surrounding president trump s inauguration. new documents show a government photographer cropped photos taken at the event to make the crowd appear larger. those changes coming after several calls from the white house the day after the inauguration sean spicer was advisably angry over images in the media showing president trump s crowd was much smaller than barack obama s 2009 inauguration turnout. photographs were intentionally framed in a way in one particular tweet to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the national mall. this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. both in person and around the globe. joining me now with more on this, cnn correspondent polo sandoval. so what do we know about the cropped pictures, the before, the after, in between? reporter: let me try to
him, frankly as does the size of his inauguration crowd and his loss in the popular vote by a margin of three million. those fixations were on display in trump s first big tv interview as president which aired last night. he was asked why he chose to make his first full day in office all about his inauguration turnout. does that send a message to the american people that that s more important than some of the pressing issues? part of my whole victory was that the member and women of this country who have been forgotten will never b forgotten again. part of that is whenhey try and demean me unfairly because we had a massive crowd of people. that was some crowd. when i looked at the numbers that happened to come in from all of the various sources, we had the biggest audience in the history of inaugural speeches. the biggest audience in the history of inaugural speeches. that is false. trump was pressed about his speech saturday at the cia
do we agree? it s been a while. the state of pennsylvania is very special to me for lots of reasons, especially from a couple of months ago, remember. pennsylvania cannot be won, remember? pennsylvania cannot be won, right congressman? there is no path to victory for trump in pennsylvania. except we won. well, the president was inside speaking and hundreds of people took to the streets outside to protest the new administration and republican efforts to repeal the affordable care act. president trump remains at this moment historically unpopular. his approval rating now somewhere between 46% according to the gallup poll and 36% according to quinnipiac. numbers like those seem to haunt him, frankly as does the size of his inauguration crowd and his loss in the popular vote by a margin of three million. those fixations were on display in trump s first big tv interview as president which aired last night. he was asked why he chose to make his first full day in office all about his inaugu
this. that is not good. then the president s assault on the press. calling reporters the most dishonest people on earth. insists they laid about his inauguration turnout. the viewer speech. encouraged by steve bannon calling the media the opposition party, that it should keep its mouth shut and listen for a while. not exactly first amendment stuff. look, i know this is feel-good stuff. not naive. i know it s a political tactic, designed to spurxcitement among a small group of folks. but this is not a campaign anymore. as president mr. trump s words have outsize impact not just in the u.s. but around the globe. we in the media are guilty of chasing shiny metal observes rather than telling stories of what matters to voters. we didn t have a good handle of what a lot of people living away from big metro areas were thinking but it s not an excuse for somehow disbanding two basic premises when it comes to the media, the press and democracy.