>> reporter: there was a time he simply didn't want to shake hands, called it a disgusting habit at one point but long before he decided to run for president, he overcame that. here we're on -- this is the part of pennsylvania avenue called pennsylvania plaza, lafayette park is coming up soon. the official reviewing stand. this is a part where to get here you really had to have tickets to attend this. there's not a single protester i could see in sight here. this is a very friendly crowd for him. >> cecilia vega what can you see. >> reporter: it's interesting to me what donald trump will see is a huge section of empty bleachers and i'm struck by the fact this is the area he chose to get out of his car if in fact he's going to walk the way to his seating area in front of the white house. i'm directly in front of the white house. the crowds hear the president coming and they're cheering is

picking up. from my vantage point i can get my first view of the president trying to catch a glimpse. you could hear the crowds excited. this is friendly turf. but i have to say not just a vip section empty, there's a public section here and there is still a lot of empty seats in this area. but the crowd that is here are on their toes. they are peering over the people in front trying to catch their first glimpse of president donald trump. >> i'm surprised to see the empty bleachers, you can tell us why. >> reporter: i saw jon karl. i want to be jon karl when i grow up and ride the inaugural parade. you're talking about the empty stands. i was told by people there's a good chance those are being reserved for vip's and the performers. you're wondering why those stands are empty and that is one of the reasons why. i believe -- is this a

presidential motorcade right here? we know four years ago right at the verypot president obama got out and walked up to the reviewing stand. we're waiting to see if donald trump -- we know he is walking and greeting people right now in the stand. but we're going to -- whether or not he goes into the white house to freshen up as expected remains to be seen. but that's -- >> we are going to follow that. we saw him surrounded by his whole family. children and grandchildren as they got out of the cars. they're all going to spend the whole night together in the white house tonight. president trump says he's going to sleep in the lincoln bedroom. we kind of lost sight of them jon. >> reporter: they're in the area just from front of the treasury building right before lafayette park. seems to be directly engaging with people along the route. we're in the section -- he's right before we get to the empty

section, george. plenty of supporters around where he is. >> keeping an eye now on the car. he didn't go back into the car, did he? >> i did not see him get back into the car. >> we're going to have to double-check that. it seems like he may have gone back in. we'll keep an eye on that right now. as i said, we also saw ivanka, don jr. holding his daughter khloe and john, anything new? >> reporter: george, he's back in the limousinlimousine. my view is a little obstructed but i'm told he's back in the limo. >> a minute or two. >> reporter: yeah. just about to enter the section with the huge empty bleachers. if those are reserved for the performers i got to tell you i've never seen at this stretch of the inaugural route with empty bleacher seats. never seen that.

>> those of you in the presidential reviewing stand and further down lafayette park, he's almost here, keep your eyes peeled. >> inaugural announcer there. doesn't have to tell peopl twice on that route. that's what they're there for. president trump heading towards the white house now and that reviewing stand. once he sets up the parade. running behind schedule today. started i would say after the reviewing of the military about an hour late. the president set to attend three balls tonight. fairly short order. and then back to wor tomorrow. boy, martha raddatz, that last time out was only for a minute or two. >> it was a very quick little

journey there. you know, as i was watching melania who got out also very quickly and barron, you talk about the bubble, i think it's much harder on spouses. michelle obama talked about that as well. melania certainly with the 10-year-old child who she doesn't want to take out of school in new york. cokie can talk to this very well about what that's like for someone like melania trump or michelle obama. >> so tough. the first ladies, unlike the presidents can get out every once in a while in cognito. >> and michelle obama did that a good bit but really started with martha washington. she wrote a letter to her niece saying people call me the highest lady in the land, i feel like i'm the chief state prisoner. >> everywhere you go, someone can report that back. >> the inaugural balls which started with dolly madison who did wear buffed colored velvet,

a tradition here, that ball was written about as the most crowded and brilliant that washington had ever seen. now washington had only been here 15 minutes. so it wasn't surprising that was the case. my mother was chairman of two inaugural balls, both kennedy and johnson. i know the amount of work that goes into them. but woodrow wilson decided not to have one and the businessmen of washington were furious. at that point the ball was the whole inauguration instead of raising millions of corporate dollars. congress felt that the previous inaugural ball, the dances had not been good. the newspapers wrote about the grizley bear gyrations, the turkey trot and all similar forms of convulsive movements should be outlawed. >> you mentioned the money as we

see donald trump come out again and wave to the crowds. more than $100 million raised for this inaugural. and tom llamas, as we keep our eye on the president, they raised more money than they could use. kind of a scaled down inaugural. >> reporter: yeah, somewhat. people have to running back president trump does not drink. so it will be a sober three balls for him and something he doesn't do. it's part of a life experience. he had a very bad experience with his brother who passed away in part because of alcoholism and he's never drank or smoked. he does enjoy a good party though. he loves to entertain people and loves to speak obviously publicly and be surrounded by his friends and family. i think he's going to savor those three moments. he gets up early but it's going to be a very long night for him. >> he likes to preside over

parties. >> reporter: exactly. >> he likes to preside at mar-a-lago. >> reporter: there was a great story i was reading about him, one of his buy ol fors said at mar-a-lago he loves to turn up the music loud and that's to annoy his neighbors. and he was saying he wants to be part of the culture, part of the group but also wants to be a rebel in his own way. i think that's very telling. i think he'll treat d.c. very much in the same way. he's going to want to do things his way. one of the songs he's dancing to with melania is "myway." >> paulanka who wrote it has chose not to come which has irritated the president. a lot of actors, singers chose to boycott this inaugural. i think it's one of the reasons tom, he enjoyed yesterday afternoon so much in the lincoln

memorial even though he did say it never had been done before which of course it had. >> reporter: remember when hillary clinton brought out beyonce and jay z. he really didn't have that star power. eventually he didn't need it. i'll never forget we went to one of his last rallies in florida and the opening act was joe piscopo. nothing to take away from joe who is a comedian and talented but it was joe piscopo versus beyonce and jay z. it worked for him. you're right, her has this problem because he loves celebrity culture. look, we have been at trump tower and seen him trot out kanye west, steve harvey, all these random celebrities but he wants to make it a point that he wants to be seen with these people. yes, it is very important to him. >> it is important to him. but terry moran, he's also

turned that necessity into a political virtue at times picking fights with hollywood when necessary. >> it's a great foil for any republican, any conservative. hollywood doesn't do itself favors sometimes. they're almost unanimously against donald trump it seems. and there was a line where meryl streep gave a moving speech about her opposition to donald trump. but she went out of her way to insult people who liked professional football and mixed martial arts. that's not the kind of thing that will advance their cause and he has an instinct. i'm reminded of a image he talks about. growing up in queens, but he looked across the east river as a young man and said i'm going to conquer manhattan againstis father's advice and that kind of sense of bng an out cider with a chip on his shoulder is

something he brings to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> you mentioned mixed martial arts. undoubtedly the first president of the united states who has ever more or less competed in a professional wrestling match and his head of small business administration, mcmahon is the head of that as well. and looks like she's going to get confirmed. >> we met her during the convention, ran into her at an ice cream shop at the convention and she's a big donald trump fan. if you look back in the old youtube videos of donald trump and linda mcmahon and her husband in the ring, they're pretty amusing. >> matthew dowd, to the point not only inside his white house staff as you were talking before, but the generals aside, many of picked for the cabinet also washington outsiders. >> almost everybody.

some exceptions. his senior staff don't have any washington experience in the government. many of his key officials have no experience in the government. so he ran on that platform. he ran on the idea we need outsiders and filmed his white house with most of them. >> and he's hoping that the skills that brought him to the white house are ones going to help him succeed in the white house. all presidents, mark, start out that way. saying, listen, i'm the one who won barack obama, how come you didn't get elected. presidents come into office with that pride and confidence. >> it's right. you think about ronald reagan. we talked about donald trump going into the professional wrestling ring but it was reagan who did a movie with a chimp. "time for bonzo."

he came into washington, ronald reagan as an out sisider and he understood washington and conformed in many respects to its traditions and to ensure that he did things to get things done. took all the proper steps in order to make that happen. >> famously spent time after hours with tip o'neill. matthew, on that point, a far different washington, a far different congress, a far different political world. >> we're lightyears away from 1981, 1985. the country has tribalized the way people consume. there's not a common set of facts in the debates that we have. barack obama ran on in 2008 on bringing the country together.

more divided in the aftermath. a very difficult place for democrats now. it was very difficult for republicans to come to the aid of barack obama, the same thing, it's going to be very difficult for democrats to come to the aid of president trump. >> you saw all the red on the election maps, the deep blue pockets in the east and west coast. people get locked into their own views. they even call it the great sorti sorting. people moving to places where they're likely to be surrounded by people who agree with them. >> that's a challenge. one of his buy ol fors said donald trump is a street fighter and is able to adapt and adjust to people. that will serve him well in washington. he has sort of this street level reaction to people and i think that that transcends politics. that's certainly what his supporters are hoping for and what people in the blue states

are concerned about. >> cokie roberts, talking about how much things have changed. it is a different washington. president obama would bristle when people said oh, if you would only have them up for coffee more, go out for drinks with more republicans you might get more done. he scoffed at that and we really don't know yet what the person interaction between president trump and the congress is going to be like. >> it will be interesting to get a report out of just this lunch because it was the first time they were together. it is true, president obama should have done more of it. it couldn't have hurt but he said republicans didn't want to come to the white house, didn't want to have their pictures taken with him because it would get them in trouble at home. i was listening to some pieces i did when the martin luther king holiday was established in 1983 when it passed both houses of congress and it was southern democrats and republicans but white southern democrats and northern republicans like --

well, moderate republicans like bob dole who got it through. george h.w. bush coming through to show support. those politicians are gone. there are no white southern republicans. i mean white southern democrats. there are no northern moderate republicans. they don't exist anymore. so putting together a coalition to get something done is almost impoible. >> if you look at -- if you examine barack obama's legacy. you can't overstate the fact he was the first african-american president and what that meant to people in the country. one of the failures he had is the democratic party and the aftermath of barack obama is decimated. they lost more congressional races, more u.s. senate races, more governorships. if you look at the country as a political war the republicans won the land war in taking over stretches of the country that

even though obama leads at a 60% approval rating the democratic party is at its lowest ebb. >> almost lost 1,000 seats. i talked to president obama before he left. it was one of the places he says a lot is on me. he said he's going to dedicate sometime in the future to rebuilding that party. but today donald trump's day. cecilia vega, he's getting closer? >> reporter: he is george. this is the moment for donald trump. election day, the last couple of months, all leading up to right now. this is when life changes for this reality tv star, this billionaire businessman turned the most improbable president this country has ever had. now we gins the legacy of donald trump and the questions about how he will govern and it all starts right now as he begins this journey, this new life driving into the grounds of the white house for the very first time, this home that will be his

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and we're back on the air now with our coverage of the inauguration of the 45th president of the united states, donald j. trump. there you see michael pence, a happy man today surrounded by his wife and members of his family. daughter charlotte and son as well. boy, he's been pointing to this for a long time. member of congress, governor of indiana. he wears his emotions on his sleeve. you see it. it's all over his face rights there. he has a lot of friends in this town. president trump in the white house already. elected to come out to the reviewing stand soon and paula faris you are there? >> reporter: i asked him, can you tell us what these days have been like for your family and donald trump.

he said it is impossible to descri describe. he's a man that wears his heart on his sleeve and a lot of people around this country connected with him. i was told regarding this parade from officials expecting a lot of drums, a lot of bagpipes and horses, george. so we're in for a treat. >> and there's going to be a lot of cleanup on pennsylvania avenue tomorrow. we have been running behind for most of the afternoon. but president trump expected to come out soon on to that reviewing stand. no emergencies have cropped up for him today. his first day in the white house. he's got two key members of the cabinet who have gone through and been confirmed by the senate, general mattis, now the defense secretary, general kelly, the secretary of homeland security and of course homeland security so key right now. i want to check back in with pierre thomas. we saw the secret service kept a

pretty tight reign on the president there. >> everyone was smiling. the trump family clearly enjoying themselves. the only people not smiling would be the secret service. they know that the presidents like to mingle with the people but again, it's a very nervous moment for them whenever that happens george. >> now surrounded by supporters who have been reporting all day long. there have been some protests about several blocks north of the white house. about 100 people arrested in washington d.c. mostly peaceful across the city on the parade route and in the mall. david kerley i don't know if you're still with us. what's happened with the protests a short while ago? we saw the cars burning near mcpherson square. i think we lost david kerley. right now there is mike pence. >> you know, george, he said to me the other day, he dreamed as a little boy of some day

representing the people of indiana. did he ever dream he would be walking down pennsylvania avenue as vice president? i don't think his dreams were even that big. >> tom llamas, it was touch and go there for mike pence. the president as a candidate interviewed several people. it appeared for a time that chris christie had the inside track. he made a last minute plea and even on the final day after it appeared mike pence had been picked, there seemed to be some second thoughts from mr. trump. >> reporter: george, it was almost like an episode of the show "veep." you could not believe it. first we were reporting he had selected mike pence. mike pence was in midtown manhattan. seen him come out the car at the same time trump was still considering chris christie after offering the job to mike pence.

i'll never forget when he announced he picked mike pence. we went to the ballroom at the hilton i believe and the song playing was "you can't always get what you want" by the rolling stones which i cld not believthey were playing that song and trump spoke for 20 minus, for 2 minutes and then said this famous line, let's get back to mike and finally introduced him and governor mike pence came out and mike pence much luike kellyanne conway the deserve awards. they have been able to interpreter what donald trump says and they really have taken some of the brunt of this campaign because they have gone out there and have had to carry that message and stay on message during some very, very difficult times in this campaign. >> maybe the song was you may find sometimes you get what you need and he may have gotten what he needs in mike pence. there was a moment of crisis for mike pence after the "access hollywood" video came out.

he went silent for a day and chose not to go up to wisconsin but then came out and doubled down on donald trump. even more loyal over those last several weeks of the campaign and that martha raddatz, seems to solidify their bound. >> i think it did. mike pence prayed about that. he talked to donald trump about what all that meant. i think he himself forgave donald trump for that "access hollywood" tape and wanted to move on. donald trump saw him you said, extremely loyal. he was the man who could take the heat for him and he still does. during the birther issue when donald trump finally said, yes, the president was born in the united states, mike pence would come out there and talk about it and defend him and defend him and defend him. >> former television broadcaster going out as an explainer for the president even as late as this week after the tweets on john lewis.

mike pence coming out and talking about that as well. matthew dowd, what a prize. the vice presidency, terry moran said, comparing it to a warm bucket of spit. not true anymore. with each passing administration, the vice president has gotten more and more powerful. >> look at the vice presidents that have become over the last 25 years. it's no longer go to the foreign people's futunerals or take you time doing the real thing as the president. now with dick ey and al gore and joe biden became a partner. it is a powerful position and i think it's uniquely powerful in this white house and in this town where mike pence is the only one with a real connection to the capitol. donald trump is going to have to overly rely on mike pence to have all the relationships with the capitol. >> there might be tension terry, because mike pence, conservative republican, republican leadership in both the house and senate right now.

donald trump to the extent he's got an ideology more of a hodge-podge, a little from column a and b. >> this represents a takeover or a transformation of the republican party. small government? not necessarily. he is promising some very, very big government expenditures and infrastructure and health care he seems to have a different idea than the traditional reagan conservatives that you hear in the congress right now. this is a transformative moment for the party. >> watching this, you get the sense on the one side you have got donald trump playing possom and the leaders thinking he's going to go my way. >> i think they're more likely to go his way. first of all, his success works for them. if he is a successful president, that helps them coming io the next election which has already

begun. so i think that he is more likely to have the upper hand. also keep in mind, one of the things we talk about this infrastructure. you know, republicans used to always be for infrastructure bills. something president obama kept talking about. one of the reasons they didn't vote for it in the past administration is they didn't want to give him that success. so if it's a way to give donald trump an immediate success where not only do people go to work, but everybody can see the results of it in infrastructure improvements, that would be a big plus for him. >> their success could be tied together. the question is how long that will last. a lot will depend how popular donald trump is. >> the first 100 days are key. if he hasn't raised his numbers within that time he's in very serious trouble in the midterm. >> first 100 days have begun.

donald trump inaugurated just about five hours ago. we're going to take a break for our local stations. we're going to stay with our coverage all through this parade and stand for at least another hour. "world news tonight" with david muir coming up but several local there we so the parade right there. donald trump is still in the white house, as we see the parade start to form there on pennsylvania avenue. he's going to come out to the reviewing stand and enjoy that moment. before the inaugural balls tonight. but he is still in the white house right now. it has been a long y for the president. began, of course, at blair hous stayed there overnight with his family. church at st. john's, before coffee with the president, and then to the capitol, where he was sworn in. we've seen the lunch with congressional leaders. the review of the