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And i turn on the thing and by mistake i get this network. and it showed an empty field. and it said we drew 250,000 people. now, that's not bad. but it's a lie. we had 250,000 people literally around, you know, in the little bowl that we constructed. the rest of the, you know, twenty block area all the way back to the washington monument was packed. so we caught them. and i think they're going to pay a big price. >> as you saw a moment ago, his press secretary came out late today and tore into the press core what he says what his reporting. cnn doesn't give crowd estimates. we want to focus o...

Quite amazing and the multiplicity and sophistication of subjects that it takes on. so it is remarkable. and what you should also know that about an hour or so ago, i wrote a piece for the pointer institute on pointer.org and very quickly, folks tweeting upset with me because i did not use the word lied. i did not use the word falsehoods in describing what trump and spicer did today. so to the extent that the old gray lady, "the new york times," is altering its rhetorical methodology, it's also reflecting a sense out there among a growing percentage of americans that we should perhaps, you kno...

Protest, that happened in the white house briefing room. that was sean spicer, the new incoming white house press secretary. that followed remarks by the president that we'll get to later in this broadcast. but he essentially was relitigating the crowd estimates and the reporting on the inauguration yesterday, including you heard there criticizing a particular tweet of the vast universe on social media. so we asked cal perry to get our arms around the known facts and known photography, including crowd estimates from yesterday. cal is our msnbc senior news editor, and cal, have at it. >> all ri...

Next four years, but also get into the act themselves. we are about to flex our first amendment muscles, don't you think? that's "hardball" for now. catch me sunday, i'll be chuck todd's best on "meet the press." our special coverage on msnbc continues now with brian williams. good evening. brian williams here with you. thanks to chris matthews for tonight's special two-hour edition of "hardball." we're going to take a look over the next hour at what has been, by any standard of measurement, a remarkable day across this country from washington to the west and really started out as a remarkab...

Inauguration yesterday, include, you heard there, criticizing a particular tweet of the vast universe on social media. so we asked cal perry to get our arms around the known facts and known photography, including crowd estimates from yesterday. cal is our msnbc senior news editor. cal, have at it. >> so just for viewers at home. why do we not have an official number? the reason is the national park service stopped doing it after the million man march in 1995. let's put up the quote. due to the difficulty in accurately assessing crowd estimates for large events, we're not doing it anymore. okay...