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anthony: how does the joke begin? three men in a bar? but it s not a bar. imagine the bronx a corner bodega, or maybe a luncheonette, a diner, three men, strictly by coincidence, find themselves in the same place at the same time. sitting at the counter is afrika bambaataa. across the room is melle mel. door opens, and who walks in? dj kool herc. three men who created the musical style that s become the soundtrack to, well, the whole wide world. do they all nod at each other? lament how all of them got screwed over, cut out of the big money? or just laugh at the absurdity of it all? hip-hop it came from nowhere else. it could have come from nowhere else but the bronx. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la anthony: this is ....
summer. hey, do you work? what do you do? usually when an 81-year-old does that much traveling through europe, it s on a viking river cruise. [ laughter ] good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, june 13th. we re going to bring you the very latest from the g7 summit in italy. president biden is there meeting with world leaders and also talking support for ukraine. that s a top priority there. meanwhile, there s a lot happening today on capitol hill. donald trump will be in washington to meet with lawmakers from both chambers, setting up his first face-to-face with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in more than three years. it comes a day after a partisan vote in the house, holding merrick garland in contempt of congress. we re going to dig into all of that straight ahead. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former treasury official and economic analyst steve ....
The south bronx sounds familiar, as a bad thing. and the bronx, at one time, was said to be burning, wasn t it? for the most part, the bronx is overlooked, the never visited borough in new york city, which is a shame because the bronx is a magical place with its own energy, its own food, vibe, and rhythm. you ve been to brooklyn. maybe it s time you took a look at the bronx. lloyd: in august of 1973, the sister of dj kool herc was holding a birthday party for herself in the basement of 1520 sedgwick avenue. as kool herc was playing the music on his two-disc turntable, he began to slow the music down, slow the record. people stood up and took notice and then began asking him to do it again. he did it again. they asked him to do it again, and again. he did it again. he attracted more and more people to his performances and people began to imitate him. ....
Is bringing back memories of other presidential impeachment proceedings. nbc news senior correspondent tom brokaw has written a new book about the nixon white house before the president resigned. first, nbc s craig melvin takes a look back at the fall of richard nixon. it was august of 1973, and the investigation into the break-in at the democratic national committee at the watergate had been in the headline for a year. the first president in more than a hundred years to be the subject of an impeachment recommendation. into that political storm stepped tom brokaw, a veteran political reporter but a white house rookie. what he would experience over the next year until nixon s resignation has become the basis for his latest book, the fall of richard nixon: a reporter remembers watergate. watergate consumed the white house, no one more so than the president. i welcome this kind of ....
anthony: this is the bronx. you ve probably heard about it. you may even have a pretty solid image in your head of what it looks like, what it is like. or, maybe, you can t picture it at all. the south bronx sounds familiar, as a bad thing. and the bronx, at one time, was said to be burning, wasn t it? for the most part, the bronx is overlooked, the never visited borough in new york city, which is a shame because the bronx is a magical place with its own energy, its own food, vibe, and rhythm. you ve been to brooklyn. maybe it s time you took a look at the bronx. lloyd: in august of 1973, the sister of dj kool herc was holding a birthday party for herself in the basement of 1520 sedgwick avenue. as kool herc was playing the ....