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there s no way around it, that s just the best one. believe me, i ve tried it every which way, and it really doesn t get better than pete butt. but this would have never happened under my administration. people are saying i made the trains less safe. not true, okay? not true. i did a lot for trains. i made them bigger, faster, less safe perhaps, but yeah, perhaps you did. perhaps. saturday night live s take on donald trump s recent trip to east palestine, ohio. meanwhile, president joe biden says he doesn t have plans to visit the town devastated by the train disaster, and we ll have his comments on why. plus, the first lady seems to have given away the president s plans for 2024. we ll play for you what she said. also ahead, a weekend of deadly russian strikes in ukraine brings more attention to the debate over supplying ukrainian forces with fighter jets. and a new report from the department of energy on the origins of covid. good morning. welcome to ....
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 ....
frontrunners for the 2024 republican nomination, even though only one of them is officially in the race. ahead, a veteran gop strategist explains why desantis is stealing some of trump s thunder. meanwhile, election deniers are celebrating after three states pulled out of a program to protect voter rolls with two more states considering joining them. we ll explain this latest development. plus, we ll go through the changes norfolk southern is making following the derailment of two of its trains in ohio. and we ll ask transportation secretary pete buttigieg about the federal response to the disaster and how to prevent another one from happening when he joins us later this morning. and good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, march 7th. we are live in abu dhabi, the crossroads of the world. it truly is, with our 30/50 summit, forbes and know your value has come together to create an incredible, cross-cultural, multi-generational summit that, rea ....
are tense again. thank you so much for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. a self-loathing has swept our country. joe and kamala even say america is racist. this is not about identity politics. i don t believe in that, and i don t believe in glass ceilings either. strong and proud, not weak and woke. that s the america i see. [ applause ] the only challenger so far to donald trump in the 2024 presidential race kicks off her campaign. during that speech, nikki haley took a dig at her former boss and president joe biden. we ll play for you those comments. also today, we ll get our first look at the pieces of the grand jury investigating the president s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. plus, mike pence wants all the credit for doing the right thing on january 6th but doesn t want to talk about it under oath. we ll show you what he had to sa ....
dear colleagues, your subcommittee could become part of a proud history of serious, bipartisan oversight, stretching from the teapot dome investigation to the boeing investigation to the watergate hearings to the tobacco hearings to the select committee on the january 6th attack. or you could take oversight down a very dark alley, filled with conspiracy theories and disinformation. a place where facts are the enemy and partisan destruction is the overriding goal. appears house republicans are going to go with the dark alley path. the first hearing for the subcommittee to investigate the, quote, weaponization of the federal government was nothing but grievance politics. meanwhile, in the senate, minority leader mitch mcconnell is trying to distance the party from a fellow republican senator. who could that be? it comes as president joe biden takes his post state of the union message to florida, keeping the focus on the fate of social security and medicare. and th ....