katie pavlich fox news contributor and
townhall.com editor and my co-host on
the 5-1 williams
juan peter ducey is reporting to us here
at fox news that
president trump did indeed leave
incoming president-elect joe biden a
letter we don't know what that letter
says yet but we know that that happened
so
you know some of these traditions were
as different as this inauguration looks
some of the traditions are holding i
think so dana
and the the worship service obviously is
a key tradition and
takes on added significance as chris
wallace was saying in
noting that vice president pence is
there and was not at
joint base andrews for president trump's
departure
but i think that it's all part of what
we're seeing
in terms of not only the healing but the
news of the day
the news of the day including the
president having pardoned
143 people
over the course of last night he did not
pardon himself he didn't pardon any
members of his family he didn't pardon
rudy giuliani
but he did pardon steve bannon and he
didn't pardon lil wayne and he did
pardon the former detroit mayor
kwame kilpatrick this is all part of the
business
behind the pageantry uh and that
includes the letter that you mentioned
uh chris mentioned that amazing letter
from george
h.w bush to bill clinton your success is
our success our success is your success
and i think that hopefully is part of
the healing thought at this moment
the fox news polls that i've looked at
indicate right now it's 59
of americans have a favorable view of
joe biden
uh and you know you stop and think about
how different that is from 2016 where
there were so many
negative or unfavorable views not only
of donald trump as he took inauguration
um but you think back to hillary clinton
who also had some very strong
negative views about her at this moment
joe biden comes in with a sense
i would describe it as a a wellspring of
good will
you know people who might not even be
fully on board saying i'm willing to
give him a chance that would be an added
24 percent of americans so that
indicates again the power of this moment
inauguration day in america
and uh katie pavlich i'm going to ask
the control room do we have the sound of
president trump um wishing the bidens
well because that might give us a sense
of what is in the letter
all right if we could play that and
katie i'll get your reaction on the
other side please
we did what we came here to do
and so much more this week we
inaugurate a new administration
and pray for its success in keeping
america safe
and prosperous we extend our best wishes
and we also want them to have luck a
very
important word
katie he reiterated something similar um
at andrews air force base saying that we
wish them great success anybody
mentioned that you know we've set them
up for great success
it's your thoughts now yeah the
president
reiterated his his track record and
believes that joe biden can pick up the
ball when it comes to operation warp
speed
and deal with the coronavirus pandemic
in a way that he promised to
on the campaign trail and when it comes
to moving forward you know president
trump deeply loves this country
joe biden says he deeply loves this
country and president trump wants the
country
to succeed and therefore you know he's
leaving today with
a record thanking his family thanking
all the people who worked for him it's
been a very tough
uh election cycle obviously the last two
months have been very difficult
the last two weeks have been
increasingly difficult given
the events but the president did come
around he is
wishing joe biden and the invited
administration well and
hoping that a number of his policies
which were good for the country
are continued to be implemented and that
the binding administration can profit
and benefit for the good of the country
off of a number of the policies that
they have implemented