Mike Barnicle on TV: May 2019

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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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Mike Barnicle on TV