mean, it can't get any worse than it already is." [ laughter ] finally he almost went with "come on, doesn't some small part of you sort of want to see where this all goes?" [ laughter ] welcome back to "morning joe." it's tuesday, march 13 and on every tuesday -- actually every march 13 is a good time for me to wish my big brother george -- or as we called him growing up, corky -- happy birthday. happy, we'll say 39th birthday, george. hope everything is going great. with us we have washington anchor for bbc world news america katty kay, politics editor for the daily beast sam stein, co-founder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei, chair of the department of african-american studies at princeton university eddy glaude, jr., and columnist for the "wall street journal" and political contributor for nbc news and msnbc, peggy noonan and national political correspondent