Morning Joe 2/17/23

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

President, Government, Congress, Election, Brezinski, News, Giest, Politics, Campaign, Washington, Ms Now, Scarboro, Issues

3.9 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The long-awaited report from the special grand jury in Georgia that investigated Donald Trump’s actions after the 2020 election has finally been released.

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0:00.0	So look, all I want to do is this.
0:03.1	I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have because we won the state.
0:16.8	That conversation is the main reason.
0:18.7	A special grand jury in Georgia is investigating election interference.
0:23.9	Yesterday, we got some of their report, and it reveals that the jurors believe that witnesses lied to them.
0:32.5	And somehow the former president, Donald Trump, thinks this report exonerates him.
0:38.6	We'll explain why that's not even close to being true.
0:42.1	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.
0:52.8	And we'll have an update on Senator John Fetterman, who is in Walter
0:56.4	Reed this morning for treatment of clinical depression he checked himself in. Good morning and welcome
1:03.6	to morning, Joe. It is Friday, February 17th. With us, we have the host of way too early
1:09.0	White House beer chief at Politico, Jonathan Lemire. NBC News, National Affairs Analyst, Executive, editor of the recount,
1:15.7	John Heilman.
1:16.7	Former A to the George W. Bush White House and State Department's Elise Jordan is with us.
1:21.9	And professor at Princeton University, Eddie Glawd Jr. is with us.
1:26.4	A great group we have and a lot going on this morning,
1:28.8	Joe. A lot going on and we're going to obviously start in Georgia. But John Heilman, you know,
1:35.6	sometimes there's statements that are layered with ambiguities and you listen to them and the more
1:40.8	you listen to them, the more you think, well, maybe, maybe there's
1:44.3	a mitigating factor here. There may be this person meant this, maybe they meant that.
1:50.7	Now, the more you hear Donald Trump's call with the Secretary of State of Georgia demanding
1:58.0	it gets worse.
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