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This inauguration, usually time for unity, defies precedent

Clip: 1/16/2017 | 7m 35s

Judy Woodruff talks with Amy Walter and Susan Page on the week in politics.

Tamara Keith of NPR and Susan Page of USA Today join Judy Woodruff to discuss what to expect from Donald Trump’s inauguration, a war of words between the president-elect and civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis, a growing inauguration boycott by Democrats and pushback by the African American community and Mr. Trump’s pledge for health care coverage for everyone.

01/16/2017 | Rating NR

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