Stirewalt: Spicer Statement Scolding the Press Was About Trump’s Ego

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BAIER: "Okay let's turn to sean spicer statement excoriating the press about the number counting on the crowd size of the inauguration the position of the mlk bus and the churchill bust in the oval office. chris."
STIREWALT: "If it had been about something, it might have been something. if it had been about national security or if it had been about some life for that matter then maybe that's schooled in the press at link like that would have been of some purpose but it was about ego. it obama had a bigger crowd than you or the crowd size, i'm sure the obama people were not happy. many times when people said the crowd size was smaller in 2012, i'm sure they didn't want this sort of response. when you come out swinging like that over something about you and you've been telling people what are we going to do on day one? we are going to get work. we are going to get right to work. we are going to do the people's business and you come in and talk about your crowd size."
BAIER: "by the way you can see the white on the bottom, the shooting on the ground that was put in this time. that was 2009 at barack obama's inauguration crowd there and 2017. charles." 
STIREWALT: "You use the word surreal which is a nice way of saying just plain. for the press secretary to step out on what looked like an emergency, we were going to do it on monday but we moved it up and it's basically over ratings. it was only a week ago that as president-elect he was tweeting about the ratings for celebrity apprentice and sort of mocking his successor. arnold schwarzenegger compared his ratings to investing key referred himself djt as they ratings machine. this is an obsession which is not terribly healthy -- healthy. it's been one that trump has had crowd size, poll numbers when they are good people save them and it's not a good way to start out. i'm the world's expert on the churchill lost because i pointed it out at the beginning of the ..."