race. >> talk about the impeachment. >> some really important reporting. he had spoken to house speaker in about his decision, right, he was going to change his language so it's important to know he didn't do this as a surprise to in, but in is working with him as they begin to move closer in that direction. >> all right. thank you very much. of course we'll be reading axios am in just a bit and you can sign up for the newsletter by going to signup.axios.com. >> that does it for us this morning. "morning joe" starts right now. the conversation, by the way, was absolutely perfect. it was a beautiful, warm, nice conversation. >> why is he on the phone with a foreign leader trying to continue to tim date a foreign leader? >> what you have to do is look at the corruption on the democrat side. >> everybody looked at this and everybody's looked at it said there's nothing there.