[ cheers and applause ] i grew up coming to this place so many times. And, this, tonight, is special. I thought about, when i was coming in backstage, ive been on this stage with Godfather Of Soul, james brown, who was like a father to me, and michael jackson, the list goes on. But, tonight, you will have Something Special at the apollo, because you will have two icons that are going to talk about their work, and talk about what they do in this country that is so needed at this time today could not be a better night at the apollo. This is not just a great show, tonight, this is history. So [ cheers and applause ] so, it is my honor and my pleasure that, i cant bring you tonight the Godfather Of Soul [ laughter ] but i bring you the godmother of woke [ cheers and applause ] Rachel Maddow. [ cheers and applause ] i got you on that one. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] wow, how are you doing . We love you, rachel. [ cheers and applause ] i am so nervous [ laugh
questions on who we can t count on. and we learned that we could not count on congress. we had to count on ourselves. we had to count on our state. our governor chris christie provided excellent leadership throughout the storm and is now helping to lead the way in our recovery efforts. we have a lot of work to do. but we ve learned one thing, that we need to count on ourselves, we need to count on our communities, and we need to count on each other as new jersians. good to see you. i should let folks know that morning joe is going to be live from asbury park tomorrow morning at 6:30 eastern looking at the progress made in that region six months after sandy. well, it seems that washington worked in remarkably pass v speed, all of this coming in the wake of sequester cuts that left passengers and lawmakers we should note
stretch of the imagination an impossible one to overcome. nikko, in the simplest of terms here, for folks watching at home, especially, explain to all of us what the dnc has been able to do with technology, that the rnc has not been able to do. sure. that s a great question. i would say that it kind of boils down to three buckets. the first bucket is actually not so much about technology, and more about culture and organization. the dnc and the obama campaign has a very fast-moving culture, a very relatively flat organizational structure. they re able to make decisions very quickly on twitter speed, not on tv speed. not on traditional political campaign speed. and they re also able to just rapidly test enormous volumes of messages on the internet to figure out what s working. it was not uncommon for the obama campaign to test the subject line of an e-mail 10, 20, 30 times to figure out what