for a democratic president. oh, i see. i know what you mean. and we ll have the latest developments from eastern europe as allies are at odds in sending tanks to ukraine. germany was going to block the tanks, now they re talking about letting poland send tanks. it looks like the tanks are going to be going to ukraine. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, january 23rd. with us the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, and msnbc contributor, mike barnicle. mike is here for the morning, that s if he doesn t, you know. the irish good-bye with the jacket on the back of the chair. we ll see you in a few minutes. we re going to get to all of these stories. we have an awful lot to talk about. ambassador bill taylor is going to be talking about ukraine. let s talk first, though, about nfl playoffs. first, jonathan lemire, i ll go to you. there are two quarterbacks that did very well. patrick mahomes gutted it
rest of the world, stronger than ever before. but at the same time, there is this concern internally that we ve gotten ourselves to a point where we re more divided than we need to be. how did we get to this point? it s really an interesting question, you re right. there s a big literature about what s called sorting that increasingly rather than being part of a larger society, we re all living in our mini societies. it might be defined by what social media site we find, the church we go to, geography matters a lot. there s not as much mobility as there used to be, what cable station we watch. but increasingly americans have separate experiences. we don t have things we used to have, say the draft, where a lot of americans from different classes and geographies would come together and have some shared experience, so, you know, i think that has a lot to do with it. our political system, the way we run our primaries, the way we fund our politics, joe, you don t need me to explain that