Brian Lear on WNYC now we turn to New Jersey with our Nancy Solomon who hosted last night's addition of the Ask Governor Murphy Callin show here on WNYC.

Nancy joins us next morning each month for a debrief. This time of course they talk

mainly about his state of the state address on Tuesday. We'll play some clips of the

governor from last night and from the speech and talk about the issues

that were raised.

So joining us now to break down all that and more is Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and

editor and host of the Ask Governor Murphy monthly call-in show. reporter and

reporter and editor and host of the Ask Governor Murphy monthly call-in show. Hey Nancy, welcome back to the show.

Hi, thanks for having me, Brian.

And let's start where you started last night with the State of the state address, the speech where obviously

each governor lays out their policy priorities for the year and you ask what it's like to give

a big speech like that if he got nervous here's some of what he said.

So you also want to get a sense of the emotion of the room.

Never be too proud to make off-the-cuff comments and live or die with the reactions.

So that's kind of fun.

I wouldn't say nervous, I'm not making light of it but it's not giving speeches.

Maybe it's because I used to act when I was in high school and college.

That part of it has not really ever been,

whether they're good or not, whether or not I deliver them well or not

is a separate point, but I'm not nervous walking in there,

but it's pretty special.

So Nancy, how did the state of the state go?

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