it is the top of the hour. 8:00 on the east coast. welcome back to "morning joe" as we look live at the white house on this beautiful day here in washington. it's thursday, december 9th. along with joe, willie and me, we have katty kay and michael steele still with us and joining the conversation white house correspondent for pbs newshour namish al sindor. she will be covering the biden administration and we are so excited about that. congratulations. with us congressman hakeem jeffries, chair of the house democratic craw cuss. great to have you on with us this morning because we have some interesting polling to look at.