Welcome to the readout at Capital One Arena in Washington moments ago. Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders. He also said he will pardon January 6 defendants as early as tonight. But we begin tonight with the beginning, or perhaps the end, you be the judge. No matter how you look at it, today has been an historical day for America, as any

presidential inauguration is.

But this one, a typical for many reasons.

For one, it was indoors, presumably because of the weather, though I should note that

today's chilly conditions were similar to those at President Obama's first and outdoors inauguration in 2009, calling many to speculate that the

moved indoors had more to do with concerns that Trump couldn't draw a sufficiently large

crowd. Before the official events began, the parade of vehicles carrying

the once and future first and second families proceeded down D.C. streets that were practically

empty. It was also the inauguration of a, the first inauguration of a convicted felon. Let's be clear

about that. As well as a president elected to two non-consecutive

terms, like only Grover Cleveland before him. Apart from Trump, we got a clear picture of who matters

to MAGA. And that is the billionaires. And during the ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda, tech leaders got

prime seating ahead of Trump's cabinet and lawmakers, folks like Mark Zuckerberg, Apple's Tim Cook,

Google CEO, Sundar Pinchai, Jeff Bezos, and shadow president Elon Musk. The so-called populist president kicked off his second term

with billionaires who mixed and mingled with cabinet secretaries and Trump family members

rubbing elbows in the warm rotunda. It was quite the scene. While the spouses of some of the

lawmakers elected by the American people were shunted to an overflow space in the Capitol.

And Trump's actual base cooled their heels inside the Capitol One arena over a mile from the Capitol.

Or late today, they were, I guess you could call it treated to what you might call an inaugural parade.

We also heard a message loud and clear by those who were not present.

Barack Obama and Mike Pence arrived at the inauguration ceremony alone without their spouses.

Instead, former first lady Michelle Obama decided to skip her husband's work thing,

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