‘Morning Joe’ Brings a Cat to a Segment with Curtis Sliwa

EXCERPT:

SCARBOROUGH: "So --"
BRZEZINSKI: "Curtis --"
SCARBOROUGH: "Curtis, we have -- have help here with our next question."
GEIST: "Oh."
SCARBOROUGH: "Yeah."
GEIST: "Wow."
SCARBOROUGH: "Little cat managed to make it onto --"
BRZEZINSKI: "Curtis, this is little cat. Who is your favorite of your 17 cats?
UNKNOWN MALE: "Hercules."
SLIWA: "No, Hercules passed."
GEIST: "Oh." [crosstalk]
SLIWA: "Tragedy. My favorite cat is --" [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: "Look at that cat. It's a huge cat."
SLIWA: "He had neurological disorders. When we rescued him in the streets of Brooklyn --"
SCARBOROUGH: "How do you know?"
SLIWA: "-- he was falling down. He was like when you drink too much, he was falling down. And it’s a neurological problem that some cats have. And my wife, Nancy, nursed him back to health. He is my favorite of the 17 because he laid on my chest when I had chronic Crohn's disease and I need eight-hour operation. My blood pressure was 250 over 140 -- not good. Do you know that  it naturally brings down your blood pressure. Cats!