Look what happened. Is this crazy? We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history.

Make America great victory. How can you be against them?

It is days, just days, until Donald Trump is sworn into the presidency and Joe Biden leaves office.

Welcome to Sidebar from The Washington Post. I'm Libby Casey. I'm here with Rhonda Colvin, senior political correspondent, James Holman, columnist, and J.M. Rieger, senior video journalist.

So James, Washington, D.C. and the United States are about to have this huge moment

of change. What's like the biggest sign that this is coming? My liberal friends are all renewing

their passports just in case. And my conservative friends are all asking if I'm free over the

weekend because they're flying in for the inauguration. Have they had a hard time finding a place to

stay? Yes, actually. actually. Uh, the hotel rooms

are like over a thousand dollars for just not even fancy rooms. J.M. Biggest signs?

Everyone's in doom and gloom over the street closures. It's like half the city easily,

or it feels that way, I should say. Rhonda, biggest sign of the change coming?

Kind of related to JM, but traffic.

I noticed the last few days when I've been on the hill, it is hard to get back here.

And it's because of the traffic.

It's because the street closures, the barricades are already up.

You feel that tightening presence of security descending on the city. And also as a person who lives

here, you know, some businesses are closed or telling you we'll be closed all weekend. So get what you

need now. We'll be covering all the change that happens, both around the city as well as in terms of

policies and personnel. And today's sidebar, we're going to talk about the confirmation

hearings that are in full swing and what we're learning, not just about the nominees, but also

about how Republicans are handling this moment and how Democrats are handling this moment.

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