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Congress into voting for the tea party budget. dave weigel was there and joins us with his official crowd estimate. plus, what you and i missed last night at the radio television correspondents dinner in washington as congressman anthony weiner calls on speaker john boehner to give up and embrace the correct phonetic pronunciation of his last name. john b-o-e -- oh, wait, i can't say that on tv.
Discipline and reform, i say shut it down. >> nwonder they're so afid of you. they're afraid of you because you're powerful. government. we won't change our principles. we're going to say no to another de cli iree. wee t gointhe. >> joining me now, msnbc contributor dave weigel, >> dave, you were there. your official crowd estimate, please. and what does it tell us about the momentum and power of the tea party in washington? >> well, politico said 100. i would go as high as maybe 201, 203. but i might have counted the media that was there. i felt like there were a lot of
This is a live look at the crowd. hello, everyone. it's high noon in the east, 9:00 out west. here's what's happening. right to hans nichols at the march. what's the latest and can you talk about the goal of this march? >> reporter: the goal is to bring awareness. what we have is a great deal of passion, a great deal of enthusiasm. i'm not going to hazard a crowd estimate but it's been growing all morning and the message is we will not be moved. reverend al sharpton trying to bring attention there talking about civil rights, about police brutality. those have been the themes all morning. we'...
Reading a statement. >> the photographs were intentionally framed a way in one particular tweet to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the national mall. no one had numbers because the national park service, which controls the national mall, does not put any out. >> got that. the president spokesman at that podium no one had numbers. no one. so there was no official crowd estimate, but -- >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period, both in person and around the globe. >> well, if there are no numbers, how can he say that? well, the boss told him to. ...
That was his first inauguration. 1963, of course, under terrible circumstances. but then he won a huge election victory in his own right in 1964 and then a record crowd of americans, the biggest crowd ever in d.c. for anything turned out to see him inaugurated for the second time. that record for the largest crowd ever for an inauguration stood for 44 years. until barack obama. yeah. remember that? this was washington, d.c. january 20, 2009. barack obama being sworn in as president for the first time. we don't have a hard-and-fast crowd estimate for how many people were there but nobody disput...