Again, that wasnt the perceived goal here. That was the perception among his supporters that think its gone too far. Lets get more from Griff Jenkins. Thats right, neil. Fox news confirmed that former President Trump is indeed in the courtroom right now. He entered at about 3 52 p. M. So just under ten minutes ago. Hes wearing a blue suit, a red to you. Flanked by his two attorneys. Fox has confirmed that we expect him to plead not guilty to the four felony charges hes facing in this indictment. Three are conspiracy charges, one is obstruction. Before he entered that courtroom, a little less than an hour ago, his motorcade entered the garage here at the federal courthouse. He was processed and fingerprinted. Theres no mug shot taken because the court says theres plenty of pictures of him to provide. Hes not arrested. But he is obviously being processed. Now we wait for this Court Proceeding to get underway at the time of our note from our producer, jay gibson inside, the Magistrate Jud
Since the Tokyo Olympics. Were following these major olympic stories and many more, all coming in here to cnn news central. New evidence ukraine is growing its capability to strike russian targets them video obtained by cnn appears to show a Ukrainian Unmanned sea drone, camera right on top there, approaching a russian landing ship at a Russian Naval base. You see the drone creep closer and closer. The screen goes black. Thats likely the moment it hit the ship and exploded. You can see here later video of that russian ship being towed near that naval base. And it is listing notably to the lefthand side. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is live in zaporizhzhia, ukraine. Tell us what are ukrainian Officials Saying about this . And is russia acknowledging a ukrainian strike on one of its ships here . Reporter yeah, russia is suggesting the attack was repelled, but russian bloggers are talk about how one compartment of the Amphibious Assault ship was indeed flooded by this blast. Another analyst call
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.
we are following that news. plus, a first on cnn, we re learning new information about a potential january 6 committee witness who the panel says got a call from former president trump. details on what he or she may know that could be key going forward. and right now, president biden in jerusalem, day two of a critical trip to the middle east. at this hour, he meets with the israeli president isaac hertzog to expand security ties to counter iran s nuclear threat. we mean what we say. to have an opportunity to accept this agreement that s been laid down. if they don t, we made it absolutely clear, we will not let me say it again we will not allow iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. so, let s begin this our with our wolf blitzer and kaitlan collins joining us again from jerusalem. wolf, to you first. what stood out to you most in the comment, especially from the president there, on countering iran. i thought your interview with david sanger following the press confere
the vehicle crashed into the rainbow bridge checkpoint structure and caught fire and exploded. the two occupants of the vehicle are now dead, and one customs and border patrol officer sustained minor injuries that did not require hospitalization. authorities did not find a secondary explosive or device. the white house says they are monitoring the situation closely, and the canada border service agency says it is working with the u.s. counterparts on this matter. the fbi is now investigating this cnn and whether or not the crash was intentional. joining us now, nbc news investigative correspondent tom winter, former fbi counterintelligence agent peter strzok is back with us, and joining us by phone former assistant doppler radar for counterintelligence, tom figliuzzi. why don t you give us a talk about how this all went down. sure. basically, what happens here, there is a vehicle. the color of the vehicle is white, as you saw on screen in that exclusive video. and it s trav