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Is a human being. turning to his wife, saying, thanks, sweetie. turning to his daughter, saying, i did it. he is still a human being, with a lot of challenges before him. why he picked the blue room. this is a room, 30 by 40 feet, much smaller than of the east room and a lot of ceremonial rooms here when we cover the president. we are told that the president wanted to make it much more intimate, just with family and a very small group of friends. very few, if any administration officials, keep this together as a family. and then, obviously, as you noted tomorrow, a big challenge with the inaug...

Including the five flags. tomorrow's inauguration ceremony will be held on the west side of the capitol, as it has been since ronald reagan piewfed it from the east side in 1981. senior national correspondent john roberts is there. >> reporter: hey, good afternoon to you. what a great thing that reagan did. the view from the platform, looking down the mall at the washington monument is nothing short of spectacular. on the platform, we are watching final rehearsals. james taylor left the stage. kelley clarkson and beyonce will be here later today and then the big party tomorrow, as we inaugurat...

One fact was exciting, second reagan and he said, government is not the solution it our problem. you really had the sense he was going to turn federal washington around. the other very memorable thing about 1981, the hostages were being released by iran, jimmy carter was there, he had been up all night, trying to arrange that. as they came off the platform after the speeches, sam donaldson, shouted to carter, are they out yet? he said, no. the ayatollah specifically made it so it wasn't until reagan got to the lunch that the host amtion cleared iranian air space. the second reagan inaugural wa...

Thought that was funny, which probably got me out of trouble. >> this is today because it's a subbed. they don't do the public inauguration on sunday. this will be the seventh time that the constitutionally mandated inauguration has fallen on a sunday. the last one was reagan -- >> that's right. 1995. >> and the cold inauguration inside because it was too cold. >> they had to move the swearing-in inside on monday, they moved the entire inaugural parade to a football stadium in landover maryland. they were worried people were going on freeze today. i had to stand out on the north lawn of the wh...

Especially with the robber -- pressure on the republicans in an outreach to the hit panic community, looking at 2014 and 2016, saying they have to reach out to their community because it's the fastest growing population. but on gun control, it seems like, it might be a lot tougher for that group to hit those -- >> yeah, but red state democrats are important. there are a bunch of red-state democratic carps up for re-election in 2014, like prior in arkansas and landrieu in louisiana. they have to get them on board. and i want to make one point about all of this, people are saying, he's going to ...