top of the hour. live look another the white house. sun coming up in washington, where we are this morning, at the nbc news washington bureau. welcome back to "morning joe." i'm mika brzezinski. joe scarborough is off today. willie geist here with me in washington. we've still got norah o'donnell, lucky us, as well as pat -- we've said thank you three times. thanks, norah. >> pat's still here too. >> norah, we are lucky we were able to book her for the full three hours. and now ron brownstein joining the conversation as well. we love you. i'm just kidding. let's get to our top stories. we've got so much news from overseas this morning that's incredibly important. and then, of course, politics and ron.