did he want to litigate crowd size. he was correct from the information that he was given, given from us. we have 350 employees, the security people, facts, when he concluded the armed services ball, brilliant, he asked me how did we do, i said it was the best inauguration in history. i m marketing, right? did i have a count? thank goodness the senate didn t confirm me as a statistical warrior. i went to the team, they say fantastic, here is how it went. i gave him the information, and he said what was the estimate, and i said in the viewing and hearing area, based on our facts and our sight team, about a million and a half people.
uncomfortable? and that s the concern. and will another government share intelligence with me anymore? that s a question. kayleigh said earlier, it s a punditry class view of this. and i want to be clear that i m hearing from folks inside, and i want to quote one, one of the many texts i got today. it is, and this is surrounded by asterisks, it is our hallowed ground, it is your place to call it out. we intel professionals are apolitical and quiet. you have to call it like it is. you know, i m not getting those from like democratic party operatives. i m getting them from folks who take their job very seriously and they ve heard this for some time. and before we go, something i want to share. last night i was at that armed services ball, and at the end, several more than i can count, specifically, so i would say, somewhere between 5 and 10, people came over and said, we fight for freedom of the press. don t worry about what he says, we trust in what y all are doing. you re doing
going hon here. why would sean spicer in the first press conference be talking about crowd size? the question is who cares. the answer is one person cares and that happens to be the president of the united states and he works for the president of the united states. the real question is who can tell the president do not do this? this is not worth our time who tells him, when you go to the cia when you re speaking in front of the wall of armor. speaking to the armed services ball, don t get into politics and thank and honor the young people who are serving our country. someone needs to be able to do that or he s going to be diverted from the points that he wants to make. seems to me, congressman blackburn, that president trump, whatever the size of the crowd, however big the ratings for the inaugural, he s the president and a lot of people are rooting for him. going down these bunny holes
are going to bolt donald trump. so he s going to get the cabinet he wants. i want to talk about what happened today with mike pompeo. he went to the cia and appeared before that wall of stars and i want to talk about the importance of that in a moment. but first, just something that he said. he started by praising the cia, okay, that s important. he actually started praising fox news, then he went to the fox news. okay, let me get my order right. then he went on to slam tmedia, as he did last night at the armed services ball. here s what he said about crowd size. i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. [ applause ] and they sort of made it sound like i had a feud with the intelligence community. and i just want to let you know, the reason you re the number one stop is exactly the opposite. so these are the things where
crowd size? i guess that s the explanation people are trying to understand. because he was correct from the information that he was given, which was given from us. that s what i m trying to get to. we have 350 employees, 5,000 security people. so, facts. when he concluded the armed services ball, which was brilliant, he asked me how did we do? i said sir, fantastic, best inauguration in history. part of my view, part of his team, and i m marketing. did i have a count? thank goodness the senate didn t confirm me as the statistical warrior and analytical king of counting crowds. i went to our team. i said how does it look? they said fantastic. here is what happened. we can talk about each of these details. i actually don t. but i gave him the information. i said within the viewing and hearing area, based on our facts, from our sight team, about 1.5 million people. by the way, which is an accurate number. look at those pictures, which