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KELLY O’DONNELL AT THE WHITE
HOUSE WITH BREAKING NEWS.
WE’RE HEARING FROM PRESIDENT
TRUMP ABOUT SPECIFICALLY HIS
INAUGURATION DAY PLANS.
SOMETHING WE’VE BEEN REPORTING
ON BUT HE IS NOW CONFIRMING SOME
STUFF THAT’S NEW.
WHAT’S UP?
>> Reporter: WELL, THE PRESIDENT
IS SAYING TO THOSE
>> THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING TO
THOSE WHO HAVE ASKED, HE WILL
NOT BE ATTENDING THE
INAUGURATION ON JANUARY 20th.
IT CAME IN A TWEET.
THOSE TWITTER PRIVILEGES
RETURNED ARE COMING TO USE FOR
THE PRESIDENT WHO IS ANNOUNCING
HE WILL NOT ATTEND THE
INAUGURATION OF HIS SUCCESSOR
JOE BIDEN.
HE HAS YET TO CONGRATULATE JOE
BIDEN.
HE IS YET TO ANNOUNCE WHAT IS
GOING TO HAPPEN IN TERMS OF ANY
MEETING.
IT WOULD SEEM UNLIKELY THAT HE
WOULD IN ANY WAY GREET HIS
SUCCESSOR.
I BELIEVE ONLY THREE TIMES IN
OUR HISTORY HAS A PRESIDENT NOT
ATTENDED AN INAUGURATION OF A
SUCCESSOR.
IT GOES WAY BACK IN OUR HISTORY,
NO TIME IN THE MODERN ERA HAS
THIS BEEN DONE.
WE’VE HAD A FEW INSTANCES WHERE
A PRESIDENT DUE TO AGE AND
LIMITATIONS WAS NOT ABLE TO
ATTEND AN INAUGURAL FOR A NEW
PRESIDENT.
IN THIS INSTANCE WE KNOW JIMMY
CARTER WILL NOT BE ATTENDING.
AT AGE 96, HE AND HIS WIFE
ROSALIND DO NOT TRAVEL VERY MUCH
DUE TO CONDITIONS AND HEALTH AND
ALL THOSE THINGS.
THEY WILL NOT BE ATTENDING.
TO NOT ATTEND THE SUCCESSOR’S
INAUGURATION IS ANOTHER CODA IN
WHAT HAS BEEN A NORM-BUSTING,
TRADITION-DISREGARDING
PRESIDENT.
OF COURSE, IT COMES AT A TIME
WHEN MANY DEMOCRATS AND MANY
MORE VOICES IN THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY AND CONSERVATIVES ARE
SAYING HE SHOULD NOT EVEN
COMPLETE HIS TERM TO GET THROUGH
THE NEXT 12 DAYS.
WE ALSO HAVE REPORTING IT IS
POSSIBLE MIKE PENCE WILL ATTEND
THE INAUGURATION.
HE HAS A DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP
IN JOE BIDEN.
HIS OFFICE HAS TOLD US THAT, IF
AN INVITATION IS EXTENDED TO
HIM, HE WOULD LIKELY ATTEND.
THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER VISIBLE
BREAK BETWEEN MIKE PENCE, WHO UP
UNTIL THESE EVENTS HAD BEEN IN
LOCKSTEP AND ALWAYS LOYAL TO
PRESIDENT TRUMP, BROKE WITH HIM
ON THE FLOOR OF THE CONGRESS FOR
THE TALLYING OF THE ELECTORAL
COLLEGE VOTES AT A TIME THAT
ERUPTED WITH ALL THE VIOLENCE
THAT WE HAVE SEEN.
THE PRESIDENT ENDING ONE OF THE
ISSUES OF SUSPENSE, HE WILL NOT
GO JANUARY 20th.
HALLIE.
>> KELLY, YOU’RE RIGHT, THE
OPTICS OF THAT, PRESIDENT TRUMP
NOT ATTENDING THE INAUGURATION,
VICE PRESIDENT PENCE POTENTIALLY
BEING THERE, SO STRIKING AND
SOMETHING WE’VE NEVER SEEN.
>> AND IT WILL ALSO BE A PART OF
THE TONE WHICH IS PROBABLY --
ONE WOULD IMAGINE JOE BIDEN AND
HIS TEAM HAVE BEEN PREPARING FOR
THIS BECAUSE OF THE ABSENCE OF
PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYING HE WOULD
ATTEND.
SO IN MANY WAYS FOR THEIR
PLANNING, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT
THEY EXPECTED.
AND GIVEN ALL OF THE TENSION,
THE HOSTILITIES AND EVERYTHING
ELSE THAT HAS REALLY SETTLED IN
ON THIS PERIOD, PERHAPS IT IS
EASIER FOR ALL INVOLVED IF
PRESIDENT TRUMP DOES NOT ATTEND.
WHAT HE HAS NOT YET TOLD US IS
WHERE WILL HE BE.
WHAT OTHER PLANS MIGHT HE HAVE?
WILL HE DO ANY KIND OF COUNTER
RALLY OR SPEECH OR ANYTHING LIKE
THAT WHICH AT TIMES HAS BEEN
TALKED ABOUT PRIOR TO THE EVENTS
OF THIS WEEK.
TYPICALLY, ONE PRESIDENT LEAVES
FROM THE EAST FRONT OF THE
CAPITOL SAYING GOODBYE TO THE
SUCCESSOR, FLYING AWAY IN MARINE
ONE, TRAVELING TO ANDREWS,
TAKING AIR FORCE ONE THAT
BECAUSE SPECIAL AIR MISSION WHEN
NO LONGER THE PRESIDENT, TO FLY
HOME.
I ESCORTED -- IN TERMS OF
RECEIVING AS SOMEONE COVERING,
BILL CLINTON WHEN HE RETURNED TO
NEW YORK.
EVERYONE CAN IMAGINE THAT IN THE
COVERING OF THESE EVENTS.
SO THAT IS A PART OF THE SAYER
CEREMONY AS WELL THAT WE WILL
NOT ERKTS PEKT TO SEE THIS TIME.
HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL LEAVE
THE WHITE HOUSE, HOW HE WILL BE
TRANSPORTED PRESUMABLY TO
FLORIDA WILL LIKELY STILL BE
THOSE TRAPPINGS OF THE OFFICE,
BUT IT WILL NOT NECESSARILY HAVE