Years. When were the inaugural balls established as part of the ceremonies . It happened when George Washington was looking forward to this day for a long time. I wasnt sure i was going to be able to get through today so i brought a special guest with me. It is my distinct honor to introduce the head of the Transition Team, our next Vice President , mike pence. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you sean and good morning. It is a momentous day before a historic day. And im pleased to have a chance to report to the American People and to all of you the progress that we have made at the president elects direction, preparing a team that will be ready to serve the American People and make America Great again on day one. Im grateful to be with all of you today. Before i give you a brief summary let me First Express our thoughts and prayers on behalf of the president elect and myself for president bush and barbara. They are on the hearts of every american. This morning we understand they had a go
Good morning. A momentous day before an historic day. Chance toed to have a report to the American People the progress that we have. Let me First Express our thoughts and prayers on behalf of the president elect and myself, president bush and barbara are on the hearts of every american. They had a good night last night. Every americange to remember president bush and his wonderful wife, barbara, in their prayers. Elected donald trump to be the 45th president of the United States of america. Andays ago, donald trump set ambitious schedule prior to this inauguration and he asked me to share in this transition effort. I was grateful and honored to be given the opportunity to do just that. Over, i was impressed with the work governor christie and the Transition Team had done prior to the election, more than 170 interviews had already been done prior to election day. Report as ofto this morningss announcement for secretary of agriculture, all 21 cabinet nominees have been named, i17 individ
In my entire life, the most selfish greedy person that has affected me personally. A former Texas Governor rick perry gets his hearing amid a new report he didnt know what the job was when he accepted it. The big day. New details on Donald Trumps inauguration speech as we learn more about his first actions in office. Both repeal and put into place executive action that will start the process of implementing the agenda that we ran on it. But also an end, the final hours of Michelle Obama on one last walkthroughhe white house as the president gives his final press conference. At my core, i think were going to be okay. We begin today on capitol hill as donald trump takes his turn in the hot seat. The confirmation hearing for Steve Mnuchin. Who is this guy . Former partner at goldman sachs. Before that at 9 30, rick perry starts his hearing for Energy Secretary. Later this afternoon, president elect trump himself takes part in a preinaugural ceremony laying a wreath at arlington. In a few
White House Press Secretary will hold his first briefing in 30 minutes and that will be live for you. Confirmation hearings start for rick perry out of texas and the treasury secretary nominee steve mnuchin. We expect the president elect to head to the capitol for the final time as a private citizen. He tweeted this just a little while ago saying getting ready to leave for washington, d. C. The journey begins. I will be working and fighting very hard to make it a great journey for the American People. I have no doubt we will together make America Great again. The theme of tomorrows 20minute long inaugural address is supposed to be he is president for all the people and trying to make one thing clear before he makes that case tomorrow. Also on twitter today he said this. It wasnt donald trump that divided this country. This country has been divided by reverend ime. Franklin graham. Today in addition to making his way on down to washington and making final tweaks to that inaugural addres