millions hit the streets, let's play "hardball"." good evening, i'm chris matthews, in washington, in the wake of donald trump's inauguration, there was a massive crowd out in the street

are t -- streets of san francisco, millions took to the streets around the world. came as donald trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the united states. according to the messages, the crowds were larger than organizers expected and demonstrations remained peaceful. they really did. and they tell me in san francisco, the rally is still under way. sharon, give us a sense of that event out there in beautiful san francisco. >> well, we're looking at -- the pictures -- let's go to nbc joining me now from nbc. >> reporter: hi, chris, how are you? here is what we're seeing this evening. this protest is just sort of wrapping up here in washington, wrapped up a couple of hours ago. you see a sea of signs here, as you know, it's the truman

balcony. when trump wakes up, he can see all of these signs, here is one of them. still not my president. resist, we can't show all of them, because frankly not all of them are family-appropriate. some of them have a theme-line theme to them. when things are wrapping up, there are conversations about the right to recognize how peaceful it is, there are conversations quite cerebral between trump supporters, they're having conversations on how the country can come together and the next steps. i think the overall volunteer he -- view here, for the protesters who are leaving it behind for the new president. >> well, would it be helpful to turn the signs around so we can see them from the white house? they look like they're going from the opposite direction? >> chris, you're portraying

yourself as a rookie sign-holder, you always have two sides. >> you're rubbing it in, actually, thank you so much. katie, is there still a lot of action out there today? >> there is still action, chris, but it's hard to imagine what this square looked like hours ago as tens of thousands of people crowded in. this board here is somewhat of a visual illustration of what this day shaped up to be. at the beginning of this day, the chalkboard was completely empty, saying i march for. and people are writing throughout the day, as you can see not an inch of space remains. very little this is visual. at this point there is so many sentiments written here on this board, that it's actually hard to understand what people wrote. but the lapd said this is a record turnout, probably over 150,000 people here today. they say it was completely peaceful. no arrests, and they were very

pleased with how demonstrators conducted themselves. we talked to many people that talked about unity and solidarity, this was not so much an anti-trump rally as it was pro-women. hi, what is your name? >> stephanie. >> stephanie, and i'm haley, and eleanor. >> so tell us why you're here today, why you brought your girls. >> well, we're girl scouts, we just knew it was really important for our girls to understand what is going on and speak about women's rights and really come out and support other women and women's rights. >> and what was your experience marching with the crowd, how did you feel? >> it was awesome. >> it was really packed, tons and tons of people. >> it was emotional, it was really powerful. we were crammed in the for an hour and a half right there in the corner and couldn't move and get anywhere but we were excited. and finally we started to move

and were able to walk all the way up. >> now, did you guys watch the inauguration yesterday? what were your reactions to that? >> i did not turn on the news and nothing. i ignored it completely. i don't want to see it. i'm not interested with what was going on, you know, i didn't -- maybe clearly enough -- >> you did feel motivated to come out today? >> yeah, i want to focus on the positive, i don't want to look at what is happening that is negative and things that i don't support. we're going to focus on getting back to helping our community, getting reconnected, making a difference. and making things better. >> it was emotional for a lot of women out here today just seeing so much support from other women and really focusing on issues that people care deeply about, and hope to challenge the administration coming in. >> definitely. yeah, i mean, there is so much that trump has said and done. there is so much that is going wrong, and it's really scary. but i think if we -- i mean, the

power today, the people i saw, i feel like these are our people. this is l.a., we're ever color and gender, every sexual orie orientati orientation. i just felt so proud and part of the city, i'm super excited. i want to do it every month. >> and what will you girls remember about today? >> just like my mom said, i saw a lot of different people, different skin colors and racinraces. even men were there supporting women, saying i support them and you should support them, too. >> still a long day for demonstrators, you should support them too. there are many out here in the streets of l.a., a very robust showing out here in l.a. >> i now realize why hillary clinton carried california. what a great group of democrats. thank you, katie. up in new york right now, i think it may still be a crowd out there. have they finally gone home?

the fifth avenue crowd? >> reporter: chris, they finally went home, you can still hear chants in the background, just a few people hanging out there on the corner. but as i mentioned they wrapped up about 7-7:30, this is about after 12 hours of protesting, i was here early this morning, you could see people coming in. leaving the throughorump tower. these were larger crowds than anybody expected. it was also the diversity of the crowds here in new york, very interesting, we saw men, young children and spoke to entire generations of women who were within the same family, one woman was an older african-american woman to me, she said to 2008, i came out and marched in washington for president obama's inauguration, but i'm marching today for exactly the opposite reason. she said morgan i felt hope then in 2008 going into 2009.

and looking at this now, i don't feel like there is hope. i also spoke to young children who said their parents said they brought them here so they could see what democracy looks like in action. we saw a lot of posters, some were a bit cheeky, others said love trump's hate, he is not my president. >> well, actually, he is, but i understand the sentiment, thank you. anyway, i'm joined by lin sweet, bin, you know this give and take between the street and the politico. right? and tell me about trump's unusual, almost elephant ears, telling the crowd, building it up too much today. what happened today? i have never seen it before. >> well, there were not 637 demonstrations in cities across

the globe to mark the inauguration of donald trump. what happened here is something that is very big. let's even put aside whether or not this demonstration is bigger or smaller than trump's crowd. >> size matters, he is watching. >> no, he is, perhaps the more relevant thing is the comparison between other inaugurations. but let's not be literal, because we're learning a lesson, i'm learning a lesson from donald trump. i want to get to what he means, he means we're not paying enough attention to his inauguration. i think what he means is that we've on day one of his presidency he didn't get a clear shot in the news, chris, because even though he had the prayer service and the cia visit which spawned its own story because of what he said and how spicer reacted to it, it didn't go the way he wanted. so that is the larger takeaway. i want to get caught in the what

the number is. i think now as i'm trying to get what his message is. and i say this -- if the trump representatives are listening, i get that we shouldn't get caught up in the literal. i'm trying to think of what is going on in the anger that we saw. >> how is he -- he is obviously trying to dog train the press. >> here is a favorite sign i saw today that may be applicable. you thought i was a nasty woman before, well, buckle up, butter cup. this is what we do. i come as you know from chicago, the rough and tumble of a press corps. what he is trying to do with the press, what he has been doing, obviously -- >> how can he get up every morning as president when he has to get ready for something like the budget, something he has to figure out, and yet he gets up

and hears morning joe, and somebody says something he doesn't like, he is focused on that. i mean, i'm immediately back at them, but he is president of the united states. he has to be accountable to the world and he is going to worry about some hollywood star took a shot at him that morning? >> this is what we're going to watch now. he has his new potus. >> snl is on for example, how is he going to escape thinking about that? >> to try and -- why can't he do both? maybe he will do both. i think -- why would you give up what has gotten you this far? so i think let's watch for whether he adds to it. not whether or not he picks fights with the press, we will get through this. chris, the press will get through this. we'll figure out, we'll be there, we're not going away. but he still has to be the president. so both can happen.

we've seen one picking the fight. he has been president a day. let's see how he governs day two and thereafter. >> you were out there, did you see people were trying to wheel him away or just wanted to make some noise knowing he is here to stay? >> this resistance that we saw today, was spawning a revitalized woman's movement, was actually triggered by trump, not by hillary clinton. so i think it's going to take a little time. think of it in the historical terms of we didn't realize the tea party was here to stay. we didn't realize that all of those people that came to the trump rallies, that people -- i didn't write that there were a lot of people come thinking, he is going to be president. let's take this lesson, don't ignore these crowds. >> i heard 200,000, then 400,000 in d.c., and it was about a half million today.

>> here is why i was not surprised. everyone i know who lives in washington had friends who wanted to come in and be housed. everyone. my neighbors got requests -- >> and the reason was, even if you had the loot, there were no hotel rooms. >> people want to say this was part of the whole grass movement. i saw on my block, women pouring out today. i know friends of friends who are putting up people. i was not surprised. >> we got some at home, too. thank you, lin sweet. all right, message to the cia, he is coming up next, and this is "hardball" where the action is. dakota's tender nose. with lotion to comfort and soothe when she blows. don't get burned by ordinary tissues. a nose in need deserves puffs, indeed. now get puffs plus lotion in the squeezable softpack.

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welcome back to "hardball." well, today president trump gave a speech to the cia in which he claimed to be a big supporter.

this is despite the fact that he was openly feuding with them since the election in november. now a new bombshell says that several associates of trump are currently under investigation by the fbi, and asked the agency and the federal department's crime unit. they are examining intercepting communications and financial transportation as part of a broader investigation with possible links to russian associates and president-elect donald j. trump, including his former adviser, paul manafort. anyway, of course he is now president trump. and "the new york times" says it is unclear if it had anything to do with mr. trump's campaign itself or the campaign, maybe just mr. manafort. but at least in part in the business dealings, the advice they have had with russia. they told the times we have

absolutely no knowledge of any investigation or even basis for such investigation. representatives of these agencies i mentioned also told "the new york times" they were providing the information because they feared that the trump white house would obstruct their efforts. nbc's kelly o'donnell joins us from the white house, kelly, it just keeps coming to the president-elect. i just wonder, well, we'll get to this now. what do you make of all of this? is this something that is going to be a distraction of this president, these continuing probes? >> well, certainly any time you have a new president and the spectre of investigation, there is a contentious relationship between trump and the intelligence community based on the kinds of issues you're talking about. the russian affect. the associations of trump, prior to now. how will that play out in realtime on a separate track.

today at the cia, the president said the media is trying to make it out as if he has a difficult relationship with the intelligence community. apparently forgetting the tweets that he put out and a comment during his january 11th news conference where he was dismissive of the intelligence community broadly and it was a reference to that two-page document, a political research memo that found its way into the news reports and that he had briefed on that by the senior level people. so he was getting into that fight. so today at the cia he sort of referenced that without any specifics just suggesting there is a tough relationship and trying to say no, just the exact opposite that he will be a supporter of the cia and help the men and women who work in the clandestine services that he will be behind them 100%, two very different tracts here, in some ways he uses the fight

against the media to perhaps deflect against his more contentious moments, the former director is frustrated openly with donald trump according to his spokesperson about the fact that trump went to the cia and talked politics, a place that he is traditionally, that doesn't usually happen, chris? >> thank you so much. ken delaney is an investigative reporter for the unit. and how putin cyber spies and wikileaks tried to steal the 2016 election. well, gentlemen, there is so much to talk about right now. the fact it is still going on, it doesn't end. >> so the investigation, nbc news confirmed there was a counterintelligence investigation going on, part of it is whether or not there were ties between the aides and russia. can donald trump stop that? can he just order the intelligence agencies to stop

investigating and the answer is he may well be able to do that but it would be a disaster. it would almost certainly leak. >> is that why they announced it? >> it sure looks that way, doesn't it? >> two days before the inauguration, these things start to leak out. in terms of the cia and kelly's point, john brennan just criticized his remarks. this is a 35-year cia veteran, that trump went and spoke in front of the fallen stars, made very little if any reference to the stars or to the cia and all and talked about his size of his crowds at the inauguration, the organization, it was a rambling self-referencing remark. president obama gave a very heart-felt appeal to the cia. complete contrast here.

>> maybe he should have been looking at the stars rather than using them as a back drop for some pr information. i am amazed how the juxtaposition occurred. why would somebody put him who is coming in to talk politics in front of a wall that honors people who died for their country without any credit otherwise? >> i don't know, because my reaction to today's speech was the exact same word that is john brennan said. this is despicable. i have people who i know that are on that wall. i honor those people in that hall and their sacrifice that they have given to this country. they have given their lives to defend this nation. you do not go into that hall between the cia wall and the oss wall and go in there and have a political speech where you insult the nation and completely ignore the sacrifice of the men and women who put their lives out there today. one other point, why did he go on saturday? why was he not there when the

entire work force was there as opposed to a few select guests and the security force? >> come on, malcolm, you know communications as well as i do. he wanted to counter what is going on in the newspapers tomorrow. and tonight on television. >> you're absolutely right. and let me comment on what is going on in this investigation. i have been calling since july 25th for a counterintelligence investigation into the connections to the russian hacking campaign between the trump campaign and the russians. clearly, that has been going on. we've seen news reporting in the past that comes from foreign special intelligence and stuff that has been passed on to the u.s. intelligence. and now, clearly a faisal warrant has been issued and two people are being investigated. i want to call two words to this, counterintelligence, that means it is a spy-hunting investigation.

they are looking for spies or people who have ties to russian intelligence from the trump campaign. >> what is the significance of the fact that i remember trump once went on television one time and said i want the russians to hack into the democrats, knowing what they are up to. is that prima facie evidence? >> this counterintelligence aspect is very important. that is certainly what is going on. the question is, what crimes can people be charged with? if some american who is connected to the trump campaign helped the russians is that a crime? is that representing a foreign government? that is a pretty minor crime. >> but what if somebody said look at the podesta stuff. he is doing communications with palmieri, and found out about brazil and whether or not she

took questions to the candidate to maybe see where she was working and sort of moonlighting there. do you think that kind of help can be illegal? >> well, i actually talked to experts about this last week. it's a question, it's not the espionage act, not the national defense information. it probably would be legal and be a huge political scandal but it will be a very difficult thing to prove, chris. >> what we're looking toward is possible behavior by trump or his people, or are we going to go back and look at what paul manafort did in his business interest as something different? >> now let's look at how a spy would look at this. we see somebody who has connections to an organization and an activity that was directed from the kremlin. handed over to russian intelligence. russian intelligence handed it off to a cutout, wikileaks. that is a direct connection to a foreign intelligence agency. if these people wittingly or

knowingly accepted assistance, money or help, you have a completely different game going on there, espionage activity going on there. >> so any american cannot be working hand and glove with a foreign agency of any kind, period, even if it's not adve e adversari adversarial? >> we have liaison relationships all over the place, people who make contact with a foreign agency. this is completely a spy hunt, they think that somebody there is dirty. >> well, you're a tough analyst, i know what you're talking about, you do. anyway, thank you for coming in on this big day. i think for opposition in this country, up next, many turned up in droves to address the crowd today. stick around for some of the big faces coming here. michael moore has already been on tonight.

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well, it is pouring right now but you can see that is not stopping the marchers from coming out. most of them carrying umbrellas, making their way right now. they are on the move from civic center plaza to justin herman plaza. they will stay there about three more hours, saying that women's rights are human rights. love trump hate. all kinds of signs, saying my body, my choice. they're definitely trying to deliver their message as they make their way down market street and to justin herman plaza. it's very interesting because several hours before this women's march started here in

san francisco there was also a pro-life rally. it was the 13th annual pro-life west coast rally march. and that took place for several hours. but they said they wanted it to remain very peaceful. to everyone, have a chance to express their views. so as they took off they actually converged with some of the woman's march supporters. and they chanted back and forth, pro life, pro choose, but then it wrapped up and it is very peaceful. we did just hear police sirens go off, so this event lasts for about three more hours, but so far this is very peaceful. reporting live, back to you. >> thank you very much sharon, in rallies across the country, politicians, musicians, actors and actresses all took part in the protests gathered around

them. here is what some of them had to say. >> ladies and gentlemen, are we here? are you ready to march, say yes! >> it's been a heartbreaking time to be both a woman and an immigrant in this country. our dignity, our character, our rights have all been under attack. and a platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday. but the president is not america. >> i know something about marches when i was much younger i marched. i marched in washington. i marched from selma to montgomery. i am ready to march again. >> president trump, i did not vote for you.

that said, i respect that you are our president-elect and i want to be able to support you. but first, i ask that you support me. support my daughter. who may actually as a result of the appointments you have made grow up in a country that is moving backwards, not forward. and who may potentially not have the right to make choices for her body and her future that your daughter ivanka has been privileged to have. >> this is magnificent. but this can't end today. this has to go on and on. this is how people ended the war in vietnam. they kept marching, they kept [ bleep ]. they kept saying no. no. no. >> we will continue to rise until our voices are heard, until our planet's safety is not deferred. until our bombs stop dropping in other lands. until our dollar is the same dollar as a man's.

and we continue to recognize that yes, we can. >> you can count on me. your palestinian muslim sister to keep her voice loud, keep her feet on the street, keep my head held high. because i am not afraid. >> wow, where next do the protests go from here? they could be turned into a political movement. coming up next, you are watching a special edition of "hardball." looking for balance in your digestive system?

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we have to take over the democratic party. i'm sorry, but the old guard of the democratic party has to go. it has to go. we need new leadership. we need young leadership. we need women leadership.

we need people of color. we need gay and lesbian and bi-sexual and transgender. >> welcome back to "hardball." of course, michael moore speaking at the massive demonstrations here in washington. and president and ceo of voter latino. i just made a mistake, drinking too much diet coke. and washington bureau chief. there are a lot of things coming together, it reminded me of going to the anti-war demonstrations years ago and you would find everybody had a flag. they were not the same flags. >> that was the purpose of the women's march and how it came about is recognizing for a long time the only issue that people want to talk about when they associate with women for a long time is reproductive rights. in fact, they care about wages and the economy and the lgbt

community. everything we heard from michael moore, it's what moves young people. it is why bernie sanders came out and rose so quickly out of nowhere. the recognition, i thought it was very special. people for the very first time in organizing this march, people shared power. it was not saying let's econoch the box, it was a statement. it was not just women in the united states it was global. yesterday when the president said it's america first, america first, nobody did anything for us. the world today said we're standing with you because you stood with us. >> and michael moore said here is your chance to topple the regime here, the people who have been in power. a lot of democrats have been in congress for 20, 30 years, the names are very familiar. and what was his excuse today to say trump gave a speech that

drove us crazy, therefore we must have challenges, what more are we saying? >> well, the key thing here to marie's point, the rally not just in d.c. but across the united states was about a broad resistance. a word that people use on twitter. the resistance that is progressive and has a lot of different facets to it. and in the last few months since the election, a lot of people, the majority, who voted for hillary who don't buy into trump's vision, have been looking for leadership. and the democratic party has not really given to them. barack obama did what he did as president. elizabeth warren was great on the financial issues, bernie sanders came out sometimes, but they have to get together to say we have political culture and connections and may not agree on everything, but now it's whether the two-party system can absorb this energy and passion and speak back to the people who are

actually asking them to speak on their behalf. >> there is a big conflict here, do you spend time being political, what david is suggesting, a real revolt against the order, or do you spend the next few days trying to cut deals with trump? >> it galvanizes the people who, it kind of puts a stake in the heart of this kind of embarrassing fatalism that so many democrats have had since the day of the election, such as obamacare is gone, cliemate change is going to die. the election was lost, but there is still fights ahead. now democratins see if they enge in this fight, they have a lot of power. and whatever they think will get them to the next election, if you go in this direction you will have support. >> will they have the same

crowds, that the rallies have -- >> i think this is a very clear reminder to the democratic party that they have to make sure that the base that was created under obama's election has to be kept. we're hearing in a lot of circles, bringing in the white working class, but you have to make sure you engage all groups simultaneously. >> the reagan democrat -- >> so if you -- for the very first time what trump was able to do, he basically out-flanked the democrats on immigration and he scared them. instead of saying let's, have a policy that white working class will agree with and immigrants will agree on, wage enforcement. what they're really afraid is that somebody is going to come in and take their job because they will work for less. >> like the person who just got here is the most desperate, and

dire, and those are also not the jobs that trump promised to bring back. you know, and i think part of the job here from the grass roots and from the leadership is to continual point out and get under the skin of donald trump that if he doesn't keep his promises, that he is not reality-based. and the people who like him will believe him over msnbc and "the new york times." you are not going to win back the trump supporters and you should not try. there was a small sliver of them who voted for obama. it's not a small wholesale, you only needed 50,000 in three states to win. >> let me ask you, let's look at what happened here. which was -- >> he had something to do with this by his boycott. led 60-something members in the house. then you had this woman

somewhere out west. >> hawaii. >> who just got up, she was ticked off at the election of donald trump and she put this together. this did not come from schumer or nancy pelosi, just a regular person -- >> explain how it works. >> so on election night she basically said we should march in washington, women should go and walk in washington, she woke up and had 10,000 followers. all of a sudden they started to connect with local community organizations, and came together. this was not even led by washington based organizations. >> got on board this thing early on and they made it big. and people read about it. 200,000, they said this looks family-friendly, this doesn't look scary, i'm going to go. >> i said okay, we helped with the sister marches across the board but what we would do is get on phone calls and explain what our best practices were on line. and somebody else would come in and say to fundraise, they felt

like they were owning something, which i think the democratic party has lost is the soul -- >> i agree, let's talk about his tactics, not his points of view, which most don't like, i'm very negatively mixed on some of them. the hat, you can make fun of it. it had a message, the democrat's message, what is the message that unifies people together? make america great, and also there was a sense of aspiration again, progressives need to find that. they used to have one, what side are you on? >> they need action and policy. right now there is a slim opportunity for them, the fact they don't control anything they can actually slow down time and say this is not what they're doing for you. they have agendas oi s --

>> and here is the plan, mr. trump, then he has to say no to it. >> here is the plan to improve obamacare and protect social security. you can go -- >> not doing it. >> not yet. i think they have been slow. this despair and gloom, we lost the election, it shows that trump is a minority president. now he has the power, he has the congress -- >> we have had a couple of democratic presidents who were minorities, too. not to this degree. but clinton won the electoral college. >> and we got wiped out. >> he came in first in the popular vote. >> right. >> not second. >> he came in second. >> and he didn't have 40% approval rating going into office. >> also got wiped out in a wave. and then got impeached. i don't know if trump wants that

to be his model. >> but this is a fight about values. and the democrats have to be able to put that into a bumper sticker, into a narrative. and these people today came out and said we are ready to fight. we are ready to follow. we are ready to work with you. >> i mean, it's great, the grass roots, but then, okay now what? how about a plan? >> you have folks like wendy throwing their hats in. >> running for congress. by the way, the thing that was said in the last four or five days, he said go get a clip board. ie i'm telling you, it says i'm going to go in the safe way or stand in the doorway or stand in the door on saturday morning and get signatures from people i know and will run for school board and state rep, you can actually afford to run for state rep, it's doable. >> he was thinking electorally, people that were thinking that, were thinking immediately.

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[ door closes ] she's actually pretty nice. oh. yeah. this is an outpouring of energy and true democracy like i have never seen in my very long life. it is wide in age. it is deep in diversity. and remember the constitution does not begin with i, the president. it begins with, we, the people. >> the great gloria steinem speaking in washington, d.c. we're back with ryan. you're going to tell me something i don't know.

>> i'm going to try. >> take your time, brother. >> so around the country today, a lot of towns are 5 thourks 10,000, 20,000, had marches that equaled something like 8,000, 10,000, even 20% of their populations. >> today? >> today. palmer, alaska, right asround te corner from wasilla. population of 5,000, 6,000 people. more than 1,000 people. i called the palmer police department to make sure this was true. they said that sounds about right. more than 1,000. and in red areas, all over the country, you saw people coming out in these numbers, which reminds them they have people nearby them that agree with them, which may remind them in 2018 to come out and vote which puts a lot of seats that were won in 2010, 2012, 2014 in play for democrats. >> would this have happened if mitt romney or jeb bush had managed to win? >> no. >> if it was just the usual party rotation? tell me what i don't know first.

exemplify on this big night for progressives. one is unique about the protest and what are they protesting as opposed to, i don't like we have another republican in. >> this is a candidate that went against the very values of the american people and where we are at this point in time. they were saying we do not want you to push back the future. we do not want you to put in someone such as attorney general sessions. we do not youpt to go back on climate or reproductive rights. this was a personal piece that somehow the democratic party missed. this is what they needed pre-election. and this is the american people saying, trump, you may be president but as america ferrera said, but we are america. >> the last part of the campaign against the temperament of donald trump which didn't quite -- if you want to gamble, talking about somebody's temperament isn't going to work. >> people want soul. >> i saw one of the most important men in washington at the march today.

you ask -- >> i ask, who was that? >> good question. senator ron rydewyden. he's on the senate intelligence committee. he's been trying to get the fbi to declassify secret information on connections between trump associates and russia. he's now inside -- >> what's his nose tell him? what does he think he has? >> he's signaled publicly without saying what the information is that it's serious and the american public deserves to know. >> manafort or trump himself? >> we don't know. he's been very good following the rules but signals he knows something that is very, very upsetting. and he's on the inside. so as the senate intelligence committee -- >> does anybody know whether -- when you impeach somebody for something they did before they took office? >> sure. >> how do you do that? >> there's no statute of limitations on that. of course you can. if we find out donald trump was collude with russia while they were hacking the election, that's completely impeachable.

but it's a political -- you know, impeachment is a political thing. so it would have to be -- republicans would have to be on board with this and the congress we have now. >> they'd have to bring it up. >> won't be hard to find impeachable offenses. >> the conflict -- >> one step ahead of ourselves. >> you brought it up. >> i heard about it all night and i keep hearing about it from ken delaney and malcolm and i think it's something that's out there bubbling. and usually that means it's coming our way. ryan grimm, you are the quiet man. thank you for coming on late tonight. david corn, you are always ready to push the progressive clause and you are a great reporter. when we return, let me finish with the pictures of women gathering in protest around the world today. you're watching "hardball." i love you. but i love him.

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let me finish tonight with this. america watched saturday,

january 21st, 2017. today on the streets of america, giant crowds of women showed democracy doesn't end on inaugural day. it's not over until history has been made and the history of the trump presidency is a day old and yet to be lived. nothing pollyanna in saying this. we all have an election coming up next year for the united states congress. people have a chance to get a clipboard and as president obama counseled, run for office. more practically for most people, we have a chance to throw the bums out in 2018 and throw the president out in 2020. it's all right there in the constitution. and a lot more. those who marched today are rather crunched into the parade route as several people close to me did, exercised their civic and physical muscles. they got to feel what it's like to join with like-minded others and let the world know what they think. and don't think the world didn't hear you. those pictures of women gathering in protests have gone around the world. marches were held in over 50 countries today.

we once thought the duty of citizens to show up for elections and step back into your own world and vaguely keep track of what's happening. i get the feeling the election of donald trump and the way he won that election is going to change all that. i think people are going to pay attention to what goes on the next four years but also get into the act themselves. we are about to flex our first amendment muscles. don't you think? that's "hardball" for now. catch me sunday when i'll be chuck todd's guest on "meet the press." our special coverage on msnbc continues now with brian williams. good evening and thanks to chris matthews for today's special of "hardball." we'll take a look at what has been by any standard of measurement a remarkable day across this country from washington to the west and really started out as a