where my grandparents fled anti-Semitism and persecution.

The country took us in.

And protected us.

And I feel an obligation to the country to pay back.

And this is the highest, best use of my own set of skills to pay back.

For the loved ones left behind, I know all too well.

I know what it's like to not be there when it happens.

I know what it's like when you are there, holding their hands.

There's a look in your eye and they slip away.

That black hole in your chest, you feel like you're being sucked into it.

The survivors remorse, the anger, the questions of faith in your soul.

Powerful moments yesterday from the likely next Attorney General first there and then the president who tapped him for the job.

Judge Merrick Garland reflecting on his own family's history and the promise of America,

while President Biden led the country in a moment of silence for the half million Americans lost to coronavirus.

Good morning. Welcome to morning, Joe. It is Tuesday, February 23rd,

with us this morning, Washington anchor for BBC World News America, Katty K, and Pulitzer Prize

winning columnist, Associate Editor of the Washington Post and MSNBC political analyst,

Eugene Robinson. Mika has the morning off. Joe, watching that speech last night from President

Biden, tragically, he was built

for moments like that through the fires of his own life.

You listen to the way he talks about loss, the way he talks about grief with humanity

and empathy and dignity.

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