right now, i m in washington d.c., about to attend the annual white house correspondents dinner. tonight, much of washington will come together. but an epic political battle lies ahead. president joe biden officially launched his reelection campaign this week. asking americans for more time to finish the job he was elected to do in 2020. black voters were pivotal in sending biden to the white house. tonight, i ll ask georgia congresswoman, nikema williams, whether enthusiasm for the biden harris ticket remains high. in the meantime, donald trump is building his case to be the republican nominee, again. the former president is racking up endorsements, as his poll numbers rise. that s despite the escalating state, federal and local investigations into trump s conduct before and in the white house. his former vice president, mike pence, testified before federal grand jury, two days ago. about trump s conduct leading up to january 6th. also tonight, celebrating harry belafonte. t
i m michael steele. chris hayes will be back here tomorrow night. but tonight i m your host. normally i m on the other side of the desk as a guest, because you know i ran the republican party and all that and a little bit of political expertise. so tonight i ve got a message for anyone looking that s at this current republican party. if you are waiting for it to get better, it s not going to happen. republican national committees trying to rein in donald trump and missing the point completely. our chair rural knee macdonnell wants press presidential hopefuls to take a loyalty pledge intern for a spot on the 2024 debate stage. now the policies aimed at making sure that donald trump doesn t tank the parties chances by running as a third party spoiler for the loses the primary. but getting donald trump to sign a loyalty pledges a fools errand. donald trump isn t loyal to anyone but himself. this is a man who turned his back on his own office, that led to a deadly insurrection ag
chris hayes was backer tomorrow night. tonight, i m your host. normally i m on the other side of the desk as a guest, because you know i ran the republican party and all that and a little bit of political expertise. so tonight i ve got a message for anyone looking that s at this current republican party. if you are waiting for it to get better, it s not going to happen. republican national committees trying to rein in donald trump and missing the point completely. rnc chair ronna mcdaniel wants presidential hopefuls to take a loyalty pledge intern for a spot on the 2024 debate stage. now the policies aimed at making sure that donald trump doesn t tank the parties chances by running as a third party spoiler for the loses the primary. but getting donald trump to sign a loyalty pledges a fools errand. donald trump isn t loyal to anyone but himself. this is a man who turned his back on his own office, that led to a deadly insurrection against his own government. and trump has bee
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.
good to see you there. good evening, rachel, it s great to see you. you know, good friends of mine were good friends of duty human, so thank you for your powerful tribute to her and the fuss she made. and rachel, i can t let you go just yet. i also want to thank you for the reporting on georgia. i mean, they did to voters, now republicans are trying to suppress prosecutors, of not subvert them. but i think this is a qualitatively new thing, you ve seen individual prosecutors that they tried to control the republicans are giving themselves the power to get rid of prosecutors, to fundamentally change the whole legal system, in a way that s never been done before. they say it has nothing to do with the trump case at all, but it s trying to live you ll know what s going on there. oh no, it s a really big deal, and it stinks to high heaven, and thanks to you, a lot more people know about, it emigrate talking about it in the show later, so thank you very much rachel. th