joining us, eugene scott. have a great weekend, everybody. thank you for joining us way too early. morning joe starts right now. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. that conversation is the main reason a special grand jury in georgia is investigating election interference. yesterday, we got some of their report, and it reveals that the jurors believe that witnesses lied to them. and, somehow, the former president, donald trump, thinks this report exonerates him. we ll explain why that s not even close to being true. plus, the group trump famously told to stand back and stand by now wants to call him as a witness in its trial tied to january 6th. we ll have an update on senator fetterman, who is in walter reid for treatment of clinical depression. he checked himself in. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, february 17thment we have the host of way to early, politico s jonathan lemire.
Ever criminal trial of an American Expresident started the day. Opening statements this morning in a Downtown Manhattan courthouse in donald j. Trumps criminal case. They made the Opening Statements to the jury and the six alternates. It is about a conspiracy of the expresident and his allies to interfere in the 2016 election. The negative stories about donald trump. The attorney for the prosecution, matthew spoke about a 2015 meeting in trump tower between donald trump, his former fixer, Michael Cohen, and a man named david. The negative stories about Donald Trumps relationships with women was allegedly hashed. It is a scheme commonly referred to as catch and kill. He said in the wake of the release of the access Hollywood Tape which was a political earthquake, Michael Cohen paid former Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels 130,000 to keep her alleged affair with donald trump silent. According to reporting from the courtroom, he said this. At trumps direction, mike cohen negotiated a deal to
we tell you all of this so we can, i don t know, take a trip down memory lane. oh, this will be fun. yeah. why not, right? always good. mm-hmm. here is dr. ronny jackson after donald trump s physical, if that s what you want to call it, when he was president in 2018. explain how a guy who makes mcdonald s and all the diet cokes and never exercises is in as good of shape as you say he is in. it s called genetics. i don t know. call it genetics. he went on to say, john heilemann, that trump had such great genes, that if he didn t eat badly, he d live until he was 200 years of age. did he mean dad genes? i guess the shock of it is that, actually, people in the obama administration actually vouched for this guy for 15 minutes before he started doing
among the 2000 people in the congregation. let sjoin sophie again. she is in the heart of parliament square. this is the great north door at westminster abbey, and you can see the guests arriving, taking their places ahead of the service later this morning. joining me is dr leanne armitage. a newly qualified doctor, qualified two years ago, and a recipient of the queens young leader award in 2018. explain what it means to be here today. 2018. explain what it means to be here today- here today. today feels very powerful- here today. today feels very powerful. the here today. today feels very powerful. the queen - here today. today feels very powerful. the queen had i here today. today feels very powerful. the queen had a l here today. today feels very - powerful. the queen had a profound impact on my life because of the young leader award, so it is really special to just reflect on the impact on my life that she had through that award and the work i have been doing through my chari
mccarthy era. it s easy to make comparisons, you know, from then to now. you actually started this before this administration was even kind of a glimmer in anyone s eye, right? yeah, i just thought it was such an interesting era on the veneer, it s romantic, seems pleasant. the eisenhower years. you just scratch a little bit beneath the surface, there are literally communists infiltrating the government, the rise of mccarthyism, the atomic race, the country still segregated, it s still a very sexist society. so it looks pleasant, but it s really, there s this undertone of menace throughout the 1950s. all of that was cooking long before donald trump came down that escalator, but then once he became this candidate and, you know, they say history doesn t repeat itself, but it rhymes. there s a lot of rhyming when you read about presidethe 1950s look at. th trump president trump and 2018. explain what the book is about, a, it s fiction which i m so impressed you were able