weapons can do an ungodly amount of video in no time at all there s one other piece of video, it s important in how elected officials respond every time we go through a mass shooter. last year after a shooter killed 19 students and 2 teachers in uvalde, texas. republicans were blaming one thing, doors. unlocked doors. republicans made a huff about how the policy solution after uvalde was hardened locked doors. we talked about what we need to dobo to harden schools, including not having unlocked back doors. if the school was on lockdown, could the doors have been locked? ve classroom doors should be hardened tooo make them lockabl from the inside and closed to intruders from the outside. put a pin in that for a second. take a look at this. this is how the shooter entered the school yesterday. they used a semiautomatic weapon to shoot their way through the doors. i have no idearo if the door wa lockedth or not, clearly it didt matter. i m sure republican senators would
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.
retaliation. senator tom cotton calling on the white house to take a stronger stand against china in support of taiwan. president biden and the white house is going out of their way to minimize this visit, to say it s merely a private visit, not to defend the rights of senators and congressmen. not only are we going to continue this practice, but we ll stand up to any provocation that china undertakes in the western pacific because of these meetings. senior national correspondent william la jeunesse l live in si valley. with many western countries angry for china right now for a variety of reasons, this is an opportunity and pivotal moment for taiwan, which is about the size of maryland with a population of florida. taiwan is david. china is goliath. that s one reason president tsai needs support not just from the white house, but members of congress, including speaker pelosi, formerly, of course, and speaker mccarthy to counter that threat. china claims the island as i
bombs itself hitting a city of more than 400,000 people, leaving a massive crater. and blowing a car onto a roof. so just how effective is the russian war machine? accidental bombing that is again raising that question. deadline day for a case with huge implications for the entire country is supreme court decision could drop it any moment on medication , abortion and the fate of a pill that millions of women have used for more than two decades. the worst kept secret in washington, president biden said to announce his 2024 campaign next week with the election of mere 564 days away that went fast. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. a powerful explosion overnight right in the heart of belgorod, russia near the ukrainian border , not the work of ukrainian forces, but a russian fighter jet with the brief flying through the air. the kremlin has acknowledged that one of its own warplanes accidentally dropped t
it for them. but what can his party accomplish without control of the house? house democratic leader hakeem jeffries joins me exclusively next. and crime and punishment. concerns about crime contribute to a democratic mayor s loss and now the president sides with republicans on blocking a local d.c. criminal justice law. are democrats vulnerable on crime ahead of 2024? i ll speak exclusively to new york city mayor eric adams in moments. plus, sidestepping trump. dueling republican events has as some white house hopefuls look for a lane. will it be harder than they think? former republican governor asa hutchinson will join me ahead. hello, i m dana bash in new york this morning, where the state of our union is gearing up. this weekend, we are beginning to see messages the for both parties take shape ahead of the 2024 presidential campaign. half a dozen republican hopefuls, including former president trump spoke at dueling political events this weekend, jabbing each other o