It is 6 o'clock on the East Coast, a beautiful shot of Washington,

D.C. Wake up, everybody. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Look at that beautiful shot of Washington.

It is. Makes me wish I was in rush hour traffic out there today. No, no, you don't. It's so gorgeous. Some people are already out there. Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe. It's Monday. Did you have a good weekend, Mika? I did. I'll tell you about it in just a moment. Oh, okay. Well, fine. Well, then I'll tell you about what I did this weekend in just a moment. Okay, I'd like to hear it.

I took care of cats. People keep dropping cats off at our house. Joe has a lot of cats. I don't, I don't want to be the cat herder. I did not grow up. We had a cat man when I was five years old named Oreo. We weren't big cat people. We had dogs. We had dogs.

Nika is a cat woman, and apparently everybody in our family has cats.

And in the neighborhood, they've all decided to get Maine Coons, and then everybody decides to leave town.

Yeah. Right? And I'm herding cats off. And I'm herding cats. All right. You know, usually what do I do? Usually, you know, sit down, you know, watch my soccer, smoke cigarettes, drink my PBR. And I'm here I'm herding cats all weekend.

You are. And you're really good with the food for some and you keep it from the others. They don't get stomach problems. You're very caring for all your cats. It's really disturbing. This is not where I expected to be at this stage of my life. It was quite a picture to come home to. All right, with us, we have... I put them on leashes. You can put cats on leashes, by the way. Well, these main crews are all different. But anyhow, with us, we have the host of MSNBC's Politics Nation and president of the National Action Network, Reverend Al Sharpe. Very disturbed. Yeah. Very disturbed. He does not. I'm thinking you're a dog guy, Reverend Al, right? Just like me. I'm not a cat guy.

It just, it was thrust upon me in this marriage.

I am neither a cat guy or a dog guy, if I can help it. I've been caught once or twice, but I recovered quickly.

Aw.

And White House reporter for the Associated Press. He loved cats.

I know it.

Jonathan Lemire is definitely a cat guy.

Not this is strange.

I went over to his place in Brooklyn.

This guy, you'll never believe this guy actually he collects.

I've never seen this before.

Ferrets.

And he has a little track in his backyard in Brooklyn.

He has ferret races.

I think it's illegal to gamble on him the way he does.

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