The Scouting Report: A New Presidency Begins

On Wednesday, January 21, Darrell West, vice president and director of Governance Studies, offered his analysis of President Obama’s inaugural speech in Brookings’s weekly web chat with Politico.com. West also discussed the political situation facing the new president and answered questions from participants in a live chat.

Every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. between the election and the inauguration, Brookings experts and editors and reporters from the Politico hosted “The Scouting Report,” a live web chat discussing pressing issues facing our president-elect.