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welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. joe biden maiks his argument. he enters the 2024 campaign. his video makes clear he expects to stair down trump in a rematch. the president s election now mirrors his message back then. when i ran for president four years ago, i said we re in a battle for the soul of america. and we still are. plus nikki haley tries to change the conversation about abortion her message calls for more compassion. where she delivered that speech highlights the states that decides the electoral map. and today donald trump on trial. jury selection conducts off on whether the former president defamed a writer who awe accuses had him of rape. the president s four more years bet. this morning joe biden making formal another run at the oval office. the method, 6:00 a.m. video release. flashes of violence from one of the darkest days. that announcement video calls back to his 2020 campaign la ....
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 ....
the president s visit comes as his administration is facing mounting pressure following this, you know, 41-year inflation high that we re seeing and a huge surge in gas prices. the nation s national average for gas, $5.02 a gallon now. all of this as a key inflation measure slowed slightly last month. also this morning, the white house is now confirming that the president will be traveling to the middle east, specifically to israel and saudi arabia, in july. we re also learning his visit will include a meeting with the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman. remember, president biden had previously called the kingdom a pariah for its role in the killing of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. that was before he became president. we ll have much more on that in a moment. plus, the january 6th committee is postponing now a hearing that was scheduled for tomorrow. a member of the committee saying this was due to technical issues. we ll be live on capitol hill ....
We, you and i, together, we re turning things around. and we re doing it in a big way. one of the first things i did as president is assign the american rescue plan. to help save the nation from the pandemic, vaccinated millions of people. and through the bush-lewis act protected pensions. got relief we got relief to folks who needed tell the most. to get the country back on track. president of the united states speaking here in washington for a very welcoming labor audience. this is the president s first speech officially declaring his campaign for reelection this morning. the president focusing on the pos, $12 million new job. 3.5% unemployment rate. 800,000 new manufacturing jobs. the president says inflation is ....
Other people close to him pushed back hard. but an amazing thing happened after that, david french. john fetterman started embracing the challenges that were confronting him. some of the most powerful advertisements i ve ever seen, political ads i ve ever seen, came from the fetterman camp. because we always see these politicians in the coat and tie, kind of like this, standing in front of a labor audience or standing in front of an audience in a rural town in post industrial pennsylvania or michigan or wisconsin. they don t relate. but you look at fetterman. you looked at that audience in some of the ads that he was talking to, talking about his struggle, and you thought, just as he said, my god, he s one of us. that s what the crowd had to be thinking. now, he continues his journey, a painful journey, and i suspect ....