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
will stick to that and not turn it into that, and we hope too that we never see the spectacle of our military force being on display as a show of force to our own people. politico reports there s concern about white house aides about their ability to pull off what trump expects to see. reporter nancy cook, who joins me in a moment, writes white house and the republican national committee have spent the last week scrambling to distribute vip tickets. white house officials and allies are wringing their hands over the risk of the hastily arranged event morphing into trump s inauguration 2.0 in which the size of the crowd and the ensuing media coverage do not meet the president s own outsized expectations for the event. they started this too late and everyone has plans already, says dan eberhart, a republican donor. once again, this is all
originally they tried to give them to a bunch of high-end donors. now i ve been hearing even tonight after i published this story today that they re really willing to off-load them to anyone. one white house staffer that i talked to late this afternoon took home 15 tickets and was just going to hand them out to whomever she could tomorrow. and the big concern on the part of the white house and the rnc is whether or not these seats will be filled. they don t want it to be like the inauguration where trump ends up really upset by the crowd size and then ends up sort of not giving the patriotic non-political speech that so many advisers want him to give. right. and peter, with respect to the inauguration, the president didn t have a lot of choices in how many people were actually going to show up. but because it didn t go his way he sent out his then press secretary sean spicer to say this. photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way in one particular t
gathered on the national mall. 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
it into that, and we hope too that we never see the spectacle of our military force being on display as a show of force to our own people. politico reports there s concern about white house aides about their ability to pull off what trump expects to see. reporter nancy cook, who joins me in a moment, writes white house and the republican national committee have spent the last week scrambling to distribute vip tickets. white house officials and allies are wringing their hands over the risk of the hastily arranged event morphing into trump s inauguration 2.0 in which the size of the crowd and the ensuing media coverage do not meet the president s own outsized expectations for the event. they started this too late and everyone has plans already, says dan eberhart, a republican donor. once again, this is all happening as critics are slamming the administration for