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>> chris jansing, thank you. this is not the official parade. this is the president essentially getting set to start at the capitol and then he will come back. >> how do you know all this stuff? >> you never played pinball? if you were good at pinball -- >> you rack up the numbers -- >> you get an extra ball at the end. >> i have to say, back when i first came to washington high school, this was a honky-tonk strip joint with firecracker stories and waffle shops and junk. and jack kennedy said to...

Thats what the presidential inaugural ceremonies look like all getting started in just minutes from now. i want to go to chuck todd now. what have you got? >> i was just going to say having to do with the inaugural address. another didbit i learned about it, theme atticly, it will go back and tie to the first national speech the president gave at the 2004 democratic convention, which if you recall was about red states and blue states, about the united states of america. so hes going to continue ...

Reading the official biography distributed by the white house? sasha obama, her first name is natasha natasha, it is not sasha, i had no idea. and he had a pet named tata. i think they put that in there as bait to make us say it, but i swear thats what they distributed. >> and you read the whole thing. >> and i committed it to memory. now you will never forget it. at this point it is quarter past 11:00, the official call to order is due in about 17 minutes. thats from chuck schumer, new york sen...

The route. the days events take a long time. its about 10:45 on the east coast right now. the inauguration including the inaugural address will all happen within the next hour and a quarter. the inaugural parade happens thereafter. one of the interesting things about the presidential limousine youre seeing today has a washington, d.c., license plate on it, specifically the one that says taxation without representation on it. which is a very big issue here in d.c. and it is an issue in terms of t...

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Everything that hes been tasked with doing he has established. >> look at the way the configuration of the offices are. its a great real estate. location, location, location. he is like a guy on guard duty. the president, hes there in three steps. hes right there. >> and he said the arrangement he made with the president when he took the job was he would be the last one out of the room, the last guy in the meeting. they are very close. it is unexplored but -- >> i think more unbenign than vice p...

Insuperable obstacles, whether he can turn the economic tide thats been working against middle class americans, the great post-war achievement of american life, the building of the american middle class for 12 to 13 years now as we have been headed in the wrong direction. and i believe hell be judged in the end on whether hes able to change that trend line. >> do you think its going to be more like reagan? chuck todd mentioned ago theres a certain resemblance on the other side of the political s...

Of ronald reagan, you were debating in ronald reagans house as it were. and you all ignored that ronald reagan as president raised taxes 11 times. that ronald reagan as governor created the single largest state income tax in history in 1967. you selected pieces of ronald reagan theme atticly as a group that you like, but you ignore specifically how he governed, which was often in a bipartisan way, in agreements with democrats, including agreements to raise taxes. would you advocate gofb earning ...