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Freedom. security. and democracy. >> reporter: and short on policy specifics. not once mentioning president trump's name but taking shots at the name whose job he wants. >> when something is grotesque it's hard to look away. and the horror show in washington is mess manage icing, it's all consuming, but starting today we'll change the channel. >> reporter: but the start was rough. the venue chosen just last week due to growing crowd estimates. roof leaking. the crowd wet. and large, too large. >> fire marshall has shut this down, okay. >> reporter: ilts a can daisy full of firsts. first maher ...

>> i met mr. bush once, he and barbara, so -- >> reporter: as you're waiting, it is a miserable day, it is cold and raining, didn't stop you from coming? >> we are texans. we are tough. mr. bush was a texan, always and forever. >> thank you very much. so we have been given permission to stay on this side of the yellow tape with folks that gathered down here. i am not good at crowd estimates. let me take you here. it is such a picturesque town. you can see folks in the windows in that building there getting cover from the rain. easily several thousand folks gathered out here. interestingly, the...

Talking to all morning is saying they are fed up with conditions inside the camp and they want to make their asylum claim in person. want to to surrender. 20 minutes ago it was a stalema stalemate. the situation has changed. there's still hundreds of migrants coming down. we see them spilling oiver. it's difficult to do crowd estimates but i would say more than a thousand have crossed. we'll get back when we get more. just to be clear, we're still on the mexico side liergt. -- here. that's the u.s. border. it's maybe a football field away. you can also see a drone that gives you a sense of how...

Slowly, methodically, and i'll have to say they've been pretty well organized, making their way over here toward lafayette square from freedom plaza. we don't want to get into crowd estimates. several hundred people are behind us. it's very likely they're going to heavily outnumber the white supremacists once they get to lafayette square. police are kind of moving ahead of them, keeping a very subtle presence here, but you do sense that police are all around us, ryan. it's very interesting. we were told basically we didn't think there would be one police officer in d.c. not working today. that...

Done so before in their lives. and 70% of them motivated by distrust, dislike of the president. >> sounds right to me. i'm sure your crowd estimates are more in line with the president's. >> i think so. let me tell you i think this north korea summit will be tied to trade. i think that's going to be a way for the president to pressure china to come to a deal on north korea and then come to a negotiated settlement on the trade issue. i think that will be a significant win for the president on both china and north korea. >> jamal? >> republican candidate todd ra quita in indiana launched a new a...