our best job and do it with a degree of integrity that in our respective industries. do you have any corrections you would like to make or clarifications? well, sure. ask away, jonathan. for instance, i don t want to relitigate the whole issue be but one issue of metro ridership. you made a statement we did. at the time the information i was provided bit inaugural committee came from an outside agency that we reported on. and i think knowing what we know now, we can tell that their numbers were different. it s not like we made them up out of thin air. do you stand by your statement that that was the most watched inaugural sure. it was the most watched inaugural. when you look at look, you look at just one network along got 16.9 million people online. another couple of the networks, there were tens of millions of people that watched that online. never mind the audience that was here, 31 million people watched it on television, combine that with the tens of millions of
monument another 250,000 people. all of this space was full when the president took the oath of office. we knew that 420,000 people used d.c. metro transit yesterday, compared to 317,000 that used for president obama s inaugural. this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period, both in person and around the globe. jim you ve been fact checking the numbers. reporter: metro ridership numbers cited were not accurate. i believe we have a graphic prepared. according to washington metro service here in the nation s capital, 570,000 riders took metro yesterday for donald trump. back in 2013, it was 782,000, and 1.1 million in 2009.