Mike Barnicle on TV: 2019

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The Morning Joe panel shifts the conversation to the “complexities" of health care to talk about what matters most to Americans around the country: “The cost of health care, the access to health care, and the uncertainty of getting good health care,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. “One of the unfortunate aspects of American health care is nobody ever asks the cost of anything...nobody ever goes in and says, ‘well how much is this going to cost me?'” Hear more on the topic from Willie Geist, Al Sharpton, Jonathan Lemire and Susan Del Percio. Only on MSNBC.

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The “complexities" of health care

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The Morning Joe panels puts front and center the country’s need for infrastructure legislation, which has yet to been addressed in a meaningful way by President Donald Trump or the Democratic presidential candidates at primary debates. “People go to work every day. They drive every day over roads that are terrible, bridges that are crumbling. The infrastructure of this country badly needs revitalization and, yet, it hasn't happened,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Hear what The New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, Republican strategist Susan Del Percio and civil rights activists Rev. Al Sharpton have to say about this “tangible” issue that could provide jobs but is not being addressed by the current Administration.

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The Pressing Issue of Infrastructure

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Listen in as Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle and author Walter Isaacson, professor of history at Tulane University, discuss New York Times opinion writer Bret Stephens’ column, "What Will It Take to Beat Donald Trump?” "Bret's column gets to one of the points that I think you pick up when you're walking around in the real America, and it's that a large majority of Americans, perhaps, just want a candidate who comes forward and says ‘I'm going to take care of America,’” suggests Barnicle. Hear Isaacson’s response here. Only on MSNBC.

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NYT Op Ed: “What Will it Take to Beat Donald Trump?"

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“In addition to the word ‘durability'—underline it next to Bernie Sanders—you can also underline ‘consistency' and you can underline ‘predictability' and 'loyalty. All of his followers, they have been with him for many, many years. They didn't just sort of jump on the Sanders train a few months ago. They have been with him for many, many years, even prior to his announce run for the presidency,” says veteran columnist and Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about the supporters of Sen. Sanders as the panel discusses new reports that Democratic officials, political operatives and pundits are reconsidering Sen. Bernie Sanders’ chances to win the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidential race. Hear more of the conversation now.

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Sen. Sanders Surges in the Polls

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“In 2016, this country was attacked by a sworn enemy of the United State: Russia. They subverted our electoral process. They are doing it today as we speak—and I am not one of these guys with a big library in my head of things that were said by public people—but I don't think the President of the United States has ever specifically addressed what we're doing to counter this attack that is ongoing right now. So, we have a country, our country, still under attack by a sworn enemy, and I have yet really to hear the President of the United States saying, ‘Hey, this is what we're going to do,’” says Barnicle about President Donald Trump’s lack of protecting the US election process. Hear more of the discussion with Morning Joe’s Willie Geist, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Jonathan Lemire and Susan Del Percio.

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Russian Interference Continues under Trump

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle, Heidi Przybyla and Susan Del Percio about the status of the impeachment of President Donald Trump as well as the President’s daily tweets and the public’s reaction to it all. “Out there in this large country that we live in there's basically a shrug of the shoulders among ordinary people about all of this—certainly about the tweets and even about impeachment, despite how serious it is,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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No Twitter Break for President Trump

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) about the state of Michigan politics and its residents’ worry about health care and drinking water, the day after President Donald Trump rallied in the state during the House Impeachment vote.

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Michigan in 2020

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“The only way that Donald Trump can now rehabilitate himself is by winning in November of 2020, and there is nothing he will not do to win. So, the campaign is going to be an attack on race, on crime, on gender, on our culture, on everything around us. It is going to be the ugliest aspect of politics that we have ever encountered in our lives,” predicts veteran columnist Mike Barnicle on MSNBC’s Morning Joe during a discussion the morning following the historic impeachment of President Donald Trump by the deeply divided House of Representatives.

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Trump in 2020: He will stop at nothing to win

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“I didn't hear one of them saying about the President of the United States, ‘he's a good man. He's a decent man. He's an honest man.’ I didn't hear one Republican say that,” explains veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist about the final hours of debate between House Democrats and House Republicans regarding the articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump, before President Trump became the third president in history to be impeached. Listen to more of the conversation here.

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GOP: No Defense of President Trump

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying that he’s made up his mind that President Donald Trump should be acquitted if Trump were to face an impeachment trial in the Senate and dismissed the notion that he has to be a “fair juror,” claiming that he doesn’t see the need for a formal trial in the Senate. “How will history view these people? Unfortunately, we are now in an age and in a culture where there is no more history. There is no more truth. It's all within the next hour, it's all within what's on your phone. There's no more conscience in the United States Senate, really….Impeachment is being dealt with in a truly frivolous manner,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham: "I’m not trying to pretend to be a fair juror"

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Claire McCaskill and Mike Barnicle about prized free-agent pitcher Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees having agreed to a record nine-year, $324 million contract. “We talk a lot here about the taint in politics having to do with money and the corruption of cash in politics. This is an example of it being extended into Major League Baseball, until and in less Mookie Betts gets $350 million from the Boston Red Sox,” jokingly says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Money in Baseball

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the 2020 presidential race, specifically how the candidates stack up against President Donald J. Trump and how they are doing on the campaign trail with former Vice President Joe Biden “more than holding” Iowa while Sen. Elizabeth Warren has seen her support in Iowa drop by almost half. Join the conversation here.

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The 2020 presidential race

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and Julia Ainsley about an upcoming report from U.S. Attorney John Durham focused on the possibility of FBI and Justice Department misconduct in the run-up to the 2016 election through the spring of 2017, following Attorney General William Barr and Durham having held meetings with Italian intelligence officials in Rome as they sought to trace the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s alleged collusion with President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Hear more about what’s next in the process here.

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Russia investigation continues

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Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph stopped by the Morning Joe studio to talk about his book “That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea” and how Netflix, as Mike Barnicle noted, "literally changed the studio movie business for all time.” Listen in on the conversation.

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How Netflix Works

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle and legal analyst Danny Cevallos about the federal court ruling that former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a House subpoena in its Trump impeachment inquiry because top presidential advisers cannot ignore congressional demands for information. “In this sea of subpoenas, Danny, that have been issued, many people who have been issued a subpoena have just totally ignored the subpoena. How does that happen?” Hear Cevallos’ response here to what’s next.

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The Sea of Subpoenas

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The Morning Joe panel discusses Republicans having shown “disrespect” in their “attacks” of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Purple Heart recipient and Iraq war veteran, during his public testimony in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump and the ramifications their behavior may have on the Republican Party as a whole. "As we speak this morning, the United States Army is providing 24-hour security for this man who did his duty to the country,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about Vindman, who testified in his Army dress uniform.

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Republican “attacks’ on Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle about Kurt Volker, the former U.S. envoy to Ukraine, having revised his testimony—during his public hearing in the House impeachment inquiry—from his Oct. 3 private deposition, now saying he didn’t know at that time that military aid to Ukraine had been linked to Ukraine launching investigations that would have been politically beneficial to President Donald Trump.

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Volker changes his story

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Listen in on the conversation between Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade recapping the first week of the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump and the effectiveness of the Democrat’s lead counsel Daniel Goldman, who has been tasked with questioning key witnesses in the public hearings.

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Recap: Week One of the Impeaching Hearings

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Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarbough, Mike Barnicle and the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson review Week One of the public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump and look ahead to this week. “One of the things that set the week apart, I would think, would be Dan Goldman's questioning on the Democratic side—Dan Goldman's questioning, of each and every witness that appeared before the committee because it was professional, it was concise, it was to the point, it was deliberate and explanatory,” says Barnicle about Goldman, the Democrat's lead counsel in the impeachment inquiry.

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The latest on the Impeachment Hearings

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss Michael Bloomberg apologizing for the New York Police Department's policy of "stop and frisk," a controversial policing method the former mayor and potential 2020 candidate has repeatedly defended as helping to lower the murder rate during his time in office. “The stunning thing about this...was that Mike Bloomberg, who so vociferously backed this policy for years after he left the mayoralty, all of a sudden, boom, he turns around,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the discussion here.

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Bloomberg reverses on “stop-and-frisk"

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Listen in as the Morning Joe panel analyzes the status of the Republican Party heading into the 2020 national elections, following the state elections where Democrats won control of all three branches of government in Virginia for the first time in a generation. "If you're a Republican strategist...measuring last night’s results, looking forward to a year from now, your next year's election, it’s a shop-worn phrase, 'the canary in the coal mine.' But if you're a Republican strategist, can you tell your clients ‘got to watch out because the canary is dead?’” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of MSNBC national political correspondent Steve Kornacki. Hear Kornacki’s response here. Only on MSNBC.

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Republicans: Is the Canary Dead?

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Elise Jordan, John Heilemann and Mike Barnicle about the “destruction” of the Department of State in the era of President Donald Trump, after transcripts revealed that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House investigators that she felt shocked and threatened when she learned what President Trump had said about her on a July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president. “It's hard to believe, but there might be a larger story than the threats to Ambassador Yovanovitch—and it would be the slow destruction of the State Department as evidenced here in the release of these transcripts,” says Barnicle. "We're seeing this play out in real time now with the destruction of a single department, the State Department, that is key to the United States role in the world." Join the conversation here.

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Barnicle: The “destruction” of the State Department

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Mike Barnicle and Associated Press’ White House reporter Jonathan Lemire about voter trepidation over some of the policy plans of the Democratic presidential candidates, following Sen. Elizabeth Warren releasing her $52 trillion healthcare plan. “The idea of handing over your healthcare to the federal government is scaring a lot of people,” comments Barnicle. Hear more of the discussion now.

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Health Care for All?

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump’s most recent tweetstorm, 75 tweets over this past weekend alone, during which President Trump suggested Republicans should release their own versions of transcripts of interviews in the House's ongoing impeachment inquiry because Democrats are releasing “manipulated propaganda” as transcripts. “A lot of people know this...it's not a Republican transcript, it's not a Democratic transcript—it's a legitimate transcriber, a stenographer, an independent person. You're sworn that this is an accurate transcript that you're taking, and the idea that the Republicans have a different transcript than the Democrats – absurd,” says Barnicle of the non-partisan position of stenographer.

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POTUS’ Weekend Tweetstorm

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Join the Morning Joe conversation with Lanhee Chen, an American policy expert and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, as he discusses with Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle the Republican defense to President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, including the position of his former boss Sen. Mitt Romney, the only Republican senator to speak out against Trump’s efforts to enlist the aid of foreign governments to probe a leading political opponent.

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The Republican Response to the Impeachment Inquiry

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Mike Barnicle and the Daily Beast’s Sam Stein discuss House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s strong leadership skills in handling the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump and the Republicans’ stance amid the mounting evidence. “The hypocrisy involved in this process is kind of amazing,” says Barnicle. Listen to what Stein believes is next for the White House.

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Next Steps in the Impeachment Inquiry

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle about the highly anticipated testimony of the National Security Council's top Ukraine expert Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who reportedly planned to tell House impeachment investigators that he was so troubled by President Donald Trump's July phone call with Ukraine's President that he reported his concerns to a superior, according to a copy of his opening statement. "My view is this is a great American day because of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who came to the United States with his parents when he was 3 years of age, made a life for himself, spent 20 years in the American military, fought for the United States in Iraq and, as you pointed out, was awarded the Purple Heart,” says Barnicle. Hear the rest of the discussion here.

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Barnicle: “This is a great American day"

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg discuss a federal judge ruling that the Justice Department must turn over former special counsel Robert Mueller's grand jury evidence to the House Judiciary Committee. "The same thing was ruled during the Nixon Administration,” says Barnicle. "Where does the Trump Administration go from here other than an obvious appeal?" Listen to Aronberg’s answer and why “irony is not dead.” Only on MSNBC.

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Justice Dept. to Appeal Another Ruling

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle about former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly having said he warned President Donald Trump that hiring a “yes man” in his place would result in impeachment and White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham’s statement refuting Kelly’s claim. “Where is Mick Mulvaney?” asks Barnicle about the current, acting Chief of Staff to the President. “You never see him, you rarely hear from him. When you do hear from him, he implicates himself in all sorts of impeachable offenses potentially. Where is he?"

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White House Warnings

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“A lot of people in this country just want the entire situation calmed down. They want the country to calm down. They want candidates to calm down. It would be tough to have the crowd last night calm down because they were really into it, unfortunately; but I think it's important going forward —especially today as we talk about the events that occurred over the weekend—that we take the time and the thought to separate Donald Trump and, whatever you feel about Donald Trump, to separate him and how he behaves, and how he speaks, from the actions of the Delta Force team, the special operators, who flew in and conducted that mission. It's two separate things, and the best of us, the best of who we are, and what we do around the world, and why so much of the world still relies on us, was in operation,” says Barnicle after this weekend saw President Trump receive “lock him up” chants at Game Five of the World Series and U.S. forces kill ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a raid in Northwestern Syria.

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US: Let’s Calm Down

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“Nearly 300 elected officials representing the United States of America, our country, don't have the character, the courage, or the confidence in their own beliefs to stand up against a man, Donald Trump, who is totally ill-equipped to be President of the United States—and they know it,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during a conversation with hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough about impeachment proceedings of presidents past and Republican lawmakers who continue to protect the controversial actions of President Donald Trump. More of the discussion is here.

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Republican support of Trump

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Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss the latest polls and what’s on the minds of the public as the 2020 presidential race approaches. "They want someone who will calm the situation down—get it back to a state of semi-normalcy, if we can ever get back to a state of semi-normalcy. (Vice President) Joe Biden does that for them, for many people,” says Barnicle about the Biden’s presidential candidacy. Join the conversation here.

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What do voters want?

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal following congressional testimony from William Taylor, the top American diplomat in Ukraine, that tied Trump to withholding foreign aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. “It’s a story well told by a man who took notes. The statement reads like the first chapter of a novel or a treatment for a movie. It has everything that the public can understand. It has good guys and bad guys. It has heroes and villains, and it has an ending that you can guess at—but you kind of know where the ending is going,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the discussion and what this testimony means for the Republicans who still support the president.

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The Trump Ukraine “novel"

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle as they review and discuss the Washington Nationals having defeated the Houston Astros in Game One of the 2019 World Series. Join the conversation here.

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World Series Game 1

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and USA TODAY Washington bureau chief Susan Page discuss the “extraordinary change” in the opinion of many Americans on the impeachment proceedings involving President Donald Trump and the impact of his presidency on the credibility and character of the American commitment around the globe. Only on MSNBC.

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What’s next for President Trump?

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Lawfare Blog editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes discuss how oft-repeated conspiracy theories can become salient in the context of an election regardless of merit, and how that applies to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton being cleared by the State Department of any deliberate mishandling of classified information contained in her emails. Listen in on the conversation here.

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The damage caused on conspiracy theories

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Listen in on this Morning Joe discussion between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about Republican senators beginning to distance themselves from President Donald Trump. "We all know that—privately in the cloakroom—they speak very disparagingly of him,” Barnicle said of the senators reaction to President Trump. "And if there was a secret ballot in the United States Senate, I think Trump would lose 90 to 10....” Hear Joe’s response and weigh in on the conversation here.

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POTUS losing Republican support

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing the House will initiate a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump following a call POTUS made to the president of Ukraine in July, in which he admitted discussing Joe Biden in the context of fighting "corruption" in the country. “For months now we know that (Pelosi) has been drawn reluctantly to where we are today. Her background played, I think, an important role in her decision…and her background is faith in and devotion to this country of ours,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here. Only on MSNBC.

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Trump impeachment inquiry

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2020 presidential candidate Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ), who says his campaign must raise nearly $2 million before the end of the quarter or his presidential candidacy would be essentially over, stops by Morning Joe to talk about his plans to improve the country if he is elected president. Asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle: "Senator Booker, my wife and I we have seven children, we have a couple of grandchildren. I'm concerned about our grandchildren. Why should I send you a hundred dollars or a million dollars? What are you going to do for them?” Listen to Booker’s answer here.

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Sen. Booker needs $2 million

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Listen in as the Morning Joe panels talks with former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal about the escalating standoff between Congress and Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire over his refusal to share a whistle-blower complaint with lawmakers that is said to be at least in part about President Donald Trump’s communications with Ukraine, which the Justice Department has said Maguire can lawfully keep secret. "What's going on at the Justice Department and their interpretation of this law? What's your interpretation?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Katyal. Hear his response here. Only on MSNBC.

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Ukraine allegations against POTUS

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation about President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee where Democrats—with the exception of House Judiciary Committee majority counsel Barry Berke—struggled to get answers from Lewandowski as to whether he helped President Trump to obstruct special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. "It was a total clown show...with (the) rare exception, Barry Berke, a skilled prosecutor asking questions of a defendant. Why they allow various members of Congress their five minutes of time on television to ask inane and ludicrous, leading questions of Corey Lewandowski—or anyone else—and not stick...with a skilled, knowledgeable prosecutor. Why they don't do that is beyond me,” says Barnicle about the Democrats. Join the conversation here with MSNBC’s Barnicle, Willie Geist and Ari Melber.

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Trump/Lewandowski inquiry

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Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle juxtaposes the rallies of Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren and President Donald Trump, after having attended Warren’s rally last night in New York City. “In (Trump’s) speeches and what he tells the crowd, there's an edge of anger and resentment in the crowd in response to what he says. The Warren rallies…are bent on policy, and they are bent on the future—on your future and what we want to do with this country.” Hear more about the candidates’ crowd size, content and inspiration and ideas here.

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Crowd size: Does it matter?

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss former New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera—the first man unanimously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame—having received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony with President Donald Trump. “Mariano Rivera is one the nicest human beings that you’ll ever meet in your life, even though he's an exalted and honored professional baseball player. Hall of Fame baseball player,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Mariano Rivera receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss a new New Hampshire poll that indicates several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates—except Sen. Elizabeth Warren—could beat President Donald Trump in a general election. "Elizabeth Warren has run an incredibly great campaign. She was written off earlier this year in the spring, and she's come charging forward. Her rallies are electric. She is specific with her proposals. She does indeed have a plan for most things, but there's a lethal aspect to her campaign…It's things like Medicare-for-all, it's decriminalization along the border, elements like that. She's got to figure out a way to come back to the middle, and that brings you to Joe Biden. That's where he is. That's where he's run his campaign since the day he announced. He's a moderate. This is a moderate country,” says Barnicle about America. Join the conversation here.

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POTUS v. the Democrats

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg as they discuss the issues facing this country. “You've been going across this country for months now. You've probably picked up that the country is kind of divided—that people are anxious about who we are and about our future as a republic. The country was divided and endangered 51 years ago this summer because men were being killed in a war built on a lie. We survived that in one sense, but the repercussions of that war, I think still exist today. So, if you go through the country, and you think about the political divisions and the cultural divisions that separate us, if you're president of the United States, what do you do about perhaps the number one priority for the next American president: To heal this country?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Listen to Buttigieg’s thoughts on unity and healing. Only on MSNBC.

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Barnicle and Buttigieg

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“Please explain to me, Senator Tillis, why you allowed $80 million to be diverted from people who really serve our country,” asks Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) as the panel discussion with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski centers on GOP senators whose states will collectively lose hundreds of millions of dollars after having voted in support of President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration on the U.S.-Mexico border. Learn more here.

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Trump’s Wall: States’ Loss

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“We have a commander-in-chief—President of the United States—who considers that he can never be wrong about anything, about something so inconsequential as the path of a hurricane to Alabama instead of the natural path that every weather service was telling him. He can never be wrong. So he has to alter reality. That gets into the other really larger and maybe lingering damage: Is there any more truth? What is truth now in this administration?” asks Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a discussion with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about President Donald Trump’s presentation of a doctored version of an official National Hurricane Center map of Hurricane Dorian's path to defend his false claim that Alabama faced a serious threat from the hurricane. Join the conversation here.

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Is there truth?

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Listen in on the conversation among Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle with Victor Cha, the Center for Strategic and International Studies senior advisor and Korea Chair, about President Donald Trump’s capability in dealing with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, following a report that shows North Korea may be building a submarine capable of launching nuclear missiles. "As an expert on this, are you comfortable with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, sitting down with Kim Jong Un? Is this not a mismatch?” asks Barnicle. Hear Cha’s answer about the lack of progress coming from the president’s three meeting with Un and how those meetings might legitimize Un, who he describes as “the worst human rights violator in the world."

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Trump and Un: Mismatch

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Eddie Glaude Jr. and as they discuss former Vice President Joe Biden being the “return to normalcy” candidate in the 2020 presidential election, following the release of a Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll for the 2020 Democratic nomination that shows Biden in first place while Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are a distant second and third place, respectively. “(If) you listen to people as they talk about the various candidates they’ve seen, there’s a longing among ordinary people out shopping in a shopping mall or putting gas in their car to just calm everything down in this country. And I think that might be a point of strength for the former Vice President,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the conversation here.

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A Return to Normalcy?

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“I guess we're in a stage now where people don't realize that history never stops,” said Morning Joe’s veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Joe Scarborough and Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson about President Donald Trump’s performance at the G7 Summit in France, where he openly criticized his predecessor, President Barack Obama. “You had an odd portrait—a mixture of resentment and envy on Trump's part talking about Barack Obama….But you also seem to have a very dangerous portrait of instability for the first time really on the world stage this year and the portrait is of Donald J. Trump.” Hear more of the conversation about the G7 Summit and Robinson’s latest column on “Trump’s Obama Envy."

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“Trump’s Obama Envy"

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“Consumers are finding out that (President Donald) Trump's talk on tariffs and how China is picking up the tab for all of the tariffs is blatantly false. You’re going back-to-school shopping for your children, ok, (and) sneakers that cost ninety bucks in June now cost ninety-five bucks because guess what: We're picking up the tab on the tariff, on the trade wars that are so easy to win for Donald Trump,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle on Morning Joe during a conversation with Joe Scarborough about the current status of the U.S. economy.

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Who pays for the trade wars?

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle talk with PBS NewsHour’s White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor about President Donald Trump continuing to accuse Jewish voters of disloyalty if they voted for Democrats. Says Barnicle: “The President of the United States in where he is speaking about Jewish people in America, American citizens, as if they are a separate category. He’s put them to one side. And he's using them as a political tool because it's all about him. It's all self-involvement, everything that he says is all self-involvement."

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Barnicle on POTUS: “It’s all self-involvement"

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Jon Meacham and Mike Barnicle about President Donald Trump’s foreign relations and the Foundering Fathers’ concerns on this issue. “We’ve seen collectively a remarkable portrait of instability and incompetence on parade from the President of United States talking about events that are current, that are dangerous, that are affecting the lives not only of American citizens, but are affecting our relations with countries around the globe….We've seen the videos this morning of his behavior and his rhetoric. This is, I think, getting worse by the day,” says Barnicle about Trump’s presidency. Join the conversation here.

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POTUS’ Foreign Relations

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Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters discuss a front page story about the paper’s investigation that revealed the El Paso shooter’s hate-filled manifesto echoed the incendiary words of President Donald Trump as well as of conservative media stars. “There is also a very short timeline in many instances between the number of times that these words have been used on Fox...and sometimes a very short timeline between that language, that type of language, and tweets from the President of the United States directly reflecting the language,” says Barnicle. Hear more of the conversation and read the New York Times’ article.

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Fox and Trump: Incendiary words

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle about the death of Jeffrey Epstein—the financier charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy—in an apparent suicide at a federal jail in Manhattan, which has brought forth much speculation and conspiracy theories. “We need answers as soon as today, and unfortunately, DOJ has been very, very slow getting off the mark here in providing the American public with answers. This is both outrageous, unbelievable, and it tempts people to thinking that the worst has happened—that government is never on the level; and this is just going to be a full-blown conspiracy cloud that needs to be put to rest immediately,” says Barnicle. Join the discussion here.

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The death of Jeffrey Epstein

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Clint Watts and Mike Barnicle as they discuss the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that have left at least 29 people dead and the “violent rhetoric” in America under President Donald Trump. Says Barnicle about President Trump: “His language of license lingers in the air like the smell of cordite around mass shootings. That's a fact. Unfortunately, we will today and we’ve already heard yesterday, one public person after another saying: 'This is not who we are' in speaking of the shootings. The sad fact is: This is who we are. This is actually who we are and who we have become….We have these one-man armies of white nationalists. We live in a nation awash with guns—more than 290 million weapons, but that's just part of it…There is something deeply, deeply wrong in this country.” Join the conversation here.

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Barnicle: "This is who we are"

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss a new poll from Quinnipiac University that asks: “Do you think President Trump is Racist.” Comments Barnicle: “The President of the United States is now in a position where he scares people….Fifty one percent of those people polled think the President of the United States is a racist as opposed to 45 percent who say ‘no, he's not a racist.’ That is an astounding number, and ...he's going to have real difficulty because you can’t scare people. He has scared people.”

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Is POTUS a racist?

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they discuss and review night one of the second Democratic debate, where liberals and moderates clashed over healthcare and immigration. “The biggest winner last night was substance—because they actually discussed health care legislation in some detail,” said Barnicle, who assessed the debate on CNN was impressive, educational and filled with substance. What do you think?

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Second debate, first night

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Listen in as the Morning Joe panel discusses whether President Donald Trump has enough support to win reelection, after the release of a poll that indicates 54 percent of people say they definitely won’t re-elect him. “Donald Trump in 2016 campaigned as he did—he never expected to win. So, he was outrageous from the beginning, and now he's in the position of trying to mimic what he did in 2016….Except I've got to tell you, I don't know about the polls; but, there's only so many aggrieved white guys out there in a pool that you're swimming in that you could attract. That’s his problem,” adds veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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The odds of Trump in 2020

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle as they recap and discuss the 2019 MLB All-Star Game, which featured players being mic’d up while playing so they could interact with broadcasters Joe Buck and John Smoltz during the game broadcast on Fox. “That was one of the most enjoyable games to watch that I can recall in years. The interplay between Joe Buck, John Smoltz and not only Freddie Freeman who is very funny, asking for the signs...but, the three Houston players in the field at the same time, all wired up, talking about how exhausted they were from running from first to third. It was just spectacularly fun to watch,” says Barnicle about the 2019 MLB All-Star Game. Join the conversation here.

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A fun night for baseball

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“Donald Trump across 40 years in business, in his personal life, through his marriages and into his presidency, has thrived and prospered on one component above all: Division. He divides people, he divides lawyers, he divides building bidders on properties, and he's dividing the country,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a discussion with Joe Scarborough and Claire McCaskill about President Donald Trump having doubled down on his controversial stance and statements on the Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino teenagers who had been wrongly convicted of an assault on a white female jogger in Central Park in 1989. Listen in on more of the conversation. Only on MSNBC.

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POTUS: Dividing the country

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"Can you tell me the last time the President of the United States stood up and spoke exclusively and extensively about the single source, the potential source, of his strength–the American economy?” asks Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle as the discussion turns to President Donald Trump’s failure to solely tout the country’s “booming economy” as he pushes for his 2020 reelection. More of the discussion here with Barnicle and Joe Scarborough.

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The USA’s winning economy

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation about President Donald Trump’s “unpopular” poll numbers looking forward to the 2020 presidential race. “The underlying numbers on women, who are clearly most eligible, most likely to vote, are devastating against Donald Trump in terms of not voting for Donald Trump – no matter what,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about women voters during the discussion with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Nicholas Confessore.

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POTUS: “Unpopular” poll numbers

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“What does he care about? He cares about himself. That’s all he cares about…The President is obsessed with himself—not the country, not any formulation of plans to improve the country, not his goals for his administration’s first term and certainly not what would be a second term set of goals,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Elise Jordan and Eugene Robinson about a New York Times report from inside the White House that indicates President Donald Trump was consistently distracted during a state-of-the-race meeting with his campaign manager and rarely speaks to his aides about what he would want to accomplish in a second term.

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POTUS: “Obsessed with himself"

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“Trumpism...It's not a philosophy. It’s not ideology. It's rooted in ignorance….What happens to the Republican Party when Trumpism either fades away, diminishes, he loses, whatever. What happens to those people who are in awe of it right now?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of presidential historian Jon Meacham during a Morning Joe conversation about the future of the Republican Party in the wake of “Trumpism.” Listen to more of the conversation with Mike, Jon and Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough. Only on MSNBC.

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The Future of "Trumpism"

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As we await updates on the condition of former Boston Red Sox David Ortiz, who is reportedly in stable condition after surgery for a gunshot wound in this lower back while in the Dominican Republic, Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle says: “David Ortiz is a genuinely good person. He is an iconic figure in Major League Baseball. He's a very popular player among other players in Major League Baseball. There's no sense of envy or jealousy toward him because of exuberant personality and because of the way he has handled himself.” Listen to more of the conversation here about Ortiz and the growing dangers in the Dominican Republic with Barnicle and Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough.

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David Ortiz shot in the Dominican Republic

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“These headstones behind us are literally—it's no stretch of history—the building blocks for the alliances that keep us safe today, that keep Europe safe today,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle, referencing the graves of D-Day soldiers during this morning’s live show broadcast from Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, to memorialize the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Listen to more of the discussion with Joe Scarborough, David Ignatius and Barnicle about the evolution of Germany since World War II. Only on MSNBC.

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Remembering the soldiers of D-Day

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle live from Normandy, France, to commemorate this 75th anniversary of D-Day. “We did this in conjunction, of course, with the British and the French. But largely us—the United States of America did this: What occurred here 75 years ago on this truly momentous day that brought the hope of freedom and liberation to the world—it was us,” says Barnicle. More of the moving coverage is here.

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U.S. = US

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, David Ignatius and Mike Barnicle as they reflect on surviving D-Day veterans and fallen D-Day soldiers while the show is live from Normandy as world leaders, D-Day veterans and others gather at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. “Each of the times I've been here to cover it or bringing my family here, I find it an overwhelming site because of the knowledge of what went on here, and it strikes you, or at least it strikes me, when you stop at individual head stones…David and I were here at dusk, and I stopped at one head stone, a young man from South Dakota; and I looked him up after we left here, try to find the family history, and he was just a little over the age of 18 when he was killed on June 6th, 1944. And you wonder what would bring a young man at 18 from South Dakota all the way here to Omaha Beach to die for your country, which is what they all did. They died for the person next to them in the Higgins boats as they landed, they died for the friends they made; but they died for our country,” says Barnicle about the fallen soldiers of D-Day. Join the conversation here.

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Barnicle on fallen D-Day soldiers

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Listen in on this Morning Joe debate about the merits of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) decision not to participate in Fox News' town halls in her 2020 presidential bid. “This fits Elizabeth Warren, this is who she is,” says contributor Mike Barnicle. "Elizabeth Warren arguably is the only candidate—whose policies she articulates very well—who speaks to the needs of not only everybody else in the country, but the Fox audience specifically. Hear more of the conversation with Donny Deutsch, Nicholas Confessore, and Willie Geist here.

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Elizabeth Warren Turns Fox Down

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NBC News Correspondent Heidi Przybyla and Morning Joe’s Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss former Rep. Trey Gowdy’s (R-SC) declaration that President Donald Trump should consider being indicted to avoid an impeachment investigation. “This would be so great. It would be a gift from heaven if he ever acceded to Trey Gowdy's request—just simply for the cross-examination. It would be the highest rated TV program ever: Donald Trump being cross examined by a skilled prosecutor,” says Barnicle about the hypothetical situation. Listen to more of the conversation here.

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POTUS: Indictment v. Impeachment

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Listen in as the Morning Joe panel discusses the inherent problems in President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. will impose 5 percent tariffs on all Mexican goods, a tax that would “gradually increase” until Mexico steps up its immigration enforcement actions. “Part of it gets to the root of this presidency. He issued a statement—the White House issued a statement on the President's behalf...surrounding this trade policy. It's a lengthy statement, it's an incoherent statement and it begs the question, is there still a White House staff?” Asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the Trump Administration. Join the conversation here with Republican strategist Susan Del Percio and CNBC’s Brian Sullivan.

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New Tariffs on Mexico

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The Morning Joe panel of Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss with Accenture executive and "Pivot to the Future” author Omar Abbosh the upcoming revolution of new 5G technology, which is “more than faster networks" as President Trump announced it’s a race “America must win.” Hear more about what the next five to 10 years might bring and who will be most impacted and benefited by the new technology.

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The 5G Revolution is Coming

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Thomas Maier, author of the new book “Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro.” Veteran columnist Mike Barnicle asks Maier: “In the course of living this book as you reported and wrote this book, do you think there is a truth out there that the American public does not know and might never know?” Listen to Maier’s response here. Only on MSNBC.

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Mafia Spies

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“There's a certain sadness with me about Memorial Day because you think of the word ‘memorial’ and part of that word incorporates memory. And with all the tools we have today—with Snapchat, and Twitter, and our smartphones, they're incredible instruments—but they've caused a loss of memory in America: Memory about who we are and who we've been. Memorial Day used to be a time that was not just the start of summer, it was a time when nearly everyone remembered the fallen because nearly everyone in this country had been touched by the fallen…in the people they knew. That’s gone. We now live in a 1 percent world, where less than 1 percent of people serve in the military,” says Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Mika Brzezinski and Jon Meacham about the very essence of Memorial Day and the decline in recognition of the significance of this national holiday. Listen in here.

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Memorial Day 2019

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Listen in as Vanity Fair senior reporter Emily Jane Fox tells Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle about her “stunning” interview with Stormy Daniels’ former attorney, Michael Avenatti, against the advice of his attorney. Avenatti has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan in two alleged schemes, charged with fraud and aggravated identity theft involving Daniels, and with attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike. “Every once in a while in the course of this business that we're all in, you get an interview like this, and I assume that at some point during the interview you had to be thinking, ‘I can't believe he's just talking like this,’ comments Barnicle. Hear more of the interview here.

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Avenatti’s Fall

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Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle and former Treasury official Steve Rattner discuss how history may look back at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the longest running Majority Leader in the history of the Senate. “Do you think it’s possible that the focus on the most important and dominant figure in this period of history will be Mitch McConnell?” asks Barnicle. Hear Rattner’s assessment. Only on MSNBC.

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McConnell: "The Enabler"

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The Morning Joe team talks with Abrams Media CEO/Founder Dan Abrams about unclear powers of Congress amid the Trump Administration’s refusal to cooperate with subpoenas from House Democrats. “What powers does Congress have historically, and what do they have today, and are they being stripped of that power?” asks contributor Mike Barnicle. Hear Abrams answer here. Only on MSNBC.

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Congress v. Trump

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Watch the conversation between Vanity Fair senior reporter Emily Jane Fox and Morning Joe contributor Mike Barnicle about how having worked for the Trump Administration might impact the career of former White House communications director Hope Hicks, who has been subpoenaed by the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee to testify before the panel and hand over documents relating to her work for President Donald Trump.

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"Trump Taint?"

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U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), vice chair of the Judiciary Committee, joins Morning Joe to talk about the Trump Administration’s refusal to cooperate with subpoenas from House Democrats. Asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle: “Congresswoman, simple question here: How do you proceed with an impeachment inquiry when you can get no witnesses to appear before your panel?” Listen to Scanlon’s response here. Only on MSNBC.

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Impeachment inquiry?

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Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle discuss some of the challenges facing Democratic presidential candidates, particularly former Vice President Joe Biden, in their quest to beat President Donald Trump in the 2020 race. “A huge percentage of people in this country are living on a paycheck-to-paycheck economy…and they're not often talked about, they're not often addressed. A big day on the street for a lot of families is the fact that they’ve got enough money to pay the oil bill, or buy a pair of sneakers, or have their kids being able to go to the movies this weekend. Those are the issues that the candidates like Joe Biden have to address going forward,” explains Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Democrats’ challenges for 2020

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and POLITICO senior writer Jake Sherman about a confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo that indicates President Donald Trump's tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president take the rare step of asserting executive privilege, which contradicts Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s statement there must be a legislative purpose for demanding Trump’s tax returns.

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Trump’s Tax Returns

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The conversation continues between Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle and NBC News national security analyst Jeremy Bash about the upcoming meetings of House and Senate intelligence committees with top Trump Administration officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, about the rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran. “From your perspective, do you think that the issue of the use and/or misuse of intelligence with regard to the situation in Iran right now will be raised and will we hear anything about it?” asks Barnicle. Listen to Bash’s response here. Only on MSNBC.

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Tensions between the US and Iran continue

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The Morning Joe panel of Willie Geist, Jeremy Bash, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle discuss the growing distance between President Donald Trump and National Security Advisor John Bolton on their positions and handling of the escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Hear the latest on Trump’s reversal on the threat posed and what might happen next. Only on MSNBC.

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US v. Iran: What’s next?

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Listen in on this Morning Joe conversation between Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle as they underscore the significance of Democrats being able to reach and connect with blue-collar voters as the 2020 presidential election approaches, following a New York Times report that suggests blue-collar voters in Youngstown, Ohio, are sticking with President Donald Trump despite the lack economic boom in their community. “You have to wonder out there in the country, in Youngstown Ohio, people watching and listening to this, do they really grasp the importance of what’s going on? I think probably at some level they do, but on a day-to-day basis they don’t, and this story for the Democrats: To achieve some sense of victory or standing in this story, they need to improve their narrative. They need a storyteller, and they need Bob Mueller to appear before the House to testify,” comments. Join the conversation here.

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What the Democrats need

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Hear from Hana Ali, daughter of the legendary boxer and activist Muhammad Ali, who joined Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle to share intimate details from her new book “At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Forgiveness.” “You had many, many hours of spending quiet, reflective time with your father. Talk about who he really was in his essence,” asks Barnicle. Only on MSNBC.

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Muhammad Ali: "He belongs to the world"

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“Where is the United States Senate?" asks Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle of Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) in relation to the Senate’s attempts to put together new legislation for the Authorization for Use of Military Force as the tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalate and while the Trump Administration is reportedly mulling a plan to send up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East to deal with the situation. Listen to Coons’ explanation about the internal turmoil plaguing the Senate. Only on MSNBC.

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Senate setbacks

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"People should be really annoyed at this: When it says the House sends a letter to the Attorney General demanding to know what he's doing with the ACA, and he's been given two weeks to respond, okay. If you have a preexisting condition and you have to go to an emergency room—you, yourself or with one of your children—you don't get two weeks to respond. Your entire income, your entire family's future could be gone in one moment in an emergency room, and we give these clowns two weeks to respond to the potential destruction of an act that has saved hundreds of lives,” comments Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Mika Brzezinski and Eugene Robinson about House committee chairs having demanded information from the Department of Justice—within two weeks—on the decision to revert its position on the Affordable Care Act, now holding it as unconstitutional. Listen in here.

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The difference two weeks can make

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Hear Morning Joe’s veteran columnist and contributor Mike Barnicle, President of the Council of Foreign Relations Richard Haass, and Wendy Sherman, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs discuss the impact of President Donald Trump's escalating trade war between the US and China, which is causing the market to slide. Only on MSNBC.

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US v. China

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Listen in as the Morning Joe panel discusses the possibility and impact of rising oil prices in the US as a result of the escalating tensions with Iran and the Trump Administration’s consideration of a plan to send up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East. “There are so many elements of danger, potential danger…we could spend the whole three hours discussing it,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a conversation with CNBC senior national correspondent Brian Sullivan and the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson.

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US / Iran tensions rising

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Listen in as the Morning Joe panel discusses a New York Times report based on newly obtained tax information reveals that from 1985 to 1994 President Donald Trump reporter over $1 billion in business losses, making him the among the largest individual, taxpaying losers of money at the time. “You could read any biography that's ever been written about Donald Trump, and it wouldn't come close to a portrayal of him as an individual better than this forensic autopsy of his money, his lack of money,” say veteran columnist Mike Barnicle about the New York Times investigation into President Trump’s taxes. Join the conversation here with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and New York Times reporter Susanne Craig, who broke the story with Russ Buettner.

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POTUS: Losses totalled $1.17 billion

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The Morning Joe panel discusses the U.S. economy in the Trump era, the debate between capitalism and socialism, and why income inequality will be a pivotal issue for every candidate in the 2020 presidential race. “We have these wonderful reports about the economy booming…(but) there are still large pockets of the economy in this country where people haven’t received a percentage increase in wages…in 10, 15, 20 years,” explains veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Listen in to the conversation about the perils of income and wealth inequality with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Andy Serwer, editor in chief of Yahoo Finance. Only on MSNBC.

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The US economy and income disparity

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mike Lupica and Mike Barnicle as they review and discuss the shocking and controversial decision to overturn Maximum Security’s win at the 145th Kentucky Derby, where stewards disqualified Maximum Security for impeding progress around the turn for the home stretch. “A DQ in Kentucky could be different than a DQ in New York or Massachusetts….There’s no national rule governing horse racing,” says Barnicle. Join the conversation here.

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Kentucky Derby controversy

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While Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle talk about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accusing Attorney General William Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congress about special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and Mueller’s issues with how Barr characterized the special counsel’s findings, Barnicle explains: “Instead of just sitting back and saying, ‘Okay the thing is over,’ and responding with candid truth, the attorney general chose to, as you indicated and as many have indicated, as Nancy Pelosi just indicated, he lied— repeatedly. He's going to keep this story going. This story is not going to go away for a long time now.” Listen to more of the conversation here. Only on MSNBC.

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Mueller’s Report has legs

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"What is it about Donald Trump that causes these people to lose their minds and lose their souls?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as the Morning Joe panel discusses Attorney General William Barr’s controversial and contentious testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he stumbled to answer questions on whether President Donald Trump or anyone in the White House directed him to investigate certain individuals. Listen to more of the conversation here.

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William Barr: He is not alone

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Listen in as Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle discuss Attorney General William Barr’s controversial testimony in a contentious Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where he answered questions on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and was accused of protecting President Donald Trump at the country’s expense. “We had a sitting attorney general of the United States who clearly had not even read the full Mueller report. He had not looked at the underlying evidence within the Mueller report. He went out of his way to disparage members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who work for this country to protect this country. He went out of his way to damage and disparage Bob Mueller and his effort, and...really at the end of the day, he made Jeff Sessions look like Justice Brandeis,” said Barnicle. Hear more of the discussion here.

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Defending the Constitution or the President?

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Listen in on the conversation with Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Jon Meacham and Mike Barnicle about influential evangelist Christian Franklin Graham calling for South Bend Mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg to “repent” for the “sin” of being gay. “Don't you think it's about time that we in the media separate Franklin Graham from religion because when he speaks now...he separates himself. We might as well be listening to Congressman Steve King from Iowa when you hear Franklin Graham speak,” says Barnicle, referencing anti-gay remarks made by Rep. King (R-IA) during his campaign last year.

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Franklin Graham to Pete Buttigieg: "Repent"

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Former Vice President Joe Biden officially enters the 2020 presidential race. Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation about what’s next for the 20th Democratic candidate to join the field. “He’s going to be covered enormously well over the next two or three months, and we’re going to find out very quickly whether or not the 2018/'19 version of Joe Biden is up to the task,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Watch Biden’s candidacy video and hear what the Morning Joe panel has to say about it.

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Joe Biden enters the 2020 race for President

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Join the Morning Joe conversation in process about the headline coming from the latest poll of the 2020 New Hampshire Democratic Primary from University of New Hampshire, which shows a surge for South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. “He has a resonance with crowds. I mean, a true resonance that I haven’t seen in a while from other candidates.” Listen to more of the discussion here with Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough, Kasie Hunt and Willie Geist.

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg on the rise

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Eugene Roberts and Mike Barnicle about some Democrats’ call for the impeachment process for President Donald Trump to begin. “There's no notation, no amendment in the Constitution that says—and it ought to—‘stop wasting our time.’ And I think if (the Democrats) do go forward with impeachment proceedings, a majority of Americans are going to think they are wasting ‘our time’—the voter’s time,” says Barnicle. “Let’s get going to the election."

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Calls for investigation v. Impeachment

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Mika Brzezinski, Elise Jordan, Rick Tyler and Mike Barnicle about Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez holding tight to his position that the Democratic Party will not reconsider its decision to bar Fox News from hosting a Democratic presidential debate. Says Barnicle: “If you're afraid of Tucker Carlson, how are you going to become President of the United States? Go on Fox News. Reach as many people as you can. Show them that just because you have a ‘D' after your name that you're not ridiculously, ludicrously far left, socialist or whatever—that you speak to the common-sense needs, and problems, and attitudes of most Americans.” Listen to more of the discussion here on MSNBC.

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Democrats on Fox News

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“Elections are choices. It comes down to a choice...‘what do you want?’ And I think an increasing number of Americans—they want calmness, they want a restoration of the spirit of what they think this country is all about. And the spirit of what this country is all about is not lying, it's not malevolence, it's not daily division implemented by the leader of this country—the President of the United States. It’s more to the side of what (Presidential candidate Pete) Buttigieg was talking about,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as the Morning Joe panel talks about President Donald Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, a day after South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced his candidacy. Listen to more of the discussion here. Only on MSNBC.

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Choices for 2020

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle about Sunday's historic moments: Tiger Woods’ win of the 2019 Masters tournament at 43 years old and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, at 37 years old, declaring his candidacy for President of the United States. "It was a remarkable day and two remarkable events,” says Barnicle. “You had two stories that combined to truly represent part of what this country is all about. In Augusta, Georgia, you had a story of resilience...of someone who hurt himself...an epic kind of personal story. And in South Bend, Indiana…young mayor, Pete Buttigieg...talking about the future and basically declaring that the past is the past….The future is here. Hear more of the discussion here.

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Moments in history

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ICYMI: Hear what Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) tells Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle about what could occur in her hard-hit opioid-addicted state and others like it if bipartisan-allocated federal health care funding stops.

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Federal funding for opioid addiction

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Hear what Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Claire McCaskill, Elise Jordan and Mike Barnicle have to say about the mounting criticism surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden’s past affectionate behavior with some women and men, following Biden saying “I get it" and will tone down the touching. Says Barnicle: “Joe Biden...is a genuinely affectionate, caring human being. He is—in a no-contact eye nation, everybody’s staring at their phones—he is an eye-contact guy. He is literally, figuratively. a hands-on guy."

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Barnicle: “Joe Biden is who he is"

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ICYMI: Morning Joe brings us up to date on the developing story about the Chinese woman who was arrested for carrying four cell phones and a thumb drive infected with malware as she illegally entered Mar-a-Lago during President Donald Trump’s visit to the Florida resort. Hear the conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and Miami Herald reporter Sarah Blaskey.

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A breach at Mar-A-Lago

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Following the Morning Joe conversation about a New York Times report that indicates some of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William Barr did not accurately convey how damaging their findings were for President Donald Trump, veteran journalist Mike Barnicle explains: “To put a little perspective on it—we're all kind of flying blind. We’re talking about a report that's well over 300 pages, which was boiled down to maybe two sentence fragments which are in the attorney general's release.” Hear more of the discussion here.

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Perspective on the Mueller Report

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and The New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt about a New York Times report that indicates some of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators told associates that Attorney General William Barr “underestimated" and did not correctly convey how damaging their findings were for President Donald Trump. Listen to Schmidt’s response here.

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NYT on Mueller’s Report

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ICYMI: Hear the Morning Joe conversation about the probability of President Donald Trump and the Democrats resuming their fight over the Affordable Care Act. “Given the drift and the incompetence of this Administration, there will be over 100 million Americans without healthcare, unable to see a doctor or perhaps paying through the nose in higher premiums for their existing health plans because the insurance companies will be able to run amok,” explains veteran columnist Mike Barnicle. Listen to more of the conversation with Joe Scarborough about the president’s unkept health care promises.

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POTUS and health care promises

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When you talk about this presidency, it’s what he's done to diminish and/or maybe destroy existing institutions that have stood for 70, 75 years and created at least a welcome mat in Europe, and a system for peace and existing conditions there now,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as the Morning Joe panel talks about President Donald Trump’s possible connection with Russia. Listen to more of the discussion here.

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Trump v. Peace

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Tune in as Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Mike Barnicle discuss the House Democrats having postponed a vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism amid escalating tensions over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) alleged anti-Semitic remarks. “One of the most offensive tropes that was uttered is this idea that some people because they're Jewish have more of an allegiance to Israel than the United States of America,” said Barnicle. “That is truly, deeply offensive, and it ought to be to every ethnic group in this country. I'm for a united Ireland, but America is where I live. America is my country, not Ireland.” Listen to more of the conversion here.

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The Ilhan Omar anti-Semitism controversy

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Listen in on the conversation between Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle and The New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker about President Donald Trump and his team of one. “With the thinning out of the White House staff, how many people surrounding the President of the United States does he listen to? Or are we into a process where it's only the President whose opinion and view counts and he carries forward with very little insight from anybody else?” Find out what Baker has to say here.

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POTUS: Team of One?

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ICYMI: The Morning Joe panel, headed by Willie Geist and including Associated Press White House reporter Jonathan Lemire and veteran columnist Mike Barnicle, discuss the latest comments by Ty Cobb, a former White House attorney for President Donald Trump, who said that special counsel Robert Mueller is a hero and that Mueller’s probe is not a witch hunt. Listen to the conversation here.

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Ty Cobb: Mueller is a hero

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation between veteran columnist Mike Barnicle and The Atlantic national correspondent Graeme Wood about Wood’s recent time spent with national security adviser John Bolton. “We are approaching 20 years at war in Afghanistan—soon to be like 7,000 days at war in one country. Did this come up in the course of your conversation? And if not, do you have any sense of Bolton's feeling about our role in Afghanistan?” asks Barnicle. Listen to Wood’s response here.

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Bolton on Afghanistan?

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“You would think from the outside looking in that this means the end—really—of the day-to-day operation of the Trump Administration. They’re going to be so tied up in responding and reacting to these requests internally in the White House...given a staff that does not get exactly high marks to begin with and the thinness of the staff—so many people have departed. How do they function, Jonathan, on a day-to-day basis with all of this hanging over their heads?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of Associated Press White House reporter Jonathan Lemire as the Morning Joe panel talks about the House of Representatives launching a sweeping abuse of power investigation into President Donald Trump. Listen to Lemire’s response here.

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White House under siege

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Listen in on the Morning Joe conversation among Joe Scarborough, Donny Deutsch, Mike Barnicle and the Daily Beast’s Sam Stein about President Donald Trump and the GOP remaining silent about authorities having arrested a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant and self-described white nationalist who had more than a dozen firearms, ammunition, and a hit list of Democratic lawmakers, activists and media personalities in his Maryland home. Barnicle, recalling the violent attack on a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia that targeted Republican members of Congress: “Within hours after (Congressman) Steve Scalise and other Republicans were shot and shot at on a softball field during practice for the congressional baseball game the Democrats had a prayer session, multiple numbers of Democrats issued statements. Where are the Republicans today on this? Where are they?” Listen to more of the discussion here.

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Where are the GOP?

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ICYMI: Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Willie Geist discuss the societal problems of gun violence and social media in the wake of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett being charged with a felony for allegedly staging a hate-crime attack to promote his career. "Superintendent Johnson in Chicago gave us the lead. And the lead isn’t Smollett—the lead is life on the street. The lead is the hundreds and hundreds of families, people, young people, old people in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston–you name the city–who live under the threat of the gun each and every day, each hour of every day. And young people being killed, shot on alleyways, on sidewalks for whatever: For wearing the wrong hat, wearing the wrong gang colors, things like that. These young people, many of them are immediately forgotten, their names never even appear in the paper,” says veteran columnist Barnicle. Listen to more of the conversation here.

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The lead: “life on the street"

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"Words are also weapons—and especially when framed by the President of the United States—they are potentially lethal weapons. In this climate, in this country, at this time, with the ocean of guns that are out there and people's access to weapons, this is a lot more than just playing with fire,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as the Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Elise Jordan discuss the escalation of violent rhetoric in the era of President Donald Trump, following news that federal authorities arrested a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant and self-described white nationalist who had more than a dozen firearms, ammunition and a hit list of Democratic lawmakers, activists and media personalities in his Maryland home. Listen to more of the discussion here.

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Words are weapons

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“Sometimes…the weight of all these issues have to be set aside for just a moment to engage in something that is vital to American life….February 14th, it's a huge day. Pitchers and catchers have reported, and we're beginning to think about real issues like lack of bullpen strength in Boston and how the Yankees are going to do,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as the Morning Joe panel shares its final thoughts before Valentine’s Day.

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Happy Valentine’s Day

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“The wall is kind of a metaphor for Donald Trump’s presidency. The foundation of the wall is hate, it's fear. And as you build his wall over the course of his political career, you build on that hate and that fear, and it becomes fear of the other, and then it becomes fear of brown people, and it becomes fear of caravans, and fear of invasions, and fear of MS-13. That's the root of Trump's presidential election and that’s going to be the root of his reelection campaign,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist discuss President Donald Trump’s much-promised border wall and the funding for it. Listen to more of the conversation here.

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A Wall of Hate and Fear

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“The sadness for the country at this point in our history, our time here, right now, is that we have a President of the United States who constantly picks at the scab of division, of race and of class, and that's not good for anyone. The Virginia story is just another added burden to our numbness when it comes to race and our inability to handle it,” comments veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a discussion with Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about past racist behavior by Virginia's governor, attorney general and a top state senator that come at a time of deep division over race and privilege in the country.”

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Virginia is just one example

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“At the end of this week if there is no deal, if we have another shutdown...the lack of faith in the system of government, which is already at an all time low, is going to increasingly dip,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough discuss whether another partial government shutdown is looming.

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Another government shutdown?

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Hear the conversation among Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle with the Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass about President Donald Trump’s controversial military deployment at the U.S.-Mexico southern border and news that California is the latest state, following New Mexico, to pull troops from its state’s border with Mexico. “The public, the average citizen would be stunned by the cost of this mission. We are now talking hundreds of millions of dollars…it’s crazy,” says Barnicle. Listen to more of the discussion here.

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Trump’s border ‘crisis'

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Tune in to hear Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss the developing debacle in Virginia, where three Democratic state officials have come under fire, including Gov. Ralph Northam, who has received calls for his resignation after a recently surfaced racist yearbook photo from 1984. Comments Barnicle: “What kind of a college allows that stuff—Ku Klux Klan pictures—in the yearbook?”

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Virginia’s developing debacle

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Hear more of the Morning Joe conversation with former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who’s eyeing a presidential bid in 2020 as an Independent and has a new book out, “From the Ground Up.” Asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle: “What are you going to do about restoring the role of unions in this country?” Listen to Schultz’s answers here.

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More with former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz

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Listen in on the conversation between Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who is talking about his new book and his potential presidential bid in 2020 as an Independent. "The problem in America is that we have no leadership that’s trusted. The dignity and respect in the Oval Office is gone. And Republicans and Democrats no longer represent the essence of the American people,” says Schultz. Hear more of the discussion between Barnicle and Schultz here.

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Barnicle talks with former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz

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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle discuss news that former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is seriously considering running—as an independent—for president and a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that shows only 32% of people believe that Donald Trump is knowledgable and experienced enough to handle the presidency. “The President of the United States pure and simple is incompetent. He can’t do the job," says Barnicle. As for Schultz: "He’s not going to affect the presidential election because he’s not going to there in the end.” You can hear more of the conversation here.

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