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.
i m abby phillip in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom, unprecedented political retribution. that is what is on the agenda in the tennessee state house right now , protesters have been at the capitol in support of the so called tennessee three democratic state lawmakers who are on the cusp of being expelled from that chamber. and any minute now the gop dominated chamber will vote on whether to remove them from office because get this. they protested on the house floor calling for stricter gun laws after the nashville shooting that left six people dead. three of whom were children. now, if the vote passes, it would be the first time in that body s entire history more than 200 years that a violation of house rules resulted in members being ousted . and so just to recap these three lawmakers, they may be stripped of their elected positions for speaking out of turn. after 39 year olds were gunned down in their grade school. cnn s ryan young is on the scene for us, ry
of extensive fighting. the mercenary group says the last open roads leading westwards out of the city are under heavy russian shelling. now. ukraine the children s story. child: the day before war started was just i like any other. we played with our friends and ate with our families. that night was the last time our dreams were peaceful. in them, fireworks danced, lighting up the skies. but we woke to explosions. the sky burst into red and yellow. the windows and walls shook. no one knew what to do. in the skies above us, helicopters swarmed and multiplied. we watched as tanks rolled in. millions of people fled. they packed into overcrowded trains, while thousands more waited on platforms. men had to stay behind, so families and loved ones were separated. many people reached other countries and found safety. but some of us couldn t or didn t. and now this. ..is our life. dog barks in distance she speaks ukrainian air raid siren wails ricky: is that an air raid siren? so we
glastonbury 2023 ends the suspense, by announcing the arctic monkeys and guns and roses, willjoin eltonjohn as this year s headline acts. and memories of 1930s glasgow we meet the artist holding his first exhibition at the age of 95 i think they ve got the right atmosphere here. i think they just got it right. hello and welcome to bbc news. the former uk prime minister borisjohnson may have repeatedly misled parliament over social gatherings held at downing street during covid restrictions. that s according to mps investigating his conduct, who said that evidence strongly suggests that breaches of coronavirus rules inside no.10 whilst he was prime minister would have been obvious to him. mrjohnson was among those fined by police for breaking lockdown rules. but he said there was no evidence he had knowingly misled parliament over the issue. our political correspondent helen catt reports. did borisjohnson know more about lockdown parties in downing street than he tol