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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Which is a two pronged day, by which I mean
it is, of course inauguration day. This is a significant
moment for the United States because it is another peaceful
transfer of power. And say what you will about four
years ago, there was a peaceful transfer of power at
that time in two thousand and twenty one. Well, now
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here we are where Joe Biden is handing it back
to Donald Trump. And of course the second big thing
about today is that it is the day on which
we recognize remember an honor Martin Luther King Junior, the
Reverend doctor Martin Luther King Junior, I should say, who,
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of course, was one of the most significant men really
in the history of this country and certainly in the
history of the civil rights movement. So many powerful, important,
i'll say, critical lessons from MLK. And we will spend
a little bit of time recollecting on his life in
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legacy later on in the program, as well as best
we can amidst a very busy news day.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
As you see now, we see.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Across the country the preparations made for the inauguration of
Donald D. J. Trump, the first president since eighteen ninety
two with Grover Cleveland to be elected for a second
non consecutive term, and the moment is a big one.
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Last night, President Trump took to a rally in Washington,
DC with his supporters, with a great many people, including
I should say that the Village people. We've got a
sample of that as they performed live. The YMCA will
share in just a bit. But President Trump did address
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the crowd yesterday, and here's a little excerpt of what
he had to say at that time.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I want to especially thank you all for being here
on the eve of one of the most important days
in the history of our country, the day we save
our nation and begin to make America great again. I'm
thrilled to share this special moment with so many friends
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and supporters.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
You are a very extraordinary crowd of people.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You're the men and women who help make this moment
to stay possible, and I'm incredibly grateful for your love
and support and generosity.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Been amazing.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Our journey has not been an easy one, as you
perhaps have seen, a lot of people said that was
an impossible journey.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
But here we are, and we stuck together through every challenge.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
An obstacle, and we stood strong for our country and
for our freedom. And this is not my victory. This
is our victory. Everybody in this room, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That was President elect Trump soon to be in just
a matter of moments, the President of the United States,
the United States Supreme Court is walking into the Capitol
and you can hear the pomp and circumstance in the
background there. It is a momentous occasion. Whenever you have
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inauguration day come upon us. It's a significant moment for
the country, not just because it's a peaceful transfer of power,
but it's a symbolic of the democratic system, the republican
small r form of.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Government that we have in this great nation.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Leaders across the country and around the globe filing into
the rotunda of the United States Capital as President to
be Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Ready's his speech. He will be speaking.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
In Oh, we estimate around I think forty minutes or
so from now and being sworn in just before that.
We will bring you live coverage throughout the festivities right
here on KOA again. Jimmy Sangenberger filling in for Ross Kaminski.
This is one of those things too that you see
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the bipartisan spirit of folks from across the aisle come
in to recognize this moment, former presidents and former vice
presidents in the hall.
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World leaders.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Javier Milay of Argentina one prime example. He's in fact
seen in some quarters as sort of a Donald Trump
of Latin America. He is leading the charge in making
remarkable strides for limiting governments, for shrinking it, for advancing
the ball economically. In Argentina, he's gotten inflation under control,
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and inflation there as far beyond anything we could imagine
here in the United States. And needless to say, he
is there, and you have, of course members to be
of President elect Trump's cabinet who are in the hall,
and United States senators, dignitaries from the world of business
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like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, both there at the
inaugural festivities. Again in the Capitol rotunda, I was watching
a snippet of Ronald Reagan speaking in nineteen eighty five
and at his inaugural addresses, the last time that they
did one indoors as opposed to outdoors because of the weather.
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As I understand it, this is the second coldest inauguration
after that one in nineteen eighty five. Of course, security
concerns almost certainly have to be one of the actors
coming into play here. But when Reagan spoke in eighty five,
everybody in the room was standing up around him. He
was standing it was it was a different sort of
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setup than what they have now. Where there is a podium.
There are people all around. The Trump family walking in
right now to see their father, their grandfather gets worn
in again for the second time as president, and of
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course with an agenda that he is ready to kick
into high gear. It is very different from four years
ago when he wasn't a president before. Now he has
the experience of not just four years in office, but
four years out of office to ponder and think through
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what am I going to do? What do I want
to do differently, how do I want to approach my administration?
And that, my friends, is a gift that no other
president has had in well over one hundred years, well
over one hundred years, being able to assess and evaluate
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your first term and take some time and hit the
ground running for a second term.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And you can hear the music.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
It just puts you.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
In a peppy, patriotic mood, doesn't it When you hear
this and you know, okay, this is a significant moment, and.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That's gonna be my word of the day.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Significant for the United States of America, for this great
country that has been a beacon of freedom and liberty
for the world for gosh, almost two hundred and fifty years.
An extraordinary milestone. Next year will mark the what is it?
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I always forget when you get to a middle of
a century what that's called, But then you have the
two centuries. So we're two hundred and fifty years next year,
and so to think about that in the context of
today's moment of Inauguration Day, and then also to reflect
on the strides that we have made as a people
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in the United States of America since Martin Luther King
Junior in the nineteen sixties and his assassination, and the
strides that we have made as a society towards expanding
freedom and liberty to people across demographics, racial groups, ethnic groups,
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religious groups, gender. A real powerful moment of reflection will,
I think be called for today, not just for an inauguration,
but for that legacy of Reverend Martin Luther King Junior.
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You can hear there. This land was made for you
and me. Makes you want to sing along, doesn't it? Beautiful?
Beautiful piano. More dignitaries taking their seats now in the
Capitol rotunda. We will bring you live coverage throughout the
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ceremony of what is happening in Washington, d C. Here
on KOA, I'm Jimmy Sangenberger filling in for ros Kaminski.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Don't go anywhere, let me tell you that.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But that is a little bit of history you were
hearing right there Stevie rayvaugh live in nineteen eighty nine
for George H. W.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Now, the inauguration of Donald J. Trump is in a
matter of moments. I think in about half an hour.
We will less than that twenty minutes or so. And
you can hear as dignitaries continue to move in here
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they I'm that they just announced the kids of the president,
including Tiffany and Baron. What's happening. And now they've got
Don Junior and is that Vanka? So the family is
coming in. What they have in the setup in the
rotunda is a podium with an entry behind the podium,
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and people have been filing in from their major dignitaries,
former Presidents Bush and Clinton and Obama all filing in.
Now the Trump family making their way in you can
see here the again pomp and circumstance of.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The whole affair.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Laura Trump and Eric Trump, Ivanka and Jared Kushner.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
What a moment for the family.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
They have been through a lot, Like Trump or not
love him or hate him, The family of the soon
to be president and former president has been through a
lot through the ringer over the past four years, really
longer than that.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
But especially the last four.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And here they are again ready to see their father
sworn in for the second time and making history in
doing so. What's unique about this affair as well is
that we are seeing people inside in the rotunda, so
the setup is very different.
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It doesn't have.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The expansive.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Aspect of you know, you're outside on the National Mall
and the president is going to speak and do an
address to the massive crowd.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It's more intimate than that. But there's also something.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That still feels uniquely American and presidential about it all,
every little bit that you can feel it from the
music that's playing. This is why music is so important
and so powerful in anything. It sets the tone, it
sets the mood, It gets you feeling things that include
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a sense of patriotism, include a sense of history, excitement
and energy, at least that's.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
What I feel when that happens.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And then you see leaders from across the political spectrum,
in some from around the world, gathered together for a
unifying moment that will.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Surely escorting doctor Biden and mister m Hoff, the Republican
staff director of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies,
Miss Emily Leviner, the Senate Secretary for the Minority, the
Honorable Gary Myrick, the House of Representatives Chief Administrative Officer,
the Honorable Catherine Spindor, and mister Bruce Fisher.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Could here as the second gentleman and first lady about
to be escorted into the rotunda.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Doctor Jill Biden and mister Douglas m Hoff.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Shannon Scott, producer extraordinair, making an observation that right behind
Baron Trump are the three eight big tech moguls of
Musk Cinder is it, the CEO of Google and Jeff
Bezos all gathered together right before Baron, Doctor Jill Biden
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and Doug m Hoff, both entering in and ready to
take their seats, shaking some hands again. The bipart is
in display here as everybody comes in from all walks
of the political life. You've got the United States Supreme
Court with Chief Justice John Roberts and the other justices there.
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I didn't get a full count to see if everyone
is there, but a solid majority of the Supreme Court
has agreed to come and attend the inauguration, the second
inauguration of President Donald J.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Trump. We will take a break on.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
The other side the swearing in ceremony and the inaugural
address number two for Donald J. Trump, and we'll get
some perspective on what we can expect, what we'd like
to expect from Communication Pro Extraordinaire Rashini Raj Kumars. We continue.
We're just getting rolling on this inauguration day. I'm Jimmy
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Sangenberger in for ros Kaminski on KOA give a motivational speech.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris their last minutes,
thank goodness as President and Vice President of the United States.
Now walking in to the Capital rotunda as well as
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I see Hakim Jeffries, and I'm not sure who the
lady along with him is, but he is, of course
the Senate at the House Minority leader walking in as well.
Or heading over to the rotunda. Room that is about
to be entered at the National Anthem is being sung.
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Jimmy Sangenberger once again here with you in for Ross
Kominski and joined on the phone by the host of
Ryan Schuling live on our sister station k HOW.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Which I'll be hosting later.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And he is the guy, the man who is there
in Washington, d C. For iHeart Denver in the Capital
One Arena.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Ryan, welcome, brother.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Jimmy yees Like Teddy Roosevelt, I am the man in
the arena and I could not be more honored to
be providing big coverage here on Higheart Denver. As Christopher
Macchio is singing a prelude for all of the festivities,
and as you mentioned, the dicotaries walking in getting set
for President Trump's entrance in mere moments. We are set
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up here in an arena that holds nearly twenty thousand
and Jimmy is a bount pack to the rafters.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I'm in this second level, the two hundred level, and
the upper level is quickly filling in people that have
been waiting in line. For myself. It was four hours
from five to twenty am Eastern time until about nine
to twenty am Eastern time, and there were people Jimmy
that were camped out overnight in front of.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Me in line.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
They're in the one hundred level. They earned it, and
it was just a fascinating experience to get into the arena.
Only twenty thousand will be held here, Oliver, out of
about one hundred thousand I think that had originally wanted
to gather on the mall that will be shut down.
There will be no jumbo trons, There will be no
people allowed on the mall between the US Capitol and
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the Washington Monument. So President Trump will be giving his
inaugural address and being sworn in, of course, and then
he will make his way over to this arena where
Jimmy I set you a photo there is a makeshift
resolute desk where he will presumably be signing his first
executive orders of his presidency, his second presidency.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That is remarkable, Ryan, Just one last thing and then
we'll check in with you after the inaugural address of
President Trump. What is the atmosphere like in that room?
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Electric, positive, very aspirational. That reacting you here right there
is upon seeing Donald Trump on the jumpos on here
at Capital One Arena live and.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Washing the DC people rising to their feet a standing
ovation really chills. This is a tremendous culmination of emotion
in this moment, and I have to stand myself just
to be able to see the chance of USA are
breaking out as the soon to be forty seventh President
the United States makes his way to the electorn So
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just an unbelievable atmosphere, Jimmy, interesting historic moment, and we.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Will check in with Ryan Schuling live from the Capital
One Arena after the address. I want to go now
for a couple of minutes before President Trump is sworn
in and Vice President Vance is sworn an end to
Rashinie Roskamar, Crisis Strategists, c suite advisor, license attorney, host
of the Crisis Files podcast. Rashini is is always welcome.
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First of all, Happy inauguration Day and happy MLK Day.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It is always a remarkable.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Occasion to see this transfer of power.
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Is it not, my friend, It really is, And it's
really the closest thing we have to anything somewhat regal.
Speaker 12 (19:26):
There's a lot of pomp and circumstance. Military in their
full regalia, members of the Supreme Court. You know all
of the leaders, the who's who, not only of governmental leaders,
but as it turns out today many of the business
leaders of American corporations that are global entities. They're sitting
there with their spouses or galpal I mean, it's a
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hot ticket, and especially more so because this thing went indoors.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And Milania Trump first Lady to Be and of course
former First Lighty now returning, has just walked in and
situated herself next to.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
A very very tall baron Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
When we look at this moment, what are you expecting
or looking for from President Trump in his speech? I
would really like.
Speaker 12 (20:16):
To see positivity from the now newly elected, re elected
President Trump, because that's really what the country needs. I mean,
your colleague who's live down there in that arena, he
was saying, it's electric, Well, let's build on that electricity.
And yes, there are a lot of people and you
could see by some of the expressions on faces that
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walked in that aren't happy. Wish it would have gone
the other way. But today's a day to renew the
United States of America and look ahead to something that
could be really great.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You can hear in the background it is the song,
the theme song for the President of the United States
as now president elect. President to be Donald J. Trump
is about to walk in behind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,
the outgoing president and Vice president, respectively. And one thing
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noteworthy here, Rashine, is that Donald Trump did not attend
Joe Biden's inaugural address. Biden attending Trump's inaugural address after
an electional outcome that had.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
A little less acrimony. Actually, let's listen for a moment.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, mister Michael Wagner, Senate Deputy Sergeant
at Arms and doorkeeper Jason Bell, and House Deputy Sergeant
at Arms mister Sean Keating.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That is the committee or the group that is escorting
President elect Donald Trump into the room.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Let's listen for a.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Moment, ladies in joi the Vice President elect of the
United States, the Honorable JD.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Vance Rashini Raj Kumars.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
We await President Elect Trump being announced or real quick
thought from you.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
Well, it is the time that all of these leaders
can really show civility, professionalism, and truly leadership because there
are a lot of people who aren't happy that the
result went this way, and there are some who are
ecstatic and they're all in that same room, which just
shows you we can do it. We as Americans, can disagree,
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can have different players in the ring, and no matter
what the result, the outcome, we can all stand there
and get along and respect the fact that this is
the inauguration. One of the most beautiful things about today
is that this date, January twentieth, is in our United
States Constitution, Yes, Jimmy, and nothing, not even the weather
the coldness bringing it inside in Washington, DC, changes that.
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And that's continuity back to the founders of this country.
And that is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And it's one of those things about America that makes
our country, our nation so special. I mean, even with
twenty twenty as it was, you still have that peaceful
transfer of power.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Listen, President Elect, the staff Director for the Joint Congressional
Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, Elizabeth Farrah House Sergeant at Arms,
the Honorable William P. McFarland, Senate Sergeant at Arms and doorkeeper,
the Honorable Jennifer A. Hemingway Senate Majority Leader, the Honorable
John Thune, and the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.
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House Democratic Leader, the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, House Majority Leader,
the Honorable Steve Scalise, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
the Honorable Mike Johnson, Senate Democratic Leader, the Honorable Charles E. Schumer,
Ranking Member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies,
The Honorable Deb Fisher and Chairwoman of the Joint Congressional
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Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Amy Klobashar.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
President Elect Donald Trump about to walk in to the
rotunda where he will be sworn in, I believe after
Vice President Elect J. D. Vance Is, and of course
President Trump will be sworn in by the Chief Justice
of the United States.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
The President's Elect of the United States, the Honorable Donald
John Trump.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Rashini ras Kumar As President Elect Donald Trump walks out
into the rotunda. Let's talk for just a moment about
what we would hope for from his speech.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
A little bit more.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Had a listener text on the koa comment spirit heal
text line five six six nine zero, say Jimmy, no
doubt Trump's speech will be full of doom, and gloom.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's his calling card.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
We did hear him talk about American carnage last time.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
What are you expecting or hoping for this time?
Speaker 12 (25:34):
Well, this is a very different time. He's coming in
on a major display, right, I mean, it's a very
different scene. I would be surprised if it's human gloom,
and that would not be my recommendation if he had
asked me. Dooming gloom is not for today. Look at
all those smiling people, a lot of people who disagree
with each other, all in one place.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
There.
Speaker 12 (25:56):
For Donald Trump, this is what he should jump off of.
This jubilation in the room across parts of the country.
Certainly not everyone agrees with the result, but it doesn't matter.
Today is the inauguration of the forty seventh president, and
let's hope it can be a day we're healing as
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well as celebration.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yes, and we just saw President elect Trump and President
Joe Biden shaking hands and smiling. They are both on
opposite sides behind the podium as the ceremony, the inaugural
ceremonies are about to begin. And look, I mean this
is at the moment that I've been using the words
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significant and it is significant. It is one of those
moments that matters a lot for this country, no matter
where you are at in that respect politically. Just as
Rashini raj Kumar was saying, Rashini, We're gonna let you
go for now, but I'll look forward to getting your
analysis after the inaugural address of President Trump.
Speaker 12 (27:04):
Absolutely, Jimmy, have fun.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Thank you you as well.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Once again Rashini raj Kumar joining us on the program.
She'll be back offering some analysis after. Let's listen a
little bit. As the ceremony begins with prayer.
Speaker 13 (27:16):
President elect Fance will take their oes of office and
we will witness the peaceful transfer of power at the
heart of our democracy.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Or rather, opening remarks from Senator am Klobuchar of Minnesota.
Speaker 13 (27:33):
For the past year, I've chaired the Inaugural Ceremony Committee,
which includes the leadership of Congress from both parties. We
thank the committee and Capital staff and law enforcement who
worked so hard over the last year and especially the
last three days. You've done a beautiful job, and you
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have shown grace under pressure. Our theme this year is
our enduring democracy. The presidence of so many presidents and
vice presidents here today is truly a testament to that endurance.
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We welcome President Biden and Doctor Biden. We welcome Vice
President Harris and Doug Elmahoff, President Obama, President Clinton and
Secretary Clinton, President Bush and Laura Bush, Vice President Pence,
Vice President Quail, and Maryland Quail. The Justices of the
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United States Supreme Court are with us, all nine of
them I counted, and of course the Trump and Vance families.
This ceremony marks what will soon be two hundred and
fifty years of our democracy. It is the moment when
leaders elevated by the will of the people, promised to
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be faithful to our concert institution, to cherish and defend it.
It is the moment when they become, as we all
should be, the guardians of our country, through war and peace,
through adversity and prosperity. We hold this inauguration every four years,
and today it falls on Martin Luther King Day, a
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further reminder that we must strive to uphold the values
enshrined in our Constitution, the freedoms, the liberties, and as
is inscribed on the entrance of the United States Supreme Court,
equal justice under law. But what makes this moment more
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than a passing ceremony is all who are watching it
across the country, the people of this nation, the ordinary
people doing extraordinary things. President Kennedy, who at once point
worked as a senator in this building and would often
walk through this very rotunda one said, in a democracy,
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every citizen, regardless of interest in politics, holds office. Every
one of us is in a position of responsibility. With
that responsibility of citizenship comes in obligation not to seek
out malice, as President Lincoln once reminded us, but to
view others with a generosity of spirit despite our differences.
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With that responsibility of leadership comes in obligation to stand
our ground when we must, and find common ground when
we can. With everything swirling around us, the hot mess
of division, it is on all of us, to quote
an incredible songwriter who just happened to be born in
my state, to ensure that our nation's democracy is our
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shelter from the storm. There's a reason this ceremony takes
place at the capitol. In other countries, it might be
in a presidential palace or a gilded executive office building. Here,
it is traditionally held at the capitol.
Speaker 14 (31:14):
The people's house.
Speaker 13 (31:15):
It is a fitting reminder of the system of checks
and balances that is the very foundation of our government,
three equal branches of government.
Speaker 14 (31:27):
That is how for.
Speaker 13 (31:28):
Nearly two hundred and fifty years, our great American experiment,
grounded in the rule of law, has endured. So as
we inaugurate a new president and vice president, let us
remember that the power of those in this room comes.
Speaker 14 (31:48):
From the people.
Speaker 13 (31:50):
The construction workers who build our country, the teachers and
healthcare workers who nurture us, the troops defending our freedoms,
and yes, the firefighters in Los Angeles putting themselves on
the line.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You are listening live to the big festivities.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
It is inauguration day.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
This is the co chair I think she is of
the Inaugural Committee, which is the committee that puts on
the inauguration. This is Senator Amy Klobaschar of Minnesota, who
of course ran for President of the United States and
the Democratic primary. Was it this last go around, Gosh,
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time all blends together, or was it in twenty sixteen?
It was not this time, but twenty twenty, that is
when she ran in twenty twenty against Kamala Harris and
Joe Biden. But this is a moment where bipartisanship is
really on display because she is a Democrat. She is
one of the top Democrats in the United States Senate,
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and she is addressing the nation here to help begin
the festivities.
Speaker 14 (33:00):
An institution and a nation.
Speaker 15 (33:04):
Our founders wrote the Constitution so that America could withstand
all the twists and turns of time.
Speaker 14 (33:13):
They wrote it to guide us and.
Speaker 15 (33:16):
To preserve forever our right of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. But as much as the truths and
principles enshrined in our Constitution remained the same, our democracy
promises the American people the power to change, to chart
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their own destiny. That's the beauty, that is the importance
of democracy. It allows the endurance the permanence of a
nation through change.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
We are now listening to Senator Deb Fisher of Nebraska,
who is the other co chair for the Inaugural committee
that puts on the big inaugural celebration. We will be
hearing very shortly as JD. Vance sworn in as Vice President.
But let's listen a little bit more to Senator Deb Fisher.
Speaker 15 (34:15):
Inauguration ceremony, like all the others before it, it is
a celebration of our right to set our uniquely American course.
The past several years have been trying at times for
many many Americans, and also for the nations of the
free world that we humbly strive to lead. In November,
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Americans chose again to steer this nation towards greatness, the secure, safe,
and prosperous future that our founders envisioned.
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For all of us.
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And today we celebrate not only their to decision to
do so, but also the simple right and wisdom of
a free people to make their own choice so.
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That their nation might endure.
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And now allow me to welcome Archbishop Timothy Dolan and
Reverend Franklin Graham, who will deliver our invocation.
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Please rise, be still, and know that I am God,
supreme among the nations, supreme on the earth.
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Let us pray, remembering General George Washington on his knees
at Valley Forge, Recalling Abraham Lincoln at his second inaugural,
with malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness
in the right as God gives us to see the right.
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Remembering General George Patten's instructions to his soldiers as they
began the Battle of the bulls eight decades ago. Pray,
Pray when fighting, Pray alone, Pray with others. Pray by night,
pray by day. Observing the birthday of the Reverend Martin
Luther King, who warned, without God, our efforts turned to ashes,
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we blessed citizens of this one nation under God, humbled
by our claim that in God we trust, gather indeed
this inauguration day to pray for our President, Donald J. Trump,
his family, his advisers, his cabinet, his aspirations, his Vice president,
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for the Lord's blessings upon Joseph Biden, for our men
and women in uniform, for each other, whose hope Sir
stoked this new year, this inauguration day, we cannot air
in relying upon that prayer from the Bible upon which
our President will soon place his hand. An oath as
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we make our own the supplications of King Solomon for
wisdom as.
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He began his governance.
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God of our fathers and your wisdom, you set man
to govern your creatures, to govern and holiness and justice,
to render justice with integrity. Give our leader wisdom, for
he is your servant, aware of his own weakness and
brevity of life. If wisdom which comes not from you,
be not with him. He shall be held in no
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esteem sin wisdom from heavens, that she may be with him,
that he may know your designs. Please, God, bless America,
Please mend.
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Her every flaw.
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Were the God in whom we trust, who lives and
reigns forever and ever.
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Amen.
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That was Cardinal Dolan. Now we bring Reverend Franklin Graham.
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Mister President. The last four years, there are times, I'm
sure you thought it was pretty dark, but look what
God has done. We praise him and give him glory.
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Let us pray our Father and our God that has said,
blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. As
the Prophet Daniel prayed, blessed be the name of God
forever and ever. For wisdom and might his He changes
the times and the seasons. He removes kings, he raises
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up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge
to those who have understanding our Father. Today, as President
Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office, once again,
we come to say thank you, O Lord, our god Father.
When Donald Trump's enemies thought he was down and out,
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you and you alone saved his life and raised him
up with strength and power by your mighty hand. We
pray for President Trump that you'll watch over, protect, God,
direct him, give him your wisdom from your throne on high.
We asked that you would bless him and that our
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nation would be blessed through him. We also ask that
you would bless and protect Milagnia as first lady. We
thank you for the beauty, the warmth, and grace that
she shows not only to this nation, but to the
whole world. We thank you for Vice President elect JD.
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Vance and his wife Ushah and their young family. May
he be a strength to President Trump to stand beside him,
to hold up his arms like Aaron held up arms
of Moses. In the midst of battle, the prophet Samuel
reminded the people it was you that brought them up
from the land of Egypt, and he said, now stand still,
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that I may reason with you before the Lord. So, Father,
we take this moment to stand still, to remember the
great things that you have done for this nation. Thank
you for the protection, the bounty, the freedoms that we
so enjoy. We remember to keep our eyes fixed on you,
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and may our hearts be inclined to your voice. We
know that America can never be great again if we
turn our backs on you. We ask for your help,
and we pray all of this in the name of
the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, your Son,
my Savior, and our Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
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Amen, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Associate Justicekavanah to
administer the Vice Presidential Oath of Office.
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Indeed, Justice Kavanagh.
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Significant development when he was becoming a Supreme Court Justice,
will now offer the oath. As the man said to j. D.
Vance as Vice President of the United States. We just
saw Vance shake in the hands of him talking with
Cardinal Dolan. He will be the second Catholic Vice President
of the United States ever since Joe Biden, who was
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the first Catholic Vice president when he served as VP
under Barack Obama.
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Please raise your right hand and repeat after me that
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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That I will support and defend the Constitution of the.
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United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.
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Against all enemies foreign and domestic.
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That I will bear true faith, That I will bear
true faith and allegiance to the same, and allegiance to
the same that I take this obligation freely.
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That I take this obligation freely.
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Without any mental reservation.
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Without any mental reservation.
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Or purpose of evasion or purpose of evasion, And that
I will well and faithfully discharge.
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And that I will well and faithfully.
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Discharge the duties of the office, the duties of the
office on which I am about to enter, on which
I'm about to enter.
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So help me, God, So help me God.
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Congratulations, mister Brice present.
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It's the top of the hour, ten o'clock mountain time
noon on the East Coast.
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You're on KOA.
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Jd Vance now the Vice President of the United States.
I'm Jimmy Sangenberger, filling in for Ross Kaminski throughout the
inauguration and of course until noon. As we now prepare
for the swearing in of Donald J. Trump as President
of the United States for the second time.
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Chief Justice Roberts to administer the presidential oath of office.
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The Chief Justice of the United States is always the
man who gives the uh leads the President in the
swearing in. And Chief Justice John Roberts, who was put
onto the bench as Chief Justice by George W.
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Bush, who's the right hand and repeat after me, I,
Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear, I.
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Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
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That I will faithfully execute that.
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I will faithfully execute the office the President of the
United States, the office of President of the United States.
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And will to the best of my ability.
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And will, to the best of my ability.
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Preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution
of the United States, the Constitution of the United States.
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So help me, God, So help me God.
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Congratulations, pacify.
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Donald J.
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Trump, now the President of the United States. I counted
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seven shots from the canons. Eighth there called to the
chief the new president about to offer his remarks, the
first president since eighteen ninety two to serve a second
non consecutive term, the previous president being Grover Cleveland. In
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that respect, no matter how you feel about Donald Trump,
this is and additionally a big historic moment.
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Donald J.
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Trump now the forty seventh President of the United States,
but the forty fifth man to hold the office since
he and Grover Cleveland were non consecutive presidents. And in
this speech, it will be fascinating to hear where he
is at as far as the approach is. This an
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American Carnage two point zero speech? Or is this optimistic?
Is this one that's unifying, that draws people in together.
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And says, you know what, This is a moment of unity.
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This is a moment where we are all Americans, and
we have some big fights ahead. And I'm ready to
sign some executive orders right in the beginning. But I
want you, well, no matter how you feel about me,
to join forces as Americans for this great country and
make America great again. Is that the approach we will
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see and.
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Hear very soon.
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This is the United States Naval Academy Glee Club singing
the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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I love this song.
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To use.
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Christ was on cross us. We was.
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Not sis to make man.
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The a side, to make a great Los.
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Beautiful again.
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The United States Naval Academy Glee Club singing the Battle
Hymn of the Republic at the inauguration of Donald J.
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Trump.
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As we await the President's speech, once again, you have
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dignitaries from not just across the United States, but around
the world, and the family of President Trump.
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My honor and pleasure to introduce to you the forty
fifth and the forty seventh President of the United States
of America, Donald J.
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Trump for the first time.
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Donald Trump has been recognized once again as President of
the United States.
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JD.
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Vance first time ever as Vice President of the United States.
Very much, every brother, well as the President takes the podium.
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Thank you, very very much.
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Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thun, Chief Justice Roberts,
Justices of the United States Supreme Court, President Clinton, President Bush,
President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and my fellow citizens, The.
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Golden Age of America begins right now.
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From this day forward, our country will flourish and be
respected again all over the world. We will be the
envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves
to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single
day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put
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America first. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed, our safety will
be restored, the scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent,
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and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government
will end, and our top priority will be to create
a nation that is proud, prosperous.
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And free.
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America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional
than ever before I returned to the presidency, confident and
optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling
new era of national success.
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A tide of change is sweeping the country.
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Sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has
the chance to seize this opportunity like never before. But first,
we must be honest about the challenges we face. While
they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great
momentum that the world is now witnessing.
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In the United States of America, as.
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We gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust.
For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted
power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of
our society lay broken and seemingly incomplete disrepair. We now
have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis
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at home, while at the same time stumbling into a
continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad. It fails to protect
our magnificent, law abidying American citizens, but provide sanctuary and
protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions
that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.
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We have a government that has given unlimited funding to
the defense of foreign borders, but refuses to defend American
borders or, more importantly, its own people. Our country can
no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, as
recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina have
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been treated so badly, and other states who are still
suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago,
or more recently Los Angeles, where we were watching fires
still tragically burn from weeks ago without even a token
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of defense. They're raging through the houses and communities, even
affecting some of the wealthy and most powerful individuals in
our country, some of whom are sitting here right now.
They don't have a home any longer. That's interesting, but
we can't let this happen. Everyone is unable to do
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anything about it. That's going to change. We have a
public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster,
yet more money is spent on it than.
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Any country anywhere in the world.
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And we have an.
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Education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves,
in many cases, to hate our country, despite the love
that we try so desperately to provide to them. All
of this will change starting today, and it will change
very quickly. My recent election is a mandate to completely
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and totally revert say horrible betrayal and all of these
many betrayals that have taken place, and to give the
people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and indeed
their freedom. From this moment on, America's decline is over.
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Our liberties and our nation's glorious destiny will no longer
be denied, and we will immediately restore the integrity, competency,
and loyalty.
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Of America's government.
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Over the past eight years, I have been tested and
challenged more than any president in our two hundred and
fifty year history, and I've learned a lot along the way.
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The journey to reclaim.
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Our republic has not been any one that I can
tell you. Those who wish to stop our cause have
tried to take my freedom, and indeed to take my
life just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania
field and assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. But I
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felt then, and believe even more so now, that my
life was saved for a reason. I was saved by
God to make America great again.
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Thank you very much.
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That is why each day, under our administration of American Patriots,
we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and.
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Power and strength.
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We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety,
and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed.
For American citizens. January twentieth, twenty twenty five.
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Is Liberation Day.
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It is my hope that our recent presidential election will
be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in
the history of our country. As our victory showed, the
entire nation is rapidly unifying behind our agenda, with dramatic
increases in support from virtually every element of our society,
young and old, men and women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans,
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Asian Americans, urban, suburban, rural.
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And very importantly, we had a.
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Powerful win in all seven swing states, and the popular
vote we won by millions of people.
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To the black and Hispanic communities.
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I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of
love and trust that you have shown me. With your vote,
we set records and I will not forget it. I've
heard your voices and the campaign, and I look forward
to working with you in the years to come.
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Today is Martin Luther King Day.
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And his honor. This will be a great honor.
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But in his honor we will strive together to make
his dream a reality. We will make his dream come true.
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A national unity is now returning to America, and confidence
and pride soaring like never before. In everything we do,
my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of
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excellence and unrelenting success. We will not forget our country,
we will not forget our constitution, and we will not
forget our God.
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Can't do that.
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Today I will sign of historic executive orders. With these actions,
we will begin the complete restoration of America and the
revolution of common sense.
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It's all about common sense.
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First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.
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All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will
begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal
aliens back to the places from which they came. We
will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy. I will end
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the practice of catch and release, and I will send
troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion
of our country. Under the orders I signed today, we
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will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations,
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and by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight,
I will direct our government to use the full and
immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate
the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing
devastating crime to US soil, including our.
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Cities and inner cities.
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As Commander in Chief, I have no higher responsibility than
to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that
is exactly what I am going to do. We will
do it at a level that nobody's ever seen before. Next,
I will direct all members of my Cabinet to marshall
the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was
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record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices. The
inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices,
and that is why today I will also declare a
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national energy emergency.
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We will drill, baby, drill.
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America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we
have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have
the largest amount of oil and gas of any country
on Earth, and we are going to.
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Use it, Let me use it.
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We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up
again to the top, and export American energy all over
the world. We will be a rich nation again, and
it is that liquid gold under our feet that will
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help to do it. With my actions today, we will
end the Green New Deal, and we will revoke the
electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my
sacred pledge to our great American auto workers. In other words,
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you'll be able to buy the car of your choice.
We will build automobiles in America again at a rate
that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago.
And thank you to the auto workers of our nation
for your inspiring vote of confidence. We did tremendously with
their vote. I will immediately begin the overhaul of our
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trade system to protect American workers and families. Instead of
taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff
and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.
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For this purpose, we are.
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Establishing the External Revenue Service to collect all tariffs, duties,
and revenues. It will be massive amounts of money pouring
into our treasury coming from foreign sources. The American dream
will soon be back and thriving like never before. To
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restore competence and effectiveness to our federal government, administration will
establish the brand new Department of Government Efficiency. After years
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and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict
free expression. I will also sign an executive order to
immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech
to America. Never again will the immense power of the
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state be weaponized to persecute political opponents something.
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I know something about.
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We will not allow that to happen. It will not
happen again. Under my leadership. We will restore fair, equal
and impartial justice under the constitutional rule.
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Of law, and we are going to bring law and
order back to our cities.
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This week, I will also end the government policy of
trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect
of public and private life. We will forge a society
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that is color blind and merit based.
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As of today, it will henceforward.
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Be the official policy of the United States Government that
there are only two genders, male and female. This week,
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I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled
from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate
with full back pain, and I will sign in order
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to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political
theories and social experiments while on duty.
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It's going to end immediately.
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Our armed forces will be free to focus on their
soul mission defeating America's enemies. Like in twenty seventeen, we
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will again build the strongest military of the world has
ever seen. We will measure our success not only by
the battles we win, but also by the wars that
we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never
get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a
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peace maker and unifier. That's what I want to be,
a peacemaker and a unifier. I'm pleased to say that
as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the
hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to
their families.
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It's ten thirty in Colorado. Donald Trumps, speaking in his
inaugurial address, its.
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Rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation
on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world.
A short time from now, we are going to be
changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the
Gulf of America, and we will restore the name.
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Of a great.
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President, William McKinley to Mount McKinley, where it should be
and where it belongs. President McKinley made our country very
rich through tariffs and through talent. He was a natural
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businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of
the great things he did, including the Panama Canal, which
has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after
the United States. The United States, I mean, think of this,
spent more money than ever spent on a project before
and lost thirty eight thousand lives in the building of
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the Panama We have been treated very badly from this
foolish gift that should have never been made, and Panama's
promised to us has been broken. The purpose of our
deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated.
American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly
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in any way, shape or form, and that includes the
United States Navy. And above all, China is operating the
Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China.
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We gave it to Panama, and.
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We're taking it back.
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Above all, my message to Americans today is that it
is time for us to once again and act with courage, vigor,
and the vitality of history's greatest civilization. So as we
liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights
of victory and success.
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We will not be deterred.
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Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep
our children safe, healthy, and disease free. The United States
will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that
increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises
our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.
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And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars,
launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on
the planet Mars. Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation,
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and right now our nation is more.
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Ambitious than any other. There is no nation like our nation.
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Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers. The spirit
of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call
of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls.
Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on
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the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic
of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth.
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No one comes close.
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Americans push thousands of miles through a rugged land of
untamed wilderness. They crossed desert, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers,
won the wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny,
lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched
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mankind into the heavens, and put the universe of human
knowledge into the palm of the human hand. If we
work together, there is nothing we cannot do, and no
dream we cannot achieve. Many people thought it was impossible
for me to stage such a historic political comeback. But
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as you see today here I am the American people
have spoken. I stand before you now as proof that
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you should never believe that something is impossible to do
in America. The impossible is what we do best. From
New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from
Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington, DC.
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Our country was forged and built by the generations of
patriots who gave everything they had for our rights and
for our freedom. They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and
factory workers, steelworkers and coal miners, police officers and pioneers
who pushed onward, marched forward, and let no obstacle defeat
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their spirit or their pride. Together they laid down the railroads,
raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, one two world wars,
defeated fascism and communism in triumph over every single challenge
that they faced. After all we have been through together,
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we stand on the verge of the four greatest years
in American history. With your help, we will restore America, promise,
and we will rebuild the nation that we love, and
we love it so much. We are one people, one family,
and one glorious nation under God. So to every parent
who dreams for their child and every child who dreams
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for their future.
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I am with you. I will fight for you, and
I will win for you. We are going to win
like never before.
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Okay, thank you, okay.
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Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly, but we
are going to bring it back and make it great again,
greater than ever before. We will be a nation like
no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism.
Speaker 5 (01:20:22):
Our power will stop.
Speaker 3 (01:20:23):
All wars and bring a new spirit of unity to
a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable.
America will be respected again and admired again, including by
people of religion, faith, and goodwill. We will be prosperous,
we will be proud, we will be strong, and we
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will win like never before. We will not be conquered,
we will not be intimidated, we will not be broken,
and we will not fail.
Speaker 4 (01:20:55):
From this day on, the.
Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
United States of America will be a free, sovereign and
independent nation.
Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
We will stand.
Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Bravely, we will live proudly, we will dream boldly, and
nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans.
The futures ours and our golden age has just begun.
Thank you, God, bless America. Thank you all, Thank.
Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
You, thank you, thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:21:28):
The future is ours and the Golden Age has just begun.
Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
Trump, the forty seventh and of course forty fifth President
of the United States, wrapping up his inaugural address, one
that I think seemed to go a little bit long.
I'd be curious as to how it compares with some
other addresses. It was certainly more policy focused and agenda driven.
You can tell that he is ready to get going
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right away. And this is a moment, of course, where
you have a president taking the reins and he's not
wasting time. Now Carrie Underwood singing as we run to
break here in just a moment, I'm Jimmy Sangenberger filling
in for Ross Kaminski here on KOA. We will keep
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the coverage and analysis going. We will check in with
Ryan Schuling on location in Washington, d C. At the
Capitol One Arena is sort of like an overflow venue,
if you will, and we'll also get some analysis from
Rashini Raj Kumar, who will rejoin us and offer some
expert communications perspectives here on KOA once again, Jimmy Sangenberger
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Speaker 25 (01:23:27):
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From CE to Shine CE.
Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
That was Carrie Underwood just a bit ago at the
inauguration of Donald J. Trump, the forty seventh President of
the United States. Jimmy Sangenberger rejoining you in for Ross
Kaminski right here on KOA with live coverage as you
now have benedictions that are being offered to end the
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inaugural ceremonies.
Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
There was I didn't catch who it was.
Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
I just saw it on the video live video feeds
that a. I don't know if he was a rabbi
or who that was who spoke, but giving a Jewish benediction,
which I think is wonderful and very glad that that
happened and that they that they included in the ceremonial
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proceedings the Jewish people, especially given what has been going
on with Israel and our strong support for Israel in
this time of need. We are joined now live from
the Capital One Arena by our own Ryan Schuling host
over on sister station.
Speaker 2 (01:24:53):
K h O W. Ryan, how are things there?
Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
What's the feeling like after the had inaugural address from
President Trump?
Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
Hey, we just turned Colorado mentioned Yes, yes, yes, Ryan Schuling, Yes,
Lorenzo Sewel.
Speaker 7 (01:25:23):
This happens to be a pastor from Detroit. You may
have seen during the campaign. We are live here at
Capital On Arena and he is quoting doctor Martin Luther King.
I'll let you hear some of it.
Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Every city, every village, and every hamlets.
Speaker 18 (01:25:41):
And when we left free to ring, we will be
able to speed up that day.
Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
All of your children, black men and white men, Protestant
and Catholic.
Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
Jew and gentile will be able to sing.
Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
In the meaning of that.
Speaker 4 (01:25:57):
Old Negro spiritual free alliance.
Speaker 18 (01:26:00):
Yes, free at last, Thank you God Almighty.
Speaker 5 (01:26:05):
We are free at last.
Speaker 16 (01:26:06):
If you believe what the spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
Come on, put your hands together.
Speaker 25 (01:26:12):
Hey, give you a great God, great glory.
Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
Wow, very very powerful.
Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
Can hear the reaction, Jimmy, President Trumble will loved it.
The people in this arena. It attached to the rafters here, Jimmy,
Just a moment ago, there were two protesters shouting free
three Palestine. They were drowned out quickly by chance of USA.
And they were promptly removed from the arena. And think
they waited four hours to do that here at Benediction continues,
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I'll let you hear it.
Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
So Ryan, let me ask you, well, can we can
listen in? Yeah, let's listen for in.
Speaker 21 (01:26:50):
This sacred moment of the inauguration of President Donald J.
Trump and Vice President JD. Vance we turn our hearts
to you, seeking your divine assistance and abundant blessings. Upon
this pivotal moment in history. We come before you with
profound gratitude for the many gifts you have bestowed upon
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our land. Thank you for the freedoms we cherish, for
the strength of our communities, and for the resilience of
our spirit. As our President and Vice President embrace their
newly appointed roles, we humbly implore that your everlasting love
and wisdom will envelop them. Grant them the clarity of
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mind to navigate the challenges that lie ahead, and the
compassion to serve all citizens with fairness and integrity. May
their hearts be filled with a giving spirit and sincere
understanding for those whom they represent. May they be beacons
of hope in times of uncertainty, and prophetic voices in
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defending the dignity.
Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
Of all created life.
Speaker 21 (01:28:05):
We pray for a spirit of collaboration to flourish in
our government and across our nation, fostering an environment where
dialogue and heartfelt listening will prevail over division or discord.
May each decision made by our President and Vice President
reflect the values of.
Speaker 14 (01:28:27):
Justice and peace.
Speaker 21 (01:28:29):
As we embark on this new chapter. We also seek
your comfort, O God, for those who feel lost or
disheartened in this time of transition. May Your light shine
upon them, reaffirming their belief in a brighter tomorrow. May
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we all strive to lift one another, supporting our fellow
citizens with kindness and empathy, recognizing that together we can
overcome any adversity. Grant us the strength to endure, the
courage to face our fears, and the clarity to see
the light that remains even when clouds of uncertainty may gather.
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Inspire our new leaders to be champions for the vulnerable
and advocates for those whose voices are often silenced. May
they pursue policies that promote the well being of all,
seeking to build bridges that will foster unity and belonging.
As we stand witness to this inauguration, we hold fast
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to the faith, to our faith in the goodness of
each of us and the possibility of change. We trust that,
with your guidance, O God, our nation can move forward
to a future filled with promise, prosperity, and understanding. And finally,
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we lift our hearts in gratitude for the beloved parents
of President Trump. Without Mary and Fred Trump, this day
would never be the miracle that has just begun.
Speaker 14 (01:30:13):
From their place in heaven.
Speaker 21 (01:30:15):
May they shield their son from all harm by their
loving protection and give him the strength to guide our
nation along the path that will make America great again.
Let us go forth now with these words of President
Trump's emblazoned on our hearts. As long as we have
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pride in our beliefs, courage in our convictions, and faith
in our God, then we will not fail. We stand tall,
we stand proud because we are Americans, and Americans kneel
to God and to God alone.
Speaker 1 (01:31:01):
Thank you, Ryan Schuling. Let's see if we can check
in with you in the next hour. Jimmy Sangenberger in
for Ross Kaminski. We'll also hear from Rashini Raj Kamar
and get to your texts on the KOA Common Spirit
Health text line. What did you make of the speech
text us at five six six nine zero. We'll keep
it going on the other side, right here on KOA
on this inauguration day, right here on KOA, lots to
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talk about and dive into from President Donald Trump's address
as the forty seventh president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
And it is notable as well that.
Speaker 1 (01:31:40):
In his literal final moments of the presidency, and we
will talk about this, Joe Biden has pardoned his family,
including James Biden, his brother, his wife Sarah Jones Biden,
Biden's younger sister, Valerie Biden Owen, and Owen's husband John Owens,
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and his other brother, Francis Biden. Biden saying in a release,
the issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as
an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should
acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.
Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
This is wild.
Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
We turn now to Ryan Schuling, who is on location
at the Capitol One Arena where everybody who is not
among the dignitaries in the rotunda went to watch the
inaugural ceremonies. Ryan, what's the scene like there since the address?
Speaker 7 (01:32:40):
Well, Jimmy, we're officially in the in between time now.
We've never seen anything like it. There are twenty thousand
strong in this arena. There are very few empty seats,
if any, they're empty now. I was just going to
the restroom myself, but they're waiting now for President Trump
to come to the arena to address the crowd. He's
got a a small makeshift resolute desk set up where
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presumably he'll be signing his first executive orders. There is
a massive presence of media, who Trump may call the
fake news media, assembled in the back of the floor
of the rienna. There are several rows of cameras and
reporters willing to be ready to go. And there's a
band actually that it has just set up. I just
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noticed this as me playing right before the VIP section,
which are those that are seated right on the floor.
Speaker 1 (01:33:30):
So yeah, Ryan, let me ask you about the feeling
in the room since the speech. What's the sentiment of
the address from Donald Trump as he was inaugurated for
this second time, and what did you make of the address.
Speaker 8 (01:33:47):
Well, it stood out to me.
Speaker 7 (01:33:49):
First and foremost was what cut us off at the
end of the last hour, Jimmy, was the strong religious
theme that we saw at the invocation and the benefiction.
I think we saw five different dignitaries serious religious faiths,
two Catholic, too Protestant, including one of the pastors from
Detroit who notably supported Donald Trump in the early going,
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and he basically replicated Martin Luther King's speech. Franklin Graham,
of course among those. Cardinal Bishop Dolan was there as well,
and a Jewish, as you mentioned earlier, a rabbi in
giving benediction in the aftermath of the speech as well.
I think President Trump struck that tone in his speech
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as well. This is done by his speech writers, and
I'm sure that he had input into it. Was undergirding
the Judeo Christian work ethic upon which our constitutional republic
was founded, and you got a lot of that in
this speech. So we're going to get back to what
made America great, and not just during the Trump presidency,
but at our founding and what are our founding principles
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and what do we represented as a country? What does
it mean to be an American? I thought Donald Trump
hit those broad strokes very well, and then he had
the knives out. Let's call it what it was. He
did not hold back in any way, shape, manner, or
form from the failures of the Biden presidency of the
last four years. And there was a raucous reception, not
just in the arena, but I noticed as well Jimmy
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in the rotunda from the Republicans and from those that
were seated behind him, and I think that spoke volume.
I do want to make a final a note about
what you just said regarding President Biden partnering his family.
This is unprecedented historically of any American president to pardon
his entire family, basically like you just noted them by name.
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And while it's not an admission of guilt, it certainly
should not be viewed as a presumption of innocence because
why would you have to pardon each into every one
of these people. It simply confirms the suspicions, the narratives,
the so called conspiracy theories. The Biden crime family, as
Trump supporters like to call it, did everything in their
power to enrich the family by using that influence that
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Joe Biden had in his elected offices a Senate, as
vice president, and perhaps this president yeah to make money abroad.
So I think it's a stunning and dark moment really
for American history that a president would use the power
of the pardon for his own family members. And there
have been Democratic senators, I believe as well and representatives
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of the House that have come out said book, we
need to revisit the pardoning, the clemency process, and I
would agree with them on that.
Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
Yeah, although I don't know what Congress can do, given
that it is a constitutional prerogative of the president, for
how they could even approach that, Ryan schuling joining us.
And I should note as well that Biden also had
pardoned early this morning, doctor Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milly,
and members of Congress who were involved in the January
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sixth committee.
Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
But in the remaining time I have with you, Ryan,
I want.
Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
To go back to the speech and get your take
on if you thought that this was a little too
heavy for an inaugural address on policy and agenda, foreign
and aw girl address, or if it just was apropos
of a president who has an agenda that he's already
prepared to hit the ground running, including at the Capital
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One Arena shortly when he's expected to sign some executive orders.
Speaker 7 (01:37:15):
I think is exactly the latter of what you described, Jimmy.
The time for aspirational metaphorical speeches, I think is over
as far as it pertains to Donald Trump. And let
me explain why. In his first term, now going back
eight years ago, perhaps he could have done that. But
think about everything that has happened since to this man,
the attacks politically against this man and otherwise, the assassination attempt,
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the four years that he was not in office, and
now he comes back. If you just look, Jimmy and
they're showing President Trump on the in screen, monitor's why
you hear the cheering there. If you just look at
the difference in the presidential portraits between twenty seventeen and
the one that was just released for twenty twenty five,
it says it all. It's President Trump's serious demeanor. It
really mostly replicates his mugshot, and I believe that he
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thinks there's just serious business ahead. It's time to get
to work, and he's going to do that on day one.
Speaker 1 (01:38:09):
It is fascinating to think about the difference in that
regard as like a visual representation of Trump forty seven
contrasted with Trump forty five. Ryan Schuling live at the
Capital One Arena in Washington, d C. Of course, host
over on our sister station six point thirty K. How
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thank you so much for joining us, brother, and stay
warm out there.
Speaker 7 (01:38:36):
I'm staying warm in here. But I'm telling you, Jimmy
waiting four hours and twenty degrees, I know it's colder
there in Denver right now, but it felt cold when
it came around the building. The windshill factor, all of
that was all worth it, and I'm happy to bring
it to our listeners there in Denver.
Speaker 2 (01:38:50):
There you go, Ryan Schuling live at in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
President, former President Joe Biden, former First Lady doctor Jill Biden,
both taking the helicopter to leave after President Trump and
First Lady Milania Trump said farewell to the Bidens who
are now heading to Joint the Joint Base Andrews goodness,
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A milestone has been reached, History has been made.
Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
What's your take? What's your reaction to all this textas at.
Speaker 1 (01:39:22):
The KOA Common Spirit Health text line at five six
six nine zero. I'll also offer some of my thoughts
on the other side as we continue. Jimmy Sangenberger in
for Ross Kaminski on KOA twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Minutes after eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:39:37):
Jimmy Sangenberger in for Ross Kaminski here breathing by on KOA,
and you know what, we want to have your texts
on the KOA Common Spirit Health text line at five
six six nine zero. But we're also on this occasion.
Going to open up the phones for the rest of
the show on the KOA Common Spirit Health Hotline and
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three oh three seven one three eighty five eighty five
three oh three seven one three eighty five eighty five
if you feel so inclined to call in offer your
thoughts on Trump's speech.
Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
Did it hit the right marks?
Speaker 1 (01:40:16):
Was it an appropriate tone for an agenda as we
just talked about with Ryan Schuling in the last segment,
for an agenda driven president who's taking office now, who's
assumed the office and is already off to the races
set it seems to be ready at a makeshift resolute
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desk at the Capitol One Arena to sign some executive orders.
Right now, there is an event at the Emancipation Hall.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is addressing the audience there,
and I think that the President will be making an
appearance there before coming up in a little while at
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the he will briefly addressed at the Capital Wan Arena
and sign some executive orders off to the races.
Speaker 2 (01:41:06):
But did he hit the right marks?
Speaker 1 (01:41:08):
You know, some points in the speech I would hear
him say, I eye, I this, I that in a
way that didn't seem as unifying.
Speaker 2 (01:41:17):
It seemed a little bit more centered toward himself. Maybe
that's acceptable, maybe it's not.
Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
I tend to think in an inaugural address it would
be best to steer a little bit clear of that.
On the other hand, he also was very agenda driven,
very focused on what he's trying to do and the
issues in a way that we don't also normally see
in a in an inaugural address, you get that more
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in a State of the Union address. Is that something
that in this case was appropriate, was the right way
to go about it? Or did that help it to
drag on a little bit. I'm kind of somewhere in
the middle here. I think he did overdo a little
bit of the policy stuff in this speech because it
is such a moment for the American people widely across
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the country watching on TV or hearing it on the
radio in a place like Koa, and you want to
bring people into the fold who are not as focused
on the nitty gritty issues, especially when across the country
people are really cold, they're inside at home, They're more
likely to be watching or listening to the festivities. So
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that makes sense to think about Didty overdo it, maybe.
Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
A little bit.
Speaker 18 (01:42:39):
Overall.
Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
I thought it was a decent speech, but it did
seem to go just a little bit long because of
that policy focus. I think, what are your thoughts? Five
six six nine zero. The text line three three seven
one three eighty five eighty five the telephone number President
Trump and Vice President Vance and their spouse is now
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at Emancipation Hall, and we are seeing that Vice President Vance,
the first millennial vice president and the first vice president since.
Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
Nineteen oh nine to have a beard.
Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
Interesting little factoid there now speaking at Emancipation Hall, followed
by President Trump just taking office. REO three seven one,
three eighty five eighty five five sixty six nine zero.
Speaker 2 (01:43:29):
The text line give us a call, shoot us a text.
Speaker 1 (01:43:32):
We'll also check in with Rashini Raj Kumar for some
postgame analysis. On the other side, I'm Jimmy Sangenberger in
for ros Kaminski on KOA Ray Charles may he rest
in peace, doing his version of America the Beautiful, and
I'm feeling in a very patriotic mood today and more
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than happy to hear a little Ray Charles bringing out
that inner patriot in all of us. Good morning, I'm
Jimmy Sanenberger in for Ross Kaminski Mandy Connell up at
noon and we have just opened the phones on the
KOA Common Spirit Health hotline at three zero three seven
one three eighty five eighty five. And just before we
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get to our guest, Rashini raj Kumar, host of the
Crisis Files podcast, I'd like to welcome Craig from Kiowa
onto the program.
Speaker 2 (01:44:28):
Craig, you're on with Jimmy and for Ross.
Speaker 26 (01:44:31):
Thank you, Jimmy, thanks for opening up the phone lines.
Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
You bet what's on your mind? Sir?
Speaker 7 (01:44:36):
I love the speech.
Speaker 26 (01:44:37):
You know it might be an oversimplification, but it was
kind of a this there's a new sheriff intent. It's
going to be end to the lawlessness under the Biden administration.
It's going to be an end to the left policies
that he stood for and get this country back to
where its founders intended.
Speaker 1 (01:44:57):
Do you think I'm remarked in the last half hour
Craig about how he was very agenda and policy driven
in this speech, seemingly more so than a typical inaugural address.
Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
Do you think he leaned into that too much?
Speaker 1 (01:45:11):
It sounds like you believe even for an inaugural address,
was that right marker to say, I am the new
sheriff is in town, as you mentioned, and I'm ready
to get to work.
Speaker 8 (01:45:22):
Yes, entirely.
Speaker 26 (01:45:24):
That's those of us that voted for him. This is
what we wanted. It's entirely what we wanted.
Speaker 1 (01:45:31):
Now, real quick, Craig, before I let you go. One
of the things to me, of course, about an inaugural
address is it is a moment for the entire country,
regardless of whether you voted for Trump or not. He's
now the president of the United States, and so there's
often an expectation that it will be a unifying address.
Do you think that he brought in that sense of
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unity or was it I'm this is my agenda, and
whether you voted for me or not, I'm barnstorming ahead
with it.
Speaker 26 (01:46:02):
Well, as you recall, Biden said he was going to
be unifier, and he was not very true. Trump if
if he truly wants to do what he says he
wants to do, it's not going to make everybody happy. Therefore,
for him to say he's going to be a unifier,
he did say he is. He wants justice equally for
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all and you know, that's how it.
Speaker 5 (01:46:26):
Should be.
Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
Very true.
Speaker 1 (01:46:29):
Hey, Craig, I appreciate you giving us a call. Thank
you so much at three zero three seven one three eighty.
Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
Five eighty five.
Speaker 1 (01:46:37):
We are open to chatting with you if you want
to join in to the festivities. As we turn back
to Rashini Raj Kumar, who joined us just before the
inaugural festivities got underway with the swearing in of Vice
President Vance and then President Trump, and then of course
the inaugural address and a slew of benedictions and prayers
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from the likes of Archbishop Timothy Dolan to the Reverend
Franklin Graham and more. Rashini Rajskumar, host of the Crisis
Files podcast and a crisis strategist. Rashini, thanks for rejoining us.
What is your reaction to the day's events so far?
Big picture?
Speaker 12 (01:47:21):
Well, you know, it was really interesting to see all
of those people in that kind of crammed in space
due to the weather moving the event inside. But I
think it also was neat from just the observer's standpoint,
where you could really see the faces of people. They
weren't spread across the steps of the capital outside, maybe
getting lost in each other. We could really see as
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the American people, all of these leaders, Supreme Court justices, others,
certainly political friends and political foes, having to be right
there side by side, and in some cases Brennan Barrett
in other cases very obviously jubilant. Today. This was really
the closest thing that the United States has to anything
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kind of regal. And of course we left the England
so that we wouldn't have a monarchy, but this is
the closest to that big pomp and circumstance. I think
it delivered on that. I will say, you know, I'm
kind of there with Craig kinda not. I think President
Trump's speech went on a little too long because he
started to get into the real jobs. And I have
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no problem with him being critical. I am happy to
have a new sheriff in town if it's going to
mean a safer America and more people have a shot
at the American dream. But I don't know that this
was the place for those real, visceral, direct frontal attacks,
especially when former President Biden is hitting right there, like
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six inches away from you. So that's one of the
things that I would have said if I were part
of writing that speech. I might have taken some of
those things out and focused on the very emotional, powerful language.
I mean, he started with the Golden Age of America
begins right now, and he had some other very salient,
powerful quotes that I think could have been a great
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clothes and wrap up. But then he kind of went on,
So that would.
Speaker 4 (01:49:15):
Be just me.
Speaker 12 (01:49:15):
You know, It's what I do. I talk about and
analyze strategic speech, and this was one of those, certainly,
so I might have got a little different direction. Overall,
I'd probably give him a seven to eight on a
scale of one to ten. His delivery, however, was one
of the better I've seen as far as keeping a
calm yeah, steady, you know that kind of pacing was
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actually quite good.
Speaker 1 (01:49:38):
A couple of texts that I would welcome your thoughts
on Rashini Raj Kumar five six six nine zero the
KOA Common Spirit health text line. People need to be
focused on the nitty gritty issues. That is why I
was more than acceptable for President Trump to take the
policy root in his speech, this is America's wake up call.
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And then Carter and Levelin goes on to say that
this country is at a downward spiral since Biden, President
Trump means business and that's exactly what this country needs.
I'm in my early twenties and I could not be
more fired up for the next four years of America.
And then the next one text coming in, he came
out swinging, not unifying. I'm okay with getting down to business,
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but some of the punches seemed misplaced, like McKinley, what's
the point, what do you make of that?
Speaker 11 (01:50:27):
RASHENI yeah, I think those really good analysis from that
last texture there, you might not want to come out like,
as Craig pointed out, Biden said he was a unifier
and he did not unify.
Speaker 12 (01:50:39):
I'm not saying I wanted to see that. Trump had
to be all about unity. He did have to be
about inspiration.
Speaker 1 (01:50:46):
He did that.
Speaker 12 (01:50:47):
He did have to be honest. He did that, But
there was kind of state of the Union esque pieces
in this. The inaugural address goes down in history long
after all of us die, and I would say the
first ten to twelve minutes of this one, that transcript
is absolutely worthy of going down in history. The next
twelve to eighteen minutes a little iffy on how much
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of that history is going to look at and say, wow,
what a powerful inaugural speech, because it is a moment
in time, but it's a moment in time that matters.
Now you're going to get President Trump is saying he's
going to get to the work, get to the nitty
gritty sign those different executive orders, maybe do some pardons,
whatnot is going to happen, and that's fine, but this
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speech still needed to be that powerful message, which is
the overview of what you're going to do with these
next four years. He had a lot of that, but
I could have done with I could have done out
without some of the other parts.
Speaker 1 (01:51:48):
Rashini Roskamar joining us if you want to join into
the conversation. Three zero three seven one, three eighty five
eighty five our number, as we have opened up the
phone lines for the rest of the show, I would say,
just sort of a last thing on the speech, and
then I want to get to the big news of
the day that Biden left behind, which is the pardons
of his family and of other selected individuals. When we
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look at this speech and the moment in time. While
I appreciate and recognize what you just said, Rashenie, and
I think that's a very apt analysis of what we
look for in an inaugural address. At the same time,
this could be said to be a moment in time
where Trump is saying, I'm the president who's going to
get to work.
Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
I was out for four years.
Speaker 1 (01:52:33):
You've got me back in office, and I'm hitting the
ground running.
Speaker 2 (01:52:37):
And that's kind of the tone.
Speaker 1 (01:52:39):
That he was setting, the expectation that he was setting
for this moment. That differs maybe from other moments where
you have a president who was just re elected for
a second term after a first term in office. What
do you think of that sort of perspective, Well, he did.
Speaker 10 (01:52:55):
I mean, it was very clear.
Speaker 12 (01:52:56):
I don't think unless you're sleeping under a rock somewhere,
I think you know what Trump stands for. So he
hit that and emphasize that, put the double exclamation point
on that, and you're at the very top of his
speech today, and the number of details he gave were fine.
I love I love the visuals of the kinds of
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things you're going to do immediately. You're going to close
the southern border. Okay, I bet a lot of people
on the southern border were cheering as well as elsewhere.
But some of the other jabs are what I'm really
getting at he did not need to do because we
know who Donald Trump is. Now, don't be a bunch
of flash. That's the thing when you say too much,
you also have a lot on the record now that
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you could be held accountable for. So my whole point,
as you know me all these years, less is more,
and you want to leave your audience wanting more. And
that's really my point on this inaugural address. Now, I'm
very excited to see what he does versus what he
just told.
Speaker 8 (01:53:57):
Us he would do again.
Speaker 1 (01:53:58):
Rashini Raskamara, sc suite advisor, licensed attorney, host of The
Crisis Files. We'll get to the Biden part in here
in just a moment, but I want to go back
to the KOA Common Spirit Health hotline with listener calls
at three zero three seven one three eighty five eighty five.
As we welcome Gary in Denver. Gary, you're on with
Jimmy as well as Rashini.
Speaker 8 (01:54:20):
Oh hi, Jimmy, I have a question for you and Rashim.
You know, during the campaign, you understand that Trump tended
to exaggerate and mislead people to vote for him, and
I'm wondering, I'm sure that he was provided today's speech,
and one thing that irritates me with Trump is he
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misleads his constituents and he must think we're stupid when
he said he's going to create this external revenue service. Yeah,
he said, who will collect tariffs from foreign countries? Well,
we all know that foreign countries don't pay tariffs. Importers pay.
(01:55:05):
That's true, So why did the state Why do you
think he said something? You must think we're stupid.
Speaker 1 (01:55:12):
So Gary, thanks for the call. Three zero three seven
one three eighty five eighty five. L offer a point
and then turn it over to Rashini. I would say
this was the part that I most disliked of the speech.
Trump is way wrong when it comes to trade and
consistently misrepresents it.
Speaker 2 (01:55:28):
He certainly did so in his address.
Speaker 1 (01:55:30):
I would agree with you there this idea of an
external revenue service. I guess it's just creating an agency
to track progress on terraffs when you already have a
government agency. I don't know what enity collects tariffs, but
when they collect it from businesses that are importing products
into the United States, they're collecting it. It's already being done,
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and it is businesses that do it. So when it
comes to the trade issue, I mean across the board,
he's misrepresenting how that operates here. But I think that's
sort of it's what you get from Trump when it
comes to the issue of trade and Rashini, it's something
that we've gotten from Trump really going back to the
nineteen eighties when he particularly was talking about Japan screwing
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over the United States, and now China is the main one.
Speaker 12 (01:56:19):
Yes, And we also have to remember how things work.
The power of the purse is in the hands of
the United States Congress. So in order to even impose
any kind of tariffs or levees, that is not the
job of the executive branch, not the job of the president.
The president can say I want this to happen, but
they're working. The person in the President's office is then
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working with or his team is working with Congress to
get that out there. So on various levels, not only
a process but constitution, he's off. He's inaccurate, And I
think why he does it is because it sounds good
to a certain part of his base and his followers
and the people that don't like this act that a
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lot of our resources are going abroad. So he tended
to put it in this speech. Jimmy, I agree with
you there. What we now need to see is the
fourth estate. The media needs to keep everybody honest on
this and actually report what's happening and things are going
to go through or things are going to not go through.
The Congress when this type of topic comes up.
Speaker 1 (01:57:22):
As we wrap up with your Rashmi raj Kumar, I
want to talk about the Biden pardons. So the news
just came out today of two different significant pardons. One
just while the inauguration festivities were going on. President former
President Biden, still president at the time, pardoned several members
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of his family and going back to January first, twenty fourteen,
the same blanket time frame as Hunter Biden. This very
curious that, of course the president, former president's son, very
curiously happening over dealings that Hunter had been doing over
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in with China and with Ukraine and so forth, very
very questionable in that respect. And then Anthony Fauci, General
Mark Milly and members of the committee that investigated January sixth.
These pardons, Rashini Rajkumar, to me, are deeply troubling. They
set a precedent that now Trump could run with in
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his own way, and I don't think we're going.
Speaker 2 (01:58:28):
To be able to turn back the clock on this one.
Speaker 17 (01:58:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (01:58:31):
If there was anything absolutely non presidential that Biden left
his office as the exclamation point for his term as president,
it is those pardons. I had a huge issue when
we found out weeks ago that he was partying his son.
That was absolutely reprehensible. This is beyond disgusting. And guess
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what I looked at the order and if what I
was looking at is correct, the date of the pardons
for his family actually January nineteenth, Sunday. This did not
break until today.
Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
Oh why was that?
Speaker 12 (01:59:09):
That's a whole other issue. And it didn't get into
the news cycle until it happened to just look where
I saw it. It's not on x. Someone had put
out a post with the actual language, the picture and
image of the pardon and I read it and I
looked at the daylight and I wanted to text you,
but you were watching this?
Speaker 20 (01:59:28):
Have you seen this?
Speaker 12 (01:59:29):
Did I miss this news?
Speaker 25 (01:59:30):
No?
Speaker 12 (01:59:31):
It was allowed to only be released by whomever released it.
So this is reporters, I'm asleep on the job. This
should have broken yesterday and it's absolutely beyond yeah wow.
I mean if we already had like his legacy is
going to go down as one of the worst presidents ever.
(01:59:51):
This is just such an insult to the American people.
Speaker 1 (01:59:54):
And that's on top of declaring the twenty eighth Amendment
to be a thing with equal Rights Amendment when it
didn't follow the proced like it's not actually the case,
just because Biden said so. And it is rather astonishing
to leave that mark, especially after his presidency was supposed
to be all about preventing the dictatorial regimes and authoritarianism
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and all this stuff that supposedly was the threat of
Donald Trump, who's now the forty seventh president of the
United States. Quite stirring, Rashini raj Kumar, we got to
leave it there. Really appreciate your analysis and perspective and
joining us today, and I encourage folks to check out
your podcast, the Crisis Files, the crisisfiles dot com and
(02:00:38):
in all the podcast apps, including the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (02:00:42):
Thanks Jimmy, Thank you once again, Rashini raj Kumar joining
us on the program. And look, this is a remarkable day.
I've used the word.
Speaker 1 (02:00:52):
Significant to describe the inauguration throughout the program. I think
it sticks here and there's a lot to talk about
and a lot for Mandy Connell to talk about and
cover from twelve to three, Mandy, good morning. What a
whirlwind day so far, and we're not even halfway through
the day, are.
Speaker 24 (02:01:12):
We got I gotta tell you, Jimmy, I mean, you
weren't on the air, so I don't think you got
to listen to the speech uninterrupted. I'm guessing, but it
was as far as like policy positions that I wanted
him to address. Boy, he brought the wood man, he
was ready, and I think it was one of the
most unabashedly pro American, pro America speeches that I've heard from.
Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
A really long time.
Speaker 24 (02:01:37):
And I'm excited to get everybody's feedback on that, find
out what everybody's thinking and what their hopes and aspirations are.
And then of course we got to talk about the
freaking Pardons. Oh my goodness, what the deuce was That's
Anybody who keeps telling me that Joe Biden is a
nice guy is so oblivious to what just happened today.
Speaker 1 (02:01:56):
This guy just set a precedent, more multiple precedents.
Speaker 2 (02:02:00):
I was talking about the twenty eighth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (02:02:02):
Nonsense, too multiple precedents for Trump to take the ball
and run with, and I don't want him to take
the ball and run with these presidents. But Joe Biden
just opened the door in a way no former president
could have ever done.
Speaker 24 (02:02:15):
Because you are absolutely right, and obviously we're gonna be
talking about this as I happen to be broadcasting from
beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (02:02:23):
More on that in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (02:02:24):
Beautiful Mandy Conne up from noon to three right here
on KOA.
Speaker 2 (02:02:30):
Thank you so much for joining me.
Speaker 1 (02:02:31):
Check out my website Jimmy Sangenburger dot com. Remember there's
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the harmonica a tee up for Mandy Connell to have
some fun at noon. Have a great one, stay warm
and safe out there, and may God bless America at
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the time.
Which is a two pronged day, by which I mean
it is, of course inauguration day. This is a significant
moment for the United States because it is another peaceful
transfer of power. And say what you will about four
years ago, there was a peaceful transfer of power at
that time in two thousand and twenty one. Well, now
(00:24):
here we are where Joe Biden is handing it back
to Donald Trump. And of course the second big thing
about today is that it is the day on which
we recognize remember an honor Martin Luther King Junior, the
Reverend doctor Martin Luther King Junior, I should say, who,
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of course, was one of the most significant men really
in the history of this country and certainly in the
history of the civil rights movement. So many powerful, important,
i'll say, critical lessons from MLK. And we will spend
a little bit of time recollecting on his life in
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legacy later on in the program, as well as best
we can amidst a very busy news day.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
As you see now, we see.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Across the country the preparations made for the inauguration of
Donald D. J. Trump, the first president since eighteen ninety
two with Grover Cleveland to be elected for a second
non consecutive term, and the moment is a big one.
(01:40):
Last night, President Trump took to a rally in Washington,
DC with his supporters, with a great many people, including
I should say that the Village people. We've got a
sample of that as they performed live. The YMCA will
share in just a bit. But President Trump did address
(02:01):
the crowd yesterday, and here's a little excerpt of what
he had to say at that time.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I want to especially thank you all for being here
on the eve of one of the most important days
in the history of our country, the day we save
our nation and begin to make America great again. I'm
thrilled to share this special moment with so many friends
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and supporters.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
You are a very extraordinary crowd of people.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You're the men and women who help make this moment
to stay possible, and I'm incredibly grateful for your love
and support and generosity.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Been amazing.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Our journey has not been an easy one, as you
perhaps have seen, a lot of people said that was
an impossible journey.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
But here we are, and we stuck together through every challenge.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
An obstacle, and we stood strong for our country and
for our freedom. And this is not my victory. This
is our victory. Everybody in this room, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That was President elect Trump soon to be in just
a matter of moments, the President of the United States,
the United States Supreme Court is walking into the Capitol
and you can hear the pomp and circumstance in the
background there. It is a momentous occasion. Whenever you have
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inauguration day come upon us. It's a significant moment for
the country, not just because it's a peaceful transfer of power,
but it's a symbolic of the democratic system, the republican
small r form of.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Government that we have in this great nation.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Leaders across the country and around the globe filing into
the rotunda of the United States Capital as President to
be Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Ready's his speech. He will be speaking.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
In Oh, we estimate around I think forty minutes or
so from now and being sworn in just before that.
We will bring you live coverage throughout the festivities right
here on KOA again. Jimmy Sangenberger filling in for Ross Kaminski.
This is one of those things too that you see
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the bipartisan spirit of folks from across the aisle come
in to recognize this moment, former presidents and former vice
presidents in the hall.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
World leaders.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Javier Milay of Argentina one prime example. He's in fact
seen in some quarters as sort of a Donald Trump
of Latin America. He is leading the charge in making
remarkable strides for limiting governments, for shrinking it, for advancing
the ball economically. In Argentina, he's gotten inflation under control,
(05:02):
and inflation there as far beyond anything we could imagine
here in the United States. And needless to say, he
is there, and you have, of course members to be
of President elect Trump's cabinet who are in the hall,
and United States senators, dignitaries from the world of business
(05:25):
like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, both there at the
inaugural festivities. Again in the Capitol rotunda, I was watching
a snippet of Ronald Reagan speaking in nineteen eighty five
and at his inaugural addresses, the last time that they
did one indoors as opposed to outdoors because of the weather.
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As I understand it, this is the second coldest inauguration
after that one in nineteen eighty five. Of course, security
concerns almost certainly have to be one of the actors
coming into play here. But when Reagan spoke in eighty five,
everybody in the room was standing up around him. He
was standing it was it was a different sort of
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setup than what they have now. Where there is a podium.
There are people all around. The Trump family walking in
right now to see their father, their grandfather gets worn
in again for the second time as president, and of
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course with an agenda that he is ready to kick
into high gear. It is very different from four years
ago when he wasn't a president before. Now he has
the experience of not just four years in office, but
four years out of office to ponder and think through
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what am I going to do? What do I want
to do differently, how do I want to approach my administration?
And that, my friends, is a gift that no other
president has had in well over one hundred years, well
over one hundred years, being able to assess and evaluate
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your first term and take some time and hit the
ground running for a second term.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And you can hear the music.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
It just puts you.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
In a peppy, patriotic mood, doesn't it When you hear
this and you know, okay, this is a significant moment, and.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That's gonna be my word of the day.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Significant for the United States of America, for this great
country that has been a beacon of freedom and liberty
for the world for gosh, almost two hundred and fifty years.
An extraordinary milestone. Next year will mark the what is it?
(07:48):
I always forget when you get to a middle of
a century what that's called, But then you have the
two centuries. So we're two hundred and fifty years next year,
and so to think about that in the context of
today's moment of Inauguration Day, and then also to reflect
on the strides that we have made as a people
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in the United States of America since Martin Luther King
Junior in the nineteen sixties and his assassination, and the
strides that we have made as a society towards expanding
freedom and liberty to people across demographics, racial groups, ethnic groups,
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religious groups, gender. A real powerful moment of reflection will,
I think be called for today, not just for an inauguration,
but for that legacy of Reverend Martin Luther King Junior.
(08:53):
You can hear there. This land was made for you
and me. Makes you want to sing along, doesn't it? Beautiful?
Beautiful piano. More dignitaries taking their seats now in the
Capitol rotunda. We will bring you live coverage throughout the
(09:15):
ceremony of what is happening in Washington, d C. Here
on KOA, I'm Jimmy Sangenberger filling in for ros Kaminski.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Don't go anywhere, let me tell you that.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But that is a little bit of history you were
hearing right there Stevie rayvaugh live in nineteen eighty nine
for George H. W.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Now, the inauguration of Donald J. Trump is in a
matter of moments. I think in about half an hour.
We will less than that twenty minutes or so. And
you can hear as dignitaries continue to move in here
(09:58):
they I'm that they just announced the kids of the president,
including Tiffany and Baron. What's happening. And now they've got
Don Junior and is that Vanka? So the family is
coming in. What they have in the setup in the
rotunda is a podium with an entry behind the podium,
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and people have been filing in from their major dignitaries,
former Presidents Bush and Clinton and Obama all filing in.
Now the Trump family making their way in you can
see here the again pomp and circumstance of.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The whole affair.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Laura Trump and Eric Trump, Ivanka and Jared Kushner.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
What a moment for the family.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
They have been through a lot, Like Trump or not
love him or hate him, The family of the soon
to be president and former president has been through a
lot through the ringer over the past four years, really
longer than that.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
But especially the last four.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And here they are again ready to see their father
sworn in for the second time and making history in
doing so. What's unique about this affair as well is
that we are seeing people inside in the rotunda, so
the setup is very different.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It doesn't have.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The expansive.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Aspect of you know, you're outside on the National Mall
and the president is going to speak and do an
address to the massive crowd.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It's more intimate than that. But there's also something.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That still feels uniquely American and presidential about it all,
every little bit that you can feel it from the
music that's playing. This is why music is so important
and so powerful in anything. It sets the tone, it
sets the mood, It gets you feeling things that include
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a sense of patriotism, include a sense of history, excitement
and energy, at least that's.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
What I feel when that happens.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And then you see leaders from across the political spectrum,
in some from around the world, gathered together for a
unifying moment that will.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Surely escorting doctor Biden and mister m Hoff, the Republican
staff director of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies,
Miss Emily Leviner, the Senate Secretary for the Minority, the
Honorable Gary Myrick, the House of Representatives Chief Administrative Officer,
the Honorable Catherine Spindor, and mister Bruce Fisher.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Could here as the second gentleman and first lady about
to be escorted into the rotunda.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Doctor Jill Biden and mister Douglas m Hoff.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Shannon Scott, producer extraordinair, making an observation that right behind
Baron Trump are the three eight big tech moguls of
Musk Cinder is it, the CEO of Google and Jeff
Bezos all gathered together right before Baron, Doctor Jill Biden
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and Doug m Hoff, both entering in and ready to
take their seats, shaking some hands again. The bipart is
in display here as everybody comes in from all walks
of the political life. You've got the United States Supreme
Court with Chief Justice John Roberts and the other justices there.
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I didn't get a full count to see if everyone
is there, but a solid majority of the Supreme Court
has agreed to come and attend the inauguration, the second
inauguration of President Donald J.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Trump. We will take a break on.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
The other side the swearing in ceremony and the inaugural
address number two for Donald J. Trump, and we'll get
some perspective on what we can expect, what we'd like
to expect from Communication Pro Extraordinaire Rashini Raj Kumars. We continue.
We're just getting rolling on this inauguration day. I'm Jimmy
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Sangenberger in for ros Kaminski on KOA give a motivational speech.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris their last minutes,
thank goodness as President and Vice President of the United States.
Now walking in to the Capital rotunda as well as
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I see Hakim Jeffries, and I'm not sure who the
lady along with him is, but he is, of course
the Senate at the House Minority leader walking in as well.
Or heading over to the rotunda. Room that is about
to be entered at the National Anthem is being sung.
(16:03):
Jimmy Sangenberger once again here with you in for Ross
Kominski and joined on the phone by the host of
Ryan Schuling live on our sister station k HOW.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Which I'll be hosting later.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And he is the guy, the man who is there
in Washington, d C. For iHeart Denver in the Capital
One Arena.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Ryan, welcome, brother.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Jimmy yees Like Teddy Roosevelt, I am the man in
the arena and I could not be more honored to
be providing big coverage here on Higheart Denver. As Christopher
Macchio is singing a prelude for all of the festivities,
and as you mentioned, the dicotaries walking in getting set
for President Trump's entrance in mere moments. We are set
(16:53):
up here in an arena that holds nearly twenty thousand
and Jimmy is a bount pack to the rafters.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I'm in this second level, the two hundred level, and
the upper level is quickly filling in people that have
been waiting in line. For myself. It was four hours
from five to twenty am Eastern time until about nine
to twenty am Eastern time, and there were people Jimmy
that were camped out overnight in front of.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Me in line.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
They're in the one hundred level. They earned it, and
it was just a fascinating experience to get into the arena.
Only twenty thousand will be held here, Oliver, out of
about one hundred thousand I think that had originally wanted
to gather on the mall that will be shut down.
There will be no jumbo trons, There will be no
people allowed on the mall between the US Capitol and
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the Washington Monument. So President Trump will be giving his
inaugural address and being sworn in, of course, and then
he will make his way over to this arena where
Jimmy I set you a photo there is a makeshift
resolute desk where he will presumably be signing his first
executive orders of his presidency, his second presidency.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That is remarkable, Ryan, Just one last thing and then
we'll check in with you after the inaugural address of
President Trump. What is the atmosphere like in that room?
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Electric, positive, very aspirational. That reacting you here right there
is upon seeing Donald Trump on the jumpos on here
at Capital One Arena live and.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Washing the DC people rising to their feet a standing
ovation really chills. This is a tremendous culmination of emotion
in this moment, and I have to stand myself just
to be able to see the chance of USA are
breaking out as the soon to be forty seventh President
the United States makes his way to the electorn So
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just an unbelievable atmosphere, Jimmy, interesting historic moment, and we.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Will check in with Ryan Schuling live from the Capital
One Arena after the address. I want to go now
for a couple of minutes before President Trump is sworn
in and Vice President Vance is sworn an end to
Rashinie Roskamar, Crisis Strategists, c suite advisor, license attorney, host
of the Crisis Files podcast. Rashini is is always welcome.
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First of all, Happy inauguration Day and happy MLK Day.
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It is always a remarkable.
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Occasion to see this transfer of power.
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Is it not, my friend, It really is, And it's
really the closest thing we have to anything somewhat regal.
Speaker 12 (19:26):
There's a lot of pomp and circumstance. Military in their
full regalia, members of the Supreme Court. You know all
of the leaders, the who's who, not only of governmental leaders,
but as it turns out today many of the business
leaders of American corporations that are global entities. They're sitting
there with their spouses or galpal I mean, it's a
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hot ticket, and especially more so because this thing went indoors.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And Milania Trump first Lady to Be and of course
former First Lighty now returning, has just walked in and
situated herself next to.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
A very very tall baron Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
When we look at this moment, what are you expecting
or looking for from President Trump in his speech? I
would really like.
Speaker 12 (20:16):
To see positivity from the now newly elected, re elected
President Trump, because that's really what the country needs. I mean,
your colleague who's live down there in that arena, he
was saying, it's electric, Well, let's build on that electricity.
And yes, there are a lot of people and you
could see by some of the expressions on faces that
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walked in that aren't happy. Wish it would have gone
the other way. But today's a day to renew the
United States of America and look ahead to something that
could be really great.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You can hear in the background it is the song,
the theme song for the President of the United States
as now president elect. President to be Donald J. Trump
is about to walk in behind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,
the outgoing president and Vice president, respectively. And one thing
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noteworthy here, Rashine, is that Donald Trump did not attend
Joe Biden's inaugural address. Biden attending Trump's inaugural address after
an electional outcome that had.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
A little less acrimony. Actually, let's listen for a moment.
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Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, mister Michael Wagner, Senate Deputy Sergeant
at Arms and doorkeeper Jason Bell, and House Deputy Sergeant
at Arms mister Sean Keating.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That is the committee or the group that is escorting
President elect Donald Trump into the room.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Let's listen for a.
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Moment, ladies in joi the Vice President elect of the
United States, the Honorable JD.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Vance Rashini Raj Kumars.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
We await President Elect Trump being announced or real quick
thought from you.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
Well, it is the time that all of these leaders
can really show civility, professionalism, and truly leadership because there
are a lot of people who aren't happy that the
result went this way, and there are some who are
ecstatic and they're all in that same room, which just
shows you we can do it. We as Americans, can disagree,
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can have different players in the ring, and no matter
what the result, the outcome, we can all stand there
and get along and respect the fact that this is
the inauguration. One of the most beautiful things about today
is that this date, January twentieth, is in our United
States Constitution, Yes, Jimmy, and nothing, not even the weather
the coldness bringing it inside in Washington, DC, changes that.
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And that's continuity back to the founders of this country.
And that is a beautiful thing.
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Yes it is.
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And it's one of those things about America that makes
our country, our nation so special. I mean, even with
twenty twenty as it was, you still have that peaceful
transfer of power.
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Here we go.
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Listen, President Elect, the staff Director for the Joint Congressional
Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, Elizabeth Farrah House Sergeant at Arms,
the Honorable William P. McFarland, Senate Sergeant at Arms and doorkeeper,
the Honorable Jennifer A. Hemingway Senate Majority Leader, the Honorable
John Thune, and the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.
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House Democratic Leader, the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, House Majority Leader,
the Honorable Steve Scalise, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
the Honorable Mike Johnson, Senate Democratic Leader, the Honorable Charles E. Schumer,
Ranking Member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies,
The Honorable Deb Fisher and Chairwoman of the Joint Congressional
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Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Amy Klobashar.
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President Elect Donald Trump about to walk in to the
rotunda where he will be sworn in, I believe after
Vice President Elect J. D. Vance Is, and of course
President Trump will be sworn in by the Chief Justice
of the United States.
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The President's Elect of the United States, the Honorable Donald
John Trump.
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Rashini ras Kumar As President Elect Donald Trump walks out
into the rotunda. Let's talk for just a moment about
what we would hope for from his speech.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
A little bit more.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Had a listener text on the koa comment spirit heal
text line five six six nine zero, say Jimmy, no
doubt Trump's speech will be full of doom, and gloom.
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That's his calling card.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
We did hear him talk about American carnage last time.
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What are you expecting or hoping for this time?
Speaker 12 (25:34):
Well, this is a very different time. He's coming in
on a major display, right, I mean, it's a very
different scene. I would be surprised if it's human gloom,
and that would not be my recommendation if he had
asked me. Dooming gloom is not for today. Look at
all those smiling people, a lot of people who disagree
with each other, all in one place.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
There.
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For Donald Trump, this is what he should jump off of.
This jubilation in the room across parts of the country.
Certainly not everyone agrees with the result, but it doesn't matter.
Today is the inauguration of the forty seventh president, and
let's hope it can be a day we're healing as
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well as celebration.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yes, and we just saw President elect Trump and President
Joe Biden shaking hands and smiling. They are both on
opposite sides behind the podium as the ceremony, the inaugural
ceremonies are about to begin. And look, I mean this
is at the moment that I've been using the words
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significant and it is significant. It is one of those
moments that matters a lot for this country, no matter
where you are at in that respect politically. Just as
Rashini raj Kumar was saying, Rashini, We're gonna let you
go for now, but I'll look forward to getting your
analysis after the inaugural address of President Trump.
Speaker 12 (27:04):
Absolutely, Jimmy, have fun.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Thank you you as well.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Once again Rashini raj Kumar joining us on the program.
She'll be back offering some analysis after. Let's listen a
little bit. As the ceremony begins with prayer.
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President elect Fance will take their oes of office and
we will witness the peaceful transfer of power at the
heart of our democracy.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Or rather, opening remarks from Senator am Klobuchar of Minnesota.
Speaker 13 (27:33):
For the past year, I've chaired the Inaugural Ceremony Committee,
which includes the leadership of Congress from both parties. We
thank the committee and Capital staff and law enforcement who
worked so hard over the last year and especially the
last three days. You've done a beautiful job, and you
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have shown grace under pressure. Our theme this year is
our enduring democracy. The presidence of so many presidents and
vice presidents here today is truly a testament to that endurance.
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We welcome President Biden and Doctor Biden. We welcome Vice
President Harris and Doug Elmahoff, President Obama, President Clinton and
Secretary Clinton, President Bush and Laura Bush, Vice President Pence,
Vice President Quail, and Maryland Quail. The Justices of the
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United States Supreme Court are with us, all nine of
them I counted, and of course the Trump and Vance families.
This ceremony marks what will soon be two hundred and
fifty years of our democracy. It is the moment when
leaders elevated by the will of the people, promised to
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be faithful to our concert institution, to cherish and defend it.
It is the moment when they become, as we all
should be, the guardians of our country, through war and peace,
through adversity and prosperity. We hold this inauguration every four years,
and today it falls on Martin Luther King Day, a
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further reminder that we must strive to uphold the values
enshrined in our Constitution, the freedoms, the liberties, and as
is inscribed on the entrance of the United States Supreme Court,
equal justice under law. But what makes this moment more
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than a passing ceremony is all who are watching it
across the country, the people of this nation, the ordinary
people doing extraordinary things. President Kennedy, who at once point
worked as a senator in this building and would often
walk through this very rotunda one said, in a democracy,
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every citizen, regardless of interest in politics, holds office. Every
one of us is in a position of responsibility. With
that responsibility of citizenship comes in obligation not to seek
out malice, as President Lincoln once reminded us, but to
view others with a generosity of spirit despite our differences.
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With that responsibility of leadership comes in obligation to stand
our ground when we must, and find common ground when
we can. With everything swirling around us, the hot mess
of division, it is on all of us, to quote
an incredible songwriter who just happened to be born in
my state, to ensure that our nation's democracy is our
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shelter from the storm. There's a reason this ceremony takes
place at the capitol. In other countries, it might be
in a presidential palace or a gilded executive office building. Here,
it is traditionally held at the capitol.
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The people's house.
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It is a fitting reminder of the system of checks
and balances that is the very foundation of our government,
three equal branches of government.
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That is how for.
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Nearly two hundred and fifty years, our great American experiment,
grounded in the rule of law, has endured. So as
we inaugurate a new president and vice president, let us
remember that the power of those in this room comes.
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From the people.
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The construction workers who build our country, the teachers and
healthcare workers who nurture us, the troops defending our freedoms,
and yes, the firefighters in Los Angeles putting themselves on
the line.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You are listening live to the big festivities.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
It is inauguration day.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
This is the co chair I think she is of
the Inaugural Committee, which is the committee that puts on
the inauguration. This is Senator Amy Klobaschar of Minnesota, who
of course ran for President of the United States and
the Democratic primary. Was it this last go around, Gosh,
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time all blends together, or was it in twenty sixteen?
It was not this time, but twenty twenty, that is
when she ran in twenty twenty against Kamala Harris and
Joe Biden. But this is a moment where bipartisanship is
really on display because she is a Democrat. She is
one of the top Democrats in the United States Senate,
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and she is addressing the nation here to help begin
the festivities.
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An institution and a nation.
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Our founders wrote the Constitution so that America could withstand
all the twists and turns of time.
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They wrote it to guide us and.
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To preserve forever our right of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. But as much as the truths and
principles enshrined in our Constitution remained the same, our democracy
promises the American people the power to change, to chart
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their own destiny. That's the beauty, that is the importance
of democracy. It allows the endurance the permanence of a
nation through change.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
We are now listening to Senator Deb Fisher of Nebraska,
who is the other co chair for the Inaugural committee
that puts on the big inaugural celebration. We will be
hearing very shortly as JD. Vance sworn in as Vice President.
But let's listen a little bit more to Senator Deb Fisher.
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Inauguration ceremony, like all the others before it, it is
a celebration of our right to set our uniquely American course.
The past several years have been trying at times for
many many Americans, and also for the nations of the
free world that we humbly strive to lead. In November,
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Americans chose again to steer this nation towards greatness, the secure, safe,
and prosperous future that our founders envisioned.
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For all of us.
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And today we celebrate not only their to decision to
do so, but also the simple right and wisdom of
a free people to make their own choice so.
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That their nation might endure.
Speaker 15 (35:14):
And now allow me to welcome Archbishop Timothy Dolan and
Reverend Franklin Graham, who will deliver our invocation.
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Please rise, be still, and know that I am God,
supreme among the nations, supreme on the earth.
Speaker 17 (35:45):
Let us pray, remembering General George Washington on his knees
at Valley Forge, Recalling Abraham Lincoln at his second inaugural,
with malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness
in the right as God gives us to see the right.
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Remembering General George Patten's instructions to his soldiers as they
began the Battle of the bulls eight decades ago. Pray,
Pray when fighting, Pray alone, Pray with others. Pray by night,
pray by day. Observing the birthday of the Reverend Martin
Luther King, who warned, without God, our efforts turned to ashes,
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we blessed citizens of this one nation under God, humbled
by our claim that in God we trust, gather indeed
this inauguration day to pray for our President, Donald J. Trump,
his family, his advisers, his cabinet, his aspirations, his Vice president,
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for the Lord's blessings upon Joseph Biden, for our men
and women in uniform, for each other, whose hope Sir
stoked this new year, this inauguration day, we cannot air
in relying upon that prayer from the Bible upon which
our President will soon place his hand. An oath as
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we make our own the supplications of King Solomon for
wisdom as.
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He began his governance.
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God of our fathers and your wisdom, you set man
to govern your creatures, to govern and holiness and justice,
to render justice with integrity. Give our leader wisdom, for
he is your servant, aware of his own weakness and
brevity of life. If wisdom which comes not from you,
be not with him. He shall be held in no
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esteem sin wisdom from heavens, that she may be with him,
that he may know your designs. Please, God, bless America,
Please mend.
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Her every flaw.
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Were the God in whom we trust, who lives and
reigns forever and ever.
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Amen.
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That was Cardinal Dolan. Now we bring Reverend Franklin Graham.
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Mister President. The last four years, there are times, I'm
sure you thought it was pretty dark, but look what
God has done. We praise him and give him glory.
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Let us pray our Father and our God that has said,
blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. As
the Prophet Daniel prayed, blessed be the name of God
forever and ever. For wisdom and might his He changes
the times and the seasons. He removes kings, he raises
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up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge
to those who have understanding our Father. Today, as President
Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office, once again,
we come to say thank you, O Lord, our god Father.
When Donald Trump's enemies thought he was down and out,
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you and you alone saved his life and raised him
up with strength and power by your mighty hand. We
pray for President Trump that you'll watch over, protect, God,
direct him, give him your wisdom from your throne on high.
We asked that you would bless him and that our
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nation would be blessed through him. We also ask that
you would bless and protect Milagnia as first lady. We
thank you for the beauty, the warmth, and grace that
she shows not only to this nation, but to the
whole world. We thank you for Vice President elect JD.
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Vance and his wife Ushah and their young family. May
he be a strength to President Trump to stand beside him,
to hold up his arms like Aaron held up arms
of Moses. In the midst of battle, the prophet Samuel
reminded the people it was you that brought them up
from the land of Egypt, and he said, now stand still,
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that I may reason with you before the Lord. So, Father,
we take this moment to stand still, to remember the
great things that you have done for this nation. Thank
you for the protection, the bounty, the freedoms that we
so enjoy. We remember to keep our eyes fixed on you,
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and may our hearts be inclined to your voice. We
know that America can never be great again if we
turn our backs on you. We ask for your help,
and we pray all of this in the name of
the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, your Son,
my Savior, and our Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
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Amen, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Associate Justicekavanah to
administer the Vice Presidential Oath of Office.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Indeed, Justice Kavanagh.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Significant development when he was becoming a Supreme Court Justice,
will now offer the oath. As the man said to j. D.
Vance as Vice President of the United States. We just
saw Vance shake in the hands of him talking with
Cardinal Dolan. He will be the second Catholic Vice President
of the United States ever since Joe Biden, who was
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the first Catholic Vice president when he served as VP
under Barack Obama.
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Please raise your right hand and repeat after me that
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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That I will support and defend the Constitution of the.
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United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.
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Against all enemies foreign and domestic.
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That I will bear true faith, That I will bear
true faith and allegiance to the same, and allegiance to
the same that I take this obligation freely.
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That I take this obligation freely.
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Without any mental reservation.
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Without any mental reservation.
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Or purpose of evasion or purpose of evasion, And that
I will well and faithfully discharge.
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And that I will well and faithfully.
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Discharge the duties of the office, the duties of the
office on which I am about to enter, on which
I'm about to enter.
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So help me, God, So help me God.
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Congratulations, mister Brice present.
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It's the top of the hour, ten o'clock mountain time
noon on the East Coast.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
You're on KOA.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Jd Vance now the Vice President of the United States.
I'm Jimmy Sangenberger, filling in for Ross Kaminski throughout the
inauguration and of course until noon. As we now prepare
for the swearing in of Donald J. Trump as President
of the United States for the second time.
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Chief Justice Roberts to administer the presidential oath of office.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
The Chief Justice of the United States is always the
man who gives the uh leads the President in the
swearing in. And Chief Justice John Roberts, who was put
onto the bench as Chief Justice by George W.
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Bush, who's the right hand and repeat after me, I,
Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear, I.
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Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
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That I will faithfully execute that.
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I will faithfully execute the office the President of the
United States, the office of President of the United States.
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And will to the best of my ability.
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And will, to the best of my ability.
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Preserve, protect and defend, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution
of the United States, the Constitution of the United States.
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So help me, God, So help me God.
Speaker 20 (44:20):
Congratulations, pacify.
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Donald J.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Trump, now the President of the United States. I counted
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seven shots from the canons. Eighth there called to the
chief the new president about to offer his remarks, the
first president since eighteen ninety two to serve a second
non consecutive term, the previous president being Grover Cleveland. In
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that respect, no matter how you feel about Donald Trump,
this is and additionally a big historic moment.
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Donald J.
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Trump now the forty seventh President of the United States,
but the forty fifth man to hold the office since
he and Grover Cleveland were non consecutive presidents. And in
this speech, it will be fascinating to hear where he
is at as far as the approach is. This an
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American Carnage two point zero speech? Or is this optimistic?
Is this one that's unifying, that draws people in together.
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And says, you know what, This is a moment of unity.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
This is a moment where we are all Americans, and
we have some big fights ahead. And I'm ready to
sign some executive orders right in the beginning. But I
want you, well, no matter how you feel about me,
to join forces as Americans for this great country and
make America great again. Is that the approach we will
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see and.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Hear very soon.
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This is the United States Naval Academy Glee Club singing
the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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I love this song.
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To use.
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Christ was on cross us. We was.
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Not sis to make man.
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The a side, to make a great Los.
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Beautiful again.
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The United States Naval Academy Glee Club singing the Battle
Hymn of the Republic at the inauguration of Donald J.
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Trump.
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As we await the President's speech, once again, you have
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dignitaries from not just across the United States, but around
the world, and the family of President Trump.
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My honor and pleasure to introduce to you the forty
fifth and the forty seventh President of the United States
of America, Donald J.
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Trump for the first time.
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Donald Trump has been recognized once again as President of
the United States.
Speaker 5 (51:37):
JD.
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Vance first time ever as Vice President of the United States.
Very much, every brother, well as the President takes the podium.
Speaker 5 (51:45):
Thank you, very very much.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thun, Chief Justice Roberts,
Justices of the United States Supreme Court, President Clinton, President Bush,
President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and my fellow citizens, The.
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Golden Age of America begins right now.
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From this day forward, our country will flourish and be
respected again all over the world. We will be the
envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves
to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single
day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put
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America first. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed, our safety will
be restored, the scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent,
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and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government
will end, and our top priority will be to create
a nation that is proud, prosperous.
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And free.
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America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional
than ever before I returned to the presidency, confident and
optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling
new era of national success.
Speaker 4 (54:00):
A tide of change is sweeping the country.
Speaker 3 (54:02):
Sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has
the chance to seize this opportunity like never before. But first,
we must be honest about the challenges we face. While
they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great
momentum that the world is now witnessing.
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In the United States of America, as.
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We gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust.
For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted
power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of
our society lay broken and seemingly incomplete disrepair. We now
have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis
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at home, while at the same time stumbling into a
continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad. It fails to protect
our magnificent, law abidying American citizens, but provide sanctuary and
protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions
that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.
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We have a government that has given unlimited funding to
the defense of foreign borders, but refuses to defend American
borders or, more importantly, its own people. Our country can
no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, as
recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina have
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been treated so badly, and other states who are still
suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago,
or more recently Los Angeles, where we were watching fires
still tragically burn from weeks ago without even a token
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of defense. They're raging through the houses and communities, even
affecting some of the wealthy and most powerful individuals in
our country, some of whom are sitting here right now.
They don't have a home any longer. That's interesting, but
we can't let this happen. Everyone is unable to do
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anything about it. That's going to change. We have a
public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster,
yet more money is spent on it than.
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Any country anywhere in the world.
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And we have an.
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Education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves,
in many cases, to hate our country, despite the love
that we try so desperately to provide to them. All
of this will change starting today, and it will change
very quickly. My recent election is a mandate to completely
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and totally revert say horrible betrayal and all of these
many betrayals that have taken place, and to give the
people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and indeed
their freedom. From this moment on, America's decline is over.
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Our liberties and our nation's glorious destiny will no longer
be denied, and we will immediately restore the integrity, competency,
and loyalty.
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Of America's government.
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Over the past eight years, I have been tested and
challenged more than any president in our two hundred and
fifty year history, and I've learned a lot along the way.
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The journey to reclaim.
Speaker 3 (57:57):
Our republic has not been any one that I can
tell you. Those who wish to stop our cause have
tried to take my freedom, and indeed to take my
life just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania
field and assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. But I
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felt then, and believe even more so now, that my
life was saved for a reason. I was saved by
God to make America great again.
Speaker 22 (58:40):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (59:00):
That is why each day, under our administration of American Patriots,
we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and.
Speaker 5 (59:10):
Power and strength.
Speaker 3 (59:12):
We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety,
and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed.
For American citizens. January twentieth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (59:29):
Is Liberation Day.
Speaker 3 (59:41):
It is my hope that our recent presidential election will
be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in
the history of our country. As our victory showed, the
entire nation is rapidly unifying behind our agenda, with dramatic
increases in support from virtually every element of our society,
young and old, men and women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans,
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Asian Americans, urban, suburban, rural.
Speaker 5 (01:00:10):
And very importantly, we had a.
Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
Powerful win in all seven swing states, and the popular
vote we won by millions of people.
Speaker 5 (01:00:24):
To the black and Hispanic communities.
Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of
love and trust that you have shown me. With your vote,
we set records and I will not forget it. I've
heard your voices and the campaign, and I look forward
to working with you in the years to come.
Speaker 4 (01:00:46):
Today is Martin Luther King Day.
Speaker 5 (01:00:47):
And his honor. This will be a great honor.
Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
But in his honor we will strive together to make
his dream a reality. We will make his dream come true.
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A national unity is now returning to America, and confidence
and pride soaring like never before. In everything we do,
my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of
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excellence and unrelenting success. We will not forget our country,
we will not forget our constitution, and we will not
forget our God.
Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
Can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
Today I will sign of historic executive orders. With these actions,
we will begin the complete restoration of America and the
revolution of common sense.
Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
It's all about common sense.
Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.
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All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will
begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal
aliens back to the places from which they came. We
will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy. I will end
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the practice of catch and release, and I will send
troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion
of our country. Under the orders I signed today, we
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will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations,
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and by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight,
I will direct our government to use the full and
immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate
the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing
devastating crime to US soil, including our.
Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
Cities and inner cities.
Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
As Commander in Chief, I have no higher responsibility than
to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that
is exactly what I am going to do. We will
do it at a level that nobody's ever seen before. Next,
I will direct all members of my Cabinet to marshall
the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was
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record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices. The
inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices,
and that is why today I will also declare a
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national energy emergency.
Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
We will drill, baby, drill.
Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we
have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have
the largest amount of oil and gas of any country
on Earth, and we are going to.
Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
Use it, Let me use it.
Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up
again to the top, and export American energy all over
the world. We will be a rich nation again, and
it is that liquid gold under our feet that will
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help to do it. With my actions today, we will
end the Green New Deal, and we will revoke the
electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my
sacred pledge to our great American auto workers. In other words,
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you'll be able to buy the car of your choice.
We will build automobiles in America again at a rate
that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago.
And thank you to the auto workers of our nation
for your inspiring vote of confidence. We did tremendously with
their vote. I will immediately begin the overhaul of our
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trade system to protect American workers and families. Instead of
taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff
and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.
Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
For this purpose, we are.
Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
Establishing the External Revenue Service to collect all tariffs, duties,
and revenues. It will be massive amounts of money pouring
into our treasury coming from foreign sources. The American dream
will soon be back and thriving like never before. To
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restore competence and effectiveness to our federal government, administration will
establish the brand new Department of Government Efficiency. After years
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and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict
free expression. I will also sign an executive order to
immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech
to America. Never again will the immense power of the
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state be weaponized to persecute political opponents something.
Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
I know something about.
Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
We will not allow that to happen. It will not
happen again. Under my leadership. We will restore fair, equal
and impartial justice under the constitutional rule.
Speaker 23 (01:09:12):
Of law, and we are going to bring law and
order back to our cities.
Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
This week, I will also end the government policy of
trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect
of public and private life. We will forge a society
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that is color blind and merit based.
Speaker 4 (01:09:56):
As of today, it will henceforward.
Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
Be the official policy of the United States Government that
there are only two genders, male and female. This week,
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I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled
from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate
with full back pain, and I will sign in order
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to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political
theories and social experiments while on duty.
Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
It's going to end immediately.
Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Our armed forces will be free to focus on their
soul mission defeating America's enemies. Like in twenty seventeen, we
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will again build the strongest military of the world has
ever seen. We will measure our success not only by
the battles we win, but also by the wars that
we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never
get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a
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peace maker and unifier. That's what I want to be,
a peacemaker and a unifier. I'm pleased to say that
as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the
hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to
their families.
Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
It's ten thirty in Colorado. Donald Trumps, speaking in his
inaugurial address, its.
Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation
on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world.
A short time from now, we are going to be
changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the
Gulf of America, and we will restore the name.
Speaker 4 (01:13:11):
Of a great.
Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
President, William McKinley to Mount McKinley, where it should be
and where it belongs. President McKinley made our country very
rich through tariffs and through talent. He was a natural
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businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of
the great things he did, including the Panama Canal, which
has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after
the United States. The United States, I mean, think of this,
spent more money than ever spent on a project before
and lost thirty eight thousand lives in the building of
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the Panama We have been treated very badly from this
foolish gift that should have never been made, and Panama's
promised to us has been broken. The purpose of our
deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated.
American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly
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in any way, shape or form, and that includes the
United States Navy. And above all, China is operating the
Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China.
Speaker 5 (01:14:34):
We gave it to Panama, and.
Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
We're taking it back.
Speaker 3 (01:14:54):
Above all, my message to Americans today is that it
is time for us to once again and act with courage, vigor,
and the vitality of history's greatest civilization. So as we
liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights
of victory and success.
Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
We will not be deterred.
Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep
our children safe, healthy, and disease free. The United States
will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that
increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises
our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.
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And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars,
launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on
the planet Mars. Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation,
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and right now our nation is more.
Speaker 5 (01:16:16):
Ambitious than any other. There is no nation like our nation.
Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers. The spirit
of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call
of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls.
Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on
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the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic
of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth.
Speaker 5 (01:16:50):
No one comes close.
Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
Americans push thousands of miles through a rugged land of
untamed wilderness. They crossed desert, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers,
won the wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny,
lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched
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mankind into the heavens, and put the universe of human
knowledge into the palm of the human hand. If we
work together, there is nothing we cannot do, and no
dream we cannot achieve. Many people thought it was impossible
for me to stage such a historic political comeback. But
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as you see today here I am the American people
have spoken. I stand before you now as proof that
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you should never believe that something is impossible to do
in America. The impossible is what we do best. From
New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from
Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington, DC.
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Our country was forged and built by the generations of
patriots who gave everything they had for our rights and
for our freedom. They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and
factory workers, steelworkers and coal miners, police officers and pioneers
who pushed onward, marched forward, and let no obstacle defeat
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their spirit or their pride. Together they laid down the railroads,
raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, one two world wars,
defeated fascism and communism in triumph over every single challenge
that they faced. After all we have been through together,
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we stand on the verge of the four greatest years
in American history. With your help, we will restore America, promise,
and we will rebuild the nation that we love, and
we love it so much. We are one people, one family,
and one glorious nation under God. So to every parent
who dreams for their child and every child who dreams
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for their future.
Speaker 5 (01:19:38):
I am with you. I will fight for you, and
I will win for you. We are going to win
like never before.
Speaker 9 (01:19:53):
Okay, thank you, okay.
Speaker 5 (01:20:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly, but we
are going to bring it back and make it great again,
greater than ever before. We will be a nation like
no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism.
Speaker 5 (01:20:22):
Our power will stop.
Speaker 3 (01:20:23):
All wars and bring a new spirit of unity to
a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable.
America will be respected again and admired again, including by
people of religion, faith, and goodwill. We will be prosperous,
we will be proud, we will be strong, and we
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will win like never before. We will not be conquered,
we will not be intimidated, we will not be broken,
and we will not fail.
Speaker 4 (01:20:55):
From this day on, the.
Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
United States of America will be a free, sovereign and
independent nation.
Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
We will stand.
Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Bravely, we will live proudly, we will dream boldly, and
nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans.
The futures ours and our golden age has just begun.
Thank you, God, bless America. Thank you all, Thank.
Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
You, thank you, thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:21:28):
The future is ours and the Golden Age has just begun.
Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
Trump, the forty seventh and of course forty fifth President
of the United States, wrapping up his inaugural address, one
that I think seemed to go a little bit long.
I'd be curious as to how it compares with some
other addresses. It was certainly more policy focused and agenda driven.
You can tell that he is ready to get going
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right away. And this is a moment, of course, where
you have a president taking the reins and he's not
wasting time. Now Carrie Underwood singing as we run to
break here in just a moment, I'm Jimmy Sangenberger filling
in for Ross Kaminski here on KOA. We will keep
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the coverage and analysis going. We will check in with
Ryan Schuling on location in Washington, d C. At the
Capitol One Arena is sort of like an overflow venue,
if you will, and we'll also get some analysis from
Rashini Raj Kumar, who will rejoin us and offer some
expert communications perspectives here on KOA once again, Jimmy Sangenberger
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Speaker 25 (01:22:58):
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Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
Shall stories on.
Speaker 25 (01:23:27):
P Andron My good Wade.
Speaker 15 (01:23:36):
From CE to Shine CE.
Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
That was Carrie Underwood just a bit ago at the
inauguration of Donald J. Trump, the forty seventh President of
the United States. Jimmy Sangenberger rejoining you in for Ross
Kaminski right here on KOA with live coverage as you
now have benedictions that are being offered to end the
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inaugural ceremonies.
Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
There was I didn't catch who it was.
Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
I just saw it on the video live video feeds
that a. I don't know if he was a rabbi
or who that was who spoke, but giving a Jewish benediction,
which I think is wonderful and very glad that that
happened and that they that they included in the ceremonial
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proceedings the Jewish people, especially given what has been going
on with Israel and our strong support for Israel in
this time of need. We are joined now live from
the Capital One Arena by our own Ryan Schuling host
over on sister station.
Speaker 2 (01:24:53):
K h O W. Ryan, how are things there?
Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
What's the feeling like after the had inaugural address from
President Trump?
Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
Hey, we just turned Colorado mentioned Yes, yes, yes, Ryan Schuling, Yes,
Lorenzo Sewel.
Speaker 7 (01:25:23):
This happens to be a pastor from Detroit. You may
have seen during the campaign. We are live here at
Capital On Arena and he is quoting doctor Martin Luther King.
I'll let you hear some of it.
Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Every city, every village, and every hamlets.
Speaker 18 (01:25:41):
And when we left free to ring, we will be
able to speed up that day.
Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
All of your children, black men and white men, Protestant
and Catholic.
Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
Jew and gentile will be able to sing.
Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
In the meaning of that.
Speaker 4 (01:25:57):
Old Negro spiritual free alliance.
Speaker 18 (01:26:00):
Yes, free at last, Thank you God Almighty.
Speaker 5 (01:26:05):
We are free at last.
Speaker 16 (01:26:06):
If you believe what the spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
Come on, put your hands together.
Speaker 25 (01:26:12):
Hey, give you a great God, great glory.
Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
Wow, very very powerful.
Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
Can hear the reaction, Jimmy, President Trumble will loved it.
The people in this arena. It attached to the rafters here, Jimmy,
Just a moment ago, there were two protesters shouting free
three Palestine. They were drowned out quickly by chance of USA.
And they were promptly removed from the arena. And think
they waited four hours to do that here at Benediction continues,
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I'll let you hear it.
Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
So Ryan, let me ask you, well, can we can
listen in? Yeah, let's listen for in.
Speaker 21 (01:26:50):
This sacred moment of the inauguration of President Donald J.
Trump and Vice President JD. Vance we turn our hearts
to you, seeking your divine assistance and abundant blessings. Upon
this pivotal moment in history. We come before you with
profound gratitude for the many gifts you have bestowed upon
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our land. Thank you for the freedoms we cherish, for
the strength of our communities, and for the resilience of
our spirit. As our President and Vice President embrace their
newly appointed roles, we humbly implore that your everlasting love
and wisdom will envelop them. Grant them the clarity of
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mind to navigate the challenges that lie ahead, and the
compassion to serve all citizens with fairness and integrity. May
their hearts be filled with a giving spirit and sincere
understanding for those whom they represent. May they be beacons
of hope in times of uncertainty, and prophetic voices in
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defending the dignity.
Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
Of all created life.
Speaker 21 (01:28:05):
We pray for a spirit of collaboration to flourish in
our government and across our nation, fostering an environment where
dialogue and heartfelt listening will prevail over division or discord.
May each decision made by our President and Vice President
reflect the values of.
Speaker 14 (01:28:27):
Justice and peace.
Speaker 21 (01:28:29):
As we embark on this new chapter. We also seek
your comfort, O God, for those who feel lost or
disheartened in this time of transition. May Your light shine
upon them, reaffirming their belief in a brighter tomorrow. May
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we all strive to lift one another, supporting our fellow
citizens with kindness and empathy, recognizing that together we can
overcome any adversity. Grant us the strength to endure, the
courage to face our fears, and the clarity to see
the light that remains even when clouds of uncertainty may gather.
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Inspire our new leaders to be champions for the vulnerable
and advocates for those whose voices are often silenced. May
they pursue policies that promote the well being of all,
seeking to build bridges that will foster unity and belonging.
As we stand witness to this inauguration, we hold fast
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to the faith, to our faith in the goodness of
each of us and the possibility of change. We trust that,
with your guidance, O God, our nation can move forward
to a future filled with promise, prosperity, and understanding. And finally,
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we lift our hearts in gratitude for the beloved parents
of President Trump. Without Mary and Fred Trump, this day
would never be the miracle that has just begun.
Speaker 14 (01:30:13):
From their place in heaven.
Speaker 21 (01:30:15):
May they shield their son from all harm by their
loving protection and give him the strength to guide our
nation along the path that will make America great again.
Let us go forth now with these words of President
Trump's emblazoned on our hearts. As long as we have
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pride in our beliefs, courage in our convictions, and faith
in our God, then we will not fail. We stand tall,
we stand proud because we are Americans, and Americans kneel
to God and to God alone.
Speaker 1 (01:31:01):
Thank you, Ryan Schuling. Let's see if we can check
in with you in the next hour. Jimmy Sangenberger in
for Ross Kaminski. We'll also hear from Rashini Raj Kamar
and get to your texts on the KOA Common Spirit
Health text line. What did you make of the speech
text us at five six six nine zero. We'll keep
it going on the other side, right here on KOA
on this inauguration day, right here on KOA, lots to
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talk about and dive into from President Donald Trump's address
as the forty seventh president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
And it is notable as well that.
Speaker 1 (01:31:40):
In his literal final moments of the presidency, and we
will talk about this, Joe Biden has pardoned his family,
including James Biden, his brother, his wife Sarah Jones Biden,
Biden's younger sister, Valerie Biden Owen, and Owen's husband John Owens,
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and his other brother, Francis Biden. Biden saying in a release,
the issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as
an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should
acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.
Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
This is wild.
Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
We turn now to Ryan Schuling, who is on location
at the Capitol One Arena where everybody who is not
among the dignitaries in the rotunda went to watch the
inaugural ceremonies. Ryan, what's the scene like there since the address?
Speaker 7 (01:32:40):
Well, Jimmy, we're officially in the in between time now.
We've never seen anything like it. There are twenty thousand
strong in this arena. There are very few empty seats,
if any, they're empty now. I was just going to
the restroom myself, but they're waiting now for President Trump
to come to the arena to address the crowd. He's
got a a small makeshift resolute desk set up where
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presumably he'll be signing his first executive orders. There is
a massive presence of media, who Trump may call the
fake news media, assembled in the back of the floor
of the rienna. There are several rows of cameras and
reporters willing to be ready to go. And there's a
band actually that it has just set up. I just
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noticed this as me playing right before the VIP section,
which are those that are seated right on the floor.
Speaker 1 (01:33:30):
So yeah, Ryan, let me ask you about the feeling
in the room since the speech. What's the sentiment of
the address from Donald Trump as he was inaugurated for
this second time, and what did you make of the address.
Speaker 8 (01:33:47):
Well, it stood out to me.
Speaker 7 (01:33:49):
First and foremost was what cut us off at the
end of the last hour, Jimmy, was the strong religious
theme that we saw at the invocation and the benefiction.
I think we saw five different dignitaries serious religious faiths,
two Catholic, too Protestant, including one of the pastors from
Detroit who notably supported Donald Trump in the early going,
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and he basically replicated Martin Luther King's speech. Franklin Graham,
of course among those. Cardinal Bishop Dolan was there as well,
and a Jewish, as you mentioned earlier, a rabbi in
giving benediction in the aftermath of the speech as well.
I think President Trump struck that tone in his speech
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as well. This is done by his speech writers, and
I'm sure that he had input into it. Was undergirding
the Judeo Christian work ethic upon which our constitutional republic
was founded, and you got a lot of that in
this speech. So we're going to get back to what
made America great, and not just during the Trump presidency,
but at our founding and what are our founding principles
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and what do we represented as a country? What does
it mean to be an American? I thought Donald Trump
hit those broad strokes very well, and then he had
the knives out. Let's call it what it was. He
did not hold back in any way, shape, manner, or
form from the failures of the Biden presidency of the
last four years. And there was a raucous reception, not
just in the arena, but I noticed as well Jimmy
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in the rotunda from the Republicans and from those that
were seated behind him, and I think that spoke volume.
I do want to make a final a note about
what you just said regarding President Biden partnering his family.
This is unprecedented historically of any American president to pardon
his entire family, basically like you just noted them by name.
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And while it's not an admission of guilt, it certainly
should not be viewed as a presumption of innocence because
why would you have to pardon each into every one
of these people. It simply confirms the suspicions, the narratives,
the so called conspiracy theories. The Biden crime family, as
Trump supporters like to call it, did everything in their
power to enrich the family by using that influence that
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Joe Biden had in his elected offices a Senate, as
vice president, and perhaps this president yeah to make money abroad.
So I think it's a stunning and dark moment really
for American history that a president would use the power
of the pardon for his own family members. And there
have been Democratic senators, I believe as well and representatives
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of the House that have come out said book, we
need to revisit the pardoning, the clemency process, and I
would agree with them on that.
Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
Yeah, although I don't know what Congress can do, given
that it is a constitutional prerogative of the president, for
how they could even approach that, Ryan schuling joining us.
And I should note as well that Biden also had
pardoned early this morning, doctor Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milly,
and members of Congress who were involved in the January
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sixth committee.
Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
But in the remaining time I have with you, Ryan,
I want.
Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
To go back to the speech and get your take
on if you thought that this was a little too
heavy for an inaugural address on policy and agenda, foreign
and aw girl address, or if it just was apropos
of a president who has an agenda that he's already
prepared to hit the ground running, including at the Capital
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One Arena shortly when he's expected to sign some executive orders.
Speaker 7 (01:37:15):
I think is exactly the latter of what you described, Jimmy.
The time for aspirational metaphorical speeches, I think is over
as far as it pertains to Donald Trump. And let
me explain why. In his first term, now going back
eight years ago, perhaps he could have done that. But
think about everything that has happened since to this man,
the attacks politically against this man and otherwise, the assassination attempt,
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the four years that he was not in office, and
now he comes back. If you just look, Jimmy and
they're showing President Trump on the in screen, monitor's why
you hear the cheering there. If you just look at
the difference in the presidential portraits between twenty seventeen and
the one that was just released for twenty twenty five,
it says it all. It's President Trump's serious demeanor. It
really mostly replicates his mugshot, and I believe that he
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thinks there's just serious business ahead. It's time to get
to work, and he's going to do that on day one.
Speaker 1 (01:38:09):
It is fascinating to think about the difference in that
regard as like a visual representation of Trump forty seven
contrasted with Trump forty five. Ryan Schuling live at the
Capital One Arena in Washington, d C. Of course, host
over on our sister station six point thirty K. How
(01:38:31):
thank you so much for joining us, brother, and stay
warm out there.
Speaker 7 (01:38:36):
I'm staying warm in here. But I'm telling you, Jimmy
waiting four hours and twenty degrees, I know it's colder
there in Denver right now, but it felt cold when
it came around the building. The windshill factor, all of
that was all worth it, and I'm happy to bring
it to our listeners there in Denver.
Speaker 2 (01:38:50):
There you go, Ryan Schuling live at in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
President, former President Joe Biden, former First Lady doctor Jill Biden,
both taking the helicopter to leave after President Trump and
First Lady Milania Trump said farewell to the Bidens who
are now heading to Joint the Joint Base Andrews goodness,
(01:39:15):
A milestone has been reached, History has been made.
Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
What's your take? What's your reaction to all this textas at.
Speaker 1 (01:39:22):
The KOA Common Spirit Health text line at five six
six nine zero. I'll also offer some of my thoughts
on the other side as we continue. Jimmy Sangenberger in
for Ross Kaminski on KOA twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Minutes after eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:39:37):
Jimmy Sangenberger in for Ross Kaminski here breathing by on KOA,
and you know what, we want to have your texts
on the KOA Common Spirit Health text line at five
six six nine zero. But we're also on this occasion.
Going to open up the phones for the rest of
the show on the KOA Common Spirit Health Hotline and
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three oh three seven one three eighty five eighty five
three oh three seven one three eighty five eighty five
if you feel so inclined to call in offer your
thoughts on Trump's speech.
Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
Did it hit the right marks?
Speaker 1 (01:40:16):
Was it an appropriate tone for an agenda as we
just talked about with Ryan Schuling in the last segment,
for an agenda driven president who's taking office now, who's
assumed the office and is already off to the races
set it seems to be ready at a makeshift resolute
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desk at the Capitol One Arena to sign some executive orders.
Right now, there is an event at the Emancipation Hall.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is addressing the audience there,
and I think that the President will be making an
appearance there before coming up in a little while at
(01:40:59):
the he will briefly addressed at the Capital Wan Arena
and sign some executive orders off to the races.
Speaker 2 (01:41:06):
But did he hit the right marks?
Speaker 1 (01:41:08):
You know, some points in the speech I would hear
him say, I eye, I this, I that in a
way that didn't seem as unifying.
Speaker 2 (01:41:17):
It seemed a little bit more centered toward himself. Maybe
that's acceptable, maybe it's not.
Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
I tend to think in an inaugural address it would
be best to steer a little bit clear of that.
On the other hand, he also was very agenda driven,
very focused on what he's trying to do and the
issues in a way that we don't also normally see
in a in an inaugural address, you get that more
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in a State of the Union address. Is that something
that in this case was appropriate, was the right way
to go about it? Or did that help it to
drag on a little bit. I'm kind of somewhere in
the middle here. I think he did overdo a little
bit of the policy stuff in this speech because it
is such a moment for the American people widely across
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the country watching on TV or hearing it on the
radio in a place like Koa, and you want to
bring people into the fold who are not as focused
on the nitty gritty issues, especially when across the country
people are really cold, they're inside at home, They're more
likely to be watching or listening to the festivities. So
(01:42:33):
that makes sense to think about Didty overdo it, maybe.
Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
A little bit.
Speaker 18 (01:42:39):
Overall.
Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
I thought it was a decent speech, but it did
seem to go just a little bit long because of
that policy focus. I think, what are your thoughts? Five
six six nine zero. The text line three three seven
one three eighty five eighty five the telephone number President
Trump and Vice President Vance and their spouse is now
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at Emancipation Hall, and we are seeing that Vice President Vance,
the first millennial vice president and the first vice president since.
Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
Nineteen oh nine to have a beard.
Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
Interesting little factoid there now speaking at Emancipation Hall, followed
by President Trump just taking office. REO three seven one,
three eighty five eighty five five sixty six nine zero.
Speaker 2 (01:43:29):
The text line give us a call, shoot us a text.
Speaker 1 (01:43:32):
We'll also check in with Rashini Raj Kumar for some
postgame analysis. On the other side, I'm Jimmy Sangenberger in
for ros Kaminski on KOA Ray Charles may he rest
in peace, doing his version of America the Beautiful, and
I'm feeling in a very patriotic mood today and more
(01:43:54):
than happy to hear a little Ray Charles bringing out
that inner patriot in all of us. Good morning, I'm
Jimmy Sanenberger in for Ross Kaminski Mandy Connell up at
noon and we have just opened the phones on the
KOA Common Spirit Health hotline at three zero three seven
one three eighty five eighty five. And just before we
(01:44:18):
get to our guest, Rashini raj Kumar, host of the
Crisis Files podcast, I'd like to welcome Craig from Kiowa
onto the program.
Speaker 2 (01:44:28):
Craig, you're on with Jimmy and for Ross.
Speaker 26 (01:44:31):
Thank you, Jimmy, thanks for opening up the phone lines.
Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
You bet what's on your mind? Sir?
Speaker 7 (01:44:36):
I love the speech.
Speaker 26 (01:44:37):
You know it might be an oversimplification, but it was
kind of a this there's a new sheriff intent. It's
going to be end to the lawlessness under the Biden administration.
It's going to be an end to the left policies
that he stood for and get this country back to
where its founders intended.
Speaker 1 (01:44:57):
Do you think I'm remarked in the last half hour
Craig about how he was very agenda and policy driven
in this speech, seemingly more so than a typical inaugural address.
Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
Do you think he leaned into that too much?
Speaker 1 (01:45:11):
It sounds like you believe even for an inaugural address,
was that right marker to say, I am the new
sheriff is in town, as you mentioned, and I'm ready
to get to work.
Speaker 8 (01:45:22):
Yes, entirely.
Speaker 26 (01:45:24):
That's those of us that voted for him. This is
what we wanted. It's entirely what we wanted.
Speaker 1 (01:45:31):
Now, real quick, Craig, before I let you go. One
of the things to me, of course, about an inaugural
address is it is a moment for the entire country,
regardless of whether you voted for Trump or not. He's
now the president of the United States, and so there's
often an expectation that it will be a unifying address.
Do you think that he brought in that sense of
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unity or was it I'm this is my agenda, and
whether you voted for me or not, I'm barnstorming ahead
with it.
Speaker 26 (01:46:02):
Well, as you recall, Biden said he was going to
be unifier, and he was not very true. Trump if
if he truly wants to do what he says he
wants to do, it's not going to make everybody happy. Therefore,
for him to say he's going to be a unifier,
he did say he is. He wants justice equally for
(01:46:23):
all and you know, that's how it.
Speaker 5 (01:46:26):
Should be.
Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
Very true.
Speaker 1 (01:46:29):
Hey, Craig, I appreciate you giving us a call. Thank
you so much at three zero three seven one three eighty.
Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
Five eighty five.
Speaker 1 (01:46:37):
We are open to chatting with you if you want
to join in to the festivities. As we turn back
to Rashini Raj Kumar, who joined us just before the
inaugural festivities got underway with the swearing in of Vice
President Vance and then President Trump, and then of course
the inaugural address and a slew of benedictions and prayers
(01:47:01):
from the likes of Archbishop Timothy Dolan to the Reverend
Franklin Graham and more. Rashini Rajskumar, host of the Crisis
Files podcast and a crisis strategist. Rashini, thanks for rejoining us.
What is your reaction to the day's events so far?
Big picture?
Speaker 12 (01:47:21):
Well, you know, it was really interesting to see all
of those people in that kind of crammed in space
due to the weather moving the event inside. But I
think it also was neat from just the observer's standpoint,
where you could really see the faces of people. They
weren't spread across the steps of the capital outside, maybe
getting lost in each other. We could really see as
(01:47:44):
the American people, all of these leaders, Supreme Court justices, others,
certainly political friends and political foes, having to be right
there side by side, and in some cases Brennan Barrett
in other cases very obviously jubilant. Today. This was really
the closest thing that the United States has to anything
(01:48:06):
kind of regal. And of course we left the England
so that we wouldn't have a monarchy, but this is
the closest to that big pomp and circumstance. I think
it delivered on that. I will say, you know, I'm
kind of there with Craig kinda not. I think President
Trump's speech went on a little too long because he
started to get into the real jobs. And I have
(01:48:29):
no problem with him being critical. I am happy to
have a new sheriff in town if it's going to
mean a safer America and more people have a shot
at the American dream. But I don't know that this
was the place for those real, visceral, direct frontal attacks,
especially when former President Biden is hitting right there, like
(01:48:50):
six inches away from you. So that's one of the
things that I would have said if I were part
of writing that speech. I might have taken some of
those things out and focused on the very emotional, powerful language.
I mean, he started with the Golden Age of America
begins right now, and he had some other very salient,
powerful quotes that I think could have been a great
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clothes and wrap up. But then he kind of went on,
So that would.
Speaker 4 (01:49:15):
Be just me.
Speaker 12 (01:49:15):
You know, It's what I do. I talk about and
analyze strategic speech, and this was one of those, certainly,
so I might have got a little different direction. Overall,
I'd probably give him a seven to eight on a
scale of one to ten. His delivery, however, was one
of the better I've seen as far as keeping a
calm yeah, steady, you know that kind of pacing was
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actually quite good.
Speaker 1 (01:49:38):
A couple of texts that I would welcome your thoughts
on Rashini Raj Kumar five six six nine zero the
KOA Common Spirit health text line. People need to be
focused on the nitty gritty issues. That is why I
was more than acceptable for President Trump to take the
policy root in his speech, this is America's wake up call.
(01:50:00):
And then Carter and Levelin goes on to say that
this country is at a downward spiral since Biden, President
Trump means business and that's exactly what this country needs.
I'm in my early twenties and I could not be
more fired up for the next four years of America.
And then the next one text coming in, he came
out swinging, not unifying. I'm okay with getting down to business,
(01:50:21):
but some of the punches seemed misplaced, like McKinley, what's
the point, what do you make of that?
Speaker 11 (01:50:27):
RASHENI yeah, I think those really good analysis from that
last texture there, you might not want to come out like,
as Craig pointed out, Biden said he was a unifier
and he did not unify.
Speaker 12 (01:50:39):
I'm not saying I wanted to see that. Trump had
to be all about unity. He did have to be
about inspiration.
Speaker 1 (01:50:46):
He did that.
Speaker 12 (01:50:47):
He did have to be honest. He did that, But
there was kind of state of the Union esque pieces
in this. The inaugural address goes down in history long
after all of us die, and I would say the
first ten to twelve minutes of this one, that transcript
is absolutely worthy of going down in history. The next
twelve to eighteen minutes a little iffy on how much
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of that history is going to look at and say, wow,
what a powerful inaugural speech, because it is a moment
in time, but it's a moment in time that matters.
Now you're going to get President Trump is saying he's
going to get to the work, get to the nitty
gritty sign those different executive orders, maybe do some pardons,
whatnot is going to happen, and that's fine, but this
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speech still needed to be that powerful message, which is
the overview of what you're going to do with these
next four years. He had a lot of that, but
I could have done with I could have done out
without some of the other parts.
Speaker 1 (01:51:48):
Rashini Roskamar joining us if you want to join into
the conversation. Three zero three seven one, three eighty five
eighty five our number, as we have opened up the
phone lines for the rest of the show, I would say,
just sort of a last thing on the speech, and
then I want to get to the big news of
the day that Biden left behind, which is the pardons
of his family and of other selected individuals. When we
(01:52:13):
look at this speech and the moment in time. While
I appreciate and recognize what you just said, Rashenie, and
I think that's a very apt analysis of what we
look for in an inaugural address. At the same time,
this could be said to be a moment in time
where Trump is saying, I'm the president who's going to
get to work.
Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
I was out for four years.
Speaker 1 (01:52:33):
You've got me back in office, and I'm hitting the
ground running.
Speaker 2 (01:52:37):
And that's kind of the tone.
Speaker 1 (01:52:39):
That he was setting, the expectation that he was setting
for this moment. That differs maybe from other moments where
you have a president who was just re elected for
a second term after a first term in office. What
do you think of that sort of perspective, Well, he did.
Speaker 10 (01:52:55):
I mean, it was very clear.
Speaker 12 (01:52:56):
I don't think unless you're sleeping under a rock somewhere,
I think you know what Trump stands for. So he
hit that and emphasize that, put the double exclamation point
on that, and you're at the very top of his
speech today, and the number of details he gave were fine.
I love I love the visuals of the kinds of
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things you're going to do immediately. You're going to close
the southern border. Okay, I bet a lot of people
on the southern border were cheering as well as elsewhere.
But some of the other jabs are what I'm really
getting at he did not need to do because we
know who Donald Trump is. Now, don't be a bunch
of flash. That's the thing when you say too much,
you also have a lot on the record now that
(01:53:39):
you could be held accountable for. So my whole point,
as you know me all these years, less is more,
and you want to leave your audience wanting more. And
that's really my point on this inaugural address. Now, I'm
very excited to see what he does versus what he
just told.
Speaker 8 (01:53:57):
Us he would do again.
Speaker 1 (01:53:58):
Rashini Raskamara, sc suite advisor, licensed attorney, host of The
Crisis Files. We'll get to the Biden part in here
in just a moment, but I want to go back
to the KOA Common Spirit Health hotline with listener calls
at three zero three seven one three eighty five eighty five.
As we welcome Gary in Denver. Gary, you're on with
Jimmy as well as Rashini.
Speaker 8 (01:54:20):
Oh hi, Jimmy, I have a question for you and Rashim.
You know, during the campaign, you understand that Trump tended
to exaggerate and mislead people to vote for him, and
I'm wondering, I'm sure that he was provided today's speech,
and one thing that irritates me with Trump is he
(01:54:43):
misleads his constituents and he must think we're stupid when
he said he's going to create this external revenue service. Yeah,
he said, who will collect tariffs from foreign countries? Well,
we all know that foreign countries don't pay tariffs. Importers pay.
(01:55:05):
That's true, So why did the state Why do you
think he said something? You must think we're stupid.
Speaker 1 (01:55:12):
So Gary, thanks for the call. Three zero three seven
one three eighty five eighty five. L offer a point
and then turn it over to Rashini. I would say
this was the part that I most disliked of the speech.
Trump is way wrong when it comes to trade and
consistently misrepresents it.
Speaker 2 (01:55:28):
He certainly did so in his address.
Speaker 1 (01:55:30):
I would agree with you there this idea of an
external revenue service. I guess it's just creating an agency
to track progress on terraffs when you already have a
government agency. I don't know what enity collects tariffs, but
when they collect it from businesses that are importing products
into the United States, they're collecting it. It's already being done,
(01:55:51):
and it is businesses that do it. So when it
comes to the trade issue, I mean across the board,
he's misrepresenting how that operates here. But I think that's
sort of it's what you get from Trump when it
comes to the issue of trade and Rashini, it's something
that we've gotten from Trump really going back to the
nineteen eighties when he particularly was talking about Japan screwing
(01:56:15):
over the United States, and now China is the main one.
Speaker 12 (01:56:19):
Yes, And we also have to remember how things work.
The power of the purse is in the hands of
the United States Congress. So in order to even impose
any kind of tariffs or levees, that is not the
job of the executive branch, not the job of the president.
The president can say I want this to happen, but
they're working. The person in the President's office is then
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working with or his team is working with Congress to
get that out there. So on various levels, not only
a process but constitution, he's off. He's inaccurate, And I
think why he does it is because it sounds good
to a certain part of his base and his followers
and the people that don't like this act that a
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lot of our resources are going abroad. So he tended
to put it in this speech. Jimmy, I agree with
you there. What we now need to see is the
fourth estate. The media needs to keep everybody honest on
this and actually report what's happening and things are going
to go through or things are going to not go through.
The Congress when this type of topic comes up.
Speaker 1 (01:57:22):
As we wrap up with your Rashmi raj Kumar, I
want to talk about the Biden pardons. So the news
just came out today of two different significant pardons. One
just while the inauguration festivities were going on. President former
President Biden, still president at the time, pardoned several members
(01:57:43):
of his family and going back to January first, twenty fourteen,
the same blanket time frame as Hunter Biden. This very
curious that, of course the president, former president's son, very
curiously happening over dealings that Hunter had been doing over
(01:58:03):
in with China and with Ukraine and so forth, very
very questionable in that respect. And then Anthony Fauci, General
Mark Milly and members of the committee that investigated January sixth.
These pardons, Rashini Rajkumar, to me, are deeply troubling. They
set a precedent that now Trump could run with in
(01:58:25):
his own way, and I don't think we're going.
Speaker 2 (01:58:28):
To be able to turn back the clock on this one.
Speaker 17 (01:58:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (01:58:31):
If there was anything absolutely non presidential that Biden left
his office as the exclamation point for his term as president,
it is those pardons. I had a huge issue when
we found out weeks ago that he was partying his son.
That was absolutely reprehensible. This is beyond disgusting. And guess
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what I looked at the order and if what I
was looking at is correct, the date of the pardons
for his family actually January nineteenth, Sunday. This did not
break until today.
Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
Oh why was that?
Speaker 12 (01:59:09):
That's a whole other issue. And it didn't get into
the news cycle until it happened to just look where
I saw it. It's not on x. Someone had put
out a post with the actual language, the picture and
image of the pardon and I read it and I
looked at the daylight and I wanted to text you,
but you were watching this?
Speaker 20 (01:59:28):
Have you seen this?
Speaker 12 (01:59:29):
Did I miss this news?
Speaker 25 (01:59:30):
No?
Speaker 12 (01:59:31):
It was allowed to only be released by whomever released it.
So this is reporters, I'm asleep on the job. This
should have broken yesterday and it's absolutely beyond yeah wow.
I mean if we already had like his legacy is
going to go down as one of the worst presidents ever.
(01:59:51):
This is just such an insult to the American people.
Speaker 1 (01:59:54):
And that's on top of declaring the twenty eighth Amendment
to be a thing with equal Rights Amendment when it
didn't follow the proced like it's not actually the case,
just because Biden said so. And it is rather astonishing
to leave that mark, especially after his presidency was supposed
to be all about preventing the dictatorial regimes and authoritarianism
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and all this stuff that supposedly was the threat of
Donald Trump, who's now the forty seventh president of the
United States. Quite stirring, Rashini raj Kumar, we got to
leave it there. Really appreciate your analysis and perspective and
joining us today, and I encourage folks to check out
your podcast, the Crisis Files, the crisisfiles dot com and
(02:00:38):
in all the podcast apps, including the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (02:00:42):
Thanks Jimmy, Thank you once again, Rashini raj Kumar joining
us on the program. And look, this is a remarkable day.
I've used the word.
Speaker 1 (02:00:52):
Significant to describe the inauguration throughout the program. I think
it sticks here and there's a lot to talk about
and a lot for Mandy Connell to talk about and
cover from twelve to three, Mandy, good morning. What a
whirlwind day so far, and we're not even halfway through
the day, are.
Speaker 24 (02:01:12):
We got I gotta tell you, Jimmy, I mean, you
weren't on the air, so I don't think you got
to listen to the speech uninterrupted. I'm guessing, but it
was as far as like policy positions that I wanted
him to address. Boy, he brought the wood man, he
was ready, and I think it was one of the
most unabashedly pro American, pro America speeches that I've heard from.
Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
A really long time.
Speaker 24 (02:01:37):
And I'm excited to get everybody's feedback on that, find
out what everybody's thinking and what their hopes and aspirations are.
And then of course we got to talk about the
freaking Pardons. Oh my goodness, what the deuce was That's
Anybody who keeps telling me that Joe Biden is a
nice guy is so oblivious to what just happened today.
Speaker 1 (02:01:56):
This guy just set a precedent, more multiple precedents.
Speaker 2 (02:02:00):
I was talking about the twenty eighth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (02:02:02):
Nonsense, too multiple precedents for Trump to take the ball
and run with, and I don't want him to take
the ball and run with these presidents. But Joe Biden
just opened the door in a way no former president
could have ever done.
Speaker 24 (02:02:15):
Because you are absolutely right, and obviously we're gonna be
talking about this as I happen to be broadcasting from
beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (02:02:23):
More on that in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (02:02:24):
Beautiful Mandy Conne up from noon to three right here
on KOA.
Speaker 2 (02:02:30):
Thank you so much for joining me.
Speaker 1 (02:02:31):
Check out my website Jimmy Sangenburger dot com. Remember there's
no AI or you in Sangin Burger. It's all ease
all the time. Once you know that sang In Burger
is easy, gonna go out with a few seconds. I'm
the harmonica a tee up for Mandy Connell to have
some fun at noon. Have a great one, stay warm
and safe out there, and may God bless America at
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