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Some culture into the news. culture is in our life and in our politics. the only question in the newsroom is whether we face it or just ignore it. artists often form our first view of things whether it's bruce springstein or bob dylan making a stink about america or joni mitchell and mohamuhammad making a stink. lee daniels joined me for our maverick series. and then this exchange that many of you have written in about. daniels opening up about the emotional moment when halle berry won an oscar. >> where were you when halle berry was the first one to win an oscar for a lead zbloel i was in a h...

Rallies. >> somehow i do connect myself to bruce springstein, obviously the jersey roots. so joe biden likes a little springstein so let's listen to a moment of that. ♪ >> all right, it doesn't take forensic analysis to figure out that message. what's funny is when the musicians come forward and they're like time out, i didn't give you permission to use that song. so are all these authorized by the musicians? >> some of the campaigns did that, i know some were not. i know beto o'rourke chose the songs therapy listening to as a kind of shuffle. i don't know about their

I think for me i'm pulling for tim ryan. i am. i am. he's like bruce springstein with no guitar. >> that's the problem. >> you've got to have the guitar. >> i don't mean to take this down a notch, though, but there is an image which i think again should weigh on the conscience of the world this morning. and let's put this up. it's oscar ramirez and his daughter velaria, 23 months old who died feet away from -- i know you're from texas. family values don't stop at the rio grande river. you worked on a campaign. >> that's one of the things that attracted me to him in 1999, so we've been talking ...

How did that all shakeout? >> the people i grew up listening to, the people that influenced the work i do were never afraid to talk about those kinds of things. bob dylan and bruce springstein and leonard mitchell, and you knew them when you listened to their music. they would talk about parts of themselves they were ashamed of, and i think a lot of the change i think is happening because people's belief system has been sort of swallowed up by this umbrella of politics, you know, because it's necessary to be involved now in a way it's not been necessary before. we've all been lucky enough to s...

>> the people i grew up listening to, the people that influenced the work i do were never afraid to talk about those kinds of things. bob dylan and bruce springstein and leonard mitchell, and you knew them when you listened to their music. they would talk about parts of themselves they were ashamed of, and i think a lot of the change i think is happening because people's belief system has been sort of swallowed up by this umbrella of politics, you know, because it's necessary to be involved now in a way it's not been necessary before. we've all been lucky enough to sit back and go oh, they've ...