Is it so long as we seized it together seize it so long as we seize it together. Host president obama, sworn in yesterday, promising to change the tax code, immigration laws, and act on Climate Change. Good morning, everyone. We will spend the first part of this mornings washington journal on yesterdays inaugural address. For democrats, 2025853880. For republicans, 2025853881. For independents, 2025853882. Also, send us a tweet, twitter. Com cspanwj. Post your comments on facebook, or you can email us. Journal cspan. Org. Let me begin this morning, this is the wall street journal, had line. Obama vows aggressive agenda. He is looking beyond the fiscal battle set to dominate the coming weeks. And then a side story, an analysis. The president is set to fight over a new to do list. The inauguration was not only grayer, he sounded less like a man ready for lofty flights and more ready for ground battles. And then here is the Washington Post, this morning. There had lyme, we must act. There had line, we must act their headline, we must act. The New York Times, this morning, a limitless vision. Speech gives quiet goals center stage. Our journey is not complete. That is the headline from the Baltimore Sun. The headline across many papers this morning. Your thoughts on the inaugural speech . What did you hear in it . Deborah, virginia, hello. Caller good morning. I hear a sense of responsibility. I hear a sense of really, really trying to make out with what it is that he wants to do. All he needs is a reasonable amount of backup from the people, their votes and their voice, and hopefully when he speaks about certain things that congress will understand where he is coming from and we will understand that he is not a separate person dealing with differently separate races. He is for everybody. And because he is still towards people that are less fortunate, it does not mean that he is gearing towards one group of people. There are unfortunate people in all races. Please, just give him that Second Chance that he deserves. He came into office with a bunch of stuff messed up. He is attempting to straighten it out. All these years the things have been messed up, why do you think that people can clean it up in four years with miracles . Host ok. Virginia, what are your thoughts . Caller i want to know why the irs has delayed accepting tax returns when the fiscal cliff has nothing to do with the tax code. Host did you watch the inaugural address . Caller i did. Host any thoughts on that . Caller i dont really have any thoughts on that. Host why not . Ok. We will go on to jeff in new orleans. Caller i have seen the inauguration and watched the speeches, same old same old to me. Same rhetoric, same speeches. Not here to diminish anyones happiness or how they feel about the historical aspects of it, but it feels like the same thing. I want to see pens to paper, the bills that will be passed. What has been passed has not been talked about. Americans need to get away from the pageantry and the rhetoric and Pay Attention to what is really happening. Host this is the republican response after the address. I am hoping that the president will recognize the compromise should have been the word for today. We were hoping that he would use this day to reach out to all americans and all parties, he clearly did not. Inside of the Washington Times, plenty of quotes from republicans. One of the first congressional lawmakers to weigh in, he issued a statement before the oath of office was taken. I and i know we understand that each new harvest season brings new crops and the bible teaches to everything there is a season. With the president ial campaign behind us, a new season begins today. The references to hotbutton topics, like gay rights and hot button and Climate Change, it is said that it was appropriate for him to make such views, and he did not do it in a way that was offensive. He advocated what he believed in. The lawmaker from alabama chastise the president by saying that he still advocates a larger, expansive government. The chairwoman of the House Republican conference said the president s out word words must be matched with actions regarding the countrys fiscal health, suggesting a gulf between the two. Good morning, your thoughts on the inaugural address . Caller i thought that it was wonderful. I thought that the speech was very insightful. The keylieve thats words were we the people. Together we will do all the things we set out to do. Host he talked about preserving medicare, Social Security. He talked about Climate Change, equal rights for gay couples and women. Is that your priority list . Caller maybe not in that order, but the president has a hard job and congress has got to Work Together with him. I believe that we have good republicans. Many people in the country believed in the position of the president and that the congress will go along, eventually. Host all right, douglas. Your priority list . Top five . Top three . Caller code jobs, education, and for the end of the war. Caller jobs, education, for the war to end. Host lets hear the president speaking on the economy, Social Security, and medicare. Caller we the people [video clip] many barely make it. We believe that americas prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. We know that america thrives when every person confined independence. On the wages of honest labor, liberating families from the brink of hardship. We are true to our creed, when a little girl born into bleakest poverty has the same chances to succeed as anyone else because she is an american, free and equal, not just in the eyes of god, but in our own eyes. We the people still believe that every citizen deserves a measure of security and dignity. We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and reduce the size of our deficits. But we reject the belief that america must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future. [applause] we remember the lessons of our past, years spent in poverty, the parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn. We do not believe that freedom is reserved for the lucky or happiness for the few. We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any time, may face a job loss or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terrible storm. The commitments that we make to each other through medicare, medicaid, Social Security, they do not sapped our initiative, they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take risks to make this country great. Host the Top Republican in the senate responded to the president s address saying that he congratulated the president on his inauguration and that he wished him well in his duty to lead the u. S. At home and abroad. Host laura, pa. , what did you think of the inauguration address . Caller eloquent in some ways, but what is glaring to me was that he completely left out the rights of the unborn. Today we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of roe v wade. I do not know if you have anyone speaking on that topic, but we believe that the 50 million unborn human beings that were killed in the atrocity of abortion should be as important as slavery was back in the time of abraham lincoln. It is the right of everyone to have life and liberty. These unborn babies across the country are being killed. We have a prolife charity and we are trying to call to attention a look at these innocent little ones and an urge for these women to choose life. Over 50 of americans are pro life now, that should be the numberone topic. You should be talking about a personhood amendment, just like lincoln talked about freeing the slaves. Host we will be talking about the agenda for the second term in the last half of washington journal this morning. We will talk about whether there could be another contraception fight like in the first term. The front page of the Washington Times this morning is on the abortion battle. An estimated total of 54 million pregnancies have been terminated since 1973, but the moral and political question around it remains on settled, when the Supreme Court issued its decision so many years ago. In a last hour we will be talking to a writer for vanity fair. He will be talking about the women behind roe v. Wade and we will be talking about that decision tomorrow in the last hour. Lets go to jefferson in washington, d. C. What did you think . Caller i thought that the wife of medgar evers started the program well. President obama shared america with us. I hope that congress can feel free to vote freely, so that we can get more bills passed. This country is growing and we need to grow it even more. Host ok. Washington, d. C. , democratic caller, hello. Good morning, your thoughts . Caller why is it so difficult for the president to express publicly that he supports the rights of the citizens of the District Of Columbia to have statehood. Give us a break. Thousands of District Residents volunteered in virginia, ohio, florida, to ensure a democratic victory. And no action . Who are we . When are we somebody, mr. President . You made bold statements and took a very bold act in your first administration. Go out clean, give us statehood, make us free. Host this is from twitter host we are talking about the 57th inauguration yesterday, getting your thoughts on what you heard from the president and the agenda for the second term. The analysis from the wall street journal says host dave, mecklenburg, pennsylvania. Caller i enjoyed your coverage and appreciated it. I guess by major criticism, because i did enjoy the program, the singing, the entertainment, your coverage as wonderful. I guess my biggest problem was the president s hypocrisy in speaking of democracy and what we have is a reduction of democracy over the last four years. Many of our freedoms are diminishing. The sense of use of executive orders when congress is in session, i am calling on congress to please look at when executive orders can be issued. I understand that there is controversy when they are out of session, but this feels like an excessive use. The reason why the lady that spoke about prolife, i agree with her 100 on that, we have a president now who is not pro life and it is no surprise to me. Thank you so much for having me on this morning. Host this is from the wall street journal. 1 Million People attended, but the numbers as to how people arrived crowd estimates region Subway Authority says host amanda, georgia, hello. Caller good morning. I would like to commend the president , he was very all inclusive in his speech. He made it possible for us to be able to understand that we the American People, with everything indigenous to america that makes america what it is, we could see it with our own eyes. The cabinets that he has chosen, showing that he believes in what were doing as a people, but we cannot just blame him for everything that has happened. There must be people willing to stand together and give the man the hope and grace that he deserves for the work already done. Host before you go, on that point, standing together, the president has turned his campaign reelection effort into one for his second term, organizing for action, they call it. He plans to go around the country and talk to the American People and get that agenda. Are you on the list . Do you follow it closely . Caller i engaged in the campaign in florida. I thought there was a lot going on where people who had taken on certain religions were not voting. I saw the felonies that people wanted to change in the community. As far as supporting him in those areas of his new agenda, you have to understand that he had four years to clean up america and he has done a wonderful job. He pulled together a campaign and put diversity all over. We have to stop looking at president ial issues and look at what is at hand. We need to stop hiding behind a wall and congress should helpless do that, not fair to the people, the children that were killed. Who is going to work . Who is going to take on the new america if there are no people to take it on . Thank you for allowing me to have my opinion. I truly feel that american citizens that lived and died for us, thank you to them for allowing us to have this conversation. The Eugene Robinson host the Eugene Robinson piece this morning, no longer the black president. The verdict of his presidency will depend on what he accomplishes in his second term. Host that is the piece from Eugene Robinson, no longer the black president. On the agenda for the second term, moving forward is what they write in the Washington Times. Up upcoming challenges, tax control, the wealthy, iran, immigration, all on the table. Stan, what do you think . Caller i think that people will stop and listen to what the president said. He said we the people and together. It is very simple. Together we can solve our problems. That is the way it is. People are different. Turning things around, making it look like something is not. That is the biggest problem with our country, everyone judging everything. Simply start listening to the man. Host ron, chicago, hello. Caller i agree with the piece from the post. That really sums it up. Speech, the president demonstrated his commitment to continuing down the path of pulling the nation back towards the center, politically. Host you saw it as a Center Vision . That is interesting, the headlines of all the papers this morning liberal vision, obama offers liberal vision, a Progressive Agenda those of the words being used in headlines this morning. Host that is five. We have redefined the words liberal and conservative. The corporate controlled paradigm, we believe that anyone caller that is fine. That is my point. We have redefined the word liberal and conservative. The corporate control paradigm, preventing people from rebelling against the entire system, the president took a lot of restraint in his first term, which was surprising, pushing for health care, supporting gay rights, even killing osama bin laden, these were the risks she took in his first term and now he has laid out a general second term demonstrating that he will be continuing down this road of getting us back to a state of normalcy and more of a politically centered society. Host this is from our Facebook Page host to facebook. Com cspan to leave your comments there. Heres more from the president s speech yesterday. [video clip] the modern economy, with schools and colleges training our workers, together we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play. Together, we resolve that a great nation must protect its people from lifes worst hazards. Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumb to the fiction that all of societys ills can be cured through government alone. Our celebration of enterprise is an insistence on hard work and personal responsibility. These are constants in our character. We have always understood that when times change, so much do we. Fidelity to our founders requires new responses to new challenges. Preserving our individual freedoms, alternately, requires collective action. The American People can no more meet the demands of todays world than todays soldiers could have defeated communism with muskets and militias. No Single Person can train all the math and science teachers will need to equip our children for the future, building the roads, networks, and Research Laboratories that will bring the jobs to our shores. Now more than ever we must do these things together, as one nation, one people. [applause] this generation of americans has been tested by crises that steal our resolve and prove our resilience. A decade of war is ending. [applause] an economic recovery has begun. Americas possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities of this world but that demands. Youth and driver, diversity and open this, an analyst capacity for risk an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. We will see that so long as we see this together. Host the editorial page from usa today. They wrote this about president obama, saying that a decade of war is ending host fred barnes, executive editor of the weekly standard, wrote this in the opinion state opinion section of the wall street journal. Host mr obama was less explicit but his emphasis was on the virtues. Patricia, republican. Caller hello. I have a question for you. You get black, white, no matter what. When he says that, that is so true. I mean, we all are created equally. But my question for mr. Obama is he swore, he used Martin Luther kings traveling bible, and he swore on lincolns bible also. Correct . Host that is what i heard. Caller my question to you is, did he read either of those two blocks and comprehend what he wrote . When he said that everybody should have a chance, why is he abortion . Give that child a chance. Am i correct . Host what does that mean it to you . Caller lets get rid of abortion. The gaze he spoke about, he did not comprehend what he read in the bible. Maybe he needs help in that area. And every man is equal. Lets give these children who are aborted, lets no longer let it go on. Lets give them a chance. Correct . Host ok, patricia. We will go to mary and next. Caller i thought he did a great speech yesterday. I think what a lot of people are missing the point on was he was not just talking about his next four years. He was talking about a longterm vision, such as we are going to have to address Climate Change. He was also talking about things that are in our way now that if we do not fix, we will have to deal with later and the repercussions for not dealing with it. That is basi