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.
a year and qualify for a home back in 2019. that same home today is going for $436,000. but the interest are seven and a half percent. so that monthly payment is jumping to 3700. so you need to make today yourself or you and a spouse wit $115,000 in a salary with zero debt to have a shot atic affording the average homeit in america today. and if you have debt, cars, credit cardss mo, even more of 0 hundred and $50,000. so it s priced out.r a lot of americans just over the past four years. yeah. okay. in middle, liand the middle n i grew up in new england in the 1960s and 1970s into the 80s, you know, people could you live a good life? a tradesman, homebuilder yeah, we went to public schools, but, you know, we weren t wanting for we didn t go on vacations or anything, but we just, you know, we were we were okay . but what s happened from the time the millennials were
steinem, billie jean king, right there, these were the founders of the modern feminist movement, really. mm-hmm. on the national scale in a massive way as public figures. there were many women who went before them, but at least in our time, in the early 70s, mid 70s and late 70s, into the 80s, 90s and now, their impact has been absolutely remarkable. we look forward to that. to have them share the stage in abu dhabi with olena zelenska and others, it ll be a powerful show of women lifting up other women on a global level. we ll have so many women from the 50 over 50 list. ceos, founders, creators, so many women who have found their greatest impact, made their most money, paid it forward in the most significant way well after the age of 50, in their 60s,
that s remarkable. an rbi in the eighth and a game tying grand slam in the ninth and this game deciding three-run homer in the 11th. what a day for naylore. cleveland wins against the white sox. time now for the weather and let s go to meteorologist michelle grossman for the forecast. looking hot in the middle of the country. summer like heat from the plains to the midwest. temperatures in the 90s. well above normal for this time of the year. about 20 degrees above normal and break some records, and tulsa, you will finally get a lie of 90 degrees. as we go through tomorrow, we re looking at the heat expanding and now into the ohio valley. and we have 87 degrees tomorrow, with a record high of 89 and pretty close, for tomorrow. and looking at a forecast high of 93. and as we go throughout the later part of this week, into the week, still really warm. not as hot but we re looking at temperatures well above normal still. as we start off this weekend, in kansas city, we ll drop to the
against the american traditional order and that s why the left is aligning like james bond with the north vietnamese were celebrating the soviet union in the 70s into the 80s and the love affair with castro. i want these people on that side of the political aisle to understand that if they wanted to be one of these groups in a country like cuba or iran or china they wouldn t have the freedoms to speak against the country they live in. they would be arrested, they would be detained, they would be brutalized, they would be incarcerated, they would not be allowed to speak so freely like they are allowed to in the united states. they should be free to speak whatever they say, whatever they want to say but if you re going to put america on the same plane as the totalitarian communist