with us onset, dan senor. >> hi, tina, how are you? >> in washington, we have the congressional correspondent for the national journal major g garrett. and next to me, joe's back. how do you feel? >> got beaten up for calling in yesterday. so i thought i'd actually come in. >> show up. >> i let people beat me up in "trson. >> no. >> but i get another five-day vacation. >> are you better? >> you know i hate talking about myself. >> it's not your style. >> it's not me. it's just not -- i want to talk about other people. i want to talk about the kids. i want to talk about congress -- >> while you were gone, everything was just fine here. it was perfect. >> seriously -- one morning i called willie up. >> why? >> and i said, who is the adjunct professor because everybody here -- we had katrina and we had -- >> donny. >> katrina and donny. you get them together and i was just e-mailing willie and saying, okay, so is this being actually sponsored by the carl marx youth of -- >> i was trying to bring different voices to the table. >> yeah, lef