Where are the GOP?

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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?

The lead: “life on the street"

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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"

Words are weapons

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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

Happy Valentine’s Day

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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

A Wall of Hate and Fear

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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

Virginia is just one example

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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

Another government shutdown?

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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?

Trump’s border ‘crisis'

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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'

Virginia’s developing debacle

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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