>> we had a massive field of people. you saw that. >> reporter: how big the crowds were at his inauguration. >> i looked out. the field was, it looked like a million, million and a half people. they showed a field where there were practically nobody standing there. >> reporter: on saturday, the president sent his press secretary, sean spicer, to the white house briefing room to make several patently false claims to the public. >> this was the first time in our nation's history that floor coverings have been used to protect the grass on the mall. that had the fact of highlighting any areas -- >> reporter: wrong. ground coverings were used on the mall as recently as 2013 and it went on from there, but the bigger question, why? why the desperate need to prove a lie thus trotting out even more falsehoods to serve it about an issue of no importance? well, past is prologue. ♪ money, money, money folks who worked on nbc's "the apprentice" know well the president is someone who does