It's crazy that we'd be taking a recess.

Let's not take any recesses.

Let's work.

Let's work every day. Let's work weekends. Let's work till we get the job done. Apparently, the majority leader made the decision that it was more important for senators to be home on vacation, home playing golf, home doing anything, but being here on the floor of the Senate doing the people's business. President Obama, and for that matter, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party,

they're so out of touch with where the American people are right now.

He goes and plays golf hundreds of times with his buddies.

He is not focused on the people who are hurting, who are paying the cost.

We got a job to do, and we got a short window of time.

And so we ought to stop taking recesses, stop taking time off, and just keep going until we get it done.

Apparently playing a game of pool is a higher priority for this president than it would be to go and see the humanitarian crisis he's created.

Well, look, in hindsight, if I'd understood how it would be perceived, the reaction people would

have, obviously, I wouldn't have done it. It was a mistake. Right. Okay, good morning,

and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Friday, February 19th. With us, we have host of MSNBC's

Politics Nation and president of the National Action Network, Reverend Al Sharpton.

Rogers Chair and the American Presidency at Vanderbilt, pulled surprise-winning historian John Meacham.

He occasionally unofficially advises President Joe Biden.

And Republican communications strategist and an MSNBC political contributor,

Rick Tyler, who has had the pleasure of working in the past as a communications director

for Senator Ted Cruz.

Good to have you all on board.

So, Rick, why don't we start with you since you've had experience with Senator Cruz?

I'm just, I just, there's so many things that are wrong with what happened over the past couple of days. I just go back to

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