And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown washington and the nation were witness again today to the quadrennial pomp and color of a president ial inauguration. It marked the public start to the second Obama Administration, and it featured president ial appeals to extend prosperity and full freedoms to all americans. As the sun rose over the Nations Capital on this monday hundreds of thousands of people began descending on the National Mall to witness the occasion. Officials estimated 500700,000 attendees. That was far fewer than four years ago when nearly two million turned out. But todays crowd gave no hint of diminished enthusiasm for the 44th president
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions my fellow americans, we are made for this moment and we will seize it so long as we seize it together. Ifill president obama called for unity and equality in his second inaugural address, delivered today on the west front of the capitol. Good evening. Im gwen ifill. Brown and im jeffrey brown. We devote tonights newshour to the 57th inauguration. With full coverage of the pageantry, the ceremonial swearingin, the speech, the parade, and more. Ifill ray suarez reports on the sights and sounds from the nations mall, where hundreds of thousands of people from around the country and the world gathered to witness todays events. We dont think well have one like this president in my lifetime. Were just delighted to be a part of this. Brown mark shields and david brooks offernalysis. Ifill on this day that coincides with the Martin Luther king, jr. , holiday, we get perspective from president ial historians Richard Norton smith, Annette Gordon
Americans. Catherine is live with more a short time ago the house speaker, john boehner, announcing why the Republican House leadership has elected to take the investigation to the next level. This is a serious investigation. Our system of government depends on transparency and accountability. We owe it to the future of our country and to the next administration to do our job. To make it clear that types of activities that may have gone on here are not acceptable in our system of government. This morning we are learning new details about the select committee that investigate the lead up to the attack itself including the way the government characterized the situation to the american republican. 12 members, 7 republicans, and 5 democrats on the committee. There is no deadline but the idea is they will issue the report before the session con venes in january. Nancy pelosi are considering whether they will participate in the committee or boycott the process in an effort to undermine the s
Over the coming week, besides whether congress will fund the government before thursdays shutdown deadline more on that later is whether donald trump will attempt to fire the top doj official overseeing the russia investigation, Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. The fear hell use the nunes memo to act against rosenstein and perhaps replace him with some willing to derail or even shut down the russia investigation. Republicans release the memo in attempt to undermine the dojs case forgetting a spy warrant for former Trump Campaign aide carter payable. It looks weaker in light of a letter obtained by Time Magazine in which carter page bragged about being an informal adviser to the kremlin back in 2013. These fax dont seem to matter much to donald trump who tweeted yesterday, this memo totally vindicates trump in probe. And other weirdly capitalized thoughts. Meanwhile, devin nunes announced his witch hunt against trump will turn its sites from the fbi to the state department. Joini
Lying or mistaken . Those are two very different approaches. He has as of now never said lying, he has only said mistaken. But President Trump and kavanaughs defenders have suggested she is lying. But now he has heard her say i am 100 sure it was Brett Kavanaugh. So its really hard to go the mistaken route if shes so insistent. I dont really know whats the best way but thats a really important choice he has to make. So this Opening Statement is going to set the tone, right . Just in the break i talked to two people who have been really involved in this confirmation long before these allegations and neither of them had any idea what he was going to say. They hadnt heard and didnt know what the Opening Statement was. Maybe hes thinking about himself now, not thinking about the republicans on the committee, hes not thinking about the white house. Hes thinking about the fact this is his current job maybe, the Supreme Court see the and his reputation forever. In the statement maybe hell ask