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Congress into voting for the tea party budget. dave weigel was there and joins us with his official crowd estimate. plus, what you and i missed last night at the radio television correspondents dinner in washington as congressman anthony weiner calls on speaker john boehner to give up and embrace the correct phonetic pronunciation of his last name. john b-o-e -- oh, wait, i cant say that on tv.

Discipline and reform, i say shut it down. >> nwonder theyre so afid of you. theyre afraid of you because youre powerful. government. we wont change our principles. were going to say no to another de cli iree. wee t gointhe. >> joining me now, msnbc contributor dave weigel, >> dave, you were there. your official crowd estimate, please. and what does it tell us about the momentum and power of the tea party in washington? >> well, politico said 100. i would go as high as maybe 201, 203. but i migh...

This is a live look at the crowd. hello, everyone. its high noon in the east, 9:00 out west. heres whats happening. right to hans nichols at the march. whats the latest and can you talk about the goal of this march? >> reporter: the goal is to bring awareness. what we have is a great deal of passion, a great deal of enthusiasm. im not going to hazard a crowd estimate but its been growing all morning and the message is we will not be moved. reverend al sharpton trying to bring attention there t...

Reading a statement. >> the photographs were intentionally framed a way in one particular tweet to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the national mall. no one had numbers because the national park service, which controls the national mall, does not put any out. >> got that. the president spokesman at that podium no one had numbers. no one. so there was no official crowd estimate, but -- >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period, both in person and a...

That was his first inauguration. 1963, of course, under terrible circumstances. but then he won a huge election victory in his own right in 1964 and then a record crowd of americans, the biggest crowd ever in d.c. for anything turned out to see him inaugurated for the second time. that record for the largest crowd ever for an inauguration stood for 44 years. until barack obama. yeah. remember that? this was washington, d.c. january 20, 2009. barack obama being sworn in as president for the first...

Assassinated and vice president johnson had to become president johnson, had to be sworn in as the new president on an airplane. that was his first inauguration. 1963, of course, under terrible circumstances. but then he won a huge election victory in his own right in 1964 and then a record crowd of americans, the biggest crowd ever in d.c. for anything turned out to see him inaugurated for the second time. that record for the largest crowd ever for an inauguration stood for 44 years. until bara...

We dont have a hard-and-fast crowd estimate for how many people were there but nobody disputes he beat the record, that he beat lbjs record. and a big part of that was the historic nature of his election as the first african-american president but another part of it was the momentum coming out of his victory in the 2008 elect n election. he won election in 2008 by 10 million votes. the electoral college was 365-173. the democrats added 21 seats to what was already their majority in the house. th...

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The party of no has tried to stop the progressive agend. forces of evil in the conservative movement are on a mission. to take down the rally and marginalize the diverse crowd that attended. conservatives want you to believe that -- well, first of all, nobody showed up and theyre absolutely dead wrong about that. this sunday the "washington post" reported that more than 400 groups endorsed the nation working together rally, which organizers said drew a crowd of 175,000 people. about what they ex...