extraordinary indeed. what could be what has the potential to be the largest kind of coming-forth of organized activity since the '60s and '70s. size matters, let's play hardball. good evening i'm chris matthews in washington. mr. president, across the country, around the world, huge crowds and the millions of people to send a message to you. the main rally was in donald trump's new town, washington, d.c., up to a half million people flooded the downtown streets, blocks from the white house. they came around from the country streaming in by bus, plane, train in the early hours

of this morning. shattered all estimates from the organizers. more than 600 sister marches around the country were held. in fact around the globe. in new york, 100,000 people marched on fifth avenue on fifth avenue. in chicago, quarter million flooded into town, large rallies were held today in atlanta, in philadelphia, and boston. in los angeles, the police department said it was the biggest crowd since immigration march back in 2006 drew a half million people. marches were held overseas as well. london a crowd of 100,000. let's again with morgan radford who'd in new york city. i hear the strangest story about a march. too many people to march. you are looking at the last

marchers standing. why was it important to come out today? >> he is missing feminism. everything that he is doing is fascist. i'm from california, we are doing this everywhere. >> reporter: we are hearing this happen everywhere. this is one of 317 sister marches that have been popping up in all 50 states. the police officers are shoeing everyone, including us away. they are standing up for the

issues they feel are most important, most threatened under a trump presidency. chris, there've been lots of men, children, and generations of women. i spoke to one woman who was a grandmother, she brought her daughter and her grandchildren, my rights to abortion and my own body. if you don't have a uterus, you don't have an opinion. these were the sentiments as we see posters that read fascist or putin's pea-on. charged feelings today. when i asked them, look, chris critics say donald trump has been elected of the president of the united states. and they said because it's important for the people who feel marginalized to feel that we stand with them. chris. they're not there like in new york, go ahead. >> reporter: no, there were so many people today, hundreds of thousands of them. and what you're seeing here is

as the marchers left the capitol, they left thousands of signs. and this is just near the white house, go down the street and the white house is there. it's a symbol that that is a movement that's only just beginning. each person had their own reason for being here. we met so many people from colorado or so many other states. and they felt so inspired they said that so many others felt like them. felt strong enough about the cause to make the journey to miss school, miss work, to come here. they've been so inspired that they will now move on and go talk to their local officials. they'll talk to others. they'll try to keep what they believe is a very important movement going. this is only just beginning.

that was the message that i took away from talking to them and then from seeing all these signs, chris. they're voters. they're not like the anarchists. they are going to matter in our society politically in the future. >> reporter: yeah, what a difference testifies from yesterday. all day, and we were looking for that. we were looking out for any trouble that might have been caused, but there was none to be seen. we don't know if any arrests. yesterday, as you know, 217 people were arrested. and many of them as we were caught in the middle of that protest. we saw them just their purpose was to cause trouble and violence. this was so much different. anybody could tell that was watching. chris. >> i know there, great feeling today.

thank you so much. now actor and top of the chart singer, cher, was at the march here today in washington. it's an honor. thank you. >> hey chris. >> it was nice, it was interesting. usually i'm up on stage, i talked to the crowd and shook heads and took pictures and i really enjoyed myself. i talked to a million people, back stable and you know, kids behind the barricade. and it was great. it was different than new york because i kind of got into the crowd. and it was seeing it and hearing it from their perspective. >> what do you think the people -- i know they're disappointed in the election results, and in the inaugural yesterday, what do you think they're hopeful for?

or do they have no hope? how would you describe the crowd today? >> oh no, no, no, not at all. also, past being disappointed. i mean, you'd be disappointed if mitt romney won. you know. that would be a disappointment. that would last a few days and you'd go okay, i'll just get through it. but trump is a different thing altogether. you know, he is just something that well you see people from all over the world, not just americans, people from all over the world, they don't like him. they don't trust him. they don't feel he's qualified. and they don't think he's a good person. i know his supporters do and i don't blame them because -- i actually support his people because they feel uncared for, unthought of, disenfranchised

and somehow they look at him and each one individually thinks he will fix their problem. >> i think you're right. let me ask you, what do you think -- looking forward to those wonderful people around you today, half million people in d.c. and three million around the world. where do they go next? what do you think? we have organize so many different places that you can go and how -- whatever amount of time you have and how you feel about what you're able to do. you can go on the sites and you can do -- there are many optioningses. there was like no crying, no whining. we're going to kick their ass. >> okay. that's a good word. thank you so much. i've had you and barbara on.

thank you very much, cher. you're great. >> it was great talking to you. bye. >> joined now by the "new york times" and the washington deputy editorial page of the washington post lots of people. does it shake things loose? >> i talked to one woman today who was feeling hopeless, depressed, she cried when hillary lost. hearing michael moore to call congress run for office, that inspired her and told her, i can take these specific actions and i talked to women across the mall today who were saying, this is just the beginning. i'm here with my family. people there with three, four, generations saying i'm teaching my eight-year-old this is what you do when you lose.

people had two months to cry and weep and mourn. and then when you see the person that you feel is attacking your community inaugurated as the president, you can't sit there in grief because he's signing executive orders rolling back the affordable care act. they don't have time anymore to weep and do that. they want to actually make a difference. >> i wonder if this isn't a warm-up when you start seeing the turning of the screw. i think the republican leadership is going to be scarier than trump because they're going to be getting rid of obamacare. when they turn that screw from the right, people will show up in the streets. >> one of the things is going to be who is paying attention to this. president trump and his new

administration seem to be, what marchers? i just want to say one thing. i think part of the good feeling among if marchers, i was not there, but my 82-year-old mom was there. >> we have a picture of your mom? >> i'm not going to show it. my 20-year-old daughter was there with a flock of her friends from penn. there was something to that girl power especially after so many women were disappointed not seeing the first woman elected. i think it did really contribute to the good feeling there. >> there were a lot of men there today. i saw a lot of pictures. >> i talked to a lot of men. one of them was there with his daughter.

he said i'm here to show my daughter that women's rights are human rights and that if she has an opinion, she deserves to be heard. also as a construction wker, she's surrounded by men and i want her to know she should get equal pay like them. they were in a supportive role. this wasn't men saying i'm here and i also have these issues. i'm here to let women know that we know we need to support them. that was the different feeling i didn't hear any man-sphaining. >> i think trufrp is very sensitive. sent sean spicer into the press room. our crowd was bigger than you're saying it is. probably hear this monday, your crowd wasn't as big as you said it is. >> that was an amazing performance, i thought by the new press secretary. sensitive is a very mild description of what was going on there.

>> thank you. there was a very positive feeling in this town today. militant, but positive. thank you very much. coming up, more on the historic demonstrations around the world today. there's a pretty one today, where else by the eiffel tower. this is a special edition of "hardball," where the action is. can i give it to you straight? that airline credit card you have... it could be better. it's time to shake things up. with the capital one venture card, you get double miles on everything you buy, not just airline purchases. seriously, think of all the things you buy. great...is this why you asked me to coffee? well yeah... but also to catch-up. what's in your wallet? and for just $15.99big festival of shrimp you can pick 2 of 6 new and classic creations on one plate new flavors like sweet bourbon-brown sugar grilled shrimp and bold firecracker red shrimp

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welcome back to "hardball." if in his first full day in office, donald trump visited the central intelligence agency in languagely. he also went after the media for what he's calling false reporting on crowd size. >> we had a massive field of people. you saw that.

packed. i get up this morning, i turn on one of the networks, and they show an empty field. i said, wait a minute, i made a speech. i looked out. the field was -- it looked like a million, million and a half people. they showed a field where there were practically nobody standing there. they said donald trump didn't draw well. i said it was almost raining, but god looked down and said we're not going to let it rain on your speech. it looked like a million and a half people. whatever it was, it was. but it went back to the washington monument. >> later in the day his press secretary sean spicer continued that attack. >> photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way in one particular tweet to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the national mall. no one had numbers because the national park service which controls the national mall does not put any out. by the way, this applies to any attempts to try to count the number of protests today in the same fashion.

we know the numbers of the d.c. metro transit yesterday, which compares to obama's last inaugural. this was the largest audience to witness an inauguration period, both in person and around the globe. these attempts to lesson the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong. >> wow. nbc's kelly o'donnell joins us now. you got a whooping today. i've never seen a press secretary come in to the room and criticize like he's the editor back at the desk somewhere at the city room. go ahead. >> there's always an adversarial relationship. we expect that. there's give or take with press secretaries past and present. this was amped up. and certainly reflects the tone we've heard from the president himself at the cia. and what was also notable about president trump's remarks is he

made those rockers, not just about the cia and his support for the intelligence community, but he need into this more media assessment political commentary in front of the wall that bears the stars, each of those stars marks a life lost in the service of the cia. and that is typically a place where political speech is not done. so there's that issue. and then you have sean spicer the press secretary who did not take questions after he litigated the facts as they see them and gave us specific reference points. there are things that he said that do bear repeating. the national park service does not provide a crowd count and hasn't for the last 20 or so years. crowd counts are difficult to do. people do satellite imagery. there's a real sense that they are feeling that it isn't just a difference of opinion, but that it's an intelligence minimizing of their inauguration

celebration. and that sets a tone of a real coming together in a much more heated way. they also told us that the trump administration thinks this is a twoway street. if you're going to criticize him, his tweets, his statements, then they are going to go through media reports and media commentary and hold the community of reporters and commentators accountable as well. i think this is just the first of one of these kinds of exchanges. >> i get the feeling sean is like a baby sitter with a surveillance camera on and trump was watching him and making sure he was every bit as militant as the new president. you don't have to comment on that. you know what john kennedy would do, count the nuns and multiply by 100. those were the good old days. thank you, kelly o'donnell. went over to langley to talk to the officials over there. the spies. well, we'll see how that went

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i know sometimes you haven't gotten the back end you wanted. you're going to get so much back and say please don't give us so much back in. as you know, i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. and they sort of made it sound like i had a feud with the intelligence community. and i just want to let you know, the reason your number one stop is exactly the opposite. >> welcome back to requested hardball." today president trump -- get used to that, gave a speech in which he said he had never feuded with the cia and blamed the media for creating that impression. this after trump spent months publicly attacking the cia on twitter. calling out the biggest blunder, the iraq war, blaming it on

them. robert costas, msnbc contributor, and jeremy bash, msnbc's national security analysis and former chief of staff to leon panetta. let me be positive, trump went over there because despite all the bs and phony feuding. with the intelligence people, he knows right now he needs them. >> and the people on capitol hill know that as well. this is the an ally trying to keep those relationships alive. understanding they can't have a war with the intelligence community even though they just had one a few weeks ago. he's president now. >> why does he keep holding up the press like stooges? like they also have to have a bourgeois business guy they have to hold up? he clearly loves it. >> every hero needs an anti-hero. when he was standing there with

the cia, he was looking across the lobby with the agency motto, from john chapter 8. and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. >> what about that line? some of the people on the left that i talked to today, not only left, but critics of trump saying wait a minute, didn't he run against the iraq war and is he running a new one? was that rhetoric or was he talking about going back in again? >> he said we might have a second chance. >> what does that mean? >> he's saying we might have an opportunity to go back. >> chase ago eliminating isis? >> that would be an excuse to start a war. >> that's right. and that's what's concerning from a foreign policy perspective. >> of course. >> it makes the job of intelligence officers really hard. if you're sending them out there to say take down isis and they have to recruit people to work for them as assets and spies, and they're saying, hey, your

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