good morning. it is monday, january 4th. welcome to morning joe. happy new year. 2016. willie, did you ring it in nicely? it s going to be a pretty poring year, huh? yeah, nothing going on. we ve been talking in hypotheticals until 2016 and now it s here, ten months until election day. and it is a mad dash. less than a month to iowa. less than a month to iowa. this was actually the time when four years ago, eight years ago, we were all on planes taught io iowa. here we go again. here we have a month. the last two cycles we were leaving iowa knowing who the winner was, on our way to new hampshire. on our way to new hampshire. so how unbelievable. january, you can t there is politically here we go. you can t be hyperbolic.