(21 Jan 2017) {UPSOUND: Chief Justice John Roberts swears in Barack Obama}
"Roberts: So help me God...
Trump: So help me God...
Roberts: Congratulations, Mr. President... (applause)
DONALD J. TRUMP WAS SWORN IN AS THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FRIDAY... TAKING COMMAND OF A DEEPLY DIVIDED NATION AND USHERING IN AN UNPREDICTABLE ERA IN WASHINGTON.
SOUNDBITE: President Donald Trump:
"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."
SPEAKING ON THE WEST FRONT OF THE CAPITOL BEFORE A CROWD INCLUDING FORMER FIRST COUPLE BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA, THREE PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, TRUMP REITERATED HIS POPULIST CAMPAIGN THEMES...
BLAMING WASHINGTON'S LONGTIME LEADERS FOR IGNORING THE CITIZENS THEY SERVE....
AND PAINTING A GRIM PICTURE OF THE NATION HE NOW LEADS...
SOUNDBITE: President Donald Trump
"Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation. This American carnage stops right here and right now... "
THE CROWDS GATHERED ON THE NATIONAL MALL WERE SMALLER AND SEEMINGLY MORE SUBDUED THAN IN PAST INAUGURATIONS.
STILL, TRUMP SUPPORTERS WHO CAME TO WITNESS THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY SAID THEY GOT WHAT THEY CAME FOR.
SOUNDBITE Steve Kerney, Bikers for Trump:
"I just thought it was very uniting. I thought he did a good job uniting people and saying the things I think everybody wanted him to say. Not just his supporters but everybody."
SOUNDBITE Pamela Brewer, Trump Supporter
"I had chills all over my body. I was moved throughout so I'm very happy. I know there's people unhappy today but they need to open their hearts and mind and concentrate on country and we're going to be OK."
WHILE THE INAUGURAL FESTIVITIES CARRIED ON, ANGER SPILLED OUT ON TO THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON....
WINDOWS SMASHED, a CAR SET ON FIRE...AND DOZENS OF PROTESTERS ARRESTED IN A CHAOTIC CONFRONTATION WITH POLICE WHO USED PEPPER SPRAY AND STUN GRENADES TO QUELL THE VIOLENCE.
THE CLASHES HOWEVER DIDN'T DISRUPT THE POMP AND TRADITION....
FOLLOWING HIS SPEECH, TRUMP AND WIFE MELANIA BID THE OBAMAS FAREWELL AS THEY DEPARTED THE CAPITOL GROUNDS IN A GOVERNMENT HELICOPTER...
TRUMP THEN LED A STANDING OVATION AT A CAPITOL LUNCHEON IN HONOR OF FORMER ELECTION RIVAL HILLARY CLINTON.
SOUNDBITE: Donald Trump
"Honestly there is nothing more I can say because I have a lot of respect for those 2 people."
THE FANFARE AND CELEBRATION CONTINUED ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE - IN THE MILE-AND-A-HALF STRETCH BETWEEN THE CAPITOL AND THE WHITE HOUSE ...
AS THE NEW FIRST FAMILY HOPPED OUT OF THEIR LIMOUSINE FOR THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED PRESIDENTIAL PARADE WALK.
{UPSOUND}
SMILES, WAVES AND OPTIMISM MARKED THE MOMENT... A SHARP CONTRAST FROM THE IMAGES JUST BLOCKS AWAY...
UNDERSCORING THE CHALLENGES TRUMP FACES AS HE PLEDGES TO UNITE THE COUNTRY AND HEAL ITS DIVISIONS.
KELLY DASCHLE, ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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