this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period! that's what you guys should be writing and covering. >> are we worried we're going to see something like that again? >> well, this is a president who obviously thinks a lot about crowd sizes, even in the recent protests in hong kong. the thing that struck him he said publicly was the crowd size there. when kamala harris announced her candidacy for president, the thing he mentioned in an interview with my colleagues and me was her crowd size. it's something that's on his mind. so yeah, you can be sure that he'll be watching very carefully to see how many people come tomorrow, and he will probably be making comparisons if the crowds are good and if they're bad then he'll be probably finding ways to, you know, excuse that or blame it on other people or maybe the weather will dampen the enthusiasm. but it really changes the nature of the event. i've grown up in washington. i live here. born here. every year my family and others and other families would go down to the mall and it was not a political event. this is now forcing families to decide whether or not going to the mall constitutes a political act or not. and that's going to change the