>> ♪ >> as the president nears his 100th day mark plenty of enthusiasm about the midterm elections among democrats is growing. >> as momentum builds there's a new book that gets down and dirty why hillary clinton may have lost the presidential election. tweet us what's on your mind with the #5at630. let's talk about the political pulse and a new poll by public policy polling found does he percent of democratic voters say they are quote very excited to vote next year compared to 52 percent of republicans. the gap grows among voters most excited to cast their ballots for house races 57 percent of democrats and

it all comes on the heels of tight special house races in conservative districts in kansas and georgia. >> a lot of, i mean, you know, we've been watching this and i believe there was a election coming up in virginia. >> yup. >> people are just going to have all eyes on this to see how this happens. >> what's fascinating too we talk about these special elections. there's one coming up in montana. democrats are making serious in roads. they have a democratic governor so there you have it, it's one of those strange anomalies of politics. >> it swings both ways. >> it really does. >> depends on who is in the white house sometimes. >> no kidding. >> some analysts say the presidential election and the historic victory of president trump sparked this voter interest in politics. jonathan allen and amy parnes wrote the book shattered inside hillary clinton's doomed campaign sort of a behind the scenes look at hillary's big loss. guys thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having us. >> let me start, i've heard adjectives, juicy gripping, can't put this down.

the process of putting this together and doing all the interviews, what's the one big thing that surprised you or stuck out to you as you were writing this book? >> we were kind of surprised by, you know, a lot of aides, hillary clinton's aides saying the election all comes down to comey and russia. my co-author john and i have that found that it was much more than that but it was -- there was messaging problem, there was in fighting among aides, there were bigger problems, there was an image problem. of course a whole big e-mail problem that loomed over the campaign. so, our book details all of those things. >> i got to tell you one of the fascinating things about the book and about this election and the narrative is that we knew at all times who donald trump's campaign managers were. we knew it was paul manafort for awhile we certainly knew kellyanne conway. robby moot was nothing more than a shadowy figure

>> well, i think what happened with robby mook is that some other people were elevated. he was originally campaign manager and some other people were elevated to a place where there was sort of a leadership by committee on this campaign and you had the chief strategist joel benson essentially demoated, jake sullivan the chief policy guy was essentially elevated to that -- to a de facto chief strategist role. none of this stuff came out during the election. there was a lot of concern on the part of the clinton camp they didn't want it to look like they were unsteady. their -- part of hillary clinton's narrative for better or worse was that she was steady. i think some voters looked at that as her being the status quo but against donald trump whom was a disrupttory an antiestablishment who had three different campaign managers during his campaign, they really didn't want it to get out there this idea the clinton people didn't want it to get out there this idea that she was firing people so they said sort of quietly did

>> i think that's one of the things that surprised me most is that the public face or what we saw from this campaign was absolutely the opposite, you know, when you guys talked to folks and found out what was going on behind the scenes. how did some of those staffers describe the mood of what it was like to you? >> well, i think part of the reason going back to your original point i think is that they tried to -- they almost overlearned what happened in 2008. i think they were -- there were all kinds of stories that had splashed across the newspaper, there was in fighting, all kinds of other sort of tension there. they wanted to portray a drama free chain and that's kind of what they tried to do. they swept everything under the rug this time and, you know, made it look like it was this joyful campaign where everyone got along and we found that that wasn't quite the case. >> and it's interesting if i might add just this campaign had a mantra and that mantra internallyot

slogan, no the stronger together but the mantra was we're not allowed to have nice things. these people were working in an environment where they believed that the next shoe was going to drop every other minute and in fact in a lot of ways the other shoe was always dropping on them. >> all right, jonathan allen amy barnes. thanks for joining us. they're up at politics and pros on connecticut avenue. even if you can't be there for the event if you want to get the book go to politics and pros because we like to support our local book stores. thank you both. >> thank you guys. >> big turnout there already. >> y-indeed. >> ♪ >> if you read the book it is fascinating, things you wouldn't think are happening in the book. also fascinating today for some people police arrested a handful of marijuana activists near the capitol as they handed out at least 1,000 joints in honor of 4/20 day. >> they gave the pot to members of congress staffers journalists anyone with one of those congressional badges. they said the point was to try to raise awareness about legalizing marijuana on this april 20th again, 4/20 as som

>> if you care about legalization, now is the time to put pressure on your congressman even consider going to their office and bringing marijuana there and saying i use this, are you going to arrest me right now? >> a new cbs poll out today find most americans believe marijuana should be legal. 61 percent of americans say they want it to be legalized. recreational marijuana is legally in the district of columbia. kind of a hodge podge of laws around the country governing where you are and where you go and what you can do and what you can't do. >> certainly there's a lot of concern about what the trump administration will do and how they will look at it because it's different than the obama administration. rory thanks for joining us. >> thanks guys. >> you were in that 61 percent of americans who believes marijuana should be legalized. why? >> well, i think there's been changing attitudes towards how harmful it is. our dig in sites cannabis culture report showed that only 16 percent of americans think that marijuana is very harmful to its

that compares to 27 percent for alcohol, 23 percent for processed sugar and 33 percent for saturated fat. >> that's an interesting comparison there rory. >> fat and sugar there. >> we had a guest on earlier tonight and she was drawing the parallel that while states are throwing everything towards the opioid epidemic she's saying you almost could take money that you raise from taxing marijuana, taxing that sort of thing and using it towards fighting those drugs that really have a effect on our society. >> that's fair. if you look at marijuana compared to other scheduled controlled substances 16 percent found marijuana very harmful, 93 percent found crack cocaine very harmful and 94 percent feel that heroin is very harmful to its users. >> so, again, if they move forward with cracking down on marijuana, i mean, we found that 57 percent of people support legalization. so, if they move forward with it, the majority of the country will not

theiring. >> rory let's play devil's advocate. there's a lot of people who say if you legalize marijuana it's a gateway drug that will lead to harder drugs later on and have a negative impact on young kids thinking if you legalize marijuana drugs are okay. how do you respond to that. >> shawn that's a great question. in our report that's one of the things we wanted to investigate and it was interesting that we found that among current users of marijuana in america, 37 percent actually feel like they're going to consume more after it becomes legalized. on the flip side, 31 percent of americans who are potential or current users of marijuana think they will actually drink less alcohol after marijuana is legalized. so, there may be a trade-off effect and that really does create questions for policy makers as to what is more harmful to society. >> all right, rory, thanks so much for weighing in. we appreciate all the numbers and the statistics. we appreciate it. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> let's talk about the white house namely what you see, how you get there. public access

front of the whit house is closed for good. we'll talk about that sidewalk along the south fence. the it had already been closed every overnight from 11:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. but now as an ongoing review of security measures throughout the white house the secret service says theyological shut down sidewalk access indefinitely. officials say the planned restrictions will in no way obstruct the public's ability to view or take photos of the white house. once again another matter of security. >> we've had a lot of incidents especially recent. >> sure. >> people trying to jump over the fence. it's an important place to stay secure. >> that's not as pedestrian friendly over there so just stay away altogether i guess. >> it is a good day maybe to be outside although it's a little humid sue palka. >> it is. how about 20 degrees warmer than yesterday shawn and jim. you know what happens when we get this warm in a big had your referral we also can fire up some showers and thunderstorms. there are really two areas we're watching. this is the stronger line south of interstate 66 moving from west to east. there's a good amount of lightning with these dropping

put them in motion and they're going to cross the 95 corridor in the next 30 minutes or so and then also again not only a lot of heavy lightning and rain with that, there might be some small hail and gusts to 40 with that one. as we go up to the north beyond 66, we're starting to see this area toward emmitsburg and hagerstown get stronger as well. this storm is moving from west to east at about 25 miles an hour. that may affect you in frederick here in just a little while and that may drop some pea sized hail and have some gusts to 40 miles an hour as well. this entire line looks to be moving through our region between now and if about 8 o'clock and after that, maybe just a little bit of leftover shower activity and some fog in the overnight hours. another warm day expected tomorrow. and maybe a few more thunderstorms as well. that's a look at your forecast. jim and shawn, back to you. >> thank you, sue. >> thank you, sue. >> jinx. >> see it's unscripted. we didn't know. there you have it. fake voters in montgomery county. more on this coming up when

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>> ♪ >> i like that music. >> i do. >> little x files. >> skull lee and moldier right here. >> are there phantom voters on the rolls in montgomery county maryland. a conservative watch group thinks so. >> let's go to our smoking man fox5's tom fitzgerald. fitz. >> reporter: i feel like i should produce an alien some form of extraterrestrial. >> we toniwe don't know who is running your camera. >> reporter: good point. conservative legal watchdog group decided to look into the voter rolls in montgomery county and what they found is this. the state of maryland is listing montgomery county with about 650,000 voters on the rolls. why did they raise their eyebrows about that? well, it turns out that's about 23,000 people away from what the census bureau says that that number should

off a letter to the maryland board of elections asking them to at least explain and resolve this somehow because the two numbers do not match. now, they are not outright accusing montgomery county of any voter fraud but what they are saying is that these numbers don't jive. well, then you might leave yourself open to that because the rolls need to be as accurate as possible and if you've got upwards of possibly 23,000 names on those rolls that are not supposed to be there, that could theoretically leave montgomery county open to that kind of thing. this is not the only place judicial watch has done this. 11 states around the country they have looked into the rolls and they found these kinds of discrepancies. for their part the maryland board of elections over in annapolis they say they are going to look into this but they also say that they are confident that montgomery county election officials know what they're doing and they will get back to them at some

much urgency jim and shawn bought comments earlier in the year from that president trump alleging anywhere from three to 5 million phony votes in the election. you know, the president as you know, doesn't talk much about that any more. he got blown back on that a lot both from democrats and republicans. you know, but in the atmosphere where we're in right now, politically when so many people are alleging so many different things about what did or did not happen in the election, it might serve all parties though t to exactly make sure everybody who is on those voter rolls should be on those voter rolls. >> that's the bedrock of the faith of our foundation of democracy. >> no matter who is in the white house. >> reporter: that's beautiful jim. >> i realized i started saying some words roughing hewn together southbounded patriotic. >> reporter: i would vote for you. >> i'm not sure i

>> he correctly predicted the outcome of every presidential raisins 1984. now a.m. professor has another prediction. why he says president trump will be impeached. back after this. >> ♪ hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool?

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>> ♪ >> welcome back. he's direct of correctly predicted the outcome of every presidential election since 1984. american university professor allan lichtman has another prediction. he thinks it's possible donald trump will be impeached. his book lays out several possible scenarios that could lead to the downfall of the trump white house. >> there are three ongoing investigations of the russian connection or the possible russian connection. and the administration response has had all the hall marks avenue nixon type coverup. these guys say oh we never had& any contact with the russians. >> lichtman lays out other offenses he feels could trump impeached including abusing executive authority and conflicts of interest. >> we had him on when he made the

trump was going to win the election. it's interesting to see him come back. we send ronica cleary out to get the pulse of the people on this one. she's at the old ebbitt grille. are people buying lichtman's prediction here? >> reporter: hey, jim and shawn. we're talking to people about -- do you remember when kellyanne conway graded the media. she gave us an incomplete. with the hundred day mark i asked people to grade the president. tell me what's the grade you give the president. >> i would probably give him a b. >> reporter: okay, a b. that's a good grade. >> i'd give him a b plus. >> reporter: what -- b, b plus, that's a -- >> i think he's still having a bit of a difficult time as far as trying to work with both parties and trying to get unification. >> reporter: yeah, that is not an easy task i think for anyone. i want to show you this. this is why people come to old ebbitt. this has nothing to do with politics. how amazing these two men have destroyed this and sat this on a bar stool. what's your

that you would give the president in his first 100 days. >> i would give him a d. >> reporter: not an f, a d. >> i would give him a d because he's been bad on the minimum wage bad on human rights bad on healthcare. i'm up from an f because i'm glad that steve bannon is out. >> reporter: okay, that's very thoughtful response for why am i love how people have really thought through these grades, b plus, d. let's come over here. what grade would you give the president. >> a d minus. >> reporter: a d minus. okay, but he gave the president a d. you give him a d minus. no f's from the two of you. what keeps him from that. >> that's a good question. i would think f is probably more appropriate but i like to give people the little benefit of the doubt. in that all honesty he's putting our country into freefall right now. i come from conservative utah and his behavior is completely reckless. i like to give him that benefit of the doubt thinking maybe as an f. >> reporter: too harsh. >> maybeoo

d minus. >> reporter: one more person. let's see if someone will give the president an a. let's come back here. i got another brave person back here. now, you said you would help us out. what grade will you give the president in his first 100 days, what are your thoughts? >> i like what he's been doing so far so i'd give him a minus b plus. the only reason he's getting a b plus is because we sent in for white house tour tickets weren't he got neglected. >> reporter: you know, people do have very interesting reasons for coming down with their opinion one way or the other. no a, no f, all somewhere in the middle. what's your grade for the president? use that #5at630way in. we would love to hear from you or come down to old ebbitt. see you soon. >> thank you ronica. you know, i get it. i mean, there are just different ends of the spectrum there. everybody has an opinion. >> well, it's more nuanced too its a lot better than saying a plus, f minus. i mean people have their opinions but they also have their reasoning behind it and that's what i like

>> the other thing that's interesting too, we've also seen the poll numbers, they started off sort of low, they've gone up, they've gone down, so that you know, it kind of shows us how people are thinking, too. you go the a cross section of america and that's what's going on out there. >> then again when you talk to candidate trump you don't believe the polls. >> well, unless it's a certain poll. >> all right. it is a coveted list of the most influential people. this year a lot of political faces. we'll talk about it when 5 at 6:30 comes right back. in my future, i'm twice as likely to have a stroke.

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>> ♪ >> well, guess what? "time" magazine's 100 most influential list is out. >> fox5 contributor sarah fraser is here. how are you. >> i'm so good. >> it's been awhile. >> we're so excited. you're normally on in the morning and we're glad you're with us. >> they don't let me out at night not until now though. this is my breakthroughs. >> we're very excite asked. let's help her breakthroughs. there were some names on here and i guess i shouldn't be surprised but, you know,

list. >> ivanka and jared, president trump is on there again, you have steve bannon, you have many other political -- julian assange. a lot of political people that sparked a lot of discussion this year. jared kushner was interesting. you don't verbally hear a lot from him. >> no. >> but, you know, his stature. >> jimmy fallon do him on snl. . >> just was there. >> once you see that skit you're like you know what, you rarely hear him speak but his influence, certainly. >> huge. >> we've heard a lot about his wife's influence, the president's daughter's influence especially now since they are both white house employees. >> this may be the best father-in-law son in law relationship i think we've ever 17 human history. >> don't you think it's fascinating, i enjoy this list when you think about it two or three years ago did anyone know who jared kushner was. >> no, not like this. >> right. >> what about elizabeth warren? here is somebody who a lot of people thought sheúwou, maybe she'll run in 2020.

run but not -- you think about how many senators like -- we knew ted kennedy. can you name at the other senator from massachusetts? of course no. but you can name elizabeth warren. >> so true and i like, too, that the women's leaders of the women's marchmade it. i thought that was an interesting choice. i thought that was a great choice. >> that's undeniable. even if you disagree with what they stood for at that women's march what we saw on the 21st was quite incredible. >> yeah, to mobilize the millions of people nationwide it was pretty great. >> something else i felt was interesting and i know we're talking about the people on the list but the people who weren't on the list. were you -- i was -- were the obamas on this list. >> i did not see the obamas they weren't on the list. >> were the bidens. >> no bidens and for that matter i don't think bernie sanders made it or hillary clinton. >> yeah. >> and you know, they had some big moments this year. >> very interesting how they pick and choose. do we know how they come up with this list. >> as far as f-, from what i've read so

tradition that kind of started a couple years ago with their -- their editors sort of sitting around and going let's make a list and then it sort of caught only. >> right. >> but i didn't specifically read criteria. sounds like people that spark discussion. >> if anything it's just matter of coming up with these hundred people and then they get three people on tv to talk about it. >> and we're doing it. >> who would you say right now in your life is the most influential person out there? >> oh, god, that's a really great question. is this like -- is this like somebody that i admire. >> anybody. >> anybody. >> anyone. >> anybody. >> well, i mean, i think president trump is, right? love him or hate him but i mean i think as i was just listening to ronica cleary's report we are in this time that it does feel very scary. obviously we've never lived through like i was going say. >> a nonpolitician as president before. >> right. >> there you go. >> yeah. but i do thing it's think it's interesting he holds the future in his hands of this country so it's a lot.

we appreciate it. >> you're so welcome. >> i could talk all night. they're giving us the wrap. why? >> thank you guys for joining us tonight at 6:30. >> see you tonight at 10:00, 10:30 and 11:00.

harvey: there's some more evidence about tom brady being a no show at the white house yesterday. and it has to do with giselle. >> well, tom brady had said that he wasn't there because of personal family matters. giselle tweeted out basically an anti-trump protest. >> trump got out-trolled out on twitter and it's great. pharvey: the controlled part is tom brady is controlled by giselle. >> oprah winfrey, so we want to talk to her about the amazing vacation she took on david geffen's yacht with tom hanks, bruce springsteen and the obamas. >> i have been privileged to be there lots of times but not with you know who. harvey: do you think the guy who's riding it walked up to tom hanks and said, i'm the captain now? [laughter]