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So this is a very important moment for both donald trump and theresa may this week. >> all right. max foster reporting live from london. thank you very much. and the trump white house is doubling down on press secretary sean spicers claims that fridays inaugural audience was the largest ever. however, aerial photos contradict what spicer said. on the right you see trumps inauguration on friday just minutes after he was sworn in. sections of the national mall are vacant, showing white protectiv...

This was not about crowd sizes. they were using this as an example of what they felt was unfair media coverage. probably a better example would have been the fact that "the new york times" called his speech dark and divisive. msnbc called it hitlerian. they should have used that as an example. >> because you can point to those as being factual as opposed to what he said about the crowd size, which was false. >> reince priebus went on to explain, the white tarp made it look different, one of th...

Unforced errors, staff wars, warning of a future bloodbath with democrats. thats how sources are describing the first days of the white house for cnn. >> back for inside reporting, our correspondent jamie gangel. jamie, it was a tumultuous weekend, with the address to the cia, with the debate over crowd sizes. youve been talking about with republican leaders. >> republican heads were exploding all over town, they were very upset about his speech, his remarks at the cia. they felt it was an unfor...

Crowd sizes. first of all, that clearly was a rat hole that the white houses spokesperson should not have gone down. if he want to automatbout size e rating system that he had a bigger audience than bill clinton had and barack obama. those a i think all of this is a side show. the real issue is the economy. thats what voters put donald trump in office to fix and the more we get off on this, is just noise for everyday americans. >> many voters will agree with you that this is noise and a lot of t...

Campaigns. he brought in historic crowds and on great days we were ignored, and on most days we were mocked. those crowds mattered, he built a movement. >> of course they matter, why is he litigating this. why stand in front of a memorial at the cia, and talk about crowd sizes. >> you dont want to talk about the rest of what he said. first his very presence at the cia sent a great message to our brave men and women in the intelligence community. he went to the cia. he thought he was going to see...

There was hundreds of thousands of people on the mall and many people were enthused. >> you make a very reasonable and rational case for why crowd sizes dont matter, you did not answer the question. why did the president send out his press secretary who is not just the spokesperson for trump, he is also the spokesperson for all of america at times. he speaks for all of the country at times, why put him out there for the very first time in front of that podium to utter a provable falsehood. its t...

Saying even the western wall was very ahistorical and unfair to them. they need us to show that we stand with them. the jerusalem has been the capital to and headline for you is this is where the rubber meets the road, moving on big issues like health care and immigration. but what we heard this weekend were conversations about crowd sizes, conversations about media. is that okay to you? is the discussion about alternative facts, what you want to be seeing from the trump without right now in. >>...

So watch out because a lot of people in trump land went to the marches. and that was a big data grab. its a great opportunity for democrats and people who have these issues in life. >> we are focusing on, right, the story about the marches of crowd size and we should be focusing on what was he signing at the signing ceremony? >> obamacare. >> what was he doing? >> and also a conversation with netanyahu where news was made. they didnt talk about the jerusalem move. things that are actually going ...

And were body and crass and embarrassing. but most of the people who were there were great people. we had a lot of issues they wanted to address and they did so peacefully and beautifully. >> mika, let me follow up on what i said about crowd size. >> you want to look at crowd size? >> i would say what barack obama would say. none of it matter. the crowd sizes dont matter. the number of protests dont matter. if you dont organize and you dont get people to the polls. so all of this talk about crow...

He is the one whos that was disgraceful what the intelligence community did and compared it to nazi germany, and then to spicer he said this was the biggest audience ever to attend an inauguration. thats also not true. >> the president president of the united states yesterday stood in hollow ground in front of a memorial wall of c fallen cia officers. he looked the american people and lied. he lied more than once, he lied about something with substance, and he lied about the most trivial of thin...