the race for new jersey governor also happening tuesday. but its outcome is an equally important barometer of democrats staying power looking ahead to next november s mid terms. we have the history making potential writing in the new republic if phil murphy holds his lead and wins, he ll be the first new jersey democratic governor to be re-elected in decades. joining me is democratic new jersey democrat, phil murphy who s running for a second term. welcome back to the sunday show. thank for having me, jonathan. good to be back. i m not hearing the governor and i don t know he can hear me. we ll try to fix our audio. i want to read you something else while we do that that dean obidala wrote. the last time a democratic governor won re-election, the top film was star wars, the original. disco ruled the air waves and social media was using a rotary
less than two hours from the white house has the single worst speeches of any president in the history of the united states. dean, i ve got to agree with him. i ve been in civil rights all my life. i never seen a president even if i felt they felt that way say it, verbalize it and refuse to take it back. absolutely. i also want to give an award for something he never said, he never will say white supremacist terrorism. but when it comes to he told us, the only way to solve radical islamic terrorism is to say it. why won t he say white supremacist terrorism? to me the award is flipped. the things he needed to say is white supremacist terrorism and put resources in with the fbi and government officials to crack down on it the same way he would be worried about someone that is islamic terrorist. joan? i wanted to pick that speech. you got it, jason. i would say the s.o.b. speech, the attacks on colin kaepernick
welcome back to the world famous rockefeller center in new york city and the seventh annual revvie awards. here again is your host, reverend al sharpton. thank you for joining us for our end of the year celebration. i look back on what that year was in politics. joining us this morning, robert traham who is a former bush-cheney senior adviser, joan walsh, national affairs correspondent at the nation, dean obidala, political comedian and radio host and jason johnson, the political editor of theroot.com. our next category has so many possible nominations. we couldn t fit them all in, really. i m talking about the worst
trump tweet of the year. here s a few. the tweets saying he should have left those three ucla basketball players in jail. they were not in jail to begin with. the tweet saying former fbi director james comey better hope there s no tapes of their meeting. the tweet that personally attacked my colleague and friend, the tweet questioning the leadership of san juan s mayor after hurricane maria. and there was also the tweet where he sent condolences to the wrong mass shooting. and then, of course, tweets making fun of rocket man, praising judge arpaio and fake news. let s discuss it. dean? his tweets are aging me. look at me.
no shortage of pop consider moments from bill cosby s alleged inappropriate behavior to caitlyn jenner s debut as a woman. most followed woman in twitter in record time. the most talked about dress ever. was it black and blue, white and gold? rounding out the year, star wars. nothing will stand in our way. i will finish what you started. the promise. joining us now to discuss these and other biggest moments in 2015 daily beast columnist dean obidala and founder and chairman of 15 minutes public relations. good to have all of you with us.