they are really special and amazing people and that he is "so behind you."

Trump's repeated and sharp public criticism of US intelligence agencies before and after the election. He challenged and at times belittled their conclusions that Russia attempted to influence the election to help him win the White House.

Trump also accused the news media of lying about the size of the crowd that attended his inauguration. Trump wrongly said the crowd had stretched all the way to the Washington Monument in the middle of the National Mall. Photos taken of the Mall on Friday showed large swaths of empty space compared to Barack Obama's inauguration eight years ago. Trump says the inauguration crowd looked to be about a million and a half people. He says the news media will pay a "big price" for what he claims was dishonesty.