Mr. President, Texas, a Democrat won in a special election in an area that you had won by 17 points.

What is your reaction to that?

I don't know. I didn't hear about it. Somebody ran where?

In Texas, special election for legislative...

The ninth state senate.

I'm not involved in that. That's a local Texas race.

You mean I won by 17? this person lost? Things like that happen. Does it worry you about the future? Well, you don't know whether or not it's transferable. I'm not on the balance, so you don't know whether or not it turns terrible. No, I don't know anything about it. I didn't know. I mean, I know there's a race going there. And it's too

bad. What can I say? I have nothing to do with it.

All right. President Trump saying he does not know anything about a Texas state Senate race,

one that he posted about three times last week. We'll go through that stunning upset.

Wow. Just three. In the Lone Star State and try to read the Texas tea leaves on the impact for the midterms.

Also ahead, we'll dig into the massive new batch of Epstein files and what more we are learning from those documents.

Three million pages.

Plus, we are following multiple stories connected to

Minnesota, including claims by ICE that an immigrant shattered his own skull while in custody.

It comes as the five-year-old and his father, who were held by ICE for nearly two weeks, have been

released. We'll go through what the judge said and look at what the city DHS could be targeting next.

Also ahead, new reporting from the Wall Street Journal on the spy shake who bought a secret stake in the Trump family's crypto company.

Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe. It is Monday,

February 2nd, Groundhog Day. With us, we have the co-host of our 9 a.m. hour staff right at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire, Politics Spirit Chief and Senior Political Political Columnist at Politico,

Jonathan Martin, MS Now senior legal reporter and former litigator Lisa Rubin is with us.

And MSNNANN national affairs analyst, John Heilman. He is partner in chief political columnist at Puck.

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