in case you missed it, happy presidents day. the day that does not exist. did i just blow your mind? here we are once again on the third monday in february, and here we are once again calling it presidents day. but people, it is not presidents day, it s officially george washington s birthday. that s the actual federal holiday. but here s the other thing. george washington was not born on february 19th. he was born on february 22nd. gosh darn it. so happy monday? indeed, the holiday was originally celebrated on the 22nd, but congress changed it decades ago, thanks to the, quote, uniform monday holiday act. that took the onus off the days themselves and just shifted everything to the nearest monday. kind of like rounding down. that s legislation we can all get behind. happy presidents day which is not officially a thing, or happy washington s birthday, which it
this was a phony. this was a 400-pound guy in new jersey. this had the russians didn t do it. well, it s now thoofb the russians were trying to interfere in our election. he actually by the end had to back up. well, it appears the stress might be getting to him. that was the tweet storm. welcome to morning joe. we re live in washington on this monday, february 19th. with us we have david ignatius. matt miller. carol lee. and jon meacham who is criminal chully obligated to work on president s day and wear his rugged boots. jon meacham, they re duck boots. they re not rugged boots. he doesn t really need to wear them. it s a fashion statement i like to say. exactly. it is. it is.
december. it was extended now to january. now they re looking at extending it to february 19th. it d extend the chip program for six years. this is something we talk about a lot. it suspends obama s medical device tax, can cadillac tax, and the health insurance tax. it does not include a solution to the expiring daca program, which democrats are demanding as part of the spending bill. vermont senator patrick leahy joins us now. senator, good morning and welcome. there s so much talk of a government shutdown. the president is saying democrats are standing in the way. republicans control the votes. is the president correct in trying to make the argument that it is democrats? they don t need you. no, it s not correct. before i go to that, listening to nick ackerman earlier, as a former prosecutor, everything he says is absolutely right. i ve been there. i know what that s like.
including the chief of staff. but the bottom line is, between now and friday night, will democrats insist on some protection for the dreamers? will the republicans give in? will there be a government shutdown or a continuing resolution to kick this down until february 19th as republicans are now asking for? andrea, you have highlighted all of the critical questions there. and i have to say, what senator graham just had to say i think is a significant turn of events here. and i think, you know, senator graham knows how to talk to trump. i think what senator graham just did there, coming out to these cameras san s and sending a cle message. i think the question now, what does the president do with that? it s pretty clear. we try to ask if he was referring to steven miller in those tough comments he made about the president s staff. he refused to say that specifically. he did include general kelly as part of the comments that he made there. but clearly senator graham making the decision
cathy s disappearance. just felt like you were out in this time warp. you know, there was no days and no nights. and you didn t want it to be dark because you wanted to keep looking. reporter: the next big search was planned for saturday morning, february 19th one week since cathy had last been seen. we got all the maps ready, and we had just got another box donated of flyers. and everything was set. reporter: and then around 3:40 a.m. saturday, there was a knock on mary s front door. police find cathy s car. cathy s shoe was on the floorboard and there was blood within the interior of the car. what had happened to cathy?