Were joined by our panel. We were talking about before climate change. How much can the president really do . What do you see him doing given him wanting to make efforts on gun control on the budget . On the deficit . Let me say two things that he can do. I got interrupted for miss alicia keys. Im sorry. Today is an incredible day. And you can feel the energy everywhere that you go. In so many ways, every day is a new day. And a new chance. A new chance to be our best. To serve our highest purpose. Yeah. So im going to need your help tonight because im up here all by myself. I just wanted it to be me and you. So help me celebrate this most momentous day. Ill tell you what to do. I need you to say people say eh its a new day its a new day getting ready, everybody ready eh oh, a new day a new day celebrate and say eh, eh celebrate and say eh yeah because hes president and hes on fire. Hotter than a fab as they like a highway hes living in a world and its on fire filled with catastrophe he has both feet on the ground and hes burning it down oh, oh got his head in the crowds and hes not breaking down hes walking on fire obamas on fire watch him as hes lighting up the night Everybody Knows the mission is his girl together they run the world burn baby burn baby obamas on fire hes walking on fire obamas on fire whoo oh whoo oh whoo oh whoo oh whoo whoo oh whoo oh whoo whoo oh whoo oh whoo hes president and hes on fire [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for having me tonight. At this incredible president ial inaugural celebration. To the obamas all right. You heard alicia keys. By the way, how good was that . That might have been the best free concert in the world. The fact we could hear that live and she looked stunning in that dress. Beautiful dress, amazing voice. She really has it all together. Knockout. We have a couple of special guests. Alicia keys shes getting a round of applause from me. By the way, just to give everyone a sense, theres already thousands of people here, and yeah i reckon theres 30,000 people here. You heard that. What an amazing start to the evening. Very exciting. You could have fit all of the dreamliners that have been grounded here. Biggest party you have ever been in. Vivian and mike green join us. Our special guests. Theyre on their last date before michael deploys to bahrain. We appreciate it. Hes going on his fifth deployment next week. And youre here tonight for your last date. So many people watching think this is entertaining and its amazing and its fun. For you, its something more than that. Oh, yeah, hes going to dance with me. He promised. He never dances. I think i get at least one slow song, one fast song. Why is this ball so important, the commander in chief ball where youre going to be . For us, because its for the military families. We obviously could not have come to this one. Well be upstairs with all of our military friends enjoying an amazing night out, celebrating the inauguration. Piers has a couple questions for your husband, but first, you have two little boys, and they dont know hes going away yet, right . We talked about it. Something we did on saturday was a national day of service, we did care packages, and we were able to talk to them about who we were packing the care packages for. They thought maybe dad would get one eventually, so they were packing extra stuff in that one. Thats great. Let me ask you, mike, youre a Lieutenant Commander in the u. S. Navy. Your fifth deployment in ten years of marriage. Youre off to bahrain for 12 months, you told me. You only had a twoweek break in the middle. Its pretty grueling on the family you leave behind. Tough on you guys, but tough on the family. With things like facebook, facetime, they make it a lot easier. Email. Its nice to reach back and call them on the phone. Its nice im going to be on a land base and not on a ship. Its easier to call from land than a ship. Its easier to stay connected now than it was 30 years ago. This is not a bad perk, being at this amazing night. This is awesome. Youre at the commander in chief ball upstairs. I believe its a superstar mexican rock band. They sold 30 million albums so theyre pretty good. Excited to be here . I am. Its great. Like vivian said, im leaving in seven days, so this is a pretty cool goingaway gift, if you will, and its cool to hang out with all of the other military families. Theres absolutely nothing unique about my story. Four or five days from now, there are thousands of families who are doing the same thing. Its really cool to be part of this. Let me thank you for your service and i hope you enjoy a fabulous evening. I hope you do, too, because you have earned it. Thank you. As an american, you feel such incredible pride in our armed forces and what they do and they have done. My brother is a british army colonel, and he goes away to afghanistan and iraq. He has four little girls under the age of 13, so i know what its like for the family. Its very, very tough on them, but you do an amazing job and we all greatly appreciate it, so thank you. Earlier, i talked to one of my alltime favorite musicians, a genius. Stevie wonder, a man who has personified not only the obamas, but also Martin Luther king day, he was one of the people who got the day created in the first place and made Martin Luther kings birthday a National Holiday. I talked to him about that, about the first couple, about gun control, about many things. A fascinating few minutes with a living musical legend. Stevie wonder, how are you . Great. How are you . Is that your british accent . I was born in england, actually. I moved to the states like yourself. This is a huge night. And for you, i guess, a very special day. You campaigned very hard to have a National Holiday on Martin Luther king day. This is that day, and its the day that barack obama is inaugurated again. How do you feel today . Very excited, very, very happy. I feel like theres so many things that i envisioned, that i saw, and those things are happening, coming true. The only thing im hoping for is that we truly will get people together. You know, sometimes i wish we could have even more than a Democratic Party and republican party, a united party. Where people come together, but i think that if we just get people thinking that way, we can really come together. We have definitely, the president who has proven that he wants to do that by how he did things the last four years and now these next four years. He made a very powerful speech today, and it seemed like the gloves had come off a bit, like he was determined now to really try to push through the things that matter most to him. What did you make of his speech it was a great speech. I agree with you because truly, we cant talk about it and just talk about it. We have to be about it. We got to take off the gloves of being a politician and really look at the reality of how we are and where we are as human beings on this planet. Weve got to make this planet more green. Weve got to do something about the various things hes talked about. The rights of women and people in general. And weve got to keep our kids more safe. We cant just watch it on the news and say, oh, thats such a shame. And then after it dies down, we wait for it to happen again. I was thinking, you know, because i saw you on the tv talking about the whole gun thing. And i was talking to one of my friends, and i said, you know, you should go get me a gun, let me go with you to get a gun, and then i can show how easy it is for me to get a gun, then imagine me with a gun. Its just crazy. I think we have to do something about it. And im hoping that in these next four years, with an idea i have come up with, that i can do something about how we can come up with a solution. Because theres a solution to any problem. I think we just have to get to it. Well said. Youre performing at all of the balls, all the major ones, the inaugural ball and the commander in chief ball. Any secret about what youre going to be performing . Just some good stuff. All your stuff is good. Are you going to come sing with me . What are you thinking, a duet on superstitious . I know you were with the president and first lady last night. What sort of form were they in and what did you say to them . We just talked about, well, the first lady was talking about how she is looking at some of my songs, some of my music and trying to say their most favorite songs i had done. What is their favorite . They didnt say what they were. But i hope that i did something. We did, obviously, the signed, sealed, delivered song, and other stuff. It was fun. What do you think Martin Luther king would have made of a black president being reelected, having a second inauguration today . I believe that he would have been very happy to know that america has moved to a place that they are able to elect a president , not based on the color of his skin, but as he talked about, the content of his character. And that, he would be very happy about. I think the state of where we are, divided on so many different things, unfortunately, thats unacceptable. We must become united, United States of america, but i think the majority of the people are saying, listen, lets do away with these old habits, these old things that need to be dead and gone, and move on to really bringing our nation together. And i think he would say that. Time to move on and make it better and get it right. Well, im very excited about tonight. Looking forward to your performance. And if you do need me, i will be in close proximity and available. Start warming up. Warm up, mate. All right, buddy. Good to see you. Good to see you, take care. I tell you what, Stevie Wonder has a very good english accent. He had it right down to a tee there. I want to bring you somebody who is almost as big a legend now in the music world as Stevie Wonder. Will. I. Am. Welcome. I got nearly blinded by your camera. Oh, yeah. Coolest camera i have ever seen. I made and created this thing. You designed it . Designed it, funded it. I am bringing it to america and france. Really . What are you make of today, a big historic day. The president made a big historic speech. Were you pleased with the message on education, which i know you care about . Im really excited about the next four years. Theres a lot we can do in terms of encouraging kids and changing inner cities forever, really. By encouraging these kids to be entrepreneurs and scientists. Thats where im putting all of my focus on. What else do you think his priorities should be in the next four years . If you have to choose a few, he cant go through everything he wants to do. Jobs in america, you know, around Consumer Electronics. Next year, Consumer Electronics will make 200 billion, and i would like to see those 200 billion, you know, a lot of that money here in america. Do you think so many jobs from Big Companies are being outsourced at the moment . Apples and company like that, they spend too much abroad . I think they spend pretty much everything abroad when it comes to manufacturing. We have to educate our kids and educate america. You know, so they have no excuse. The excuse is, the skillset isnt here in america. So if we get these american citizens and these kids a skill set, you know, hopefully we can change and give incentives. Give companies incentives to manufacture things here. By the way, what did you do to stop going deaf . You must know . You guys cant hear . I cant hear a thing. Can you . Listening to this band, mana. Mana, from mexico. Yes. Big in mexico, right . Theyre huge. Lets just listen to them for a second or two. Good idea. All right, and before we take a brief break, how is it different, this inauguration than last time . Last time was even more of a celebrity fest, for lack of a better term. Last time was like the first time. They just got louder. Last time was like the first time. This ones a little different. You cant compare them. The importance of this year, this election year, continuing of what we started, and not going backwards. So 2008 was so monumental in what america accomplished. Now we have so much more to accomplish. Thats the difference. Like knowing you reached the summit but theres a lot of, you know, building to do on the top of that mountain. Thank you so much. Good to see you. Thank you. Nice to see you. I like watching him dance to mana. Yeah. All eyes are on Michelle Obama and what shes going to wear tonight. She received rave reviews for what she wore today. Right now, two designers are waiting to see which dress she picked. They wont know until we see her. Excitement mounting. Even will. I. Am wants to know. Theres this island and its got supercute kangaroos. Barrow island has got rare kangaroos. Chevron has been developing energy here for decades. We need to protect their environment. We have a strict quarantine system to protect the integrity of the environment. Forty years on, its still a classa nature reserve. Its our job to look after them. Its my job to look after it. Welcome back to our continuing coverage of the president ial inauguration. Im Anderson Cooper live on the national mall. While todays inauguration may have lacked some of the spectacles from four years ago, there was a lot of emotion. An important day for all americans. 50 years ago today, Martin Luther king led the march on washington, and 30 years ago, Martin Luther king day was signed into law as a holiday. Representative lewis was the youngest speaker of that 1963 march. Earlier he told dana bash what he was feeling as he watched americas first africanamerican president take the oath for the second time. I did Everything Possible today to keep from crying. When i saw him standing there, taking the oath with the bible of Martin Luther king jr. , knowing that just 50 short years ago, that dr. King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and said i have a dream. Of course, this was actually the fourth time that president obama has taken the oath of office. Lets bring in our panel, van jones, cnn contributor who served as president obamas green jobs adviser in 2009. Sally quinn, margaret hoover, republican consultant, cornell belcher, democratic strategist who served as a pollster for president obamas 2012 reelection team. I wonder how you think this anniversary, this Martin Luther king day, informed and was infused throughout president obamas remarks today. Ill go back to even when he was senator obama. He always talked about, he also understood the gravity and talked about, i stand on the shoulders of the great men and women of the Civil Rights Era who made this possible. Even early on, many of the civil rights leaders early on in the primary process were with Hillary Clinton and it took a while for them to get used to obama and sort of trust him and know who he was. And he used a lot of that conversation saying, look, because of you all, i am possible. And i remember we saw congressman lewis there, he was one of the people who had sort of that great turmoil because he was originally for hillary, then he said his consciousness, he changed for barack obama. I think the president gets it, he understands it, and hes very respectful of it. I also think about, he spoke about the fierce urgency of now early on. For many in the Gay Community in the United States, they didnt feel that he had that sense of fierce urgency. I think today after the speech, i think there are a lot of gay and lesbian americans who were surprised to hear a president use the word stonewall and use it in the same sentence as selma and seneca falls and would certainly argue that he now has a sense of fierce urgency of now. In by doing so, he has mainstreamed the Gay Rights Movement as a modern civil Rights Movement and he has put it on the same platform as civil rights, as womens rights. Its really extraordinary and its something that frankly republicans are going to have to answer to. Two republican justices, john roberts i didnt see kennedy, but theyre looking at them to how decisions are going to come down when they hear the arguments in march. You know, when Martin Luther king first spoke on the mall, i was living here. And i was coming down, and people were screaming at all of the black people who were coming to hear him, and they were screaming and throwing things and calling them african bullies. And today, when i was watching this scene, thats all i could think about, was the hatred that was coming from everywhere toward the people and toward Martin Luther king. And there was an interesting body language with obama today. He seemed so much more confident. He sort of loped out, you know. Last time, he was more, you know, sort of formal and ridged. We call it swagger. Yeah, like i own it now. Im here. And you could sense that he really felt, even in this last four years that so much had changed, and he was able to talk more about equality. It seemed to me there was more about equality in his speech today. And i dont think he would have done that four years ago, because it was already clear that a black american had been elected president. Now, i think he wanted to emphasize it, look, were here now, and its working. It was so important that he did both things he did. He affirmed the history and the struggle. And theres a way that dr. King is almost being photo shopped in now as one of the founders of what it means to be an american. Thats an amazing thing. If you know dr. Kings true story, as you said, he was reviled. The last two years of his life, he was speaking out about poverty. He was reaching out to mexicanamericans, speaking out against the vietnam war when it wasnt popular. The New York Times stepped away from him. He was not this revered figure. 50 years after the speech and 45 years after his assassination, for him to be embraced, we talked more in the past week about dr. King than we talked about george washington. Hes really become the pillar, i think, of moral consciousness for the new patriotism that obama is for. But he didnt stop with africanamericans. Hes now expandi