pennsylvania avenue, and will start behind where we are sitting, he will move on to the white house. this is the scene live, at 9am here in washington, and a short time ago donald trump tweeted yes, of course, it all begins today. the movement continues and the work begins. our first report is from our washington corresponded, laura bicker. the capital, the nation and the world awaits. at first light, thousands started gathering for a front row seat, a presidential and gratian which is billed as one of the greatest political shows on earth. taking centre stage, a property mogul and a billionaire. the pageantry property mogul and a billionaire. the pagea ntry has property mogul and a billionaire. the pageantry has already been on display, on the eve of his oath of office, donald trump welcome to supporters with a concert on the steps of the lincoln memorial. a musical warm up act to the main event... sing it! he swayed and sang along before taking a chance to thank those who put him in office. the polls started going up, up, up, but they did not want to give us credit because they forgot a

leave office, in 1961 here is dwight d eisenhower thinking the staff at the white house. at the same time, the incoming president garcia john f. kennedy and his wife jacqueline are leaving the blair house getting ready for the big day. another thing, another thing that takes place on inauguration morning, and this will happen again is a religious service. when i was in washington with my wife a few years ago just and a half block from where you're staying there was a church of the first ame church. a traditional african-american church. that is where the inauguration church services took place for america's first black president bill clinton. [laughter] now, i have a little map here for you. things start off at the white house and they move along pennsylvania avenue towards the capital which is on the right there. and there is a traditional copy at the white house that takes place. it is a big deal on the days when there is a transition from one president to another. again, 1961. that was a year when a lot of pictures were made available. we just do not normally see these pictures. t

night, and we are just back from washington after visiting the white house and sitting down for the first time with president trump. our interview and walk through the white house came just before he made news with the homeland security. signing executive orders among them. the push to build the wall along the mexican border. his comments on water boarding and that he lost the popular vote because of millions of illegal votes. we ask, where's the proof? we ask who will pay for the wall, and at first? >> are you going to direct u.s. funds to pay for this wall? will american taxpayers pay for the wall? >> ultimately it'll come out of what's happening with mexico. we're gonna be starting those negotiations relativ and we will be in a form reimbursed by mexico which i will say- >> so they'll pay us back. >> yeah, absolutely. 100%. >> so the american taxpayer will pay for the wall at first. >> right, all it is is we'll be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make from mexico. town to the department of homeland security where he signed those orders to begin the wall and

and how it could change in the trump white house. this hour-long forum for wednesday was hosted by the council on foreign relations in washington, d.c. >> good morning. i see lots of familiar faces up this early. thank you. welcome to today's council on foreign relations meeting on reforming the national security council. i'd also like to welcome the members around the country and the world listening via live stream. i'm karen deyoung and write about security for the "washington post." we're fortunate to have today as our speakers, three people who have personal and academic experience in the national security sphere and specifically how the national security council operates. ambassador robert blackwell join us via video in new york where he is a henry kissinger senior fellow for u.s. foreign policy. he's worked multiple times on nsc staffs, mostly as deputy for strategic planning under george w. bush. as you can see in his lengthy biography in the program, ambassador blackwell had a long and distinguished career as ada didn't ma diplomat and paperwork and every area of foreign po

too far away from the white house, but president trump again taking this historic route that the first president took, of course the first president took a very different path, he went to new york, he was sworn in in new york and this is a very different looking parade. but again, president trump, you can hear the crowd shouting as he passes and we're passing the national archives right now, lester. so you can hear the crowd getting a lot bigger and a lot more energized. >> very interesting as you spoke and we heard the crowd swell, we saw more secret service kind of rush up to the side of the vehicle, we don't know if this suggests he's going to come out. maybe not. but certainly the owd is -- well, let's listen. >> ladies and gentlemen the vice president of the united states michael pence. [ cheers and applause ] [ chanting ] >> a big barricade between spectators and the presidential motorcade procession, you can see lots of members of military police there and then the steel barricades and then folks, and you can see the various signs there, this is around the navy memorial, t

day the white house announced sanctions on russia and ordered some 35 russian diplomats to leave the country immediately. trump's transition team says the men did not discuss sanctions on russia. instead, their conversation was focused on arranging a call between russian president vladimir putin and president-elect trump after the inauguration. today the white house says its reaction depends. >> could imagine why these kinds of interactions may take place. why the incoming national security advisor may have the need to contact the representative of a foreign government based in washington, d.c. depends on what they discussed, depends on what he said in terms of whether or not we would have significant objections about those conversations. >> reporter: flynn's ties to russia have been scrutinized since the moment trump tapped him to be his closest adviser on national security. flynn was seated right next to president putin at a russian media gala in december of 2015 and had a paid speaking gig with "russia today," the kremlin's temperature network, before taking on a campaign role. to

american people that the intelligence received in the white house, which might lead to major actions, anywhere around the world, that the american people would trust it after he has so denigrated the head of the c.i.a.? >> you're already seeing republicans and democrats saying you need to back off on this. we need a unified front when it comes to the c.i.a., fbi, intelligence. these are serious issues that have major ramifications. >> shepard: have any of trump's people said anything to -- i don't know -- take the sting out of this? >> behind the scenes you're seeing people trying to calm people down. you saw some of the cabinet, meetings on the hill, the hearings where there's some breaks. you have the c.i.a. director, pompeo that didn't go exactly where trump has said he is on russia hacking and things like that. so you're seeing some air in between where trump is and where some of the cabinet appointees are. >> shepard: a lot of air between what pompeo said. pompeo said we need to find out what happened if russian is attempting to meddle in our elections, we need to know about it

president's remarks, we will open up our phone lines and take your comments. , white house press secretary press secretary john spicer joins a panel of journalists that cover the white house to discuss media coverage of president trump. the george washington university hosted this two-hour event. >> good evening everybody. the schoolrector of of media and public affairs. as barbara porter and i like to say, i am a recovering journalist. i would like to thank you all for being here. at a remarkable moment in our history. and for a conversation i hope is instructive to you, to our theents, and throughout university to those of you who are journalists and to the country because we have c-span and facebook live and a number of other media here. i think we will benefit from hearing from the new white house secretary at a time of some drama. thoseso from hearing from who are journalists a signed to the white house who go there to fromeir job every day and ari fleischer, a former white house press secretary. in the room, it's c-span, broadcasting this this evening. and gw facebook live.

-- >> reporter: that tight dad/daughter bond with rumors that move to the white house right away -- >> his wife and son are expected to stay in new york until next spring. >> reporter: has fueled rumors about ivanka's role. >> that you will be the first lady. >> there is one first lady, and melania will be an incredible first lady. i'm proud of her. he is intelligent, warm, caring and a remarkable first person. >> will you have an office in the east wing? >> my focus is moving to washington, traveling around the country and listening and getting great feedback on how i can add positive value. >> reporter: she says she is still figuring out her role, but it's clear jared, her husband of seven years, will be a key player. like his wife, jared knows a life of privilege. a harvard grad, he too comes from a family who made a fortune even more than the trumps. the kushners are an orthodox jewish family. she converted. >> a lot of people don't know your husband. he is the mystery guy in the background. >> he is a remarkable human being. he is kind and thoughtful. i feel in a lot of ways we got ma

. as a senior white house adviser testing a 1967 nepotism law. it prohibits hiring family members. the trump team says kushner's appointment is based on a opinion that applies to cabinet picks and does not apply to the white house. and mr. trump's opponent hillary clinton may have set the precedent when president clinton put his wife in charge of the health care tank force, a d.c. judge ruled the law did not apply to white house staff jobs. anne-marie. >> hena daniels here in new york. thank you so much, hena. >>> well, tonight, president obama delivers his farewell address in chicago. the white house says the speech is not a victory lap. the president pro tem says his advisers says it's to pass the torch to motivate people and fight for democracy. mr. obama tells why he chose to give the speech in chicago as opposed to washington. >> the reason i wanted to give the farewell speech in chicago as opposed to the more traditional practice of doing it in the white house. chicago is where it all started. so, i'll be thinking about being a young community organizer, fresh out of school. feel

that got him to the white house. ed: peter, welcome back, after a brief overseas assignment. peter: thank you. ed: in that regard, he didn't talk specifically today about healthcare or the border wall but instead talked about the threat from other nations. i'm curious if we've assessed what the foreign reaction has been or might be in the coming days. peter: i think real trepidation around the world, particularly in europe, obviously, which sees a trump presidency as something akin to the populist right wing movements in their own countries that scare them, nationalist-time movements. in parts of the middle east he's viewed with wariness. israel, though, he's very popular. i just returned from jerusalem. that's one place in the world that sees his arrival as a good thing. he's going to support them, finally, in their view, after eight years of barack obama who they did not feel was supportive. it's a mixed bag but right now i think the rest of the world is trying to figure out who this is and what does it mean. ed: yamiche alcindor, i know you were on the mall. you were out there t

spent this day at the white house. >> yang: on his first full workday in the white house, president trump wielded the presidential pen. >> great thing for the american worker that we just did. >> yang: mr. trump took three executive actions: formally withdrawing the u.s. from the trans-pacific partnership, or t.p.p. former president obama had pushed the 12-country trade pact but congress never voted on it. the president also froze federal government hiring, outside of the military, and he revived an on again, off again ban on federal funds going to international groups that provide abortions. but the theme of the day was clearly meant to be trade, business and jobs. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> it's nice to see you. >> yang: the president had breakfast with business executives, talking tax cuts and cutting government regulations. he made clear he wants to keep u.s. jobs from moving overseas: >> we are going to be imposing a very major border tax on the product when it comes in, which i thnk is fair, which is fair. so a company that wants to fire all of its people

. >> breaking news tonight. mexico's president cancels a planned visit to the white house next week, as tensions escalate over president trump's news to start building a wall along the border. mr. trump says the talks would have been fruitless unless mexico agrees to pay for the wall. the white house press secretary suggested a 20% tax on mexican imports in the united states, maybe one possible way to cover the wall's costs. for the first time, republican leaders in congress are revealing how much u.s. taxpayers will have to pay up, up-front, to build that wall. they say they expect the trump administration soon will request between 12 and $15 billion to fund the wall's construction. another story we're following, president trump expected to move forward with his call for a formal investigation of unsubstantiated allegations of major voter fraud. the white house says mr. trump will sign an executive order, maybe tomorrow, maybe saturday, instead of tonight, as anticipate. we're told the details are still being worked out. >>> and about a week into his presidency, mr. trump just wrapped up his fi

. >> hundreds of people detained, lawyers descending on airports, families now torn apart as the white house now goes into full-scale damage control. >>> and declaring it is not a muslim ban, while this just in. trump announcing when he's announcing his supreme court pick. trying to change the subject. >>> there's problems happening now, those gunmen who opened fire at a mosque in canada, six people are dead. officials are calling it an act of terror. >> it means that no one is completely safe. >> a press conference happening at this moment. was the reaction to canada opening its doors to muslim refugees. >>> we're going to begin with the ongoing fallout from president trump's travel ban. the president is sitting down with small business leaders in the roosevelt room. we have the best team to break this down. i want to start with those protests, those dramatic images we saw taking place overnight in city after city, people gathering to express their anger and frustration over president trump's travel ban. we're at jfk airport in new york right now. what can you tell us because earlier today sean

, we are -- it's going to be quite a while. it's 1.8 miles. we watched him go from the white house to the capitol hours ago. sworn in and now making the journey back to the white house. he'll get about a ten minute break before enjoying the rest of the parade. this parade can run for hours. at this rate it's going to be a long one. >> jon karl? >> reporter: we're about five, six blocks away from the trump international hotel. i am now told definitively that donald trump is in the backseat of the limousine with melania just to make that clear. this route is filled with history, all the presidents that have come down here. we'll be passing as we mentioned the trump international hotel. i can see the tower, of course, it's the old post office building. down a little further on the other side of the street is the willard hotel which is the hotel abraham lincoln stayed in for several days before he was inaugurated in and moved into the white house as the 16th president. you know, we're passing the canadian embassy over here. the museum. this is the street that connects the center of power

, we saw tired white house staffers lugging boxes of their personal will belongs out of the building much like today. and on the tour, i smiled for a photo that a friend took of me standing behind this very podium. i had been in d.c. for a brand total of two weeks. i had no contacts. i had no job prospects, i had no relative washington experience. i was sleeping on the floor of a college buddy's apartment that had a spare bedroom and by spare i don't just mean it was an extra bedroom. it was an empty bedroom containing only the items that i managed to load into my car when i moved here from texas. so it's fair to say that there weren't too many other people on the tour that night who thought i would stand here in front of you as something other than a tourist. so it's been an extraordinary journey and this has been a extraordinary chapter. this is the 344th white house daily briefing. not every briefing started exactly on time. there might have been a briefing or two that went a little longer than you would have preferred but you have to admit there was lots to discuss. we had plenty

because the central mechanism is in the white house intends to be chaired by the nfc. even in the obama administration were initially there is the first memorandum by the president laid out the interagency process there's some thought being given at the state department of chairing or cochairing some of the regional ipc's, that is never happened. it was pretty much abandoned early on. for one simple reason. assistant secretaries are supposed to cheer these meetings are not confirmed until six or seven months into the administration. somebody has to do the job and the nfc will be there on day one because they don't have to be confirmed assuming they are appointed. those of the big decisions that you make. this is for every administration the question is, do we have the same process or a different process? i would suggest that is one part that does not need reform, it can work but there's a question about how many meetings you do and how frequent is less a process or organizational for more process question. and then the larger issue which we will get into later, what what is the co

allegation for which the white house is providing no evidence. there is no evidence it's not true. >> the white house has provided no news to back up these claims of widespread voter fraud anywhere in america. >> the white house is talking about alternative facts or misinformation pore frankly unverifiable claims. all in an attempt it seems to essentially apeets the boss. >> either the president believes something that is false or he doesn't believe it or is using this to explain why he did not win the popular vote. either way, the president is spreading a falsehood. howie: should the meade why be calling the president a liar. as chaos breaks out in airports over the security checks. what about the president calling the media the opposition party. as for sean spicer -- >> is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium and will you pledge no never say anything that's not factual. >> yes. i think sometimes we can disagree with the facts. howie: we ask him about his contentious relationship with the media. plus -- >> you have got spunk. >> well, yes. >> i hate spunk.

. until then a conversation with incoming white house press secretary sean spicer. >> incoming white house press secretary sean spicer, how are you preparing to take on this job? >> it is an ongoing process, we have been doing it at 10:30 every day, hiding behind a phone when you do it but part of it is getting used to the battle of taking questions, rapidfire, wide range that exists in practice sessions, something my predecessors suggested, sitting down at a podium, let's pretend reporters ask you real questions to understand what is about to come your way on a daily basis but making sure you look at some hot button issues, sit down with key players who will play key roles in the administration and get a better understanding of the issues and getting used to taking the incoming questions the way they do at the podium. >> josh ernest, white house press secretary. any advice, anything you -- touring the office in the briefing room and the west wing. >> the communications director, unbelievably generous with their time and counsel. they share with me the challenges they face and the id

white house briefing featured a number of questions, one of which was about the president's speech. how much of the speech is directed to those who are trying to rewrite this president's history, those whoties miss things like the fact that osama bin laden is no more, those who dismiss the fact that there's more effort to look at the issues of criminal justice reform, those people who also, i guess, don't like the inclusion of same-sex marriage. is this an effort to rewrite history and also focus on those people, the naysayers, on his accomplishments? mr. earnest: the president is primarily delivering a message to the american people. all americans. whether they voted for president obama or not. the president feels an obligation to talk about what he learned over the last eight year, what he's learned about the country what he's learned about governing the country and offer up his advice to the american people about the most effective way to confront the challenges that we see ahead. so that's the -- that's the goal and the president certainly could give a long speech, reciting the

our working day here in the white house. the off shoring of american jobs and lack of growth has hit american workers hard. the president's top priority is to keep american jobs which have happened in general motors and so many more. at 5pm the president will host a meeting with leaders here in the white house which will include the white house which will include the vice president, the senate majority leader, the whip, the house speaker, the house majority leader, the house democratic leader, the house democratic whip, the white house chief is daft, chief of staff to the vice president and chiefs of staff from those respective offices. the purpose of the meeting is to get the agenda moving through congress, the agenda moving through congress, the american people are frustrated with the lack of progress and the president wants no delay in addressing our most precious issues. he is taking every opportunity to forge strong bonds. it's important to know that at this point president obama has seven of his nominees confirmed on day one and five more in the first week. as it stands today,

1961, here's dwight eisenhower thanking thanking tht the white house. at the same time the incoming president, that year john f. kennedy and with wife, jacqueline, they're leaving the blair house, getting ready for the big day. another thing that takes place on inauguration morning -- this will happen again -- is a religious service. when i was in washington with my wife a few years other, just a half block from where we were staying there was this church called the first ame church, a traditional african-american church, and that's where the service was held for the first black president, bill clinton. now, have a little map here for you. things start at the white house and move along pennsylvania avenue, toward the capital, which is on the right there. and there's a traditional coffee at the white house that takes place, and it's a big deal on the days when there's a transition from one president to another. again, 1961, and that was the year when a lot of this pike temperatures were made available. you don't normally see these puck toads. eisenhower and kennedy together and at th

white house who are just tearing their hair out right now by the way in which this story is stepping on the president's agenda. >> michael waldman, some background to fill in for you. you are a veteran of the clinton white house staff, the speech writing shop there. the brennan center is named and set up in the memory of the great justice brennan. eisenhower always called him the biggest surprise of his presidency. but you guys among other things study voter fraud. if you knew of 50,000, 10,000, 5,000 cases, i assume you would have long ago gotten up on your soap box and waved your arms and told us about this. >> our study and every study by every scholar and news media and everybody who's looked at it has found that you are more likely in this country to be hit by lightning than to hit in-person voter impersonation. the idea that 3 to 5 million people were illegally voting two months ago and nobody noticed is transapparently ludicrous. this is not nearly as silly as who had more people on the mall over the weekend. this is the highest official in the land, someone sworn to uphold the c

meet with president obama at the white house before both men travel to the u.s. capitol together for mr. trump's swearing in. the outgoing 45th president penning a good-bye letter to the american people. cnn's michelle kosinski is live at the white house with more. what a tradition, michelle, what we'll see play out this morning. >> reporter: it's something we've seen before. we've seen this peaceful transition of power, and president obama has absolutely tried to abide by that. in the lead-up to this, there have been ugly words exchanged on both sides. president obama has made an effort and tried to remind others that this is supposed to be smooth, supposed to be orderly and it's supposed to be a part of our democracy itself. he's also talked about how gracious his predecessor was in writing a letter to him. president obama is now writing a letter to donald trump that he'll leave for him. he also wrote a letter to the american people yesterday. and it said, in part, remember america is not the project of any one person. the single most powerful word in our democracy is the word we,

because the central mechanism is in the white house, it tends to be chaired by, by the nsc. so even in the obama administration where initially there was, in the, what was it called, psd-1, first memorandum by the president laid out the interagency process, there was thought being given at state department, either chairing or co-chairing some of the regional ipcs. that has never happened, pretty much abandoned early on. for one simple reason. the assistant secretaries who were supposed to chair the meetings are actually confirmed until six, seven months into an administration. so somebody has to do the job and the person and nsc will be there on day one, they don't have to be confirmed assuming they have been appointed that will be there on day one. so those are the big decisions that you make. for every administration the question is, do we have the same process or do we have a different process of interagency management? i would suggest that that's one part that does not need reform. it can work. there is question how many meetings you do and how frequently they are and how you ru