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He called radical islamic terrorists terrorists. he said they are going to go out and kill the jihadists around the world and they will be eliminate the. those were major statements that he made yesterday that nobody is covering. >> and what do you make -- just to note just for our viewers, we believe that mike pompeo will be voted on in the senate to be cia director tomorrow evening, monday evening, and it looks as though he will clear, he will be confirmed. what do you make of the criticism th...

Audience to witness an inauguration period, both in person and around the globe. white house press secretary sean spicer berating reporters for the soyuz of the crowd arguing simultaneously theres no official numbers while also falsely asserting it was the largest crowd in history. lots to unpack here with me this morning. lets talk about it all with david axelrod, cnn senior political commonicator and congressman mia love, republican of utah and congressman republican mash somewhat blackburn of...

Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to leak into the public. one last shot at me. are we living in nazi germany? misstating crowd sizes. >> it looked like a million and a half people. whatever it was it was. it went all the way back to the washington monument. i turned around and i get this network. it said we drew 250,000 people. thats not bad, but its a lie. we had 250,000 people literally on the little ball that we constructed. that was 250,000 people. the rest of t...

Spicer berating reporters for the coverage of the crowds at the inauguration arguing simultaneously that there were no official numbers while also falsely asserting it was the largest crowd in history. lots to unpack here with me this morning. mia love from utah, marsha blackburn of tennessee lets start with this debate about crowd sizes. it seems obvious that president obama had bigger crowds but so what? >> i have to tell you. i was sitting -- i was sitting at the podium there, and i could see...

Angry, agitated about crowd sizes. >> which by the way, something, ari fleisher tweeted out. >> he did. lets put it up, ari fleisher twee. he said this is called a statement you are told to make by the the. and you know the president is watching. former press secretary. >> exactly. sean spicer was clearly doing this because he was told to do it. he had two choices. do this, or quit. because his bauls -- clearly -- was agitated. thats the problem. i mean does he want to be 5:00. let me just finis...

He may be right but is rewriting the rule book. >> his colleagues around the world are a different set of people. they are leaders. how do we think his leaders have -- the president of any country reacted to this? it has to be laughter. look what donald trump is doing on his first day, talking about crowd sizes. now its a clean slate, a different picture going ahead and it -- the -- the diplomats here who have to write home whats happening on first day in office. must have been an interesting me...

Intelligence community. and i just want to let you know, the reason you are number one stop, its exactly the opposite. exactly. and they understand that too. >> fact is the president has repeatedly criticized the intelligence community in public comments and in tweets regarding its assessment that russia hacked the u.s. election to help him win. the intelligence briefing on so-called russian hacking was delayed until friday, perhaps more time need to build a case. very strange. intelligence agen...

And thats what they did today. >> thanks very much. john, we would not even be talking today about crowd sizes. its most ridiculous thing to be focusing on but this is what the white house was focusing on. >> we have seen this throughout the campaign. candidate trump drew amazing crowds. he did it to build the political movement to win the republican nomination and to win the presidential election. he is the president now. she the president now. he gave a speech yesterday t. democrats disagree...

Measure the audience for an inauguration. you measure it by the people who are on the ground, at these inaugurations. this just cuts to the core of one of donald trumps biggest insecurities, we saw throughout the campaign, he is just very insecure about reporting about crowd sizes. it happened time and again during the campaign. >> time and time again. all right. thank you very much, jim. mark prestons back with me, our chief political analyst, gloria borger joins me as well. mark, there is an a...

He was the one who said it was it disgraceful. and compared it to nazi germany. and then he said that this was the biggest audience to ever attend that is also not true. >> the president of the united states yesterday stood on hollow ground in front of a memorial wall of fallen cia officers. he looked at the american people and lied. he lied about something of substance. and he lied about the most trivial of things he could lie about crowd sizes. we talk about the spicer piece. they shut down th...