Listen to oral arguments at cspan. Org supremecourt. Announcer wednesday, joe biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States and our nations capital. In light of the attack on the capital and the temporary closing of the national mall, the traditional inauguration ceremony has been modified. Follow our live coverage as the day unfolds, starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Watch the arrivals at the capitol, the swearing in of joe biden and kamala harris, and the inaugural address. The inauguration of joe biden, beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern wednesday. Live coverage on cspan and cspan. Org. Or listen live on the cspan radio app. Announcer looking ahead to wednesday, inauguration to wedn, Inauguration Day and the resumption of the 117th congress, we have Senior Reporter from the hill, alex bolton. Let me ask you first about the inauguration. We understand rehearsals are taking place today. Can you give us any other information or updated information on the schedule . Guest as you know, joe biden will be taking the oath of office at noon on wednesday at a date and time prescribed by the constitution. After that, 3 00 to 4 00 in the capital, that is when people will be allowed to go back in. The question is whether the articles of impeachment will be sent in this week or later. As far as the inauguration goes. Vice president biden, president elect bidens staff has confirmed that he will be outside during the inauguration, despite security concerns. It will be much different than previous inaugurations. Much more limited access for reporters. Colleagues sent out a memo last week by the Pelosi Office informing folks that it will be, in the past members of congress would go out to the risers through to the west front of the capital. That access is going to be restricted. What the Security Forces are doing is really closing down the flow of people between the west front. Inaugurations, usually they walk out the door to the risers, press included. Its much more restricted this year and i think thats because there is this lingering fear, even though there are 20,000 National Guard troops, there is still a fear that the risers provide a breach point for the capital, so it just kind of shows the state of shock that folks are still in after that january 6 attack. Interesting notes on guests, Vice President mike pence will be there. So will former president s clinton, obama, george w. Bush, but jimmy carter, 96, will not be there. And then business will continue. Another note on the schedule, there are a bunch of confirmation hearings in the schedule in the senate scheduled for tuesday to fill joe bidens cabinet. Janet yellen to be treasury secretary, avril haines director of national intelligence. The head of the Homeland Security department, tony blinken is the head of the state department with lloyd austin, those are all scheduled to happen on tuesday so there really is a busy day on the hill. Host certainly a busy time for the senate, at least. I want to focus a bit on that with the pieces you are publishing this morning. The trump Job Performance rating remains strong among republicans, making the chances of finding 17 republicans who will convict on an article of them pete schmidt. They wrestled with purging trump from the party. How soon do you think the senate might take up the article of impeachment . Guest that really depends on when nancy pelosi sends the article to the senate. Under the Senate Impeachment rules, soon as the Senate Receives the article of impeachment, the indictment has to proceed immediately. So, its really up to pelosi in terms of the timing. She has control over the lever but she will be making that decision in conjunction with joe biden and Chuck Schumer and i think there could be some concern, at least in the biden inner circle, that if you start the impeachment trial, this could last a while and Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, who is giving up power as majority leader, sent out a note recently talking about, or a statement in the last few days talking about there have been three president ial peach meant trials in the president in the senate. The shortest one has gone 21 days. It wont be quite so simple in the senate as in the house. Its a trial. You have to give citizen trump at that point, you have to give the accused a chance to mount a defense and that is going to take some time. It could take two weeks to get the hearing done, so in the meantime biden needs to fill his cabinet and also he just unveiled his 1. 9 trillion dollar covid relief package that democrats said was a high priority. Chris murphy of connecticut wants to do covid19 before moving on to an impeachment trial so theres a real debate as to whether to hold those articles of impeachment to get the Biden Cabinet filled in his key appointees confirmed to get this covid19 package moved, which is the highest priority of anything. Host we appreciate you being u announcer on tuesday, one day before the inauguration, watch Senate Confirmation hearings for three and coming Biden Administration nominees. At 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, janet yellen, for secretary of the treasury. She previously served as chair of the federal reserve. At the same time, 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan2, the secretary of Homeland Security. If confirmed, he would be the first latino and immigrant as Homeland Security secretary. And later in the day at 3 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, the confirmation hearing for lloyd austin for defense secretary. If confirmed, he will be the first africanamerican secretary of defense. Watch live coverage of the confirmation hearings on cspan and cspan2, on demand at cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Announcer you are watching cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Cspan was created by americas Television Companies in 1979. Today, we are brought to you by these Television Companies, who provide cspan to viewers as a public service. Announcer california senator, kamala harris, has resigned from the u. S. Senate ahead of being sworn in as Vice President on wednesday. And Vice President harris well refer to that in her resignation leader which reads, i intend to work tirelessly as youre Vice President , including if necessary fulfilling this constitutional duty. At the same time, it is my hope that rather than come to the point of a tie, the senate will instead find Common Ground and do the work of the american people. Now that, the harris has officially resigned from the u. S. Senate, California Governor Gavin Newsom has taken the next step in filling her seat by signing a certificate of appointment. A tweet from the Governors Office reads, today is a proud day for california. We have formally appointed our firstever latino u. S. Senator and cemented the nomination of a family member, shirley weber, which will serve as a firstever africanamerican secretary of state. The incoming senator wrote, i am honored and humbled by the trust placed in me, i intend to work each and every day to honor that trust and deliver for all 40 million californians. Announcer