the senate minority leader invoked wu-tang. everything around us, get the money, dollar, dollar bill, y all. thank you. and where a couple of years before that, governor rod blagojevich made his last stand. what did i do in this case but provide health care for low income families? at number two p-r-o-d-i-g-y. dir igible. 6-year-old lori ann madison of woodbridge, virginia, became the youngest competitor ever to compete in the scripps national spelling bee. hi. hi. she nailed her first word. but then the panel decided to swiftly crush little lori ann s
got us in obesity mess in the first place. remember new york in the 70s, times square, hookers, flashers, smack addicts, drug dealers? you name it, we had them. and look at us. we looked great. so svelt. and then mayor giuliani had to clean the place up. guess what happens when you go in and replace strip clubs and porn theaters with the bubba gump shrimp company, and my favorite one, the m&m store. let me ask you a question. why the [ bleep ] is a store that sells nothing but m&ms? this is new york. you can buy m&ms in any store! why do you need a store that s all m&ms? i m going to open up an altoid world. look, mr. mayor, pick your poison. obesity is the problem now? fine. i think i know how to solve it. reintroduce crack. it may be whack. but when that weight comes off, it stays off. that is absolutely sick. good morning, everyone. there s the m&m store. it is friday, june 1. welcome to morning joe. with us onset, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle and former go
fine. i think i know how to solve it. reintroduce crack. it may be whack. but when that weight comes off, it stays off. that is absolutely sick. good morning, everyone. there s the m&m store. it is friday, june 1. welcome to morning joe. with us onset, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle and former governor of pennsylvania and nbc news political analyst ed rendell. he has a new book. i like it. a nation of wusses. that s tough. we talk about that every day here. you had to use the title, right? that s pretty good, ed. and from washington, contributor to newsweek and the daily beast and with the consulting firm hill and knowlton whoa, whoa, whoa. my eyes kind of hurt. stop the train. wait a minute. that s not what have you got a job interview today, mark? what s going on? his wife picked it out. oh, there you go. now it makes more sense. good to see you. showing my respect for the white house today. yeah. thank you, alex. y
278 spellers, all under the age of 16, competed in the first rounds of the national spelling bee today in maryland. the finals are tomorrow. you may have heard about the speller this year who is 6. a 6-year-old girl named lori ann madison. she s the youngest participant ever. she made it through round two today. she stumbled in round three. seriously. ingluvies. i think probably wrong. even though it s called the national spelling bee, interesting note, it s not only for american kids. every year there are a handful of kids from other countries participating in the bee. and this year that handful includes this young man, 13-year-old ryan mcclellan. he hails from new zealand. to get what kind of challenge that fact poses at the national spelling bee. consider for a moment the new zealand accent, as demonstrated
best new thing in the world today. kahuna. a noun meaning a preimminent american of thing. the national spelling bee is the big kahuna of spelling bees. 278 spellers, all under the age of 16, competed in the first rounds of the national spelling bee today in maryland. the finals are tomorrow. you may have heard about the speller this year who is 6. a 6-year-old girl named lori ann madison. she s the youngest participant ever. she made it through round two today. she stumbled in round three. seriously. ingluvies. i think probably wrong. even though it s called the national spelling bee, interesting note, it s not only for american kids. every year there are a handful of kids from other countries