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1.8 million people out there. now, take a look today. that exact same location. we're told hundreds of thousands of people. no official crowd count yet. david, i was out there all day, i saw a lot of empty spaces. >> and the ball still ahead tonight, and i know you are headed to them. cecilia, i'll see you a little later on this evening. in the meantime, not everyone gathered here in washington today came to celebrate president trump's inauguration. protesters lined part of the parade route. and in some parts of the capitol, there were confrontations with police. and tomorrow here in washing...

Last year. jeremy joins me now live to discuss this. and jeremy, trump actually calmed you one time after a rally. tell us about that. bring us into that phone conversation. what did he say? >> after a rally in virginia last october, punctuated by a number of protests. about a dozen protestors at that rally, and so i wrote something up a story on cnn.com that posted just before the rally wrapped about what happened and the confrontation between trump supporters and protestors. no sooner had donald trump left i got a call on the phone from his then campaign manager cory lewendowski complaining ...

I had seen the protesters myself and the number of them and i had also checked with the fire marshal for the crowd count but it didn't matter. that was just an interesting peek into the mind of donald trump. what matters to him, the crowds that matter to him, and the way in which he tried to gain favorable coverage by sometimes bullying the reporters who covered him. >> i think that will continue. thanks so much. i can't wait to read the book. thank you. unpress didn't presprecede stores december 6th. preorder your copy today at cnn.com/book. still to come, cowboys quarterback dak prescott...

Is this a huge room, small room, how many are anticipated? >> reporter: they haven't started letting people in yet. there are a couple people lined outside. a few dozen. the campaign says they're expecting 3,000 people tonight. but we have some intrepid in-beds with who counted all the seating and said you can see the about 1,000 people. but there is lot of standing room. so we'll keep an eye on the actual crowd count. they tend to be a little controversial when it comes on donald trump. >> we'll stand by for live coverage of that thank you. joining us, ryan lizy, kevin madden, and mave recent...

Trump campaign is media buzz or his money or an unreliable polling surge. his event in alabama may have you rethinking donald trump's staying power. there's really no comparison to any other candidate in his party. you'd have to go to bernie sanders or, perish the thought, barack obama in 2007, to actually find a crowd count during a primary of crowds this size. the event was full of bravado. while 20,000 people is a huge show of force, that's just a political fact, trump aides still managed to undercut their own success with premature bragging and suggested he draw 40,000 and fill the stadium...