brian jones. >> run, run, they're coming. >> comedienne helen hong. >> oh, no, it's alive. >> cnn's own van jones and john berman. >> this time, it's personal. radio host, bethany watson me. it wasn't me. >> radio commentator s.e. cupp, youtube sensation, jessie paege, and comedienne kiran deol. it's "all the best, all the worst 2017." welcome, i'm tom foreman. in so many ways the past 12 months have played out like a bad movie. we had week after week of outlandish characters, unexpected developments, outrageous behavior in big news and in entertainment and pop culture, and most of all in politics, where one name over shadowed everything else and it came from d.c. ♪ >> president trump. >> trump. >> trump. >> trump. >> donald trump, trump. >> president trump. >> donald trump. >> the biggest overarching story of the year is certainly the trump presidency. >> it was bananas how completely divided this country became. b-a-n-a-n-a-s. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president-elect of the united states, donald j. trump. >> for some, the new york billionaire was the best thing to come to washington in decades, with his promise of shaking things up, shooting straight and drainin