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And a day or two later they called me up and said, hey, a little change, brandy is going to do the theme song with you. i said, oh, okay, well, well do that. and literally they put us together like a day or two later. and she came over to my place and she sang me this idea. i said, hold it, hold it, wait here. i had written a music, she had written lyrics, and all of it worked together immediately. >> so what would you call that? >> i would call that lucky as heck. ♪ sister, sister ♪ ♪ i g...

Other black composer, ever. >> ive been fortunate to get in at a time when there was a renaissance of black tv shows back in the 90s. ♪ ♪ >> that was really a magical theme song. i co-wrote it with the star of the show, brandy. >> it came from the music. they came from my personality and music and offered me the part. >> the producers came to me and said hey, youre doing the score but we want you to do a theme song and a day or two later, they called me up and said hey, little change. brandy...

Platform. >> you have talked about the fact that amy klobuchar, there are a handful of smarts who do take this seriously and move at a faster pace than congress and some of these dumb hearings move. do you think theres some teeth to what amy klobuchar is trying to do? >> i would hope so. i think the challenge, ali with all of these things is to get the definition right. one persons misinformation is another persons fact. im going to push back on brandy, i dont think facebook perceives it as thei...

Comes from the two of you. >> theyve got to follow -- they have to follow brandy because there is nobody like them. they are absolutely the worlds best. >> we appreciate all of you. thank you, nbc senior reporter brandy zadrozny and roger mcnamee, who was an early investor in facebook and google and an adviser, and that does it for me. im sad to leave you, but im very happy to leave you in the hands of tiffany cross. catch me back here tomorrow morning from 8:00 to 12:00 a.m. eastern on velshi. ...

Hannah-jones, i want to give my degree back so i can go to howard university all over again. >> yes. it is a mic drop. >> yes, i will go to d.c. during the week and do it on the weekends. hopefully we will get to do it again on the weekend with jenny yang, brandy and hayes brown. good to see you again. coming up, this year the best and only seat to view the tokyo olympics will be on your couch. how do the olympians feel about that? among my patients i often see them have teeth sensitivity as wel...

>> brandy, i was amazed by how powerful the 1619 project, its a good read, by how powerful it was and how powerful the pushback to it was, it was thunderous. i think you can draw a pretty straight line from the 1619 project to the debates and the bills about critical race theory right now in school districts across the country. >> yeah, i think powerful is the perfect word here, because specifically nikole hannah-jones is very powerful. like, she is -- this is like if, for conservative people on...

Exist. >> brandy, what do you think of just this as another piece of the fall-out from the 1619 project? i was amazed both by how extraordinarily well-reported that was and very powerful. if you have never read it, go online and read "the 1619 project." it is a good read. but how powerful it was and the pushback to it was, it was thunderous. you can draw a straight line from "the 1619 project" and the bills about race being debated right now in schools across the country. >> yeah, i think powerf...

Do this. former secretary of defense leon panetta came out saying this is what biden should do. im glad the white house is pushing this door to door effort but there are still things biden could be doing in the interim to bump up vaccinations in this country. >> to clarify something that hayes said, when he was referring to the emergency use authorization, thats different than full fda approval but still allows us to get vaccinated, its just a way to get it to market faster than the whole fda ap...

Matter of individual choices. all of that is being disproven by what were seeing across our country, not just with my tenure fight. thats the least of our worries in this country. >> she will now join the faculty of one of the nations best-known historically black schools, howard university in washington. we are back with our saturday night panel, comedian jenny yang, brandy and hayes brown. let me start with you, hayes. this feels like an unforced error on the part of unc chapel hill, one that ...

Nelson hurdling, pole vaulting. i think its because it can have analgesic qualities, pain qualities, it can calm you down, thats why its on the list of things that can affect your performance. >> sure, but the most ive accomplished with thc in my system was a nappy nap. so if thats the case and shacarri richardson broke a world record or almost did, yeah, shacarri richardson for president. >> as bad as i need a nap right now, im not saying that thats not an accomplishment, i think you did pretty...