>> welcome! this is "the final 5" end-of-2017 spectacular. >> welcome this is final 5 end of 2017 spectacular. we're looking back at some of the most political stories of the year president trump and russia probe and me too move the and roy moore losing in alabama and heated governor's race in virginia. let's do this. sdm all right we'll go back to the beginning of 017. i remembered as if it were yesterday. and then january the big event in d.c. was inauguration of donald trump. a lot of times inaugural speeches are ways to r50e67 across the aisle and give a way coming

fallen into disrepair and promised to grab power from the he lights and put the u.s. back on top. >> hear these words you will never be ignored again. from this day forward, a new vision will govern our land and from this day forward it is going to be only america first. america first. >> and maybe one ever most talked about aspect of inauguration was crowd size. there were a lot of open spots at the mall. newly trump administration said it was biggest and b bestest ever. >> photographs of up august ral proceedings were framed in a way in one particular tweet to minimize enormous support it gathered on national mall. this is largest audience to witness inauguration period. both in person and in and

>> it was only time we saw spicy wearing that suit you saw how the neck was up like that president was not a fan of that. crowd size comparison was not made with previous inaugurations because the day after the president was sworn in the women's march de accepteded on d.c. beinging largest single daypro test in d.c.. and despite the massive crowds women's march remained peaceful no arrest were made during that. >> we know up sawing ration was huge and political story that dominated past year is russia, russia, russia and we'll still be talking about medaling for years to come and it is not happy it skhanded owe so many headlines and saying there was no colution between the campaign and russia. and one of the big reasons that happened was because of fallout from fbi director james comey. he detained private memos to trump his friend a journalist and president way toed to persuade him to end the

security awd vice is other michael flynn and there may be types of knks. >> look i have seen the tweet about tapes. lordy i hope there are tapes. i remember saying i agree he he's eye good guy as a way of saying i'm not agreeing with what you asked me to do. . lordy. >> we also found out there were no tapes. so far special council probe there were a lot of special handouts and indictment pleas and rich gates were indicted only money lawpderring and others in the pro russian political party in ukraine. parties stem frl well before the cam pain. >> and there's george papadopoulos former advisor ever trump isp campaign. president says he was low level volunteer coffee boy if you would. he pled guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts he was first plead guilty and former security advisor

mraid plead giltsty with fbi and now that mrin is cooperating this is not the end of russia probe. >> and another thing we heard a lot about when it comes to russia the unverified research about president trump ties to rubia funded in part by d.c. and clinton campaign. white house he's says it's probably fake and best is russian troll farms. facebook and twitter reveals accounts by rush yaling troll farms were posting fake adds. and we got a lock at adds ads including this one which called hillary clinton satan. with muller probe and congregational investigations ongoing rush than medaling in 2016 we'll talk about in 017 which we did into 2018 and let's be honest the big story that command of headlines offer the next couple months and really started this whole conversation in 2017 about sexual harassment and asawltd encouraged victims

forward. women have been sharing st stories using # me too and we've seep a lot of powerful men from both sivdz aisle now facing criticism and cop guesses as women come forward with stories of sexual misconduct. harvey weinstein and matt lauer and kevin spacey and charlie rose some of them fired over misconduct claims and politicians on the list john conyers of michigan was first out amid allegations he sexually harassed women on staff for years and 88-year-old claims the accusations were not why they were stepping down he resigned because of health. andal franken stepped down feeling pressure from fellow democrats. more than half a dozen women came forward with altions against him. >> and republican congressman interpret franks of arizona. he said he had a discussion about surrogacy of two female staffers and it made them feel uncourt formable and then more to the story

ever the story i which i know really fits that demo we're trying to get on the final 5. >> one employee said fravrps offered her five million to be his surrogate. we cannot talk about sexual miss con district in 2017 without mentioning roy moore. he was answer to the question what republican could lose in deep red alabama. after moore won gop primary with weeks left until general election the "washington post" said moore per sued teen girls when in 30s and sexually assault the a girl when she was 14. he denied the allegations and supporters are trying to discredit the women that came forward and ail though the campaign lost support the rnc pulled out and came back and and had endorsement of president trump. doug swronz came out on top. who, exactly. he still won. ve

victory. >> i have always believed that the people of alabama had more in common than to def i'd us [ applause ] we have shown not just around the state of alabama but we have shown the country the way that we can be unified jones's win gives republicans a slimmer narjty in the senate. once sworn in 59-41 republican lead and even though he endorsed moore he wanted to making it clear after the election that is not why he lost. trump congratulated jones in a tweet and want todd remind all of us roy moore was not the first choice. the reason i enduceed luther strange and numbers went up mildly he would not be able to within the general election roy moore this is not the the

alabama and probably not last. there are a few imths we could not forget like the time he waived a tiny gun around a visual to show us how much he loves the second amendment and then there was cowboy roy riding up to place on election day on horse sassy. i'm sure roy poor was dispointed in the loss but i don't think sassy was excited about the prospects of coming to washington. i don't think he would do well on the beltway. >> big election of 2017 in our neck of wide. virginia governor race was watched not just locally but everybody. a lot of analysts were looking to the race as a referendum on president trump. he endorsed ed gillespie gut got out on campaign trail with him. he wanted to keep the president arm's length and didn't want to be tie todd closely and was con ten us is down the stretch. you may be having q

election day. and he teamed seemed ready to put the negativity campaign behind him. >> decisiveness and hatred and bigotry and politics that is tearing this country apart is not that's not united states of america that people love. it's certainly not the commonwealth of virginia. >> now northam's victory was got the only win and some analysts thought races were type of what is to come in midterms you know what we have to do is wait and see which keeps us on the air. >> up next looking back on president most talked about sound bitd of the year back after ♪ no lie ♪

♪♪ >> ♪ don't mess with america ♪ >> we're back >> we're back now with top five sound bites of the year and of course so much to talk about tonight in helping me out here my friends

friends our friends. >> we're friends. >> brody logan from "fox5" and tim young from the washington examiner thank you for joining me this evening. >> thanks forever having me. >> we gotta applause. >> we did. >> studio audience was here. >> a lot happened this year. >> really? really? >> it's crazy feels like nine years but it's been one year it's like a cat's life. >> let's get heavy stuff out of the way. sound bytes you can't stop by listen to what president said. >> what about at left that came charging to the at right. do they have any semblance of guilt. i think there's blame on both sides, you look at both sides i think there's blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't any doubt about it either. you know when we heard that it was why fight about it. why push it. >> i get that a lot of these protests come into fights. both sides wanted to show up and fight. get that point

but the things was what he left out there was white nationalism is bad and he kept retoing to say that for a little while tll. >> and oui see this a lot when the president goes off script or doesn't have a script. he just goes to fighting. and he goes to the bully pulpit in that he goes to the bully and was that he did for all the rallies and what got him elected and he goes back to it. >> when they he go against the media when you have that relationship there are people that respond to that because the media advocated responsibility in years past leding up to the election. >> people don't like us. >> no. >> people like me -- >> they like the swoters. and so you know is that like your new softer persona. >> i was told to wear this after hr meeting please wear a sweater for more on. >> and let's talk about pez and north korea let's go. >> north

threats to the united states they will be bhet fire and fury. like the world has never seen. let's be honest. and if we're under attack you kind of want the president to show backbone. and melania knew where this was going. >> melania didn't want to be in the white house. >> and ad nauseam. >> let's talk about president and big nfl kneeling controversy.

>> he's fired. >> i didn't know i forgot what the music was though. >> i didn't know if we could say sob on tv and we said it it sometimes. >> now it's preden shall. >> that's true. >> sob is presidential we can say it. >> and hes with at a rally for luther strange at that point in the prime aarry for ala alabama. >> remember him. >> yes he. >> big luther. >> when there used to be sense i believe candidates for bm bam. >> had they nominated luther strange. >> it would not have been strange. >> againious of these ridiculous sound fwrooits president he. >> i don't think you could say ridiculous wearing that getup. >> i thought we were not going to acknowledge that. >> president knows he can totally shift the news narrative. as much as he hates the news media he

media and knows it. every time hi says something about nfl kneeling it's all he talked about for a month. >> remember what happened thad weekend. obamacare did not get replaced or repeeled. >> we were not talking about nfl controversy and you had mike pence go to colts game and do that whole stunt and i tweeted picture of him and karen from a game 230ur years prior just a little darker. i don't think it was him it was his staff. >> i hope my taxpayer dollars went directly to those taxpayer blarz. >> earmarked it. remember he was on apprentice. >> and guy named arnold schwartz naiinger and prayer breakfast. >> they hired a big, big m movie star arnold schwartz naiing to take my place and we know how that turned out. and ratings went

tubes it's been a total disaster and mark will never, ever bet against trump again and i want to just pray for aaron fold we can for those okay. >> he says mark wept bet against trumpp again. you have another job. >> he'll be okay. >> it's like you left to go be president. did he think he was replaced by arnold schwartz naiinger because hes with a bad host. >> one of the things of all these clips that a lot of people don't see at home every time trump starts peggy did a face palm. >> because you know he where it's going. >> it's awful. this is so awful. >> it's a fun trip down memory lane i forgot most of this ever happened. so much happened this year. >> we talk about apprentice people forgot was on the air at that point. speaking of aaronal schwartz naiinger isn't it amazing when he ran for fwovrn nor he had a whole grope fest couldn't versusy around him and he admitted to it.

trending to get fired from that. >> 14 years going that was a big deal. >> and now. >> now he's america's sweetheart. >> he's not. >> last but not least there was pretty recent a ceremony to honor navaho talkers and president again went off script. >> you have very, very special people and you were here long before any of us were here although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. they call her pocahontas. >> who is they? >> right. >> yeah. >> you. i call her pocahontas. like they? these poor guys they were railroad sdmrd they were here for the free lunch. >> oh, my god. talk about being off script a show should be named after that. that's a whole. >> nobody would watch it. >> by the way under the pictures of andrew jackson aka. >> look. >> optics. >> we'll talk about tweets after the break.

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♪♪ >> ♪ don't mess with america ♪ >> you know the president likes to tweet? did you know that? >> the president likes to tweet. did you know that. >> no. >> yeah he. >> at this point he probably doesn't like it any more. >> couple tweets to look at. feud with the co-host of morning joe when he said i hear she speaks padbly of me and low iq and psycho joe came to mar-a-lago three night on new year's eave and insisted on joining me. can somebody stop grandpa from it watching morning news. >> i love he says he doesn't wax anymore. fem are talking about moreing joe at the white house of the they used to have him on all the time every morning show. times changed. >> she looks great she has a good plastic surgeon. >> she admitted to it too she had work done. >> he's one to talk

>> allegedly. >> there war a string of insalt to bob quarker who we said could not get elected as dog catcher. he did not vote. he was the one that did not vote. >> wid the bob. >> you saw that tweet there and then let's take a look at another tweet. there from kim jong-un why would he insalt me by call meg old when i don't call him short and fat. are they trying to seek something out. >> i like the passive aggressiveness of that. >> that's well formed. >> that was a good tweet. >> a lot of people were wo wondering if he was diplomat in chief and i thinkthy that was very diplomatic. >> it was olive i branch to short and fat leader of north korea. >> rocket manor -- >> think don't get twitter there. >> i was curious about that. >> when he gets criticism he said use of media is not presidential but

presidential make america great again. >> can't ago uwith that. >> he said, and you know give him credit for the fact he found his way to liver range twitter in a way to get throughout media and get your message out there. all the time it's not necessarily on the plane of what you expect. >> it's not only getting through the media we cover every single one of his stupid tweets. it's mats of the media. >> your job sucks. >> but you know obama had number one tweet this year. he's not best at tweeting. >> right after charlottesville. >> do old people keep hitting retweet. >> chicken nuggets beat everybody, snugs for carter. >> wendy's said get 8 million tweets and he got three and still got nuggets and the tweet everybody was trying to de coat despite the freingtive press

>> what do you think about those people that got those license plates, what are they doing now. >> they coauthored that phrase. >> those people voted in alabama okay? >> and again sxhangs that came out saying president was trying to seasoned a mess tooth people who knew what the message was that's why there's dms and text messages. >> tweeting in code. >> i don't know either. >> i think obviously twitter will be the still major avenue going to 2017. >> god mess him. >> directs contact with president of the united states every morning sglaem it's clockwork. we know when the president is watching cable news and what he is watching and how apaysing would it be to be a producer on a program you know the president is watching every morning and thinking i can totally influence what the president will tweet about today. that's empowering. >> on "fox" and friends they were rhyming things with candy cane

>> all right we're back after this in the final five. >> all the president's tweets were in

>> all right. hey, before we go tonight, if you're president trump, what would your new year's resolution be? >> >> before we go tonight if you were president trump what would your resolution. >> less diet coat cut it to 8. >> if i'm trump more campaign rallies as the great american poet ludicrous said champagne with campaign. >> i think in grand scheme of things i hope the president learned -- >> bottoms up. >> i think grand scheme of things what we realize going into 018 let's put everything else aside and people don't want extreme iingism they want to see government do some something. the that goes for everybody. >> what are the president's resolutioning going to be. it will not be those things. >> no we're trying to be idealistic. >> getting better ratings on "fox". >> chee

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