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January 20, 2017, Friday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
	Vice President elect.
	Would you raise your right hand and repeat after me?
	I, Michael, Richard Pence do solemnly swear.
	I, Michael Richard Pence, do solemnly swear.
	That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
	That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
	Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
	Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
	That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
	But I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
	That I take this obligation freely.
	Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.
	Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.
	And that I will well and faithfully discharge.
	And that I will well and faithfully discharge.
	The duties of the office on which I'm about to enter.
	The duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
	So help me God.
	So help me God.
	Congratulations.
	Thank you.
	And there you have it, Mike Pence just completing the swearing-in ceremony for him.
	Greetings, my friends, Rush Limboy here on inauguration day.
	What the past 24, 18 hours have been.
	The event, the Lincoln Memorial last night.
	I can't wait to share my thoughts with you on that.
	The battle hymn of the Republic and the fireworks behind the Lincoln Memorial.
	So there you have it.
	Mike Pence is the Vice President.
	And we will now stick with the ceremony.
	Some observations to come, friends.
	We have uh writing them down, making notes.
	Such as David Brooks claiming the crowd is very white and very southern.
	Obama congratulating Pence.
	Ladies and gentlemen, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, accompanied by the President's own United States Marine Band.
	So many prayers today and last night.
	So many prayers to God last night and today.
	Can't help but wonder how some people feel about that.
	The gracious skies for and the waves of grain For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain
	America, America God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea O beautiful for pilgrim feet Who stern in passion stress A
	thoroughfare of freedom meet Across the wilderness America, America God mend thine every flaw Confirm my soul in self-control Thy liberty in law O
	beautiful for heroes Proved in liberating stride Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life
	America, America May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every name divine O beautiful for
	creatures That seems beyond thy gates Thy now the master's city's queen Undeared by human tears
	America, America God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea From sea to shining
	sea From sea to shining sea And crown thy good with brotherhood That's the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
	Our audio feed, by the way, here, folks, about ten seconds ahead of what's on television.
	Chief Justice of the United States, John G. Roberts, Junior, who'll administer the presidential oath of office.
	Everyone, please stand.
	This is the moment, folks.
	A lot of people still can't believe this.
	Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
	I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
	I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute.
	That I will faithfully execute.
	The office of President of the United States.
	The office of President of the United States.
	And will, to the best of my ability, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
	The Constitution of the United States.
	So help me God, so help me God.
	Congratulations, Mr. President.
	Yeah!
	Yeah!
	There you have it.
	Donald Trump, 45th president.
	What a gorgeous scene it's been all day in Washington.
	Washington.
	Crowds, throngs, excitement like we haven't seen in the country in many years.
	Great anticipation, people eagerly looking forward.
	Not with regret, but with great hope and great enthusiasm.
	Yes, Mrs. Clinton was there.
	Bill Clinton was there.
	They're still there.
	Kind of surprising that they hung in.
	Hey, it's my show.
	What a great honor to be able to introduce for the first time ever anywhere the 45th president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.
	Wait till you hear some of the media sound bites we have for you, folks, when all this is over with.
	The drive-by media cannot, they just can't accept it, can't come to grips with it.
	Thank you.
	Trying to denigrate it impunent.
	We have the evidence coming up later.
	No commercials in this broadcast hour today, folks.
	Thank you, Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people.
	Together we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come.
	We will face challenges.
	We will confront hardships, but we will get the job done.
	Every four years we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power.
	And we are grateful to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition.
	They have been magnificent.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Today's ceremony, however, has very special meaning.
	Because today, we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another.
	But we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people.
	Thank you.
	For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.
	And they're all standing there behind him.
	Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth.
	Politicians prospered, but the jobs left, and the factories closed.
	The establishment protected itself.
	Their victories have not been your victories.
	Their triumphs have not been your triumphs.
	And while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.
	They're standing right behind him as he calls them out.
	That all changes, starting right here and right now, because this moment is your moment.
	It belongs to you.
	It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America.
	This is your day.
	This is your celebration.
	And this, the United States of America, is your country.
	By the way, it's not raining.
	Those are Hillary Clinton tears.
	What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.
	January 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.
	Holy smokes, this is just...
	The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.
	Everyone is listening to you now.
	You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before.
	How do you think the media is going to compare this to JFK's speech, huh?
	At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens.
	Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and...
	And good jobs for themselves.
	These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public.
	But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists.
	Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation.
	An education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.
	And the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
	This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
	Thank you.
	I don't know if you've got we are one nation, and their pain is our pain.
	Their dreams are our dreams, and their success will be our success.
	We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.
	The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.
	Thank you.
	For many decades, we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidize the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military.
	we've defended other nations'borders while refusing to defend our own.
	Whoa, baby!
	And spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
	It's a campaign speech, isn't it?
	We've made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon.
	One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind.
	The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world.
	But that is the past.
	And now we are looking only to the future.
	Thank you.
	This is not the usual PAP, folks.
	We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power.
	From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.
	From this day forward, it's going to be only America first.
	America first.
	Well, I just saw a shot of some.
	Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families.
	We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries, making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs.
	I think they think he means it now.
	I think they get it.
	Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength.
	I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never ever let you down.
	Let's see if he says I work so hard for you.
	America will start winning again, winning like never before.
	We will bring back our jobs.
	We will bring back our borders.
	We will bring back our wealth, and we will bring back our dreams.
	Thank you.
	We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation.
	We will get our people off of welfare and back to work, rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.
	We will follow two simple rules.
	Buy American and hire American.
	It's funereal.
	It looks like friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world.
	But we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.
	We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example.
	We will shine for everyone to follow.
	We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth.
	Thank you.
	At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America.
	And through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.
	When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.
	Thank you.
	The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.
	We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.
	When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
	There should be no fear.
	We are protected, and we will always be protected.
	We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement.
	And most importantly, we will be protected by God.
	Oh, Lordy!
	Thank you.
	Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger.
	In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.
	We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining, but never doing anything about it.
	The time for empty talk is over.
	Now arrives the hour of action.
	He wants to get out of there, get to work, I think.
	Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done.
	No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America.
	We will not fail.
	Our country will thrive and prosper again.
	We stand at the birth of a little millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.
	A new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.
	It's time to remember that old wisdom, our soldiers will never forget, that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots.
	Thank you.
	We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American flag.
	And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator.
	Well, so to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words.
	You will never be ignored again.
	Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny, and your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.
	Together, we will make America strong again.
	We will make America wealthy again.
	We will make America proud again.
	We will make America safe again, and yes, together we will make America great again.
	Thank you.
	God bless you, and God bless America.
	Would it be wrong for me to say?
	For the first time in a long time, I am really proud of my country.
	For the first time in a long time.
	By the way, folks, anybody who thinks that Trump is being unprecedented in pointing out the problems of the country and the other party, if you think, my gosh, you've never heard you need to go back and read Reagan's first inaugural address.
	What Trump did today, although it was pointed unique to him was not unprecedented.
	I'm an excerpt from it, I'll share with you as the program unfolds, looking for spots of blood now on cameras as drive-by heads had to explode during that.
	This time I call on Rabbi Marvin Heyer, Reverend Franklin Graham, and Bishop Wayne T. Jackson to provide readings and the benediction.
	This has been quite a devotion to God.
	Starting last night, continuing on through today.
	Eternal God.
	Bless President Donald J. Trump and America, our great nation.
	Guide us to remember the words of the psalmist, who may dwell on your holy mountain, one who does what is right and speaks the truth.
	Who knows that when you eat The labor of your hands, you are praiseworthy, that he who sows in tears shall reap in joy, because the freedoms we enjoy are not granted in perpetuity, but must be reclaimed by each generation.
	As our ancestors have planted for us, so we must plant for others.
	While it is not for us to complete the task, neither are we free to desist from them.
	Dispense justice for the needy and the orphan, for they have no one but their fellow citizens, and because a nation's wealth is measured by her values, and not by her vaults.
	Bless all of our allies around the world who share our beliefs.
	By the rivers of Babylon, we wept as we remembered Zion.
	If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.
	The doer of all these shall never falter.
	May the days come soon when justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will abide in the fertile fields, and the work of righteousness will be peace, quietness, and confidence forever.
	Amen.
	Amen.
	Mr. President, in the Bible, reign is a sign of God's blessing.
	And it started to rain, Mr. President, when you came to the platform.
	And my prayer that God will bless you, your family, your administration, and may he bless America.
	The passage of scripture comes from 1 Timothy chapter 2.
	I urge then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people, for kings, for all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.
	This is good, and it pleases God, our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth.
	For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people, now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever in Jesus' name, Amen.
	It's really incredible what's happening here, folks.
	I can't wait to begin the analysis of this.
	This is profound what is happening here today.
	We thank you, Father, for letting us share this great moment together.
	Let us not take for granted the air we breathe or the life you've given us.
	We were all created by you with one blood, all nations to dwell upon this land together.
	We are not enemies, but brothers and sisters.
	We're not adversaries, but we're allies.
	We are not foes, but we're friends.
	Let us be healed by the power of your love and united by the bond of your spirit.
	Today we pray for our 45th president, the vice president and their families, and give them the wisdom to guide this great nation, the strength to protect it, and the hands to heal it.
	We bless President Donald J. Trump.
	We ask that you give him the wisdom of Solomon, the vision of Joseph, and the meekness of Christ.
	Solomon who kept peace among many nations, Joseph who dreamt better for the people, and Christ who accepted us all.
	O Lord, mend our hearts and stitch together the fabric of this great country in the spirit of the legendary gospel songwriter Mahelia Jackson.
	Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe the Lord will see us through.
	I do believe we are on our way to victory.
	I do believe we will walk hand in hand.
	I do believe we shall live in peace.
	I do believe.
	Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe America we shall overcome.
	May the Lord bless and keep America and make his face shine upon us and be gracious unto us and give us peace in the mighty name of Jesus.
	Amen.
	Anyone gonna read from two Corinthians?
	Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Jackie Ivanko, accompanied by the President's own United States Marine Band.
	Please stand for the singing of the National Anthem.
	Why the dog's so it may let it wild lights must clean me.
	Whose broad stripes and bright stars Through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched Was so gallantly streaming And the rocket's red glare The bombs bursting in
	air Gave proof through the night That the flag was still there Oh, say does that star-spangled Can I yet wave O'er the land of
	the brave And the home of the brave And the home of the brave I still don't believe what I just saw.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing while the president and official party depart the platform.
	You will be released by section shortly.
	So now we're gonna get the orderly departure.
	And I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you if some people are gonna skedaddle out of there as quickly as they can.
	So it's gonna be fascinating too.
	Uh tune in later and listen to some of the learned commentariat and the pundit acracy.
	Analyze the inaugural address.
	Donald Trump today.
	Now last night, I have to tell you, I was I was I was deeply touched and blown away.
	Some of you might remember during the second term at George W. Bush.
	He had a White House ceremony for Pope Benedict.
	And at that ceremony, the United States Army chorus and band did a rousing rendition of the battle hymn of the Republic.
	And it just uh it it blow me away.
	I I was deeply touched by it.
	I found a way to get copy of it, and I started listening to it over and over and over again, recognizing every element of the performance.
	I actually called the White House and begged somebody to just put President Bush on the phone for just 30 seconds so that I could thank him for what had happened.
	Because it was a White House ceremony where once again God had with no fear and with uh any unabashed nervousness had been reintroduced to the White House and to the country.
	God was on full display, battle hymn of the Republic with Pope Benedict, and I just I felt compelled to thank President Bush.
	And I'd sent Carl Rove an email quickly during while this is all going on, and I said, could you do what you could to help?
	He said, I don't think it's gonna happen.
	We're on a tight schedule today.
	Well, it happened.
	President Bush came on 30 seconds that ended up to be a couple of minutes, and I thanked him profusely for that ceremony.
	It remains one of the most incredible things that I have seen.
	And it's largely focused around the performance by the Army chorus of Battle Hymn of the Republic.
	So last night.
	Yeah, we've got that.
	I'll I well well before the program ends, I'll I'll play that performance uh uh that that happened.
	Uh do you have the date on that by any chance?
	Do you is the uh computer entry have the date that that happened?
	Not that it matters, it'd just be an interesting point, but it was in Bush's seconds.
	Anyway, last night I'm watching the inaugural events that are taking place at the Lincoln Memorial.
	And Toby Keith is performing, a couple of other uh groups are performing, and the Trump family is there in a huge crowd, a huge, huge crowd.
	Trump addressed the crowd at one point and made mention of the fact that it was unprecedented that such an event had not really happened uh on inauguration eve and had been so well attended.
	And then I heard the public address announcer announce the United States Army Band and the chorus doing Battle Hymn of the Republic, and I said, Whoa!
	I said, This is this is it's it's I don't know what it was, but it was it was it had deep meaning, and here came the performance, and it was practically identical to the performance at the White House for Pope Benedict.
	It had the same orchestration and the same arrangement.
	The uh I know members of the Army band and chorus changed constantly, but it sounded the same.
	And the fireworks were going off.
	The Trumps, the Trump family had ascended the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and they were standing at the top while this song was being sung and performed, and the fireworks display was just never ending.
	It was one of the most over-the-top fireworks displays I've seen.
	It went on, I'm sure there have been others like it, Fourth of July in Washington, but it just went on and on and on, and it was intense and it was loud, and it was never ending, accompanying the battle hymn of the republic.
	The history of the battle hymn of the republic dates back to the Civil War.
	And when the song was first played for President Lincoln, he loved it so much that he demanded that whoever was performing it at the time, was written by a woman, demanded that it be played again.
	And it's it's uh I I always had a certain spot in my heart for that song.
	Uh I have I have listened to that song be played while watching video of American military aircraft scrambling and taking off from Hawaii and from Air Force bases in California.
	And I was thinking, what are the odds that the same song, the same performance would be played here at a Trump inaugural party or ceremony the night before the inauguration.
	I was just I don't know.
	I mean it it was deep, deep meaning to me.
	And then the realization that we were looking at and listening to an event where God was again front and center.
	With no excuses made, and with no apologies, and with no attempts to say anything to the people who might be offended, it was just there.
	It was front and center and the same thing today.
	God was present, acknowledged from beginning to end of the Trump inauguration today.
	And it's something we haven't seen in a while.
	And I think there is a much more substantive and deep meaning to what's happening here.
	And it hit me last night when I was watching the inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, battle him of the Republic, and some of the speeches and words that were said last night.
	There's a reclamation of the country taking place, is I guess the best way to describe how this is affecting me.
	And by reclamation of the country, I mean that the people who honor the time-honored institutions and traditions of this country from its founding are reclaiming this country from efforts made by others to eliminate those institutions and traditions or to water them down and to transform this country away from what it was intended
	to be from its founding forward.
	I think that's what these last eight years have been.
	I noticed that Dr. Krauthammer has a column at National Review It might be his Washington Post column that that runs today.
	And Dr. Krauthammer, Charles Krautheimer News Peace Today, acknowledges that now Obama has clearly illustrated that he is a radical.
	And Crauthammer cites the pardon or the commutation of the sentence of Ashley Manning and a couple of other events that says Obama claimed to have a bucket list, but actually it was not a bucket list, was another kind of list, a word that sounds like bucket but without a B in it.
	And I was reading Dr. Krauthammer's piece and I said, I'm glad that he is acknowledging today that Obama was indeed a radical, but it's not new.
	Cool.
	The fact that Obama has been a radical and a leftist has been something that's obvious since before Obama was inaugurated to me, and I'm sure many of you.
	And so you couple the events of last night and some of the ceremonial aspects of the inauguration today that that surrounded Trump's actual inaugural address, and there's no question there's a reclamation going on.
	And I think this is one of the things the left knows.
	And it has them totally disoriented and discombobulated, and they're wandering aimlessly now in the political desert.
	They haven't the slightest idea what to do, because this is the antithesis of uh antithesis of where they thought they were.
	They thought that after eight years of Obama, which would lead into four or more eight years, safe Hillary, that they were going to finally close the deal and complete the transformation of this country and take it away from the power structure that created and founded this country and turn it over to the people they think have been the victims of the founding of this country.
	And that's something you and I, and I will deign to speak for you, have a hard time relating to, to think that the founding of this country has led to victims of it.
	Now, for the purposes of this discussion, I will omit slavery.
	Nobody wants to defend that, but even our founders knew it could not be sustained, and left steps and procedures in the Constitution for eliminating it, which we did.
	Slavery is a thing of the past.
	The American left wants to behave as though it's something still omnipresent and dominant, and it isn't.
	Aside from that, the idea That this country was founded by the government picking winners and picking losers, and therefore there have been victims of this country from the days of the founding.
	This has been the guiding principle, the inspiring, motivating principle of the Obama administration, the American left for the last eight years, and even prior to that, before Obama was elected.
	And what's happening with the Donald Trump campaign, the Donald Trump election, the Trump inaugural is what I think is a reclamation project, without ever saying it.
	Trump's language has this reclamation project described as make America great again.
	And we're going to bring back American jobs.
	We're going to protect our border.
	We're going to protect American manufacturing, bring American business home.
	We're not going to waste our money overseas on foreign entanglements where our interests are not threatened or involved in this.
	But you add it all up.
	And it it is a shot.
	It is a it is a shot across the bow to establish Washington who for the longest time has believed this country has a debt to pay to the world, many debts to pay because of our egregious behavior as a superpower.
	And Trump today put up his hand and said, Whoa and stop.
	It is not the case.
	We don't have anything to apologize for, except to the American people who've been left behind by this vast establishment move to globalism led by incompetent politicians who can't be trusted.
	And they were all sitting there as he said this.
	They were all standing right behind him as he blamed them for the malaise that exists in the country today.
	We didn't get too many camera shots of those people standing behind, but when we did, you could see blank faces, an occasional grimace, an occasional shaking of the head.
	When we got camera shots of the Congress sitting in the seats closest to the stage area, there was no movement.
	There was perfunctory applause, but I mean this was incredible.
	The fearless repetition of the high points of the Trump campaign were front and center in the Trump inaugural address.
	And it was breathtaking.
	I had no expectation of the speech.
	I didn't have any idea what it was going to be.
	I know that many pundits in the establishment, many drive-by analysts...
	Expected, because they still don't know what they're dealing with.
	They expected that Trump would become one of them today.
	They expected that the campaign and the transition have all been Trump acknowledging the people who elected him.
	But starting today, Trump was going to be quote unquote presidential.
	And that means Trump was going to become of Washington.
	And he was going to deliver an inaugural address that they could lump in with JFK's and one of Reagan's and maybe a couple of three others.
	And you can't do that.
	The closest we can get to the inaugural address today is Rinaldi Magnus back in 1989.
	Now I mentioned earlier that if you think what Trump said today, has it been said before in terms of a freshly sworn-in president taking out after the political establishment, honing in on the deficiencies and the problems of the country.
	If you think, wow, that I've never heard that before.
	Well, then I would direct you to Ronald Reagan's first inaugural.
	I have a rather lengthy excerpt here, but I'm not I'm not going to read the whole thing.
	But let me just share with you a couple of things that Reagan said in 1981.
	He said the business of our nation goes forward.
	These United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions.
	We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained inflations in our national history.
	It distorts our economic decisions.
	It penalizes thrift.
	It crushes the struggling young and fixed-income elderly alike.
	It threatens to shatter the lives of millions of our people.
	Reagan was continuing with his campaign theme, running against the melees of the Jimmy Carter economy and the Jimmy Carter presidency.
	And his inaugural address continued the theme.
	Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, human misery, and personal indignity.
	Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.
	But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending.
	For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present.
	To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals.
	And there's this.
	In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem.
	Government is the problem.
	From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people.
	Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?
	All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.
	The solutions we seek must be equitable and with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.
	Well, that was Reagan in 1981 at his first inaugural.
	And you can't get more pointed in criticizing the establishment than to say that government's not the solution to our problem.
	Government is the problem.
	So what Trump did today is not unprecedented, but he did it, of course, in his unique manner and made no doubt less.
	Left no doubt that in his mind and in his administration, this is America first, America second, and America third, and that is going to be the governing philosophy going forward.
	And he was fearless and unabashed.
	And I'm still sitting here somewhat taken aback that he said all of this while everybody in his mind who is responsible for the problems was sitting right behind him.
	Now I have a soundbite I want you to play.
	This one, this one struck me, and I think it illustrates a uh well, it's great.
	It does illustrate a the profound difference between ourselves and the American left and the Democrat Party.
	By the way, Obama is now on the helicopter that uh when the president's on it, it's Marine One.
	He's no longer the president, so it's under another designation.
	Obama and Michelle and the uh and the family are now on the way to joint base Andrews, where they will be flown on one of the two Boeing 747 400s that is Air Force One when the president is aboard.
	It will not be Air Force One.
	Air Force One's a designation.
	If uh if the president's flying in a piper cub, it's called Air Force One.
	So he's going to be in the same plane that's used to ferry presidents around, but it will be known by its tail number.
	He's going to Palm Springs before he returns to Washington.
	He and Michelle are heading to Palm Springs, and I am told she's not crazy about it.
	So I don't know how long they're going to be there.
	Obama clearly loves Palm Springs.
	There are a bunch of uh very wealthy Democrat donors and people that play golf, and there's a lot of country clubs out there.
	So it's uh it's made to order for somebody who's just left the rigors of eight years in the Oval Office and needs some downtime.
	But I'm told uh from a couple people that that Michelle Obama doesn't particularly like it much there, so I don't know how long they will be there.
	Anyway, uh before the swearing in occurred today, there were a couple of short speeches by other members of the United States government and the Senate Democrat leader, Chuck Hugh Schumer showed up.
	And I have a couple of sound bites that I want to share with you because it illustrates the difference.
	And by the way, folks, let me tell you one other thing that's coming up.
	I'm I I don't want to um I don't want to sprinkle pessimism on the program today by any stretch, because I don't feel any.
	But I do think that going forward, given how earnest and excited and committed Trump is to his agenda, you need to know that there are a whole slew of people who are devoted to stopping him.
	And they are in government and they are in Washington, and they're not elected.
	There is a whole cadre of people who are just waiting for the right times to undermine Trump and his agenda.
	They're not elected, and you can't get rid of them.
	Reagan also referred to them, and it is the bureaucracy.
	And I will explain this in greater detail as the program unfolds.
	You might remember yesterday, I had a piece of the politico that was for the first time at the post-election period, an honest appraisal and assessment of the absolute disaster that has befallen the Democrat Party.
	I shared many of the salient details with you from this piece.
	Again, it was a political piece, and it was honest and forthright in detailing just how far gone the Democrat Party is as a result of this election.
	It was honest about how many seats they've lost, about how few governorships they now control, about how they don't have a bench, the the big names, the claims to fame, the people they're looking at to be president next are all 70 years of old, years of age, and and their names everybody knows.
	And so the second list of potential presidents is Hollywood actors like George Clooney and Merrill Streep or Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook or Cheryl Stanford.
	They've got nobody.
	This piece was right on the money, but there was one thing this piece left out.
	And it's a crucial element that the piece left out.
	The political piece did not explain why this had happened to the Democrats.
	And that means in my mind, they still are not willing to acknowledge why they lost.
	They're telling themselves to this day the Russians did it.
	Even though, even though Obama pardons, commutes the sentence of a traitor, Ashley Manning, who turned over hundreds of thousands of military and national security documents to WikiLeaks.
	And Obama said, not a big enough deal.
	I'm commuting the sentence.
	And yet on the other side of his mouth, Obama comes out and rips WikiLeaks for helping to undermine Hillary's presidential election.
	It's one of the great ironies and hypocrisies.
	The thing the piece left out, the great unmentionable in the Politico piece, Explaining why the Democrats lost and lost big.
	He didn't talk about their ideas.
	Didn't say anything about their ideas being rejected.
	It didn't go anywhere near Obama's agenda being repudiated and rejected and sent packing.
	It did not refer to the fact that this country doesn't want any more liberalism as they have learned what it Is after eight years of Obama.
	And because the piece didn't mention that, it tells me that the Democrats still don't know why it is they lost.
	And further from that, it is just more evidence that the last thing the Republican Party needs to do is to help them out by crossing the aisle and working with them and helping them resuscitate themselves.
	It would be the biggest, like that Tom Tillis piece that he wrote in the Charlotte Observer, saying the message of the election was that people want us to work together, that there's no ultra-right agenda or mandate that Trump has, totally missing the point.
	The opportunity to keep the Democrats in this vast minority state is there for the taking.
	Now, here are the two Schumer bites, because these demonstrate totally a difference in vision that we have and the Democrats have.
	Let's get number 22 since we'll play them both.
	I've got time.
	I just noticed an error on the clock.
	I've got time.
	Play both bites.
	Here's the first one.
	We live in a challenging and tumultuous time.
	A quickly evolving, ever more interconnected world.
	A rapidly changing economy that benefits too few while leaving too many behind.
	A fractured media, a politics frequently consumed by rancor.
	Who are they talking about?
	Fractured media.
	Who do you mean there, Chuck?
	Fractured media?
	Yeah, they don't all have the same set of facts, you see.
	Wonder where he's talking about fractured media.
	Challenging tumultuous times.
	Rapidly changing economy benefits too few.
	So here we go.
	Now wait till you hear this next bite.
	We Americans have always been a forward-looking, problem-solving, optimistic, patriotic, and decent people.
	Yeah, but whatever our race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, whether we are immigrant or native-born, whether we live with disabilities or do not, in wealth or in poverty, we are all exceptional in our commonly held yet fierce devotion to our country.
	No, we're not.
	In our willingness to sacrifice our time, energy, and even our lives to making it a more perfect union.
	You did not hear Donald Trump subdivide the people of this country as he was talking to them, but listen to Schumer.
	Whatever your race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity.
	Whether we're immigrant or native born, they look at the country, they subdivide it according to skin, color, ethnicity, and gender identity.
	I still haven't figured it out what went wrong for them.
	Anyway, I've got to take a break, folks, because are we breaking now?
	We are breaking now, is that correct?
	Uh let's do.
	Let's do.
	We have a break that I'm sure our local affiliates would appreciate the Profit Center timeout as well.
	We could use one.
	We've been on a solid hour here.
	Be back in just a second, folks.

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