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senator chris murphy on how democrats are scrambling to respond. >>> middle east stunner. >> the u.s. will take over the gaza strip, and we will do a job with it too. >> martha: president trump sparks international outrage and shock at home. is he serious? we'll ask republican congressman mike turner. plus, analysis from our powerhouse round table. >>> and mind games. ahead of tonight's super bowl rematch, former nfl quarterback alex smith takes us inside the all-important mental game to play on football's biggest stage. >>> good morning, and welcome to "this week," and what a week. the relentless headlines can seem overwhelming. more federal agencies targeted, more court cases filed, more chaos and confusion, and that may be the point. under president trump's guidance, elon musk's department of government efficiency taking an axe to the country's foreign aid program usaid while setting their sights next on the education department, and the pentagon, all part of an effort to massively reduce federal spending, but this is where things stand as we come on the air this morning. ahead of

calling this idea of reckless unreasonable, others like the democratic sender to chris murphy set, the trump and i quote, totally lost it. and from the reactions we also heard from before, and ministry of saudi arabia, this send out a statement rejecting any infringement of what they call is legitimate right of the policy pinion a people. and we will probably him more reactions from the region in the next couple of hours you talked about deceased by dealing with guys are the 2nd phase of that is up for discussion. was this even a talking point between nets and joe and the president from and, and do donors from comments essentially detail. this is by a. so that's a big question. the many are asking themselves because the important thing is 1st, what the are up nations would say when a couple of days ago he said that egypt and jordan should take and pull this thing is from the gaza strip. they rejected this idea egypt. jordan, saudi arabia, the united arab emirates cutoff published in, you know, 40 and also the arab league rejecting and saying that this threatens the region, stability an

democrats called the idea of reckless, also unreasonable others at like the democratic center to chris murphy sat in the trunk. and i quote, totally lost it and from other countries in the region, there's been a statement that was put out by the foreign ministry of saudi arabia, saying that, that position on the establishment of a police thing is state is from an unwavering. they rejected any infringement on what they call this, the legitimate rights of the posting and people, whether through is really settlement policies landon exemption or attempt to displace the palestinian people from the land. we will definitely have more reactions from the region tomorrow when they wake up to this news, but also from a senior come us officials that was quoted here in the agencies called as a recipe for generating chaos and tensions in the region. adding that the people of cause that will not allow such plants to pass. and this was a highly anticipated visit to the white house by netanyahu. it was not only their 1st visit since trump has become president again, but was also the 1st international visit fr

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>> this senator chris murphy called this a constitutional crisis. really?eptic. i read a week ago the democrats were going to save their rage for moments that mattered. and this is what they pick as the moment that matters? i don't know if they learned any sort of lesson over the last four years, threat to democracy, all of these apoplectic things, did not work. and us a i -- usaid if you want to make that you're talking point going into midterm elections, by all means pick up to the factory worker in ohio is going to resonate with that one. >> jesse: two reasons it looks like, a looks like it says cia cut out. they were using it to bribe people, influence elections, payoff people. run operations. but also it made the democrats feel compassionate. when they can get out and say, we funded millions and millions of dollars for this little thing here, it just makes them feel good. we've taken their compassion checkbook away. >> we are taking that away and that's a big part of the, you hit on that nicely. but another big component of this is that the draining of

host: senator chris murphy talking about elon musk's doge efforts. one of the programs that they have put in place was a deferred resignation offer to federal government employees. this headline from the associated press, judge temporarily blocks trump plan offering incentives for federal workers to resign. this happened, this is from saturday morning, a federal judge temporarily blocked president trump's plan to push out federal workers by offering them financial incentives, the latest turmoil for federal government employees already wrestling with upheaval from the new administration. thursday's ruling came hours before the midnight deadline to apply for the deferred resignation program, which was orchestrated by trump advisor elon musk. more on that hearing is expected to be held today. a federal judge will hear more in that case, that temporary block. a caller bringing up vice president vance's response to that ruling. he says if a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. if a judge tried to comman

message might not have gotten to chris murphy yet. >> it has not gotten to chris. we all know, dana, that trans studies in tanzania are a global threat to democracy. it is absurd. they are searching for a message. donald trump has got these guys on their heels. elon musk has a plan and he is executing against it. they don't know how to catch up. all these protests, everything they talk about is two days late, right? we're already building golf courses in gaza and they are talking about usaid "politico" pro subscriptions. they are always a half step behind. they are a day late and a dollar short just on the argument as your polls show. this is a popular thing the trump administration is doing. >> dana: quips like that you want to listen to the ruthless podcast. thank you for joining us today. >> president trump: we will defend the proud tradition of female athletes and we will not allow men to beat up, injure and cheat our women and girls. from now on women's sports will be only for women. >> john: president trump signing a no men in women's sports executive order y

. >> chris murphy is speaking at this rally outside of treasury.le morning. we don't pledge allegiance to the billionaires. we don't we don't pledge allegiance to elon musk. we don't pledge allegiance to the creepy 22 year olds working for elon musk. we pledge allegiance to the united states of america. and so i want to make sure that my mother gets her. >> security. >> her social security check, not because she pledged his allegiance to elon, but because she pledged his allegiance to the united states of america. i want to make sure your neighbor gets their tax refund, not because they pledge allegiance to the billionaire class, but because they pledge allegiance to the united states of america. and so we have work to do right now. every single one of us has a responsibility to stand up to this fraud. and it is true we have to reach out to everyone in this country conservatives, liberals, republicans, democrats, and tell them that we have not months, we have not weeks, but we have days to stop the destruction. >> of our democracy. >> we have. >> w

let's turn to democratic senator from connecticut, chris murphy. senator murphy, let's start with usaid. you joined protesters outside the office responsible for usaid after employees were told to not come in to work, secretary of state rubio said today he is now acting director of usaid. it's moving under the state department. take a listen. >> there are a lot of functions of usaid that are going to continue, that are going to be part of american foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with american foreign policy. usaid has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from the national interest. these are taxpayer dollars. >> does he have a point, do you think, senator, that that money should be spent in a way that's not contradictory to american interests? well, listen, marco rubio knows better. he knows what he said isn't true. usaid doesn't spend money independently. they spend money based upon specific allocations of money to spend in advance of u.s. national security interests prescribed by

martha speaks with democratic senator chris murphy as she mentioned about how his party is pushing back trump administration's policies to reshape the federal government. >>> plus, republican representative mike turner on president trump's proposal to take over gaza. janai? >> janai: we're not done with politics just yet. as the trump white house has a major budget battle ahead this week as well as more confirmation fights, abc's christiane cordero joins us with the latest from washington this morning. good morning to you, christiane. >> reporter: good morning, janai. the task for the republican-controlled congress is to get on the same page on how to support president trump's agenda. house speaker mike johnson thinks the way to go is one bill. we expect to see a blueprint of that as soon as tomorrow, but it essentially involves building a wide range of agenda items into a budget resolution. among them, campaign promises like no tax on tips, social security or overtime pay, renewing his 2017 tax cuts, and his initial tax cuts for products made in the u.s. a group of house republicans me

and senator chris murphy from connecticut has been more outspoken than most democrats. and just a few minutes ago, he was talking, and i think i wrote down the quote correctly here. democrats need to act like our democracy is weeks away from disintegrating because it is, says chris murphy. so a do you agree with him? and b, what does it look like for democrats if they're going to behave like democracy is disintegrating? >> well, i certainly agree that what trump is doing on many fronts is incredibly destructive. he is breaking things that are going to be impossible or very, very hard to put back together, things that we need to protect americans. and he's doing things that are putting americans at risk. i mean, he has given the keys to elon musk and a bunch of, like, 24 year olds to the treasury payment system, to everyone's medicare and medicaid records. people are very concerned about their privacy. they're concerned about the ability of the government to continue to function. so i don't know if our democracy is at risk in the next couple of weeks, but it is clear tha

>> hey there, um, chris murphy. it's been a very long, long day today.llshit, so i poured myself a drink. it's pink, it's pink. it's vodka and grapefruit juice. >> you're unwinding with a pink drink in the middle of the game? [bleep], get some amphetamines and get back on the field! okay? [cheers and applause] come on, man! elon's pumped up on mars juice and ketamine. and you're out here having a sea breeze? get in this fight, dems! your mascot is a donkey. donkey punch these [bleep]s! go hold a rally or something. >> i am going to stand with you in this fight. and we will win. we will win. we will win. we will win. we will win. we -- won't rest. we won't rest. >> okay, see, now i need a pink drink. i need something to sit on. [cheers and applause] this entire generation of dem leadership has got to go, man. one of those guys had a pimp cane, and he still didn't seem tough. you know how hard that is? he'd be the first pimp where his hoes slap him. kick them out, vote them out, hide their life alert. make them walk down whatever stairs mitch mcconnell use

chris murphy, senator chris murphy of connecticut, he has been trying. listen to what he said this morning. >> this is a moment in which we've got to engage in very, very simple and strong terms about what is happening side by side with being a true opposition party in the senate, using our tools to make life difficult for complicit republicans, and then going out there and leading a a public engagement, which is, i think, the next step that we have to do. don't just fight on the inside. go fight on the outside. >> look, democrats don't know if they want to be republicans. well, they they don't know if they'll be republicans in 2010 where you had a tea party movement that led to a backlash and restored them to power and effectively halted barack obama's administration, his white house, or if they'll be republicans in 1933 and they're fighting what could be an emerging new deal. and you look at the speed and the scope with which donald trump is acting. and it's not a perfect analogy, but they are modernizing and doing things the way modernizing is their w

here's senator chris murphy speaking about what's unfolding in some of the executive branch agencies. i think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has. >> faced. >> certainly since watergate. the president is attempting to seize control of power and for corrupt purposes. the president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends. he can punish his political enemies. that is the evisceration of democracy. >> this is. a red. >> alert moment when this entire country has to understand that our democracy is at risk. and for. >> what? >> the billionaire takeover of. government. chris murphy has been one of the more vocal voices here, trying to find not just an argument, but it strikes me a message that's going to move folks, move voters, particularly. do democrats feel that they've struck on that message or are close to striking on that message? >> i think democrats are still a little bit lost in terms of what their message is and who their leader is, and sort of where they are going to go in the next few years. bu

and some. >> of that. >> you know, i think chris murphy has been someone.eal leader early in this. you had senator brian schatz this week, his colleague, talking about using the power to confirm or. >> not. >> confirm appointees, using that against these. >> kind of. >> anti-constitutional maneuvers. so that's great. but at the end of the day, the democratic party right now is completely leaderless. and they can say that, you know, well, we have a lot of leaders, but that's not really what a leader is. they have to show they've elected someone who was sort of, i think, bland. if you just ask regular people and there's no real clear message, there's no real clear sense of fight. you still have these messages of, well, we got to trust in god or we'll pass a law to regulate the treasury. there's no understanding that this is a very serious, concerted, institutional anti-constitutional coup being waged by very determined actors. and it is going to take, as i was saying in the media, a level of seeing and clarity in the media, but it is going to take among the d

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to introduce one of the individuals leading the charge, the senator from connecticut, senator chris murphy. sen. murphy: so elon musk has been floating all sorts of awful, terrible conspiracy theories about what happens at usaid. let's make it very clear that every single day, america is safer because of what happens at usaid. usaid fights terrorist groups all across this world making sure we address the underlying causes for a retreat to terrorism. usaid chases china all around the world making sure china does not monopolize contracts for critical structure all around the world. it supports freedom fighters in this world up until yesterday delivering firewood to the brave ukrainian defenders on the eastern fronts. but let's not pull any punches about why this is happening. elon musk makes billions of dollars based off his business with china. and china is cheering at this action today. there's no question that the billionaire class trying to take over our government right now is doing it based on self-interest. their belief, and if they can make us weaker in the world, if they can elevate

next we going to bring up senator chris murphy. thank you. sen. murphy: so it feels like the people of america have woken up. the fraud is being perpetuated on the country inside this building and we are not going to stand for it. and i don't know about you, but i think the united states senate should vote for single -- i don't think the united states senate should vote for single nominee who's going to participate in this fraud. when we open up the senate every single morning, we don't pledge allegiance to the billionaires. we don't pledge allegiance to elon musk. we don't pledge allegiance to the creepy 22 year old's working for elon musk. we pledge allegiance to the united states of america. and so i want to make sure that my mother gets her social security check, not because she pledges allegiance to elon, but because she pledges allegiance to the united states of america. i want to make sure your neighbor gets a tax refund, not because they pledge allegiance to the billionaire class, but because they pledge allegiance to the united states of

. >> i think i think guys like chris murphy are lighting it up right now. great job. there are people out there that should be in front of the. >> cameras. >> and there are certain people that should not be. the stakes are too high. and i thought, you know, those things look a lot like political rallies. this is a very serious time in our country's history. and i understand the importance of things like usaid. i said on the defense appropriations committee, those programs are critical, pushing back on china, on russia, lifting people out of poverty. but are we going to die on the foreign aid hill? like, no, that's not really a good idea. and so i think between the message and the messenger, let's stay focused on these privacy issues. i thought liz shuler did a great job from the afl-cio. let's put murphy and schatz and these guys, others in front of the camera, and you just can't go with the same brand that just got our clocks cleaned. you know, just a couple of months ago. >> well. >> you. >> know. >> the, >> the. usaid issue. >> though. >> i think it's mo

let me get come back to you, teddy, on this thread from senator chris murphy.babies who depend on u.s. aid will die. antiterrorism programs will shut down, and our most deadly enemies will get stronger. diseases that threaten the u.s. will go unabated and reach our shores faster, and china will fill the void. those developing countries will now only be able to rely on china for help. they will cut more deals with beijing to give them control of ports, critical mineral deposits. et cetera. u.s. power will shrink. u.s. jobs will be lost. but why? why hand a victory to terrorists in china and russia? why kill babies intentionally? who benefits when trump is so soft on our enemies? maybe billionaires musk who feel who make money in china? maybe someone buying all that secret trump meme coin. it all feels so corrupt. does does elon musk have any? i know he's financially invested in trump's political health on the front end on the other side of the election, but is he invested in trump's political success and popularity as a president? >> well, look, i mean, elon mus

but she is meeting the moment constantly online posting videos letting you know her opinion and chris murphyne a good job. trump is us many things but one is, you've just got to be out there. you can say things and take it back later or not even take it back but you have to be in front of people democrats, tomorrow i'm going to tell you something that's an emergency. your house is on fire, baby stuff beaver, and calling the fire department and supposed to have a press conference this week and everyone has already forgotten we've moved on to the next crisis. last night for yesterday there was a special election in iowa for state senate seat, plus 21 trump when an democrat to see. there is a big disagreement within the party the strategy has to be going forward. as it flowed up and refurbished the brand completely or either time and see what's happening? nevada, arizona, swing state democrat -- or district democrat so there are people on either side of the fence but we have to talk more. >> we need to think more. donald trump is dominating. there lost in the wilderness taking a wrecking ball t

he understands his caucus needs to do what they have to do on the senate side, chris murphy. haven't seen anyone standing tough and tall about this. i don't think chuck schumer is being as effective as he thinks he is. people are going to have to do what they are hearing from their constituents to keep getting reelected. >> martha: a great point. kennedy, i just wonder how constituents will end up feeling about this because i don't think that you are going to see tremendous opposition to cutting spending in washington, d.c. >> absolutely not. there is too much spending. there are too many agencies. there are too many redid you know dan sees. taxes are too high. there are too many regulations for people trying to start businesses. literacy rates have plummeted not just since the pandemic but since the department of education was created and signed into law under president carter. so having this big federal bureaucracy has not made american children more competitive. therefore they aren't going to be competitive workers on the global stage. people want control of their lives ba

. >> then there's this, we saw this on monday from senator chris murphy and congresswoman alexandria this is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. let's call it what it is. the people get to decide how we defend the united states of america, the people get to decide how their taxpayer money is spent. elon musk does not get to decide. >> this dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires i have ever met or seen or witnessed. [laughter] >> which you can probably even glean that from watching it on tv. anyways, all of that is to say is that they don't do their homework. >> so just want to say this, the treasury department did confirm in a letter musk has read only access to payment systems as of course they are conducting their due diligence with i don't know where all the money is going the operational efficiency assessment is what they're calling it. maria: i don't think they're going to get away with this resist this time around, i really don't. he had such an overwhelming win and everybody knows that most people are feeling a lot better about where we are right

chris murphy said oats a constitutional crisis. >> dana: that signal has gone out. >> they now learnedk, the threat to democracy. not to mention we have hakeem jeffries talking about government shutdowns hurting working people. that's out the window 60 days later. >> bill: james carville has another twister. play this with his unique idea now inside the party. >> it's like there is a plant somewhere in quote progressive unquote america that just sees how many stupid things they can embrace. it is stunningly stupid, both of them. >> bill: i would have liked to have seen that on camera. it is stunningly stupid when the imagine -- imagine ortive of americans have to balance a budget. they are trying and the democrats are saying you keep doing that we'll shut this place down. >> one buzz word is constitutional crisis. another phrase we're hearing argument from the democrats is no one elected elon musk for his team. i just don't understand from the party that has fully supported to the hilt every federal -- now one person unelected making recommendations to try to reduce the size and scope

. >> many democrats are not as enthusiastic of that work elon musk is doing here is senator chris murphy earlier. quick setting this the most serious constitutional crisis the country is faced since since watergate the president is attempting to seize control of power and for corrupt purposes. >> "fox news sunday" house speaker mike johnson had very different take. waxy substance is when the american people demand and deserve it. all the controversy on elon musk helping us out there going through to find efficiencies. there's massive fraud, waste, abuse of the american taxpayer dollars for this is the best way to do it. quick to see the rest of brent's interview with the pregame festivities at 3:00 p.m. on the fox network. >> lucas tomlinson live at the white house thank you. israeli leaders had their outrage of the condition of the 3 hostages freed yesterday were forced by hamas to speak and think their captors before they're released chief foreign correspondent trey yingst is live in tel aviv with more. >> good afternoon. the condition of the hostages released on saturday has caused co

important things that usaid does food, medical care, those kind of things but here's democrat senator chris murphyalk about the danger of getting rid of all that money. >> consequences are that people die. it babies diet. right now we are involved in gaza and sudan and providing food to malnourished babies. literally there will be dead children, hundreds of thousands of them and china will very quickly jump into the void. >> there have been republicans voicing concerns as well. they are 2 different things there. obviously an humanitarian sense the u.s. can provide, it's the right thing to do. do you worry also the goodwill that may be destroyed the other actors who may move in when we pull out of some these really critical issues? >> every country in the world recognizes america is the last great superpower. we are the good guys but with the biggest humanitarians on the planet. the most it's ever been in history. do some good things in usaid. i am comforted to know marco rubio, secretary of state and folks are actually sitting down line by line going through, eliminate the abuses of the tax payer

but democratic senator chris murphy said, quote, trump, quote, totally lost it. that's his quote. and his colleague chris called the move quite insane. okay, these are words. now what? >> well, look, first i will like to say for the palestinian people, this has to be extremely devastating to be completely displaced from your homeland. and also told that you may not be able to come back. basically, that's what donald trump is saying. the democratic response has been very interesting, as we have seen since october 7th. right. you have some democrats who are completely, 100% with where president biden's policy was, and you have a lot of democrats who wanted them to shift their policy. you even had vice president harris having to reckon with this while calling for a ceasefire. and yet there were voters who were frustrated that she didn't push president biden further, even though she is the vice president. i think you will continue to see democrats talk about how inhumane this is, how out of the ordinary this is. sure, we need to figure out something else that will work, but displacing

but democratic senator chris murphy said, quote, trump, quote, totally lost it. that's his quote. and his colleague chris called the move quite insane. okay. these are words. now what? >> well, look, first i will like to say for the palestinian people, this has to be extremely devastating to be completely displaced from your homeland. and also told that you may not be able to come back. basically, that's what donald trump is saying. the democratic response has been very interesting, as we have seen since october 7th. right. you have some democrats who are completely, 100% with where president biden's policy was, and you have a lot of democrats who wanted them to shift their policy. you even had vice president harris having to reckon with this while calling for a ceasefire. and yet there were voters who were frustrated that she didn't push president biden further, even though she is the vice president. i think you will continue to see democrats talk about how inhumane this is, how out of the ordinary this is. sure, we need to figure out something else that will work, but displacing

chris murphy certainly is. they are mad. reed galen joins us.ont podcast. reed can we start with republicans? republicans in congress? we are not hearing much from them. and what i want to understand, are they okay with giving up their power as a co-equal branch of government? >> yes. >> 100%. >> without question. they are. let's see, 270. walking rubber stamps. >> i saw a. >> pathetic excuse for an explanation. >> from susan collins. >> of maine. today about. why she. >> was now comfortable. >> with tulsi. >> gabbard being the director of national intelligence. she knows better, but. >> she's. >> always known better. >> i guess. >> after all these years, they still haven't learned their lesson. >> but collins. >> has, which is she's going. >> to get in line now. >> that that's in her best interest. >> but do they see no issue with what elon musk is doing, basically taking over government agencies? he views them as useful idiots. he's happy to plow through and donald trump will let him do that. does none of none of them wants to raise a red flag

senator chris murphy of connecticut, a progressive who had nevertheless previously voted for a couple of trump's nominees. now, senator murphy says tonight that that's over, telling the times, quote, it would not help us to be working with republicans at the very moment the constitution is being lit on fire. this moment demands some extraordinary tactics. he will not support anybody else who is being nominated to join this compels us to come to the floor tonight to warn the american people of what this guy will do and who he is. let's start with a little history. this nominee who masterminded the whole idea of just cutting off government funding for things that congress funded, even though that's illegal. that, of course, set the stage for trump's top donor, elon musk, to personally assert that he has the right to illegally stop payments going out of the us treasury because he doesn't like them. that whole idea came from russell vote saying the president doesn't have to follow the law about government money. senator brian schatz of hawaii is leading this all night long filibuster in t

i spoke with senator chris murphy last night, and he made the point that it's often defense department folks, pentagon folks who say do this kind of aid because it makes our work less necessary. here's how he put it to me last night. what the department of defense routinely says is that if you get rid of usaid, you have to buy us twice as many bullets because usaid tries to combat instability around the world, tries to prevent civil conflict that would draw the united states into war. so when usaid disappears, it puts our military members at risk. now, that doesn't matter to donald trump and his mar-a-lago crowd, because their kids aren't going to serve in these conflicts. but, you know, the folks who live with me in the south end of hartford, it's their kids who sign up for military service. they'll be sent overseas to fight the wars that will be caused by the growing instability. the question is, why are they doing this? because, as you said, jim, it used to be that there was no controversy over usaid. it was just smart for us to spend money around the world to try to combat terroris

emerging as real stars right now, not only aoc but congresswoman jasmine crockett from texas, chris murphy, who's already been very, very active. i think what's going to happen is you're going to see this kind of new movement of younger democrats in dc, but also sort of out in the communities and in the states, really trying to hold both sides, democrats and republicans accountable. and perhaps that sort of signals to donald trump and to the administration that, hey, you know, we've got to turn the fire down a little bit. but i don't know that that happens in the. >> short term. >> i know you. >> want. >> to get in there. susan, let me just really quick say we're going to we're monitoring what's happening right now in that house oversight committee. and again, top democrat on that committee calling to subpoena elon musk. the debate is still underway. i want to play what some key senate republicans have told us about musk's recent actions. >> he's basically doing an audit. so i hope that he'll soon be issuing a thorough report to congress and the public. >> do you have a concern at all abou

here's senator chris murphy talking about the danger of getting rid of all of that. >> the consequencesple die, babies die. right now we are involved in gaza and sudan in providing food to malnourished babies, literally there will be dead children, hundreds and thousands of them. and china will very quickly jump into the void. >> shannon: there have been republicans voicing concerns, as well pay but there are two different things there. in humanitarian sense, but if the u.s. can provide, it's the right thing to do. but do you worry also, the goodwill that may be destroyed and the other actors that may move in when we pull out of some of these critical funding issues? >> speaker johnson: every country around the world recognizes america as the last great superpower. we are the good guys. we are the biggest humanitarians on the planet, the most benevolent nation that has ever been in history. we do some good things in usaid. i am comforted to know that marco rubio, secretary of state, and folks are actually sitting down line by line and going through and eliminating the abuses of taxpayer

plus, democratic senator chris murphy, who sits on the foreign relations committee, will weigh in onhe middle east. also ahead this morning, how democrats are responding to the new administration's actions. ed luce of the financial times argues the u.s. lacks an opposition leader to spearhead the fight back, and he will join the conversation to discuss the state of the democratic party. all that when morning joe comes up, just moments from now. >> home, where routine meets. remarkable with unexpected moments of inspiration around every corner and. through every window. quiet mornings in the sun with. portals to new worlds and fine dining with a view. your window treatments should be as. inspiring as your home, and the remarkable routine of your the remarkable routine of your daily woman: we've waited so long for this spa day. oh yeah? shingles doesn't care. shingles is a painful, blistering rash that can last for weeks. grandmother: we got the best seats in the house! ha! shingles doesn't care. 99% of adults 50 years or older already have the virus that causes shingles inside them, a