President Biden's full inaugural address: 'Democracy has prevailed'

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🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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President Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 46th president.

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0:00.0	Well, hello from Washington.
0:09.0	I'm Chuck Todd and it is January 20th.
0:14.1	January 20th, 2021.
0:15.6	A date some people have been looking forward to since the last January 20th of 2017.
0:22.2	But you might know the deal by now for the third Wednesday in a row and only the third
0:26.7	Wednesday in 2021, all the action is in Washington and it's all happening on a Wednesday, which
0:31.9	also means we're going to sort of punt the podcast at other 24 hours, but not without
0:38.5	giving you a little taste of the inaugural address and what to be listening for because today
0:43.2	is the day that Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States,
0:47.9	unless somehow Mike Pence takes the oath in the next 12 hours.
0:51.6	We're going to have special coverage of the inauguration all day on NBC and MSNBC.
0:54.7	We're in a post-biden speech in this episode and we're going to be back tomorrow.
0:58.1	We'll have a normal podcast episode.
1:00.6	But think about his inaugural speech this way and I will say this.
1:04.8	I hope people are going to be looking for, there's some people are going to be looking for
1:08.9	a shorting rhetoric.
1:09.9	Some people are going to be looking for Lincoln's second inaugural.
1:13.6	Some people are going to be looking for FDR's first.
1:16.8	I'll tell you this, the public, Joe Biden's got one job and that one job is getting 100
1:22.8	million vaccinations into 100 million honors in the next 100 days.
1:27.5	That trumps everything he's going to do.
1:30.5	But this inaugural address is going to matter thematically as far as what is Joe Biden's
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