Throughout the hour. We begin with what is by any measure aistoric event in the life of this nation. The inauguration of donald j. Trump as the president of the United States. An Inauguration Day that looked very different than what we saw for now former president obama eight years ago. The streets in this city where trump got just 4 of the vote. This image posted by vox shows the 2009 inauguration of now former president obama on the left and trumps inauguration on the right with far fewer spectators. The crowd estimated to be about onethird the size of obamas and while there were thousands upon thousands of jubilant trump supporters, it was i believe possible not to notice nearly empty bleachers along the route of the inaugural parade. There were also thousands of protesters, the vast majority of whom were peaceful although some windows got broken and limos smashed and lit on fire. They were there in larger numbers than eight years ago and there is a huge protest march still to come
Going home and explaining they had failed. The folks will still have to be accountable. Lawmakers will have to be accountable as to why they didnt vote to get rid of obamacare when they had the chance and the chance is today. The democrats will vote no and hope one result of todays drama is to voter anger over health care switches parties. They may feel damed if they dont. I think i tracked that. With us to share the reporting and their insights. Julie pace of associated press, Mary Katherine hamm. Well start the conversation in just a moment. But, first, we want to get to capitol hill and before we do that just a short time ago at the white house, President Trump yesterday said im done negotiating. The white house already trying to say this is the houses problem now. Thats what theyre saying privately. The president has enormous stakes in this. One reason tensions are high, listen to how short the answers are here. Mr. President , the Health Care Bill fails . Well have to say. Do you
Intensifies his own attacks against his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Support among republicans for the a. G. Is growing and fast, so we have those comments for you. But first, lets talk about the u. S. Senate set to vote on whether to move forward on debate for this Republican Health care bill. It is safe to say this is one of those votes we have absolutely no idea how it will turn out. Full disclosure. Several senators, theyre still undecided. Is the plan to repeal and replace . Is it to repeal only now and replace later . Whatever the procedural vote is, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell could only afford to lose two senators, and the president is pushing members not to be the vote that shuts this whole thing down. So, lets go to dana bash, our cnn chief Political Correspondent there on capitol hill. First things first, do we even know what they are voting on . Reporter well, in the shortterm, the answer is yes. Theyre voting on, as you said, at the beginning of this show, they
John kelly speaking out defending his tenure in the Trump Administration and blaming the issues at the border on former attorney general jeff sessions. Plus 2019 is shaping up to be a rough year for President Trump it appears as he will be the focus of even more investigations. Here we go. The president has not reached out to nancy pelosi since they met december 11th. He has said that hes ready to receive a counter offer from the democrats. The president will make a deal but he wont keep a deal. Is the question when do we get off the blame game and we get to serious negotiations. Were certainly prepared to provide additional funding for enhanced fencing technology, drones, satellites, lighting, censors, phone towers, and the things that the experts have cleer clearly indicated would improve our Border Security. President trump is not going to walk away from this fight without Border Security funding, moan for the wall. Donald trump owns this. He said he wanted to own it in the december
Pressured the ukrainian leader. The ambassador talked about a call made after the day the president asked the ukrainian leader to investigate the bidens. In the presence of my staff at a restaurant, sondland called President Trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. The member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. Ambassador sondland told President Trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. Following the call with President Trump, the member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what President Trump thought about ukraine. Responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of biden which giuliani was pressing for. All right. No one knew about this testimony until bill taylor arrived yesterday. President trump was asked about this call yesterday. This is what he said. I know nothing about that. First time i heard that. The aide who allegedly heard this call, david holmes, he will testify behind clo