they have written aclaimed biography, hrc. they brings us their new book, "shattered." inside hillary clinton campaign. jonathan and amy reconstructed key decisions and unseized opportunities, well-intentioned misfires and hidden thorns that turn ad winnable contest into a devastating loss. "new york times" write, although the clinton campaign was widely covered and many autopsies covered in the last several months, the blow by blow details in "shattered" and observations made lear by campaign and democratic party insiders are nothing less than devastating. sure to dismay not just her supporters but everyone who cares about the outcome and momentous consequences of election. without further adieu, let me welcome jonathan allen and amie parnes. >> good evening. thank you for coming. i see family, friend, and people we don't know yet. so, there is my family waving over there. they must have been drinking already. they're laughing like they were. so i think what we'll do here, read a little bit of one of the early chapters of the book, chapter 7. then we will, we'll talk a

and hrc. marty rowes who went from someone i didn't know to being someone who i thought of as one of my like, guru, like, i texted him more than i texted my husband. and equality in north carolina, which i now have the pleasure of sitting on the board of. they all contacted me and said candice, you know, your story is really amazing. we think you would be a great person to come down here and tell your story and i said, oh, sure. of course. i don't mind doing that. and i did. and then chad griffin, i don't know if you -- you know, he said let's go for a walk. i'm not making this stuff up. i said, okay. where are we walking to? the governor's office. oh, okay. why? and i blinked my eyes and next thing i know i'm walking into his office with about 5,000 news cameras at our backs as we step over the threshold. and we spend about 30 minutes talking to him. and telling him i am a north carolina citizen, i'm transgender how this bill affects me and my life. i walk out of there and everyone is asking

had day jobs we were doing at the same time, and it was not as easy as it might sound, because we did hrche floodgates suddenly opened up on the book quite the opposite we have to reintroduce ourselves and i used to joke with john we have been working with these people now for years. >> e-mails from the staffers that we were going to see somebody being told not to talk to us because they didn't -- because presumably there was a reason that was like you don't have to talk about it. >> people that had spoken. speech you i am about a third of the way into the book and so far hillary is indecisive and has very bad judgment and is not good politics. you have a front-row seat forgetting for a moment who is the president now did you learn anything that told you because so far all the things she's doing in the campaign, she's not doing very well. would she have been a good president in your opinion? >> somebody else is applauding. is that what you would want to ask? she knows how to be a candidate i think. she admitted this several times during the campaign. she has said she is not president obam

all of the state and helping to educate people and show people ways in which they could help him, you hrc, ehc, a lot of other people's health, we were able to un-reelect the first incumbent north carolina governor in history. [applause] >> and, depending upon if you live in virginia or north carolina that is a big deal since we're the first date. the first state. from that moment on i got a lot of attention and people started noticing me and i said, let's take advantage of this and be visible. i think that america needs to actually just have someone in front of them in uncomfortable moments and say, hello i am transgender. what do you want to know? i took advantage of every opportunity. i have been given so many blessings. the able to go and be with joan jett and heart on their twitter. i was like, what am i doing? --plause], laughter [laughter] blanchett.with kate i am name dropping because that is so surreal. this is my life now. i get to travel all over the world and talk to people about my life, which i thought was basic. lending in. through doing that, i realized that people within

even met with her, she had said she had official documents and information about hrc, hillary rodhamnton, as part of russia and the government's support of donald trump. and for people to try and blow this off, let me just reverse it. that's like hillary rodham clinton trying to say that it didn't matter at all that she used bleach bit to personal more than 30,000 e-mails from her server. republicans flipped out, as right they should, you know? as well they should. >> yeah. liz: you know, how do we look through all of this hypocrisy and figure out what's exactly going on? because it is now affecting people's money. >> yeah. i think we have to wait and there has to be patience. you're still in a place where hyperventilating about stories doesn't help the process. but this, obviously, gives it more oxygen, and it gives this story much more, many more legs. now, she -- the lawyer -- was on "the today show" this morning, said she was not tied to the kremlin directly. she said that she did not have any information about hillary clinton. but, you know, that's what she told them. the e-mail

with hrc's help and coming into our state and taking over our state, you know, think marty feels like he was a north carolina resident. they were there so much, really helping us and coordinating and working with constituents all over the state and helping to educate people and show people ways in which they could help and, you know, inform with hrc and with a lot of people's help, and to pat myself on the back, we were able to unelect the worst north carolina governor in history. [ applause ] >> depending on if you live in virginia or north carolina, that's a big deal since we were the first state. virginia colony, all of that stuff. so from that moment on my life -- i got a lot of attention and a lot of people started noticing me, and i said let's take advantage of this and be visible. i think that america needs to actually just have someone in front of them in uncomfortable moments and say, hi, i'm transgender, what do you want to know? i took advantage of every opportunity. i've been given so many blessings and exciting things, getting to, you know, go and be with jones and hart o