we just lack leadership. that s the problem, today, john. leadership has been completely missing in action. so in that void you have mischief making, you have partisanship, you have the extreme ends of the political spectrum that now are going to point fingers of blame and the work of the people is not going to get done. good morning. it is tuesday, november 22nd. welcome to morning joe. with us onset, we have executive editor of random house and pulitzer prize winning historian john meacham. are you guys already talking? tennessee here. harold s just in from absolutely. i don t know where that is. msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu former democratic congressman harold ford jr. and associate editor of the wall street journal and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. you like coming in at the top of the show, don t you? isn t it fantastic? i m such a morning person. not. isn t it great getting up so early. especially with good news l