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Havent spoken to him, to figure out a way to get away from this. its always good if the states can examine the secretary of sta states, the individual states can make sure they have votes that have bintegrity. i think he needs to get out of this one. >> i think there are a lot of people who feel that way. i imagine a lot of republicans are thinking, wait, weve been waiting so long to have all this control and now we have it. i was looking at your interview with paul ryan. he really felt -- he lo...

What is it doing, if youre trying to go out there and undermine the free press? >> what hes -- hes not just trying to undermine the free press. i think hes trying to empower an alternative -- >> choosing one media network over the other. >> rush limbaugh talked about state-run media. now we have state-run television. the fact he takes out the time to tweet out about crowd sizes and tv ratings says volumes about the president. this is another one of those things, mr. president, just focus on what...

Trumps crowd sizes were less than mr. obamas. you know, look, chris and i were on the air for something like 8 1/2 hours. the vast majority of it was talking about how excited the crowds were, the mood, the electricity. i think that once in this space of those 8 1/2 hours in the space of 24 hours, we talked about the crowd size. so are they saying that we can never talk about anything that they perceive as negative without, you know, them chastising the media? >> its really hard to know, but sea...

Overtones. its the size of the crowds. the legitimacy doesnt come from these documents. they come from the fact that i represent something. i represent these masses that are rising. >> but youre characterizing it as authoritarian overtones. >> yes. >> theres another way you could look at it is that it comes from a donald trump who has a longstanding interest in his numbers, in his ratings on "the apprentice." i mean hes talked about ratings his entire career, the size of his business, you know, ...

Gloria, dana, ab thank you. >> the cabinet nominees facing tough questions on capitol hill. one a question of crowd sizes at the inauguration, why that came up today? also will james comey remain at his post as chief of the fbi? we have huge news on that. also ahead, millions and millions of women and men marched around the world for this womens march, so what comes of it? whats the next move? im on it. im brooke baldwin and youre watching cnn.

The media didnt bring up the crowd sizes was all the presidents doing. that came out of the presidents own mouth. you asked sean spicer about that today, and not getting a fair shake? >> i did, thats right. it was notable that during this press briefing today, they were really trying to move forward, and move past what was a pretty ugly episode that we saw on saturday, when sean spicer came out into that briefing room and went after the news media. during this briefing today, he was much more co...

David gregory? the idea that the commander in chief believes or continues to pedestrian -- peddle this that there is been a shocking subversion of democracy of illegal voters when every secretary of state in every state says no there wasnt. what are we to make of this. >> theres no evidence of it and its a falsehood. its interesting, sean spicer, the press secretary said it was dmorlsing that they have to face all this negative coverage. i would say its exhausting actually to be covering this gr...

I think theres some media criticism on that claim. the white house should be held up to that standard to of correcting a record and they misstated the record multiple times so far. >> what you said is true. we grew up 20 minutes from each other. >> -- we have lot of people who voted for donald trump. i was home you are home and arguing with people. just because you dont like the media it doesnt mean everything thats reported is false. most things are accurate. theres some things dont pay attenti...

Past. these are all sorts of questions that shawn spicer could be peppered with right now. its not sufficient to say thats his belief. its his belief and it has been debunked widely, the responsibility of him is to cite the facts not just the beliefs that are out there. this is not too different than the birtherism movement where trump piped for years that president obama wasnt born in the united states and then during the campaign was able to slough it off saying i think he is actually a u.s. c...

Falsehoods, sean spicer went to the briefing room and addressed the weekends controversy over the facts around crowd sizes and the presidents comments that maybe we will have another chance to keep iraqs oil. >> i believe we have to be honest with the american people. sometimes we can disagree with the facts. there are certain things we may not fully understand when we come out, but our intention is not to lie, jonathan. we will do our best. i will tell you the facts as i know them. if make a mi...