The world, in the words of my great colleague, we are better than that. Adjourned. Chairman adam schiff in his closing statement yesterday echoing a comment, a familiar one, from the late elijah cummings. Good morning, welcome to morning joe if the is friday, november 22nd. Im wiley geist. Joe and mika the morning off. With us, susan del percio. White house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. Pulitzer prize winning columnist and editor of the Washington Post, eugene robinson. Msnbc analyst, former chairman of the Republican National committee Michael Steele. Vice president for third waves National Committee program, and former retired fourstar navy admiral. Hes diplomacy analyst for nbc news and msnbc. Good north to you all. Before we get into some of the testimony from yesterday from fiona hill and david holmes, jonathan, let me get a big picture from you. Were tend of the extraordinary two weeks. How is the white house generally feeling about where they are heading in