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♪ welcome. joining us now msnbc white house correspondent kristen welker. a big day ahead for the president. the president. >> vertigo there? you look at saturday, it was a -- just -- tumultuous as it gets. sunday it seemed like they settled in and started actually playing the role of president. >> yeah, i think thats a good way to describe it, a little bit of vertigo. theyre describing today as a day of action, trying to turn the page even more on what was a very rocky start to the friday, ...

Once more than in duck and cover mode. on the verge of the inauguration, a time of stately ritual and tradition in a city baked in ritual and trarks, rit cal and trarks are out the window. donald trump is operating on an utterly new, unique, and freaky frequency. closed doors confabs in mahogany. and marble rooms with brass spittoons. >> lets go now to david ignati ignatius. >> waiting for the creature? >> does that describe the middle state of washington, d.c.? there is a vertigo in washington ...

Hanging down. and i said carter come back. and then he just let go. and it all happened like that. ♪ >> its crazy to me that ive lived longer without him than i lived with him. there are moments that still hits me like a punch in the gut and i literally get vertigo or nausea. i still cannot believe the way he died. i cannot believe it.

>> is there theater involved here? >> it a pierce thappears that w. whether they are using twitter or making an interview with david ax rad or. >> im talk about theater on the part of donald trump. >> no. this is typical donald trump. but the good news is out of all of this, what we are all hearing is it reminds me of be like a duck. stay calm on the surface and paddle like he can underneath. at times there are everything smooth on the surface with obama and trump and meanwhile the staff are pad...

>> not a left winger. what is that going to mean? what does that mean to the process? they are hurtful to him politically. they are more closely aligned on the right than his coalition. talk about vertigo. lets be fair. with all due respect, its not the most important job in the world.

Russia. do you think its kind of wedded to a hard line approach and anything is portrayed as weak and naive toward? >> you can get whiplash. they didnt like they looked into putins heart, during the obama administration, i remember there was a "time" magazine cover right at the beginning that said can we be frenlsd. it was a picture of obama with the russian bear four years ago. the media made so much fun of him. "the new york times" made so much fun of him. now he clearly has a strategy of cozy...

Cooperative relationship with russia. do you think its kind of wedded to a hard line approach and anything is portrayed as weak and naive toward? >> you can get whiplash. they didnt like they looked into putins heart, during the obama administration, i remember there was a "time" magazine cover right at the beginning that said can we be frenlsd. it was a picture of obama with the russian bear four years ago. the media made so much fun of him. "the new york times" made so much fun of him. now he ...

Clear election result, but i would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result. [ applause ] >> the criticism for trump -- >> reserve his right. going to reserve his right. >> a lot of criticism for those comments and statement during the debate. a columnist wrote the refusal to accept this bedrock principle of democracy was shocking. >> wait. >> leave open his option to what hillary clinton is doing right now. >> he threatened tdemocracy itsel...

More now from michelle kosinski, whos traveling with the president. >> reporter: for a year hes been reassuring allies that a trump presidency would not happen, that his policies would continue. now president obama offers reassurance in a much different form. >> time will now tell -- >> reporter: as the world reacts, the greek prime minister, who had called what donald trump represents evil, today didnt want to criticize. >> translator: to be honest, i know very little of donald trump. not much ...

Whos traveling with the president. >> reporter: for a year, hes been reassuring allies that a trump presidency would not happen, that his policies would continue. now president obama offers reassurance in a much different form. >> time will now tell -- >> reporter: as the world reacts, the greek prime minister, who had called what donald trump represents evil, today didnt want to criticize. >> to be honest, i know very little of donald trump. not much is going to change in the relation. >> repor...