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Lack a crowd estimate from i guess the national park service would be the organization giving us that number? >> reporter: yeah. you know, im not sure they do it anymore. there was a controversy after the million man march and ever since then they havent been willing to put out numbers of how many people take to the streets of washington, d.c. and the other thing working against us is this is the great no-fly zone and cannot get a drone up within a mile of the capitol an aerial shot and the fede...

Administration hears us and we are not going away now. criminal justice and police reform must go forward. >> reporter: a lot of talk about fighting, fighting to win, fighting for the long term, just really the goals that will animate this movement, civil rights movement, throughout the trump presidency, talking to people throughout the day. there was a great deal somewhere between passion and anger. ayman, just to give you a sense of what happened, further on down, i dont know if you can see th...

Has taken away our audio for just a moment. yeah, audio to all of us is out. theyre trying to re-establish. it was basically uninterrupted screaming, as you heard. as every second the pope comes into view for a new group of people. but kate, to your point, this is bigger than simon & garfunkel in the park. >> yes, it sounds like a rock concert. >> bigger than anything weve seen in the park. >> i was way off on my crowd estimate. its 80,000 people are holding

Attracting 30000 people to a football stadium in alabama yesterday. john roberts has more from mobile. >> reporter: the official crowd estimate comes from the mobile mayors office. that means trump had the largest campaign event of the 2016 cycle and eclipsing bernie sanders of 28000 in portland, oregon. alabama is not a typical stop. but it is part of a primary that comes march 1st. and trump is pursuing the southern strategy as a route to the nomination. it is it next to the florida pandhandle...

A football stadium in alabama yesterday. john roberts has more from mobile. >> reporter: the official crowd estimate comes from the mobile mayors office. that means trump had the largest campaign event of the 2016 cycle and eclipsing bernie sanders of 28000 in portland, oregon. alabama is not a typical stop. but it is part of a primary that comes march 1st. and trump is pursuing the southern strategy as a route to the nomination. it is it next to the florida pandhandle and he continued to pound ...

>> all right. thank you. with the latest on the democratic side of things. on the republican side of things, donald trump is taking his show on the road through the deep south. ♪ sweet home alabama >> wow. you know that song. followers and fans turning out in a football stadium in alabama runner tries to convince more voters he is for real. trump hammering on his signature issue, illegal immigration, while continuing to sting fellow republicans. john roberts has more from the campaign trail....

Opponents of so-called gestation crates targeted new jersey governor chris christie with some heckling. he defended his veto of a new jersey bill that would have banned those devices. at one point christie fired back at a protester saying, quote, youre minor league compared to what im used to. senator lindsey graham is in new hampshire where he had an easier go of it. he was in newport, new hampshire, taking part in a parade down main street. well, leland, you mentioned donald trump, he came, ...

But still between half a million and 700,000 which is typical for a second term inauguration. you can see, a lot different than four years ago. california -- carl cameron, a little bit different than four years ago? >>carl: surely. folks are leaving. the crowd is smaller. we do not have an official crowd estimate but we got information from the washington, dc metro system, the subway system, and they say they are 60 percent of the crowd that came here four years ago which would put it considerab...

1985 for ronald reagan, and walter mondale was a no-show. that was the last time that the 20th state fell on a sunday and they had to do the monday as i rememberrial, versus another day. and back in those days, it was the coldest one on record, 7 degrees. there will be differences between the obama 2009 and 2013. four years ago, the crowd estimate was nearly 2 million people. there is a big parlor game about whether the crowd estimates on the mall are ever accurate. but nearly 2 million. now the...

Games and shut down the government instead of making a small down payment on fiscal discipline and reform, i say shut it down. >> no wonder theyre so afraid of you. theyre afraid of you because youre powerful. so im here to give you a message. stay courageous. we will stand for cutting the size of government. we wont change our principles. were going to say no to another debt ceiling increase. were not going there. >> joining me now, msnbc contributor dave weigel, political reporter for slate.co...