The white house on the eve of the inauguration, a reminder, ill be back tomorrow night at 9 00 live on my Inauguration Day special from washington. Ill be joined by the president s inner circle, david axelrod, jim macina, Stephanie Cutter and many others. Thats all for us. Have a good night tonight. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this very special edition of early start weekend. It is sunday, january 20th. Glad youre with us, im randi kaye. Im john burrman. Glad to see you here this morning. Were live on the National Mall as we gear up for the 57th president ial inauguration. Today is the official swearing in of president barack obama for his second term. That will happen at 11 55 a. M. Eastern time this morning. In just two hours, Vice President joe biden will take his oath of office and all day long, cnn will bring you the ceremonies, the concerts, the celebrations and, of course, the political and the Historical Context of the day. First, we want to bring you up to date now on t
Im pleased two of the bills i have authored are part of the Senate Version. It would be ripped out by the republican version, so i strongly support the Bipartisan Senate version, one i authored with representative poe in a bipartisan way. And that was the safer act. This took the monies and directed justice not to just spend money but process the backlog of d. N. A. Kits to put rapists behind bars and the campus save act. There is too much violence on campus. One in five women will be assaulted on College Campuses. This would require colleges to keep students safe. And also the bipartisan important antitrafficking bill is part of it. I urge my colleagues in a bipartisan, historic way, to reauthorize and pass the violence against women act, the Senate Version. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentleladys time has expired. The gentleman from florida. Mr. Nugent continue to reserve. Ms. Slaughter i yield two minutes to the the gentlewoman from california, ms. Matsui the speaker pro