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But as our own rafrple maddow has documented, the current president's festivities were nowhere as big as obama's. funeral inaugural balls. no big acts. his crowds as we know quite famously were far smaller. all of which raises an important question. >> why did they raise so much extra money? this is a strange thing. $107 million, and now in all likelihood, they're just sitting on tens of millions of dollars that were left over from something that wasn't that big and wasn't that expensive. >> but there's another big question, about the president's inauguration. where did all the money come from...

Inauguration. where did all the money come from? we started to get answers last week when the inaugural committee released its required filings with the federal election commission. now, the largest single donation at $5 million was from sheldon aidleson. $250,000 from billionaire kelsey warren, whose company is building the dakota access pipeline. a half million, perhaps somewhat surprisingly from citgo petroleum. but when a reporter for "the huffington post" started digging into some of the less recognizable names on the list, she noted something very strange. they did not seem to exist. the...

Notice, in the debates lately, mr. trump has really been focused on his positions, his policies and his principles moving forward. when i say "back to normal," i mean we are back to normal. as long as no one attacks donald trump, donald trump's not going to attack them. he is seriously focused on national security, getting the border secure and the economy. so mr. trump really wants to focus on that, tamron. >> let me go back to a tweet from mr. trump in october. he tweeted out sheldon adelson is looking to give big dollars to rubio because he feels he can mold him into his perfect little pupp...

But the big issue is money and turnout. and what has democrats really alarmed about the 13th district special election in florida is that the coke brothers weren't even involved. but they are spreading huge amounts of money in other races. and, you know, the last time, in 2012, and just a couple of other big hitters, like sheldon aidleson were providing hundreds of millions of dollars. >> right. >> so the democrats have to figure out thousand use their small donor base to try to compete with the republicans, because the big democratic donors like tom stier, they're wealthy but not nearly as we...

We were just to tone players in the media lan like super pacs. you know that sheldon aidleson pent $100 million of his own money last year on negative ads? you've got to really dislike me to spend that kind of money. i mean that's oprah money. you could buy an island and call it nobama, for that kind of money. sheldon would have been better off offering me $100 million to drop out of the race.