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of the screen this is one ofis o our top talkers tonight at at 6:30. you guys want to join theo conversation you're invitedint just use that #as usual 5 at 5 t 6:30. vice president mike pencerei is expected tode speak at cpac in pow a half an hour. ho >> and fox5's tom fitzgeralditgd is live there tonight atght national harbor with more. hey, fitz. >> reporter: hey, goodep evening, yeah, they're rorunning a little bit behind here. bit be they've hadre a day longy long schedule of all these back toba back to back appearances and app they had to reset the entiree e too many get the vice president in there, get thehet secret serviceget thperotection place, bring the entire crowde d out and now bring everybodyevery back in so this 5:30 speech ises now slated to go at 7 o'clock.o. but that was just the precursor today to what led uple to the main event and that was two of the top white houseouse names, steve bannon and thean reince priebus on the samee sme stage with each other sittingsig down for a no holds barr

crowd today.d tod and shawn and jim, i will tellll you, steve bannon did notot disappointment he lived up toup every inch of his reputationpu as a take no prisoners in your y face pugnacious defender ofendef both the trump administrationdmn and the alt right conservativena movement that swept donald tha trump into the white house.. at one point today, bannon wasns asked if he thought that the relationship between the media i who bannon has called an opposition party, would improve.prove bannon's answer brought thet cpac crowd to its feet.fee >> here's why it's going to's gt get worse. because he's going to continuece to press his agenda.enda. and as economic conditions getot better as more jobs get better r they're going to continue to fight. if you think they're going to g give you yooiur country backntrk without a fight you are sadly mistaken. mistake >>n. reporter: and the crowd c ate that up.

important for another reason,re, both bannon and reince priebuspr have been followed by aboutby a four weeks worth of stories coming out of the white house o that the two areth in some sorts of feud behind the scenes. both men today categorically cay saying nothing to be further from the truth. infrom t fact, priebus at one pt saying that the biggest thinge that the media has gottens ten wrong about the trumpout the ump administration has in his words just about everythingerytg between me and steve. now, priebus also was a bridge r to the conservative movement here, the more establishment est traditional republicansit because you'll reiomembnaer last year donald trump did not win the presidential straw poll at a cpac.ac. today reince priebus said to sao this crowd that if they were looking to compare donald trump to somebody, well, theydy should look to the lion of the e conservative movement, thatth being ronald reagan himself.hif. >> and we have to sticko sk together as a team.t i think that what y

got -- [applause] -- is an incrediblencrdible opportunity -- you've got anve n incredible opportunity to usetyu this victory that presidentapre trump and all of us and youd and everyone that's made this happen put together and -- and-a work together, continue toconnuo communicate. similar -- some ofr -- somf the core principles ofco president trump are very similar to those ofreent ronald reagan. >> reporter: you know, itnow, i was key when you heard that applause when he said let'sid ls stick together, there are some questions about how this cpachic convention would receive the trump administration but sotiono far, jim and shawn, thishis appearance to be going swimmingly from the white white house's standpoint.tan of course, standing by for the t vice president speech atres 7 o'clockidt tonight and ofghtf course president donald trumpidp himself will speak here her tomorrow on friday. >> i'll tell ytooumo wharrt itsi going to be a love fest onceve mike pence gets up there.ce get they have alwayss been big fana of mike pence.p >> reporter: in

ways there is where mike pence e made his bones on the nationalnn scene. he was well known in indiana in as a congressman but these speeches over the years is what made him such a centralcen name in donald trump wasmp wa looking for a vice presidentvi and when they had to reach out t for somebody from the th traditional republicanrepubli conservative end of this party, well, mike pence's namene went to the top of that list.li. >> thank you very much fitz.ou v we appreciate that.e that the democrats are tryingtr reorganize right now followingog their stinging defeat in defeati november. no that includes choosing a newoosn head of the dnc. dc. one potential candidate isdidats drawing a little backlash fromlo within his own party.arty. prominent democrats jewishj groups and even some unionome un leaders are criticizingcizin minnesota congressman keithressh ellison. they are questioning his past pt comments about israel, his his defense of nation of islam leader louis farrakhan and hisnd commitment to the democratic to party. >> democratic insiders willde w chews new leaders this monthersh charged with crafting a new economic message and organizeo the party for the upcomingr theo midterm election.ec let's get

who is on skype.onpe. he's the ceo and co-founder of-f run for tomoorrow.ro david how are you.david how ar >> good to be with you.e ood tob >> we saw thee with big build? p to electing a chairman for thert republican party.an pary. we're still talking about theg e democrats. de what's taking so long here?akinn >> well, look, i mean,g hetrehe democrats are obviously in a a different position than the rnc, the president traditionally appointsit somebody and that's it.ionabody here the democrats arend that' y have two choices about which direction they want to go and i wouldhoicthey w argue even moe choices than that and there'sth a lot of splintering about whether they should go in theeyl obama cld gointon direction ortn whether they should go in thegoi bernie sanders directions represented by ellison, thethe clinton obama direction dirion represented by perez.presd i think the bigger challengeh is that, you know, i don't don't really see any energy on then te part of any real democratscra across the country for in youinu have these people.se pele. >> you mention the top two to tw contenders there keith ellisonei and also tom perez the former labor secretary and formerr

county maryland.unty mar when you mention, you know,knw, moving forward and someonesomeoe new, we saw the same sort ofe sf thing happen back in congressgr with the leadership there, the reelection of nancy pelosi andid chuck schumer as the leaders.ea the democrats, what do they ty need to do to sort of get out of this rut they seem to have te been in.em to >> it's a great question andn. d actually you had a third you person on the stage who ise st kind of a dark hoarse in this ts race, who is a 35-year-oldy-old mayor from south bend indianaiaa a place william trump wonmp n where mike pence won and thisis guy who is a democrat pete duditch won and a lot of lotof people are looking at him. him one of the things the thi democrats need to do is they t need to invest in youngerunger people. this is the future of thes thre democratic party.de >> what's his name, i'm sorry,m, we didn't -- what's his name.am. >> his name is pete budatich. biggest line. may be that it's hard to tha pronounce his name.s nae. he has on his twitter bio howerw to pronounce it.unce that's the main knock against him at this point. he was basicallym at tsaying

more young people to vhow ote, y not try to get somebody who is s under the age of 60 and iand think it's not a bad argument.r. >> david one more for you here e because i think this is speaksi to the difference between thefeh democrats and ethe republicans.. the republicans headed by by donald trump were very cleary c that are what they wanted.hat ty they wanted the wall, they they wanted tax breaks, they wanted t very large -- i wouldn't sayouly abstract ideas. ide these were the ideas they wantd. democrats seemed to be nots ed necessarily nitpicking but itin seems like they're a littley'ree more focused on some finitem points here along the way. so, is it a lack of a big bg picture strategy or is there ath strategy beyond saying let'sings work against donald trump.in >>st r deporter: there needs too be and that's one of the's biggest problems democratsprob have. republicans like to fall ints line, demoancrats s likeli to fl them up. this is not the time forme or democrats. >> that's a good one. i never heard that' that before >> reporter: yeah, i mean yeah,a its true. the the at the way republicans have moved very very solidly behind donald trumpnd dp even when many of them just aa couple months ago were callingeg for him to jump out of the

race. >> right. >> reporter: democrats who nt ofter: thingsng who are quibbling over these ove small issues and democrats gotmt to cut it out if they everheyevr want to win again.in. otherwise they're at risk of' another mcgovern moment.momnt. >> when might we see a final a decision on this.decisi >> reporter: this weekendonor there's going to be a vote at theter:ing to dnc and i would ad thing we got to stop puttingu so much emphasis on the dnc. dn in this day and age it's goingg to be won outo the country. cou. >> people in wisconsin andsin ad pennsylvania don't care about it. >> reporter: exactly. r >> david we got to have youeporh back.ave thank youba very much.u >> reporter: great to be with you guys. take care.orte >> conservative activist jamesis o'keefe released what he says sa are more than 100 hours of raw audio secretly recorded inside cnn's atlanta headquarters.a his goal was to prove theprove e recent allegations of fakeions a news.k take a listen to some of then tm audio he posted on his web eb site project veitas.ve >> i read a cnn poll that wasll ta

and i know the hearing for therh case, the firefighters casers ca was on the 29th. 2 it was done right before so i asked someone in d.c. about. the poll results why we hadn't updated. there were into your reportsintu from last weer k the week before. rasmussen poll and he says we don't use rasmussen and i said i are cnn going to do anotherano poll and we're not going to bet doing another poll. those are the results we'll bese using. >> the secret recordings were w may made back in 2009.20. o'keefe claims the tapes showim cnn misrepresenting pollingng pg data. no comment tonight though from cnn. cnn. >> politics media reporter forpe politico and fox5 politicalol contributor joins us with morejn on this one. hi, hadas.hadas. >> good to be here. here >> good to see you tonight.to >> give us a sense of who w james o'keefe is he. >> people might not recognizenoz his name but you've probablyoba seenis

videos. conservative activist hoop tends to go o undercover and what he sayshe as exposing wrongdoing, liberali wrongdoing or media meia wrongdoing. well known for his work thatk t pretty much shut down acornn aco more recently he caught on tape some democratic stafferstit talking about how excitingciing protester violence at donald trump rallies. but his methods are often criticized for being dee september. >> reporter: he's known toe's kw also edit some of his videos ultimately that have led to ledo some retractions.ractions. he's actually gotten inotten in trouble with the law for trying to flying a senator's fl office. so, but when he announcedannoued these videos a lot of people loe were wondering, oh, i mean, anchors always say things offayh incamera as i'm sure you both know. >> how dare you.>> >> reporter: and they thought maybe it was repor goinn be something rather embarrassing. >> so, what was the take awayt though? after allwas these nie hours of re

anything? was there any smoking gun? ll, you know,knw we i personally have not listenedlt to all 119 hours of but what wt they highlighted in a premadepre video for the release and thendt press release were a few a f instances that were not thattat bad honestly.on they were one of them calling c fox news unbearable.neara there was one of them defending climate change andangd saying that it's well wll established science. scie there's even one unusual onesual that they highlighted which said -- which was a executivexc using a well known journalismwno saying that journalism is to t comfort of afflict the comfortable and comfort thet the afflicted. all the other instances --nstanc they were not as bad as a lotas of people thought.e tht. >> we're fox here but, you know, i think that whateverwhat happens within cnn that's their own prerogative and in prn listen to some of these tapes.t i didn't hear a whole lot but there you have it.ve it >> sounds more like a -- i don't knos wmo.know. >> red meat. >> yeah, something like that.etg all right hadas go

always great to have you on. hae >> yes. ck soonl see you back soon. ou thank you. >> all right. this is the time of the nightme where we talk about what anioutt gorgeous day it was and we're ae inside right now.side right now. >> i don't even know what to evw say. let's take the show outside,ou sue palka. >> let's go.et's o. where are we going? we might mg have a hard time getting attinga table outside right, shawn andd jim -- jim and shawn as we try r to head down the street i bet t it's packed and know wondernow d with high temperatures likeh this. dulles in the record books today at 77, 74 iste mptheen the previous record.pr but you know what, make your yor plans for tomorrow because weaus get a do-over.do-er. quite a mild day againgain tomorrow. would not be surprised to see se a few places even approachingpo 80-degree mark especially tomarc our south. a check of temperatures righttut now and we are dropping butng bt not very much. mu. consider the 67 degrees wouldegw be more typical of where wewhere might be for our highr high temperature in late march oror early april. it's still 70 in gaithersburg,tr 70 in fredericksburg.ricksburg. tomorrow we're headed right head back up to 76 degrees.eg we'll have a beautiful daytifuly with clouds increasingreasing

changes ahead fore the weekend.. saturday will likely feature a couple of showers and storms moving on through and we'reshowe cooler by sunday, so enjoyenjy tomorrow. rrow. shawn, jim, back to you.ck >> thank you very much, sue. all right.right. so, president trump is thatiden putting the transgenderaner bathroom debate back in the hands of the states.tates. in fact the decision could cold impact school districtsct s nationwide t ach virginia famili shared their story with us and d the change and how -- and howd the change will affect themwillf and other families.her famil we'll have that when we comecome back. >> ♪♪ >> ♪♪

>> story that broke last nighth the trump administrationtr rolling umback federallling bacr guidelines that call forl f schools to allow transgendern students to use the bathroomoom they identify with. white house says they want the states to handle it. t this gives states and theiv local school districts the power to make policy oesn tschee own. 50 states passed laws to protect transgender students. 13 states sued the obamates sued administration over themi federal guidelines.nistfederal d >> it has been elain contentiouo

northern virginia.nortrn virgi earlier today we talked to a to local family affected by the change. amend today brewer is thed todar mother of you think sixx children. her eighth grader jen is transgender. >> i don't use either of ther oe gender dress rooms.ge ind actually use the gender g neutral restroom. so i have to get a key for it. t >> but they're available and your mom was staying there areae actually four of these in your school. ol. >> yeah, there are four offourf them. >> practically speaking righticl now things are good forly you.y. yes.s. >> amanda, your reaction toe this change by the trump administration on this order from then t former presidentmert obama. military being a family, we have -- we're lucky u to be stationed here.h jen has protections from her county and the school board.hoo. our issue is if we move to to another state, she very welly l may no longer have the same protections that we have her

because without the backing ofbf the federal government, you'rene left to, what, each state andted each county has made a decision on.cisionn. >> so you hear the statestate rights argument coming outoming here. about an hour or two before we e went to air tonight seannighean surpriser said at the presspres briefing that the departmenthat of justice will start adheringa federal guidelines, federal ede laws against marijuana use onin statesst m that have legalizedvd recreational marijuana so the th question is is there a double db standard here? is one a state e issue the other is not. >> i think it's interestingnterg because the folks who areoare against what is happening nowppn will argue that it's a civil right. the ability to use the bathroom of the gender in i which you identify and that's i why that should be ade federalel issue. issue. so, you know, like i -- i see ie the debate here. >> sure. >> and i think they're -- iy'rei think they're separate issues.'a >> yeah. >> i still think there's going to be a big battle t hithoughtho between the states.e stas. >> absolutely. >> and between the federal government over both of those bh issues. >> all right. and we are back with more after

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>> ♪♪ five weeks in now to thewk presidency. >> yeah, five weeks in. >> here we are and of course people have been tas eah, f arelkin it naonsbouttop. >> fox5's ronica cleary liveryli at the old abbott with theb pulse of the people.lse of what's going on ronica.ro >> reporter: hey, jim and shawn. sh everybody lovers talking aboutve it or maybe they hate itrs but u can tell you who definitelyd talks about it all the time,im, celebrities, hollywood and we ae are expecting that it may veryyy well come up this sunday nightny at the oscars.ca. so we're asking people here at the old abbott what do you you think about that? does thatat? turn you off or does that make you like a celebrity more. m let's start over here.t ov we have terhese ladies. what are your names.at areour na >> hi, my name is courtney.urt >> rose. >> reporter: courtney and rose, you know the question. what do you think aborter:knout celebrity when you do that. >> what do i thinkaby when abouo celebrity when they speak out in the name of politics is the question? in ordinary times ids think that people shouldi probably stick to whatthat theyo

best. best. however, these times arees are clearly unprecedented.receden things are happening and people are being discriminatedsd against in various subtle wayses and i think it's important forrr people to speak out and it's important that they not be be censored or encouraged to not nt use their first amendmentendmt rights. that is a travesty.tr we have our first amendmentamenn rights for a reason and weson ae need to use them and it isd it times like these that says usee them. >> reporter: rose weigh in.ter: what do you think. rat do you i. >> well, will quote patrick henry. he said "give me liberty oriy o give me death."e dea i am not for any party line. l i'm not democrat, i'm not a, i'a republican. patriot.atrot. and i think that this time doimd require for us to speak out with what is wrong, with what is wrong with washington rightrg now. >> reporter: thank your: thank y ladies. we have a mother and son here. here. they're in town.ey're own. what do you think, do you likeoe a celebrity more or less if i they weigh in? does it matterei if they agree with your

political views?ews? >> while i believe -- i necessarily don't believe it -- i believe if you're are a public figure it's yourt'sour responsibility to carry therry voice of the public.publ the majority of the people pe look to celebrities for their tr voice. with that in mind i believelieve like, yes, it should matterd m not really what the celebritye is actually saying here butbu rather, yes, it should be -- be- it should be okay because you all carry the voice of thehe voe people. >> reporter: mom real qu ickeal do you begin he wiquth your sono >> not surprising no i don't.prs while i ginet that people are re very engaged and veryvery emotional about what's going gog on right now and it'sit's understandable.unde just because someone has acting ability and they'reabilir acknowledged for those talentsas it shouldn't be presumed thate everyone wants to know their the political views.litical vi i don't share mine unlessre ss they're asked for.'re aske >>d reporter: the pulse of the people.p we're sending it back to you. y. >> good stuff ronica.uff ron what is it that our mothersmothe told us about? you don't talk k about religi

the dinner table.er table. >> my mother told me that.th >> mine didn't either.mi some mothers out net dhere havev preached that. ours have not. all right, could president cou trump be the most accessible commander-in-chief? we'lli tell was some staffers areetaffr saying about what goes on on inside the white house when we come back.come bk. >> ♪♪ >> ♪

ing. >> ♪♪ >> secret we've heard plenty of criticism about the t weident and the way he's running the cgrioverenannment.h but some of his staffers seeaff things a lot differently.iffe they may have more access to t him than staffers actually dida to any other president indent in modern history.modern hist >> white house officials sayfal trump aides don't need to makede an appointment they canntnt the casually walk into the ovalthe office o lower level staff o los members who don't visit thesit e president's office on theofficee regular say they can getsay thet permission to go in from his assistant which differs from president obama and hisd his predecessors who traditionallydl kept the number of aides inai the oval office at a minimum.ic >> i would imagine that makesaks that working

between met see. se you just walk in.in >> the intensity of the peopleep with kellyanne conway fornway fr example she defends him, youshee know, to thend end and i thinkik that gives you an insight ininsi the working relationship.eat i think that if somebody s affords you that sort ofort of access why wouldn't you fightu f for them. >> we've heard omarosa say shes does. we'll see how that plays out. u. >> we're three days away from tr the oscars and eethe red carpetr is rolled out. workers unveiled it outside ofdf the dolby theater and jimmythean kimmel is the host this year. yr he says there's going to be ang lot of attention put on hollywood's best but yes he h and other stars plan on making g comments maybe jokes about the president. president. >> if you want to be a bettingeg person i'm pretty sure we willmr hear atetty s least three or mo. >> celebrities. >> make some sort of comment.con >> no matter who is in thein oval office usually have they he host making some jokes alonge jl the way. it's a different relationshiplah though.

michelle obama came out andutan presented a room. >> i don't remember.>> >> she did at some point. >> thanks so much for joining ie us tonight at dids so fo6:30. 6 >> we are back tonight withi more fox5 news at 10:00 and 11:00. get out there and enjoy the rest of the night. >> oh, yeah. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. in the last 10 years, we have received 6 times more awards than cable, including the jd power award for highest customer satisfaction r the fourth year in a row. only fios has the fastest internet, on the most awarded network. get this amazing offer: 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone for just $79.99 per month for the first year. cable can't offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good, only fios can.

harvey: women should be seen and not heard, according to jameis winston. >> stand up, stand up. you strong, right? but the ladies, they supposed to be silent, polite, gentle. >> the worst part of what he said is he thinks he's giving them a completely positive message. >> winston explained himself afterwards and said, i used a poor word choice. >> all of the words were poorly chosen. >> yeah. >> we got game. remember game actually had some beef with sean kingston. we ask him, do you think you will ever squash your beef? he goes, i don't have beef with anybody right now. you know why? >> my probation officer is watching this. [laughter] >> janelle monae at l.a.x. harvey: she had two movies up for best picture. >> so we asked is she happy to see there's a victory for diversity?