Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, January 19th. I'm Naila Boodoo.

Here's how we're making you

up on the president-elect Joe Biden's COVID plan and catching you up on who he wants in his cabinet.

First though, America's historic week ahead is today's one big thing.

We've got a big week ahead of us at American politics as Joe Biden is

preparing to take the oath of office tomorrow,

Washington DC and state capitals all over the country are on high alert watching for

potential violence and on top of all of that President Trump's second impeachment trial looms.

Axios co-founder Mike Allen is here now to help us make sense of what's to come.

Good morning, Mike.

Good morning, Naila.

Joe Biden has said multiple times, Mike, that his goal right now is to try to reset and unify

the country.

How does he do that when our main symbol of unification, the inauguration is going to be so unusual.

It really is, and the inauguration planners are trying to build into that a way to both reassure people and inspire people, but at the same time deliver

on the Joe Biden promise of saying that he is going to tell people the truth. He said, I'm going to be the guy who can tell you things are going to go worse. We're going to have some dark moments. But here's our plan for making things better. So it's going to be a very typical

inauguration. It's going to be sort of less poetry and more reality.

Mike, can you just give us a sense of what you think it's going to look like tomorrow?

Yeah, so the Biden team has worked very hard to take the lessons that they learned from their remote convention and apply them to this

inauguration. So you remember the roll call from the parade, try to bring people in from states around the country, the swearing in itself, so many fewer

people, very socially distanced, but still holding it outside despite skepticism from some in law enforcement who said

that it should just be done inside the capital for safety they're sending a message

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