Mike Barnicle on TV: November 2014

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On Morning Joe today, musician George Clinton talks about his iconic music, his struggle with drugs and addiction and his new memoir, "Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?" George explains the cyclical nature of his dependency issues in response to a question from Mike: "I'm a smart man in the first place so I think I can beat it...I thought I could. So, that was the problem. You can't beat it because the idea is to be messed up...." Watch the full interview here.
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Mike on Morning Joe today with musician George Clinton

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Mike with New York Times journalist and author Andrew Ross Sorkin on Black Friday versus Cyber Monday. Mike asks Andrew, "People who go to stores for big ticket items...things that they like to see, touch before they buy it...does online shopping impact that at all?"
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Mike with New York Times journalist and author Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Mike comments on the NFL in review of the many instances of abuse, behavioral and violence issues that have come to light, especially in recent months. "It appears the National Football League...are quite cognizant...they have some real problems. They know they have personnel issues. It's a very violent game (and) they have some disreputable characters playing the game. They also know though, that yesterday, Thanksgiving Day, millions of Americans were...watching these games."
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Mike comments on the NFL

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Today on Morning Joe, Mike and Joe Scarborough discuss the struggles the US has faced amid the widespread loss of faith in many of its government institutions versus the vast improvement the US military has seen. Mike says, "It’s the American military--they are our finest foot forward."
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Mike and Joe Scarborough discuss the struggles the US has faced amid the widespread loss of faith in many of its government institutions

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Mike and Chris Thompson, president/CEO of Brand USA, discuss the positive impacts that increasing tourism in the US may have. Chris says: "When people can actually travel to the United States...their perception of our country changes dramatically. Seventy five percent (of tourists) are more favorable toward the country and 60% of them actually say they are more predisposed towards US policy as a result...." Today on Morning Joe
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Mike and Chris Thompson, president/CEO of Brand USA

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Mike Barnicle, Joe Scarborough and Nicole Wallace discuss an op-ed from the Washington Post written by Dana Milbank, "Obama Morphs Into Bush," which parallels the recent firing of Obama's Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to that of Donald Rumsfeld by George W. Bush. Both resignations came after significant midterm losses, both in the 6th years of Obama and Bush's respective presidencies. Hear what Mike has to say here:
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Mike Barnicle, Joe Scarborough and Nicole Wallace discuss an op-ed from the Washington Post

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"It's certainly mystifying...6 or 7 hours, inviting a crowd to gather, grow and assemble..." Says Mike of the decision to wait until 9pm local time to announce the already concluded verdict for Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.
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"It's certainly mystifying...6 or 7 hours, inviting a crowd to gather, grow and assemble..."

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Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle with Former Special Assistant to President Obama Joshua Dubois and MSNBC political analyst Eugene Robinson on the verdict to not indict Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Mike asks Eugene, "You have children...talk about the inherent difficulty that white people in this country will just never get...about black parents raising children and having to tell them at a certain age to be aware of traffic stops…."
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Mike on the verdict to not indict Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown

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Today on Morning Joe, Mike and Joe Scarborough discuss race issues in regard to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, awaiting the Grand Jury's decision on whether or not to criminally charge the white police officer, Darren Wilson, who fatally shot Brown in August. Mike says, "We could sit here and talk forever about this and we're not going to get close to the feeling of estrangement that many in the black community feel...when that cop car comes rolling down the street." A decision is expected today.
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Mike and Joe Scarborough discuss race issues

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Mike says about President Barack Obama's notably debated executive action order on immigration: "His signing the executive action order...is the perfect framework for a deal of some sort to happen. The question is: Will Barack Obama...cut a deal that's good for him that Republicans will accept? This order...is a very narrowly drawn executive order." Today on Morning Joe.
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Mike on President Barack Obama's executive action order on immigration

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Mike and the Morning Joe team discuss the alarming number of sexual assaults happening on college campuses across the US. Mike asks investigative journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely, author of the Rolling Stone article A Rape on Campus, "Why not just stick with what happens in real life, not on a campus -- if you are raped you go to the police and the police pursue it, and charge or not charge the rapist?" Watch the full report here:
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Mike and the Morning Joe team discuss sexual assaults on college campuses

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Today on Morning Joe: Mike Barnicle, Tom Brokaw and Nancy Palmer remember Nancy's husband, TV legend John Palmer and discuss his memoir, "Newscatcher," which debuted recently. Mike says, "There was an element to John, I don't know whether it's generational or whether it's from his roots...he was a nice man, a generous man, willing to spend time with younger reporters -- imparting his wisdom to them. Do you sense that that is missing at all today in our business?"
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Mike Barnicle, Tom Brokaw and Nancy Palmer remember Nancy's husband, TV legend John Palmer

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On Morning Joe today: Mika says of controversial MIT economist and an Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber, "Who here on this table doesn't think he'a a jerk? He's a total jerk! He's completely a hypocrite..." Hear Mike's response to Mika here:
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Mike's response to Mika about Jonathan Gruber

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Mike asks Sen. John Hoeven about the contentious debate over the Keystone Pipeline XL project and the upcoming Senate vote to approve it: "Do you have any environmental concern about the passage of this bill?"
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Mike asks Sen. John Hoeven about debate over the Keystone Pipeline XL project

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Mike comments on MLB player Giancarlo Stanton's recent contract with the Miami Marlins, the largest contract in US sports history: "It is a clown deal for that franchise," he says on Morning Joe.
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Mike comments on MLB player Giancarlo Stanton

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Mike and the Morning Joe team discuss regrettable comments made by MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, who has been described as the "architect of Obamacare." Gruber attributes the passing of the legislation to the "lack of transparency" in the law and the "stupidity of the American voter". Mike likens Gruber to David Stockman of the Reagan administration, who said, "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers," in reference to the federal budget.
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Mike and the Morning Joe team discuss the "architect of Obamacare"

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Gov. Howard Dean said on Morning Joe that the new plan to drug test welfare recipients is a "war on poor people." Mike in response says: "There is a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be poor in this country. Nobody elects to be poor...why don't we drug test the members of each and every legislature?"
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Mike says: "There is a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be poor in this country.”

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Mike asks retired Lt. General and author of Why We Lost, Daniel Bolger, "Do you think that the mission we gave the young men and women who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan was clearly defined by the command? Did we fail...the young men and women that serve this country?" Hear their conversation:
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Mike asks retired Lt. General Daniel Bolger

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Carine McCandless, author of The Wild Truth and sister of the late Chris McCandless whose story inspired Jon Krakauer's novel, Into the Wild joined the Morning Joe team this morning. Carine's more recent take on her brother's story in The Wild Truth delves deeper into the truths behind what happened to her brother and why...truths she said she was not ready to share until now. Mike asks Carine of Chris, "What was the driving factor in forcing him into the wilderness?" Hear her answer here:
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Carine McCandless joined the Morning Joe team this morning

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Mike and author Stephen King on his new novel, Revival. Mike asks King of his particular use of narrative, "How do you arrive at deciding when the narrator is going to leave off and you're going to take us down some other dark trail...." Hear Stephen King's answer here!
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Mike and author Stephen King

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Mike, Joe and Willie with retired Marine and Co-Founder/CEO of Team Rubicon, Jake Wood, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Thank You For Your Service, David Finkel talk about the declining psychological welfare of veterans and what we can do to ameliorate this critical issue. Wood says, "I think that the public needs to not just thank veterans for their service. I think they need to ask them about it."
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Mike talks about the declining psychological welfare of veterans

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Mike and Chuck Todd discuss Todd's book about President Obama, The Stranger, Mike asks, "Am I wrong to feel a certain sense of sadness about this presidency in that...it arrived to us with such great joy and a great feeling about it, and to see what has happened to it..."
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Mike and Chuck Todd discuss Todd's book about President Obama

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On Morning Joe today, Mike asks Sec. of Veteran Affairs Robert McDonald what restructuring strategies are necessary to improve the experience veterans encounter at the VA in terms of customer service and overall experience. Hear what McDonald has to say here.
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Mike asks Sec. of Veteran Affairs Robert McDonald

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In honor of Veteran's Day today, Mike Barnicle and the Morning Joe team discuss the heightening state of crisis in the Middle East and what it means for the US. "Clearly the underpinning of what is happening here is the complete inability of the Iraqi army to defend their own country. We are no doubt, over the next several months, going to have to introduce more troops on the ground," says Mike.
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Mike Barnicle and the Morning Joe team discuss the heightening state of crisis in the Middle East

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Mike in defense of Obamacare says, "It does work! What is going to be the administration's response to this consistent assault on this piece of legislation?" Hear former Senior Advisor to President Obama and current Director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, David Axelrod's response:
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Mike in defense of Obamacare

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On Morning Joe today, Mike and Dorian Warren, associate professor at Columbia University, discuss immigration issues in the US. Warren says, "Every single president...over the last 60 years has taken executive action on immigration. This is smart politics...the Latino and the Asian American vote is up for grabs in the future and both of these groups is looking to see which party is going to represent them in terms of fixing the immigration system."
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On Morning Joe today, Mike and Dorian Warren

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Mike and Joe discuss violence in the NFL with sports columnist for The Boston Globe, Dan Shaughnessy. Mike says, "What was interesting to me...is the inherent glorification of the violence."
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Mike and Joe discuss violence in the NFL

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Mike talks about issues with class, politics, and the overall increasing skepticism of the US government. "There is a permanent political class in this country, at the top in Washington, and that class ... is so far removed from our daily lives." Today on Morning Joe.
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Mike talks about issues with class, politics, and the overall increasing skepticism of the US government

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Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and the rest of the Morning Joe team discuss President Obama: Willie says, "It's starting to ring a little hollow..." in response to the President's appearance on Face the Nation, during which he expressed his intention of "making Washington work," a call that US citizens have heard before.
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Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and the rest of the Morning Joe team discuss President Obama

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In Mike's home state of Massachusetts, Democrat Martha Coakley lost to Republican Charlie Baker in the governor's race. Listen to Mike's take on what went wrong for Coakley. On Morning Joe.
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Listen to Mike's take on what went wrong for Coakley

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"I have never seen an election where, I think, the biggest element in the election was the increasing distance between people and their governor...I was struck by it," Mike says of the widespread discord and general malaise that is undeniably prevalent throughout the US.
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Mike speaks of the widespread discord and general malaise that is undeniably prevalent throughout the US.

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"Harry Reid went out of his way to vilify and eventually get removed former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, who was on the edge of a deal...to put together an economic deal for this country moving forward. Harry Reid killed that," said Mike this morning on Morning Joe during a conversation with Joe and Mark Halperin about their disappointment in Harry Reid.
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Mike Barnicle on TV