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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, ...

More than anything. when i was covering him, when he was on the "the apprentice." it seemed kboernt for him to be able to say it was the top rated. nobody ever cared. you cant keep saying things that arent factually true. >> the president of the united states deserves respect and that is something that bothers people on the left and those who didnt vote for him right now because they have made it personal instead of about the position. i think that they have a point when they say the media is mo...

Of questioning whatever the official narrative is. so, i think if we look at donald trump as someone who is always talking in that populist vein, always trying to bind his supporters together and keep them on the same page, i think this works politically. it is dangerous. im sorry. but i think at the same time it has worked for him and there is this sense that i think when people pedal these conspiracy theories, that they are tweaking the elite and that is something that donald trump likes to do...

>> i think its fair for people who have their own views. i have a different understanding of why its so important, i think, for trump and leaders like trump to talk about the crowd size. you know, ordinary leaders rely on the constitution as a source of legitimacy. knu you get these kind of leaders with these more authoritarian overtones. its not the power of the constitution, its the size of their crowds. the legitimacy doesnt come from these documents. they come from the fact that i represen...

Wise at being brought up? the answer is simple. i dont think its a strategy for this is a character problem. he defines himself as a winner. good people are winners. hes always said that. and he is a winner. hes obsessed with the fact that he won the election and nobody cares about the popular vote. he does. he considers this a slight to his image and his self-image as a guy who runs the table who wins everything. why did he bring up the size of the crowd at the inaugural? that is nuts. nobody c...

>> we had a massive field of people. you saw that. >> reporter: how big the crowds were at his inauguration. >> i looked out. the field was, it looked like a million, million and a half people. they showed a field where there were practically nobody standing there. >> reporter: on saturday, the president sent his press secretary, sean spicer, to the white house briefing room to make several patently false claims to the public. >> this was the first time in our nations history that floor covering...

Not let facts get in the way of claims. >> anybody here knows because youre in the television bids, "the apprentice" is the number one show on nbc. the ratings are through the roof. >> reporter: "the apprentice" was spectacular rated for the first few seasons but then viewership began to drop and the shows former publicist said trump never was willing to recognize that change. he tried to influence those who published the ratings. "he wanted to make sure i called all the ten people and told them...

Water? i mean, not including accidents. >> yeah, i have great confidence in scott pruitt. take a look at his role as attorney general in oklahoma, working with the neighboring state of arkansas, with the democrat attorney general there. they forged an alignment that helped clean the water and the river between those two states. hes worked with attorneys generals, certainly the one from wyoming on clean water, on clean air. what has happened is epa has basically gone rogue and come out with regul...

>> neil: that looked like a scene out of "the apprentice." what did you think of that? >> my dad was a private sector union guys. the private sector unions are much more conservative. they voted for nixon. thats what the reagan democrats were. this is a potential base of support for him in a major way. he brought them back into the republican sort of coalition with this election. so these are -- hes with friendly territory there. they absolutely hate the notion of nafta and free trade. hate it. ...

Look at the pictures, okay. president obama had had a bigger crowd. donald trumps got a great crowd there. president obamas is bigger. president obamas view and president trumps and this is abraham lincolns view, looking up. theres just no question there are more people at the obama inauguration, who cares. >> no longer the president. >> donald trump is the president of the united states. sean spicer cherry picked metro ridership numbers in his briefing yesterday. its just not necessary. who car...