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ainsley: going to start with griff jenkins who is live at a security check point for us. avenue. it's quiet now but about 20 or 30 minutes ago, one of the many collaborative groups called the stand up for racial justice were being arrested, blocking this entrance and pulled out of here and, you know, it's quiet now. we will see if they continue these actions, these nonviolent actions. i know my colleague mike tobin is down on the parade route where the other larger group answer coalition is. mike, let me toss it to you. >> griff, this is supposed to be the largest of the permanent demonstrations along pennsylvania avenue today. you see the crowd starting to form up now. they are an aggregate really of everything. everything from immigration to anti-bigotry to women's rights. again, the numbers are just starting to pile up. let me come over here to danny. you made the point of coming out here today. what are you trying to accomplish. >> i'm trying to accomplish to let everyone know we all come from immigrants. i'm half colombian myself. my family fought hard to come here.

here is give jenkins reporting on -- here is griff jenkins reporting on that. there is always a question of how much play do you give that. >> the visuals are very exciting. i saw people expressing, editors saying this should be covered more on what was happening on trump's first day at president. it seems we need to keep that perspective. it's more important what the president is doing, signing if nomination forms as oppose to a couple hundred people. howie: still to come, one trump appointee drops the out, and some final thoughts on this final weekend. howie: monica crowley who gave up her job as a fox news contributor to take a job on president trump's national security staff gave up that position. she feared being a distraction as she battles charges of majorrerrism. - -- plagerism.the inauguratiot to me, not just the protests and the democrats who boy cod. but the vitriol that continued on social media. some pundits seeing the president's speech as populist and others seeing it as dark. there will be plenty of talk for twitter wars. but the news media has

. >> griff jenkins from fox news. as we covered protests in the dnc and rnc on a much smaller scale on what you're expecting. one of the tactics that change is that they move a lot. if these groups that have been granted a designated area, if they begin to move is movement a concern of yours causing disruptions and will you arrest people if they do not comply with their designated area? >> certainly we want to encourage everybody to come and celebrate, those who come to protest we want to encourage them to do that. our first responsibility, of course, is the safety of everybody who is participating. and that is how our agencies will respond. yes, sir. >> how much money is the city spending on the inauguration and how much of that is reimbursed by the federal government? >> we expect it all to be reimbursed by the federal government. >> we think the number is going to be 30 million, i think so far 19 million has been appropriated. that's not unlike previous years where we have been spent more we knew that we would spen

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griff jenkins is live in philly with the protesters. griff, what's the scene like? >> well, melissa, it's peaceful but there are as you said thousands of protesters. i'll let you look. they were chanting earlier, healthcare for all, we don't need no wall. a telling sign of the multiple groups that have come out here to protest. there are folks that believe repealing the affordable care act is going to be damaging. there's of course immigration activist, there's black lives matter, and environment folks. there's folks that also are upset about the keystone pipeline, dakota access. it's been peaceful. they started by protesting and marching from city hall to where president trump spoke at the lowes hotel. then they marched down the street to senator pat timmy's office and they chanted at goldman sachs, this is where trump's cabinet resides. erin kramer is with me, one of the main organizers here with one pennsylvania. what's the message in a nutshell? . the most important message from today is that we belong to each other, whether it's the aca, the rights of immigrant

. >> steve: griff jenkins is live in our nation's capitol with the feud boiling over. good morning, guys. how are you? just days now until president-elect donald trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the united states. that list of democratic lawmakers boycotting the nomination continues to grow with more than 40 lawmakers saying they will skip the historic event. the list includes former civil rights leaders john lewis along with dozens of minorities and women who oppose mr. trump with the latest joining the boycott. keith ellison the latest candidate to chair the dnc who tweeted this yesterday: i will not celebrate a man who preaches a politics of division and hate. i won't be attending donald trump's inauguration. and the voices criticizing the legitimacy of trump's election grows louder as well with reverend al sharpton saying this. >> i think that there's no question that the process that elected him was not legitimate. when you look at the now evidence from the intelligence agencies that there was the influence from the russians. clearly the process has he s

griff jenkins, what are you seeing? listen in. >> they are indeed very loud.s to simply disrupt the streets and challenge law enforcement, and that's what you're you areg here today. but honestly, the police have used some restraints based on what i've seen in ferguson, covering ferguson, covering baltimore. we have not seen protesters beaten in the streets, but we have seen about 25 arrests so far. >> 90 total across the city, we are told, by d.c. police. there is a stated goal from the demonstrators as an organization, some central organizing, was to shut down the inauguration day. they hoped to shut down many entrances. they did shut down two or three of them, some cars torched and that sort of thing. nobody got hurt as far as we know. they certainly were not able to shut down the inauguration. the demonstrations in downtown washington were excited as well, as we are listening to griff reporting from one of our other fox properties. these matters, sometimes the camera brings light and understanding, and you can go oh, well, there's the picture, i know what'

steve: griff jenkins is live in washington, d.c. the latest on the tensions and what led up to all of this. good morning to you, griff. >> good morning, guys. here is how regot here. on friday president trump issued executive order on immigration. what followed were the massive protests that we have all seen erupting at airports across the country. seems like this one playing out with jfk airport with acting emotionally to the president's order. put the administration on the offensive. sent reince priebus on the sunday show circuit pushing back it? >> wasn't chaos. 325,000 people from foreign countries came in from the united states yesterday. and 109 people were detained for further questioning. most of those people were moved out. we have got a couple dozen more that remain. and i would suspect as long as they're not awful people that they will move through before another hazell a day today. and perhaps some of these people should be detained further. and if they are folks that shouldn't be in this country, they are going to be de

brian: griff jenkins live at our nation's capital with the details on the move to drain the swamp i guessamatic news and a clear message. the boss is always right or you are out. president trump firing acting attorney general sally yates, an obama appointee holdover for questioning the president's executive order on immigration and refusing to defend it in court. now dana bente the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of virginia has been named as acting attorney general until jeff sessions is confirmed and president trump taking to twitter already this morning. just moments ago. vending his frustration with the process saying, quote when will the democrats give us our attorney general and rest of cabinet? they should be ashamed of themselves. no wonder d.c. doesn't work. and just moments ago on this program, congressman louie gohmert of texas weighing in on it. >> politically, she showed herself to be a political hack. and hacks have to be jacked. and she has been jacked and she is gone. >> democrats are blasting the firing. senate minority leader chuck schumer took to the floor last n

griff jenkins now live on the ground here in d.c. good morning to you. >> hey, maria. a quiet and peaceful morning here behind me you see 150 to 200 protesters here at this location. we're at six in indiana. other spin you around. you can see the security check point, maria. they have a nonviolent direct action and this information are calling it a blockade protest action. what happened is about 25 or 30 people laid down in front of that checkpoint and refused to move. we're not sure if they are sort of detained or arrested. the group is actually called showing up for racial justice. they believe that an incoming trump administration will not be good for communities of color. they are just one of many groups and thus disrupt jay 20 group for each checkpoint we are told to come back to nonviolent blockades. obviously security is not moving very quickly. they saw the act to this, identified them as soon as the activist sat down, they've had enough of that. although we did see last night, the protests with this jay 20 group which fight violence, some of the trump supporte

griff jenkins, you still down there? okay, let's take -- he's there. >> it continues to escalate. they're doing, brett -- excuse me. what they're trying to do is box us in. the protesters that is. we seemed to have caught ourselves in the middle trying to show you guys. they're coming from this angle as well as behind us. [ continuing 134r0ee ing -- exp] hold on. look out, look out, look out. we're going to step out of the way, we're going to step out of the way. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> move, move, move. >> we're stepping out of the way here. look out. we're media, we're media! >> i got you. i got you. >> media, media! >> back, back. >> brett, i'm not sure if you are can us. we're okay. what looked dramatic, we got ourselves caught, they're trying to rapidly just take this three or four block radius around. when the police move we have to get out of the way. we're trying to stay out of their way but we want you to see this line here. you see they're using pepper spray. they're using force. they're going to try to close in on the protesters. we're going to try to get out of their w