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This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope of renewal and resolve. We've learned again that democracy is precious democracy is fragile.

And this hour my friends democracy has prevailed. Welcome to talking feds around table that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day.

I'm Harry Litman suddenly it's finished the most corrupt and malevolent president in our history who carried on a ruthless campaign in the last 90 days to try to steal the election from the rightful winner is gone.

A surprisingly strong emotional release accompanied president Joe Biden's inauguration strange as it was in a locked down and fortified city empty of cheering crowds and parade participants much beyond the excitement of a new government it felt something like the relief at the end of a foreign occupation.

He had the sudden sensation of Trump's chokehold on the country being cried off remembering for the first time in four years what it is like to take a full breath.

The Biden administration took the reins of government at noon on Tuesday a few hours after Trump slinked off to Florida.

The first president since fellow disgrace chief executive Andrew Johnson to refuse to attend his successors inauguration he left a hunted man facing an impeachment trial in the Senate and possible criminal prosecutions in two states and the federal system.

Biden delivered a solid inauguration speech that managed not to soft pedal the formidable crises facing the country while communicating an overall sense of optimism and decency and an aspiration of unity.

It now falls to the new government to begin the tricky work of executing a strikingly ambitious agenda with a Senate divided on a nice edge and the country still in the throes of partisan ranker.

Its first priority is as Biden put it a full scale wartime effort to bring the country out of the clutches of a virus that under the breathtaking mismanagement of the Trump administration has claimed 400,000 American lives and ravaged the economic fortunes of working Americans.

Biden also has vowed to take on the enormous challenges of climate change and racial justice.

Every administration wants to seize the goodwill and momentum of the first 100 days and nearly every administration looking at it in retrospect finds its path littered with unanticipated challenges and setbacks and its own mistakes.

What does it feel like within the administration in its first days in office?

What signals is the new administration already sending? What decisions that it will make in the next month can make or break its record?

To consider these questions we have brought together three phenomenal guests, each of whom is a greatly distinguished former government official and notably for current purposes, each of whom played an integral part in the headi first days of a previous administration.

They are David from a senior editor at the Atlantic and the author of 10 books most recently, Trump apocalypse restoring American democracy.

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