so let's get right to it with jon karl. let me start with what streep had to say. >> there was one performance this year that stunned me. it sank its hooks in my heart. not because it was good, it was -- there's nothing good about it. but it was effective. and it did its job. it was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. >> and jon karl, the president-elect up early on twitter. >> reporter: he sure is. taking -- going to war with hollywood's most celebrated actress. george, he went on a twitter firestorm here.

we'll seef gcloser. >> jon karl, he i getting out again. tom mentioned that donald trump is a germaphobe. >> reporter: there was a time he simply didn't want to shake hands, called it a disgusting habit at one point but long before he decided to run for president, he overcame that. here we're on -- this is the part of pennsylvania avenue called pennsylvania plaza, lafayette park is coming up soon. the official reviewing stand. this is a part where to get here you really had to have tickets to attend this. there's not a single protester i could see in sight here. this is a very friendly crowd for him. >> cecilia vega what can you see. >> reporter: it's interesting to me what donald trump will see is a huge section of empty bleachers and i'm struck by the fact this is the area he chose to get out of his car if in fact he's going to walk the way to his seating area in front of the white house. i'm directly in front of the white house. the crowds hear the president coming and

we'll see if he gets closer. >> jon karl, he is getting out again. tom mentioned that donald trump is a germaphobe. >> reporter: there was a time he simply didn't want to shake hands, called it a disgusting habit at one point but long before he decided to run for president, he overcame that. here we're on -- this is the part of pennsylvania avenue called pennsylvania plaza, lafayette park is coming up soon. the official reviewing stand. this is a part where to get here you really had to have tickets to attend this. there's not a single protester i could see in sight here. this is a very friendly crowd for him. >> cecilia vega what can you see. >> reporter: it's interesting to me what donald trump will see is a huge section of empty bleachers and i'm struck by the fact this is the area he chose to get out of his car if in fact he's going to walk the way to his seating area in front of the white house. i'm directly in front of the white house. the crowds hear the president coming and they're cheering is picking up. from my vantage point i can get my fi

auto analyst karl brauerjoining us earlierfrom analyst karl brauerjoining us earlier from detroit.t—elect donald trump has held a fiery first press conference where he announced he will hand over control of his business empire to his two sons to avoid any conflict of interest as president. well, in recent days he has been hitting out at china and japanese carmaker toyotaa, but he has also met with the founder of alibaba, tony maher —— jack ma, and earlier i asked an analyst if asian businesses should be concerned about his approach to trade. it's interesting, i was looking at trade data between singapore, malaysia, indonesia and so on, and the us. trade with those nations and the us has been declining for about six yea rs, has been declining for about six years, 0k. the only place in south east asia where trade has risen with the us is vietnam. so, you know, it couldn't possibly get any worse than it is right now. so, as you look at the bilateral approach that trump will take, and his administration will take, and his administration will take, and his administration will take on th

the press secretary said, frankly, i'm offended by it. >> jon karl with us. thank you. >>> on capitol hill this evening. the showdown over one of the president-elect's key choices for his cabinet. health and human services nominee, tom price under fire for stock trades before publicly supporting legislation connected to them. did his move violate ethics rules? outrage growing in town meetings in this country. millions of americans wondering what will happen to their health insurance. amid a new nonpartisan report that 18 million americans could lose their insurance without a replacement in the first year after obamacare is repealed. abc's mary bruce back on the hill tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a showdown is brewing over the man trump has picked to lead the charge and replace obamacare. on the eve of his first big test, questions are growing about congressman tom price. trump's nominee for hhs secretary. after he purchased up to $15,000 in stock in a medical device company, and then just days later introduced a bill that you would have benefitted that same

karl, thank you so much. speaker paul ryan giving an impassioned speech on the house for a short time ago about repealing obamacare. take a look at this. >> this experiment has failed, this law is collapsing while we speak, we have to step in before things get worse. this is nothing short of a rescue mission. trish: the house is set to vote on a resolution to stop the repeal of president obama's signature law in 45 minutes from now. the senate passed the resolution early yesterday morning. the media meanwhile is freaking out because many of the president-elect's cabinet nominees disagree with him on some very key issues. but i have to say, isn't this kind of a good thing? don't you want to surround yourself with the diversity of opinion? and isn't it good to his folks can speak their mind? and hopefully he listens to all these different opinions, don't you want that diversity? why is the media freaking out, he is tweeting out today to say all of my cabinet nominees are looking good and doing a good job, i wan

that's why i think karl is right.t is unlikely that this is going to happen by the 27th of january or the first 100 days. it is likelier that they should take the time and make sure they do this in a way that, when they own it, they are going to be happy with what comes out and that the american people are happy with it or many of them may pay the same exact price. i think that is why they can't come to agreement right now. >> bret: karl, quickly, there are two focuses, it seems, russia and obamacare, the themes that democrats are really hitting in these confirmation meetings. does it make it tougher for tom price when he gets up for hhs? >> tom price is capable of handling this issue. since he came to the congress in 2004, he has been involved in health care, writing legislation, let's be clear. the affordable care act, >> ryan was right. it is collapsing. remember all of those -- all of those great choices we were going to have ad exchanges, lots of states are now starting to find many counties in their states or in

jon karl you said it best, he is so very proud of this business venture. and has to be so proud of this moment as you can hear the cheers far more positive than negative. for president trump and making his way over here. let's see how it goes. >> just don't jump out there. a lot of secret service there lara, but do your best. >> reporter: i'm trying, george, you know it. so close and yet so far i'm afra afraid. >> that may be it. made it just about to the hotel. but it does look like he's going to be heading back. into the limo right now to make his way to the reviewing stand. >> reporter: kbri don't know ifu saw ivanka, all of the children

jon karl at the white house. and they appeared to move so quickly on this, they had to clarify a key part of this already? >> reporter: the key issue here is permanent legal residents of the united states. those with green cards who are from the countries included in the ban, at first, the officials were saying that they would be included in the ban. now -- later, we had a clarification saying green card holders from those countries are now granted waivers and are allowed to travel to the united states. >> january karl, thank you. a lot of questions this evening about the countries on that list. so we asked our brian ross to go back to 9/11, the boston bombings, and san bernardino. asking, where did those terrorists come from? if there is going to be a ban in this country, why weren't those countries included? here's brian ross. >> reporter: president trump's ban somehow misses the very countries that have produced the terrorists responsible for the deadliest u.s. attacks. none of those killers came from any of t

we asked karl rove, former senior advisor to president george w. bush. melissa: critics claiming the executive order is nothing more than a muslim ban but the white house calls it a necessary step against in the battle against terrorism. we'll ask walid phares, former advisor to the trump campaign if the president got it right. so what else is new? how's your mother? umm..she's doing good. she needs more care though. she wants to stay in her house. i don't know even where to start with that. first, let's take a look at your financial plan and see what we can do. ok, so we've got... we'll listen. we'll talk. we'll plan. baird. as after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. what about the people i care about? ...including this little girl. and what if this happened again? i was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me? so i asked my doctor. and he recommended eliquis. eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. yes, eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. eliqui

john karl standing by. and breaking now, congressman john lewis, saying mr. trump is not a legitimate president. >>> found alive. the baby stolen 18 years ago. tonight, the young woman discovered. >>> the blistering federal report on the chicago police department tonight. the feds reporting excessive force and racial bias. >>> a hidden america. what it's really like for families in this country, simply trying to make ends meet. diane sawyer is back tonight. >>> and, "america strong." the famous sisters tonight, and their heartfelt letter. after all, they lived it. > >>> good evening. it's great to have you with us on a friday night. we begin with the dangerous drive home for millions. the monster storm dumping freezifreez freezing rain over a 1,000-mile stretch. a snowplow driver running off the road in utah, the driver badly hurt. the driver of this suv skidding across traffic. 16 states from texas to pennsylvania in the storm zone as we go into the night. adrienne bankert leads us off. >> reporter: tonight, multiple states bracing for an epic ice storm. off

>> jon karl at the white house. seems like an obvious question to ask. noe no answer as he walked away. but republicans are furious with the democrats for bringing the formation of the president's cabinet to a near halt. >> reporter: they are crying foul on this. in fact, only four of the cabinet nominees have been confirmed. you can go back to the 1800s, and not find a president that has had so few confirmations, and today, the democrats worked to stall even further by refusing to show up for votes on his picks for treasury and health and human services, david. >> jon karl right there at his post at the white house. jon, thank you. >>> many of the democrats holding up the cabinet selections are cheering on the former acting attorney general who was swiftly fired by trump overnight. sally yates questioned whether the order was lawful, telling the justice lawyers not to defend it. the white house then calling it betrayal. promptly firing her. that drama spilling over into the confirmation hearings for the next attorney general now, and senior justice corr

here's john karl. >> reporter: a little over an hour after he was sworn in, the newly-minted president trump got down to business. flanked by his family in the capitol's aptly named president's room, trump signed a bill to clear the way for general james mattis to lead the pentagon. and then -- >> one more! >> reporter: the president signed a proclamation making today a national day of patriotism. mr. president? how are you feeling? >> feeling great, thank you. >> reporter: there were tasks big and small on this day of transition. changing the license plates on the presidential limousine. and the home page of the white house. the digital transformation also included the presidential twitter handle, the flotus account, and the white house instagram account. the first family will spend the night together in the white house. >> they say the first night, slue your family there. it will be very exciting. >> reporter: trump's senior advisers say his first executive orders will likely reinvolve scrubbing what he calls job-killing energy restrictions. >> i feel like washington will have a shoc

jon karl at the white house. and they appeared to move so quickly on this, they had to clarify a key part of this already? >> reporter: the key issue here is permanent legal residents of the united states. those with green cards who are from the countries included in the ban, at first, the officials were saying that they would be included in the ban. now -- later, we had a clarification saying green card holders from those countries are now granted waivers and are allowed to travel to the united states. >> january karl, thank you. a lot of questions this evening about the countries on that list. so we asked our brian ross to go back to 9/11, the boston bombings, and san bernardino. asking, where did those terrorists come from? if there is going to be a ban in this country, why weren't those countries included? here's brian ross. >> reporter: president trump's ban somehow misses the very countries that have produced the terrorists responsible for the deadliest u.s. attacks. none of those killers came from any of t

joining me phil rucker, damian paletta, margaret brennan and jonathan karl. >> this has been an interesting day, for all the talk of shutting down the briefing room, there has been a buzz of activity at the white house for the first full weekday for president trump. the white house poll you mentioned, we've been brought in and the pool has gone in to more than a half dozen events here at the white house. almost everything the president has done, they have been running and calling sometimes at the last minute, bring the cameras in. the meeting is with-- it's been something else. >> rose: we continue with bob gates, fompler defense secretary for both barack obama and george bush. and talking about now the national security profile of the trump administration. >> i told him the same thing that i said in the senate hearing in reducing rex tillerson for his nomination hearing. i said your administration is going to have to thread the needle, and figure out how on the one hand to push back against putin's aggressiveness and meddling and interventionism. and at the same time stop a continuing down

where are you now, karl?of the extraordinary elements of this story is what bob just said, the idea that the intelligence chiefs of the united states of america would assert that the incoming president of the united states is questionable in terms of his relationship with the russians is absolutely an astonishing starting point for all of these stories. and where does some of this come from? some of it comes from the fact of his lack of transparency about his business dealings. what did donald trump own in greater russia, and not just russia, but greater russia, the old ussr, and what does he own and who does he own it with and how much does he owe to people in that part of the world? we know almost nothing about his underlying finances despite that dog and pony show he did the other day with all those envelopes and his lawyer that we are not allowed to look for, and whether or not as "saturday night live" indicated there's anything in the envelopes. this is a big story, and we need to know what does he own a

not at all. >> jon karl joining us. there was that tense moment between the president-elect and a reporter from cnn. mr. trump had already called out cnn for saying they have material on the president-elect. here's what happened. >> can you give us a question? mr. president-elect. >> go ahead. >> since you were attacking our news organization, can you give us a chance? you are attacking our news organization. can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir? >> quiet. go ahead. she is asking a question. >> mr. president-elect, can you give us a question? you're attacking us. can you give us a question? can you give us a question? >> don't be rude. >> you were there, and the president-elect angry about the headlines that broke on cnn. >> reporter: not just angry, david, but seeking retribution. he wanted to make cnn pay a price for breaking that story. it's a sign that donald trump who had very tense relations with the news media during the campaign will continue to play hardball with reporters. >> all right, jon karl. ou

karl rove on what he makes of all of this. what do you think, karl? this is quickly turning into a drama. >> you're right. at the end of the day, if this is paid for by a tariff, that tax is going to be paid by americans in the form of higher prices for mexican goods. let's not kid ourselves. i'm not sure the president has the statutory to apply a 20% tax on american goods. we do have the ability under the international trading amendments to apply a border adjustment tax on all imported goods of 20% and to relieve experts of the 20% tax. mexico does that with us. but that has to be applied by -- approved by congress and applied to every country in the world. look, let's step back, neil. something that concerns me that we haven't talked about. mexico has its own presidential elections in 2018. six years ago, five years ago, when the last elections were heard, president nieto was held with 38% of the vote. number 2 was an anti american left winger, sort of -- named lopez ord. he's running again. he hates america. this is stirring up anti-american sentim

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here's abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl. >> reporter: for president trump today, a flurry of white house meetings. >> perhaps we could go around the table and introduce ourselves, say hello. i'll start. i'm donald trump. [ laughter ] mary, go ahead. >> reporter: first with auto executives, who the president is threatening with higher taxes for cars they build in factories outside the u.s. >> we're bringing manufacturing back to the united states big league. >> reporter: then, signing several different directives. one starting the process of approving the keystone oil pipeline, which was shut down by the obama administration. >> keystone pipeline. >> reporter: and another on the highly controversial dakota access pipeline, which was halted after massive protests last year. within hours, new protests today outside the white house, and for the construction of those pipelines, he ordered the use of american-made steel to the maximum extent possible. >> okay, we will build our own pipeline, we will build our own pipes. that's what it has to do with. like we used to, in

>> jon karl at the white house. seems like an obvious question to ask. noe no answer as he walked away. but republicans are furious with the democrats for bringing the formation of the president's cabinet to a near halt. >> reporter: they are crying foul on this. in fact, only four of the cabinet nominees have been confirmed. you can go back to the 1800s, and not find a president that has had so few confirmations, and today, the democrats worked to stall even further by refusing to show up for votes on his picks for treasury and health and human services, david. >> jon karl right there at his post at the white house. jon, thank you. >>> many of the democrats holding up the cabinet selections are cheering on the former acting attorney general who was swiftly fired by trump overnight. sally yates questioned whether the order was lawful, telling the justice lawyers not to defend it. the white house then calling it betrayal. promptly firing her. that drama spilling over into the confirmation hearings for the next attorney general now, and senior justice corr

charlie: jonathan karl from abc news joins us. want you to listen to this exchange and tell me how you approach this and how they responded. here's an exchange between jonathan karl and sean spicer at this aforementioned briefing. here it is. >> is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium or will you pledge never to knowingly say something that is not factual? >> it is. it is an honor to do this and yes, i believe we have to be honest with the american people. i think sometimes we can disagree with the facts. there are certain things we may not fully understand, but our intention is never to lie to you. charlie: jonathan karl, do you call that a meeting of the minds? jonathan: it was a really rough start for this white house and for sean spicer in particular when he came out on saturday and held that -- it wasn't really a briefing because he didn't take any questions, but when he came out and basically lambasted the press and accused media organizations of lying about the size of donald trump's inaugural crowd,

then karl rove. plus, mr.trump may have fired her from the apprentice but he just hired her at the white house. tonight, omarosa is with us here. talking about what it's like to be working in the west wing. start your day with the number one choice of dentists. philips sonicare removes significantly more plaque versus oral-b 7000. experience this amazing feel of clean. innovation and you. philips sonicare. save now when you buy philips sonicare. >> from the world headquarters of fox news, it is "the kelly file" with megyn kelly. >> megyn: one of the earliest decisions for trump will be supreme court justice. mr. trump's final pick has not been announced yet, shannon bream is reporting from washington on why. >> whoever gets the nod from the president-elect will get criticism from the left but there are a growing concern for some on the right. pro-life groups have sent a letter saying they are worriedfo about some of the candidates on the lists of 21 potential picks that donald trump has made. spoken in ways th

age surrounded by her family and husband we're told of some 33 years, now with me on the phone is karlelped give mary tyler moore her very first break way back on the "dick vandyke show." thank you for joining me, i'm so sorry for the loss of someone you cared very deeply about. can you take me back to when you first noticed her? >> yes, i can. when we were casting the dick vandyke show we had already cast dick and we were looking for somebody to be his wife, i was -- i actually saw 23 different girls and it didn't quite work. >> huh. >> and finally i sent for somebody in new york where she came out and she was okay but she was much too strong for dick, and he said you know who was that girl that auditioned for me to play my daughter but her nose went the wrong way? three names and she was on a richard diamond show. she played a secretary all you saw were her legs and i looked it up and turned out to be mary tyler moore and i called her and she was reluctant to come in because she had failed at two auditions that week, and she walked into this room and there was this beautiful starry-e

it with jon karl. let me start with what streep had to say. >> it stunned me. it sank its hooks in my heart. not because it was good, it was -- there's nothing good about it. but it was effective and it did its job. it was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. >> and jon karl, the president-elect up early on twitter. >> reporter: he sure is. taking -- going to war with hollywood's most celebrated actress. george, he went on a twitter firestorm here. take a look. the most overrated actresses in gro a 16-year-old story that he had written in order to make look bad. actually interviewed with "the new york times" a short interview making pretty much the exact same points that he never mocked a disabled reporter. he says and saying that hillary -- that meryl streep is basically just a hillary flunky. >> calling out saying it's an example of the dishonest media. we'll show one of those times donald trump engaged in this

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karl, let's start with you.you make of the president's order restricting people coming into this country from largely muslim nations and the federal judges, couple of federal judges getting involved? >> well, look, he is, he promised this during the campaign, extreme vetting. but i think people might have been surprised. i think that they might have been led to believe that rather than suspending the issuance of new visas, they didn't expect him to turn back people who already had visas, including people who had green cards. that's how the federal judges -- chris: no, no, we should explain that. so you've got a green card, you're a permanent legal resident in this country. you've gone on a trip someplace else, now you can't get back in. >> or you have received a visa approved by the united states government in the recent past, and you got on an airplane and showed up at the airport, and suddenly that vis a visa is no r valid -- chris: so donald trump would say, too bad. >> too bad. but a federal judge said you c

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. >> going back and forth with our jon karl. >>> punishing storms. a powerful nor'easter pounding the coast with winds topping 65 miles an hour, ripping roofs off homes. rain flooding this new jersey train station. snow and ice creating a dangerous commute. thousands of flights canceled or delayed. as a new winter storm takes aim at the center of the country. >>> terrifying collapse. a governor falling at the podium in the middle of delivering his state address. lawmakers and aides rushing to his side. >> get him to the ground. get him to the ground, please. >> what his family is saying about his condition this morning. ♪ 24 karat magic in the air >>> and magic in the air on hollywood's biggest morning. kicking off oscar madness. >> very, very exciting. >> "la la land" hoping to sing and dance to oscar gold. "hidden figures," "moonlight." and "fences" looking to erase the memories of last year. now the stars of some of the biggest films are joining us for the oscar nominations right here on "gma." >>> we do say good morning, america. this is always a

and even though karl ikohn was outspoken, danieling his very first inauguration, even he admits that now the heavy lifting has to be done. the legislative process is messy and thus will could be some peaks and valleys, some ups and downs along the way. is he are many of the people i spoke to are optimistic about what donald trump will mean for the country and the investors. >> i'm going to donald trump in here. we're taking look at the trumps walking into the white house. what a moment this must be for this family to enter the white house for the first time. for their father having been inaugurated. we're seeing ivanka trump, jared kushner. they're walking in at the tail end of this parade. at the end of this very historic day. for the nation as well as this family. you see the pences there. steps of the white house. mike pence, his wife karen pence, hand in hand, walking down that driveway as they resume their new residence in washington, d.c. walking into the viewing stands there. scott, back out to you. we were talking about billionaire investors and such. the absolute flip side t

hard to begin, jon karl. you saw my back and forth with kellyanne conway.person to say i don't care about crowd size either. we had these speeches yesterday that were just not factual. >> look, on his very first appearance in the briefing room, sean spicer went in and uttered at least three things that were demonstrably false. he left without taking a question. i have never seen a white house press secretary do that. that said, i think we need to be careful as reporters and as journalists not to take the bait and get into an end less discussion about issues that are trivial. how many people were there? the crowd size, not important. he had a huge crowd. >> telling the truth is important. >> especially from that podium. sean is not an rnc spokesperson. a campaign spokesperson. he's a spokesperson for the white house. credibility matters. >> in "the new york times" people suggesting donald trump thought sean spicer went too far. so already, you have his colleagues throwing him under the bus. >> it will be a tough job for the next four years to be the spokesma

thank you. >> more on this from jon karl.on, you were pretty tough, pretty direct questions to sean spicer yesterday. what you got back is kind of a mix of concessions and combativeness. >> reporter: yeah, but it was a clear reset. sean spicer went into this briefing room over the weekend because president trump was upset and wanted him to come out here and deliver a tongue lashing at the press. he did that. it did not go over well. he refused to so when he came out here yesterday for his first official briefing, there was a little bit of humor and there were critically some concessions and did acknowledge some of the information he gave over the weekend was not correct. he said it wasn't intentional and that he would always as you heard do his best to tell the truth from the podium. >> and you mentioned it right there. we know that president trump was upset saturday. that's why sean spicer came into the briefing room keeping a close eye on all this. some reports he wasn't very happy after spicer's briefing on saturday. >> re

jon karl will weigh in.oming up later this morning on "this week," right here on abc. >> we'll be watching. breaking weather news. more than 40 million americans in a threat zone right now. tornadoes ripping through the south. possibly more to come. we start with rob. >> yet another morning of sad news from the weather department. at least two more fatalities across southern georgia. this line of storms doing damage. several more long-track tornadoes this morning. maybe more to come. another batch of rain behind it. heading into mississippi. hattiesburg hit hard yesterday. we find adrienne bankert there this morning. adrienne? >> reporter: yes, good morning to you, rob. you can see behind me, this church took a hit. the roof is gone. we saw parishioners taking out bibles and hymnals. they'll have to find some place else to worship this morning. nearby, southern miss' campus, completely untouched. another school nearby, took a direct hit in the storm's path. this morning, the city of hattiesburg, mississippi,

jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >>> and jon, we should mention mexico's foreign minister said that that border tax would raise prices on goods which would be passed along to the american consumer and republican senator lindsey graham also slammed the idea in what was the tweet of the day. he seemed to mimic the president's speaking style writing any policy proposal which drives up the cost of corona, tequila or margaritas is mucho sad. i agree. according to "the washington post," president trump called the acting director of the national park service on the day after his inauguration. the important issue, he was asking for more photographs of the crowds on the national mall. the "post" reports that the president wanted those extra pictures to prove the news media lied underestimating the number of people attending his swearing in. >>> a scare in the skies for passengers as a smoky engine forced a united airlines flight to make an emergency landing. the flight headed from washington to nashville landed safely. cress immediately doused the smoldering engine with both foam and wa

karl, my big fear is, we've gone full throttle silly season. when you have some declining to sit in on a hearing so a confirmation can't continue, stop the process mid stream, we have problems. >> look, we're talking about the committees of the senate finance committee and the senate judiciary committee. there's some sensible, reasonable democrats on those committees. but for all of them to walk out for the purpose of denying a vote up or down on jeff sessions or deny ago vote up or down on steve mnuchin is draw-droppingly astonishing. i understand why they're doing it politically. their goal is -- they think they can get away with opposing the nominees now and they won't pay a price back home. i think their bigger goal is, slow things up in congress so that they chew up more time on things like nominations and less time on actually legislating. >> neil: i suspect your right. a lot say it's pay back for the way that merit garland was handled by barack obama, the supreme court battle. it's more than that. it's now that i'm here, i'm going to do

charlie: jonathan karl, do you call that a meeting of the minds? jonathan: it was a really rough start for this white house and for sean spicer in particular when he came out on saturday and held that -- it wasn't really a briefing because he didn't take any questions, but when he came out and basically lambasted the mediaand accused organizations of lying about the size of donald trump's inaugural crowd, a relatively trivial issue in light of this historic weekend we have just witnessed. he needed a bit of a reset. on saturday, he did say several things that were wrong. these were not huge facts that he misstated things like the metro ridership at the president's inauguration compared to obama's. he came in and i thought it was a pretty good reset. i thought that was a pretty good answer and this has been an interesting day. for all the talk of shutting down the briefing room, there has been a buzz of activity at the white house for the first full weekday for president trump. the white house pool you mentioned, we have been brought than half a doz

so what is the difference then, karl?think one is the growth of social media allows us to -- it allows people to troll people into social media. some of these democrats have reacted to president-elect trump because they know it gets them attention and prestige. it was interesting this morning congressman lewis's staff said this has all generated 60,000 additional followers on twitter for congressman lewis's account. as if that was an important, dramatic moment worthy of note. the growth of social media and it was a contentious election in a way we haven't seen for decades. we've had 1828, 1896, 1964 in which there was a lot of anger by people particularly on the losing side but this election was close, it is one of five elections in which the winner of the popular vote was the loser in the electoral college and all those things have combined to -- along with the unhealthy involvement of social media make it a more difficult transition. >> bill: you wonder what a president trump does about this. a piece in the "wall street

. >> reporter: i saw jon karl. i want to be jon karl when i grow up and ride the inaugural parade. you're talking about the empty stands. i was told by people there's a good chance those are being reserved for vip's and the performers. you're wondering why those stands are empty and that is one of the reasons why. i believe -- is this a presidential motorcade right here? we know four years ago right at the verypot president obama got out and walked up to the reviewing stand. we're waiting to see if donald trump -- we know he is walking and greeting people right now in the stand. but we're going to -- whether or not he goes into the white house to freshen up as expected remains to be seen. but that's -- >> we are going to follow that. we saw him surrounded by his whole family. children and grandchildren as they got out of the cars. they're all going to spend the whole night together in the white house tonight. president trump says he's going to sleep in the lincoln bedroom. we kind of lost sight of them jon. >> reporter: they're in the area just from front of the treasury building r