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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 le ....
you know what it is time for? lessons in diversity hi, and welcome to lessons in diversity. i am your host mary lou breton. this is what she looks like. and in a perfect world, diversity would be awesome. who does not want to work with the different people? as opposed to this. [laughter] there is nothing more boring and on the same, and i should know. [laughter] i love different phases in different races all comingling in a melting pot i call greg s hot tub of the quality. but today s diversity seems to be only about looks and ideas, which is not how you make something funny unless you look like this. [laughter] it s a cheap shot, but see. there is a downside to diversity once you put it over other variables like talent or skill and poor hygiene. what if you find someone that is funnier than someone else, but that person is not black or female or lgbtq asap byob lol. the problem with diversity hiring as you may end up with something or someone like this. [laughter] ....
that talk. and one florida community prioritized lifestyle over safety and sustainability. residents are now paying the price. and later, noted historian and film maker, henry louis gates joins me to talk about his highly anticipated new pbs series, making black america. we begin with the global resurgence of fascism. brazil held the first round of the election. bolsonaro emerged in second place, five points behind the front runner, leftist former president, dela silva. because no candidate received 50% of the vote, brazil s elections are headed to a runoff at the end of the month. according to the associated press, de la silva had 48% of the vote, and president bolsonaro had 43%. bolsonaro outperformed the polls. bolsonaro like the former american president claimed that the election was rigged. unsurprisingly, like trump, bolsonaro has openly praised dictators, paying homage to the 1964 political coup that resulted in roughly 20,000 people in his country being tort ....
connected with is. she was mistreated by her own family, which is even more upsetting. but she stayed true to herself. she didn t believe them when they treated her like she was less than them. and i think for children, when a child s bullied, they tend to eventually believe the bullies. they think, i am. i must be the problem. and cinderella didn t. and then her life got better. these beautiful things happened, things evolved, and she brought her authentic self to the ball, i d like to say. and.and that, in my opinion, is what shined through, was the time of love at first sight and things in all fairy tales. but that s not really what it was about for me. it was about that. and even the beauty of the fairy godmother, of this trusting there will be people out there who can see you for who you are, the best of you, and will help you and look for them. and it helped me persevere through it. and i look back on it now, and i think it helped drive me towards what i do now. ....
and it s a place ofjoy, imagination. it s where you can just truly escape and dream about what s possible. and i ve been committed to that idea since i was a small child, and i guess it never left me. and we are, of course, going to talk much more about disney. but i d like to just get a sense first of who you are and how you got here. i think you were born on rhode island, in rhode island, and grew up in a single parent family. your mother worked two jobs to support you and your sister. and as i said at the beginning, you ve talked about being bullied. what was it about watching cinderella that helped you cope? oh, i think definitely the part about cinderella that i m most connected with is. she was mistreated by her own family, which is even more upsetting. but she stayed true to herself. she didn t believe them when they treated her like she was less than them. and i think for children, when a child s bullied, they tend to eventually believe the bullies. they think, ....