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Sept. 22, 2011: Former President Bill Clinton talks with Joe and Mika during the Clinton Global Initiative in midtown Manhattan.

I started working for the show at the beginning of 2011, and within roughly the first week or two of my arrival, I hastily put together a Flickr page to document all of the exciting stuff happening behind the scenes and in between segments. I'd incorporated my photography into previous jobs I'd held, but never before had I been granted such mind-blowing access to a broad swath of virtually every well-known person on the planet, from former President Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney to Bradley Cooper and Tim Tebow.

To the show's credit, they let me roam the 30 Rock hallway and our studios freely (along with producer Louis Burgdorf and most recently Clayton Collins) to photograph the guests as they prepared for their interviews, decompressed, interacted with other guests, and joined the set. All, of course, with that guest's permission.

Looking back, it still amazes me the individuals I've had the chance to meet, and I look forward to those who will join us in the future.

Here are some of the images I've taken since my arrival in early 2011, all of which are my favorites for one reason or another.

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March 1, 2011: Bravo TV's Andy Cohen hangs out in the Morning Joe green room.

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April 1, 2011: New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid. A truly warm and friendly individual.

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June 3, 2011: Tim Tebow

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May 10, 2011: Actress Kerry Washington in the alternate Morning Joe green room.

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July 7, 2011: The one and only Larry David shouts at Louis Burgdorf in the Morning Joe green room.

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Dec. 20, 2011: Mitt Romney talks with Joe Scarborough, Mark Halperin and Mike Barnicle in the msnbc hallway at 30 Rock.

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April 21, 2011: Producer, rapper, singer, multi-talented solo guy and N.E.R.D. member Pharrell Williams. A very tired, but very cool and friendly Pharrell Williams.

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May 23, 2011: Bradley Cooper's visitor badge

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Morning Joe first went on the air in the latter part of 2007, broadcasting from a studio in Secaucus, New Jersey. We relocated soon after to the MSNBC studios in 30 Rock, where we've been since. 2009 saw the inauguration of President Obama, so let's take a look back at some of our interviews from the day with then-incoming press secretary Robert Gibbs, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and fashion designer Kenneth Cole.

Colin Powell  

"It’s emotional. You almost start tearing up when you talk about it [Obama’s inauguration]. But when I think that I entered the Army 50-odd years ago, an Army that had just become desegregated a few years earlier, and I was living in a country where I was a second class citizen – a defined second class citizen – [with] places I couldn’t go…We fought our way through that..under Martin Luther King. Over the last 50 years we’ve seen incredible progress."

Robert Gibbs

"I will tell you I was driving in D.C. yesterday, and I drove past the American Red Cross. They had a banner up for their honorary chair President Obama. That was the first time I’d really seen those two words together, and it began to hit me, [and I said] ‘Wow, this is really going to happen.’ We’re excited; it’s really hard to put into words. Everyone has told me, and we’re going to try, to step back if only for a few minutes and look around and enjoy what we see."

Mark Jacobs

"This is a very inspiring moment. [People are wondering] is the political universe going to change, are the creative arts going to change, is the economy going to change? Everything is going to change. It’s going to inspire people to think differently and to think in nontraditional paths that they haven’t in the past."

If you're a production nerd and you've found yourself wondering who mans the show from the darkness of the control room (or, if you've just turned in at the end of "Way Too Early"), then you're in for a treat today.

We sat down with Morning Joe director TJ Asprea (who often pops up on camera from the control room) to get a sense of what it's like to sit in front of a massive bank of television monitors for three and a half hours each day.

Hear TJ talk about being with the show since the beginning, the highlights and hijinks from over the years, and his well wishes to the show on its fifth birthday.

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Morning Joe first went on the air in the latter part of 2007, broadcasting from a studio in Secaucus, New Jersey. We relocated soon after to the MSNBC studios in 30 Rock, where we've been ever since. 2008 was a busy year, so let's take a look back at some of our discussions from 2008 leading up to the election, on Election Day and the day following:

Fed cuts two key interest rates

On January 22^nd, 2008 the Federal Reserve cut two key interest rates – the federal funds rate and the discount rate -- by three-quarters of a percentage point, which was the biggest cut in almost 24 years.

Erin Burnett, then of CNBC, tells Mika Brzezinski: The Fed right now is trying to show it can do everything it can do…the credit markets continue to seize up, and that is a global issue. And this question about a U.S. recession and how deep it may be is the other big issue. That is why around the world you saw a plunge like we haven’t seen since September 11, 2001.

Christopher Hitchens shares his predictions for the election

November 3, 2008 was the last day of campaigning for both Barack Obama and John McCain. We asked Vanity Fair’s Christopher Hitchens to share with us his election predictions. (Morning Joe later paid tribute to Hitchens upon his death on December 15, 2011).

“I think it’s a zeitgeist change," Hitchens told Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. "It’s not just a matter of polls tightening or expanding or any of the other things polls do. What one can feel is a general shift against the GOP. Everything in the atmosphere seems to portend it."

Romney on John McCain

Also on November 3, 2008, Mitt Romney joined Morning Joe to discuss John McCain’s campaign.

Joe Scarborough: "The national polls are showing your guy behind by double digits. Certainly this is shaping up to be a landslide that may be reminiscent of 1964. Can John McCain win?"

Mitt Romney: "Well, he can win because you never know what’s going to happen in the polling booths…There’s a pathway to victory of John McCain, and obviously in these last days we’re pushing real hard to make sure that his record and his plan to create jobs connects with American voters."

Mike Murphy on the November 2008 polls

Time's Mike Murphy in November 2008: “We’re in a situation where most of the polling news is a lot better for Barack Obama than for John McCain…To the extent you believe in polling stuff and the empirical we have, which is not a lock on the future but a good indication, there’s more good news -- unfortunately for me as a McCain guy – for Obama.

Morning Joe first went on the air in the latter part of 2007, broadcasting from a studio in Secaucus, New Jersey. We relocated soon after to the MSNBC studios in 30 Rock, where we've been ever since. 2008 was a busy year, so let's take a look back at some of our discussions from Election Day 2008.

Tom Brokaw on Election Day

Brokaw: "I think that Barack Obama’s rise began with that Democratic keynote speech that he gave in Boston for John Kerry, in which he said something that the country longed to hear: It is not red state America and blue state America, there are Boy Scouts in red states and Boy Scouts in blue states, there’s God in blue states and God in red states. It’s the United States of America."

Rudy Giuliani on Election Day

Giuliani: "Barack Obama has made an achievement for the Democratic Party [by] contesting in Republican states. Even if he loses those states he’s made a step forward for the Democratic Party by putting them in play. That should be part of our playbook. We have to put Democratic states in play…We have to reshuffle the electoral deck. Barack Obama has reshuffled the electoral deck."

Howard Dean on Election Day

Dean: "This election is not about the past; this election is about the future. And Barack is going to run a great administration. We’re going to work back to restoring fiscal responsibility in this country. We’re going to focus on middle class and working class Americans, not just the folks at the top end where John McCain and George Bush have focused on for the last eight years."

What would Morning Joe be without the inimitable Willie Geist? He's been with us since 2007, offering snappy commentary all the way through. We take a look back now at two of Mr. Geist's finest moments from our first year on the air.

Willie prepares a breakfast bagel

Willie traveled far for this November 16, 2007 segment: to the corner of 50th Street and 6th Avenue in midtown Manhattan, to be exact, on what the common New Yorker is eating for breakfast every morning.

Cart vendor Abdul tells Willie which food and beverage items are the most popular, and notice that Willie does the whole interview wearing but one latex glove! Hmm.

Willie rides a Zamboni

That's right! Willie Geist went down to the Rockefeller Center ice rink on December 13, 2007 to score an interview with Zamboni driver Nelson Corporan, who at that time, had been on the job for 16 years.

In 2011, Corporan detailed his routine for the New York Times.

Morning Joe first went on the air in the latter part of 2007, broadcasting from a studio in Secaucus, New Jersey. 2007 proved to be an interesting time to launch a new political talk show: an election was in the not-too-far-off distance and campaigns had already been out in full swing. As a show we've come a long way since those times in Secaucus, but let's take a look back at some of our interviews from that year including a few with then-Senator Barack Obama from Illinois, President Jimmy Carter, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Ann Romney and the Who's Roger Daltrey.

Obama in 2007

On October 4, 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama talked with Joe, Mika and Willie chat about his campaign, why "strong presidents and strong countries have to talk to their enemies," his then-competitor Hillary Clinton, the Democrats' love of Bill Clinton...and, of course, the Chicago Bears and relations.

"What i have to do is just make sure I'm delivering the message we think the American people are ready for," Obama said.

President Jimmy Carter

On October 12, 2007, former President Jimmy Carter joined the show to discuss his new book "Beyond the White House." October 12 also happened to be the day former Vice President and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Carter said he was "delighted" over Gore's win, and he shared his belief that Gore would make a great president. Carter also discussed his criticisms of the Bush administration regarding torture.

Roger Daltry

One of the main beauties of the show is its ability to pull in everyone from politicians to actors and rock stars. Roger Daltrey, singer for arguably one of the most potent and important rock bands of all time, The Who, joined us for a look back at the band's career. A new documentary, "Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who," was set to be released, and Daltrey discussed why he had no interest in seeing the movie.

"I don't want to see it because it can't be my life. It's a film...I gave them my blessings to make it and the keys to the archive, did one interview, and it is what it is."

Morning Joe first went on the air in the latter part of 2007, broadcasting from a studio in Secaucus, New Jersey. 2007 proved to be an interesting time to launch a new political talk show: an election was in the not-too-far-off distance and campaigns had already been out in full swing. As a show we've come a long way since those times in Secaucus, but let's take a look back at some of our interviews from that year including a few with then-Senator Barack Obama from Illinois, President Jimmy Carter, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Ann Romney and the Who's Roger Daltrey.

Mitt Romney

On November 13, 2007 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney talked bout everything from health care, immigration to Iowa and New Hampshire.

"It’s wonderful how the mainstream media gets a bee in their bonnet," he said about claims he was backing away from discussing his health care plan in Massachusetts. "I actually speak about my health care plan almost everywhere I go. I really am proud of what we accomplished, we found a way to get health insurance for every citizen in our state, and we did it without having to raise taxes and without having a government takeover of health care. It’s not socialized medicine; it is instead free market-based medicine, and I’m very proud of it."

Ann Romney

On December 5, 2007, Morning Joe aired a sit-down interview with Ann Romney to discuss the importance of faith to her and her husband, American skepticism over voting for a Mormon candidate,

MIka Brzezinski: "To those who say Mitt Romney could never be elected president because he's a Mormon, you say what?"

Ann Romney: "That’s not correct. I totally have complete faith in the American people that they are fair and good."

Hillary Clinton

On December 17, 2007, then-Senator Hillary Clinton had just received an endorsement from the Iowa Des Moines Register, and she joined Morning Joe from Des Moines' Drake Diner to discuss her campaign up to that moment.

Clinton: "There are no guarantees in either life or politics, and every day you’ve got to get up and do your best."

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