we're keeping an eye on both of these
images for you on the left hand side of
your screen
you're seeing the door of air force one
which is where
president trump will come down those
steps to begin his life as
former president as citizen trump in
florida he'll be moving into mar-a-lago
he has a private apartment there in
mar-a-lago he and his wife will be
moving in there
on the right-hand side of your screen we
see
the capitol building here in washington
d.c where dignitaries are gathered
there is mike pence the vice president
still vice president of the united
states under donald trump he did not go
to andrews air force base
to say goodbye to president trump he did
not go to the white house this morning
to say goodbye
to president trump he has been a loyal
foot soldier for this
president defending his uh many
controversial policies the separation of
families at the border
um the ban on people from majority
muslim countries entering the united
states early on
mike pence stood by donald trump
throughout his presidency
but he broke with him on the issue of
whether the election was free and fair
and
mike pence just would not go as far as
donald trump wanted him to go
in fighting the election results and
here he is he is the representative of
the trump administration on that
platform
uh he will be standing in effectively
for donald trump
to pass the baton from the 45th
president
to the 46th president we are then
expecting after the pence's
the running order that we have been
given by the white house is that
um we will have the vice president-elect
kamala harris and doug emhoff they will
be
the next to come out there's bill
clinton george bush
just behind him and it is an
extraordinary scene this as we watch
power in washington power in america is
shifting
it is shifting from the left-hand side
of your screen to the right-hand side of
your screen
it is shifting from donald trump who is
leaving office
defeated as a one-term president to joe
biden who has
on his third attempt for the u.s
presidency will finally be taking
uh the oath of office as the oldest
president ever in american history
um and he will have a vice president who
is also making history
as the first woman and the first person
of color
also as a vice president we can speak
now to stephanie rawlings-blake
she is former mayor of baltimore and was
close to
the i'm going to one second before we go
to the mayor because there is donald
trump we were talking about a split
screen
melania has changed she was left
washington in a
black this is melania trump plays close
attention to her clothes she is left in
one rather somber outfit she has arrived
in florida
in a suitably sunny dress perhaps
no secret that melania trump is happy to
be leaving washington
she was never particularly keen to take
up her position
in the white house she liked her life as
a private citizen
in new york and now she can resume life
as a private citizen
down in
in florida so that's it donald trump
gets into his suv and he drives off to
mar-a-lago
and we can say goodbye
to the trump presidency it is perhaps
as important a moment in this day in
american history
that the country is saying goodbye to
donald trump
who has left without even attending the
inauguration
of his successor and that his family is
leaving to
his family who also to broke precedent
by having members of the family there
in offices right next to the president
of the oval office as his advisors
and that they will be scattered around
the country many of them perhaps have
political ambitions there could be some
shakespearean rivalry there between
those siblings ivanka don jr even
perhaps eric who all have
political ambitions of his own still
president at the moment so he still gets
the trappings you can see there
there is the president's seal on the
door
of the suv he has the flags and for
another
what are we looking at 58 minutes or so
donald trump is still
president in the constitution
power does not whenever the oath of
office is taken and there's been some
dispute because
under our uh timetable that we have it
looks like
joe biden might actually take the oath
of office before midday here
on the east coast of washington dc that
does not make him president
the clock will make joe biden president
donald trump stops being president at
noon and his successor takes over
after that and donald trump has gone