environment going in to 2017. we have seen it on display every day. this is obviously the eiffel tower in the background. this is the gathering in paris, france. absolutely incredible. this is long over because the daylight hours, of course, ended hours ago. but this was before a lot of americans were up and at it. and out on the streets of their own cities. looks like it was colder in paris than it was in new york. the demonstrations were also helped by the temperate weather. there were beautiful temperatures today. in chicago, illinois, for example. in washington, d.c. wintertime, yes. but they were very fortunate that it was mild. the weather, actually, has been germane to the discussion of crowd size over the inauguration. there s a picture of rome. because it did start to rain when president trump started his
the right, the obama inauguration with the trump inauguration yesterday. he hit us with a fuselage of numbers there, admission, how many people were allowed in certain sections, through certain gaetds. part of the defense was magnenometers were prevalent this time than in 09 and would have potentially held down the crowd size. he cited some figures from metro in washington, d.c., the subway system, and it s unclear as to whether he was talking about individuals using metro or the number of rides recorded in a day which could be multiples per person. lawrence o donnell was listening with us from our studios in new york. lawrence, that was a unique appearance and meant by sean spicer clearly to lay down the
house, hallie. a quick note, too, brian. let s just note the sometimes fuzzy to get of crowd sizes an one of the ones is the march, the demonstration in los angeles. and we are being told now that sources estimate the crowd size there could be upward of several hundred thousand but there s a caution flag here that this 750,000 figure being put out by organizers is too high and a source putting the crowd at 200,000 people. that can be revised upwards and all to say coming to the hard numbers, sometime that is s a little bit tricky to estimate. the visuals of it are certainly something to watch. yeah. they are striking. hallie jackson, thanks. we ll be coming back to you. stephanie gosk has been reporting on the protests in washington at ground level all day. stephanie, what do you have? reporter: you know, brian, we are not that far from that empty lectern and let s just say this is a very different scene out
tent is 220,000 and media tent to the washington monument out 50250,000 people. all of this space was full when the president took the oath of office. we know that 420,000 people used the d.c. metro public transit yesterday and compares to 317,000 that used it for president obama s last inaugural. this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration. period. both in person and around the globe. even the new york times printed a photograph showing that a misrepresentation of the crowd in the original tweet in the paper and showed the full extent of the support, depth and crowd and intensity that existed. these attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong. the president was also at the center as you know at the central intelligence agency and creted by a crowd of some 400,000 cia employees, over
new york. we have no apparent let-up in new york. that s 5th avenue. we are saying earlier even if you ve just been in new york once or twice, you know the import of 5th avenue as a landmark. you know perhaps how much traffic it carries during an average day. these are all protesters. so many of them wearing the pink hats. so many of them carrying signs. so many of them with families, strollers. this was billed as the women s march but the organizers were quick to add that, of course, it wasn t limited to women and they ve been quick to point out today especially in new york and washington that it has featured so many men, so many families. all peaceful. we don t know of a single violent incident. this has turned into kind of what they called in the 60s and