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Sadly when you talk about people who don't know it. i met steve mcqueen, phenomenal director. hunger and shame. we had talked about doing something in this area. we explored it. explored american history. but couldn't find something that really met the criteria what we wanted to talk about. his wife an historian, found the book, gave it to him. he read it. he passed it on to me. both thought it was phenomenal. the fact that i didn't know about the story. the fact that as much as i consider myself to be an educated american. and didn't know about this really speaks to how far i had fallen, it h...

Beforehand? >> i did not. sadly when you talk about people who don't know it. i met steve mcqueen, phenomenal director. hunger and shame. we had talked about doing something in this area. we explored it. explored american history. but couldn't find something that really met the criteria what we wanted to talk about. his wife an historian, found the book, gave it to him. he read it. he passed it on to me. both thought it was phenomenal. the fact that i didn't know about the story. the fact that as much as i consider myself to be an educated american. and didn't know about this really speaks to ...

>> reporter: good morning, soledad, negotiations under way in the parliament building behind me here in athens to try to forge some type of coalition. the party that won the election yesterday, new democracy led by samaras, didn't get an absolute majority, only got 129 seats and needs 151 in the parliament to have a majority. so negotiations are continuing. he's got three days to try to bring together some of the other parties as well into a coalition. it's going to get greece out of this political and economic stalemate. the big point from the u.s. point of view and global point of ...

It makes me crazy. i'm sorry. my apologies. and my father actually spent 25 years living in canada. >> reporter: if you get around it all day, it's kind of endearing. they use it as a narrative device. it kind of pushes it along. so if you came here you'd get used to it and you might like it. >> okay, i'll try. that didn't help, is that report. thank you very much, willie geist. coming up next here on "morning joe" former dnc chairman howard dean.