Summary: <br> <br> <br> Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th President … and wasted no time in making the changes he said he would do. But he also remains unable or unwilling, to let go of personal grievances and slights. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/aaron-blake/?utm_term=.a428889a695b">Aaron Blake</a> of the Washington Post gives an assessment after less than a week of the Trump presidency.<br> <br> While there’s still a ways to go, thus far the Trump Cabinet nominees have, with a few bumps, advanced their cause in Senate hearings. Secretary of State designate Rex Tillerson was thought to be in jeopardy of losing the support of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who gave him a tough grilling in the Foreign Relations Committee. But ultimately Rubio voted yes. <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/writers/adam-c-smith/">Adam Smith</a> of the Tampa Bay Times, a long time Rubio watcher, talks about the limited options he had. <br> <br> We go back nine years to January 2008, remembering the ultimate collapse of the presidential candidacy of <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/fred-thompson-241056">Fred Thompson</a>, once a leading candidate for the GOP nomination.<br> <br> And we get some good news from <a href="http://www.begalamcgrath.com/mcgrath">Jim McGrath</a>, the spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush, who is still hospitalized, but improving, for bacterial pneumonia at a Houston hospital.<br> <a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/news/gallery-inauguration-day-for-donald-trump-in-washington-dc/">Photo via AP Images/Patrick Semansky</a><br> Music used in this podcast:<br> <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/monster-mw0000196820">Monster by Steppenwolf</a><br> <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/imagine-mw0000198860">Gimme Some Truth by John Lennon</a><br> <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/do-you-believe-in-magic-mw0000225145">Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind by The Lovin’ Spoonful</a><br> <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-kinks-present-a-soap-opera-mw0000203121">Everybody’s A Star by The Kinks</a><br> <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/medicine-mw0002105561">Broke And Lonely by Tab Benoit</a><br> <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/kilimanjaro-mw0000308024">When I Dream by The Teardrop Explodes</a><br> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"></a><br> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a><br>
