joining us to break down these numbers is scott clement, a survey research analyst and let's take a quick look at those numbers and your post shows cummings with a third of the democrat while chris van hollen and donna edwards each getting 20%. without cummings then edwards gets that boost. she leads van hollen 38% to 28%. considering van hollen's high profile, these numbers, are they surprising? >> i think they are. i think they challenge the conventional wisdom of the race which is that van hollen starts off as the heavy favorite. he's the clear favorite in fund-raising and he had a 3-1 fund raising in the most comparable reports, but his support is shallow in the state with especially a well-known figure like elija comments, and he gets a lot of those votes from the baltimore city area. how important is jurisdiction in van hollen and montgomery county, how important are these to the candidates? >> they could be and we saw last year with governor larry hogan drawing heavily with anne arundel. i think our poll and follow-up interviews detected a lot of passion for cummings in his home ar

we're excited to have ron clements and john musker, alan menkin, scott weinger, brad kane and linda larkinat to see all of you. alan, let me begin with you. just tell us about working with robin williams. we see him in action again. >> oh, it was amazing working with robin. absolutely incredible. >> yeah, we wrote the part with robin in mind. we didn't know if he would do it and fortunately for us he did. >> you didn't know he would do it. >> no, we were probably walking down the plank. if he said no, we were in big trouble because the whole concept was based around robin. >> no one else could be the genie and fortunately he agreed to do it and he did -- he worked so hard, we recorded him in four-hour sessions. he would be going four hours straight. we have practically four hours of recording. by the end he was just drenched -- he had so much energy and so much passion. >> i was very concerned because what we had written "friend like me" was written for a fats waller type, and my first concern was, can robin sing like fats waller? >> and? >> and he could. he learned to. most of that ended