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.
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unlike a broken leg or cancer or a heartclearly wants to be what stroke will not let him be. it s the collision of those two things, i m imagining, and the pace of the u.s. senate that is really getting him in a mental state that he can t function. i think it is important to compare and contrast what my dear, dear friend and mentor, tom eagleton, went through. tom eagleton had severe depression, and he, too, sought treatment, but in secret, behind the door. it all came to the forefront when he was selected to be vice president. it was so difficult for tom eagleton to grapple with the way he was perceived before that became public and after that became public. so this is a moment where fetterman, john fetterman, senator fetterman is saying to the world, hey, everybody,
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if florida, for example, had mirrored california s per capita death rate, there would be ten to 15,000 people alive today in florida. so and this is not just the mandates but all the way through. we have said in california, we ve said we re going to follow the science. we re going to prioritize public health and that s not only good to keep people alive and safe and prevent long covid, it s also good for the economy because the only way we re going to get back to normal is if we beat this pandemic into the ground. so i hope other states will follow california s lead, but i think they ve been ahead of the curve. i think the reason recall election has shown it s not only smart science, but good politics. this is a sobering number. that we re all trying to grapple. with the u.s. has now surpassed 700,000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic. and this is data coming from johns hopkins university. what are your thoughts when you think of those numbers, how many