01-20-25 YMS White House Correspondent JON DECKER is covering the Inauguration in Washington.

White House Correspondent JON DECKER is covering the Inauguration in Washington.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on Your Morning Show with Michael dil Choonah.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
John Decker's our White House correspondent, as he prepares to
cover Donald Trump a second time. Let's kind of go
over the schedule, John of what people can expect. First
up as church in about I don't know, forty minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
That's right right across the street from the White House,
Saint John's Church, to the President elect and the first
Lady to be will attend that church service, and from
there they'll head over to the White House to meet
with not only President Biden but also Vice President Harris.
There will be a tea at the White House, and

(00:38):
then around ten thirty in the morning is when Donald
Trump Joe Biden head over to the Capital. As you know,
all of the inauguration festivities are not outdoors this year.
They're indoors inside the Capitol Rotunda, and that's where they'll
head at that particular time.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Presumably because of the cold weather the others have been concerned,
maybe had to do with already. I actually think this
would have been about ten degrees colder than even JFK's,
which I think was one of the coldest ever. So
there are all indications that the weather and concerns of
people's exposure was the reason for moving that indoors. And
then we'll have the two oaths of office, and we'll

(01:16):
have the inaugural address, then we have the farewell for
Joe Biden. That farewell for Biden and Harris will be
what about eleven forty Central twelve forty Eastern.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, that's right, and it will happen on the east
side of the Capitol. If you didn't know this already,
Joe Biden Jill Biden not heading to Delaware. They're heading
out to California directly from Washington, d C. They'll fly
out there on a government jet and that's where they're
going to spend their week or so post inauguration. For

(01:49):
the person who will succeed him.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
There's something about, I know, America's kind of partisan, and
so when your candidate wins, maybe it's a little more joyous.
It doesn't matter who wins or whether it's their first,
first time or second time. There is something about that
meeting at the White House and the changing of hands
between a sitting president welcoming a president elect and then
leaving for the capital together, probably right along with the

(02:15):
state of the Union, it's the pomp and circumstance at
its best. And as always, I'll be watching on television
and you'll be there in person.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, I will be, and I'm here in person. But
as you pointed out, much different than what I anticipated.
I anticipated being outside on the platform, not far from
where Donald Trump was to take the oath of office. Instead,
I'm right now across the street from the Capitol. I'm
in the ray Burn House office building, indoors, much warmer

(02:45):
than what it's like outside, where it feels like it's
in the single digits.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
John, did you sense this was for weather conditions or
security or both.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Oh, I can't get inside the head of the people
that make those decision. I can tell you though, it
is bitter and cold here in Washington, d C. I mean,
it's certainly the coldest week of the year. It's the
coldest week in some time here, and yesterday we had
a little bit of snow. So I think it's in
the best interest of just everybody involved the fact that

(03:17):
it's going to wait out.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Co responded Chris Decker. Will John Decker will be watching
and we'll cover the president's speech tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Thanks for joining us, miss A little miss a lot,
miss a lot, and we'll miss you. It's your Morning
Show with Michael del Churno