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Cabinet to do anything, its senators playing politics with the confirmation hearings asking silly questions. if they want to be serious about the confirmation hearings and nominees ask serious questions, probative questions and about roles and what the public expect. not crowd sizes. >> maria, is it playing politics? >> no. i think it was a brilliant move. i love how paris says its senators that should be taking this seriously. the freaking president of the united states should be taking this se...

This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period. both in person and around the globe. >> sean spicers rant about crowd sizes sparked intrigue about how the administration will conduct itself over the next four years. thanks a report from the "washington post" based on interviews with nearly a dozen senior trump officials, we have insight into what led up to that unusual moment. think write "over the objections of his aides and advisers the president issued a decree he wanted...

>> jeff zeleny, much appreciate it. bring in tim obrien and glenda blair and roger martin. mr. martin says the attacks on president trump reinforce his strategy. lots to discuss. gwenda you spent a lot of time with the president. you say this obsession of crowd sizes and vote totals goes beyond running for president. explain that. >> he has to win, he has to be seen as absolutely top winner, alpha dog. and i think that he cant really take in the idea of anything that challenges that. or if any n...

Well, remember, he came to town on a populist wave and that may have something to do with it because in this town, as long as other lawmakers believe he has a lot of people out there behind him, a lot of people, they may be a little more hesitant to challenge him. erin? >> tom, thank you very much. "out front," now, the author of "hillbilly elegy: request memoir of family culture and crisis." and author of "the truth about trump." michael, ive known donald trump for over a decade. and over that ...

Tomorrow at department of homeland security. >> bring in tim obrien and glenda blair and roger martin. mr. martin says the attacks on president trump reinforce his strategy. lots to discuss. glenda you spent a lot of time with the president, you say this obsession of crowd sizes and vote totals goes beyond running for president. explain that. >> he has to win, he has to be seen as absolutely top winner, alpha dog. and i think that he cant really take in the idea of anything that challenges that....

President trump, one of the tweets reading, "today the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any other time in the last 650,000 years. #climate." not necessarily the kind of tweet that the new president might endorse. tru trump once called climate change a hoax invented by the chinese. we shall say that tweet was up for just a few hours before they were deleted. democrats quickly came out to criticize the move. dnc press secretary saying in a statement that vladimir putin ...

Our democracy is broken, and it also calls into question the outcome of the election. >> it can mean that, or it can mean something very different. >> like what? >> there are two thooerryes here. one is hes doing this to distract us and keep us jumping around and not worrying about a all the executive orders, many of which will hurt air and water, hurt womens rights. the other theory is this is something key to his understanding of his legitimacy. most of the people have pointed to the cons stug...

"washington post." fi philip, what i got in that is there is no one that can tell the president no, thats a bad idea. >> i think thats pretty much right. the president as our reporting shows was furious over the week wednesday media reports about his crowd size, with the twitter images with that national park service tweet you mentioned in your earlier segment and he demanded this sort of response. a lot of his advisers said, look, just issue a tweet about the crowd sizes, why dont you put out a...

Yesterday. and they have got to put this behind them and put crowd sizes behind them and put all of these distractions behind them because there is a lot that they could be focusing on. what did we call this yesterday? just chipping. yesterday, sean, with every answer, like he was chipping right into the pond. chipping right into the pond. get past this. and focus on what is important. as you said, jamaica sherman is coming up. >> oh, my gosh. >> he has some really surprising new poll numbers on...

According to most, spicers performance was over the top but the "post" reports trump thought spicers performance was, and i quote "not forceful enough" and he was upset his press secretary had to read from a printed statement. the report also details a number of internal feuds between top-level trump staffers. joining me is one of the authors of that report, philip rocker, white house bureau chief for the "washington post." philip, what i got in that is there is no one that can tell the presiden...