Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson dies at age 84
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What are you expecting from these Iran talks in Geneva tomorrow? |
| 0:05.0 | So I'll be involved in those talks indirectly, and they'll be very important. |
| 0:11.0 | We'll see what can happen. |
| 0:12.0 | President Xi in your talk with him recently warned about sending more weapons to Taiwan. |
| 0:18.0 | What was your response to him? Are you going to send more weapons to Taiwan? I have a response. I'm talking to him about it. We had a good conversation and we'll make a |
| 0:26.2 | determination pretty soon. You're going to have Ukraine talks tomorrow as well in Geneva with |
| 0:31.8 | Whitcomb and Jericho. What are you expecting there? Well, there are big talks. It's going to be very easy. |
| 0:38.2 | I mean, it's, look, so far, Ukraine better come to the table fast. |
| 0:43.2 | That's all I'm telling you. |
| 0:45.5 | President Trump covering a lot of ground on foreign policy last night on board, Air Force One. |
| 0:51.1 | It comes as Geneva is hosting high-stakes meetings on Iran, as well as talks between |
| 0:57.1 | Russia and Ukraine. We'll bring you the latest on all of that. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, the FBI |
| 1:04.2 | continues to Stonewall State investigators who are seeking information and evidence in the killing of Alex Prattie will go through |
| 1:12.8 | the ongoing fight for the investigation into the killings, both of them there. Plus, Hillary Clinton |
| 1:18.7 | delivering her strongest criticism yet on the Epstein files, accusing the Trump administration |
| 1:25.0 | of a cover-up will show you if President Trump had to say about the files and bring you the latest on that. Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe. It is Tuesday, February 17th. Today is both Mardi Gras and Lunar New Year. Along with Joe, Willie and me, we have the co-host of The Rest Is Politics Podcast, the BBC's |
| 1:45.8 | Caddy Kay, staff writer at the Atlantic, Frank Four, and host of Politics Nation on MS Now, Reverend |
| 1:53.6 | Dalsharpton. He is the president of the National Action Network, and we begin with breaking news. |
| 2:00.6 | The Reverend Jesse Jackson has died. |
| 2:03.1 | The 84-year-old civil rights activist Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate |
| 2:09.1 | passed away earlier this morning, according to a statement from his family and Rainbow |
| 2:14.8 | Push. The Jackson family wrote, quote, |
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