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.
information he believes has come from the white house. that s based on the intelligence briefings he s attended with other senators about these balloons. but this was before biden s speech. biden has gone for trying to address that point, making it clear that what was shot down, these last three balloons, were not surveillance balloons, aircraft, should we say. antony blinken is going to meet with his counterpart this week in munich to address the ongoing tensions between china and the u.s. hopefully that will put a stop to this. we must note these balloons are more common than people believe. there have been balloons over 40 countries in the past few years around the world. we ll have updates from the munich security conference all weekend long on msnbc and live reports from poland ahead of president biden s speech there. senior politics reporter for ax owe axios, thank you for