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Still ahead, republican congressman dan crenshaw takes on the far right members of his party, calling them performance artists and grifters. we'll have more on his comments. plus, the chairman of the intelligence committee, democrat mark warner, joins us on the efforts to de-escalate russia's military buildup on its border with ukraine. and retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, who blew the whistle on former president trump's phone call with the president of ukraine, will be our guest here in washington. "morning joe" is back in two minutes. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ â™...

In michigan or other places would feel, folks who have experienced gun violence about that photo but i can say as the son of a pastor who spent a lot of chris ntmases and christmas eves listening to the nativity story, i have never heard the christmas story be linked with explicit political acts like this, and the need for guns and weapons. this is their own version of christmas, and their own version of a story that just suits their political interests. >> speaking of political interests, i want everyone to listen to what representative dan crenshaw said recently about a wing of his party. >>...

Essentially professional trolls. talking heads, podcasters, content creators. which again, don't get me wrong, i don't have anything against content creators and talking heads, but you are in government. there are much more concerned with posting on twitter then they are doing the work of legislation or running amendments. an observation that to that and came from an unlikely source last night, take a look at republican congressman dan crenshaw during an event in texas. >> there is performance artists, there is legislators. the performance artists are the ones you get all the attention. the on...

Of empathy gene there. and there is no humanity there. there is no civility. and even though for a lot of progressives and a lot of democrats, that is a huge issue in terms of governing that it shows that republicans have no interest whatsoever in actually governing. it's tough to make that an election-time issue. >> i don't know -- it certainly shows that some republicans aren't interested in governing. republican texas congressman dan crenshaw, before a lot of this, said something about this and his colleagues that are provocateurs, to use a nice term for what they are. >> two types of membe...

See him that way. tonight, mr. crenshaw from the air to the suit, he's back in the news for criticizing this right-wing freedom caucus. >> there's two types of members of congress. there's performance artists, and legislators. performance artists get all the attention. we have grifters in our midst. not here in this room, i mean in the conservative movement. lie after lie after lie. >> while crenshaw sees himself in the legislative group, he has made some performances like the ad, and is drawing pushback for that tension. >> your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to save texas. ...