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.
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