expect. obviously rapper s delight from sugar hill gang, the message by grand master flash and the furious five, jam watted by newcally wus, big daddy cain, f the police. blondie is on here too, rapture on the very first disk, people might think interesting, that rap session she has in the middle. what are some of your favorite cuts here? i come from def jam, so to me i m a run-dmc, beastie boys, public enemy guy. when i think about this disk and ll cool j. those are my guys. they re my family. those are my favorites. is there anything that you wish had made the anthology but didn t? no, not really. because i m from the early days and i m lucky enough to still be participating right now on a high level. but i think it s a very difficult job to, you know, squeeze almost 50 years of
mitch mcconnell. mcconnell, we know he is. where s jeff flake? olympia snow, who were supposed to be the moderators? lindsey graham, for that matter. i ll get to lindsey graham. somebody call and tell him, i m going to get to him. but let me bring this in. rina, marks the tenth anniversary of president obama s infamous summit where he hosted basically a rap session between a white police officer and harvard professor henry louis gates after gates was arrested on suspicion. he was breaking into his own massachusetts home. the president criticized the arrest, right wingers criticized his criticism and you ve got that beer summit as damage control. it was one of the many examples of a black president constantly being held to certain standards on race, even those controversies, he didn t literally speak into existence and then president trump who
if in a lab running all kinds of experiments on the rats. why would they do it? no one can explain it. well, here was jon stewart s reaction to that putin press conference on the daily show just last night. this is what i d like to suggest. let s have a conversation rather than an interview. you know what? i did not see that coming. a conversation, a rap session. i never saw putin as the cool dad. well, let s get to the conversation. i would ask you to begin by stating all your questions. i will jot them down and try to answer them. fine. let us stop here for now. i will begin. don t interrupt me. i forgot it was an interesting fact. in russia, the word for conversation is the same word as the word for shut the [ bleep ] up. well, the post and anna applebaum may have summed up that well.
a conversation, a rap session. i never saw putin as the cool dad. well, let s get to the conversation. i would ask you to begin by stating all your questions. i will jot them down and try to answer them. fine. i will begin. don t interrupt me. i frog it was an interesting fact. in russia, the word for conversation is the same word as the word for shut the [ bleep ] up. well, the post and applebaum may have summed up that well. putin s press conference reveals that we may have reached the weird moment when the dictator believes his own propaganda. up next tonight, the real reason why democrats are set to hold the white house for a while, and why republicans can hold on to congress for a long time. that s ahead. we re going to try to explain future history tonight. you re watching hardball, the place for politics.