Stay tuned after the show for a message from Morgan Stanley.

Good Friday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. The presidential inauguration is 69 days from today. And we know surprisingly

little about how it will all unfold. So with the help of John Bresnehan, we have some details for you.

This inauguration,

January 20, 2021, will be different than any inauguration in history. Senator Roy Blunt, the Republican from Missouri, is chairing the Joint Congressional Committee on inaugural ceremonies.

He held a meeting Thursday morning with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader

Steny Hoyer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,

and Senator Amy Klobuchar, the ranking Democrat on the Rules panel to discuss the details.

This group is the JCCIC. Typically, the bulk of the inaugural details would be handled by staffers,

while lawmakers jocke-nicket, friends, and supporters, tickets to the inaugural balls.

But, of course, these are far from normal times,

and the lawmakers themselves must figure out how to safely stage an event

that includes the world's most powerful people and hundreds of thousands of

spectators in the middle of this pandemic. To start, this event will be smaller than previous

inaugurations, but by how much we don't know. Maria Lomeyer, a former aide to John Boehner, who

helped run the 2016 inauguration, has been brought in to help run the January event, she presented different

scenarios to lawmakers in the Thursday meeting. They discussed masks, testing, and spacing. They also

spoke about mandatory testing for anyone on the podium near Joe Biden. Also at issue,

where to hold the traditional inauguration lunch. The POTUS VP lunch is typically in Statuary Hall.

They may move into Emancipation Hall

in the Capitol Visitor Center for more space. Ron Claim, the incoming chief of staff to Joe Biden,

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