that we did just before the inauguration, the respondents across the country, 38% said the country was headed in the right direction. but 57% thought the country was still on the wrong track. when the president was inaugurated in 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8%. the unemployment rate today is 7.8%. now, a lot has changed for the better, the stock market, for example, the dow jones industrial average and s&p500 have both hit five-year highs since then. so a lot of people are feeling better about the economy, but still many americans around ten billion americans are without work. when we asked people what the most important things they would like to see the president accomplish, 35% said improving the economy was the biggest thing. fixing the budget deficit, the federal budget was the most important to 13%. only 5% thought tax reform was important. and you may be looking at this poll and thinking, well, what happened to the war in afghanistan? well, there it is, it comes in at 4%, health care at 5% ending the war in afghanistan the most important priority for only 4% of the american people. but we should not ever forget that as we sit here today approximately 60,000 americans are fighting in afghanistan. the president is drawing those troops down but we have a long way to go yet in that war that is now more than ten years old. john dickerson our cbs news political director, he's down on the national mall, john, you see that 35% by far the largest majority of people in our poll think the president needs to be working on the economy. >> that's still the single most important issue for the president, much further down or much smaller percentage want them work on the deficit. really the deficit and getting the budget picture in order, ending these endless confrontations over the budget will do something the white house believes and republicans believe, too, to help with the economy. why? because a lot of businesses, they believe both again republicans and the white house are holding back, they're uncertain with these constant running up against these deadlines and this sense that really washington doesn't know what it's doing. so that if it's not doing something wrong today there is every expectation they will do something wrong tomorrow. that also shows up in consumer confidence numbers where. people looking at this fiscal cliff fight we just had looked that the they felt less confident about the economy. so getting the budget on some kind of path to normal business, getting the numbers to add up without these crisis moments that may be the best thing the president can do in the short term on this number one issue. >> norah o'donnell there, we didn't hear a great deal in the speech today about the economy from the president, he talked about other issues, he spent a lot of time on climate change, spent a lot of time on civil rights, the rights of women, the rights of gay americans. >> and one mention on deficit reduction. even though that will largely define, at least the first year if not further years in his first term. the other thing i just thought was interesting as we think about the president's second term and talk about his relations with congress, is that this is not only an unpopular congress as we have seen in our polls but one of the most inexperienced congresses, scott. just to note about 40% of the members of the house have served less than three years, according to the cook political report. that is the highest turnover we've seen since early 1990s when there was that big election in 1929, of course. you're dealing with a different type of body in the house. we know that the president has had a lot of trouble negotiating with house speaker john boehner. that is going to be one of the factors as we're looking at his second term he has this ambitious agenda at the same time has to deal with the economy and budget concerns that we talked about. >> nancy is our capitol hill correspondent she's been at the capital for us reporting all day. the next order of business, at least in terms of the house of representatives will be increasing the national debt limit. in other words, allowing the government to borrow more money so that it can pay the bills that it's already in cured. how do you see that rolling out over the next days and weeks. >> house republicans changed course pretty dramatically last week they were at their republican retreat, this is a tradition all members of the house republican conference went away from meetings for three days in williamsburg, virginia. at the end of that three-day meeting they came out said, we said we were going to fight raising the debt ceiling until we got dollar for dollar spending cuts now we're going to hold a vote that is going to be held wednesday to raise the debt ceiling temporarily. why would they do something like this, which might seem at first blush to be backing down. there were a couple of reasons, scott. first of all they looked at polling when they were out there at that retreat it looks like the polling that you were just talking about. it showed that americans by a pretty significant margin trust the president over house republicans when it comes to things like the deficit which is one of their signature issues. and spending and the economy. what republican leaders were trying to convey to some of their more junior members, perhaps who like the idea of really holding the white house's feet to the fire on issues like this, if we want to be seen as a governing party not just an opposition party that is constantly threatening to take the government in to a shutdown or default we are going to have to show that we are reasonable. and the fact is that they are going to hold this vote now and they still get another bite of the apple three months from now to try to push the administration to cut spending if they want to raise the debt limit again. >> nancy, we had chance to talk to condoleezza rice yesterday, the former u.s. secretary of state. she told us that when you are an official up there watching the president's inaugural address in his first address, you're taken with the hope and the grandeur of it all. when you're up there for second address you're looking at your watch thinking, i got to get back to work, we've got a lot we have to do. we're going to have lot more that we're going to do here in washington shortly. the president will be leaving that luncheon then the parade will be on. we'll have an opportunity to see the president and first family as they make their way back to the white house. more cbs news live coverage of the presidential 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[ female announcer ] weight watchers online. the power of weight watchers completely online. join for free today. cbs news live coverage of this day in history, the presidential inauguration. there we see the president at the end of the lunch with members of congress. this is a live picture, they're going to be toasts and exchangess of gifts as they wrap up this luncheon and then the president will review the troops it's a statuary hall in the capitol this is where the house of representatives used to meet many years ago. this is the senior senator of new york, charles humiditier who is the master of ceremonies for the inauguration. >> and i hope everyone has enjoyed the lunch, i think we really deserve a round of applause to our chef and our caterer. all the people who served the meals so expertly they have done a great job. so, it is now my honor to invite the speaker of the house, john boehner, to the podium to present the official flags. >> senator, thank you. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the old hall of the house. the people's representatives met in this chamber over five decades prior to the civil war. and it's a wonder they made it here that long, the acoustics were terrible. just couldn't hear anything. or in some spots you could hear everything that was being said in the room. to make -- it was a mess. and of course it was also at a time when our leaders weren't hearing each other all that well to begin with. many architectural improvements later we gather in the old hall to better hear one another and to renew the appeal to better angels. we do so amid the rituals and symbols of unity none more important than our flag. this year, old glory will mark a milestone of her own. it was the spring of 1813 that the new commander at fort mchenry ordered a flag to be thrown over the entrance to the baltimore harbor. it should be so large, he said, that the british will have no difficulty in seeing it from a disstance. for such an enormous banner, a mother and daughter team had to stitch together overlapping strips of wool to make the product whole. from many one. so a grand flag was flown not long after that an anthem to go with it. today whenever we put out the flag, whenever we hear it snapping in the wind, it gives us proof of the blessing that we call democracy. the symphony of service and faithfulness in which we will all play a part. so in the spirit of harmony, i'm proud to present the flags that flew over this battalion of democracy today to president barack obama and vice president joe biden. and to you, gentlemen, i say, congratulations and godspeed. [ applause ] >> i am now pleased to introduce my friend and colleague and partner in this inaugural endeavor, senator lamar alexander to the podium to present the official photographs. >> thanks, chuck, mr. president and mr. vice president and jill. empty and mrs. clinton, mr. chief justice. one former president who is not here today, we were sitting next to him, george h.w. bush and before he got up to speak he leaned over and said to barbara "what should i speak about?" and she said in a very loud whisper "about five minutes, george." i'll take about one minute. there will probably come a time, mr. president and mrs. obama and to the bidens when your children are trying to explain to their grandchildren that this day actually happened. if those great grandchildren don't believe it, we have pictures. and these pictures are for you and we wish you the best as you work for that common good, mr. cortez spoke about in the invocation and you eloquently talked about in your description of the american character today. [ applause ] >> okay, i would now like to introduce the distinguished majority leader of the house of representatives, eric cantor to present the lennox inaugural gift. >> good afternoon. on behalf of the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies, it's my honor to present the president and mrs. obama, vice president and dr. biden with these beautiful crystal vases. the vases are the finest quality, full lead crystal from lenno, which china and crystal. the images of the united states capitol and the white house are hand cut and etched in to the crystal. the crystal vases on which the vase sits are enscribed with the name of the recipient and today's date. president obama, mrs. obama will receive the vase depicting the white house. vice president, dr. biden will receive vase depicting the united states capitol. the vases were designed by timothy carter and hand cut by master glass cutter peter o'rourke. at this time my wife diana and i invite president and mrs. obama and vice president and dr. obama looking at the beautiful vases. [ applause ] >> okay, i am now pleased to invite my colleague, house democratic leader nancy pelosi to the podium to present the memento, is that you all will receive as you leave stat ware hall. >> thank you very much. mr. chairman schumer and cochair, vice chair alexander for a wonderful, wonderful inauguration. mr. president, mr. president, mr. president, first lady, first lady, first lady -- dr. biden to all of our distinguished guests. so far you've heard of gifts to the president and the vice president, i'll tell you about the gift for you. freedom now stands on the dome of the capitol of the united states. may she stand there forever not only in form but in spirit. those were the words that were expressed 150 years ago by the commissioner of public buildings as the statue of freedom was placed atop the capitol during the presidency of lincoln. that expression of the spirit of freedom is what we want to you take with you today and is contained in this portfolio that you will receive from the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremony. along with a framed depiction of the capitol as it appeared at the start of the civil war. you heard it well described by chairman schumer during his remarks. today the statue of freedom and that spirit of freedom watches over the capitol as another president from illinois -- has taken the oath of office. despite the challenges of our time at home and abroad we heard in president's inaugural address a message of hope, a vision of peace, progress and prosperity and a promise of freedom for all. may god bless you, president obama, vice president biden and your family. congratulations with wishes for much success for you and to the success of our nation. may god bless you all, may god bless america. enjoy your day. [ applause ] >> mr. president and dr. biden and your whole wonderful family, i now rise to toast the vice president of the united states and my former colleague and my friend, joe biden. mr. vice president, you have been an extraordinary leader of this nation and a true partner to our president these past four years. you play many roles, advisor, advocate, implementer, persuader, strategist and most important of all, friend. we're confident this unique partnership between you and our great president will only grow stronger and more productive over the next four years. mr. vice president, on the surface we don't share a common ancestry, but on a deeper level we do share a common story. an american story. of achieving our dreams thanks to the sacrifice of our immigrant forebearers. as you embark on your well-deserved second term in the spirit of those who came before us and on behalf of all americans we offer you all our support and warmest wishes and we say to you -- [speaking foreign languages] -- and cheers to our great vice president. >> mr. president and all the presidents assembled, i always enjoyed this lunch more than anything we did in the capital. the 36 years i served in the senate i had great honor of being included in this lunch, former presidents and vice presidents and because it really is a place where we get together in a way unlike any other time when we gather. it's always a new beginning every time we're in this room. and there's a sense of possibility and a sense of opportunity and a sense sometimes that's fleeting but a sense that maybe we can really begin to work together. chuck, we may come from different ancestors, but as all our colleagues know over the years we're cut from the same cloth. that we share that same common absolute conviction that was expressed by harry truman when he said, "america was not built on fear, america was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." that is what you've done throughout your career, that's what almost everyone in this room has done. at the end of the day it's an absolute confidence -- absolute confidence there's not a thing, a single thing this country can't do. i spent too much time with all of you not to know, you feel it with every fiber in your being that there's nothing, nothing this country is incapable of. i must say the president kids me occasionally, i know harry reed always calls me a senate man. i am proud to have been a senate man. i am proud to be president of the senate. but that pride is exceeded only by the fact i'm proud to be vice president of the united states serving as barack obama's vice president. one of the great privileges. [applause] one of the great privileges of my life, matter of fact if the president will forgive me as we were walking out as he said, savoring the moment. looking out at the crowd and all those americans assembled, i found myself surprised me even, turned to him saying "thank you" thanks, thanks for the chance. thanks for the chance to continue to serve. so folks, i raise my glass to a man who never, never, never operates out of fear only operates out of confidence and the guy who i plan on working with you, can't get rid of me, man, i'm still part of the senate. god bless you, chuck, you've done a great job. lamar, you have as well, to chuck schumer. good to see you, pal. >> the best part of these events are unscripted. i'd now like to introduce our senate majority leader, my good friend and really great man, harry reed to offer the official toast to the president. [ applause ] >> americans, today are wishing the president godspeed for the next four years. people all over the world are looking at us and our democracy and wishing the president the best in the years to come. i've had the good fortune of the last many years to work on a very close, personal basis with president obama. i have watched him in the most difficult challenges that a person could face. i've watched him do this with brilliance, with patience, with courage, wisdom and kindness. for which i have learned a great deal. so, mr. president, i toast and pray for you, your wonderful family and our great country. four more successful years, barack obama. >> cheers! >> michelle and the speaker of the house came to a meeting of the minds that i may be delaying the proceedings too much. and so i'm just going to be extraordinarily brief and say thank you. to my vice president, who has not only been an extraordinary partner but an extraordinary friend. and to dr. jill biden who has partnered with my wife with an extraordinary generosity on behalf of our men and women in uniform. to the entire cabinet that is here, i am grateful to you, some of you are staying and some of you are leaving but i know extraordinary sacrifices that you and my team have made to try to advance the cause of progress in this country and i'm always going to be grateful to you for that. to the speaker of the house and nancy pelosi, to democratic leader harry reid as well as republican leader, mitch mcconnell and to all the congressional leaders and all the members of congress who are here. i recognize that democracy is not always easy, i recognize there are profound differences in this room. but i just want to say thank you for your service and thank your families for their service, because regardless of our political persuasions and perspectives i know that all of us serve because we believe that we can make america for future generations. and i'm confident that we can act at this moment in a way that makes a difference for our children and our children's children. i know that former president carter, president clinton, they understand the irony of the presidential office, which is the longer you're there the more humble you become. and the more mindful you are that it is beyond your powers individually to move this great country. you can only do it because you have extraordinary partners. and a spirit of goodwill and most of all because of the strength and resilience and fundamental goodness of the american people. and so i would like to join all of you, not only in toasting the extraordinary work that chuck schumer and lamar alexander and others have done to create this special day for us, but i also want to thank each and everyone of you for not only your service in the past but hopefully your service in the future as well. and i would like to offer one last toast and that is to my extraordinary wife, michelle. there is controversy about the quality of the president, no controversy about the quality of our current first lady. [ applause ] thank you everybody. god bless you. and god bless america. >> and so ends the luncheon -- >> you can remain standing -- >> we heard the president's closing remarks about controversy about the president but no controversy about the first lady. we did a cbs news "new york times" poll over the last several days and asked about the president's approval rating. came in at 51%. but we also asked about the first lady's approval rating. it came in at 51%. >> thank you for the honor to offer the benediction, it's greatest honor in my life. let us pray as we prepare to go forth in peace, confident in america's bright future. in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit. o, god, we give thanks to you and praise you on this day as the day of our president's inauguration for we, too, resolved once more to the spirit of the human race in humble supplication in the words of president washington. we praise your holy name for your gracious favor and divine blessing upon this united states of america, our president barack obama and vice president joseph biden as they command the second term of their sacred responsibilities in the highest office of our country. bless, preserve and keep them and their families safe and healthy, together with all who serve our nation, especially in congress, the judiciary and the armed forces here and everywhere who defend our pursuits of life, liberty and happiness. heavenly father, may we ever abide in this land of opportunity and freedom in perfect tranquility, faithful to our foundations and ever building and more prosperous just distant society for all our citizens. and may we always share our faith and hope for the future with the whole world through your divine and gracious love. amen. >> the benediction delivered by archbishop demitrios of the greek orthodox church in america. >> okay, please be seated for a moment. my pleasure, archbishop. thank you. well, i think everyone agree this has been a wonderful inaugural ceremony, a delicious lunch but it's now time to head to our next happy stop, the presidential parade. like many of you i've marched in hundreds. but as we optimistically step in to the next page of american history under the leadership of president obama, i have a feeling this one is going to be something truly special. so, thank you for being here, god bless you all. god bless america. [ applause ] >> and so concludes the lunch in ssatuary hall with the president, vice president, the first lady and dr. jill biden with members of congress and the senate. the members of the supreme court, military officers and members of the cabinet as well. still upcoming on inauguration day, the president will review the troops of the u.s. army military district of washington, that will happen on the east front of the capital and then shortly thereafter the president will lead the procession back down pennsylvania avenue from capitol to the white house and we will see the inaugural parade. we will watch all of that live right here on cbs. i'm joined here by bob schieffer our chief washington correspondent, anchor of "face the nation" as we watch the president and the first lady leaving the luncheon today, this was a lovely moment, a lot of toasts from people on opposite sides of the political scalea lot of handshaking, gift giving. i'm afraid that may not last the day. >> well, but in the meantime between time there will be a lot of hugs and kisses before they get to the car. this is always one of the nicer things that happens on inauguration day. it does bring everybody together and how long does this last, probably not very long but it will be back to business tomorrow. and again, i think we can't underestimate the fact that the republicans had decided to avoid, at least for now, at least for the next four months, immediate fight over whether or not to raise the debt limit. they say that they will introduce legislation tomorrow to increase the debt limit to last over the next four months so the government can pay its bills so it won't have to begin shutting down parts of the government. and while that is going on, they're asking the democrats to come up with a budget and if they don't come up with a budget by april 15th, then congressional pay stops. i think that will be applauded around the country. but it's going to be back to business and at least maybe they can focus on the things that matter and the things that are important rather than this debate over whether or not to raise the debt limit, because they have to do that. there's no way the government can operate unless they do that. so at least they put off one obstacle. i see -- they say in the world of blind, the one-eyed man is king. in this case i think this kind of news is probably good news in the current atmosphere in washington. >> pelley: bob, you see that as a give, a step toward compromise on the part of the republicans, is it too much to call it an olive branch on inauguration day? >> schieffer: well, a little bit of that. but i think more than anything else, it's just facing up to reality and understanding that this is not what a great power like the united states ought to be having a debate about. whether or not we have to pay our bills. and i think in that sense i think it's pretty good thing. >> pelley: you're looking at a live picture of the capitol rotunda, these people are assembled under the great dome of the capitol which will celebrate its 150th anniversary this year. that is a bust that you just saw of dr. martin luther king, junior. now, of course today is not only inauguration day, it is also martin luther king day. and so the president and the first lady and others are expected to walk to the bust of martin luther king and pay their respects there for a few moments before the president walks out of the capitol to review the troops. >> schieffer: the bust is much better likeness of martin luther king, junior, i would say that in the view of some who say statue on the mall, the massive statue sort of doesn't look like martin luther king, junior. it's big, this one you'd know who it was if you knew who martin luther king was. i think most people do. >> pelley: the king memorial on the mall is quite an imposing memorial. it's a striking thing to see. doug brinkley is one of this nation's foremost historians on presidential history and professor of history at rice university in houston. doug, the president reviewing the troops, this is a long -- has deep, deep history in the united states. >> not only was george washington a general, but look how many presidents have military service, almost all of them. really come up to the age of clinton and obama when you don't and you have people, not just generals like andrew jackson, yam henry harrison, but most of those presidents after the civil war had -- were generals in the civil war. then presidents like john f. kennedy made the pt-109 his calling card, colonel roosevelt and rough riders. the president's connection to the military is always very important. even get it down that if you weren't in the military somebody like barack obama practicing how to salute properly. ronald reagan said you had to know how to do that. >> schieffer: neither stand kate for major party had military service. >> that's right. this is the vietnam war generation, post vietnam in some ways. but keep in mind we're going to still have vietnam battles coming up with chuck hag,l could be very -- change some of the harmony on the debt. >> pelley: we see the president coming in under the great dome of the capitol to pay his respects to the bust of martin luther king, junior. >> pelley: the president with the speaker of the house, john boehner and house minority leader, nancy pelosi. the president will be leaving the capitol going out the east front to review u.s. army troops that have assembled outside for this occasion. magnificent shot from a camera high in the capitol dome. the dome celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. cbs news, live coverage of the inauguration of president barack obama will continue from washington in just a moment. overmany discounts to thine customers! 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solidify any janes made in the first term, and frankly, times to deal with mistake that is were made in the first term that need to be rectified. >> what's your best advice to a second term. toi. get started quickly. i've been asked many times what does it feel like to go to a second inauguration. the first inauguration is exciting and you can't believe i'm a part of history. in the second inauguration, i was thinking let's get this over and let me get back to work. i need to get back to the office, because you really don't have very much time. in the perspective of all the politics and the strum that we see on capitol hill, what does inauguration day mean? how is it different from every other political day that we have? >> inauguration day is in many ways a celebration of peaceful transfer of power. >> the people have spoken, and that president has now been reaffirmed. so it's about the democratic process, and it's the symbols of the democratic process. the symbol of the peaceful transfer of power. but for the united states, it has been a long time since we worried about the peaceful transfer of power, but we have to remember that it is actually a fragile moment. so many countries can't take that for granted. i love the inauguration for that moementd when peaceful power is transferred. >> condoleezza rice in washington. now in the broadcast booth overlooking the capital. we have two rising stars. hueliajulian and joaquin castro. they are brothers. one is the mayor of san antonio, and the other is a congressman. >> and you're the mayor? >> i'm the mayor. >> and you're joaquin. identedical twins and rising stars in the democratic party. the president talked about immigration today. what do you imagine, the mayor of san antonio, texas. what do you imagine the president can do on the issue of immigration. >> it was great to hear him speak about the dreams of americans that we all know and love and propel it forward. i would say there's a couple of things he can get done. first, after election night, we saw the republican party change its tune on immigration more than any issue, and that gives me hope. that means there's leeway to come up with a compromise. and a compromise means making sure the borders are secure as possible. ensure whg an employer hires someone that that employer can know for sure that person is here legally. and figuring out a way to find someone who is here illegally, and also figuring out a pathway to citizenship if the person has not commited a fell me. that kind of reform is truly in sight. >> joaquin, other than immigration what struck you about the ment's speech. >> i thought it was inspiration, and looked ahead and touched on the big issues of the day. not in a specific way which is beyond this kind of speech. but also it challenged some of the dogmas that are really dogged the congress and american government for the last several years. the president, for example spoke about absolutelyis absolu not giving into that. that was a challenge to congress, hey, work with me to do what's right for the american people. in that way, i think, that in a way transcended all of the bickering of the way. >> joaquin, you are a new member of congress from texas and new in town, as they say. how do you think the divide can be bridged between the two parties on difficult issues like immigration? >> well, there's a new things. it has to be built both on personal relationships with the president and with individual congress members themselves, and also the institutions and the way they proceed have to change. we know, for example, that over the last few years, the filibuster shaeb used more than any time in american history. there has to be some change there. and also, i believe that speaker boehner, if he wants to get bipartisan vote as he did on sandy relief, he has to be able to drop the hat, and it's personal changes and institutional changes. >> mr. mayor, you run one of the largest cities in the country, san antonio, texas. what can the president do to help? what do you need? >> the president can do what he has began during his first term. two great examples are to collaborate with agencies in his administration. making the transportation department work with the education department, work with the e.p.a., sustainable communicates, promised neighborhoods. to invest in brain power and education, and also lift up neighborhoods at the same time. and to his credit, he's been more collabrative with mayors, i think than we've seen in a long time. so i have a lot of hope for the second term. >> mayor castro of san antonio, texas, and brother joaquin castro in congress, very kind of you to spend a moment with us. >> great to be here. >> the president will be leaving the capitol shortly. he'll go out the east front where members of the u.s. military have been assembled so that we can symbolically review the troops. and we have leon panetta joining us now from inside the capitol. can you hear us, second panetta? >> i can, good to talk to you. >> nice to talk to you, mr. secretary. >> i don't think three weeks ago any americans would have thought that north africa would be at the top of the security concerns. we've heard three americans were killed in that hostage situation in algeria and seven americans were freed. i wonder what you think the president has to do over the next four years? >> as i've been saying this is all part of the war on terrorism. we've been going after them everywhere, and now in north africa. we have to make sure they have no place to wide. and so going after them in north africa and mali is a first step in making sure they do not establish any kind of base of operations from which to attack our country. we've got to be part of that effort, and we will be. >> and what is the united states government, the obama administration willing to do to be part of that effort of the french invasion of mali? >> well, you know, it's important to see an international effort. there are european countries that will be helping on training and other steps. and the united states is helping as well. we're helping on airlift and intelligence support. we'll look at other ways to try to provide assistance, as well as training. this has to be an international effort, because frankly, al-queda is an international threat. the best way to handle this now is to have all of these countries working together to do everything we can to stop al-queda. >> mr. secretary, you do not imagine u.s. fighting forces being involved in mali alongside the french at this point? >> no, i don't see troops on the ground. but i do see the kind of assistance that will help the french and ultimately help the african nation go into mali and really provide more permanent security there. >> what are some of the national security threats over the next four years and no one is talking about? >> the fact is we live in a dangerous world. we know we have the war on terrorism. we know the concerns about iran and north korea. i think middle east turmoil is going to trn to dra continue to tower attention and the potential for cyber attacks. we have in cyber technology, the potential to paralyze a country and take down a grid and financial systems. cyber attacks i think is the war front of the future, and we have to be prepared to deal with it. >> mr. secretary, you're going to be leaving the administration as planned. john kerry has been nameed to replace you as secretary of defense. i recall earlier in the broadcast -- i meant chuck hagel. john ker has been nominateed to k secretary of state. chuck hagel has been named to be secretary of defense. i mentioned you helped balance the federal budget, if you can imagine such a thing today, and as the head of cia you led the mission that killed osama bin laden. that's high quality talent for the federal government, and a lot of people are sorry to see you leaving. you'll be going back to california, and what is next for you? retirement? >> i'm not one to sit on a rocking chair. as you know, scott, via beautiful place in carmel valley that i'm looking forward to getting back to, but we have an institute per public policy they have with my wife who has been runing it for four years while i've been back in washington. and i hope to get back and work with her and promote public service as an inspiration for young people. >> mr. secretary, we see your boss moving through on his way out to review the troops. we wish you all of the best, and we will join our live picture with the president again. thank you, mr. secretary. >> thank you. >> this is the east side of. and the president will be stepping out to review the army of the military district of the district attorney of washington. >> the president a short time ago was playing his president before a bust of martin luther king jr. enshrined under the capitol dome. this being martin luther king day as well as inauguration day. this is the east front of the capital which faces the supreme court. and these are some of the troops that the president will review as commander in chief. the president is drawing down troop levels in afghanistan. about 60,000 americans are fighting in afghanistan as we speak. the president intends to make that many fewer as this year winds on. >> present arms! >> this is where they used to have the inaugural ceremonies until ronald reagan moveed it to the other side of the capitol. the president is escorted by the commander of the u.s. army military district of washington. >> and the president is proceeding to his limousine. in 1961 the parade for kennedy consisted of 30,000 troops and civilians and took more than three hours to pass the president's reviewing position. a much shorter review of the troops today. the general goes back into the presidential limousine for the trip down to washington. >> doug brinkley, our presidential historian, and professor of history at university is with us now. doug, when lincoln came to the capitol, there was such concern for his security that he was surrounded by troops. not only was he surrounded by troops, he wrote a letter telling a friend if you're coming to my inaugural, you better look out for bullets. there was a great deal of tension just across the river, and in virginia people were up in arms. the first battle of bull run which the confederates won is today's modern dulles airment. it was tense. i might also add for for barack obama, you had 30,000 security troops try to deal with the huge crowd, and today just getting here, you see all sorts of different troops. helping out with crowd control. >> when teddy roosevelt was here, the rough riders came to the inauguration. >> theodore roosevelt wore a ring with the whiskers of abraham lincoln in it. it was a good luck charm given to him by the secretary of state, lincoln's assistant and had taken some of the facial hairs. >> the rough riders which theodore roosevelt's group fought in cuba. he became governor roosevelt and president roosevelt, and all over america, ivy leaguers too. they came and formed basically the heart and soul of t.r.'s parade. it was 19 fo04 president that brought in bands and people from all over the country. >> you can't make this stuff up. >> true. >> we are watching the president's motorcade pull away from the capitol. >> bob, i'm not sure a lot of people know this, but the president does not come to the capitol very often in -- >> no, he doesn't. in george washington's time. they came up, and they didn't know what to do with it. they let him know in short order, you stay down at the white house. the capitol is two separate places n. washington terms, we weren't in washington then, but the president comes up to take part in the inaugural ceremony, and the state of the union message, and basically when congress wants to hear from them, they invite him to come up, otherwise, he didn't come there. in the state of the union in the beginning they just sent a written message. they didn't deliver it in person. >> but the president does not come to the congress in the normal course of business. >> no, absolutely not. >> just special occasions. >> but the president did invite the congressional leadership down to the white house this morning. >> this limousine is basically a tank disguised as a car. heaven knows how much it weighs or how perfectly it is. i've opened and closed the doors on a limousine like this, and it's like you're opening the doors to a vault they're so heavy. i'll never forget one time i was in president ford and he was on a campaign trip to connecticut, i think it was, and it was a mix up and they had to block off a street. somebody ran broadside into what was then the presidential limousine, and the car almost bounced off. it was unbelievable. and the poor people in the other car, had no idea what it was, and all these people with machine guns jumped out and surrounded them. they were absolutely terrified. it was a bunch of kids that were out doing stuff they shouldn't have been doing. these things are amazing pieces of machine. the limousine has a cadillac badge on the grill, but that is where the similarities to any other cadillac ends. it is not baseed on any cadillac model. it was designed from the ground up as a armored limousine for the united states, and owned and operated by the security service. they have several copies and it is driven by the secret service men and women specially train raed to do this work. >> there are not many of them like our ambassadors in foreign countries who have armored vehicles. you can't get them manufactured in the united states. so most of them are foreign made. these obviously are american. >> as the president prepares to proceed down the procession to the white house, our cbs live coverage of the inauguration of president obama will continue in just a moment. 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[ female announcer ] this is new. this is different. this is care. >> there's the president in the back of his limousine as he begins his way back to the white house having made his inaugural address at the capitol, and having been sworn in by the chief justice of the united states, and having a long lunch with the leadership of the congress and other members of the government. this is a live picture. the president just reviewed the troops on the east front of the capitol. he's just beginning the trip back to the white house, a long parade ahead. ken crawford, our cbs news correspondent who has been on the parade route all day long is expected the president to come by. jan, what do you see from there? >> hundreds and thousands of people. the people are gathered to see the president go by, many have been here since early this morning. we talked to a woman who got here at 9:00 a.m. from texas and salt here all day. you can't we the swearing in from where we are. there are no jumbo trons. they've been standing here just to get a fleeting glimpse of the president as he comes by, and of course, a woman we spoke with said just to see him for a moment in this parade would be worth it. the long trip would be worth it. there are police officers here from across cot ruenlt the coun the streets. we're at the intersection where the parade actually will become a parade. the moerd cade will go by, and then the parade, the floats, and the marching band from the president's high school in hawaii. there's 88,000 people in the parade, 200 animals. including floats just for this parade to represent the president's home state of hawaii, the first lady's home state of illinois. the state of pennsylvania and delaware for, of course, the vice president joe bide sxen his wife, and many floats representing things of significance for this moment focus on civil rights. there's a float for martin luther king in honor of this day, but at this moment, this crowd when they announced the parade was go to get underway, you could hear the cheers. the crowd has been shouting out all morning as they heard the swearing in, and the president's speech but again, scott, they could not see the ppt. this will be their first glimpse of the president. a lot of anticipation right now in the crowd. >> jan, thank you. we always watchsa the president makes his way back to the white house to see if the presidential limousine will stop, and whether the president will get out and greet the people who come to see him. and doug brinkley, our presidential historian. jimmy carter in 1976, he skipped the ride and walked the whole way. >> and both of nixon's there was disruption in the street. not just rock throwing, but in the 69 inauguration 89 people were arrested. jimmy carter said it's a new world, and vietnam is behind us, and started walking the street, and it set a precedent, because he walked the entire way down. there's a nightmare for secret service. in subsequent years, bill clinton and george bush they got out and walk a little bit. you never want them to know when you're going to do this. but the people want to see the president and the first lady walk a spiel. >> jimmy carter wanted to be the man of the people. throughout that campaign he always carried his own garment bag. that was always the photo you got of him carrying the garment bag over his shoulder. so a lot of that came from that. i was there. secret service went absolutely nuts about it. they didn't want to do it at all. but carter was determined about things like that. you're right. i was also there in '69 when president nixon got up there just as you turn on pennsylvania avenue and go around the treasury building, and his car was pelted with rocks. there was considerable disruption that year. >> well, one of the members of the parade today is our own sherylalt kinison wh atkinson w vehicle that's part of the parade ruelt what do you see? >> we're in position, as you said, just two vehicles ahead of the president of the united states. what a beautiful day, and beautiful weather. in fact, scott, if you've been able to get down to the capitol within the past hour, you could have perhaps gotten a front row view of what's going on here. there's a smaller crowd than in 2009, and much better weather. it's still a good crowd. they have to be happy with the way it turned out. it's perfect viewing weather, and perfec plenty of space to s president firsthand. >> cheryl, thank you very much. >> on on inauguration day, not a great number of republicans in the city. they decided by in large to leave the city, and because of the ill health of george h.w. bush, president george w. bush's son decided to stay with his father in texas. >> for the first time we had only democratic presidents watching on the stands there as the president delivered his inaugural address. but one of the republicans who is in town today is the senator of south dakota, john thune. and senator thune, we're grateful to you for joining us as you continue to watch the president make his way down pennsylvania avenue. >> nice to be with you. >> senator, the president had the congressional leadership to the white house this morning before the inaugural address. and some people were hopeful that that would indicate a pause between the two parties and everyone would start talking again. i on th wonder what you see as path to compromise as we deal with difficult issues, such as the budget and immigration? >> right. l you know, scott, i think that's a really important first step forward. inaugurals are always signs of new beginnings, fresh starts, if you will, and i hope this presents an opportunity for us. the president, if he will reach out to republicans on capitol hill, and to democrats, for that matter, i think we can do some good things together. lord knows we have challenges ahead of us. they will require presidential leadership. we need him involved in discussion and engaged. and i will provide that leadership. >> bob schieffer here. what about the idea that republicans have decided, i think, tomorrow, to introduce legislation and raise the debt limit. that would seem the most hopeful sign so far, to get that out of the way and get down to serious business. tell us about that. >> i think, bob, the house republicans recognize the political reality we have to deal with right now. we've got a president and a demcalt controlled senate. the republicans in the house, and as much as they'd like to move their agenda, are going to have to work with the president and democrats who have a different point of view. they decided to increase the debt limit temporarily, and put the focus squarely on the budget. we know we can't solve the country's fiscal problems absent entitlement programs. it would know nice to do something about tax reform. that's another element of the solution for the challenges we face. but that's intermented as -- sgerpted that republicans want to work with him and focus on passingoy budget in the senate, something we haven't done in almost four years to try and get the process moving forward in a way thal get us to a solution. >> what did you think of the president's speech today? do you think it would be helpful? what will republicans take away from that? >> well, bob, i thought the president, as in usual speeches, it was a 30,000 foot speech with broad sproeks. i think it's really important that we follow through, and talked about the need for bipartisan and talked about some of the big issues we face, and it's important that the actions follow the rhetoric, and i think the republicans are capitol hill are ready, willing and able to work with the president, but it's going to require leadership on his part, and that's something we feel has been missing for a couple of years, particularly on what we perceive the biggest challenge in the country. >> john thune, thank you for being with us? >> thank you. >> enjoy the parade. >> a glorious day. not a cloud in the sky. the sun is beautiful, one of the american artist who is has watched all of this with interest is winston marsalis, a winner of pulitzer prize, and composer and educator, and fortunately for us, he is our cultural correspondent for cbs news. marsalis once said the president obama's message of inclusion is the same as jazz. i asked him how that message applys to the political climate here in washington. >> our music is baseed on mutual respect. at the center of music is swing. and that's our integrity. we improvise. about en% improvise, it's swing, and the bltives are not always the same as yours. >> not a lot of swinging going on in capitol hill, not a lot of harmony. >> they're setting a bad tone. and you have to remember, the world is looking at us. we can't get a budget, and go overtime, and the leaders are cursing each other out. we're trying to export democracy and advise our way of life and talk about the advantages of it. here we are the standard bearers of it in the world, and we can't come to an understanding of the budget, grandstanding and marketeering. it's embarrassing. >> there's a lot you can learn from jazz. >> there's a lot you can learn from swing and jazz. >> winston marsalis, the great jazz composer, musician, band leader, and winner of the pulitzer prize. marsalis playedalt the after party at the white nous in 2009, played after all the inaugural balls and celebration when the president and the first lady returned to the white house. winston marsalis played for them at that time. watching live kofrjt now of the inaugural parade. under the constitution of the united states, inauguration day used to be in march. in 1933, after the passage of the 20th amendment that changed to january 20th. but either time in washington, d.c. can be a time of miserable weather. in 1985, when ronald reagan was inaugurated it was 7°. they had to move most of the festivities inside. there were terrible snowstorms for the inauguration of president kennedy in '61, and president taft as well. today we have 46° and clear skies. jan crawford is on the parade route now. jan, what do you see? >> well, scott, the men preside is just about to arrive, and the crowd erupted into cheers. many of the people have been here since the early morning hours, and it will be their only glimpse today of the newly sworn in president. there's enormous excitement here. the crowd is almost leaning forward 20 people deep to try to see the president as he drives by in hi -- motor kied. people are waving. they've been here since the early morning hours to see the president. >> it's an impressive zult. we were talking about bad weather during inaugurations, and you talked about president grant. >> it was so cold. they were having a big dance, and they put up a tent. and nobody was take their coat off. they were all dancing in their coats, and they had a hundred cages with canaries around the tent to sort of add to the decorations. what happens was not pretty. the canaries froze. no canaries survive thad inauguration. >> this will go down in history in terms of the weather as one of the prettiest inaugurations in history. cheryl atkinson is there. what do you see? >> it's a big crowd. we're passing pennsylvania avenue. the president traveled all the way down to the white house where he will get out of the limousine and go into the president's reviewing stand and watch with friends, family, and donors as the rest of the parade comes by. it's interesting, as you've been talking that the president always gets out, with such a nice day and good weather, nothing to stop him from getting out twice and perhaps having a nice long walk and pleasing the crowd. we're waiting for that to happen. what does it take to be someone to sit with the president when you arrive at the white house. close friends, family, associates, and also donors were offered packages, including pickets to the front row -- tickets to the front row seats. some of the packages were a million dollars. there was controversy. unlike 2009, president obama lifted limits on contributions so donors could fund this privately funded party, and could give as much as they wanted to. no cap on that. and also for the first time, at least for president obama, corporate money is being accepted. so those are some of the people who will fill the seats that you see in the presidential reviewing stands when we arrive there. >> cheryl, so few people get a chance to be in this parade. look around for me, and tell me, when you see the folks on the side of the road what do you see? what are they shoulting? how does it feel? >> they're happy to see the press trucks, because we're just ahead of the president, and just to catch a glimpse of the parade they're shouting hey, and waving happy faces. much like 2009, and anticipating getting a personal glimpse two limousines back from where we are, a peek inside the dark window and see the president of the united states and mrs. obama waving back at them. again, everybody seems happy out here. the weather couldn't be better. they have fronts row seats, perfect weather, and whoever is lucky enough to see the president when we gets out of the limousine for that close-up firsthand look, they're going to be thrilled. >> and traveling at walking speed, to looks like? >> that's right. >> cheryl, thank you very much. the president is driving past the many museums of the smithsonian institution, the national gallery. the big reviewing stands set up all along the parade route. folks waiting all day guarding their positions and waiting all dale for an opportunity to catch this. >> and not all of them were able to get to the capitol to see the president sworn in or deliver his inaugural address. this is their opportunity to see the president and the first lady go by. members of the military saluting the first commander in chief as he rolls along. >> you know what's really nice about this, scott, is how the crowds are. they're obviously enthus yafltic -- enthusiastic, and much the same as barack obama's first inauguration in 2009 when you had a 1.8 million people. and i don't have the exact figures, but i believe fewer than a dozen people arrested. think of a city a million and a half people, and you could go all day with only a handful of people -- and none of those were any kind of serious incidents. and again, you're not seeing a lot of pushing and shoving and that kind of thing like at a sporting event sometimes. these people are happy. they're happy to be here, and they're really enjoying themselves. it speaks well of the country, i think. >> the tapestry of america, people have come from every corner of the country to be here today. >> douglas brinkley is also with us today. douglas, not all presidents -- or i should say at least one president did not survive after his trip from the capitol back to the white house. >> it always gets talked about. william henry harrison, only tippy canoe general who did the longest inaugural in u.s. history. didn't wear a coat, and caught pneumonia and died a month later. i wanted to answer to what bob said about the crowd. it's amazing how beloved barack obama is by the african-american community. he's the first black president, and getting 90% of the black vote in 2012, but people from all african-american communities support him so enthusiastically. it's noticeable walking around town. >> bob schieffer what would you say was your most memorable inauguration. >> i came in 1964, and in those days i was a reporter for the fort worth telegram. i think the president is going to get out of the car. the secret service gets out of the passenger seat, and they're opening up the ment's limousine now. >> just the fact it was my first one, i think that's the one i will always remember. and everything looked so bland. larger than life. the buildings seemed larger. and here they are. whether you're a democrat or a republican, they're a handsome couple. >> they are. the president is and the first lady now on foot. >> they're also very tall. [applause] >> to watch this scene unhold -- [applause] >> the president begins his second term. there will be a lot of things he will be doing for the last time, and this is one of them. >> earlier today we saw the president stop and take in the view from the mall after he delivered his speech. his entourage was moving, and he stood there and soaked it all in. and now clearly enjoying this moment as well. realizing that these will be the last -- these will be the last moments that he will be able to enjoy an inauguration day. cheryl atkinson is on the parade route 500 feet away from the president. what do you see? >> we're very close to the president of the united states and the first lady. they'll come outalt 10th street and pennsylvania where there's a big crowd, and dlielt the people watching. people reaching out with their hands and waving american flags, screaming. some of them are running alongside in the background so that they can run along with the limousine procession, and a lot of cameras, taking pictures of them. and they saunlter down the mitsd of the road. perfect day to come outside and do the walk, unlike 2009 when it was so cold. it was a very quick -- but this time very nice warm walk. we'll see how long they stay out. the people couldn't be happier. they're very excited, reaching out towards the president and just yelling nothing in particular, just kind of screaming as we goes by with the first lady. >> cheryl, thank you. >> you get a sense of all the security around the president when you see this shot. >> there's a break, an opening when you look at from the crowd's viewpoint, and they go by and you see the president and the first lady unobstructed. did an interview with the president not long ago before the election, and being president is not all fun and games and a bed of roses. he talked about you can't drive anywhere on your own, i can't take a walk anymore. and he was just talking about all the trappings of the office. as you were saying, bob, when the first couple goes out for a walk, well, there are a few people can them. but having said all of that, from the look on his face, you don't think he would trade this for anything in the world. walking in front of the old u.s. post office building in washington. >> and getting fairly close to the white house now. who knows, maybe he'll take the whole full trip on foot from here to the white house. [applause] >> margaret brennan is along the parade ruelt. they must be getting close to your location. >> they are, indeed, scott. the announcer just aert welled that the president is about to arrive. but the parade goers have no idea the ment is on foot. so many of them showed up at 8:00 a.m. right when the security gates opened hoping to get a front row seat to get close to the president. you can hear the roars starting. and i'm waiting to hear the eruption if the president stays on foot. he's been coming down in a slow roll of the car, and as you know, it stretches a mile and a half or so to the white house. and tell be being to see how the crowd reacts when the president does get here. this parade itself. there are about 88,000 -- of course, this is only the second inauguration that has happened to fall on this holiday of martin luther king day. a lot of people have the day off and came out to celebrate. in so many ways, it's one of those moments in time where history sort of rhymes here. president barack obama is the first african-american elected to be president, and now re-elected. we're standing in freedom plaza where martin luther king right across the country gave his i have a dream speech. >> we'll see after the president passes, a number of references to civil rights and martin luther king and many of the floats that will be rolling down pennsylvania right after the president and the first lady pass us by. we have been told that on the martin luther king float, there's going to be that famous float from him that says the ark of the normal universe is long, and bends towards jflt. and president obama made many references to martin luther king. and continues in current form. the president just about to arrive at freedom plaza, scott. >> margaret, thank you. the president back in the limousine, as you saw with the first lady. listen to this. (crowd chanting four more years) >> the president walked about three blocks hand in hand with the first lady, and blue the crowd a kiss before he got back inside the limousine. the president wasn't able to shake any hands or personally greet anyone in the crowd because, of course, there are barricades and two or three ranks of police officers and military service members standing along the fraid route there. [applause] >> stay with us. we will have live coverage of the president's return to the white house and more on the inauguration parade as cbs news coverage of the inauguration of president barack obama continues in just inauguration of president barack obama continues in just a moment. inauguration of president barack obama continues in just a go, go, go, go! bye sweetie. honey what are you doing? we gotta go! it's dress-like-a-president day, i'm supposed to be martin van buren. who? martin van buren! google? martin van buren. ♪ dare to create all kinds of drama. new revlon photoready™ primer and shadow add sparkle or use wet. so you can create whatever eye you're in the mood for. dare to be revlon. and less saturated fat? it's eb. eggland's best eggs. better taste. better nutrition. better eggs. it's eb. back with live coverage of president barack obama. this is a picture of the crowd watching the president drive by in his moer motorcade from t tocapitol back to the white house. they're nearly back to the white house. it's an amazing day in washington. it's 47° and almost no wind. it is a brilliant clear sky. you couldn't ask for better weather. jerry sipriano said president reagan had the best and the worst weather. i'll tell you about that in a moment. >> jerry sipriano, our senior news editor and a bit of amateur historian was telling us that ronald reagan in 1977 had such cold weather that by the time he was inaugurated a second time zoo-1985, i'm corrected. by the time ronald reagan was inaugurated a second time it was 55°. and so ronald reagan goes down in history as having the coldest inauguration and the warmest inauguration in american history, at least as far as the records go back. but about 46°, 47 in washington right now, and a beautiful dale for this trip back to the white house.

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