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 whack job on a lot of levels, but there is something about donald trump, that he is still out there. he s still a wreck but upright. it s an incredible thing. didn t fred trump have really bad dementia at the end, though? both his parents lived to their 90s. okay. the white house, though, certainly this white house, not ronny jackson s white house, wanted to put this physical out. we know the president s age hovers over his re-election decision. he is 80 years old, undeniable. but he got a clean bill of health yesterday. they ll get back to reporters about the one skin lesion. they believe this should quiet some of the concerns that he is not up for the job, mika. yeah. did he have to identify, like did biden have to identify animals or say, dog, cat, camera, moose, pig, anything like that? i mean, i don t know. like, i think it is a good it s good to do physicals and say how is he doing at 80. sure. i will tell you, my mom was operating a chainsaw and making
. they can do the corporate tax cut, that could maybe help the economy. the problem, truth in marking the president selling this as a middle cut tax cut t. way you will pay for it is by potentially taxing the middle class. you are talking 401ks, the state and local deduction, there is a lot of families we know, working families on the east coast who benefit from that sales tax, they re going to sit down with their calculators, physical out, guess what, these corporate companies will get a tax cut. my taxes are going to go up. from the east coast. the west coast from so that s a problem. where our tech industry is, in illinois, a state that s already struggling, certainly my home state in connecticut and new york, it already devastating for a lot of small business owners. so if you are going to put that burden on small business owners, so you can cut the corporate tax rate 20% or donald trump once
the standpoint of any investigation to figure out what happened. if there is no recording of this sessions conversation with the ambassador, there anyway to piece it together? yes, it is, we would expect a special counsel to take something like this hot in the headlines and corroborate and investigate if they see investigative interests. we hard they are looking at the meeting with don jr. and the russian nationals who previously represented russian interest. this is obviously the kind of thing that can be of interest. the interviews could include people that know about the meeting, contemporaneous records made at the time, the special counsel would sit down with jeff sessions and self compare that to the transcript and physical out who is telling the truth. anthony parker, one of the issues when a story look this breaks, one of the issues jeff sessions has to contend with, when it comes to conversations with russian officials, he has been less than forthcoming in
be here to tour the damage in the next several hours. this community, chris, remains under a state of emergency. people are told to stay in their homes, keep out of the way as there is a lot of damage that crews will be assessing this mornin morning. all right. george, a beautiful picture over your shoulder right now the irony that a day ago the sky was so different. same thing here, very cold this morning and a cold reality as well, one of the men said it was like the tornado had hands, the way it twisted everything up. we see that behind us. a boifl beautiful sky is coming up on what is a tough day, indra. reporter: so much damage out there. one of the things we have to physical out, water it straight loin winds or damage from a tornado? really, the answer will be a combination of both. keep in mind, this is november. typically, you see 50 tornadoes for the entire country for the month of november. here they saw about 81 reports