States of scandal with jake good morning. You were alive in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta and washington donald trump is off the Campaign Trail and back in the courtroom just minutes ago he arrived at the federal courthouse in South Florida for a hearing and his classified documents, case trump and his attorneys will ask the judge to dismiss the charges or at least grant them a delay in the trial and delay could also be looming in trumps election subversion okay. Its down in Fulton County, georgia at any time now, the Presiding Judge there could announce if District Attorney fani willis is disqualified from the case and a decision that could derail the trial from starting in august. Lets begin with the classified documents hearing today in florida. Cnns Kaitlan Polantz is outside the courthouse. Kaitlan, how likely is it that a judge Aileen Cannon will dismiss the case . There jim, that is going to be entirely up to her and were watching to see exactly how she reacts to the arguments
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.
. michael cohen will join us to respond and tell us what the former president s next legal headache could be also discreet deal. supreme court justice clarence thomas, under renewed scrutiny after new reporting reveals a secret real estate sale to a republican billionaire. our supreme court is facing a crisis. justice thomas break the law and press your amounts. why not just take the step and resign. democrats divided over 89 year old senator dianne feinstein, resigning from senate never seen them go after a man who was in the senate and that way we ll talk to democratic senator amy klobuchar about that and more coming up on cnn prime time. good evening. i m caitlin collins. tonight one of america s most wanted suspects, allegedly ger of highly classified us intelligence is now under arrest. after a massive manhunt, the fbi taking 21 year old jack to share a into custody of massachusetts in a dramatic scene that unfolded with agents carrying rifles outside his home. the air n
Obviously the investigators are still trying to figure out what was behind this, who the bomber is. Im told theyve identified a male as the bomber but theyre still trying to learn more about him. What is most striking to you . What was the bomb made out of . Because that leads you to oo lot of conclusions. This is the deadliest Terror Attack since july 7th, 2000 fiv 2005. And almost certainly a Hydrogen Puraukside bomb. Because the signature of al qaeda and isis are these kinds of bombs. So where was it made . Because you need a commercial refrigerator often the store the chemicals. Theyre very toxic if youre making these kinds of bombs, youre oftenb wearing a gas mask. Theres a whole apparatus i would be looking for. We dont know if its a hydrogen
peroxide bomb. Would it be a loan wolf scenario . Or how likely would that be . Im skeptical. Weve had people in this country build those bombs and kill themselves. Its difficult. You need training. Ive been in Bomb Making Courses where it t
having these documents which he shouldn t have had, and he was subpoenaed. and if he doesn t provide them and hide them from the government. there s both and underlying offense, and there s the offense of obstruction. but the thing that i think actually brings this, uh you know that raises this and makes it a more significant threat is the obstruction aspect of it. do you know? i m not saying, you know, i just think there s a high risk here. and just based on the government s conduct. here i suspect that they have some evidence of that they would consider to be strong evidence of obstruction. and that s why i feel that this is probably the most threatening case. what do you mean by that? based on what the government s doing here, do you mean because of how aggressively jack smith s investigation is progressing the fact that he was able to talk to evan corcoran, one of trump s defense attorneys without the