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It's the Media Buzzmeter with Howard Kurtz.

I don't know how your weekend was,

but for the people who showed up across the country

for this no-kings demonstration,

they sure seem to be having a good time.

About 7 million people are estimated

to have joined across the country.

And when you look at the pictures

and it was wall-to to wall on certain channels,

you could see that there were a lot of families, people have a right to protest in this country.

And fortunately, those protests were peaceful. So in story number one, it's the reaction to the demonstrations that I think is most interesting.

Again, New York, Washington, San Francisco, and Chicago, it stretched about 22 blocks, New York 7th Avenue.

And then a lot of small towns.

That's what was striking to me as well.

It doesn't change a damn thing, but it was designed to send a message.

And the official White House response, you'd call up and say,

the White House have to comment on this was, and I quote, who cares?

But it turns out that they did care because Donald Trump posted this sort of bizarreo AI video

in which he's wearing a crown.

He's piloting a fighter jet with King Trump written on it,

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