Its going to be a very big deal filled with all the pomp and circumstance that the United States can muster but the big time will be 12 00 noon. Thats when our constitution says the new president takes over and executes the office and what is he going to say . Donald trump has written his own speech. What is he going to say. This is where the historic moment will happen here on the steps of the u. S. Capitol where frankly theres been a flurry of last minute preparations to the stage where donald trump will be taking the oath of office. Now donald trump will be sworn in using two bibles today. Not only president lincolns bible but a more personal bible. His childhood bible given to him by his mom when he was only 9 years old and then the big event the most important political speech of his life. His inaugural address. Aids say he has largely written that on his own. Basking in the significance of this moment. This is a celebration of victory. My friends, we needed this victory. Three weeks before we won as you know, it was going to be the single greated defeat in the history of politics. They predicted this would be the greatest loss in political history. Not even modern political history they said in political history. Where all of this can go down this morning. If we can turn the camera here well zoom in on the spot where donald trump will be delivering that all important inaugural address. Were testing the microphones and adjusting the height of the podium making sure that each and everything is right. We also saw them drill in the last touches. The final touches and the president ial seal down below. The final details an important setting for Donald Trumps major speech. Now before he comes here he will be waking up this morning at the blair house. Hell go to church with his family at st. Johns and then for tea with the obamas over at the white house. We heard in one of the excerpts still dwelling on the election, the bitterness of the election, how he wasnt supposed to win and he did. Thats relevant for his mind set. The question then becomes you are the leader of the democrats. Where is your mind in terms of helping this president get on his way . Its a good question. When donald trump campaigned, he campaigned against both the democratic and republican establishments. Some of the things he talked about changing our trade laws and big infrastructure bill and getting rid of the loophole democrats always supported. Since he was elected theyre moving at a much harder right direction. Some of his cabinet nominees and medicare as we know it, slash education, its quite different than the way he campaigned so if he tries to move back to the old way we will work with him on things he believes in and if he goes against us and many of the things in his campaign well fight him tooth and nail. The classic right now repeal obamacare. They dont know what to do and Many Republican colleagues now are urging him to not repeal it but rather work to improve it. If he says he wont repeal, well work with him to improve it. If he says repeal well fight it tooth and nail. Fight it tooth and nail but ultimately. First he may lose republicans. He needs 51 to start it going. Already one has defected. Two or three more are talking about defecting. He may not get that but hell need 60 of the votes. Because. The because the way the senate works you need 60 for anything major legislatively thats not in reconciliation. So we have some tools to use and we will use them. We want to pose trump because his name is on something but when hes against the values we believe in, many of the things he campaigned on were going to fight. So given all of that, give me an aadjective for how youre feeling today. Im ready for the fight. I am. Its a tremendous responsibility. This president ran an Unconventional Campaign to say the least. He pleased many people but upset many more probably and theyre looking to us to hold up that banner and we will. Not just for its own sake. Not to quote see him fail but to hold to the values so Many Americans hold dear. There wont be as many hands on the banner today. The democratic leadership is here. Youre here. All the senators will be here. On the house hide you have this faction that has broken off but House Democrats wont be here for some variety of negativity toward the incoming president. Do you respect their decision. I do. I dont agree with it. Im obviously here but i certainly respect it. This has been a nasty campaign. Many people were treated very, very poorly. Way beyond the bounds of a usual campaign and if theyre going to express it that way thats their right. Its an individual conscious decision. Every senator is attending but i dont begrudge those that made a different decision. Look at president obamas tone and his action. Its hard to imagine there being more water under the bridge between two men than donald trump and Barrack Obama and yet it seems that president obama is taking the high road and today they will be literally and figuratively these two men will be taking the road together in their shared ride. We always respect in america the peaceful transition of power. It is an amazing thing theres not people saying were going to form a new govern its an amazing thing and america has so many strengths and i know theres people now worried about the future, ill be speaking about this. I get to say a few words and i have faith in the American People and in america he and in our difficult times the American People, practical, problem solving, are always our anchor and they straighten us out. Right now some of the things trump is doing, his cabinet, least popular transition president there is. He has his supporters. Theyre all here and entitled to celebrate and most of america is not happy with what hes doing. You have how you quite or how you deal with the angry portions of your own party and then what youre doing with the confirmation process. The first one is the peaceful transition of power. We keep hearing from your side of the political aisle. This is not a rightful transition of power. This isnt legitimate. If you people know what we know from our classified briefings youd understand why theyre not going tomorrow. These are loaded implications. What do you say to democrats whether theyre elected or at home and watching and say hes not my president. I understand your anguish and your anger but we will be there to defend you. We will be there to defend the values of america when candidate trump and now President Trump daef yates from them. Do you predict that anyone will not be confirmed . Its too early to tell. This has been a disaster for the president. We democrats call it that. Why . More conflicts of interest than you have ever seen. They made a career of trying to end it as we know it. What have our republican colleagues done . They have tried to rush them through. Short hearings. Many of them stacked up. Some of them didnt have their papers youre required by law to file an ethics report and how do you get rid of your conflicts of interests . Didnt file any papers and they put her on at 5 00 at night. Each senator only got five minutes of questions. What votes will you put up today . There are some not controversial. I think general mattis is a good choice. And for cia which is a little bit more controversial. Some of our members want to question him but if hes not voted on today he will be monday and these are the three Top National Security people that the country needs the most but to spend a few days on people as controversial as price or against the working man and woman to take a few days in power, thats what we should do. What happens on monday. On monday . You say youre ready for the fight. On monday, well go through the nominees and talk about them and ask questions. The aca battle is coming forward. Well see if the republicans have the vote in the second round to actually put in something that actually repeals and how theyre going to repeal it and the next few weeks some of these cabinet nominees, the very controversial ones will be discussed very thoroughly on the floor of the senate. You say we will not be dilatory for no reason but thats exactly what the gop says that youre doing. This is sour grapes these are successful business people. Of course they have more complications. They could have avoided all of it by filing the ethics reports and fbi reports that every other nominee from every other administration has done thats what the constitution says. They want us to not may any attention to these controversial nominees. Were not doing that. Thats not our constitutional duty or duty to the American People. Great to be here. Our responsibility is to report on what happens to that fight every day. Youre always welcome to make the case for the democrats. I like your show and if you keep this view how can i resist. Thank you. President elect Donald John Trump has a pacted Inauguration Day scheduled. Hes going to have tea with the president but he kicks off the day with Services Just steps from the white house and thats where we have cnn national correspondent. Just to walk you through whats going to happen here in about 90 minutes were about a block away and of course the president elect and his family were staying last night. Theyll hop in a motorcade. Every president but one held a Worship Service in advance of their inauguration before that coffee or tea with president obama and michelle balm. President elect trump will be doing that here. This is a faith service. A private service for the trump and pence family. There are expected to be 300 individuals here. A lot of individuals took a different path that wasnt expected and were the core of the support of the trump campaign. They will be here and present and also he said many inflammatory things but as one trump official informed me this is a man very behind the president elect and matters deeply to the president elect and his family and thats why he will be speaking today guys. Okay. Phil, thank you very much. Theres so much to discuss on this historic day so lets bring in our panel cnn political analyst david gregory. Cnn political analyst and president ial Campaign Correspondent for the New York Times and cnn senior political analyst. Great to have all of you on this historic day. Its hard, david, i mean, to not feel the weight of how important this day is and how significant it is in our tradition. It dates back to George Washington and you feel the pageantry everywhere here in d. C. You do and theres huge crowds that are part of the inaugural festivities. A celebration of constitutional democracy. Were in a politically divided time in the country and senator schumer speaks to that and we have to remember how many hundreds of thousands will be here and who embraced the message of making America Great again and shaking up the political system in the way donald trump did it in such a disruptive fashion. That is being celebrated all around the country today and its also being protested all around the country. I think its interesting to put into perspective the nature of what were able to do as americans and how we transfer power. The president and i were talking earlier today in 1861, trump will use the lincoln bible and this was the year of the civil war. As divided as we are in this country and about the role of government and social fabric of the country and theres all the speculation about what the weight of the Actual Office will do. We have been told the Office Changes the man. We have seen no change in trump since the transition has begun but how much of this, this tone, per seef received or real is on him in the moments and the moments that immediately follow. Its a mistake to say that divisions are created by donald trump. Thats been a theme among democrats and his republican critics over many months. I dont think that is the case. I do think he has not used the transition period to bring people together the way he could have. Part of that is we have seen he condition stop reliving this greatest hits record of how he won the campaign and ive never seen anything like this. I dont think anyone here has. He has been talking about it in every single speech. He gave a toast honoring mike pence at a dinner for mike pence the other night. He was not supposed to be there and insisted on going and instead it was almost a roost of the room and reminder of mike pence that he had not supported him. In that speech he thanked black voters that voted for him and then thanked black voters that stayed home and said there was no reason to vote so i think its going to be important to see what the tone is in this speech. What i think we need to remember is what donald trump says at any given moment and im afraid i dont think that we can say the inaugural address is going to be different does not necessarily reflect on what he does so we need to wait and see. What are you listening for in his inaugural address today . Im listening for, theyre saying that the theme is going to be America First but i think what is more important for him to convey is bringing people together. I think yesterday we saw some hints that the enormity was impacting him. He went to arlington. You could tell that was an incredibly moving thing and i think that any time a president goes there or a president elect goes there for the first time they are reminded that the National Treasure is laying there and its because of the men that have proceeded them. His demeanor looked different. It looked completely different. It was joyful last night. If you saw the ceremony last night at the Lincoln Memorial it was he was singing. He was swaying with the music. He gave unifying, small, small speech and i found people there at that event that did not support him. This is important to me with baseball and it transferred to me with the inauguration of the next president. Supporters are going to be disappoint first degree donald trump had a higher Approval Rating and thats because of how he decided to conduct himself in this transition period so nobody is expecting him to fall into regular order as far as president s go but even his disruptive nature he has to find a way to build some support and bring along the opposition. To get you in here a quick word. Every president i covered said the office overcame me. It was bigger than just being a man. Do you think that happens . We hope it happens. Bottom line, simple answer, when he walks into the white house after the parade does he stop and take a deep breath and realize hes no longer on the campaign trail . That in fact he is the leader of the free world. Thank you very much. What should be president elect trumps number one priority as he takes office . You can tweet us. One word using the new day cnn. Well share the results later in the show. Donald john trump will take the oath of office in a few hours. The forecast not so great. It could be rain on this historic moment. Reagan is the only president to have had an inaugural parade cancelled because of weather. Andrew jackson had one cancelled for another reason some 100 years before but what will that mean for spectators and guest ifs its wet today . Chad meyers has the answer. Next. And now much of that same advanced technology is found in the audi a4. With one notable difference. The highly advanced audi a4, with available traffic jam assist. Bounty is more absorbent,mom per roll so the roll can last 50 longer than the leading ordinary brand. So you get more life per roll. Bounty, the quicker picker upper tadirectv now. Stream all your entertainment anywhere anytime can we lose the all. Theres no cbs and we dont have a ton of sports. Anywhere, any. Lets lose the anywhere, anytime too. You cant download onthego, theres no dvr, yada yada yada. 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They had some of these problems and this one didnt have enough staffing but they have started letting people in here. Hundreds of people waiting here since very, very early and most of them telling us that they are happy to be here taking in the spectacle of this inauguration. Back to you. Thank you very much for all of that. As i speak theres a beautiful golden sunrise behind me over the capitol. However we hear that rain is headed here. Lets get to cnns chad meyers. He has the forecast. What are you seeing . I hate to do that red sky in the morning thing. There you go. High clouds bouncing off the sunlight right now. Beautiful sunrise and the clouds are bringing in will be rain. Maybe, i dont have this nailed down yet theres a chance of a Lightning Strike or two. That would be the worst possible scenario here. But there will be heavier rain moving in. Rain showers by 10 00, 11 00, 12 00, and finally out by 3 00 or 4 00 later on this afternoon so it does clear out and there will be time to do that. Temperatures, how will they be . They will be in the 40s. 90 . It will rain on and off all day. Youll have that mist and drizzle kind of day so just get ready for the umbrellas. We talked about that earlier today. You can have them on the mall and you can have them on the parade route. You cant have them if you have seats. They will take them away from you but even if you have them they have to be the very, very small ones. Not the b