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.
but i think if there s an alternative to that, it would be only realist if it narrows down to a two-person race at some point. i won t be supporting president trump. what you could do to stop him? i mowly senator from utah. claire, what is past is prologue. this sounds identical to 2016, the conversations people were having in 2016. january, february, march of that year. exactly. and i have to say, there were two things well, there were several things that were notable about nikki haley getting in the race. one that was notable, that she should worry about, is trump said nothing, other than good luck. that means, one, he s glad she s in. two, he s not afraid of her. the other thing that was interesting is she entered the
that s what we ought to be looking for and waiting for and watching for. chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, as always, thank you so much for being with us. thank you, chuck. john heilemann, speaking of losing and trump lawyers lost time and time and time again on all these cases, let s talk about kari lake who lost yesterday. let s talk about the trumpy lane she s decided to continue down. it s one of these things where i talk about how it doesn t make sense, that republicans keep doing the same thing over and over and losing. with kari lake, let s face it, she ran against a governor, a gubernatorial candidate who really didn t show up on the campaign trail. everybody thought she was going to win. any rational human being or any hman being somewhat rational
show discipline. that s what i m watching, that 30% means that trump can win if there are four, five, six candidates. all right. we have a lot more to get to this morning. still ahead on morning joe, president biden s message to china after the downing of a suspected surveillance balloon and three other aerial objects. we ll take a look at those new remarks. plus, the latest from ohio following that toxic train derailment two weeks ago. we ll talk to the head of the epa about what is being done to make sure residents are safe. also ahead, what we are learning about senator john fetterman s condition after he checked himself into the hospital for clinical depression. and the must-read opinion pages, including one piece entitled the republicans have an acute trump dilemma. ed luce of the financial times joins us with that. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back.
president, which some disagree, you can t take that and say that you can t prosecute a former president because then they would be above the law. the best thing that ever happened to donald trump in the year 2022, joe, was when the fbi went down and did the search at mar-a-lago. the whole party, at a moment when trump s influence seemed to be waning, his power seemed to be waning, the gold watch strategy, hey, tell him he made america great again and send him to the old folk s home, that was the thought in the republican party. then the fbi went down there. the whole party rose up and rallied around trump. i ask you this, what do you think and i know your view is no one can beat trump anyway, or it is likely he is the 600-pound gorilla in the field but is it not in trump s political interest to have what david suggested? an indictment of donald trump, a trial that would likely not take place before 2024, puts him in the position where he s once again the martyr.