the upcoming house majority, get ready, everybody. they said they wanted to focus on inflation, that democrats weren t focused on crime, they weren t focused on gas price. up until yesterday, it was inflation, crime, gas prices. now, today, what a difference a day makes. it s hunter biden. it s all hunter, hunter, hunter, and whatever else. they want to impeach joe biden. i don t know where the priorities went, they continue. they continue with their extreme agenda, and we ve got to figure out why at this point because i don t see the info that shows that it s working per se. welcome back to morning joe. it s friday, november 18th. david ignatius is still with us, and joining the conversation here in washington, we have national political correspondent for axios, jonathan swan joining us. he will soon be joining the new york times. that s exciting. are you excite snd. excited.
i will not make you laugh. i promise i won t. i want you to before the show is over. see. staff writer at the atlantic, mark leibovich, and new york times washington bureau chief, elizabeth miller up early for us, and denver is former white house press secretary under president obama, robert gibbs and in new york, former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, steve rattner with charts on the housing market. it s a painful one this morning, and steve s going to walk us through it. so republicans won control of the house by a razor thin margin, and the question political observers were asking is how they re going to use their power. if you thought the house republicans would learn their lesson from the voters in the midterms, these historic midterms, to moderate their divisive message, which didn t seem to work per se, the answer came very swiftly yesterday. they apparently are going full trump, full steam ahead with an