and he is waving to the crowd. waving to the folks right below the media stand potentiallyawaying to a reporter here and there. maybe not. he and melania walking up, addressing now his viewing stand where many of his vips as i said and his friends are waiting. guys, this is the first time that donald trump will walk these grounds and walk into the white house as the 45th president of the united states. and it has got to be just a huge moment for him. remember, he didn t necessarily think he was going to win. certainly when he started out campaigning. it was a protest campaign. the campaign told me that maybe a one in ten chance that he d make it to the republican national convention. not only did he make it, but he won, and won the presidency. the night of the election, the campaign did not think that they were going to win. so certainly this past couple
american institutions, cancelled the national bank, remade in many ways american democracy in his own image. that is clearly the aspiration of steve bannon and the sort of braintrust around donald trump. and it was mold-breaking at the time when jackson literally let the people into his house, there was a kind of vulgarity to jackson, quite on it s face that they clearly see as a kind of kindred spirit and something they now to want channel in their own way in the 12st century. our mutual friend and colleague john is one phenomenal. living experts on jackson. and one of the living biographers of jackson. can really expand on this. and to our viewers as we enter the trump era in american politics, w around here feel very fortunate that we have people who we can casually turn to in the middle of our coverage with names like john meachem,
parallel. the younger trump children are both daughters, one of them is documentary film maker, the other is a student at northeastern, i believe. pence is in school. hotel washington is also known as the w hotel. that s right there on the corner around from chris s beloved old ebbet grill. also the setting for godfather ii. that where he stayed for the senate hearings. incredible view from the rooftop. great place to go in the summer time. rachel, generals up there. general rule that was a while ago. sfwluf as many as you can sell tickets to. one of the reasons the clintons had so many is in fact they from the democratic side of presidential politics brought in a massive amount of money to campaigning in ways they hadn t really seen this strongly before
of cat liezing his base which effect lively got him the presidency of the united states and the nomination, whether that can be sustained and what the protesters are going to do after they protest. what they re going to do in terms of representatives up on capitol hill. that s a polite way of saying what s the democrats brand? going to be. what are they going to be about other than we re not about donald trump or anything he proposes. reporter: yeah, and i think one of the things we ve learned. interestingly enough, i think we ve learned that opposition is very powerful. particularly in this moment in our very fractured and sort of structurally polarized politics. republicans obstructed sort of clearly from the day one, we know about that famous mcconnell dinner and in many ways, there was a lot of about it that was quite effective tactically. the question is what that what sthap opposition takes and thousand takes opposition, and how the president of the united states attempts t
leisurely walk pace. they ve stepped it up a little bit. the car is also so massive, it basically has the shoulders of an suv. it looks like a large model of a sedan, but look at it compared to the suburbans behind it. it s just a massive thing. also at this part of the parade we ve been seeing from the other shot that we had just a moment ago, this last stretch that the motorcade has made has been passed one of the larger concentrations that we ve seen of anti-trump protesters. we heard them a moment ago. we heard them shouting. we saw a lot of their signs. they didn t seem to be mass produced signs, homemade signs, and you saw shoulder to shoulder, anti-trump protesters and trump supporters in this one section of pennsylvania avenue as they drive down it. that will be that is more the type of protest. reporter: oh, we re stopping. we re stopping.