NOT MANY LIKE THIS SAND ART. >>> TODAY'S A BIG DAY FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT KAMALA HARRIS. THE PANDEMIC AND NEED FOR MORE SECURITY AT THE CAPITOL ARE SIGNS OF THE CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR THE NEW ADMINISTRATION. JOINING US LIVE TO TALK ABOUT THE BIG DAY IS DUKE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, MATT McCORKLE. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US, PROFESSOR McCORKLE. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. >> WE HAVE TO START WITH WHAT HAPPENED. PRESIDENT TRUMP GIVING HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS. WE SPREAD NIPETS OF IT. YOU WERE WATCHING -- SNIPPETS OF IT. YOU WERE WATCHING, WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS? >> I THINK THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MOMENT DAWNED SOMEHOW THE ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, THAT THIS WAS PART OF THE PEACEFUL TRANSITION OF POWER AND HOW MOMENTOUS IT IS IN TERMS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. FOR ONCE, HE SHOWED SOME GRACE. THERE WAS VINEGAR AND SPITE IN HIM, BUT THERE WAS GRACE SHOWN AND MAYBE TEMPORARILY A TRUCE IN THIS KIND OF CULTURE WAR THAT HE HAS BEEN FERMENTING AND MAYBE A GOOD STEP TO A BIG DAY. WE'LL SEE. >> OTHER THAN THE OBVIOUS THINGS ABOUT THE PANDEMIC, WHAT DO YOU THINK MAKES THIS YEAR'S INAUGURATION DIFFERENT? >> WELL, THE PANDEMIC AND THE WAY IT'S GOING TO MAKE THE CROWD SMALL. HE WON'T CLAIM THIS IS THE BIGGEST CROWD IN HISTORY AS TRUMP DID BEFORE. BESIDES THE PANDEMIC, THIS IS A TRANSITION FROM DIFFERENT POLLS OF THE SPECTRUM. BUT THIS HAS BEEN A MAJOR CHANGE OF AN INSURGENT PRESIDENT HANDING THE REINS OF POWER VERY RELUCTANTLY BACK TO BIDEN, WHO WAS PART OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. VERY PROGRESSIVE ADMINISTRATION. SO, IT, THE PANDEMIC PLUS THE SOG CABS OF THE DIFFERENCE IN THEIR POLITICAL -- SIGNIFICANCE OF THEIR DIFFERENCE IN POLITICAL DIFFERENCES MAKES YET A MOMENTOUS TRANSITION. >> WE'RE HEARING REPORTS THAT PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN HAS EXECUTIVE ORDERS HE WILL PUT OUT IMMEDIATELY. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THOSE? >> IT LOOKS -- WELL, SOME OF THE REPORTS ARE AS MANY AS 17. A LOT HAS TO DO WITH COVID, TRYING TO GET THAT PROCESS IN THE&THE VACCINATION PROCESS JUMP STARTED. THERE ARE GOING TO BE A NUMBER OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT ERASE TRUMP'S CANCELLATION OF OBAMA EXECUTIVE ORDERS. SO PUTTING BACK INTO STRONG ELECTS THE DACA -- EFFECT THE DACA, THE DREAMER'S IMMIGRATION, REJOINING THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORDS. NOT PULLING OUT OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. A NUMBER OF POINTS ADDRESSING COVID AND A NUMBER OF THINGS,UP DOING THE, TRUMP'SUP DOING OF OBAMA EXECUTIVE ORDERS. >> AND MY LAST QUESTION, WE HAVE ABOUT 30 SECONDS LEFT. WE LEARNED THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP LEFT PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN A NOTE. WHAT DO YOU THINK WOULD BE IN SOMETHING LIKE THAT WE WILL FIND OUT. IF HE WENT TO THE TROUBLE OF LEAVING A NOTE, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE THE SAME TONE, SOMEWHAT CONCILIATORY TONE. BUT THAT IS FOR TODAY. THIS IS THE BEGINNING END OF THE TRUMP PERHAPS, ESPECIALLY FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. HE'S GOING TO BE A PRESENCE. HE COULD STILL BE A DISRUPTIVE PRESENCE. SO, WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE. >> WELL, PROFESSOR McCORKLE,