himself after reading several speeches from history. the president-elect made a quick trip to washington for the first inaugural event a chairman global dinner features diplomats from around the world including mike pence and some of their top contributors. he s back in new york expected to spend the final day in trump tower his last day before moving to washington on thursday. washington is live with activity. all of the transfer of power. president obama gives his last press conference at the white house. even his four key confirmation hearings unfold on capitol hill. the list of democrats boycotting the inauguration continues to grow. now more than 50. so far, no senate democrats have added their names to that list. that s important. trump will need the cooperation of some of them to get his agenda through congress. but it s also important to remember starting friday, republicans control the house, senate and white house for the first time in a decade.
and how no detail is too small for mr. trump. officials working non-stop. hundreds of thousands expected from all over the country. check this out. the official inauguration photo of the 45th president. screen left. ahead blond hair and blue eyes before i started. that s a good line. you came up from d.c. yesterday. how does it look as they get ready in our nation s capitol? they ve been working for months. when they built the stages and the actual swearing in ceremony why are they starting early? they ll finish in the nick of time. with all the detail, micromanaging i would be a terrible president. i would hate to plan the event. tell me where to be. we ll be in washington on thursday and be there friday for the big day and coverage on saturday, too. there will be a lot of news rolling our way for that three-day period. shannon: we got it. bill: be with us starting thursday morning in d.c. shannon: meanwhile growing
measures in place. no timetable on that from the white house. john and christine? joe, thanks so much. the shooting a major issue for republican presidential candidates who were courting jewish voters at an event in washington. they expressed outrage over the string of mass shootings but extremism, not gun laws is to blame and the white house has not done enough to fight extremism. as investigators in california continue to search for a motive in this latest mass shoot, it s already playing out on the presidential campaign. speaking in washington on thursday, several republican candidates drew attention to this shooting. senator ted cruz said the country is at war and accused the obama administration of not taking seriously enough radical islamist terrorism in the united states. donald trump, however, had a bit of a different take. he says voters are looking for someone of strength. whenever there s a tragedy in the country, his numbers go up. let s take a listen.
affected by this. one of the things that people want is a silver bullet solution to a simple problem, suicide is not a simple problem. it s a whole range of problems so you need a whole range of solutions. that was an emotional moment in washington on thursday, iraq and afghanistan war veterans sounding an alarm about the epidemic of suicide plaguing our military men and women. on the mall yesterday, vets wounded in combat and they plants flags for each victim in 2014. the statistics this year alone are shocking. the iraq and afghanistan veterans estimate 22 former service members commit suicide every day in this country. that is more than 1900 u sides this year alone. more than 8,000 estimated by the end of this year. joining me to talk about next steps in combatting this epidemic are the leaders, tom tarantino and mankin, a veteran of the wars in iraq and
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