government shutdown. i am not expecting the president to mention the shutdown in these remarks. they ll likely focus on the issue he is here to talk about, but it is possible as i look at my fellow white house press corps colleagues lining the roads garden that the president will be asked about it after his remarks. in the audience i see kellyanne conway here who has been one of the president s point people on this issue along with a number of people, including younger kids here. you can see them behind me here, as well. and hallie, stand by for a moment. your colleague white house correspondent kristen welker is with the crowd along the march route. kristin, i don t know if you can hear me. it s pretty loud there. we can hear you. reporter: i have to tell you a lot of emotion here today. throngs of people energized by the fact that the president is going to speak.
ana, to gif yve you a sense of where we are. a lot of different signs and all asking trump, what are you hiding and what is behind these tax returns. what we ll see is essentially a lot more details that we have today. we ll see who his foreign business partners are or bank accounts over seas. that s the specific information that would be in a tax return and not in the financial disclosure documents that are out there right now. i want to point out the giant chickens behind me. there is been chickens all along of the march route. it is a symbol here that protesters have using to compel donald trump to do something. again, the white house made it clear that it has no plans to release these documents. ana. chicken? that s pretty funny actually. thank you, christina. lets turn to shannon now in new
pence will head the pro-life march. we re on the national mall in washington, d.c. along the march route. is the vice president the highest ranking official to speak at this event? yes, he is, bill. the symbolic importance of that is huge. pence is the most important person, the highest ranking public official to appear in 44 years of this march and his presence here is an indication of the renewed optimism. he has a stellar record in the view of these folks here. the first congressman as a congressman from indiana to introduce legislation to ban funding to planned parenthood. a 100% approval rating from the right to life committee and he said this yesterday to the republican members about the administration s intention to fill the vacancy held by the pro-life justice scalia. he is going to nominate a
concerned. sarah, we re going to pull away from you. a lot of women, a lot of cell phones. some audio issues. just roll with it. we ll come back to you. let s go to boston now. miguel marquez at the massive march there. what are you seeing there, miguel? reporter: brooke, to say that organizers are overwhelmed by the turnout here is an underestimate. these are still marchers waiting to get on to the march route. it s a mile long and the start, if you look back around to boston common and they don t have enough room basically on the route to get people out of the park and marching along. they planned for about 25,000 people for this march. a senior source with the boston police department said they have 120,000 to 125,000 people out here. and it s not just women s groups. hundreds of groups across new england have found boston for this march saying this is the beginning of something for them. this is the beginning of a
sometimes it is hard to estimate the crowd but it was definitely a large turnout. they marched a little more than a mile through streets of downtown dallas. and definitely caused some traffic issues there. they were moving through downtown making their way to the arena last night. were there clashes between these protesters and trump supporters as they entered or exited the arena? for the most part everything went fine. the march route was pre planned and organized with a police escort basically. and there was also a protest area where they were kind of huddled there on the north side of the arena. it was after the event was going on. it was almost kind of surreal. both of these events going on simultaneously, just literally several hundred feet from each other. it wasn t until the end of the event when trump supporters were coming out of the arena and the protest event had kind of wrapped up and everyone was starting to leave the area.