increasing inflation. well, it has the advantage of not only people being able to live longer and better and be able to perform their prescription drugs, but, guess what? it reduces the deficit $158 billion. [ applause ] don t forget that part to tell people. it s not just that you pay less for the drug. it means that the federal government isn t paying for the drugs for medicare. president joe biden in baltimore last night, debunking republican claims about the deficit and calling on democrats to remind americans what his administration has achieved over the past two years. meanwhile, on capitol hill, a hearing dominated by grievance politics, as attorney general merrick garland makes his first appearance before the new congress. he actually had insurrectionists. right. like, the guy with, like what is it, willie, the bird bone hands, like, doing the power to the people signal. the raised fist. that s right. raised fist of a bird. yeah. there it is. the
for you. hello everyone. thanks again for joining me in new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with more massive protests on the streets of israel. the demonstrators are demanding that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu abandoned controversial judicial overhaul and legislation. it s the 14th straight week that israelis have protested over the proposed changes. and this time it comes against the backdrop of days of violence between israel and palestinian militants in gaza and southern lebanon. cnn s fred pleitgen is intel aviv. so you still have a whole lot of people who are turning out for the same cause. 14 weeks in a row. is there anything different about the tenor or the motivation here? hi there, fredricka. well, first of all, you re right. there are a lot of people who came out on the streets at night tonight to protest against that planned judiciary reform or overhaul bill. but of course, this current security situation does play a role in this as well an
you have been great to me for 25 years. on that day s show you give the bs answer. i have serious fomo from interview that poppy did. poppy is at nba all stars weekend. we have so many good moments from that. including that whole interview there. good morning, everyone. don has the day off. pop poppy is in utah for the nba all star game. we ll get to much more that in a moment. we re learning more about the three object that s were shot down from the sky, not aliens, not even china coraccording to white house. who does president biden say is responsible? john fetterman is in the hospital for clinical depression. why his mental health issues became severe in recent weeks. plus what do people do when you walk in the bank? they better run to me. if that manager is sitting there when i get, there you better meet me at the door. the names need to introductions. poppy harlow hanging out with shaq, charles barkley and kenny smith ahead of the nba all star game. she s g
meet me at the door. good morning, everyone. that is charles barkley. don has the day off. poppy is in utah. you see her there for the nba all-star game. poppy, i m so excited jealous of your co-anchors, for sure. rough assignment, right? i cannot believe they sent me here. i m going to complain to the bosses. this is terrible p i . i m just in centre court. this is amazing. we have a fun lineup. i sat down yesterday with shaq with, chuck, with kenny. i couldn t get a word in edge wise. it was awesome. you re going to see that at 8:00 a.m. then we re joined by ryan smith, the utah jazz owner and someone who loves the state of utah, you ll hear all about this sill con slopes. we ll talk about the tech scene here. the wnba commissioner krajy engelbert and an update on brittney griner. the first time they had the all-star game in utah in 30 years. super excited. we ll be checking back in with poppy. we also have a lot going on in the news development has. did hackers j
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.