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>> Indoors. Thank you michelle for that. Also happening at this hour. Thousands gathering in Washington to protest the incoming Trump Administration. The people’s March is this year’s version of the March that drew hundreds of thousands of people to the Capitol back in 2017. NBC’s Julia Jester is right near that rally that is happening now at the Lincoln memorial. Julia, welcome to you. What is the mood there today? Good to be with you, Alex.
>> Tens of thousands of demonstrators here on the Mall protesting president elect Trump ahead of his inauguration.
>> Far cry from the hundreds of thousands we saw at the women’s March in 2017. Not just gathering here in D.C., but all across the country.
>> Difference here.
>> It’s the people’s March, not just the women’s March.
>> House where different interest groups were gathering climate, democracy, women’s rights issues, and they all made their way to the mall. Now we have speakers at this rally. It lacks the star power of the women’s March. No celebrities like Madonna or even elected leaders. Then-senator Kamala Harris was here last time, so it’s a little bit more subdued. And I spoke with some demonstrators on our way over here, including a woman named zoe from Arkansas who went to one of those satellite protests in 2017. And here was her take on how the mood differs this time around. What do you feel like the mood is this time around compared to 2017 protests? Less optimistic, maybe, just because things have changed. Some for the better, some for the worse.
>> Feel people are maybe more determined this time than last time.
>> That they also felt like they didn’t know what was coming in 2017, but they know now.
>> No one knows who the leader of this resistance movement is. They said, we the people are the leader and they feel inspired