welcome to morning joe. 6:00 on the east coast. it is tuesday, august 24th. that was good. and my coffee came early and the new page did not mess it up. yes. arianna, good job. joe is a little under the weather or just beat by these trips to l.a. msnbc and time magazine s political analyst mark halperin with us. we also have the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haas, great day to have you on. talk about biden s speech yesterday and the president s speech a week away and all the other foreign news going on. and willie? yes, ma am. i happen to watch way too early. i don t like divorce especially when there are two little kids involved. really? did you notice he used the phrase lord of the flysy? how did you come up with that? did you stay up all night thinking about that? political analyst charlie cook will be here with us as well as robert reich. this story i have to say, i don t know why but i get increasingly more i don t w