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Featured speakers will be john lewis. Back in 1963 he was the leader of the student nonviolating committee. Nancy pelosi will also be speaking today along with the families of Trayvon Martin and emmett till. Well all get under way later this morning and checking in and bringing you the latest proceedings throughout the day. The panel here in new york. Amanda turkal for huffingtonpost. Com, evan White House Reporter for buzzfeed. Com and liz winstead cocreator of daily show and author of the book. Thank you for joining us. Seems like the entire political world is in washington, d. C. , glad we ...

New jersey and what is happening to the bluest of blue states, but, you know, the governor has come down mightily from the 26 or 30-point advantage in the summer. what is really significant new jersey, any democratic governor that has tried to get re-elected, the last time it happened is back in 1977 with brendan burns. i'm wondering why that is. the governor that had been re-elected in history, chris christie, todd wittman, why is that? what is going on there that we should watch and not overthink? what? >> new jersey is a democratic state. it votes democratic in every presidential race. it v...

The democratic candidate for governor for the most part in 30 plus years has not won re-election in the state since brendan burns around 1977. the republican governors have from chris christie, todd wittman. you can go back further where republican governors get re-elected, but it doesn't apply to democrats. this is a fascinaing foot note. more coming up including push to get your kid vaccinated now that an fda panel says it's okay. are you okay with that? after this.

We mentioned earlier the new poll that puts cory booker ahead of steve lonegan in the new jersey senate race. those numbers prompted a lot of people to ask, shouldn't booker be winning by more? a national celebrity against a conservative in a deeply blue state. let's look at the numbers. we can see that the floor for a republican senate candidate in new jersey is actually pretty high. this is how they've done over the last generation from a 47% peak for christine todd wittman in 1990 to 30% of the vote for joe carillos. new numbers from virginia in the closely watched race for government there...