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.
that, despite the losses up and down the ballot of election deniers in arizona, the way to win the republican nomination in 2024 for the senate seat is still to be in that lane with donald trump, the loser lane, the crazy lane. i got to say, talk to people around joe biden arizona has gone from, if the election deniers win, we ll have to give it to republicans, to, now, kari lake is joe biden s best friend. a republican ticket dominated by more election deniers, proven losers, all of a sudden, that state never is going to be easy, it is a battleground for a reason, but it is like, that is the electorate. that is the kind of republican candidate, kari lake with maybe another election denier at the top of the ticket, that opens the door to joe biden having the electorate he wants to face in arizona in 2024. yeah. so let s expand upon that. jonathan lemire, again, it wears
would say, well, she lost because she took the crazy lane. there weren t enough crazy people in arizona in those swing precincts, those swing districts, to elect her governor. yet, she is doubling down and is probably going to run for senate in 2024. i m just again, you don t have the answer to this, i m sure, but the question raised is why in the hell would she be doing this when she knows it is a ticket to loserville? well, let s just say. let s break this down. i didn t think about this. joe, this is a great question. as you know, arizona, georgia. the new front line battleground states in 2024. you had this whole slate of election deniers in arizona.