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Message of his own. if the story about this week is the ordinary pomp and circumstance that accompanied trump's inauguration, then the story is incomplete without also talking about the extraordinary show of resistance against it. joining me now is masha guesson, author of "the man without a face, the unlikely rise of vladimir putin." masha, it's a real privilege to have you on today. you wrote a piece and i want to read a few things that you've written in "the new york times" and it's autocracy rules for survival. believe the autocrat. don't be taken in by small finds of nor mality. instituti...

Whole spicer briefing because -- they didn't take it live because they wanted to see what is news there. i think, you know, especially with tight budgets, with tight budgets in journalism, we've got to really shift the way we cover this white house because we're not going to be getting -- sean spicer is going to be angrily apoplectically yelling at reporters. why? why dignify that by being in the room or have interns in the room to be yelled at while your best people are out actually reporting the news. >> masha, can i ask you, the white house has a tremendous power to control the way that par...

>> who, by the way, is a very old-fashioned reporter. >> said no, no, they talked to the u.s. secret service, there was no magnetometers used on the national mall so something easily disprovable. but you now have people on twitter, trump people, and we don't know if they're real or fake, saying the media is lying about trump's crowd size. there were millions of people there and they're not telling us because they're liars. so there are people who are buying this immediately and becoming trump's cheering section on this. >> well, there are going to be people who absolutely believe it. and i bel...