Hours in the white house. Byron pitts, were seeing the bands come on. It was a tough choice for many, bands, as well, whether or not to come. A number decided to stay away. You look at this image and think, how beautiful, right . All americans love a parade. Right. And so, i would imagine some people are regretting not participating. I think its one of the a congressman said earlier today that, you know, today is about america, not about republican or democrat. And so, this is a a joy wous moment. And a beautiful sight about what makes us unique in the world. Weve seen a lot of that spirit. Weve seen so many different signals on this day. We saw the spirit on the mall. Amy robach was talking about it earlier. Young people coming together from different sides of this election, but coming together to celebrate our democracy. Weve seen some ugliness today, as well. That vandalism, several blocks away from the parade route. Weve seen peaceful protest on the parade route. And weve also seen, you know, you talk about the traditions, you talk about a day for coming together, but as you were saying, mark, earlier, what we saw in that inaugural speech was unlike any weve ever seen before. Absolutely. But george, we also have to think about the protesters. Thats american, too. Thats apart of being american, as well. Thats the civil rights movement. Thats the antiwar movement. In the vietnam war era. Thats part of who we are as a country. Were seeing the full of america play out today. Martha raddatz, when we were listening to president obama in his final press conference, he was saying of any kind of squashing of that is one of the things that could drive him back into the political arena, not to run for anything, but to speak out. He talked about those as the core values, the things that theres normal policy discuss n discussions, theres normal divisions, but there were certain things he would want to speak out about. And think back to his chicago speech, too, i mean, he really was telling people that it was up to them to change. I think, i mean, byron said that its a joyous moment. Its a joyous moment for a segment in the population, that say, weve arrived. Weve finally gotten there. I think for a large other part of the population, this isnt a joyous moment for them. They look at this, theyre concerned. They dont know whats going to happen. Not even people that voted for Hillary Clinton, but people, ha minorities or other parts that think, im really concerned about how this president is going to operate. Its incumbent on the staff of the white house and donald trump at some point to acknowledge that emotional conflict in the country, in order to deal with it. Very tough for him to do, terry moran. It is, but i do think that theres hope in this moment, because of exactly what matthew just said, which is there are millions upon millions of people who feel incredibly affirmed by this. And many of those people, you went out and talked to them, were almost out of the system. Theyd stopped believing it in. I talked to people who hadnt voted in decades, that came out to vote for this guy, and he won. And theyre back in the game, as it were. And eight years ago, it was a Different Group of people who were astonished at the way democracy could work for them. The more people, the better. Its when they check out altogether you have to worry about the country. Things do swing back and forth. But as a nation, we still i was thinking about, when we were watching the demonstrators earlier. Dr. King said that the riot is the language of the unheard. There are millions of people that think, this isnt our guy, this doesnt represent them. And so, they may act out in this way. But at the end of the day, history shows, we may swing in one way or the other, but as a nation, we figure it out. That was the message that president obama gave to his supporters in the days after the election. But cokie roberts, what a dramatic swing between the two men. A very dramatic swing. And i do think theres this sense of with te the people on part of a lot of voters who elected donald trump. But i think it would be very useful and wise for him to make some symbolic gestures. To go to a mosque and worship there. To have hispanic gathering at the white house. To talk in terms about africanamericans where hes not talking about crimeinfested inner cities. I think that he just needs to do something so that people who are feeling disaffected feel better. Radical swing between the people. We have not seen that yet today. And really, the two electorates, matthew dowd, are also so separated. Not really talking to each other in any real way. They stopped talking to each other and it wasnt just donald trump. Donald trump was a symptom of whats going on. He wasnt a cause of whats going on, though he contributed with some of his language and actions in the course of the company. But this is the problem in america today. Our democracy was built on the idea that we put all of our individual biases behind and we come together for the common good. That we sort of sit in a tribe, where we sit in a family, we sit in a community, but were able to put those things behind and say, we can do whats in the best interest of the country. Its very hard. Barack obama got little operation from republicans in the course of his entire presidency. My guess is, donald trump is going to get very little cooperation from democrats. And thats why today we have two dominant Political Parties dislike and dd and distrusted b majority of the country. The new cover of Time Magazine is out, with that image from the end, Donald Trumps inaugural. That clenched fist, that we have never seen before. And you wonder, you know, cokie, you made this point. Most inaugurals not remembered at all. Lincolns two inaugurals, john f. Kennedys. You said this was unlike any other inaugural. I wonder which phrases survive and does that image become the iconic one . I think that is the iconic one, because it so symbolizes his campaign. His firm stance along with the populous movement that he helped to foster. I think the phrase that stood out to me was when he said, when you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. That was his way of reaching out to, i think, particularly the africanamerican community, who might have felt disenfranchised. That was one of the new lines. We heard many of the signature lines, byron pitts. That was one of the new lines in the speech. Yeah, i think many people might have been surprised to have heard that line, that it was inviting, that there is this big tent. But what say one thing, but show me. And when you look at his cabinet, right, we mentioned earlier today, there are no hispanics on his cabinet. When you look at his inner circle outside of his family, you dont see much of the diversity of america in that. So, certainly, i think, many people will be encouraged by that line, but what they hear and what they see dont seem to quite match up. And cokie, you said, you mentioned some of the things you believe he needs to do, terry moran, im not sure he sees it that way. I dont think he does. That raised fist is the militant america coming into power. They feel that they have been shut out. Not just of power, but of respect. Thats something you heard again and again out there, disrespected by hollywood. Disrespected and disserved by washington. Disrespected by main stream media. And theyre taking it back and that is a militantcy. I dont think thats the kind of emotion that he comes into office with that is going to result in those kinds of compromising gestures or actions. And terry and i have both been out over many, many months talking to voters, and its not just the disrespect, its that they felt they had no voice at all. And you talk to people over and over and over again, you say, but donald trump is promising to bring back manufacturing jobs, do you really believe he can do that, they would say, not necessarily, but at least he tells us. At least hes listening to us. And i think that was the most powerful thing i heard from people, that he gave them hope. Sorry. And out there just this past week, the way that he has jawboned, muscled giant american corporations to stop a move to mexico, in the example of carrier in indiana. People out there saying, he has done more for us as a president elect than the last three president s did for us. But i think its really important to keep in mind, and if i were in the white house working there, i would be advising donald trump and the people there for this one thing. The people that swung this election to elect donald trump were not for donald trump. They were against Hillary Clinton. And those voters, 20 , 25 of Donald Trumps voters didnt think he was qualified to be president and didnt think he had the temperament to be president , and didnt like him, but they voted for him. And that i think is a group of voters that could easily peel off, if his actions, as byron says, i think, are key, if his actions dont match what they think they want in america. You bring up the point, they have to see stuff, i would think, relatively quickly. You talked about those who supported donald trump, our poll that just came out this week shows that a majority of americans still, to this day, as he enters office, dont think hes qualified for the office. Hes going to have to demonstrate that in the days and weeks ahead. Its not going to be through speeches. Its not going to be through signing proclamations, its not going to be any of that. Its going to have to be aboun affirmative action, something that changes the nature of relationships that we have with foreign countries, gets us out of a war or gets us in a war that we think needs to happen, its all in the actions. I dont know if shes with us, rebecca jarvis, our chief Business Correspondent has been watching the markets today. One thing we have seen, since the election of donald trump, is a real rally in the dow jones. We must not have rebecca. Sorry for that. You have some news, Martha Raddatz . It looks like general mattis has been confirmed as the defense secretary, first member of the cabinet, of the trump cabinet to be confirmed. I will tell you that i have known him for many, many years, through many conflicts and he is adored by his troops. He is truly adored. He is a real leader. He is a u. S. Marine. He was in fallujah. He is a scholar. I think he owns about 6,000 books. Hes the kind of person that remembers everything hes ever read and can throw Something Back at you thats pertinent to the situation. And he will speak his mind. He also, to me, immediately understood donald trump. In their meet, when we remember that there was all the talk about bringing back waterboarding and bringing back torture and donald trump said that again and again. After his meeting with general mattis, he said, well, you know, general mattis said, you know, sometimes a beer and a cigarette works well. I can just see general mattis in that situation, knowing that it wouldnt work to say to donald trump, tortures bad, you cant do it, thats not the way to do it. Instead, he does his kind of good old boy thing, and got along really well. And im telling you, if donald trump never calls him mad dog again, that shows you also how skilled general mattis is to try to get rid of that nickname he hates. He was also called chaos. Thats not a bad acronym for him. Its the colonel has come up with another outstanding solution. Terry moran, donald trump was able to come off, time and time again, during the campaign, wouldnt back down on that issue of waterboarding. Sometimes we have to do things that are even worse. Yet, general mattis crystallizing the scholarship of the last couple of years and he decides to turn off, when he needs to. One of the things were going to discover in the days and weeks ahead is, that which of those promises matter most to drm drment one of the things thats irritated him over the course of this transition, any suggestion that mexico is not going to pay for that wall, he goes ballistic. He does. That was his signature line, and he says there are ways to force mexico to pay for the wall. Either through taxes, tariffs or on remittances. But one of the things that he brings to his now president ial leadership is that you never quite know when hes saying smshgs becau something because he firmly believes it or when hes sayingsosaying so something to shock you or soften the ground for the deal that he wants. He is a very canny im not sure its a reasoned, you know, approach, but he has a way of shocking you with what he says, sometimes he means it, sometimes he doesnt. And mark updegrove. We know hes a student of Richard Nixon. We know hes going to hang in the oval office, a note that he received from Richard Nixon back in 1987, sent it after his wife watched donald trump on the donahue show and she says a future politician in there, hes in the oval office. One of the things he might be taking from him is president nixons advisers tried to make use of the fact that sometimes he could be unpredictable. The wideman this heldwildman t. That could be an as set for a president. Henry kissinger always said, unpredictability in Foreign Policy could be a good thing, to keep people guess egg. I think what donald trump needs to do, though, is, he has to have some consistent messages to the American People. We talked about the donald trump that we heard in that inaugural address. And we talked about the donald trump that we heard at the lunche luncheon. More conciliatory, more outgoing. I think the American People are going to have to figure out which donald trump were dealing with, as far as Foreign Policy goes, there might be some advantage to unpredictability. We already see him courting some controversy, Martha Raddatz, as we see the president leaving the white house now. Theres eric trump and his wife. Ivanka and jared behind them, as well. Tiffany, i think, is there. Along with barron. Theyre heading, making their way towards the reviewing stand right now. Looks like jared and ivankas kids have go in for the day, but don jr. And his wife are bringing their kids out, at least some of them. They have five. A lot of young kids in the trump family right now. And as we watch them take their seats, martha, i want to pick up on the thought. It does seem, in some ways, that particularly with china and as you were mentioning earlier, north korea, we could be spoiming fspoim i spoiling for a controversy rather early. We talked about the tweets early on, not so long ago, really, that donald trump said north korea just started that it is in the final stages of developing a Nuclear Weapon capable of reaching the u. S. It wont happen. Experts will tell you that probably could happen within four, five years. So, what does donald trump do . That is a red line. With iran. He said he would rip up the deal with iran. I i dont think that will happen right away, if at all. You heard general mattis, he was the one who said he didnt like that deal much, either, but america, when america makes a promise, she has to keep her promise. We also have the persian gulf. In the persian gulf. Weve had iranian boats threatening u. S. Ships. Donald trump said when the retu iranians circle our beautiful destroyers with our little boats and make gestures to our people, they will be shot out of the water. Can also tell you that i doubt anyone in the military, if those are not the rules of engagement, would not follow that order. Here comes Vice President pence and karen pence. And soon the announcer will tell you that the president is coming out to the reviewing stand, as well. He is home. That is his home. That is the first time hes been in there as president. Best temporary housing in the world. Exactly. Or as others say, the best prison in the world. One of the questions going to be is how often he comes back home to trump tower here in new york, because melania and barron will be coming home and staying there at least through the end of the school year. Thats becoming the signature gesture of mike pence there, patting his heart, with the emotion. As he greets his supporters and the military there. You know, the thing about the white house, though, matthew dowd, theyre going to be out there all morning long. Going to stay up late into the night at the inauguration, but the work begins bright and early tomorrow. Well, actually, its going on right now. Im sure theres staff in the white house, manning certain desks, being aware of all the things that are going around in the country and the world, that they may have to respond to tonight, while the balls going on, and tomorrow morning. This isnt a five day a week job, as you know, george, and you get off saturday and sunday and you get back to work on monday. Tomorrows a full day. Particularly because there are so many vacancies, Martha Raddatz, especially in the National Security establishment. A lot of holdovers from the Obama Administration. You will have an acting secretary of state. About 50 people from the Obama Administration will stay on for this transition. Watching them hold there. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States, michael r. Pence and mrs. Karen pence. You know, you think of the world just this week, libya, stealth bombers, bounding an isis training camp. In afghanistan, raids going on right now. They will have to deal with this immediately. And here comes the president. President trump and melania. He will have to deal with this immediately. He resisted the daily Intelligence Briefings at the beginning of the transition. Had harsh words for the Intelligence Community after they came out with that conclusion that russia hacked the u. S. Election. Has tried to be a bit more conciliatory in recent days, but even as late as his press conference last week, accused the Intelligence Community of nazilike tactics and suggested that the cia director leaked damaging information on him. John karl, the president about to pass you right now . Hes about to pass just a few feet away from me. Im on the white house north lawn here, right next to this blue walkway. The president and the first lady walking my way. Theyve been inside the white house. Ive seen lights going on