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Was no ontrags, there were no arrests in new york at all. i believe none in los angeles, none across the country. so this in terms of the womens movement, i think is really important in terms of the kind of tone that theyre setting, in terms of protests and civic engagement at the level of street protests. i also think this -- >> let me -- >> joy, it cannot be possible, it cannot be possible that we can send women to the moon and back and that we have no way to do actual crowd estimates in our c...

Known photography, including crowd estimates from yesterday. cal is our msnbc senior news editor, and cal, have at it. >> all right, so just for viewers at home, why do we not have an official number in the reason we dont have an official number is the national parks service stopped doing it after the million man march in 1995. due to the difficulty in accurately assessing krout estimates for large events, were not doing it anymore. okay, so lets play now a bite from sean spicer at that same pre...

While hundreds of thousands of americans were on city streets across this country in part of an organized rally, a march, a protest, that happened in the white house briefing room. that was sean spicer, the new incoming white house press secretary. that followed remarks by the president that well get to later in this broadcast. but he essentially was relitigating the crowd estimates and the reporting on the inauguration yesterday, including you heard there criticizing a particular tweet of the v...

Important moment as well that the first fight he decided to pick with the press was something that is so obviously debunked, at least if youre talking about the crowd sizes, not this other metric he seems to be talking about. >> mark preston, cnn does not give crowd estimates but we do have two pictures from 2009 and two from yesterday taken from the same location almost exactly at the same im. you can see the crowd size in 2009 versus the crowd size yesterday. that picture taken from the same l...

We need to mobilize. its late. there are lots of millennials who didnt vote in this last election. and this could be sort of a the beginning of a call to arms. and i have to say, wolf, that i believe this was in the back of the presidents mind when he went to the c.i.a. today. to talk about his support for the c.i.a. but then digressed dramatically into talking about the crowd size at his inauguration. because the comparisons will be made. about the crowd size here and around the country. compar...

I mean, this is a remarkable, unbelievable day for any human being to become the leader of the free world, especially somebody as unlikely as donald trump. you covered him when he was a businessman. can you imagine that he was president, he would be the 45th president? >> looking back there were always moments i think he wanted to be and had a dream but he certainly didnt ever think he would follow through on that dream. don, seeing people getting ready to go to the parade, they were dressed. ma...

Followed by ted kennedy, whose two brothers were assassinated, and herman cain and jesse jackson. hillary clinton, of course, received her campaign secret service in november 2007. though she was already under protection from having served as first lady. and yesterday, trump spoke with nbc news correspondent katy tur about what hes learned so far. >> so what have you learned for the next 118 days? >> i think i could be perhaps a little bit -- i can watch my words a little bit, maybe, be a little...

President laid a wreath at arlington national cemetery. the speech, the parade the parties are all taking place tomorrow. we know what the forecast is going to be. now carl cameron is in washington live for us tonight. they lowered the crowd estimates for tomorrow. >> they sort of exploited by saying second inaugurals never have the degree of enthusiasm than first inaugurals do. president obama drew nearly 2 million people here there were ore head shots filled with obama revelers. 1.8 million th...

>> reporter: well they explain it in a number of ways. one it is a second term. the novelty and the newness is over. also the times are tough. the economy is sluggish. international challenges put a damper on many things. the president has a lot of work to do and a lot of battles ahead with republicans. they expect it could be significantly smaller. instead of 1.8 four years ago. they lowered the crowd estimates. originally 600 to 800,000. yesterday we were infirmed organizers think maybe closer...

President laid a wreath at arlington national cemetery. the speech, the parade the parties are all taking place tomorrow. we know what the forecast is going to be. now carl cameron is in washington live for us tonight. they lowered the crowd estimates for tomorrow. >> they sort of exploited by saying second inaugurals never have the degree of enthusiasm than first inaugurals do. president obama drew nearly 2 million people here there were ore head shots filled with obama revelers. 1.8 million th...