political writer for "the new york times," nicholas confessore, and professor harold ford jr. then we go to washington. where we find pulitzer prize winning columnist and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. and -- >> what?! >> pulitzer prize winning editorial writer for "the washington post" and msnbc contributor, jonathan capehart. good to have you all on board this morning. >> i have nowhere to begin. how was everybody's weekend? did everybody have a good weekend? was it okay? anybody do anything big this weekend? because i tell you, i was, you know, sitting home, you know, you know, in my t-shirt, reading twitter. i felt like a total loser. >> really? >> like, everybody went to see bruce springsteen play his tribute to prince. >> apparently that was very cool. >> and i'm sitting there eating corn chips. >> it's all on youtube, you can just watch it there. >> so i shouldn't feel bad? everybody was there. bruce -- >> bruce in brooklyn. that's big. what did you do, nick? you're young. you had to have had a good time. >> i watched part of the "game of thrones" premiere un